Here’s a link to tomorrow’s Zoom meeting:
The FHL is open later now (M, F, Sa, from 9am to 6pm; Tu, W, Th, from 9am to 8pm). Perhaps we can consider in-person meetings as well, but we’d have to switch to Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, and finish by 8pm.
Our next meeting will be a Round-Table discussion. We would like each of you to talk about a great research experience, travel adventure in pursuit of family or research, family reunion or DNA connections, something we can all enjoy!
Also, please remember to keep your membership active (or start it).
We still need chairs for membership and activities committees, and members in all committees. Please participate!
It’s been suggested that we rotate the program responsibility for each month to different members of the group (or interested parties). You can present the program yourself or work with us to locate a speaker on a topic of your choice of benefit to all (or most). Our next scheduled presentation is in March 2023, so there are lots of opportunities!
We have been unable to obtain a speaker for 20 June, so we’ll have a board meeting instead of a regular meeting. We suggest that you take advantage of the GRIP Evening Programs announced earlier by Banai in email to all members. Also, the talks from RootsTech are still available for free online at https://www.familysearch.org/rootstech/.
If you have ideas or are willing to present a talk in July (or any other month), please let a board member know (Kathy, Paula, Josh, Banai, Gary).
Title: Deep Genetic Genealogy: A Survey For Researchers of All Levels
Speaker: Guest Speaker: Adam Cherson, Author of “Historicity of the Tribe of Levi: A Genetic Perspective” (in print)
Part 1: Cultural Genography
Part 2: Rabbinical yDNA Lineages
Part 3: Levi-Cohen Tribal Tree
Part 4: Q & A
Description: In this first-ever presentation Adam will give an overview with illustrations of various unique approaches to genealogical research, including everything one needs to know to get started.
Monday May 23, 7pm Mountain/ 9pm Eastern/ 8pm Central/ 6pm Pacific/ 3am (May 24) UTC/GMT
You are invited to a Zoom meeting.
When: May 23, 2022 07:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://ancestry.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUoceCspz4uE9ECi34vlYCCBDtBXJ56_GLm After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Reminder: Meeting on Monday, 21 February at 7 pm, Rabbi Barbara Aiello will present “Heritage Hiding in Plain Sight“. This will be a live presentation, sign in at:
https://ancestry.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuc-mgqDkrHdczh682SGonomWgbtTRr6Ep
The (US) National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is looking for feedback from their catalog users to help them create the Next Generation Catalog. If you sign up they may contact you to optionally participate in focus groups, usability tests and more.
If you are interested in participating than complete the survey at:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/C6WZNFM
“What Can We Learn about Our Ancestors from Jewish Surnames Adopted in
the Russian Empire?” will be the topic of a presentation by scholar and
author Alexander Beider for the Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022, virtual meeting
of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois at 2 p.m. CST.
Register/RSVP at https://jgsi.org/event-4545169.
Newspapers.com, a member of the Ancestry family of databases, is offering free access to their collection of over 720 million plus pages of publisher extra papers through 21 February 2022 at 11:59 p.m. MT. Registration with name, email and password are required. Newspapers are a way to find birth, marriage, death notices and more about those you are researching. After the promotion access will only be through a paid subscription. Accessing the database after the promotion time period will result in a request for a paid subscription.
Go to: https://go.newspapers.com/freeaccess
Put the name you are searching in the “search keywords, names dates box” and click on search. The results will return those articles with the name/phrase you entered. Click on the photo of the article and it will open. You can clip or save to your computer by clicking on the icon on the upper right clip or print and save. It will appear in yellow highlights. There is also a magnifying glass to help you find the name on the page.
Josh will be hosting using his Ancestry Zoom account so our meeting can be the full hour (or more) instead of the 30 minute limit if I host. Here’s the info:
https://ancestry.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMucuysqzkuHdDqkuYiC9KgvKul84LD2_8K
You probably already know that RootsTech is this week. Some of our members may be attending. Some are working in the Expo Hall.
But if you haven’t bought a ticket to the conference, you can still enjoy some of the sessions. RootsTech is live streaming, as in previous years, and you can watch from home.
The schedule is on their web site: RootsTech Live Streaming.
The live stream will probably be right on that page, or they’ll provide a link from that page. They will stream all of the keynotes, this year called “general sessions”, along with many other presentations
Be sure to check the schedule so you don’t miss something you might want to see. Also, RootsTech usually shares those videos after the conference, so you’ll have another chance to watch them for free later. (Some keynotes in previous years were not shared later, so try to catch them live if you can.)
Sorry for the late reminder, but we have a UJGS meeting coming up this Tuesday, May 16th, at 6:30pm, in the B2 classroom at the Family History Library.
Since last month’s viewing of the keynote from the IAJGS conference in Seattle was a hit, we will be watching another session from the conference. The session has not yet been chosen yet, so you’ll have to show up to find out which one. Maybe we’ll let our attendees choose.
See you soon.
Sorry for skipping a detail. Our meeting on February 21st will be at 6:30pm, in the classroom on the British floor (B2) at the Family History Library.
See you there.