Jewish Genealogy - How To Get Started Searching Your Roots

GeneaBloggers Radio – Episode 9

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Friday, April 1, 2011
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Jewish Genealogy - How To Get Started Searching Your Roots

We will be discussing not only the Who Do You Think You Are? episode featuring Gwyneth Paltrow which aired or is airing this evening, but we will also focus on Jewish genealogy and how to get started searching for your Jewish roots.

Guests

This week's show features a line-up of experts in various areas of Jewish genealogy:

Stanley Diamond

Stanley M. Diamond is the winner of 2002 International Association of Jewish Genealogy Societies’ (IAJGS) Lifetime Achievement Award, founding president, Montreal Jewish Genealogical Society, and Executive Director of Jewish Records Indexing-Poland.  His interest in genealogical research related to genetics led to founding of JRI-Poland.  Diamond’s journey in the world of family history research and the many paths on which it has taken him were featured in an episode of a documentary series “Past Lives” on Canadian television.

Links:

• Stanley Diamond's genetic research website http://www.diamondgen.org
• Stanley Diamond's genealogical/genetic research journey:  How I traced the Beta-Thalassemia Trait http://www.diamondgen.org/trace.pdf
• JRI-Poland ttp://www.jri-poland.org
• Jewish Records Indexing - Poland FAQ http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/jriplfaq.htm

Schelly Dardashti

Schelly Talalay Dardashti is a journalist, genealogist, blogger, speaker and instructor. A native New Yorker who has lived in Iran and Israel, she is now residing in New Mexico where she is very involved in the local genealogy scene.

The former Jerusalem Post genealogy columnist ("It's All Relative," 1999-2005) later wrote on genealogy for Ynet News and her work has appeared in many publications - Jewish, general and genealogical - such as The Forward, Avotaynu, NGS Quarterly.

Schelly frequently speaks at major genealogy conferences (RootsTech, WDYTYA Live, international Jewish genealogy conferences, Hong Kong, Australia Jewish Genealogy Conference, etc.), as well as local events and societies in the US.

Links:

• Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com Began in 2006 on the request of the JTA news agency. It is now independent and consistently ranks on the top genealogy blogs by Family Tree Magazine and ProGenealogists.
• MyHeritage.com Genealogy Blog http://genblog.myheritage.com Schelly also writes the MyHeritage.com Genealogy Blog and serves as the MyHeritage U.S. genealogy advisor.

Upcoming events:

• May 7 - UK Society of Genealogists' Centenary Conference in London UK
• May 8 - Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain's Manchester (UK) conference
• May 11-14 - National Genealogical Society (Charleston, SC)
• June 10-12 - Southern California Genealogical Society Jamboree (Burbank, CA)
• June 19-22 - Association of Jewish Libraries (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
• August 14-19 - IAJGS conference (Washington, DC)

Dr. Steve Morse

Stephen Morse is the creator of the One-Step Website for which he has received both the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Outstanding Contribution Award from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, Award of Merit from the National Genealogical Society, first-ever Excellence Award from the Association of Professional Genealogists, and two awards that he cannot pronounce from Polish genealogical societies. In his other life Morse is a computer professional with a doctorate degree in electrical engineering.  He has held various research, development, and teaching positions, authored numerous technical papers, written four textbooks, and holds four patents. He is best known as the architect of the Intel 8086 (the granddaddy of today’s Pentium processor), which sparked the PC revolution 30 years ago.

Links:

• Steve Morse’s website http://stevemorse.org/

Elise Friedman

Elise Friedman is a professional genealogist, specializing in Jewish genealogy, genetic genealogy, and technology. She has given lectures and workshops at a variety of venues, from local genealogy and community meetings to international Jewish genealogy conferences. She has researched her own family history for more than 10 years, and has roots in Belarus, Russia, Poland and Ukraine (formerly Galicia). Friedman is very active in the field of genetic genealogy, where she volunteers as JewishGen's DNA Projects Coordinator, manages several DNA studies through Family Tree DNA, and co-authored a genetic genealogy case study that was published in the AVOTAYNU and FORUM genealogy journals.

Links:

• Relative Roots http://relativeroots.net/

Upcoming Webinars:

• Sunday, April 3 – Genetic Genealogy for Beginners: DNA is the “Gene” in Genealogy
• Tuesday, April 5 – Genetic Genealogy Demystified: Understanding Your Family Tree DNA Results, Part 1: Y-DNA
• Tuesday, April 26 – Genetic Genealogy Demystified: Understanding Your Family Tree DNA Results, Part 2: mtDNA
• Thursday, April 28 – Genetic Genealogy Demystified: Understanding Your Family Tree DNA Results, Part 3: Family Finder

Door Prizes!

Thanks to Family Tree Magazine and shopfamilytree.com, we'll be giving away copies of the Family Tree Magazine Jewish Genealogy Guide Digital Download during the show!

Genealogy News

• GeneaPress - http://www.geneapress.com
• GeneaWebinars - http://www.geneawebinars.com
• Genealogy Blogging Events April 1-8, 2011 - http://www.geneabloggers.com/genealogy-blogging-events-week-april-18-2011/

Disclosure:  I have written several articles for Family Tree Magazine for which I have been compensated; I was recently a member of the Family Tree 40 Panel which assisted in selecting the 40 Best Genealogy Blogs for Family Tree Magazine; and I use affiliate links to sell Family Tree Magazine-related products. Please see Disclosure Statements for more information on my material connection with Family Tree Magazine and other genealogy vendors.