JGSGB-Announce Mailing List: Program Sun Mar 14, 2010: Mapping Madness - Historical Maps and Google Earth

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This is the notice of our next program. For more details, visit our website at www.jgsgb.org.

Mapping Madness:
Historical Maps and Google Earth


Ron Arons and Jay Sage

Sunday, March 14, 2010
1:30 PM
Temple Emanuel, Newton, MA

The main presentation by Ron Arons's will cover (1) websites that provide a broad range of historical maps, (2) basic and advanced features of Google's and Microsoft's Internet-based mapping facilities (maps.google.com and www.bing.com/maps), and (3) lesser-known mapping facilities provided by whitepages.com, Microsoft's MapCruncher, and IBM's Many Eyes.

Jay Sage's short presentation will introduce Google Earth, the Web-based facility that provides a high-resolution, three-dimensional model of the Earth based on satellite and aerial photographs. Sage will describe how it can be used genealogically: to map one's family history or to make virtual visits to places where family events took place.

Ron Arons has spoken at several international conferences on a variety of genealogy topics. He appeared in the PBS TV series The Jewish Americans to discuss Jewish criminals of New York's Lower East Side and published The Jews of Sing Sing in 2008. Jay Sage is a former president of the Society, current co-editor of the Society's journal, Mass-Pocha, and has given lectures at international and local conferences.

Upcoming Programs

    Sunday, April 25 (Temple Emanuel)
        "Sephardic Jewry after the Expulsion from Spain" (Jonathan Decter) and
        "Tracing Family to 13th Century Spain" (Daniel Lab

    Sunday, May 23 (Temple Emanuel)
        "Finding your Ancestors in Lithuanian Records" (Deena Berton)

A flyer in Adobe PDF format is available from our website at flyer.jgsgb.org. We encourage you to print it out and post copies in places where you think it would attract attendees, such as synagogues, community centers, supermarkets, etc.