JGSGB-Notices Mailing List: eNews - March 2017

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JGSGB eNews
March 2017

JGSGB PROGRAMS

Jewish Genealogy: Discover Your Family History

Our award-winning course on how to research your family history begins on March 1 and runs for 8 weeks on Wednesday evenings at Hebrew College in Newton. Class is limited to 24 students. 

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Three Minutes in Poland: Discovering a Lost World in a 1938 Family Film

Speaker: Glenn Kurtz

March 26, 1:30-3:00 pm, Temple Emanuel, Newton

SIGs will meet before the lecture

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NEW!  The Genetic Ancestry of Ashkenazi Jews

Speaker: Shai Carmi

March 26, 3:00-4:30 pm, Temple Emanuel, Newton

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PROGRAMS ELSEWHERE

The Fun of Writing Oral History and Biography

Speaker: Larry Ruttman

March 8, 6:00-7:30 pm (limited space; register in advance)

New England Historic Genealogical Society,  99-101 Newbury Street, Boston

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Tracking Your Ancestors Using Local Resources, Yours and Theirs

March 13, 7:00-8:30 pm (limited space; registration required)

Newton Free Library, Newton

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From Assimilation to Elimination: The Exclusion of Jews from Czech Society

Speaker: Benjamin Frommer, Professor of History

March 27, 4:15-6:00 pm

Harvard University, Busch Hall, Cambridge

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COURSES, WEBINARS & VIDEOS

Family Browse: Finding Unindexed Records on FamilySearch

Southern California Genealogy Society webinar, register in advance

March 4, 1:00 pm

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50 Websites Every Genealogist Should Know

Legacy Family Tree webinar, register in advance

March 8, 8:00 pm

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RootsTech 2017

Streaming video available for selected sessions

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CONFERENCES

New England Regional Genealogical Consortium (NERGC) Conference

April 26-29, $90 and up; early bird pricing ends February 28

MassMutual Center, Springfield, MA 

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IAJGS 37th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy

July 23-28, Orlando, FL

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JGSGB NEWS

NEW!   Polish Records: I Found It! But What Does It Say?

Speaker: Jonathan Shea

Co-sponsored by the JGSGB and the Polish Genealogical Society of Massachusetts 

May 21, 2:00 pm, Framingham Public Library

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Volunteer opportunity

Operations and Technology:  Do you enjoy learning and using computer applications?  Are you familiar with data handling, web sites, system administration or operations?  No programming required. 

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Mass-Pocha

The February issue of Mass-Pocha, our award-winning journal, has just been mailed to JGSGB members. If you'd like to receive future issues and aren't a member, join or renew now.

Please send items for the next newsletter by March 15 to newsletter [at] jgsgb.org

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