01:00pm - 01:45pm  Special Pre-Lecture Meeting: Focus on Family History at the Leo Baeck Institute

 Join Leo Baeck Institute archivists as they show selected collections of interest to family historians from the archival collections. 

02:00pm - 04:00pm  Leo Baeck Institute Family History Success Stories

Speaker: Karen Franklin Karen Franklin and Leo Baeck Institute (LBI) staff share case studies using a variety of resources from the LBI collections and beyond. Strategies may be helpful to family historians at all levels of experience and with varying geographic interests.Karen Spiegel Franklin is director of Family Research at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York City, and currently serves as Chair of the Memorial Museums Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). Karen is a former member of Executive Council of the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc., and a past chair of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, ...