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Susan Weinberg: "Crossing the Ocean: Sources to Ancestral Towns"
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Crossing the Ocean:
Sources to Ancestral Towns
Using case studies based on Lithuania Latvia, Poland, and Belarus, we explore how to connect a wide variety of records and make use of many search engines. With these tools we cross the ocean from US records to locate ancestral towns and family within them. Much as with any journey, we identify where we are going, who we are going to visit, how we will communicate and how we assure we have the right luggage.
Or in genealogy parlance, what is our ancestral town, who are the family members who resided there, how do we decipher
documents, and how do we assure the people we are searching for are our family?
This talk also addresses how to create finding tools to decipher records in Russian handwritten Cyrillic.
Susan Weinberg is an artist, author, researcher, and frequent speaker on genealogy topics. Drawing on her long career in finance, she often applies spreadsheets as an analytic tool in her genealogy research. Her creative work often involves storytelling and frequently explores family history themes. Susan is active in organizations within the world of Jewish genealogy, as president of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) immediate past president of the Minnesota Jewish Genealogical Society (MNJGS), and vice president of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest (JHSUM). She developed the Jewish Identity and Legacy Project, an oral history project with elders, then authored the book We Spoke Jewish: A Legacy in Stories that includes oral history, artwork, and history on three groups of Jewish immigrants who spanned the 1900s. Susan has created and manages websites on the former Jewish communities of several ancestral towns. She writes frequently for publications on genealogy topics and does genealogy research for clients around the world.
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