JGSGB-Announce Mailing List: Program Sun Dec 12, 2010: Finding Relatives From Russia and Soviet Union

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Please note that this program is free for the general public, not only JGSGB members. We encourage you to bring guests.

Reconnecting Lost Families:
Finding Relatives from the Former Soviet Union
and the Russian Empire

Aaron Ginsburg & Panel

Sunday, December 12, 2010
1:30 PM
Temple Emanuel, Newton, MA

US descendants of immigrants from the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union report on finding relatives from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and a recent Soviet émigré reports on finding descendants of his family who came to the US in the earlier waves of immigration.

Aaron Ginsburg is a first-generation American and founder and president of The Friends of Jewish Dokshitsy. He spearheaded an international effort to help the local government of Dokshitsy, Belarus restore and re-dedicate the town’s Jewish cemetery and recently organized a Dokshitsy shtetl reunion in Rhode Island. He has been involved with cemetery restoration, shtetl and family history since 1995.

Yefim Kogan was born in Kishinev, Moldova and emigrated from Moscow in 1989. Since then, his extensive genealogical research has enabled him to trace part of his family to the mid-eighteenth century and to find relatives in the US who left Russia in 1906. Currently a graduate student at Hebrew College with a focus in Jewish Cultural History in Eastern Europe, he has presented papers on Jewish history in Bessarabia and genealogy at IAJGS conferences and is a volunteer JewishGen Coordinator.

Carol Clingan is a third-generation American whose grandparents came from Belarus and Ukraine. During her nearly twenty years of research, she has traced family back to the early nineteenth century and has discovered family still living in the FSU. She is vice-president of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston and co-chair of the JGSGB Program Committee.

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