| Title |
Speaker |
| Budapest on the Cuyahoga: The Hungarian Jewish Community of Cleveland |
Vivian Kahn |
| Educators' Keynote: What is Jewish about Jewish Genealogy? |
Carol Starin |
| Hier Was Bertram: How My Research Led to a Stolperstein, Short Film, and Book |
Steven Jaron |
| Sex, Lies, and Genealogical Tape |
Ron Arons |
| Beginners Workshop – Part 1 |
Rhoda Miller |
| On the Trail of Our Ancestors from Ukraine to Cleveland and More |
Elaine Farran |
| Mobile App 101: Be a Pro-User |
Judi Missel |
| Educators' Workshop: How to Get Kids Involved in Family History |
Daniel Horowitz |
| Educators' Workshop: Designing an Introduction to Jewish Genealogy Program: Being Ready for Surprises |
Sylvia Abrams |
| Educators' Workshop: Jewish Genealogy for Beginners |
Maurice Kitces |
| Educators' Workshop: DNA as a Genealogy Tool |
Gil Bardige |
| Educators' Workshop: JewishGen-Everything You Need to Know |
Phyllis Kramer |
| Educators' Workshop: Projects that Draw Youth to Ancestral Roots |
Eli Rabinowitz |
| Introduction to Landsmanshaftn |
Avrohom Krauss |
| Tracing the Tribe: Jewish Genealogy on Facebook |
Roger Lustig |
| The Sugihara Refugee Story: Survivors and Those Without Whom This Story Would Not Be Told |
Mark Halpern |
| Comparing Jewish Resources on Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, Findmypast, MyHeritage and JewishGen |
Sunny Morton; Ellen Kowitt |
| The ABC's of Y-DNA |
Bennett Greenspan |
| New Developments at Beit Hatfutsot |
Haim Horia Ghiuzeli |
| Keynote: Welcome to Cleveland! |
Daniel Goldmark |
| Patronymic Naming and Cemetery Records - Their Importance in Jewish Genealogy |
Nolan Altman |
| Local and Specific Surnames in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia |
Julius Müller |
| A Rose by Any Other Name |
Garri Regev |
| Conducting Webinars: How to Broadcast Lectures To and From Your Society |
Daniel Horowitz |
| Gombin, a Polish Shtetl: Recovering Memories and Establishing Relationships, Linking the Past to the Future |
Anita Greenbaum-Brush; Michael Shade |
| After the Shoah, Honor Your Family by Restoring German Citizenship, Stolpersteine, and the Ancestral Tour |
Miriam Zimmerman; Michael Loewenstein |
| Anti-Semitism: The Present in Historical Perspective |
William Bernstein |
| Seeing the Voices |
Haim Horia Ghiuzeli |
| How to Locate Individuals through Genealogy |
Fred Blum |
| Out of the Whirlwind: Finding Your Family Lost in the Holocaust |
Deborah H Long |
| Beginners Workshop – Part 2 |
Rhoda Miller |
| An Introduction to the Cleveland Jewish Archives |
Sean Martin |
| The Blumenthals of the Upper Lower Peninsula of Michigan |
Janette Silverman |
| Jewish Records Indexing – Poland; A Vision for the Future. |
Stanley Diamond |
| Jewish Genealogy: How Is This Research Different from All Other Research? |
Janice Sellers |
| A Passage to America |
Haim Horia Ghiuzeli |
| Researching Your Litvak Heritage -- with LitvakSIG and Beyond |
Judy Baston |
| The Changing Borders of Eastern Europe |
Hal Bookbinder |
| JRI-Poland - Congress Poland Records |
Michael Tobias |
| Comparing the Genealogy Giants: Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, Findmypast.com and MyHeritage.com. |
Sunny Morton |
| Introduction to DNA Research for Jewish Genealogists |
Adam Brown; Gil Bardige |
| DNA Case Study: Finding the Mystery Father |
Jay Sage |
| Resources for Researching Refugees in World War II: The Case of Max Neugass |
Karen S. Franklin |
| Following the Breadcrumbs |
Garri Regev |
| Location, Location, Location: How Historical Maps Can Help to Identify and Locate Your Ancestral Towns |
Ed Mitukiewicz |
| Researching Your Galitzianer Family: Working with Vital Records |
Mark Halpern |
| Vilnius Household Registers One Year Later: The Latest and Greatest in Litvak Records |
Russ Maurer |
| Revolutionizing Y-DNA for Genealogy |
Bennett Greenspan |
| Censuses of the Kingdom of Hungary: A Tool to Complement Vital Records |
Karoly Vandor |
| Privacy and Records Access: Restrictions Abound and Growing |
Jan Meisels Allen |
| Virtual Yizkor/Memorials Books: Creating Webpages Dedicated To Jewish Communities (Kehilot) |
Barbara Ellman |
| Scandals, Shandehs, and Lies: The Stories Families Don't Tell |
Renee Steinig |
| Iberia to Amsterdam: A Genealogical look at the Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam |
Jarrett Ross |
| Genealogical Gems: Jewish History and Research in Central Ohio |
Toby Brief; Eizabeth Plummer |
| The Genetic Founders of the Jewish People |
Adam Brown |
| When DNA or Documents Reveal Life-Altering Origin Secrets: Suggestions on What To Do |
Steven Flack |
| Researching Your Small-Town Jewish Community |
Tammy Hepps |
| Using the Structures of Jewish Education Created by Abraham Hayyim Friedland to Identify Ancestors |
Sylvia Abrams |
| MyHeritage New Advanced Features and Technologies |
Daniel Horowitz |
| Personalizing History |
Janette Silverman |
| Creating a Shtetl Community: The Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy |
Aaron Ginsburg |
| JewishGen.org 2019 Annual Meeting: Exciting Changes, Features, and Movement! |
Avraham Groll |
| Immigration through a 3-D Lens: Laws, Documents and Story |
Susan Weinberg |
| Hungarian Riddles: Same Name, Same Town |
Karoly Vandor |
| Beginners Workshop – Part 3 |
Rhoda Miller |
| From Liepaja to Latgale – Beginning Latvian Jewish Research |
Marion Werle |
| Introduction to JewishGen.org & Jewish Genealogy |
Avraham Groll |
| Jewish and Eastern Europe Resources on MyHeritage: Super Search Engine |
Daniel Horowitz |
| WE ARE HERE! Project: Becoming An Upstander Rather Than A Bystander |
Eli Rabinowitz |
| Jewish Genealogy in the Germanies |
Roger Lustig |
| Using the Ancestry.com Community to Further your Research |
Anna Fechter |
| Genetic Genealogy 101 |
Lara Diamond |
| The Register of Baghdadi Jews Who Lost Their Iraqi Nationality in 1951 |
Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch |
| Practicing Safe Computing |
Hal Bookbinder |
| Lesser Known Online Resources |
Banai Lynn Feldstein |
| The Archive as a Communal Institution: The Story of the Rauh Jewish Archives |
Eric Lidji |
| How Genealogical Research Led to the Discovery of Two Billionaire Cousins in 19th Century Ukraine |
Mel Werbach |
| How Researching My Czech Family Led to Restoring a Synagogue |
Karen Koblitz; Julius Müller |
| Clarion Call – The Jewish Agricultural Colony in Sanpete County, Utah |
Jane Rollins |
| IAJGS 2020 San Diego Conference Preview |
Robinn Magid |
| Genetic Genealogy Identifies a Suspected Crypto-Jewish Disease |
Emily Warshauer; Adam Brown |
| The Strauss Family of Cleveland - a Pioneering Jewish Family |
Linda Levine |
| All the Ins and Out of Ancestry Online Trees |
Crista Cowan |
| JewishGen.org - Opportunities to Volunteer |
Avraham Groll |
| History of Jews in Transnistrian Region of Moldova |
Inna Vayner |
| Treasures at the Slovak National Archives and its Branches |
Karoly Vandor |
| Using Pre-1826 Polish Parish Records in Jewish Research |
Debra Kay-Blatt; Warren Blatt |
| Latvian Internal Passports 1919-1940. |
Paul Cheifitz |
| Cite This: Citing Your Sources in Genealogical Research |
Janice Sellers |
| Sephardic Research: The Other Side of Jewish Genealogy |
Schelly Talalay Dardashti |
| Getting the Most Out of Ancestry.com |
Anna Fechter |
| Finding Relatives, Even When Dealing with Endogamy |
Lara Diamond |
| Jewishdata.com: A Valuable, Easy to Use Resource |
Avraham Laber |
| Getting Started in Genealogy: Things I Wish I Would Have Known When I Started |
Kelli Bergheimer |
| Documenting the Vilna Ghetto Library |
Judy Baston |
| Peddler's Progress: How Isaac Frankenstein Got from Poland to Savannah via Brighton and Why |
Michael Shade |
| The Significant Seven: Hungarian First Cousins Who Survive the Shoah |
Michael Gyory; Judi Missel |
| Latvian Family Research: Starting, Searching, Stumbling, Succeeding. |
Henry Blumberg |
| Lost in the Shoah - Reconnecting with Those Who Were Murdered |
Janette Silverman |
| Discovering the treasures of the Yizkor Books: Using Yizkor Books in genealogy family research |
Yefim Kogan; Sheli Fain |
| The Jewish Record Collection on Ancestry |
Crista Cowan |
| Migration from Bohemia and Moravia to Upper Hungary in 18th century |
Julius Müller |
| Beginners Workshop – Part 4 |
Rhoda Miller |
| Think Like a Reporter To Avoid Rookie Genealogy Mistakes |
Jennifer Mendelsohn |
| Who’s Your Daddy? The Search for My Mother’s Father |
Debra Kay-Blatt |
| Shoah-Era Lists in the JDC Archives Names Index and Other Online Offerings for Jewish Genealogists |
Jeffrey Edelstein |
| Galicia Basics: What Every Galitzianer Needs to Know |
Shelley K. Pollero; Renee Steinig |
| Disproving the Cossack Ancestry Theory with DNA |
Rachel Unkefer |
| Discovering Hidden Treasure in the JRI-Poland Database |
Robinn Magid |
| Organize Your Research into a Family Document - on Your PC |
Phyllis Kramer |
| How to Start Genealogy Research in Poland? |
Magdalena Mizgalska-Osowiecka |
| The Health Family Tree: A New MyHeritage Feature |
Daniel Horowitz |
| Challenges of Jewish Research: Names, Dates and Places |
Janette Silverman |
| Syrian Jews in New York: 100 Years Later |
Sarina Roffe |
| Lessons Learned from the Austrian Jewish Museum and Cemetery Project in Eisenstadt, Burgenland |
Johannes Reiss; Traude Triebel |
| Jewish Genealogical Research in South Africa |
Roy Ogus |
| The ITS: What it Is, What it Isn't and What is Online |
Zvi Bernhardt |
| Techniques for Using Jewishgen.org |
Debbie Kroopkin |
| In-Evidence: The Map of the Holocaust by Bullets, Resource to Find Iinformation |
Kateryna Duzenko |
| Researching New York City Resources Remotely |
Jordan Auslander |
| Jewish Given Names |
Warren Blatt |
| Jews and their Wooden Synagogues: The Rise and Fall of the Shtetl |
Bill Farran |
| Finding Relatives in Russian Empire Records for non-Russian Speakers |
Lara Diamond |
| We Never Heard From Them Again – Researching Relatives Who Died in the Holocaust |
Jane Rollins |
| What's New in Austrian and Czech Jewish Genealogy? |
E Randol Schoenberg |
| Reuniting Families Severed by the Holocaust - and More |
Michael Goldstein |
| Discover Jewish Family History in the Western Reserve Historical Society Library |
Ann Sindelar |
| Shtetl Travel throughout Ukraine |
Alexander Dunai |
| Learning Our Craft: Online Opportunities for Improving Our Research Skills |
Emily Garber |
| The American Shtetl: Recreating a Jewish Community |
Andrea Massion |
| Blue Eyes, A Hanger, and DNA: Solving the Mystery of a Hidden Child |
Debra Kay-Blatt |
| Magyar Zsido Okleveltar - An Overlooked Resource for Hungarian Family Research |
Vivian Kahn |
| The Central Database of Shoah Victims: Names and Other Genealogical Sources at Yad Vashem |
Zvi Bernhardt |
| A Unique Surname Leads To Discovering Unique American and Holocaust Resources |
Steve Stein |
| Lost in Pennsylvania? Try the Published Pennsylvania Archives |
Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer |
| The World Memory Project: Learn About Indexing and Researching Records from the USHMM |
Anna Fechter |
| AncestryDNA Basics |
Crista Cowan |
| Does Everyone Know You’re There? How to Use PR to Raise Your Local JGS Profile |
Sandy Golden |
| Game Show Night: Jewish Genealogy Jeopardy aka Jewpardy! |
Ron Arons; Jordan Auslander |
| Small Town, Big Data: Reconstructing Defunct Communities Through Technology |
Tammy Hepps |
| Preparing for a Library/Archive Visit Before You Go |
Kelli Bergheimer |
| Why Jews from the Former Soviet Union are Often Called Russians? |
Yefim Kogan |
| Online Resources for Jewish Genealogy in Chicagoland |
Michael Karsen |
| Jewish Life in Poland, Part 1: 10th-15th Centuries |
Avraham Groll |
| The Power of the Catalog – Unindexed Records and How to Find Them |
Risa Heywood |
| Bubbie, Who Are You? Finding the Maiden Names in Your Family Tree |
Janice Sellers |
| Why Cleveland? Finding Answers in the Industrial Removal Office Records |
Renee Carl |
| AncestryDNA: New Tools and Strategies for Keeping Track of All Those Matches |
Crista Cowan |
| Including and Beyond Vital Records - Resources Used Reconstructing a Family |
Lara Diamond |
| Rosa Robota and The Heroic Jewish Women Martyrs Who Fought Back Inside Auschwitz |
Allan Mallenbaum |
| The Administrator General of Israel: Tracing Unclaimed Property Owners and their Heirs through Genealogical Research |
Jonathan Kirsch |
| The Cleveland Garment Industry: Families, Businesses, and Clothes |
Sean Martin |
| JewishGen Ukraine SIG 101 |
Phyllis Berenson |
| How to Improve Data for JOWBR |
Madeleine Isenberg |
| Look Closer: Mining Genealogical Gold in Civil War Pension Records for Jewish Soldiers |
Adrienne Usher; Caitlin Winkler; Alexandra Apito |
| Reclaim The Records: Using Freedom of Information Laws for Genealogical Research |
Brooke Ganz |
| Memoir Writing: A Personalized Method of Recording Family History for Future Generations |
Elaine Farran |
| Jazz Up Your Writing and Make an Impact: Strategies for Creating Compelling Stories |
Carole Vogel |
| Researching a National Jewry: the Jews of Scotland |
Michael Tobias |
| Montana's Pioneer Jewish Communities: A Lasting Legacy |
Ellen Baumler |
| Jewish Military Burials in the US and Europe |
Kathy Kirkpatrick |
| Jewish Life in Poland, Part 2: 16th-18th Centuries |
Avraham Groll |
| Get them to say YES: Reluctant Relatives and Cold Calls |
Mindie Kaplan |
| Jewish Ethnicity and DNA: Ashkenazi and Beyond |
Schelly Talalay Dardashti |
| JewishGen Kehilalinks BOF |
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| Privacy and Genealogy: What Are The Rules? |
E Randol Schoenberg; Jan Meisels Allen |
| Beyond the Manifest: Applying the Genealogical Proof Standard to Confirm One's Ancestral Origins |
Emily Garber |
| What I Did Wrong with DNA - Solving the Hat Box Baby Mystery |
Bonnie Belza |
| My Family History Blog: A Multi-purpose Tool |
Mary-Jane Roth |
| Rescuing Jews in Eastern Europe |
Kateryna Duzenko; Ewa Schaller |
| Alternative Sources for the Jewish Genealogy and Family Studies: Military, Legal, Notary, & Land Records |
Oleksandr Denysenko |
| These Guys are Really Buried in a Jewish Cemetery? |
Gary Gans |
| From Bella to Joe 2-3-43: In Search of a Jewish GI's Family |
Renee Steinig |
| From Babel to Benefit: Translation Tips for Foreign-Language Documents |
Jane Rollins |
| CSI: Crowd Sourced Indexing |
Banai Lynn Feldstein |
| Documentation of Granting and Loss of Citizenship from Interwar Period as a Source in Genealogy |
Maciej Wzorek |
| Methods for Breaking through Brick Walls |
Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer |
| Eyewitnesses to the Shoah Highlight Search for Family in Three Countries |
Teven Laxer |
| Sources of Jewish Genealogy of XVIII to XX Centuries |
Alexander Dunai |
| Conflict Management: Evaluating Evidence of Identity |
Emily Garber |
| Write It! Tips for Saving and Sharing Family History in Written Form |
Martin Fischer |
| American Jewish Family Clubs and Circles as a Genealogy Resource |
Robinn Magid |
| The Way We Were: What Photographs Tell Us |
Patricia Edmonson |
| The Flatow Fiction: When Records Deceive |
Roger Lustig |
| Nancy Drew Does Genealogy Too: The Quest for Missing Mishpacha |
Ellen Kowitt |
| Help! I Do Not Speak Hebrew, Yet I Need Hebrew Sources for My Genealogical Research |
Johannes Reiss; Traude Triebel |
| The Origin and Growth of the Jewish Population in Russia |
Joel L. Spector |
| My Cousin the Gangster! |
Michael Karsen |
| Who was Aunt Dora? Unraveling the Cohens and the Levines |
Barbara Ellman |
| The Importance of Thorough American Research |
Risa Heywood |
