Tuesday, December 17, 2024

JewishGen Sephardic Dispersion and A Guide to Sephardic Genealogy Wednesday, December 18th, 2924 at 2:00 PM ET

 

Avraham Groll via groups.jewishgen.org agroll=jewishgen.org@groups.jewishgen.org

1:27 PM (1 hour ago)
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Please join us for this week's JewishGen Talks webinar:

 

Topic: Post 1492 Sephardic Dispersion and A Guide to Sephardic Genealogy

When: TOMORROW, Wednesday, December 18th, 2024

Time: 2:00 PM ET

Speaker: Sarina RoffĂ©

About the Talk: What happened in Spain? Why were the Jews expelled in 1492? How were they treated in the century before the expulsion? Where did they go? Sarina Roffe provides an overview of how Sephardic Jews dispersed around the globe after 1492 and discusses Sephardic resources for genealogy. 


Recording: Those who register for the webinar will have access to the recording before it is made available publicly.

https://tixoom.app/jewishgen/dru1lt9h


Monday, December 16, 2024

MIAMI JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 2025


 

  • This year's 28th Miami Jewish Film Festival is coming to you wherever you are! Discover bold new films, groundbreaking stories, visionary shorts, insightful panel discussions, talk-backs, and so much more in our Virtual Program featuring more than 80 film premieres from 20 countries that you can enjoy right from home and even stream directly on your TV.
  • Explore the Miami Jewish Film Festival by clicking this link: https://watch.eventive.org/mjff
  • Click this link for more information about the film festival: https://miamijewishfilmfestival.org/news/latest/mjff-2025/

Monday, November 18, 2024

Hal Bookbinder - "Your Password has Expired" article

 


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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:19:41 +0000
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] "Your Password has Expired"
Dear IAJGS Leaders,

Most of us have gotten emails or text messages that our password has expired and that we must immediately update it or our access will be terminated. Such messages are typically bogus and rather an attempt to obtain our credentials for nefarious purposes. "Your Password has Expired" addresses this scam. It also provides another shout out to "have i been pwned?". I encourage you to take advantage of this valuable free site that can alert you to breaches that include you.

"Your Password has Expired" has been published in the November 2024 issue of "Venturing into Our Past", the Newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV). All Practicing Safe Computing articles published to date are freely accessible at https://tinyurl.com/SafeComputingArticles

Also, check out, "JewishGen KehilaLinks" at https://jgscv.org/pdf/newsletters/Venturing_V20_N1.pdf#page=10. This article discusses this valuable resource. Some members of your society may be unaware of KehilaLInks, or may have not checked them in some time for their ancestral town. New towns are added regularly. One of the most recent is the KehilaLinks for Dubno, my ancestral town.

Best,
Hal

Hal Bookbinder
Los Angeles, CA

Monday, November 11, 2024

December 18th Zoom Meeting - Traveling to America in Steerage and Whether to Admit or Deport our Ancestors presented by Phil Goldfarb

 

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Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami
 
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Tuesday, December 18th, 2024, at 7:30 p.m. (ET)
 

Traveling to America in Steerage and Whether to Admit or Deport our Ancestors


Presented by: 

Phil Goldfarb
 
This presentation discusses the history of ship travel to the United States from the 1830s to the 1920s. What it was like for our ancestors to travel on these ships, especially in steerage, what they did, how they felt, and how they prepared to enter the US. We will also discuss in detail the processing of immigrants into the United States with an emphasis on Ellis Island. 

The program is informational, educational, contains some great Jewish trivia, and is also very entertaining!

 

  

Phil Goldfarb is a 4th generation pharmacist by profession and a retired officer in the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps. He worked in the health care and medical communications industry for 40 years, helping to grow and take a company public while retiring as Divisional Vice President of Operations for a Fortune 20 Company. Phil is the founding President of the JGS of Tulsa and has been doing genealogy for over 40 years. A genealogy contributor for websites, he has lectured extensively having given over 2,000 presentations, published articles in genealogy journals, written two books on passports and passport applications, and authors a monthly column in the Tulsa Jewish Review. He is the editor of The Weekly News Nosh…News about Jewish Genealogy, Jewish History and Jewish Culture which is published in Tracing The Tribe and The Jewish Genealogy Portal on Facebook each Sunday as well as on the L’Dor V’Dor Foundation website for those who do not use Facebook at www.ldvdf.org/newsnosh

Phil co-produced a 2020 Emmy Award-winning Historical Documentary titled: L’Dor V’Dor: Generation to Generation…the History of Tulsa’s Jewish Community, was Chairman of 2020 IAJGS Awards Committee, Member of the 2024 IAJGS Nominating Committee and assisted with the development and implementation of the LDVDF Worldwide Jewish Event Calendar which can be utilized 24/7/365 at www.ldvdf.org/Jdays.

 

Please confirm attendance RSVP
jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com and jgsgm.president@gmail.com

(A zoom link will be sent a few days before the program.)
 

The link to the current News Noshes and past ones since July is: www.ldvdf.org/newsnosh

 


© Copyright 2024 Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami
www.jgs-miami.org
 

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Landsmanshaftn Records at the Center for Jewish History


 

Landsmanshaftn Records are located at the Center for Jewish History


https://www.cjh.org/pdfs/Landsmanschaftn.pdf

Repository Details

Part of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Repository

Contact:
15 West 16th Street
New York NY 10011 United States

IAJGS Leadership Forum - Digitized Brooklyn City Directories

 News from the JewishGen Leadership Forum:


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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:38:19 -0700
Subject: [IAJGS Leadership] (US-NY- Brooklyn) Brooklyn City Directories Digitized and Available on Internet Archive



 

 

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Brooklyn City directories are digitized and available for free on Internet Archive.

The guest post from Dee Bowers (they/them), Archives Manager at the Brooklyn Public Library Center for Brooklyn History, is part of a series written by members of the Internet Archive’s Community Webs program.

https://blog.archive.org/2024/09/24/illuminating-the-stories-of-brooklynites-through-digitized-directories/

Thank you to Janice Sellers for informing of us about this free resource!

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

 

 

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Thursday, October 3, 2024

JewishGenSIG - Arthur Sissman - ChatGPT zoom meeting


ChatGPT New concept: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

JGSIG Oct Meeting - Tues Oct 8 2024 1-2:30 pm ET / 10 am PT / 6 pm UK / 8 pm IR / 3 am Melbourne
If you think others would benefit from the topics below, please feel free to distribute this email to your society members, friends, and frenemies!! All are welcome to join the fun.
We played with AI Chatbots last month and everything has changed! Let’s Learn HOW!
Hi All,
Zoom recording link and Resource Guide will only be available after the meeting to attendees. To be able to receive the recording and Resource material send the following info to genresearch13@yahoo.com:
  1. Name
  2. Email
  3. Location
  4. Phone
Note: Last month, Arthur discussed AI Chatbots and use in genealogy. The available processes have already changed!! If you did not come last month, don’t be afraid to come and see what is going on. The resource guide with examples you can repeat for yourself is extensive.
Topic: Newest Versions at ChatGPT: Chain of Thought Reasoning - Why Do I Care?
Review and Answer Questions from Last Month - especially Tombstone Translation and Analysis
Then! - What have you done to enhance your AI and Genealogy experience? Did the Resource Guide help?
Newest Versions at ChatGPT: Chain of Thought Reasoning - Why Do I Care?
Want to get a heads up on this part of the meeting? Go here: https://tinyurl.com/28pg6pkg
1. What is it?
2. Do I want/need it?
3. How do I get it?
4. What’s it gonna cost me or not?
5. If I ain’t gonna pay for it, how do I get the best work-around?
6. What else do I need to know?
7. What Resource Guide has Arthur created to help me out?
Contact Arthur Sissman at genresearch13@yahoo.com for more information.