IAJGS CLEVELAND CONFERENCE PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Program Schedule Now Available on Website The 39th Annual Conference on Jewish Genealogy is pleased to announce that the program schedule is now live on the Conference website (www.iajgs2019.org). This Conference will be held at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown hotel in Cleveland, Ohio, from July 28 to August 2, 2019. Early-Bird Discount Cutoff Date Extended Early-bird registration for the full Conference at the discounted price of $325 continues through 11:59 PM, CDT (GMT-5), Thursday, May 9, 2019. After that, prices for full registration and spouse/significant other registration will increase by $50. The fees for daily registration and for purchase of the audio recordings will also go up. Special Program For Jewish Educators On Sunday morning there will be a special sub-conference for Jewish educators. It will feature talks from experts on ways to create a curriculum that will excite young students to study their family histories. A grant will underwrite the cost for up to 35 Cleveland-area educators. For details, look under the PROGRAM tab on the Conference website (or click here). Program Overview The main Conference will start Sunday morning at 10:15 with the first of some 184 presentations. Sunday will also include the popular SHARE Fair, and the Exhibit Hall will be open. On Sunday afternoon at 2:45, our Keynote Speaker,Daniel Goldmark, Director of the Center for Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University, will describe how Jews contributed to the evolution of rock and roll. That will prepare us for the Sunday evening reception at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, just a few blocks from the hotel. The “Rock Hall” will be open exclusively for us, and heavy (kosher) hors d’oevres will be served. In addition to the lectures, there will be 11 SIG luncheons during the week, many featuring speakers from the European areas covered by the SIGs. There will also be 11 “Breakfasts with the Experts” that provide the opportunity to sit down in a small group (maximum 25) with top experts in many facets of Jewish genealogy. The program on Sunday through Wednesday will kick off with workshops for beginners (and those who feel that their skills need some refreshing). They will be led by certified genealogist Dr. Rhoda Miller, Ed.D., who will provide suggestions on how to get started, where to find resources, and how to organize what you are doing. Dr. Miller will also cover how to get the most out of the Conference for those attending their first one. There are over 35 Birds of a Feather (BOF) meetings along with additional SIG meetings. Eleven computer workshops will be offered, limited to 25 attendees each. Participants will need to bring a laptop computer with Internet access. Evening sessions will include the annual JewishGen gathering, which will introduce some major changes coming at that organization. Subsequent evenings will feature the Pamela Weisberger Memorial Lecture, the ever popular Jewpardy! game show night, and the Gala Banquet, featuring Michael Krasny, well known to NPR and KQED-FM San Francisco listeners. Krasny, a native Clevelander, will discuss the evolution of Jewish humor, the subject of his most recent book Let There Be Laughter. During the daytime hours, there will be as many as nine sessions at any one time from which to choose. For most sessions, audio recordings together with the speakers’ slides will be available for purchase prior to and during the Conference. This year, there will be no video recording or streaming, so if you want to enjoy the best talks, you need to come to Cleveland. See you there this summer! Ken Bravo & Jay Sage Conference Co-Chairs

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HAL BOOKBINDER Practicing Safe Computing

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Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] Is Windows Defender Sufficient ?

Dear IAJGS Leaders,

This month’s Practicing Safe Computing article is "Is Windows Defender Sufficient?". Windows Defender anti-virus software is included for free with Windows 10 and available at no cost for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1. A corporate MAC version was just released. If you wonder whether a free product from Microsoft is all you need, please check out the article.

The article has been published in the May issue of "Venturing into Our Past", the Newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV). Current and prior newsletters are freely available at the Society's website, http://www.jgscv.org.

All Practicing Safe Computing articles published to date are available in a single PDF which includes an index. This resource is freely accessible using the following link: http://tinyurl.com/ComputingArticles

We will continue to update this resource with monthly articles. Consider placing a link to it on your society's web site or otherwise sharing it with your members as an ongoing free resource, reminding them when new articles are included.

If you have any questions or suggestions for future articles, please contact me.

Hal

Hal Bookbinder

hal.bookbinder@ucla.edu

Los Angeles, CA

APRIL MENTOR SESSION

Dear Members,

The next mentor session is scheduled for Wednesday, April 24th 1 PM to 3 PM.  It will be at the Northeast Miami-Dade Public Library Branch (2930 NE 199TH  Street, Aventura, FL 33180). I have reserved a small conference room which seats 8 to 10 people.

Please contact me to confirm that you will be attending the mentor session.

If you have any specific research questions kindly send the questions to me prior to the meetings.

With warm regards,

Paulette Bronstein

President

Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami

FROM JAN MEISELS

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Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] Fold3 Free Access Civil War Records Through April 15, 2019

   

Fold3, part of the Ancestry families of companies is offering free access to Civil War records to commemorate the beginning of the Civil War in 1861. Access to more than 100 million records is through April 15, 2-19 at 11:59PM MT. Free access requires registration. No credit card information is required, only name, password, and  email address. If you are a subscriber to Ancestry you may also use that subscription registration to sign-in.  Records in the collection include: Soldier Records, Photographs, Original War Maps, Lincoln papers, Military antiques, Slave Records.  They have worked with the US National Archives to bring these records to their website.         Go to: https://go.fold3.com/civilwar

To see the list of Civil War records go to: https://www.fold3.com/browse/249/ and scroll down to Civil War and click on that. A new column appears with the list of Civil War records and the word "free" next to the collection.

If you try to access the featured collection after April 15 or try to access records other than their Civil War Collection you will be invited to subscribe to a paid subscription.

 I have no affiliation with Fold3 or Ancestry and am posting this solely for the information of the reader.

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

MyHeritage FREE 14-day trial

MyHeritage  FREE 14-day trial

Dr. Phil announced a special 14-day Free trial with MyHeritage.

The offer expires April 7, 2019 at 11:59 PM.

Click on this link for the offer:

http://www.myheritage.com/drphil

I have no affiliation with MyHeritage.  I am posting this for  information purposes only.

Paulette Bronstein

 I have no affiliation with Fold3 or Ancestry and am posting this solely for the information of the reader.