Finding new ways to trace family roots
Marion Wehrle
Are you facing another brick wall? Or have your research efforts plateaued out with nothing new on the horizon?
Marion Wehrle has a cure for that with suggestions for new avenues to explore and strategies for finding information you didn t know you could. Join the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Orlando at its next Zoom meeting on March 9, 7 p.m., and learn how to dig deeper into resources to advance your family history.
Werle began family history research over 25 years ago, researching family from Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus, who settled in the US, Canada, UK, and Israel. She has bee.
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Finding your Eastern European Jewish family on JRI-Poland.org
Robinn Magid
The Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Orlando will host a zoom presentation of some memorable stories shared by Robinn Magid from the JRI-Poland.org case file that highlight what this database and website might do for your own research. The event will be held via Zoom on Jan. 12, at 7 p.m.
For 25 years, JRI-Poland has served as the preferred finding aid for the Jewish records that survive in the archives of Poland today. This vast collection of 6.2 million records includes information about towns and families from Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Germany and the former territories.