This
systematic class on the basics will provide an overview of what you
need to know to track your family. Learn about calendars, languages,
handwriting, soundex systems, reference books, an introduction to Internet
research, geography, origins and meanings of Jewish names, origins,
lifecycle events, emigration and immigration, honoring our ancestors,
sharing discovered information, and networking with researchers of the
same names and areas. Also see what Part
2 can mean to your research on the internet.
Bio:
Schelly
Talalay Dardashti
From
2004 to 2006 Micha and Schelly were the teachers for MyFamily.com's
online Jewish Genealogy classes.
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.
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.
LESSON
TITLES
1. Introduction
to Jewish genealogy
1.1 Article: "the Right Road"
1.2 Definitions
1.3 Glossary
1.4 Hebrew calendar and dates
1.5 Other calendars
a. Missing days UK/colonies 1752
b. Gregorian/Julian calendars
1.6 Languages used by Jews in documents
a. Yiddish
b. Ladino
c. Judeo-Greek, Judeo-Persian, etc.
1.7 Examples of handwriting in different languages
1.8 Obvious and not so obvious family sources
1.9 Jewish life cycle (circumcision, birth, marriage, death)
1.10 Jewish and non-Jewish records
2. Tools
of the trade: Begin at the beginning
2.1 Malcolm Stern's rules
2.2 Packet of charts and how to use them
a Ancestral Chart
b Research Calendar
c Research extract
d Correspondence Record
e Family Sheet
f Source Summary
2.3 Soundex System and Daitch-Mokotoff System
2.4 Databases and CDs
2.5 Basic Reference books - general
2.6 Basic Reference books and journals - Jewish
2.7 Software for genealogy
2.8 Internet - what is and what is not there
2.9 Interviewing/oral history skills and tools
2.10 Reading tombstones (symbols and dates)
3. Jewish geography and Jewish names
3.1 Basic Jewish geography
3.2 Maps and sources
3.3 Origins of names
3.4 When family names were required
3.5 Jewish given names Ashkenazi
3.6 Jewish given names Sephardic
3.7 Jewish family names Ashkenazi
3.8 Jewish family names Sephardic
3.9 Jewish naming patterns Ashkenazi
3.10 Jewish naming patterns Sephardic
4. Geographic, archival information and documents
4.1 Understanding border changes to know where documents may be
4.2 Not everything was destroyed
4.3 Types of relevant documents in places of origin
4.4 How to access relevant documents
4.5 Eastern Europe: Russian Empire (Republics)
4.6 Western Europe and UK
4.7 Israel
4.8 Sephardic genealogy
4.9 Holocaust Museum, WashingtonDC
4.10 Yad Vashem
a. Pages of Testimony/Hall of Names
b. Survivors Registry
5. Emigration
5.1 Reasons for leaving
5.2 Places of origin
5.3 Transportation routes and methods to reach ports
5.4 The travel experience, ships, the journey
5.5 Hamburg Port
5.6 History of Ellis Island
5.7 Name changes
5.8 Ellis Island processing
5.9 Off Ellis Island - On to other points
5.10 From the Middle East and North Africa
6. Immigration
6.1 Where they came from and where they settled in North America
6.2 Overview - Immigration documents
a. How to access immigrant arrival information
b. Passenger arrival information
c. Creative spelling of names & Stephen Morse's tools
6.3 Overview - Naturalization
a. How to access naturalization and citizenship information
6.4 Overview - Census
a. How to access census information and helpful forms
6.5 Overview - SSDI
a. How to access SSDI information
6.6 Where they went in Western Europe
a.UK and France
6.7 South Africa, Australia and New Zealand
6.8 Central and South America
6.9 Israel, pre-state and contemporary
6.10 Contemporary diasporas
a. From Russia
b. From Moslem countries
7. Sites
to Search on the internet
7.1 Ancestry.com
7.2 Jewishgen
7.3 Avotaynu
7.4 Cyndi's list
7.5 JewishWebindex
7.6 Sephardic focused
7.7 Eastern European focused
7.8 Family History Center
7.9 Yahoo, Google genealogy pages
7.10 Other Jewish Genealogy sites
8. The culture of remembrance: connecting, learning,
sharing
8.1 Honoring our ancestors.
8.2 Sharing our work with family
a. life cycle events
b. appropriate and inappropriate uses of information
8.3 Privacy issues (including sensitive situations)
8.4 Being a responsible and responsive researcher
8.5 Large family tree collections
a. Family Finder
b. Family Tree of the Jewish People
c. Ancestry World Tree
8.6 GEDCOM, a file format for sharing
8.7 Publishing on paper and on the web
8.8 Articles/Stories on various projects (books, websites, etc.)
8.9 Joining a local JGS
8.10 International Jewish genealogy conferences
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