This
class builds on the basics course, providing detailed information about
search engines, general genealogy sites, Jewish genealogy sites, JewishGen,
Holocaust research, archival research sites and many other resources
accessible from the comfort of your home. New resources continually
appear on the Internet and the class will be updated each time.
Bios:
From
2004 to 2006 Micha and Schelly were the teachers for MyFamily.com's
online Jewish Genealogy classes.
Micha
Reisel
Micha is
an online news industry veteran who currently is founder and president
of Toldot Publishers, www.toldot.net, which helps genealogists publish
their Jewish family histories, either on the net, or as a book.
Micha Reisel has been working on his own family tree since 1985 and
is the family genealogist of both his paternal and maternal lines. He
now has 924 people in his family tree from Belarus, Lithuania, Germany
and Holland dating back to 1720. An expert in internet programs, Micha
focuses on finding resources on Jewish genealogy for genealogy researchers.
His family tree is at http://family.toldot.net.
Micha is vice president of the Jewish Family Research Association Israel
(JFRA Israel), where he has given presentations and workshops. He recently
led a group of seven volunteers who transliterated (Hebrew to English)
nearly 90,000 burials in two Israeli cemeteries in Petach Tikva and
Netanya, and a project to make Holocaust information about 21 Lithuanian
shtetls available on JewishGen in English.
Schelly
Talalay Dardashti
A native
New Yorker, now living in Israel, Schelly is a freelance journalist
specializing in Jewish genealogy, travel and food, and has been researching
her Ashkenazic and Sephardic family trees since 1989. Her tree and her
husband's tree cover Belarus, Russia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Spain and
Iran, with some 1,400 names on each main tree, dating to about 1730.
Schelly writes the only Jewish genealogy blog, Tracing the Tribe, http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com,
in conjunction with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (www.jta.org), and
was formerly the Jewish genealogy columnist ("It's All Relative")
for the Jerusalem Post. She writes for the JTA, The Forward, and other
papers and magazines, covering community histories, personalities, family
reconnections, new resources and projects, events and new publications.
She is a member of the American Jewish Press Association and the Association
of Professional Genealogists.
She taught online Jewish genealogy classes for MyFamily.com for several
years, and lectures frequently in Israel, internationally and at conferences.
She is the multi-term president of JFRA Israel, an active member of
the Belarus SIG and the Sephardic Forum on JewishGen.
LESSON
TITLES
1 Introduction
1. What is the Internet?
2. Can you trust information on the Internet?
3. How to document what you find
4. You can also use a "blog"
5. What is out there on the Internet?
6. What is NOT (yet) out there?
7. Enjoy the search, don't get frustrated…
8. How to go about it 1: -See yourself as a detective:
9. How to go about it 2: -Eliminate irrelevant clues,
10. How to go about it 3: -Focus and never give up!
2 Searching
general sites and indexes
1. How to search and how to evaluate results
2. Ancestry.com
3. Maps
4. Encyclopedias
5. Message boards
6. USENET newsgroup
7. gengateway.com
8. Yahoo, Google, About.com and other directories
9. Other fee-based sites.
10. Library of Congress, National Library of Israel (HU )and other libraries
3 Searching
genealogy sites (not specifically Jewish)
1. Ancestry.com
2. Genealogy.com,
3. Cyndi's List
4. Ellis Island (and Steve Morse)
5. US and Canadian sites
6. Polish sites
7. British and other European sites
8. Lithuanian, Latvian sites
9. Belarus, Russian, Ukrainian sites
10. More 'exotic' genealogy sites
4 Searching general Jewish sites, Indexes and resources
1. JewishWebIndex
2. Cyndi's list - Jewish
3. Harry Leichter's Jewish Genealogy list
4. Judaism 101: Hebrew Alphabet
5. JewishLink.net
6. Jewish Calendar
7. Jewish Migration Histories Timeline
8. Sefardic resources
9. Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust
10. Avotaynu's Consolidated Surname Index, WOWW
5 On to
JewishGen, the most important site
1.
Ten easy steps to JewishGen
2. The FAQs
3. The Infofiles
4. The JGFF Family Finder
5. The Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP)
6. Shtetlseeker
7. Regional Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
8. Special Interest Group (SIG) Mailing Lists
9. How and why subscribe to SIG Mailing lists
10. Tools: soundex & distance calculatorscreen
6 More
on JewishGen
1. "Search this website" feature
2. JewishGen Holocaust Database
3. Jewish Records Indexing -JRI Poland
4. International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS)
5. ViewMate
6. Yizkor Book Project
7. The Given Name database
8. JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry JOWBR
9. DNA projects
10. Reading Jewish tombstones
7 Routes
To Roots
1. The search for archives
2. How and where to start searching
3. rtrfoundation.org
4. The American Jewish Archives
5. Beth Hatefutsoth/Museum of the Diaspora
6. The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
7. Sephardic House
8. YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
9. Yad Vashem
10. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
8 Find your researcher or becoming your own researcher
1. How to find a genealogical researcher who can
visit your archives and retrieve documents for you
2. Genealogypro.com
3. More on search engines, and posting to various groups
4. Avotaynu: International Review of Jewish Genealogy (index is online)
5. Family History Library (Mormons)
6. US. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
7. State, County and Municipal Archives
8. Historical Societies
9. Jewish Archives and Libraries
10. Bibliography of useful books
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