JHSSC Annual Meeting
Jewish Genealogy: Explore Your Family Tree
October 25-26, 2008
Charleston, SC
Schedule
Saturday October 25, 2008
11:00 AM-12:00 PM -- REGISTRATION
Sylvia Vlosky Yaschik Jewish Studies Center,
96 Wentworth Street
12:00PM -- Luncheon
1:00 PM -- Stephen P. Morse One-Step - Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools
The One-Step website started out as an aid for finding passengers in the Ellis Island database. Shortly afterwards it was expanded to help with searching in the 1930 census. Over the years it has continued to evolve and today includes over 100 web-based tools divided into 13 separate categories ranging from genealogical searches to astronomical calculations to last-minute bidding on e-bay. This presentation will describe the range of tools available and give the highlights of each one.
1:45 PM -- Break
2:00 PM-3:00PM -- Continuation of Stephen’s One-Step Webpages
3:00 PM -- Karen S. Franklin - "Tracking the Winter Family"
Karen will demonstrate how she found the European roots of a Southern Jewish family in a remote village in Germany.
Stories about four Civil War veterans, an "Embalmer on the Plain" (Jewish homesteader in South Dakota), and cousins–in-common with the client highlight the talk
4:15 PM -- Stephen P. Morse - What Color Ellis Island Search Form should I use?
In April 2001 the Ellis Island ship manifests and passenger records went on-line. A few weeks later the One-Step Ellis Island website was created to make this resource easier to use. Since that time the One-Step site has been greatly expanded to include new search capabilities and an array of color-coded search forms.
This talk will describe the evolution of the website from both a historical and a practical perspective, and provide a beacon for navigating through this color maze.
5:30 PM -- Reception
Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library, 205 Calhoun Street
Opportunity to view collections of The Jewish Historical Collection
Dinner on your own
Sunday, October 26, 2008
9:00 AM-10:00 AM -- Breakfast and Open Board Meeting
Sylvia Vlosky Yaschik Jewish Studies Center,
96 Wentworth Street
10:00 AM -- Stephen P. Morse - Playing Hide and Seek in the US Census
Even before the 1930 Census was unlocked on April Fool's Day 2002, researchers began wondering how they were going to locate people's records. The lack of indexes was going to present a real challenge.
Several solutions to this problem have since evolved. The One-Step Census website presents a street aid for finding records. A similar aid exists on the NARA website. And commercial websites have developed extensive indexes which are available for a fee.
The One-Step website has since been expanded to include 1910, 1920, and 1940 as well. This presentation describes and contrasts these various solutions of searching in these census years.
11:00 AM -- Hands-On Research Using Computers at the College of Charleston
The Franklin-Morse team will utilize their expertise to guide participants in their personal research, using Stephen Morse's One-Step tools, www.Jewishgen.org, www.Ancestry.com, and developing strategies to solve a variety of research problems using all of Franklin’s secret weapons.
1:00 PM -- Luncheon
Sylvia Vlosky Yaschik Jewish Studies Center,
96 Wentworth Street
2:00 PM -- Additional Independent Computer Research Available
Registration fee: $90.00 per person, $180.00 per couple for JHSSC members
Additional $35.00 per family for non-members
Speakers
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Karen Franklin |
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Stephen P. Morse |
Karen Franklin is director of the Family Research Program at the Leo Baeck Institute and the former director of The Judaica Museum of The Hebrew Home for the Aged in Riverdale. She is a past chair of the Council of American Jewish Museums and a past president of IAJGS. She has served on the board of the American Association of Museums (AAM) and presently serves on AAM/International Council of Museums. Mrs. Franklin is a GERSIG (German Special Interest Group) coordinator, a juror for the Obermayer Award, and serves on many boards of national and international organizations, speaking frequently throughout the world.
Dr. Stephen P. Morse is an amateur genealogist who has been researching his Russian-Jewish origins. Several years ago he developed some web-based searching aids (www.stevemorse.org) which, much to his surprise, have attracted attention worldwide. He has received both the Outstanding Contribution Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, the Award of Merit from the National Genealogical Society, and the first ever Excellence Award from the Association of Professional Genealogists.
In his other life Morse is a computer professional with a doctorate degree in electrical engineering. He has held various research, development, and teaching positions, authored numerous technical papers, written four textbooks, and holds four patents. He is best known as the architect of the Intel 8086 (the granddaddy of today's Pentium processor), which sparked the PC revolution 25 years ago.
Start your family research now
Use the following sites to help you do your research.
Learn more about how to search for your ancestors at the October 2008 meeting.
www.stevemorse.org
A site that helps search other genealogy web sites with a good interface, and also directs you to them.
www.jewishgen.org
You'll need to register in order to participate and check databases, but the site is free. Site includes: Family Finder, Jewish Worldwide Burial Database, Family Tree of the Jewish People
www.ancestry.com
Essential to19th Century American research for census and immigration records. Membership required, but you can get a short-term trial, or one-month membership to begin. May also be available at most libraries.
www.google.com
I use it often. You'd be surprised ...
www.americanjewisharchives.org American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, OH
There is still a great deal of material in the card catalog which is not online, and the staff is wonderful, so don't hesitate to write with a specific inquiry; be sure to indicate a place as well as name. Even better - visit!
www.cjh.org Center for Jewish History, New York, NY
Online access to combined index to Partner Collections (American Jewish Historical Society, YIVO, Leo Baeck Institute). You can download valuable fact sheets from the Genealogical Institute.
www.cofc.edu/~jhc
Your local Charleston and S.C. resource, with library, oral histories and extensive archives.
Karen Franklin's favorite web sites for American Family History Research
November 1-3, 2008
Southern Jewish Historical Society
33rd Annual Conference
Atlanta, GA
http://www.jewishsouth.org/
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