JGSGB-Notices Mailing List: May 2015 Newsletter

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Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston
May 2015 Newsletter

JGSGB MEMBER & FORMER MEMBER SURVEYS

IMPORTANT:   The Society distributed two important surveys by email last week to help plan future programming, one for current members and one for former members.

May 3 Deadline:  If you received a survey and haven’t responded, be sure to return it before midnight on May 3.  The invitations were sent on April 19 and April 22, and a reminder was sent on April 25; all were sent from 'heidi at jgsgb via surveymonkey'. If you need another copy, contact survey [at] jgsgb.org

Dual Members: If you have a dual membership and both members have not received an invitation to fill out the survey, send the name and email address of the member to whom it should be sent to survey [at] jgsgb.org

We thank those who have completed the survey. You can see the results of the last survey undertaken by the Society in 2009.

 

JGSGB PROGRAMS

Jewish Life in Lithuania Before the War

Speaker:  Ellen Cassedy
May 17, 1:30 pm, at Temple Beth-El Atereth Israel, Newton

More info
   

EVENTS ELSEWHERE

JewishFilm.2015

        National Center for Jewish Film’s 18th Annual Film Festival

      April 30 - May 1, Screenings at MFA, Boston; West Newton Cinema; Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge
      May 3, 11 am, JGSGB is sponsoring Farewell Herr Schwarz, West Newton Cinema
      More info
 
Finding Living Ancestors: Being a Genealogy Gumshoe
        Speaker:  Mike Maglio
      May 27, 6 pm, Boston Public Library, Central Library, Abbey Room
      Local & Family History Lecture Series, free
      More info

Celebrate the Remarkable Jewish Women of Boston! Annual Mother’s Day Celebration & Brunch

Highlighting Yiddish theater’s Sophie Tucker and Molly Picon

        Speakers:  Helaine Davis & Linda Stern plus children’s activities and tour of Shul
        May 10, 10 am,  Vilna Shul, Boston
        More info

CONFERENCES

35th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy

Early registration discount extended through May 6  ($290 vs. $320)

Multiple tracks, great lectures, the best and latest in Jewish genealogy.
Optional Shabbaton Weekend (Fri-Sat) and Exploration Sunday with tours and programs.
July 6 – 10, Israel.  Ramada Jerusalem Hotel

More info

COURSES & WEBINARS

The Jewish in Jewish Genealogy

        JewishGen online course, $120

        May 1 - May 29

More info

JewishGen educational 5-minute videos, free
       More info

 

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JewishGen.org is highlighting our Memorial Plaques Project (with Al Bernstein, Carol Clingan, David Rosen, Sue Rosenstrauch) and the work of JGSGB member Alex Woodle for the Austrian-Czech SIG, in its newly released annual report which focuses on the work of volunteers worldwide. 

Items for the next newsletter should be submitted by May 20 to newsletter@jgsgb.org

Heidi Urich

president [at] jgsgb.org

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