JGSGB-Announce Mailing List: Fwd: Sun Nov 3 at 9 am: Workshop on JRI-Poland with Stanley Diamond - Advance registration required

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Special Program on Polish records research - JGSGB members only

Sunday, November 3, 2013          9am - noon

.Workshop on Jewish Records Indexing - Poland

Learn and Ask with Stanley Diamond

Founder and Director of JRI-Poland

The workshop is for JGSGB members only.  $15 fee. Advance registration is required. Attendance is limited to the first 30 members who sign up. The workshop will take place in Newton; registrants will be notified of the specific location and directions.  Click here to register now.

The JRI-Poland Learn and Ask workshop will provide an opportunity to get deep inside the workings of Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, an award winning international project to create an Internet-searchable index of all surviving Jewish vital records of Poland. JRI-Poland’s founder and director, Stanley Diamond, will present an update on the current status of various indexing projects, the latest news on scanning of Jewish records in the Polish State Archives, and an overview of the not-yet-announced projects for which hundreds of thousands of records have already been indexed.

Both new and more experienced researchers will be able to ask questions directly related to their research and learn what records may be available now and what might be expected in the foreseeable future. Diamond will also field questions about preparing for and visiting Poland and how to find the best guides and researchers. Attendees may write up their questions in advance and send them to Stanley Diamond at smsdiamond [at] aol.com

Stanley M. Diamond is the founder and Executive Director of Jewish Records Indexing - Poland.  He also researches a novel mutation of the beta-thalassemia genetic trait and documents the rare incidence of the trait in Ashkenazi Jewish families of the Diaspora. Diamond is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal and holds an MBA from Harvard. He is Founding President of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal and the winner of the 2002 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies.

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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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