Santa Cruz Jewish Geneology Society
Sunday, October 10, 2021 • 4 Cheshvan 5782
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society
“Strategies that Worked!" a member double presentation
by our experienced researchers, Shirley Ginzburg & Lee Jaffe
Sunday, October 10, 2021, 1 pm
Free for Everyone (registration link below)
Program Topics:
The Awful Truth About Mike And Fred or Solving A Family Mystery! with Shirley Ginzburg
Shirley will share about 25 photos and documents that plot the zig-zag route to how she solved the mystery. One important point for everyone is that the proof documents are not solved in chronological order...which means frustrating dives in the wrong direction, often. The common tools/sources plus a couple obscure ones revealed a lot about the career of a popular bandleader.
Looking For My Great-grandfather, Joseph Schwartz and Finding 300 New Cousins with Lee Jaffe
Joseph Schwartz's life in the US is well-documented: yet nothing certain has been found about him beforehand. Lee will report on his ongoing work to uncover his great-grandfather's past, from searching traditional sources to pursuing leads from DNA testing, concluding with a progress report on efforts to launch an "ancestry project" in collaboration with potential cousins.
Speaker Bios:
Lee Jaffe was introduced to family research in the 1980s when he was given two family trees: he has been expanding his family tree and his skills ever since, most recently exploring DNA testing. Lee was a librarian at UC Santa Cruz before retiring in 2014.
Shirley Ginzburg inherited her mother's cache of shorthand notes, photos and love for family research while interviewing many of their elders. Shirley's research stretches over a dozen family lines, across American cities, Belarus, the western Ukraine, and Poland. She enjoys writing vignettes about her relatives and their struggles to adapt through poverty and wars, the Depression, relocation, loss and triumphs, too.
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