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JGSO News for 8 October 2025

Welcome to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon blog and our weekly newsletter!  We hope you find something here that helps you with your research.

We are happy to provide information to the genealogy community all over the world.  Our newsletter is a curated list of free presentations and articles focused on or in some way relevant to Jewish genealogical research.

Members of JGSO receive the newsletter in their Inboxes every Wednesday night.  If you find the information here useful, please consider joining JGSO or supporting us with a donation. Go to our site, https://jgsoregon.wixsite.com/home, and click on Get Involved.

Our Next Program

Excel for Genealogists, Stewart Blandón Traiman
Sunday, 9 November 2025, 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free

Stewart loves spreadsheets! He uses spreadsheets at work every day as an IT manager and uses Microsoft Excel in genealogy quite frequently. Laying out all the data in Excel can help researchers see gaps in knowledge or correlations between data points. Breakthroughs can happen by visualizing data in spreadsheets. Stewart will show many examples of his use of spreadsheets to track newspaper clippings, a vital records catalog, ancestor addresses over time, and whole families over many censuses. Stewart will teach how to use Excel filters, sorting, color coding, calculations, and many other functions. Spreadsheets are fun!

Stewart Blandón Traiman is a professional genealogist, graduate of ProGen #49, public speaker, and blogger. As a teenager, he began building his genealogy skills by interviewing his great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother about their Nicaraguan roots. He has maintained the oral history of his family for decades. When he married, he took on the new adventure of researching his husband’s Ukrainian and Polish Jewish immigrant ancestors. He’s researched his children’s biological origins back to Colonial America and Western Europe. He has been a volunteer with the California Genealogical Society since 2014, serving six years on the Board of Directors, with five years as recording secretary. He published the monthly CGS eNews for eight years and continues to volunteer with CGS on the Digital Archive Committee. For more information, see SixGen.org.

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All our programs feature closed captioning.

Program details and registration links for 2025 are on our Events page.
https://jgsoregon.wixsite.com/home/events-1/

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JEWISH GENEALOGY EVENTS and NEWS

Finding Ancestors in the 19th Century Russian Revizskie skazki, Hal Bookbinder
Monday, 13 October 2025, 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
JGS of Washington State

YIVO and the Oyneg Shabes Archive:  A Centennial Celebration, 4 sessions
Sundays, 19, 26 October, 2, 9 November 2025, 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

How to Research Your Jewish Ancestors in the UK, Jeanette R. Rosenberg OBE
Sunday, 19 October 2025, 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
San Francisco Bay Area JGS

Imagining Early American Jews, Michael Hoberman
Sunday, 19 October 2025, 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Touro Synagogue Foundation

Hebrew Reading Crash Course Level I (five sessions), Florence Wiener
Mondays, 20, 27 October, 3, 10, 17 November 2025, Zoom, free
National Jewish Outreach Program

Displays of Belonging, Sarah Zarrow
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Yiddish Book Center

Closing the Door:  The 1924 Immigration Act and Its Impact on Jewish and Asian Communities, Hasia Diner and Bill Ong Hing
Sunday, 26 October 2025, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Jewish Community Library and  Workers Circle/Arbeiter Ring of Northern California

From Old Roads to New Roads:  Early Jewish Life in Southeast Louisiana, Brian Costello
Thursday, 30 October 2025, 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience

The Jewish Ghosts of Cedarwood Waldorf School, Karen Treiger
Sunday, 2 November 2025, 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time, in person, free
Cedarwood Waldorf School, 3030 SW Second Avenue, Portland, Oregon

A Nation of Refugees:  Russia's Jews in World War I, Polly Zavadivker
Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
JDC Archives
https://archives.jdc.org/a-nation-of-refugees/

AI & Jewish Genealogy:  New Tools, New Concerns, Scott Meyer
Sunday, 16 November 2025, 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
JGS of Illinois

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The Glass Negatives of Lublin, Piotr Nazaruk
recorded 7 October 2025
Yiddish Book Center

Venetian Jews:  Sephardim, Germans and Levantines in the Ghettos, Nardo Bonomi Braverman
recorded 29 September 2025
Sephardic Genealogical Society

Ashkenazi Jews, There’s 1,000 Years of History You’ve Been Missing, Ilana Strauss
25 September 2025
Forward

Anyone [in UK] with Jewish Ancestry Urged to Sign Up for BRCA Test as Deadline Looms, Gaby Wine
16 September 2025
31 October 2025 sign-up deadline
Jewish Chronicle

House Passes Bill to Identify Jewish U.S. Troops Buried under Incorrect Religious Markers, Mike Wagenheim
15 September 2025
Jewish News Service

How One Jewish Geneticist Turned a Family Tragedy into a Lifesaving Mission, Susan Weiss Leibman
6 February 2025
Forward

How Did Ashkenazi Jews End Up with Famous Non-Jewish Last Names?, Alexander Beider
12 December 2018
Forward

Did Jews Buy Their Last Names?, Alexander Beider
3 January 2018
Forward

Ashkenazi Jews Are Not Khazars.  Here’s the Proof, Alexander Beider
25 September 2017
Forward

JewishGen Discussion Group
JewishGen has an e-mail list where people share information about resources, request help with translations and identifying photos, post about upcoming presentations, and generally indulge in family history on a regular basis.  While not a must for doing Jewish genealogical research, it is a very helpful resource.  You must first register for a free account on JewishGen and then separately register for the discussion group..
https://tinyurl.com/yp7ce6zj

JDays Worldwide Jewish Event Calendar
Calendar of upcoming programs with focuses on Jewish family history, history, and heritage.
L'Dor V'Dor Foundation
https://ldvdf.org/jdays/

IAJGS Jewish Roots Calendar
https://www.iajgs.org/calendar/

The Hub
Listings of mostly online Jewish events and classes, several of which are useful for family history.
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-hub/

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SEPHARDIC et al.  EVENTS and NEWS

How to Research Your Jewish Ancestors in the UK, Jeanette R. Rosenberg OBE
Sunday, 19 October 2025, 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
San Francisco Bay Area JGS

Imagining Early American Jews, Michael Hoberman
Sunday, 19 October 2025, 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Touro Synagogue Foundation

Hebrew Reading Crash Course Level I (five sessions), Florence Wiener
Mondays, 20, 27 October, 3, 10, 17 November 2025, 9:30 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
National Jewish Outreach Program

III International Congress of Sephardic Studies:  "Jews in the Mediterranean and Their Diasporas"
Tuesday–Thursday, 21–23 October 2025, in person, Lisbon, Portugal
University of Lisbon Center for History and Center for Jewish Studies of the Amazon
https://www.ceja-cies.com.br/iiicies-eng/

Closing the Door:  The 1924 Immigration Act and Its Impact on Jewish and Asian Communities, Hasia Diner and Bill Ong Hing
Sunday, 26 October 2025, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Jewish Community Library and  Workers Circle/Arbeiter Ring of Northern California

Judeo-Kashani:  The Endangered Language of Iran's "Little Jerusalem", Jacob Kodner
Mondays, 27 October–8 December 2025, 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
New Lehrhaus and HUC Jewish Language Project
https://newlehrhaus.org/program/judeo-kashani-the-endangered-language-of-iran-s-little-jerusalem

From Old Roads to New Roads:  Early Jewish Life in Southeast Louisiana, Brian Costello
Thursday, 30 October 2025, 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience

A Moroccan Jewish Genealogical Journey, Raquel Levy-Toledano
Monday, 3 November 2025, 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free (pay what you wish)
Center for Jewish History

Echoes of the Holocaust:  Untold Stories of Wartime North Africa
Monday, 3 November 2025, 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time, online, free
Facing History & Ourselves

AI & Jewish Genealogy:  New Tools, New Concerns, Scott Meyer
Sunday, 16 November 2025, 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
JGS of Illinois

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Venetian Jews:  Sephardim, Germans and Levantines in the Ghettos, Nardo Bonomi Braverman
recorded 29 September 2025
Sephardic Genealogical Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeqJNojk720

Sephardic Traditions:  What Is Different about Portuguese Jews?, Yehonatan Elazar-DeMota
recorded 13 March 2022
Sephardic Genealogical Society

Births Index of the Jewish Community of Livorno (1668–1810)
A Nação Hebraica
Downloadable CSV and PDF files:  https://tinyurl.com/4975b6jb

Anyone [in UK] with Jewish Ancestry Urged to Sign Up for BRCA Test as Deadline Looms, Gaby Wine
16 September 2025
31 October 2025 sign-up deadline
Jewish Chronicle

House Passes Bill to Identify Jewish U.S. Troops Buried under Incorrect Religious Markers, Mike Wagenheim
15 September 2025
Jewish News Service

It Was the Wildest Scheme in American Jewish History, Elliot Cosgrove
15 September 2025
Forward

JewishGen Discussion Group
JewishGen has an e-mail list where people share information about resources, request help with translations and identifying photos, post about upcoming presentations, and generally indulge in family history on a regular basis.   While not a must for doing Jewish genealogical research, it is a very helpful resource.  You must first register for a free account on JewishGen and then separately register for the discussion group.
https://tinyurl.com/yp7ce6zj

Jewish Mendoza Family of London
This project will create a migration map as a test for a larger project.  
If you are a descendant of the London Mendoza family, please join.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/jewishmendozafamily

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HOLOCAUST and WWII EVENTS and NEWS

You Are My Sunshine, Cindy Kleiman
Friday, 10 October 2025, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, online, free
Arizona Jewish Historical Society

Online Holocaust Survivor Talk:  Lya Frank
Sunday, 12 October 2025, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time, online, free
Holocaust Museum LA

What History Teaches:  Women's Loss of Rights during the Third Reich, Deborah Barton
Thursday, 16 October 2025, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Montreal Holocaust Museum

Europe against the Jews Book Discussion, Mark Sendrow
Thursday, 16 October 2025, 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time, online, free
Arizona Jewish Historical Society

Non Fiction Book Club:  I Seek a Kind Person by Julian Borger
Monday, 20 October 2025, 4:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan
link to come

Where They Settled:  Holocaust Survivors in South Africa, Gwynne Robins
Thursday, 23 October 2025, 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, online, free
Holocaust Museum LA

Online Holocaust Survivor Talk:  Erika Schwartz
Sunday, 26 October 2025, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time, online, free
Holocaust Museum LA

What History Teaches 4:  Universities, Education, and the Role of Intellectuals
Wednesday, 29 October 2025, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center

Free First Sunday
Sunday, 2 November 2025, 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. Pacific Time, in person, free
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
724 NW Davis Street, Portland, Oregon
https://www.ojmche.org/

Echoes of the Holocaust:  Untold Stories of Wartime North Africa
Monday, 3 November 2025, 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time, online, free
Facing History & Ourselves
https://www.facinghistory.org/learning-events/echoes-holocaust-untold-stories-wartime-north-africa

What History Teaches 5:  Between Terror and Resilience—Jewish Life in Nazi Germany, Jordanna Gessler
Thursday, 13 November 2025, 12:00 noon Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Holocaust Museum LA

What History Teaches 6:  America & the Holocaust—Isolationism & Immigration
Tuesday, 9 December 2025, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center

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Historian Uses AI to Help Identify Nazi in Notorious Holocaust Murder Image, Deborah Cole
2 October 2025
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/02/historian-uses-ai-to-help-identify-nazi-in-notorious-holocaust-image

84 Years after Babyn Yar Massacre, Names of 1,000 Previously Unknown Victims Revealed, Zev Stub
29 September 2025
Times of Israel

A Trip to Ostwall, the Nazi Underground City:  The Secret Labyrinth under the Polish Countryside (in Spanish)
14 September 2025
Periodista Digital
(You can use Google Translate, https://translate.google.com/, to translate the article, or read it in Chrome.)

Free AncestryDNA Kits for Holocaust Survivors or Their Children
The Center for Jewish History has partnered with Ancestry.com.  Only for first-time/new DNA tests at Ancestry.

Holocaust Reunion Project, reuniting survivors with family
Free DNA tests for survivors and descendants
https://holocaustreunions.org/

Living Links
Nationwide organization for grandchildren of Holocaust survivors
https://www.wearelivinglinks.org/

Austrian Gesture Payment for Living Survivors from Austria
Austria resolved to provide additional support to all living victims of National Socialism from Austria.
National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism
https://www.nationalfonds.org/gesture-payment

Share Your History:  Preserve Films and Help Save Holocaust Evidence
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is seeking home movies from before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust.  The museum will restore and digitize the films.
https://engage.ushmm.org/donate-collections

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DNA EVENTS

YDNA Free Get Started Course, Diahan Southard
Attend on your schedule, online, free
Your DNA Guide

Help!  My DNA Isn't Working, Diahan Southard
Thursday, 9 October 2025, 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, online, free
Your DNA Guide

Uncovering Truth through DNA:  The Power of Genetic Genealogy, Aimee Rose-Haynes
Thursday, 30 October 2025, 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

Genetic Genealogy Today, Richard Hill
Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Utah Genealogical Association DNA SIG

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GENERAL GENEALOGY EVENTS and NEWS

We list only events and news that have some relevance to Jewish genealogy research.  Unless a presentation is particularly important to let you know about, we will not list talks from Legacy Family Tree, Salt Lake City FamilySearch Library, BYU FamilySearch Library, Lehi FamilySearch Center, or Los Angeles FamilySearch Center because there are so many.  See our blog for links to those organizations and other resources:  https://jgsojewishgenealogyportland.blogspot.com/p/resources-and-links.html.

NewspaperArchive 101:  Finding Family in the News, Heather Haunert
(NewspaperArchive is available free to use at LDS FamilySearch Centers and Libraries.)
Thursday, 9 October 2025, 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Ohio Genealogical Society

Photo Research with Artificial Intelligence, Mark D. Thompson
Thursday, 9 October 2025, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
Main Line Genealogy Club

A Rose by Any Other Name:  Using Nicknames to Find Your Ancestor, Madeline Yanov
Thursday, 9 October 2025, 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Root Cellar Sacramento Genealogy Society
https://www.rootcellar.org/detail/eventDetail.php?er=842

Navigating the New Library and Archives Canada Website, Ken McKinlay
Saturday, 11 October 2025, 6:00 a.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa

King Philip’s War, 1675–1676:  Causes & Consequences and
Orphan Trains and the Children Who Rode Them, Karen Fortin
Saturday, 11 October 2025, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
San Diego Genealogical Society
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WbVuJyIHTDC57q9zMvu4lA

Wisconsin Historical Society:  An Overlooked Resource You Need to Explore!, Mary Risseeuw
Saturday, 11 October 2025, 12:00 noon Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
Appleton Public Library

An Absolute Beginner’s Guide to ChatGPT for Family Historians
Monday, 13 October 2025, 12:00 noon Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Midwest Genealogy Center, Mid-Continent Public Library
https://www.mymcpl.org/events/111602/absolute-beginners-guide-chatgpt-family-historians-zoom

The Curious Call of Place:  Telling the Stories of People and Places, Rhonda Lauritzen
Tuesday, 14 October 2025, 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

Tracing Immigrant Origins
Tuesday, 14 October 2025, 12:00 noon Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
Midwest Genealogy Center, Mid-Continent Public Library

The Immigration and Naturalization Act 60 Years Later, panel of speakers
Tuesday, 14 October 2025, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (YouTube Live), free
Tenement Museum

Free Land:  Homesteading on the Frontier, Tina Beaird
Wednesday, 15 October 2025, 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
DuPage County Genealogical Society

Clues of Service:  Determining the Military Service of Your Ancestors, David Allen Lambert
Thursday, 16 October 2025, 12:00 noon Pacific Time, Zoom, free
New England Historic Genealogical Society
https://hubs.americanancestors.org/clues-of-service-determining-the-military-service-of-your-ancestors

Documenting Your Sources:  The Key to Credible Genealogy, Megan Clark Young
Thursday, 16 October 2025, 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

Tracing Your Railway Ancestors
Friday, 17 October 2025, 6:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Vimeo, free
The National Archives (UK)

Online Genealogy Summit, 8 sessions
Friday, 17 October 2025, 6:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Pacific Time, virtual, free
Floyd County Library

24th Annual Genealogy Lock-in, 8 sessions
Friday, 17 October 2025, 6:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, virtual, free
Waco-McLellan County Library

Family History Webinarpalooza, 4 sessions
Friday, 17 October 2025, 8:00 a.m.–3:30 p.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
Peoria Public Library

Using AmericanAncestors.org, Christine Cohen
Saturday, 18 October 2025, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Castle Rock Colorado Genealogical Society

Beyond the Brick Wall:  Strategies for Pre-1850 U.S. Research, Julia A. Anderson
Saturday, 18 October 2025, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Delaware Genealogical Society

Probate Records of the British Isles, Colin Whitney
Saturday, 18 October 2025, 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
San Diego Genealogical Society British Isles SIG

Hiding in Plain Sight:  Finding Elusive Ancestors with FamilySearch’s Full-Text Search, Julia A. Anderson, AG, AGL
Saturday, 18 October 2025, 2:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Genealogical Forum of Oregon

Goldmines & Landmines:  What to Look for in Genealogy Research, Sharon Roth
Sunday, 19 October 2025, 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
JGS of Illinois
https://jgsi.org/event-6289355

Can AI Translate the Old German Handwriting?, Katharine Schober
Monday, 20 October 2025, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Germanology Unlocked

Read All about It!!  Techniques to Find Your Ancestors in the Newspaper, Melanie McComb
Monday, 20 October 2025, 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
Ashtabula County District Library and Ashtabula County Genealogical Society

Digging into Military Records:  Genealogy Research with Fold3, Logan Knight
Tuesday, 21 October 2025, 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

Researching Your German Ancestors
Tuesday, 21 October 2025, 4:00 p.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
Midwest Genealogy Center, Mid-Continent Public Library

Can AI Translate the Old German Handwriting?, Katharine Schober
Tuesday, 21 October 2025, 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Germanology Unlocked

Alienation of Affection:  Divorce in the United States, Christine Cohen
Tuesday, 21 October 2025, 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, GoToWebinar, free
Wisconsin Genealogical Society

Can AI Translate the Old German Handwriting?, Katharine Schober
Wednesday, 22 October 2025, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Germanology Unlocked

Follow Your Family through Its Chain Migration, Kevin Cassidy
Friday, 24 October 2025, 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
Milwaukee County Genealogical Society

Indexes and Databases:  What Indexers, Proofreaders, and Genealogy Researchers Should Know, Ken Ryesky
Monday, 27 October 2025, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Israel Genealogy Research Association

Naturalization Records, Katie Stilp
Tuesday, 28 October 2025, 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
Appleton Public Library

Muster Up!  Researching WWI and WWII Veterans, David Allen Lambert
Tuesday, 28 October 2025, 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Louisville Genealogical Society
https://www.kylgs.org/eventListings.php?nm=34&tf=1#er739

Tracing Family Roots through German Words, Gabi Jauregui
Tuesday, 28 October 2025, 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

Memento Mori:  Records of the Dead and Dying, Jennifer Roodzant
Wednesday, 29 October 2025, 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time, GoToWebinar, free
Tennessee Genealogical Society

GFO Free First Monday
Monday, 3 November 2025, 9:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m., in person, free
Genealogical Forum of Oregon, 2505 SE 11th Avenue Suite B018, Portland, Oregon
https://gfo.org/

Preserving Your New York Story:  Researching U.S. Veterans of the Great War, Geoff Gentilini
Tuesday, 4 November 2025, 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

About Civil Marriage in Germany in 19th Century, Roland Geiger
Friday, 7 November 2025, 12:30 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Eastside Genealogical Society German SIG
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/QBBi7nWjQtm694n5CqwsHA

Voting Records:  Genealogy's Best Kept Secret, Pam Vestal
Saturday, 8 November 2025, 12:00 noon Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
Appleton Public Library

Using MyHeritage to Research Your Ancestors
Wednesday, 12 November 2025, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Boston Public Library

Tracing Your Immigrant Ancestors, Margaret R. Fortier
Thursday, 13 November 2025, 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
Main Line Genealogy Club

Society Briefs, Village News . . . or the Other “Gossip Columns", Mary Risseeuw
Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, GoToWebinar, free
Wisconsin Genealogical Society

Tracking Our Ancestors: From Virginia to North Carolina,Tennessee and Beyond, Barbara Vines Little
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time, GoToWebinar, free
Tennessee Genealogical Society
https://tngs.org/event-6034206

Finding the Stories of Your Ancestors:  Using Social History to Bring Your Ancestor's History to Life, Pamela Guye Holland
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Zoom, free
Boston Public Library

Plan Your Work and Work Your Plan:  The Key to Thorough Research, Cheri Hudson Passey
Saturday, 13 December 2025, 12:00 noon Pacific Time, hybrid (Zoom), free
Appleton Public Library

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Back to School:  Using School Records in Your Family History, Tina Beaird
recorded 19 September 2025
Ela Library
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUd9f7sSEY4

Felix Archive's Foreigner Files—Including Photos for People from across Europe, Lara Diamond
5 October 2025
Lara's Jewnealogy

Elephind Has Returned
Elephind is a search engine that searches only in online newspaper databases.
The site includes a list of which databases it searches.

Index of New York, Land Records, 1630–1975
Free index for FamilySearch's "New York, Land Records, 1630–1975"
Collection includes deeds, mortgages, patents, and land grants
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society

Celebrate Family History Month
Free resources from National Genealogical Society

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CONFERENCES and SEMINARS

VI International Conference on Jews in Galicia:  Histories, Topographies, and Texts
Monday–Tuesday, 20–21 October 2025, in person, Kraków
Send message to JewsInGalicia@gmail.com

RootsTech 2026
Thursday–Saturday, 5–7 March 2026, hybrid (Salt Lake City, Utah and online; online will be free)
FamilySearch
Discounted early bird registration is open.

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