Free Podcast Lectures from the JGS!

At most monthly meetings, JGS presents a lecture given by notable people from the Jewish genealogy community. We are pleased to present selected lectures from 2009 to the present.

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One Foot in America: The Jewish Emigrants of the Red Star Line and Eugeen Van Mieghem	Erwin Joos	2009-10-18
The Morgenthau Exhibition: A Family Historian Confronts The Twentieth Century	Karen Franklin	2009-11-15
The Lost Synagogues of Brooklyn	Ellen Levitt	2009-12-20
Polish Records: What They Contain, Where They Are, and How to Get Them	Hadassah Lipsius	2010-01-17
Treasure Hunt at the Division of Old Records	Joseph Van Nostrand	2010-02-23
Annie's Ghosts: A Journey Into A Family Secret	Steve Luxenberg	2010-03-21
Suddenly Jewish	Roma Baran	2010-04-18
The JDC Archives: Resources for Genealogists	Linda Levi	2010-05-16
Naturalization: Where are the Documents?	Phyllis Kramer	2010-06-13
Memories of Ancestral Homes	Panel Discussion	2010-09-21
American Passage: The History of Ellis Island	Vincent Cannato	2010-11-21
Jewish Geography and DNA: A Player's Guide	Judy Simon	2011-01-16
Two Cents Plain: My Brooklyn Childhood	Martin Lemelman	2011-02-20
A Capital Conference	Marlene Bishow	2011-03-06
Researching Israeli Genealogical Resouces in Your Jammies	Daniel Horowitz	2011-04-10
Methods from the Mavens: Researching Galicia, Hungary & Lithuania	Panel Discussion	2011-05-22
The Tree of Life	Allessandro Cassin	2011-06-12
Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams	Charles King	2011-11-20
Genealogical Implications of Chasidic Ancestry	Rafi Guber	2011-12-25
Researching and Restitution in the Austrian State Archives	Hubert Steiner	2012-01-15
What They Saved: Pieces of a Jewish Past	Nancy Miller	2012-02-19
We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust	Ellen Cassedy	2012-03-05
The Museum at Eldridge Street: Tour	Barry Feldman	2012-04-15
The Museum at Eldridge Street: Program	Benjamin Feldman	2012-04-15
Jewish Chocolate Radar Through the Generations	Rabbi Deborah Prinz	2012-05-10
What, Where and How to Search for Displaced Persons	Valery Bazarov	2012-06-06
Getting the Most Out of JewishGen	Phyllis Kramer	2012-10-21
Food As A Door to Your Jewish Genealogy	Gil Marks	2012-12-25
Finding Living Relatives On The Internet	Ron Arons	2013-01-20
Legacy: A Genetic History of The Jewish People	Harry Ostrer	2013-02-17
From DNA to Genetic Genealogy: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask	Steve Morse	2013-04-28
Against the Odds	Karen Franklin	2013-06-02
Art and Identity	David M. Kleiman	2013-09-15
Beyond the Tree	Tammy Hepps	2013-10-23
JGS 36th Anniversary Celebration	Neil Rosenstein	2013-10-23
A Box of Photos Tells No Tales	Peter Savigny	2013-11-17
Lower East Side Conservancy	Michael Pertain	2014-04-27
Bialystoker Synagogue	Rabbi Zvi Rom	2014-04-27
Finding Granddad's War	Jeff Badger	2014-09-21
No One Remembers Alone	Patricia Klindienst	2014-11-23
Ask the Experts	Panel Discussion	2014-12-21
The Ethical Genealogist	Judy Russell	2015-01-26
Genealogical Resources at the Jewish Theological Seminary	Janette Silverman	2015-02-15
Understanding Our Families, Understanding Ourselves	Ron Arons	2015-03-22
Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind	Sarah Wildman	2015-04-19
Holly Golightly Was a Nice Jewish Girl: Our Ancestors Reinvented	Pamela Weisberger	2015-05-17
Jews, Liquor, and Life in Eastern Europe	Glenn Dynner	2015-06-14
Stanton Street Shul Tour	Elissa Sampson	2015-09-20
From the Steppes to the Pampas: The Migration of Eastern European Jews to South America	Victor Armony	2015-10-11
Three Minutes in Poland	Glenn Kurtz	2015-11-15
Knish: In Search Of Jewish Soul Food	Laura Silver	2015-12-20
From The Spanish Inquisition To The Present: A Search For Jewish Roots	Genie Milgrom	2016-02-21
What's New on JewishGen	Warren Blatt	2009-06-14
"Yikhes": Researching Your Roots in the Dorot Jewish Division, New York Public Library	Amanda Seigel	2016-03-13
Forgetting Fathers: Untold Stories from an Orphaned Past	David Marshall	2016-04-17
Leo Baeck Institute Family History Success Stories	Karen Franklin, Michael Simonson, Moriah Amit	2016-05-15
You've Found The Town Name - Now What?	Phyllis Kramer	2016-06-26
DNA.Land and Genetic Genealogy: A Path for "Tikkun Olam" by Citizen Scientists	Dr. Yaniv Erlich	2016-09-18
Long Island's Jewish History	Rhoda Miller	2016-10-30
Family Secrets, Jewish-Christian Relations, and the Holocaust	Professor Katharina von Kellenbach Pastor Heidi Neumark	2016-11-20
DNA Leads an Adopted Daughter to Her Birth Mother: Kelly's Story	Karen Franklin, Kelly Moore	2016-12-18
Jewish Cemeteries - Preserving a Critical Genealogical Resource	Jamie Cotel, Lewis Polishook	2017-01-29
Jewish Families Yesterday, Today - And Tomorrow?	Jonathan Boyarin	2017-02-12
What's new in resources for researching Central and Eastern Europe	Hadassah Lipsius, Rhoda Miller, Chuck Weinstein	2017-03-26
Interpreting autosomal DNA testing for genealogy	Judy Russell	2017-03-26
Getting started: Finding and interpreting census and vital records	Randi Koenig	2017-03-26
Discovering immigration and naturalization records	Avrum Geller	2017-03-26
Jews and the Rise of U.S. Immigration Restrictions in the 1920s	Libby Garland	2017-05-21