We are celebrating our 35th Anniversary!
We are inviting all our seniors, past and present members
who made it happen!
Together with our guest speaker
Jordan Auslander
FAMOUS GENEALOGY DETECTIVE (and comedian as well)
Genealogy Goes to the Movies
Sunday February 11 @ 11:00 AM
Live Meeting at the Greater Miami Jewish Federation
4200 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, Florida
GPS search: 15 Federal Hwy, Miami, FL 33137
Sunday, February 11, 2024, at 11:00 AM
Jordan Auslander
Jordan Auslander is a New York-based forensic genealogist, title, and real
estate historian, who has pursued cases across the United States, The
Caribbean, Europe, and Israel. He published an index to Jewish records in
Slovak Archives, and a Genealogical Gazetteer of Greater Hungary. He is a
former board member of Jewish Genealogical Society of New York. His applied
acting pretensions are as “Heir Jordan, Extreme Genealogist,” Telly award
winner for RootsTelevision.com and the ‘reliably inappropriate’ host of IAJGS
conference Game Show Night.
Genealogy Goes to The Movies
Program summary:
A half hour montage of how genealogy is portrayed in popular films and
television. Hollywood does not let accuracy get in the way of a good story. This
can be both infuriating in perpetuating myths and hilarious, from a 1930 take on
the future 1980 census, name changing at Ellis Island to science fiction, where it
is still not “all on the internet:” current vital records on library open stacks and
shoot-outs in cemeteries.
Aside from entertainment, the two-fold purpose is to show how genealogy is
pervasive in popular media and how resources and methodology are
misrepresented. The discussion that follows focuses on how to manage
expectations and offer reality checks for what can be accomplished with family
research.
RSVP to Paulette Bronstein at jgsgm.president@gmail.com
and a copy to jgsgm.vpprogramming@gmail.com
