Next Event
The Jewish Genealogical
Society of Oregon
invites you, your family and friends to its
upcoming program via Zoom.
at 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time
Digging into Finding Aids:
The Road Map to Any Manuscript Collection
by Melissa Barker
To register
in advance for this meeting:
Click here
After
registering, you will receive a confirmation email
containing information about joining the meeting.
Melissa Barker is a Certified Archives Manager and public historian currently working at the Houston County, Tennessee Archives. She is known as the Archive Lady in the genealogy community. She lectures, teaches, and writes about the genealogy research process, researching in archives, and records preservation. She writes a blog called "A Genealogist in the Archives" (http://agenealogistinthearchives.blogspot.com/). She has been a professional genealogist for the past 19 years with expertise in Tennessee records and has been researching her own family for 33 years.
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Please
visit our Portland KehilaLinks page in JewishGen: https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Portland/
For
membership questions, email:
[email protected]
Thank
you!
JGSO
Board
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Upcoming Programs
The Jewish Genealogical
Society of Oregon
invites you, your family and friends to its
upcoming program via Zoom.
at 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time
Researching Galicia:
What Every Galitzianer Needs to Know
by Shelley Pollero
To register
in advance for this meeting:
Click here
After
registering, you will receive a confirmation email
containing information about joining the meeting.
Shelley Pollero, founding member and past president of Gesher Galicia, currently serves on its board as Membership Chair. Her personal research interests include several towns in western Galicia, Poland, and Belarus. As Zamosc Research Area Coordinator for Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, Shelley manages several town leaders. A retired World Language teacher and department head, she has organized translation services at several IAJGS conferences. A native New Yorker and long-time Maryland resident, Shelley is a past president and current board member of Anne Arundel Genealogical Society in Maryland.
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To help
you with
your research projects JGSO has provided links to the following
handouts:
Surname Handout.pdf by Malia
Laughton
Reading in Another Hand-Meir.pdf by
Natan Meir
Jewish Fraternal Organizations - handout.pdf
by
Hal Bookbinder
US Immigration and Naturalization Handout -
2016.pdf
by Hal
Bookbinder
Jewish Genealogy Resources in Israel From Your Couch by Daniel Horowitz
Check out Pictorial Oregon Jewish History
You may discover some of your relatives here. The webpage can be accessed by the above link or from any JGSO webpage by clicking on the link in the Stories sidebar.
Photos are courtesy of Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education.
Feel free to comment on these photos at [email protected].
(Click on each photo for a larger image)