JGSGB-Announce Mailing List: Sun Oct 20 - Kleinwaks: Search Engine & Brick Walls Help - Temple Emanuel, Newton

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Sunday, October 20, 2013     1:30 pm

Logan Kleinwaks

Introduction to the GenealogyIndexer.org Search Engine

Logan Kleinwaks, creator of GenealogyIndexer.org, will explain how to use the Genealogy Indexer to search historical directories, yizkor books, and other resources and present an update on newly added and expanded sources.

GenealogyIndexer.org is a free website that offers full-text searching of more than 400,000 pages of historical directories primarily from central and eastern Europe (business, address, telephone), yizkor books, Polish and Russian military documents, community and personal histories, Galician secondary school reports, and more. These sources contain millions of personal names—often with towns of residence, street addresses, and occupations, and sometimes with vital dates or patronymics. This huge and growing collection mostly comprises data from central and eastern European records not searchable elsewhere.

Logan Joseph Kleinwaks is the creator of free genealogy websites including GenealogyIndexer.org and ShoahConnect.org, which uses Page of Testimony research to reunite families separated by the Shoah, and the coordinator of the JewishGen Danzig/Gdansk SIG. He has a research background in physics. For creating and maintaining GenealogyIndexer.org, Kleinwaks received the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Jewish Genealogy via the Internet, Print or Electronic Product from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies in 2012.

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NEW!!!      12:30–1:15 pm    Break Through Your U.S. Brick Walls!      NEW!!!

Starting this month—before the regular monthly program—bring your questions about U.S. research and resources to our panel of experts.

Both beginners and more advanced researchers may ask for help and hints from experienced researchers.

No sign-up is necessary. Just be there by 12:30.

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Reisman Hall

Temple Emanuel

385 Ward Street

Newton Centre, MA

.Admission is free for members, $5 for guests.

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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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