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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon  
invites you, your family and friends to its upcoming program via Zoom.

 

Sunday, October 15th, 2023

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:
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Genealogists use all kinds of tools to help with their genealogy research. One of the best tools to understand and use when working with manuscript collections is a finding aid. Archivists develop finding aids to help researchers navigate through manuscript collections to find information. This presentation will help genealogists read, follow, and use finding aids to discover their ancestors in archives.

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 help with genealogy, contact our Help Desk team:     [email protected]

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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.

 

Sunday, November 12th, 2023

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:
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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Confused by your ancestors' documents, which sometimes say Austria and sometimes Poland? Chances are that those ancestors originated in Galicia, a region that was part of the Austrian Empire for almost 150 years and is now part of southeastern Poland and western Ukraine. This talk, geared to researchers of all skill levels of Galician research, will cover where and what Galicia was, unique marriage and naming traditions that often lead researchers astray, how to identify and locate your towns and learn their past and current names, understanding record-keeping practices in Galicia, sources for Galician research, and more. Once you know the basics, you can follow up with the links in the handout to learn more about researching your roots in Galicia.

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

 



 Check out Pictorial Oregon Jewish History
It currently has three sections - Jewish Businesses in Oregon, Jewish Activities in Oregon and Oregon Jewish History: South Portland. More photos will be added at a later date.

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.
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