02:00pm - 04:00pm  Researching Our Families: Three Case Studies

Speakers: Avrohom Krauss, Lorraine Korn, and Nina Talbot  For our fifth annual members' presentations, Avrohom Krauss, Lorraine Korn, and Nina Talbot will each present a case study that demonstrates how they solved a genealogical question in their family own research. CASE STUDIES: Avrohom Krauss: Finding traces of an elusive man–Joel Lapidus: my most remote U.S. immigrant ancestor This case study demonstrates how Avrohom Krauss found genealogical footprints for a man born ca. 1841 in Russia, who emigrated to the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century, advanced in age, never naturalized and died around a decade after immigrating. Lorraine Korn: Finding information about my paternal grandmother and ...