Webinars are online lectures given by experienced genealogists and historians from around the world. Some webinars are recorded with a live audience at a scheduled IGRA meeting, and others are completely online. The recorded webinars are only available to paid IGRA members.
- Webinar Recording: From Selanik to Thessaloniki: Researching the Records of the Salonika Jewish Community in the Interwar Years
This talk focuses on the joint Israel Genealogy Research Association and FamilySearch project to index and make useable the Salonican Jewish community records from the Interwar Period under the Kingdom… Read more: Webinar Recording: From Selanik to Thessaloniki: Researching the Records of the Salonika Jewish Community in the Interwar Years - Webinar Recording: Hungarian Jewish Research
An exploration of what resources are available on-line, on site and abroad for researching Jewish families that lived in pre1920 Hungary and its component regions thereafter. Jewish demographics, history and… Read more: Webinar Recording: Hungarian Jewish Research - Webinar Recording: The Challenges of the Montefiore Censuses for Research on Jews in 19th-Century Eretz-Israel
A treasure chest of five detailed censuses, initiated by Sir Moses Montefiore in the 19th century, listing members of the Jewish communities throughout the Holy Land. An overview of the… Read more: Webinar Recording: The Challenges of the Montefiore Censuses for Research on Jews in 19th-Century Eretz-Israel - Webinar Recording: Research at the National Library of Israel
The National Library of Israel’s collections are a treasure trove for genealogical researchers. The Library’s materials go far beyond standard book collections, and include manuscripts, archives, and extensive newspaper collections.… Read more: Webinar Recording: Research at the National Library of Israel - Webinar Recording: ‘Squeezing the Juice’ from an Old Photograph
“One picture is worth a thousand words”, and indeed one photograph can convey important visual content that contributes to genealogical research, which was not necessarily clarified and interpreted in written… Read more: Webinar Recording: ‘Squeezing the Juice’ from an Old Photograph - Webinar Recording: Using Russian and Ukrainian Language Internet Resources for Jewish Genealogy
This session aims to help family history researchers with little to no proficiency in Russian and/or Ukrainian, as well as family history researchers with greater proficiency in those languages, navigate… Read more: Webinar Recording: Using Russian and Ukrainian Language Internet Resources for Jewish Genealogy - Webinar Recording: Tombstones – The Stories They Tell
In this lecture we will demonstrate what can be learned from tombstones and cemeteries and how you can search the Internet for tombstones and information about the deceased. We will… Read more: Webinar Recording: Tombstones – The Stories They Tell - Webinar Recording: Family History Research at the Yad Vashem Archives: A Lesson from the Past for the Future
In her lecture, Dr. Sima Velkovich will address the importance of family history in commemorating the Holocaust victims, and will provide a brief overview of Yad Vashem’s collections. Over 4.8… Read more: Webinar Recording: Family History Research at the Yad Vashem Archives: A Lesson from the Past for the Future - Webinar Recording: Reconstructing the history of the Chudnovsky orphan family – memories vs. reality
Reconstructing family history often encounters objective obstacles, including early orphanhood and the lack of an extended family nearby. Eyal and his cousins grew up with stories, memories, a modest collection… Read more: Webinar Recording: Reconstructing the history of the Chudnovsky orphan family – memories vs. reality - Webinar Recording: Babylonian Judaism, from Ancient Times to the Last Migration
The lecture will focus on the history of the Babylonian Jewish community from its foundation after the first exile in the sixth century BCE, until its end in 20th century… Read more: Webinar Recording: Babylonian Judaism, from Ancient Times to the Last Migration - Webinar Recording: From Poland to UK and Beyond
Kenneth Collins’ grandfather, his mother’s father, was born as Litman Ogrodnitsky in Nowogrod in the Lomza area of north-east Poland in 1897. His parents left to join family in Edinburgh… Read more: Webinar Recording: From Poland to UK and Beyond - Webinar Recording: The Boy Who Was Found on the Train
In 1943, when she was on her way on the train to her English and dance lesson, Wanda Bulik, a 17-year-old Polish girl, noticed a cute little boy of three… Read more: Webinar Recording: The Boy Who Was Found on the Train - Webinar Recording: The Secret to Preserving and Perpetuating the Memory of our Loved Ones
It has been said that one only dies when the last person to remember them does. There are many ways to remember and commemorate our loved ones or even document… Read more: Webinar Recording: The Secret to Preserving and Perpetuating the Memory of our Loved Ones - Webinar Recording: My Kaifeng Adventure: Searching for the Chinese Jews
In 1971, a professor’s casual mention of Jews trading along the Silk Road to China sparked my curiosity. Thirty-eight years later, with an extra day in Hangzhou near Kaifeng, I… Read more: Webinar Recording: My Kaifeng Adventure: Searching for the Chinese Jews - Webinar Recording: AI Unlocks Ancestral Records of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation in 17th Century London
The Bevis Marks Archives’ earliest accounting records, starting from 1676, provide invaluable insights into London’s Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Congregation. These documents record member names, poor relief recipients, religious contributions,… Read more: Webinar Recording: AI Unlocks Ancestral Records of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation in 17th Century London - Webinar Recording: Israel’s Genealogical Collections
The Minnesota Jewish Genealogical Society hosted Rose Feldman, the person in charge of database development for the Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA), speaking on Israel’s Genealogy Collections. Based in Israel,… Read more: Webinar Recording: Israel’s Genealogical Collections - Webinar: Sephardi Ancestry among Ashkenazi Jews: Fantasy Heritage or Genealogical Reality?
The Sephardim (סְפָרַדִּים) are Jews with origins in the Iberian Peninsula, where Jewish communities flourished from the third century C.E. until their dissolution through massacres, forced conversions, and expulsions in… Read more: Webinar: Sephardi Ancestry among Ashkenazi Jews: Fantasy Heritage or Genealogical Reality? - Webinar: Spouses from Eretz Israel (Palestine) = Aliyah
Case Study Based on Examples from LitvakSIG All Lithuania Database The aim of this webinar is to show how information from the database collection of the Litvak SIG connects to… Read more: Webinar: Spouses from Eretz Israel (Palestine) = Aliyah - Webinar: How to Share Your Family Story With AI-Assisted Tools
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is all anyone can talk about in the tech world these days, but does it have practical applications for genealogy? YES! There are multiple fun and useful… Read more: Webinar: How to Share Your Family Story With AI-Assisted Tools - Webinar: Tracing the Yecutieli-Biçaço Family Heritage Across Continents: From Iran & Turkey to Venezuela & Israel
This lecture dives into the Yecutieli-Biçaço family legacy, tracing my Jewish roots across continents—from Persia and Istanbul to Venezuela and Israel. Through unique archival findings, firsthand interviews and compelling family… Read more: Webinar: Tracing the Yecutieli-Biçaço Family Heritage Across Continents: From Iran & Turkey to Venezuela & Israel - Webinar: Imagining the Life of Our Ancestors in Eretz Yisrael
There has been Jewish life in Palestine/Eretz Yisrael from the time of the Bible onwards. This piece of land has been ruled by many over the centuries. Record keeping really… Read more: Webinar: Imagining the Life of Our Ancestors in Eretz Yisrael - Webinar: Training Transkribus for Hebrew and Yiddish Deciphering on Pinkas Brody
Transkribus is a commercial software for deciphering manuscripts in different languages and fonts based on an AI algorithm. In order for the software to recognize language and handwriting, it is… Read more: Webinar: Training Transkribus for Hebrew and Yiddish Deciphering on Pinkas Brody - Webinar: The Mediterranean Basin in the IGRA Collection
Israel has many archives with documents from Jewish communities from the Mediterranean Basin. The Israel Genealogy Research Association [IGRA] has made it an aim to gather such material dealing with… Read more: Webinar: The Mediterranean Basin in the IGRA Collection - Webinar: Entering Eretz Israel: Getting Around Government Limitations
This lecture will highlight the situation of people entering and living in Eretz Israel, and how those people “got around” the limitations of citizenship during the Ottoman Empire (ending in… Read more: Webinar: Entering Eretz Israel: Getting Around Government Limitations - My Personal Archive
Do you want your family story to be preserved for generations? Archivist and historian Denise Rein will present an interactive lecture in which we will learn about family documents and… Read more: My Personal Archive - IGRA Records from Behind the Scene
Review the process from A to Z that IGRA follows to bring records from multiple archives in Israel and other parts of the world directly to you. Learn how images… Read more: IGRA Records from Behind the Scene - Sephardi Voices: The Origin, Evolution and Practice of an Oral History Archive
Sephardi Voices is an audio-visual history project to document and preserve the testimonies of Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews from Islamic lands now living in a transnational Diaspora and Israel. The presentation illustrates… Read more: Sephardi Voices: The Origin, Evolution and Practice of an Oral History Archive - It’s What They Answered To: Understanding Ashkenazic Jewish Names
Name changes, both in adopted countries and in the old world, make determining Ashkenazic (central and eastern European) Jewish names a genealogical puzzle. One cannot take research back to the… Read more: It’s What They Answered To: Understanding Ashkenazic Jewish Names - La Madre de Israel: Researching the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, Greece
In this webinar Gregory Kontos discusses archival resources available to those researching Jewish ancestry in Greece. With a special focus on the historic Jewish community of Salonika (Thessaloniki) and examples from real case… Read more: La Madre de Israel: Researching the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, Greece - Establishing a Community in Ra’anana – Waves of Immigration
Nehemia Tanne was born in Israel in 1941. Parents came from Germany in January 1939, as refugees, and established a large farm in Ra’anana. Studied at the Hebrew University (B.A.… Read more: Establishing a Community in Ra’anana – Waves of Immigration - The Forefathers of Moshavim, Kibbutzim and Towns in the IGRA Collection
Rose Feldman is in charge of developing new databases for IGRA. She has lectured at 15 IAJGS conferences, various annual seminars, webinars, workshops and meetings of groups in Israel and… Read more: The Forefathers of Moshavim, Kibbutzim and Towns in the IGRA Collection - The Rise and Fall and Rise of Be’er Tuvia
The lecture covers the story of 40 years of settlement in Be’er Tuvia – the southernmost settlement established in Israel, in all its years, as well the difficulties and struggles… Read more: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Be’er Tuvia - Connecting with Family Through Virtual Family History Activities
Extended families rarely stay in the same area anymore and are often scattered all over the country and sometimes the world! How can we stay connected and share our family… Read more: Connecting with Family Through Virtual Family History Activities - GenealogyIndexer.org: Searching Historical Directories, Yizkor Books, and More
Description: GenealogyIndexer.org is a free website for searching 2 million+ pages of historical European directories (business, address, telephone), yizkor books, Galician secondary school reports, Polish and Russian military documents, community… Read more: GenealogyIndexer.org: Searching Historical Directories, Yizkor Books, and More - Genealogy by the Clock-What We Can Do with the Time You Have
Think you don’t have time for genealogy? Think again. Daniel will show you what you can do with the time you have — whether it’s just 5 minutes or a… Read more: Genealogy by the Clock-What We Can Do with the Time You Have - Leveraging the Power of J-Roots for Russian Empire Research
J-Roots is a Russian language Jewish genealogy portal that is a trove of genealogical information. This talk will demonstrate how an English speaker can navigate this site and demonstrate the… Read more: Leveraging the Power of J-Roots for Russian Empire Research - My Czech Roots
Jill Meron became interested in genealogy in 2016 after a Jewish Heritage tour of Poland. She was born in England and immigrated to Israel in 1985. In 2017 Jill took… Read more: <strong>My Czech Roots</strong> - Limitations of Genealogy in Evaluating Familial Diseases
The multiple occurrence of a specific disease in a family tree might at first sight be suggestive of genetic inheritance or, at least, association with some factor which has been… Read more: Limitations of Genealogy in Evaluating Familial Diseases - Finding Your Jewish Ancestors Within FamilySearch
FamilySearch is one of the largest genealogical databases in the world, containing billions of records from all parts of the world. In this presentation we will discuss how best to… Read more: Finding Your Jewish Ancestors Within FamilySearch - Medical & Genetic Family History: The Role of the Jewish Genealogist
U.S. Surgeon General Richard H. Carmona comments that “Knowing your family history can save your life. Millions of dollars in medical research, equipment, and knowledge can’t give us the information… Read more: <strong>Medical & Genetic Family History: The Role of the Jewish Genealogist</strong> - The Practitioner & the Patient in the IGRA collection
IGRA’s All Israel Database collection contains over 2.5 million records spanning the period from the end of the Ottoman Empire through the State of Israel mainly dealing with Palestine (Eretz… Read more: <strong>The Practitioner & the Patient in the IGRA collection</strong> - Prenumeranten: What We Can Learn from Subscription Lists in Hebrew Books
Starting in the last quarter of the 18th century, many Hebrew and Jewish books were published with lists of subscribers, whose prepayments funded the book’s publication. These lists of subscribers,… Read more: Prenumeranten: What We Can Learn from Subscription Lists in Hebrew Books - Genealogy by the Clock: What You Can Do with the Time You HaveThink you don’t have time for genealogy? Think again. Daniel Horowitz will show you what you can do with the time you have — whether it’s just 5 minutes or… Read more: Genealogy by the Clock: What You Can Do with the Time You Have
- The Ha’apala (Clandestine Immigration to British Mandatory Palestine) and Bintivey Ha’apala Information Center
Rina Offenbach and Yael Kaufman We work in Atlit Camp, a national heritage site run by the Council for Conservation of Heritage Sites in Israel (A.K.A The Society for Preservation of… Read more: The Ha’apala (Clandestine Immigration to British Mandatory Palestine) and Bintivey Ha’apala Information Center - So They Immigrated to Eretz Israel – Is the Document Correct? Immigration to Eretz Israel Based on the IGRA CollectionInformation on immigration can be found in many types of documents. But these documents may not always be primary sources but secondary sources in which the information may not be… Read more: So They Immigrated to Eretz Israel – Is the Document Correct? Immigration to Eretz Israel Based on the IGRA Collection
- To Go or Not to Go: Aliyah and Migration Dilemmas and their Impact on Genealogical Research
Why did siblings raised in the same family migrate (or not) to different destinations? In this talk I will present several general migration models, as well as those specific to… Read more: To Go or Not to Go: Aliyah and Migration Dilemmas and their Impact on Genealogical Research - Hungaricana: The Hungarian Culture Heritage Portal as a Resource for Jewish Research
This presentation provides an overview and tips for using Hungaricana, a voluminous on-line collection of documents, records, directories, maps and other digitized resources in archives, museums, and libraries from Hungary… Read more: Hungaricana: The Hungarian Culture Heritage Portal as a Resource for Jewish Research - 450 Needles in a Haystack of 6 Million
On October 1, 1939, the village of Miroslav in Czechoslovakia found itself annexed to the German Reich in exchange for “peace in our time.” Armed with a list of 425… Read more: 450 Needles in a Haystack of 6 Million - A Beginners Guide to German Jewish Genealogy in North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the largest and most populous of the 16 states of Germany and many of us with German-Jewish roots have at least one or more branches in our… Read more: A Beginners Guide to German Jewish Genealogy in North Rhine-Westphalia - Evidence Analysis: Which is the Right Record?
Utilizing the Genealogical Proof Standard (GPS), this presentation will demonstrate methods of looking at your research to find gaps and solutions as well as evaluate findings, especially those with conflicting… Read more: Evidence Analysis: Which is the Right Record? - Polish Jewish Refugees in the USSR During WWII
The “Ribbentrop – Molotov pact” divided Poland between the Soviet Union and Germany in 1939. The Polish territories annexed to The Soviet Union had a Jewish population of about 2… Read more: Polish Jewish Refugees in the USSR During WWII - Is It Me or Was My Great Grandmother Crazy?Daniel Horowitz has been dedicated to Genealogy since 1986, Daniel was the teacher and the study guide editor of the family history project “Searching for My Roots” in Venezuela for… Read more: Is It Me or Was My Great Grandmother Crazy?
- The Woolf Pack – DNA tests to Reveal Jewish Ancestry
During the Covid19 pandemic in the UK I was approached by several people whose recent DNA tests had revealed Jewish ancestry (typically an unknown Jewish birth father). This talk will… Read more: The Woolf Pack – DNA tests to Reveal Jewish Ancestry - The Krakovsky Documents: Utilization of the Data by the Ukraine Research Group
For several years, Alex Krakovsky, a Ukrainian Jew, has been scanning metrical and census records found in long-closed Ukranian archives. He has placed the indexes, in Cyrillic, on a webpage… Read more: The Krakovsky Documents: Utilization of the Data by the Ukraine Research Group - I’m Looking for My Brother
Research Stories and Anecdotes in the Database of Historical Jewish Newspapers. What I was looking for and what did I find? The database currently has over 336,500 scanned sheets of… Read more: I’m Looking for My Brother - Paya’s Choice – Crossroads and Challenges
DR ROSE LERER COHEN Rose Lerer Cohen is a Professional Genealogist and serves as a Board Member of APG, The Association of Professional Genealogists. She serves as a Board Member… Read more: Paya’s Choice – Crossroads and Challenges - Mining Mom: Genealogical Resources for Researching Women at the Leo Baeck Institute New York
KAREN S FRANKLIN Karen S. Franklin is Director of Family Research at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York and a consultant to the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A… Read more: Mining Mom: Genealogical Resources for Researching Women at the Leo Baeck Institute New York - Researching Women from Eastern Countries in Israel in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Dr. Lavi Shai is the library and archives director at Yad Yitzhak Ben-Zvi as well as one of the coordinators of the “Israel Naglit Le’in” project for documenting family albums.… Read more: Researching Women from Eastern Countries in Israel in the 19th and 20th Centuries - Jews in Post-Communist Poland – Discovery, Resources, What now?
Esther Fuerster, born in Poland, educated in England, living in Israel, owner of E. H. NEWTON and Project Gravestone Poland. Batya Wieczorek grew up in Warsaw, Poland, where she was… Read more: Jews in Post-Communist Poland – Discovery, Resources, What now? - Documenting Ethnic Cooking in Ra’anana
Rachel’s background in education, IT and design is apparent in her work at the archives, where she develops programs, stages exhibitions, leads heritage tours around Ra’anana and more. The archive… Read more: Documenting Ethnic Cooking in Ra’anana - Attitudes Regarding Androgynous Given Names in Israel – In the Past and the Present
Dr. Shlomit Landman is a researcher of Israeli and Jewish onomastics. Recently published her book “I am the Only Lishaz in the World – Naming Processes Babies” published by Restling.… Read more: Attitudes Regarding Androgynous Given Names in Israel – In the Past and the Present - Archives, Repositories and Libraries in the UKJeanette Rosenberg gives an overview of the many different kinds of archives, repositories and libraries in the UK and will look at some of their holdings. She speaks about the… Read more: Archives, Repositories and Libraries in the UK
- From Liepaja to Latgale – Latvian Jewish Research
In recent years, the number of resources available to the Jewish researcher with Latvian roots has increased exponentially. This talk will introduce the core sources to further your Latvian research.… Read more: From Liepaja to Latgale – Latvian Jewish Research - Investigating in the Medieval Records of Spain and Portugal
Genie Milgrom presents this webinar. Genie is foremost a genealogist and a global speaker. She has developed a method to trace Jewish Lineages to the 1400s. She has held positions… Read more: Investigating in the Medieval Records of Spain and Portugal - Migration, Immigration & Emigration: Genealogy on the MoveThis webinar with Jeanette Rosenberg covers Migration, Immigration, Emigration Transmigration and genealogy on the move aka mobile genealogy. It looks at the kinds of information available and also the technology… Read more: Migration, Immigration & Emigration: Genealogy on the Move
- Understanding Your Galitzianer Family through Vital Records
A great many Galician researchers have acquired copies of family records from repositories in Poland and Ukraine or online images provided by the State Archive or Genealogical organizations. Over the… Read more: Understanding Your Galitzianer Family through Vital Records - Help! I Just Got My DNA Results and I’m Confused
Gil Bardige lives the Columbus Ohio area. A graduate of the New York Institute of Technology, Gil is recently retired after a long career in Air Conditioning and Refrigeration most… Read more: Help! I Just Got My DNA Results and I’m Confused - 100 Days to a Better Family History
Join this webinar and come away with a plan for your next 100 days of family history activities. You will receive self-accessment tools, learn to prioritize research activities, pace your… Read more: 100 Days to a Better Family History - Beyond the Family Tree – Sharing Your StoriesWhen you bring out your family tree and genealogy reports at a family gathering, do your relatives’ eyes glaze over? Are you overwhelmed with data after so many years of… Read more: Beyond the Family Tree – Sharing Your Stories
- Finding your Eastern European Jewish Family on JRI-Poland.org
Join us for this presentation, with Robinn Magid, of some truly memorable stories from the JRI-Poland.org case file that highlight what this incredible database and website might do for your… Read more: Finding your Eastern European Jewish Family on JRI-Poland.org - A Critical Evaluation of Online Holocaust Repositories
Genealogy is shifting from onsite search to online search, making success more and more dependent on our ability to master the internet tools offered by the archives. COVID-19 even accelerates… Read more: A Critical Evaluation of Online Holocaust Repositories - My Covert Search for Hidden Children in France after WWII
This webinar was part of the IGRA 2020 Heshvan Event and is only available in English. - How Family Belongings, Objects & Ephemera Can Provide Insight into Our Families’ Lives
This lecture was delivered by Elena Biegel Bazes as part of the IGRA 2020 webinar series. Most researchers concentrate mostly on genealogy records and documents when researching their families, but… Read more: How Family Belongings, Objects & Ephemera Can Provide Insight into Our Families’ Lives - The War Started for Me in 1945 – Rob Sealtiel
This lecture was part of the 2020 IGRA Heshvan Event. Rob Sealtiel is a language teacher, professional genealogist and was a hidden child. Born in Amsterdam, as a toddler of… Read more: The War Started for Me in 1945 – Rob Sealtiel - Google for Genealogy
We were happy to have Jeanette Rosenberg OBE with us again and this time presenting all the wonders of Google and how, by taking advantage of all it has to… Read more: Google for Genealogy - The Basics of Research in Israel
Researching for relatives footsteps in Israel can be a challenge. The lecture will cover the kinds of records that may be found from around 1835 to today. Some resources are… Read more: The Basics of Research in Israel - All You Wanted to Know about DNA Tests but Had No One to Ask
All you wanted to know about DNA testing and had no one to ask … These days we hear more and more about DNA testing on the web, on TV,… Read more: All You Wanted to Know about DNA Tests but Had No One to Ask - Educational Institutions as Genealogy Resources
Today we take education for granted, but it wasn’t always that way. To fill in the story of our ancestors’ lives, we need to think about what educational institutions our… Read more: Educational Institutions as Genealogy Resources - Ask Not What Your Ancestors Can Do For You: Genealogy and the Restoration of Polish Jewish Cemeteries
This lecture was given at the IGRA Virtual Seminar Day, June 23, 2020. Dan A. Oren Dan is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Adjunct) at Yale University, and Founder and… Read more: Ask Not What Your Ancestors Can Do For You: Genealogy and the Restoration of Polish Jewish Cemeteries - Discovery and Insight into a Long Forgotten World
Doron Friedman began investigating a treasure trove of family documents, photos and letters ranging from the late 1800’s to the post war period, which had until very recently been hidden… Read more: Discovery and Insight into a Long Forgotten World - JDC Archives and Name Search Possibilities
Dr. Anat Kutner Director of JDC Archives in Jerusalem, previously was a project manager at the National Library of Israel, and later directed a department at the Yad Vashem Archives.… Read more: JDC Archives and Name Search Possibilities - Keynote Speaker at IGRA 2020 Seminar Day – Gilad Japhet
The IGRA Annual Seminar Day was held virtually this year. Gilad Japhet, MyHeritage Founder & CEO gave the Keynote mentioning many new components of MyHeritage. Gilad began MyHeritage in his… Read more: Keynote Speaker at IGRA 2020 Seminar Day – Gilad Japhet - Ukraine 2020: Update Your Research Plan – Ellen S Kowitt
Revisiting Ukraine this year catapulted my research, and it can advance yours too! Records access is exploding thanks to efforts by Alex Krakovsky, FamilySearch, and others; an improved Ukrainian economy… Read more: Ukraine 2020: Update Your Research Plan – Ellen S Kowitt - Sources for the Genealogy of Tunisian Jews – Thierry Samama
This webinar presents essential sources for the genealogy of Jewish ancestors in Tunisia. In the last ten years there has been major progress in the publication of genealogical sources allowing… Read more: Sources for the Genealogy of Tunisian Jews – Thierry Samama - Genealogy in Western Europe, Jeanette R. Rosenberg OBE
Discover new sources for researching your Jewish family history in Western Europe. Learn about new sources of information. Find out about place specific information for different locations that can help… Read more: Genealogy in Western Europe, Jeanette R. Rosenberg OBE - Using the JDC Archives Website and Online Databases for Family Research, Jeffrey Edelstein
Jeff Edelstein is the digital initiatives manager at the JDC Archives, where his responsibilities include management of the collections database and website, the digitization of text collections, and the JDC… Read more: Using the JDC Archives Website and Online Databases for Family Research, Jeffrey Edelstein - Video: Location, Location, Location: How Genealogical Research Can Benefit from Historical Maps
The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) broadcasted on Sunday April 26th a free webinar in English. The topic of the webinar was “Location, Location, Location: How Genealogical Research Can Benefit… Read more: Video: Location, Location, Location: How Genealogical Research Can Benefit from Historical Maps - Recorded lecture: APPsolutely Genealogy! by Garri Regev
Genealogy research has changed over the last 35 years in ways we never imagined possible. The internet has come of age. Archives have made some of their records available online,… Read more: Recorded lecture: APPsolutely Genealogy! by Garri Regev - Webinar: The Expanded Montefiore Census
The Montefiore Censuses provide us with an amazing window to life in the Middle East during those years. Volunteers connected with IGRA (and the IGS before IGRA) spent years going… Read more: Webinar: The Expanded Montefiore Census - Webinar: Polish Research and IAJGS 2018 Conference Preview
Matan Shefi recently spoke on “Polish Research and Preview of Warsaw Conference”. The lecture was recorded and IGRA is now making it available to you. Matan lectured about records and… Read more: Webinar: Polish Research and IAJGS 2018 Conference Preview - Using Directories and Maps for Genealogy ResearchIGRA featured a lecture/webinar series in 2016 and one of the webinars hosted Jeanette R. Rosenberg. This webinar on Using Directories and Maps for Genealogy Research will give you practical… Read more: Using Directories and Maps for Genealogy Research
- Rohatyn Challenges & Issues in Preserving Jewish Memory
In 2014 Marla Raucher Osborn delivered a lecture in Jerusalem giving insight into Preserving Jewish Memory with Rohatyn as an example of what may be possible and directions you may… Read more: Rohatyn Challenges & Issues in Preserving Jewish Memory - The Ins and Outs of IGRA’s Database Collection
IGRA President, Garri Regev, delivered lectures in Portland, OR; Seattle, WA and Oakland, CA in the Spring of 2016 about vital records that are available in Israel, how to look… Read more: The Ins and Outs of IGRA’s Database Collection - Sources for Jewish Genealogy in Ukraine – Part II
Following the webinar Tomasz did for IGRA a couple of years ago (available on the IGRA website to all for a limited time) we received many requests for an additional… Read more: Sources for Jewish Genealogy in Ukraine – Part II - Sleepless in Seattle?… Not This August!
Chuck Weinstein, Co-Chair of the 36th Annual IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy gave a preview of the upcoming IAJGS Conference to be held this year in Seattle along with… Read more: Sleepless in Seattle?… Not This August! - Using Historical Newspapers as a Source for Genealogy
Historical Newspapers are a wonderful source to enrich your genealogy research. Many newspapers have now been digitized and are searchable. You should check in your region for local papers that… Read more: Using Historical Newspapers as a Source for Genealogy - Chutes & Ladders: Innovative Approaches to Genealogy
As a tribute to the memory of Pamela Weisberger z”l, who passed away suddenly in September, 2015, IGRA has received permission from her family to make Pamela’s recorded lectures available… Read more: Chutes & Ladders: Innovative Approaches to Genealogy - Archives in Israel Series: Oded Yarkoni Archive, Petach Tikva
IGRA Webinar that was broadcast on Monday, March 23, 2015 Galia Duvidzon, Director of the Oded Yarkoni Historical Archive and Museum of Petach Tikva talks about the archive in our… Read more: Archives in Israel Series: Oded Yarkoni Archive, Petach Tikva - Webinar – Montefiore Censuses Project
Lecture by Mathilde Tagger given in Hebrew (with English slides) on December 7, 2014. - Webinar: Transcribing Hebrew Tombstones with BillionGraves
IGRA Webinar broadcast on Sunday, October 5, 2014: BillionGraves supports Hebrew transcription and we would like to give you some tips and ask for your help in transcribing. This is… Read more: Webinar: Transcribing Hebrew Tombstones with BillionGraves
