JGSGB-Announce Mailing List: Sun Apr 21: Research in Lithuania at Temple Emanuel ---- Sun Apr 28: film - Who Do You Think You Are? at Needham Library

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We are horrified and saddened by Monday's terrible attack and hope that you, the members of our JGS community, and your loved ones, were spared the direct impact of this tragedy.  We go ahead with our programs as a statement of resilience and resistance to the perpetrators of this violence.

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JGSGB Monthly Program:

Research in Lithuania - Online & On Site

Peggy Freedman

Sunday, April 21, 2013     1:30 pm

Temple Emanuel
385 Ward Street
Newton Centre, MA

Between 1880 and 1914, it is estimated that more than two million Jews left eastern Europe to come to the United States (and more than 90,000 of these Jewish immigrants told US immigration officials that they were immigrating to Massachusetts). Many of them were leaving Lithuania, then a part of Russia. Especially if one of these Lithuanian Jewish immigrants was your ancestor -- whether they came to Massachusetts or landed elsewhere in the US -- join us as we explore the tools to use when tracing your Lithuanian family tree.

Peggy Mosinger Freedman will discuss on-line resources available to Jewish genealogical researchers including the LitvakSIG database, the LitvakSIG Research Groups, and the translation process that LitvakSIG uses.  Peggy works closely with the archivists in the Kaunas Regional Archives, the Vilnius State Historical Archives, and the Lithuanian Central State Archives.  She will discuss how you can best proceed with your research at these repositories.
More info & flyer

Admission is free for members, $5 for guests.

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In the Community:

BBC Film: Who Do You Think You Are? Natasha Kaplinsky

Sunday, April 28, 2013     2:00 pm

Needham Public Library
1139 Highland Avenue
Needham, MA 02494

Have you seen the American version? Now compare it to the original BBC series.

 

This 60-minute episode follows Natasha Kaplinsky, an engaging BBC TV anchorwoman, as she traces her roots in Poland (now Belarus), by way of South Africa to England.   This thoughtful film portrays the joys and sorrows of a genealogical search from an initial curiosity about why her family never spoke of eastern European background through the process of interviewing family, going to archives, using internet sites, hiring a researcher, traveling to ancestral lands, and visiting people and places of the past.

 

Free and open to the public.

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www.iajgs2013.org

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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston is dedicated to helping people discover and research their Jewish family history.  It offers monthly programs, maintains an extensive collection of research materials and publishes an award-winning journal Mass-Pocha.

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