01:30pm - 04:00pm  Solving a Genealogical Problem: Three Case Studies

Speakers: Joy Kestenbaum, Lauren Shulsky Orenstein, and Lynn Diamond   The meeting will start at 1:30 PM with open discussion. Feel free to bring questions or a brief statement of a brick wall for the group to address, time permitting. The formal meeting will begin at 2:00 PM. Three members of JGSNY’s Executive Council, Joy Kestenbaum, Lauren Shulsky Orenstein and Lynn Diamond, will each present a case study that demonstrates how they solved a genealogical research problem. Joy, Vice President Programming, will show how she was able to identify a great-great-aunt, who died almost 150 years ago, by researching collateral relatives in American and Galician ...