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34:4 Summer 2013 Features: The Industrial Removal Office - A Source for Researching Immigrant Experiences; The Right to be Forgotten and Why It's Important to Genealogists; Geography of Poland; Geography of the Pale of Jewish Settlement (excluding Poland); Questioning the Experts: Itzhak Epstein. Program Reports: Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind; Holly Golightly Was a Nice Jewish Girl: Our Ancestors Reinvented; Jews, Liquor, and Life in Eastern Europe.

34:3 Spring 2013 Features: A Bashert Genealogical Discovery; Buyer Beware; Yeshiva of Flatbush Students Research Their Sephardic Past; Genealogical Resources at the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda, Israel; Jews as Honorary or Hereditary Citizens in the Russian Empire; Questioning the Experts: Dorothy Dougherty. Program Reports: Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People; Creative Approaches to Jewish Genealogy; From DNA to Genetic Genealogy: Everything You Wanted To Know But Were Afraid To Ask.

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34:2 Winter 2012-2013 Features: KGB Files Shed Light on a Dark Subject; Another Report from the 2012 IAJGS Conference; Update on the Social Security Death Index; Digibaeck, A Digitization Whose Time Has Come; Skuodas, Researching a Jewish Town; Questioning the Experts: Joy Kestenbaum. Program Reports: A Visit to Shearith Israel Synagogue; Food as a Door to Your Jewish Genealogy; Searching for Living Relatives on the Internet.

34:1 Fall 2012 Features: Solving Genealogical Problems: Two Case Histories; What Happened at the IAJGS 2012 Conference; The Genealogy Event; A Phantom Woman Reappears; Hungarian Refugee Records at the JDC; Questioning the Experts: Karen Franklin. Program Reports: The Next Generation -- Genealogical & Archival Databases: Retooling the Tools; Getting the Most Out of JewishGen.

33:4 Summer 2012 Features: Hunting for Grampa's Family; JGS Receives Generous Gift from Kern Charitable Fund; Dorot Mourns the Passing of Louise Stern; Questioning the Experts: Valery Bazarov. Program Reports: We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust; Special Tour and Program at the Museum at Eldridge Street; Jewish Chocolate Radar (Choco-Dar) Through the Generations; What, Where and How to Search for Displaced Persons.

33:3 Spring 2012 Features: Remembering Steven W. Siegel, z"l; Tributes to Steven W. Siegel, A Jewish Genealogy Pioneer; Let My People Sow, Part II; Questioning the Experts: Maira Liriano. Program Reports: Researching and Restitution in the Austrian State Archives; What They Saved - Pieces of a Jewish Past.

33:2 Winter 2011-2012 Features: Searching for the Names of Jewish Refugees at Angel Island; From the Angel Island Files of the National Archives; Hooked on Genealogy; A New System for Ordering & Paying for LDS Microfilms; Six Degrees of Separation; Questioning the Experts: Claus W. Hirsch.  Program Reports: Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams; Genealogical Implications of Hasidic Ancestry.

33:1 Fall 2011 Features: Update on the Holocaust Torah Project; Questioning the Experts: Robert J. Friedman. Program Reports: Genealogy and Computers; Introducing the JTA Jewish News Archives.

32:4 Summer 2011 Features:  The King & Niman Family Visitor Center Opens; The Historical Background of Italian Jewry; They Served Our Country; Questioning the Experts: Renee Steinig. Program Reports: Methods from the Mavens: Researching Galicia, Hungary and Lithuania; "The Tree of Life: - An Exploration of Italian Ancestry.

32:3 Spring 2011 Features: The New JDC Archives Database; Questioning the Experts: Estelle M. Guzik. Program Reports: DC2011 - A Capital Conference; Researching Israeli Genealogical Resources in Your Jammies.

32:2 Winter 2010-2011 Features: Let My People Sow; NYC Death Index Project; A DNA Story; Questioning the Experts: Paul Silverstone. Program Reports: HIAS Photo Archives: Images of Immigration; Jewish Geography and DNA: A Player's Guide.

32:1 Fall 2010 Features: The Jewish Community in Wartime Shanghai; Lithuanian Citizenship; Questioning the Experts: Linda Cantor. Program Reports: Memories of Ancestral Homes; One Foot in America: The Jewish Emigrants of the Red Star Line & Eugeen Van Mieghem.

31:4 Summer 2010 Features: Who Are the Mezvinskys? A Case Study of How to Do Genealogical Research; Conference Impressions; Questioning the Experts: Ada Green. Program Reports: Naturalization: Where are the Documents?

31:3 Spring 2010 Features: Accessing U.S. Passport Files; Questioning the Experts: Roni Seibel Liebowitz. Program Reports: Polish Records - What They Contain, Where They Are and How to Get Them; Treasure Hunt at the Division of Old Records; Annies's Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret; Suddenly Jewish.

31:2 Winter 2009-2010 Features: For Genealogists, Pages of Testimony Live On; Naming the Lost Victims of the Shoah; Yad Vashem Miracle; Pages of Testimony: An Opportunity Lost; Uniting the Heda Family by Using the Pages of Testimony; "V"; Pages of Testimony Success Story; From Stawiski to Paris: A Yad Vashem Story; When the Ashes Spoke; The Conference is Coming!; Locating South African Relatives in the EIDB - An Update. Program Reports: Creating the Morgenthau Exhibition: A Family Historian Confronts the Twentieth Century; The Lost Synagogues of Brooklyn.

31:1 Fall 2009 Features: Go West, Genealogists; Report on the 39th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy; Eastern European Jewish Immigrants on the Lower East Side; Dorot Seeks Your Story About Yad Vashem's Pages of Testimony. Program Reports: Exploring the 1940 Census; Mapping Madness.

30:4 Summer 2009 Features: Dorot Seeks Your Story about Yad Vashem's Pages of Testimony; Red Star Line and Jewish Immigrants; Continuing Genealogical Research in Sulzdorf a.d. Lederheke. Program Reports: What's New On JewishGen.

30:3 Spring 2009 Features: Program Announced for the 29th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy; Philadelphia Area Jewish Genealogical Resource Directory; Book Review: Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean. Program Reports: Harvesting a New Crop of Google Experts; Twentieth Century Probate Research: Confirming Relationships and Finding Family; Preview of the 29th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy; Crossing the River.

30:2 Winter 2008-2009 Features: Using Historical Newpaper Archives; The Long-distance Genealogist; Gesher Galicia Regional Meeting. Program Reports: From Here to Eternity: Jewish Cemetery Research, Preserv ation and Restoration; Bums, Slummers and Swells: Social Class, Immigration and the Birth of American Popular Culture on the Lower East Side.

30:1 Fall 2008 Features: Lithuania Internal Passport Project Receives Grant from JGS; Jewish Records Indexing-Poland Presentation on Polish Records; What I Did at the IAJGS Conference: A Personal Blog; Cadastral Map and Landowner Records Project; IAJGS Awards Stern Grant to IGG. Program Reports: Searching Online Historical Directories; The Pages in Between: Unearthing the Hidden Legacy of Two Families, One Home.

29:4 Summer 2008 Features: A Groundbreaking Visit to the International Tracing Service (Bad Arolsen: Looking Back; Soul Seeking; The True Meaning of Reunification); Abraham Roeser: Lower East Side Hero or Scam Artist; “Identifying Benjamin W. Cohen of New York and New Orleans”: The Backstory; Google Your Family. Program Reports: Fusgeyers: Jewish Immigrants Who Walked to Freedom in the Early 1900s.

29:3 Spring 2008 Features: Where There’s a WILL, There’s a Way; Using Your JGS Perk…Jewishdata.com; Overlooked Resources: Voter Records; The Heritage of a Diva—Amy Jade Winehouse. Program Reports: Looted Art: One Case from State of the Art: Researching and Restitution; Arthur Szyk: Documenting as a Palette of Life; Identical Strangers: Jewish Adoptees Fill in the Blanks to the Past.

29:2 Winter 2007-2008 Features: Gesher Galicia Regional Meeting (Galician Land Records and Cadastral Maps; JRI-Poland Update); The Hottest Online Sources for Researching Your Families in the U.S., Canada, South Africa, and the UK, Part 4. Program Reports: Five Lives of Gregory Meisler: Jew, Warrior and Polish Patriot; Creating a Research Group and Website Dedicated to Your Ancestral Town; Trick or Treat–Family History Web Searches; JGS Anniversary and Brunch; Write Your Family History NOW!

29:1 Fall 2007 Features: The Museum of Family History: An Overview; Preserving Memories; From a 1924 Photograph to a Meeting in Amsterdam; The Hottest Online Sources for Researching Your Families in the U.S., Canada, South Africa, and the UK, Part 3. Program Report: Video Memoirs: Preserving Your Family History

28:4 Summer 2007 Features: The Hottest Online Sources for Researching Your Families in the U.S., Canada, South Africa, and the UK, Part 2; Family History and the Holocaust: A Day of Learning. The 2nd Annual Lucille Gudis Memorial Fund Lecture Series; Holocaust-related Addresses; Bibliography for Research on Jews in the Lodz Ghetto. Program Reports: Remembrance of Synagogues Past: The Lost Jewish Civilization of the South Bronx.

28:3 Spring 2007 Features: The Hottest Online Sources for Researching Your Families in the U.S., Canada, South Africa, and the UK, Part 1; A Family Journey Back to Vienna. Program Reports: The Voice of the People: Using the Landsmanshaft Press as a Research Source; Nechama’s List: Update on Jewish Microfilmed Materials at the Family History Library; 27th Annual IAJGS Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Salt Lake City—Sneak Preview. Book Reviews: A Village Named Dowgalishok: The Massacre at Radun and Eishishok; The Grandees of New Jersey: Naar, Baiz, Peixotto, Pretto and Seixas Families.

28:2 Winter 2006-2007 Features: Did Cousin Rabinowitz Die in the Holocaust?: New and Old Sources of Information. Program Reports: Cuba’s Jewish Community: The Golden Years, 1906-1958; The Curious Case of Morris Jaffe: A Glimpse into Immigrant Life in New York at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.

28:1 Fall 2006 Features: New York City Synagogue Database, circa 1939; How the Conference [26th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, New York City] Succeeded. Program Reports: My Future Is in America: Yiddish Immigrant Autobiographies; The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million.

27:4 Summer 2006 Features: Where to Find New York City Vital Records and/or Indexes; Bennett Greenspan’s Recommended Reading List [scholarly articles about DNA published online]. Program Reports: The Internet beyond JewishGen and Steve Morse’s Website; Stuck in Your Research? Ask the Experts. Book Reviews: My Future Is in America: Autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish Immigrants; History of the Jewish Community of Schneidemühl: 1641 to the Holocaust.

27:3 Spring 2006 Features: The Development of a Research Project from Conception to Completion [Remembrance of Synagogues Past: The Lost Civilization of the Jewish South Bronx, a book published online]; The Missing New York Passenger List Index; Genealogical Research Can Require Time, Tenacity, and Travel: Researching a German Jewish Ancestor; Online Directories to Manuscript and Archival Collections. Program Reports: The Saga of Jewish Agricultural Colonies in the United States; Sneak Preview: The Center for Jewish History’s Dynamic New Website and Online Catalog; New York Genealogy on the Web.

27:2 Winter 2005-06 Features: Lucille Gudis, 1933-2005 z”l; Gesher Galicia Regional Meeting; Finding a Sergeant [follow-up to In Search of a Sergeant, 26:1-2]; A Conversation with Rabbi Avraham Laber [Jewishdata.com]; Letters from the Dead [letters written by Jews held in the Lodz ghetto that are housed in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]. Program Reports: JGS Membership Brunch; My Grandfather’s House: The Journey Home.

26:4-27:1 Summer-Fall 2005 Features: Bibliography of Selected Jewish-American Manuscript and General Collections in the New-York Historical Society Library; The IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee; Family History Archive [LDS’s online digitization book project]; What’s New in Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, 2005. Program Reports: Genealogy: The Last Frontier in the Historiography of the Holocaust; Castle Garden Records: 19th Century New York City Immigration History.

26:3 Spring 2005 Features: Reports from the 2005 IAJGS Conference. Program Reports: HIAS: Reconnecting with the Past; What Became of Them? The Fate of the St. Louis Passengers; The Treasures of the United States History, Local History and Genealogy Division and the Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library; Tracing Your Immigrant Ancestors: Using Resources from the National Archives.

26:1-2 Fall-Winter 2004-05 Features: Bringing Bukaczowce Back to Life; Suggested Genealogical Resources for a Jewish Library; Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Liquidation of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto in Lodz; In Search of a Sergeant; Genealogical Research from Moscow to Queens. Program Reports: The First Settlers and the First Synagogue; Yad Vashem – Pages of Testimony Online; Using Records of New York State Institutional Hospitals; Yizkor Books Online.

25:3-4  Spring-Summer 2004 Features:Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online™: A Valuable, Free Resource for Genealogists; Reports from the IAJGS 24th International Conference, July 4-9, 2004, Jerusalem; Gershon’s Story; Orphanage Records at the American Jewish Historical Society. Program Reports: Combining Genealogical and Family Trait Genetic Research; Next-Gen Genealogy: Exciting Pre-teens and Teens about Family History; Read All about It! Historical Newspaper Research; The Jews of Sing-Sing: Might One of Them Belong on Your Family Tree?; Book Reviews: Chinese Exile: My Years in Shanghai and Nanking; From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History.

25:2 Winter 2003 Features: Heritage Foundation for Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries; Surname Navigator Online; Hidden Children of the Holocaust and Their Recovery of Jewish Identity. Program Reports: American Jewish Committee, Office of War Records, 1918-1921, and National Jewish Welfare Board, Bureau of War Records, 1940-1969; How to Use the Belarus SIG Website to Find Your Belarussian Ancestors and Their Shtetls; “Beyond the Basics” Seminar; Jewishdata.com.

25:1 Fall 2003 Features: Researching in London; Next-Gen Genealogy: Teens and Genes: Can We Excite Jewish Teenagers about Genealogy? Here’s How the Samberg Family History Program Does It. Program Reports: Jewish Given Names: Why Is Mordecai, Mortka and Also Max?; Understanding Your Galician Vital Records; the International IAJGS 24th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy; The Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy; Polish Jewish Cemeteries Restoration Project.

24:3-4 Spring-Summer 2003 Features: How the JGS Anniversary Luncheon Changed Jewish New York; Washington DC 2003: A Capital Conference. 23rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy (reports); “Only in New York” (New York City resources); Genealogical Projects of the Israel Genealogical Society Prepared for the 24th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Jerusalem, July 4-9, 2004; Next-Gen Genealogy: The Bar Mitzvah Connection. Using Genealogy to Enrich the Bar Mitzvah Experience–and Vice Versa; Genealogy 101: The 12-Step Approach. A Primer for the Novice Genealogist. Book Reviews: The Enemy at His Pleasure; Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World; From Suwalki to St. Ignace: A History of the Rosenthal, Reinhertz, Blumrosen, Winkelman and Related Families.

24:1-2 Fall-Winter 2002-2003 Features: The Top Ten Reasons to Attend the 23rd Annual International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Washington, DC; Next-Gen Genealogy: Get the Kids Involved! Why We Mustn’t Overlook the Future as We Research the Past; South African Jewish Genealogical Research. Part I: South African Resources in America; Their Spirits Have Found a Home: New Collection Documents Jewish Life in Eastern Europe. Book Reviews: Where Once We Walked – Revised Edition: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust; Climbing Your Family Tree: Online and Off-Line Genealogy for Kids.

23:3-4 Spring-Summer 2002 Features: Toronto 2002: A Meeting Place. 22nd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy (reports); Archival Guides to Documentary Sources of Jewish Interest in the Former Soviet Union; What’s in a Name: Spelling of Names in a Search for Family; The Trials, Tribulations and Travails of a Holocaust Researcher; The Power of Cooperation: A Three-Way Success Story; Rediscovering Our Polish Shtetl: The Restoration of Vilkotch; HIAS Boston Individual Arrival Cards, 1882-1929. Book Reviews: Uncle, We Are Ready! Registering America’s Men, 1917-1918.

23:2 Winter 2001-2002 Feature: Exploring the Details of Czarist Decrees.
Program Reports: The 1930 Census and Useful Websites for Researching the 1930 Census; Genealogical Research at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Sources of Information on Holocaust Victims and Survivors: An Overview.
Book Review: Discovering Your Jewish Ancestors.

22:4-23:1 Summer-Fall 2001 Features: My Trip to Ukraine, May 2001; Krakow Banns and Marriage Registers; Do You Know When You Were Born?; Slovak Database Initiative; London 2001: 21st International Conference on Jewish Genealogy.

22:3 Spring 2001 Feature: Ellis Island News. Program Reports: Organizing Genealogical Research; Genomic Views of Jewish History; Reclaim a Piece of Your History: The HIAS Location and Family History Service; Censuses of the Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland, Lithuania, Galicia, Ukraine and Belarus).

22:2 Winter 2000-2001 Features: A Primer on Census Research; Census Finding Aids in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. Program Reports: Family History Library Research; Yizkor Books and Shtetl Coops; Census Research.

22:1 Fall 2000 Program Reports: Twentieth Annual Conference on Jewish Genealogy, July 9-13, 2000; Navigating the Revolving Doors of the Former Soviet Union. Book Reviews: The Litvaks: A Short History of the Jews in Lithuania; In Their Words: A Genealogist’s Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin, and Russian Documents.

21:4 Summer 2000 Features: The Hamburg On-Line Index vs. Migration from the Russian Empire; Dina Abramowicz Remembered. Program Reports: YIVO Institute for Jewish Research Archives; Ancestors, Relatives, Genes and Jews; The Changing Face of Central and Eastern Europe; Genealogical Resources at 31 Chambers Street; Holocaust Research: Documenting Victims and Locating Survivors.

21:3 Spring 2000 Program Reports: Polish-Jewish Genealogical Research; Computers and the Internet in Jewish Genealogy. Book Review: Prima’s Official Companion to Family Tree Maker Version 7.

21:2 Winter 1999-2000 Feature: Hidden Treasures at YIVO. Program Reports: Using Polish Records at the Family History Center; Finding Naturalization Records in New York City; Resources at the American Jewish Historical Society. Book Review: The Jews of Khazaria.

21:1 Fall 1999 Feature: Carved Memories: Photographs of Jewish Tombstones. Program Reports: The 19th Annual Conference on Jewish Genealogy, August 8-13, 1999. Book Reviews: Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories; Stones of Remembrance (Avnei Zikaron); Ancilla to Toledot Charlap.

20:3-4 Spring-Summer 1999 Feature: The JGSNY Cemetery Project, Some Pointers about Landsmannschaft Plots, and the IAJGS Cemetery Project. Program Reports: Did They Change Your Name at Ellis Island?; Interpreting Tombstones; Aliyah Bet: The Illegal Immigration to Palestine; Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories; The New Jersey State Archives. CD-ROM Review: Family Quest Archives Digital Microfilm.

20:2 Winter 1998-99 Feature: “My Name Was Changed at Ellis Island”–A Myth. Program Reports: Items with Hidden Meanings; How to Create Your Own Family History Book; The Polish-Jewish Records Index. Book Review: Migration from the Russian Empire: Lists of Passengers Arriving at the Port of New York.

20:1 Fall 1998 Program Reports: The Archives in Kaunas, Lithuania; Internet Resources for Genealogical Research; The Search for Heirs to Pre-Holocaust European Assets; New York Resources Update. CD-Rom Review: 1998 Cemetery Project.

19:4 Summer 1998 Program Reports: Jewish Medical Reports for Jewish Genealogists; Research in South Africa; Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, Los Angeles, July 1998; Meeting on Future of New York Region National Archives; Jewish Genealogical Institute Proposed at Center for Jewish History; The Jews of China. Book Review: Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings in Eastern Poland: A Guide for Yesterday and Today.

19:3 Spring 1998 Program Reports: Did Uncle Jake mention you in his will?; Beyond the Basics Seminar; Jewish History and Archives in Poland; Landsmanshaften: Jewish Hometown Associations; Trade Papers as a Source; The Columbus Debate. Book Reviews: Eliyahu's Branches: The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and his Family; Rabbi Elijah: The Vilna and his Cousinhood.

19:2 Winter 1997-98 Program Reports: Genograms; What Can Be Learned From Photographs; National Archives Research; New York Resources Update; Books in the Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library With Lists of Names. Book Reviews: Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories; Der Juden Friedhof Endingen-Lengnau.

19:1 Fall 1997 Program Reports: Fifth International Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, Paris, France, July 1997; Do you have a Rabbi in Your Family?; Research in England; The New York Family History Center; Genealogical Resources in Paris, France; Resources Available in Belgium; Before Copy Machines: A Lucrative Business for Notaries in Russia; A Judaic Library in Boca Raton.

18:4 Summer 1997 Program Reports: Genealogical Research on Your Summer Vacation --Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles; The Jewish Division of the New York Public Library; New York Resources Update. Book Reviews: Szkice z dziejow Gminy Zydowskiej oraz cementarza w Lodzi (Sketches from the annals of the Jewish Community as well as the cemeteries of Lodz); Migration from the Russian Empire: Lists of Passengers Arriving at the Port of New York; Guide to Naturalization Records of the United States; Genealogical Research in Ohio. CD-Rom Review: Latter Day Leaders, Sages and Scholars.

18:2-3 Winter 1996-Spring 1997 Program Reports: Jewish Roots in Poland; Computer Imaging Your Family Photos; Family Secrets and Scandals: Skeletons in Your Family Closet-How Should the Genealogist Handle Them?; What's New at the Leo Baeck Institute; New York Resources Update; Jewish Library Collections of Belgium Residents Confiscated by Nazis Sought; New York Vital Records; Polish Business, Street and Telephone Directories Donated by JGS to NYPL. Book Reviews: A Student's Guide to Jewish Genealogy; My Sixteen: A Self Help Guide to Finding Your 16 Great Grandparents.

18:1 Fall 1996 Program Reports: Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, Boston, July 1996; Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War; Twentieth Century Immigration and Naturalization Records. Features: NY State Dept. of Health Index to Vital Records; Genealogy on TV; New Finds in Three Polish Archives; Restitution Agencies in Germany. Book Reviews: Hamburg Passengers from the Kingdom of Poland and the Russian Empire: Indirect Passage to New York: 1855-June 1873; Book of Destiny: Toledot Charlap.

17:4 Summer 1996 Program Reports: Preserving Family Records and Photographs; Internet for Dummies; New York Board of Elections Records. Features: Pre-War Lithuanian Series in the Afrikaner Yidishe Tzeitung; Indexing and Record Acquisition Projects in Jewish Genealogy.

17:3 Spring 1996 Program Reports: What's New in Slavic Resources; Unlocking the Files of the FBI; Research in Boston, Preview of 15th Summer Seminar; Research in Vienna. Features: New York Resources Update.

17:2 Winter 1995-96 Program Reports: Ask the Experts; Research and Travel in Lithuania. Feature: New York Public Library News. Book Reviews: Finding Our Fathers: A Guide Book to Jewish Genealogy; The Holocaust Museum in Washington.

17:1 Fall 1995 Program Reports: Endangered Heritage: Jewish Cemeteries and Synagogues in Eastern Europe; The Genealogy of a Building. Features: YIVO News; NYC Marriage Records Update; Research Facility News. Book Review: The Jews of Lithuania: A History of a Remarkable Community: 1316-1945.

16:4 Summer 1995 Program Reports: German Jewish Research. Book Reviews: Migration from the Russian Empire: Lists of Passengers Arriving at the Port of New York, Volumes 1 and 2; The Cross and the Pear Tree.

16:3 Spring 1995 Program Reports: "Journey of the Heart" (Dr. Frank Field); The Sephardic Genealogical Journey; Washington, DC Research. Features: Vital Records Update; Accessing JewishGen.

16:2 Winter 1994-95 Program Reports: How to Access New York State Court Records; Emigrating to New York; Czech Research by Mail and Camera. Book Review: Between East and West: Across the Borderlands of Europe.

16:1 Fall 1994 Program Report: A Report on Travel and Research in Ukraine. Features: New Sources of Polish Records; Two Unusual Sources in Israel; Why Use a Computer to do Genealogical Research, Part II.

15:4 Summer 1994 Program Reports: What's New in New York City Research; Locating Missing and Absent People; Holocaust Research. Features: A Letter from the Mayor; A Genealogical Tour to Poland and Ukraine; JGS Audio Tapes; Why Use a Computer to do Genealogical Research, Part I; New Naturalization Procedure in Effect.

15:3 Spring 1994 Program Reports: Computers in Genealogy; Shtetl Geography: The Changing Face of Central and Eastern Europe. Features: The Shanghai Jewish Ghetto, 1940-1947; The Case of the Pre-Teenage Grooms. Book Reviews: Bridges to an American City: A Guide to Chicago's Landsmanshaften, 1870-1990; Address Book for Germanic Genealogy.

15:2 Winter 1993-94 Program Reports: Landsmanshaften and Family Circles; Travels in Ukraine; Planning a Research Trip to Israel. Features: New York Repository News; Genealogical Research on a German Jewish Physician, Part 3; Jewish Historical Research and Murphy's Law. Book Reviews: Voices in Your Blood: Discovering Identity Through Family History; The Face of Survival: Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Past and Present.

15:1 Fall 1993 Program Reports: Russian-American Genealogical Archival Service (RAGAS). Book Reviews: Using Roots III, A Step by Step Guide; German-English Genealogical Dictionary; Guide to Genealogy Software; State Census Records; American Passenger Arrival Records.

14:4 Summer 1993 Program Reports: Selective Service, Military Personnel and Federal Civilian Employee Records; Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, Toronto, June 1993. Feature: New Jersey State Archives. Book Reviews: Poles and Russians in the 1870 Census of New York City; Korzenie Polskie–Polish Roots.

14:3 Spring 1993 Program Reports: Slovakian Jewish Research; Genealogical Research in Canada. Features: New York Repository News; The Holocaust as a Genealogical Source; Jews Who Built City Hall.

14:2 Winter 1992-93 Program Reports: Researching Polish Records; A Trip to Belarus; Hamburg Passenger Lists. Features: Ask the Experts; German Sources: 1938 Census, Gedenkbuch. Book Reviews: The Jewish People in America; Jewish Family Names and Their Origins.

14:1 Autumn 1992 Program Reports: Tracing Brooklyn Ancestors; Ellis Island Immigration Museum Visit. Features: Ask the Experts; Research on a German Jewish Physician: part 2; Visit to Kamenets-Podolski; Jewish Jungle Roots–Surinam.

13:4 Summer 1992 Program Reports: Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, New York, July 1992. Features: What's New at New York Area Repositories; British 1891 Census; Jewish Royalty. Book Review: Vilna (reprint of 1943 ed.).

13:3 Spring 1992 Program Reports: Family Photograph Collections; Census Records; Ethical Issues in Genealogy; Unusual Genealogical Sources. Features: 1944-48 N Y Passenger Arrival Index; Jewish First Names in the Austrian Empire. Book Reviews: First American Jewish Families; Family Tales Family Wisdom; Norway's Response to the Holocaust and Finland and the Holocaust.

13:2 Winter 1991-92 Program Reports: Poland: Roots to Routes; New Books on Jewish Genealogy; Interviewing Relatives. Features: Home Micromedia for the Genealogist; Polish Geography; 1936-37 Polish Telephone Directories. Book Reviews: The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic; From the Old Marketplace.

13:1 Autumn 1991 Program Reports: Holocaust Research; Family History Fair. Features: Preview of Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, NYC, July 1992; N Y State Archives News; Trail Back to Germany; Communicating Effectively with Strangers to Successfully Elicit Genealogical Information. Book Reviews: Do People Grow on Family Trees?; Where Once We Walked; Lodz Ghetto; Illustrated Atlas of Jewish Civilization; Computer Genealogy (1991 ed.); Unlocking the Secrets in Old Photographs.

12:4 Summer 1991 Program Reports: Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, Salt Lake City, July 1991; Research in Germany. Features: Trail Back to Germany; Preservation of Family History Research Materials; Research on a Pre-Holocaust German Jewish Physician. Book Review: Lithuanian Jewish Communities.

12:3 Spring 1991 Program Reports: Jewish Genetic Diseases; Visit to Leo Baeck Institute. Features: Ellis Island (Re)Visited; Polish Documents Thought Destroyed; Planning That First Reunion. Book Reviews: The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy, Volume I; Jewish Genealogy: A Sourcebook of Family Histories and Genealogies, Volume II.

12:2 Winter 1990-91 Program Reports: Genealogical Research in Law Libraries; Translating 19th-century Polish-language Vital Records. Features: Genealogical Travel and Research in Lithuania; Genealogy and Computers: A Very Thin Primer. Book Reviews: Jewish Cities, Towns and Villages in Lithuania until 1918; International Vital Records Handbook.

12:1 Autumn 1990 Program Reports: Jewish Migration Through Germany to the U.S.; Architectural Genealogical Research. Features: Lithuanian Archival Holdings; Genealogical Trip to Bavaria and Wuerttemberg; Postcards: A Window into the Past. Book Reviews: Pioneer Jewish Texans; Deep in the Heart: The Lives and Legends of Texas Jews. Cumulative Index to Dorot, Volumes 1-11.

11:4 Summer 1990 Program Report: Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, Los Angeles, June 1990. Features: New York Vital Records Update; South African Research. Book Reviews: The Unbroken Chain (2nd ed.); The Library of Congress: A Guide to Genealogical and Historical Research.

11:3 Spring 1990 Program Reports: Naturalization Records; Researching Jewish Genealogy in France, Holland and Belgium; German Research; Passenger Lists. Features: German and Polish Research Sources; LDS Family History Library News.

11:2 Winter 1989-90 Program Reports: Cemetery Visits and Other Death-Related Resources; Jewish Heritage Book Festival; Russian Archival Sources. Feature: Profiles of Debra Y. Braverman, Joseph L. Fibel and Martin Isserlis.

11:1 Autumn 1989 Program Reports: Trip to the USSR; Visit to Family History Center. Features: City Directory Update at New York Public Library; Profiles of Sandra Cohen and Nancy J. Deutsch-Sinderbrand.

10:4 Summer 1989 Program Reports: Celebration of Publication of Genealogical Resources in the New York Metropolitan Area. Book Review: The Jewish Community of Frankfurt: A Genealogical Study 1349-1849. Feature: Profiles of Michael Brenner, Jeffrey K. Cymbler and Alex E. Friedlander.

10:3 Spring 1989 Program Reports: Changing Map of Europe, 1492-1952; Philadelphia Research; En Route to the Golden Land. Features: Concentration Camp Personnel Records at the National Archives; Profiles of Estelle M. Guzik and Steven W. Siegel; Family Health History.

10:2 Winter 1988-89 Program Reports: Polish Research; Russian Business Directories; Surrogate's Court Records. Feature: Profiles of Gary Mokotoff, Eileen Lyons Polakoff and Karen Spiegel Franklin.

10:1 Autumn 1988 Features: Jewish Cemeteries in the Palatinate; Yad Vashem; Profiles of Marsha Saron Dennis and Miriam Weiner.

9:4 Summer 1988 Program Reports: Computers in Genealogy; Lithuanian Jewry; Preparing for a Research Trip to Washington, DC. Features: The State of Jewish Genealogy; Genealogy in the USSR; Preserving Your Family History; Namesakes.

9:3 Spring 1988 Program Reports: Queens Borough Public Library; Washington, DC Research; Rumanian Quest. Features: An American (Jewish Genealogist) in Paris; Digging Roots in a Dictionary.

9:2 Winter 1987-88 Program Reports: Travel in Poland; JGS Tenth Anniversary Brunch; Research in Germany; Computers in Genealogy. Feature: Put Your Ancestors in the Library of Congress.

9:1 Autumn 1987 Program Report: Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, London, July 1987. Features: Glasnost and Genealogy; Genealogical Detective.

8:4 Summer 1987 Program Reports: Videotaping Your Relatives; Searching Census Records; German Genealogical Sources; Shanghai Jewish Community. Book Review: A Uniquely Jewish List: The Refuseniks of Russia. Features: Argentine Connection; Gravestones as Genealogical Evidence.

8:2-3 Winter-Spring 1986-87 Program Reports: Landsmanshaftn Culture; NY Public Library Map Division; Yiddish Language; Ship Passenger Arrival Records; Family Reunions. Feature: Records Relating to Arrivals in the U.S. via Canada.

8:1 Autumn 1986 Proceedings of Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, Salt Lake City, July 1986: LDS Library, Court Records, Unusual Sources, Research in Eastern Europe, Passenger Lists and Immigration, New York Research in the LDS Library, National Archives Sources, Family History - Writing, Researching, Publishing. Feature: Jewish Cemeteries in Poland.

7:4 Summer 1986 Program Reports: YIVO Videodisc Project; Genealogical Sources at Yad Vashem; Research at LDS Library in Salt Lake City. Features: Researching Russian Relatives via Telephone; Archives in Poland.

7:3 Spring 1986 Program Reports: Family Location Services; Preservation and Organization of Material; NY Public Library Slavonic Division. Book Reviews: Guide to YIVO's Landsmanshaftn Archive and other titles. Feature: Research in a Local LDS Library Before Going to Salt Lake City.

7:2 Winter 1985-86 Program Reports: Jewish Painters of the Pale; Medical Records for Genealogists. Features: Family Relationship Chart; Computer Genealogist; Book Reviews.

7:1 Autumn 1985 Proceedings of Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, New York, July 1985: Tombstones, Holocaust Research, Gazetteers and Maps of Eastern Europe, Polish Research, Computers, Landsmanshaftn, Problem Solving, Russian Consular Records. Feature: Book Reviews.

6:4 Summer 1985 Program Reports: Chevra Kadisha Records; Holocaust Research. Features: Computer Periodicals; Photographic Close-Up Lenses; Book Reviews.

6:3 Spring 1985 Program Reports: Genealogical Research in Poland; Black Sheep on a Family Tree; Family Stories and Genealogy. Features: International Telephone Directories at N Y Public Library; Genealogical Detective; Computer Genealogist.

6:2 Dec. 1984/Jan. 1985 Program Reports: Creating a Family History Slide Show; Canadian Jewish Genealogical Sources; Galveston Movement.

6:1 Sept. 1984 Program Reports: Polish Jewish Cemeteries; Holocaust Survivors and their Children; Research in Germany; Tracing Russian Ancestors; International Seminar on Jewish Genealogy, Jerusalem, May 1984.

5:1-3 Sept. 1983 to Apr. 1984 Program Reports: Research in Israel; The Tribe, film on Rivlin Family Reunion; Jewish History in Eastern Europe; Recording Life Histories; Hints for Genealogical Research.

4:1-4 Oct. 1982 to May 1983 Program Reports: Family Reunion Therapy; Tracing Birth Roots as an Adoptee; Israeli Genealogical Sources; YIVO Archives; Researching in the Soviet Union; Jewish Genetic Diseases; Visit to Mount Zion Cemetery.

3:1-3 Dec. 1981 to May 1982 Program Reports: Writing a Memorial Book about Dubrowa; Objects as a Source of Family History; Organizing Your Family Reunion and Publishing Your Family Book; Genealogical Research Trip to Poland.

2:1-6 Sept. 1980 to June 1981 Program Reports: Organizing Genealogical Data; Publishing a Family Newsletter; Research in the LDS Library; Gathering Documentation and Photographs; Immigration & Naturalization Service Records; Mount Zion Cemetery. Feature: Name Index to Vital Records of Koden, Poland, 1828-54, and Stanislawow, Poland, 1826-36.

1:1-6 Summer 1979 to May 1980 Program Reports: Leo Baeck Institute Library and Archives; Jewish Family Clubs; YIVO Library and Landsmanshaftn Project; Ellis Island Experience; Shtetls of the Lithuanian Russian-Polish Border.