JGSGB-Announce Mailing List: Program Sun May 23, 2010: Lithuanian Records

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

Finding Your Ancestors
in Lithuanian Records

Deena Berton

Sunday, May 23, 2010
1:30 PM
Temple Emanuel, Newton, MA

Deena Berton has traveled extensively in Lithuania and has assisted in acquiring data from local archives. She will describe the many records that exist in Lithuania for genealogical research and how you can access them. The talk will include information about LitvakSIG—the special interest group for Lithuanian research—and a tour of its new website

Ms. Berton is on the Board of Directors of LitvakSIG, the primary internet resource for Lithuanian-Jewish research. Its mission is to preserve Litvak heritage by discovering, collecting, documenting, and disseminating information about the once vibrant Jewish community of Lithuania before its destruction in the Holocaust. In addition to independent Lithuania (1919‑1940), this area includes the larger Lithuania from the Russian Empire period (1795‑1919) and a number of shtetls now in Belarus and Poland.

Upcoming Programs

    Sunday, June 13 (Temple Emanuel)

Jacob’s Cane: A Jewish Family’s Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuaniato the Ports of London and Baltimore; A Memoir in Five Generations by Elisa New

(This is also JGSGB’s annual meeting with the election of board members and officers.)

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.