Finding Your Roots: Eastern European Jewish Ancestors

The Maryland Genealogical Society and Maryland Public Television have partnered to offer a special two-hour webinar focused on Ashkenazic Jewish genealogical research.

This virtual webinar will take place on Wednesday, November 12 from 7-9pm (ET).

Learn about genealogy resources available specifically for Ashkenazic Jewish genealogy. This presentation will cover how to methodically trace your family within the US back into Eastern Europe and will give insight into the types of sources and documents available for records in both the United States and Europe. Learn basic knowledge critical to researching one's Jewish roots, as well as examples of the types of things that can be found that can help get to the stories in the lives of your ancestors and the communities in which they lived. Despite the myth, many documents were not destroyed, and it's very possible to learn about your ancestors and the communities in which they lived for several centuries

Wednesday, November 12, 7-9pm (ET)

About the Presenter

Lara Diamond began researching her own family around 1989. She has traced all branches of her family multiple generations back in Eastern Europe using Russian Empire-era and Austria-Hungarian Empire records. Most of her personal research is in modern-day Ukraine, with a smattering of Belarus and Poland. She has done client research leading to their ancestors in many parts of the former USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and more. She is president of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland, is JewishGen's Director of Subcarpathia Research, and is a strategic advisor to JewishGen’s Ukraine Research Division. She has lectured around the country and internationally on Jewish and Eastern European genealogy research as well as genetic genealogy. She also runs multiple district- and town-focused projects to collect documentation to assist all those researching ancestors from common towns. Lara blogs about her Eastern European and Jewish research at http://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com.

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