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Saturday, February 24, 2024
Finding Your Roots: Tuesday, March 12 at 8PM ET - From Dead Ends to Discoveries: Overcoming Roadblocks in Genealogy Research
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Family Tree Maker Florida free event February 18 at Nova Southeastern University's Huizenga School of Business
JGS & GS of Broward County, Greater Miami
Register for this event by clicking here:
FLORIDA TOUR
You are in luck! Family Tree Maker will be in Florida this week (Feb 15-18). Duff Wilson, Executive Director, and Mark Olsen, Family Tree Maker Ambassador, will be presenting an in-depth look at the upcoming new edition FTM 2024. If you can make it to one of our four in-person events we look forward to seeing you there!
We’re coming to Florida and invite you to join us for four special in-person events with Duff Wilson, Executive Director, and Mark Olsen, Family Tree Maker Ambassador. We will be showing our new FTM 2024 edition. Each event will include two sessions with a 20-minute break in between, and time at the end for questions and answers.
The Family Tree Maker team has been listening to you — our customers — and working hard to create a compelling major new edition. We will be showcasing all the new features and capabilities live at these events. Attendance is free, and we hope to see you there.
Session 1: Introducing FTM 2024
- Connect! A completely new workspace and new Relative Hint™ feature that make it easier than ever to share your tree and collaborate with your family.
- Easy on the Eyes™: a revolutionary way of enlarging parts of the screen right when you need it. An answer and relief for those of us with tired old eyes.
- Hyphenated dual surnames support following the Hispanic tradition.
- Improved support for managing and reporting relationships.
- Tools for cleaning up orphaned items (media & sources, & citations)
- And more…
Session 2: A Deep Dive with Family Tree Maker Connect and AlbumWALK
- New improvements to Family Tree Maker Connect, and using Family Tree Maker Connect for yourself.
- Sharing your tree with family and receiving new Relative Hints.
- Introducing AlbumWALK® — Making your photos talk — literally.
- Working seamlessly between Family Tree Maker and AlbumWALK.
- Q & A
Monday, February 12, 2024
Caribbean Jewish and Gentile Records with Todd Knowles of FamilySearch Wednesday, March 6, 2024 at 7 pm ET
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Tempe Sinai of Hollywood - February 13 at 7:00 pm Holocaust Survivor True Stories
The Jewish Genealogical Society of
Greater Miami
In collaboration with
Temple Sinai of Hollywood
1400 N 46th Avenue
Hollywood, FL 33021
Tuesday, February 13 at 7:00 PM
Presents
Dr. Robert Wolf
Not A Real Enemy – The True Story of
a Hungarian Jewish Man’s Fight for Freedom
Holocaust Survivor True Stories
In “Not a Real Enemy” Robert shares
his family saga—and the forgotten history of the nearly half-million Hungarian
Jews who were deported and killed during the Holocaust—through an epic and
inspiring tale of daring escapes, terrifying oppression, tragedy, and triumph.
The event will be held at the Temple
of Sinai Chapel.
For more information
or
LIVE MEETING AT THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER MIAMI APRIL 21, 2024 AT 11:00 am
ANNOUNCEMENT
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater
Miami
Sunday,
April 21, 2024 at 11:00 am
Jewish Federation of Greater Miami
15 Federal Highway, Miami, FL 33137
Daniel Horowitz
My Heritage Genealogist Expert
How to Share Your Family Story With AI-Assisted Tools
MENTOR SESSIONS WITH JGSGM PRESIDENT PAULETTE BRONSTEIN AT THE AVENTURA LIBRARY
Announcement for Members Only
Private and small group mentor
programs can be scheduled with our JGSGM President, Paulette Bronstein, at the
Northeast Miami-Dade Library (Aventura).
Contact jgsgm.president@gmail.com
University of Miami Program Honoring our Senior Member - Peter Tarjan - and his new book HUNGARIAN PATCHWORK-JOURNEYS OF SEVEN JEWS FROM FASCISM TO COMMUNISM TO FREEDOM
March 20, 2024, at 4:30 PM
University of Miami, Coral Gables
Campus
Miller
Center Building - Contemporary Jewish Studies
A discussion
is scheduled about the recently published book, “HUNGARIAN PATCHWORK: Journeys
of Seven Jews from Fascism to Communism to Freedom,” edited by our senior
member, Peter Tarjan with Susan V. Meschel.
Dr. Haim Shaked, the Center’s Director will
moderate the event. It is a collection, or “patchwork” of personal stories by
seven protagonists, who as children
outlived the Shoah in Hungary, reporting about their survival during Nazi
occupation in 1944-45, followed by their lives under Stalinist communism from
1948-56, their escape following the ’56 Uprising, and their growing new roots
in the Free World. Aside from the editors, George Pick is the only one alive
among the protagonists today.
The work is
dedicated to the others: Andrew Handler, Gabor Kalman, Peter O. Milch and Éva
Székely. And for migrants everywhere who seek peace and a better life in the
Free World.
The Miller Center
is located at the Coral Gables Campus of the University of Miami. The event is
scheduled from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. Parking is open to all after 4 pm. Refreshments
will be offered.
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