Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland meeting
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Hadassah meeting room
3723 Old Court Rd (Dumbarton Offices entrance)
Pikesville, MD 21208
Title: “Ask the Experts!” Date and Time: Sunday, January 24, 2016, 1:30 p.m. Location: Hadassah meeting room, 3723 Old Court Rd (Dumbarton Offices entrance), Pikesville, MD Please join the Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland on Sunday, January 24, 2016, for our next program: “Ask the Experts!” Panelists who are experienced in Jewish genealogy research will help guide you on ways forward in research and will give advice on places to look to break through a brick wall. Please send questions to JGSofMD@gmail.com by January 17; a selection of those questions will be addressed by the panel. Please be specific in what you are looking for and what you have already tried. Give as much background information as possible. In addition, we’ll have an open floor at the end for additional questions. Our panelists are: Lara Diamond - Lara is President of JGSMD and has been researching her family for more than 25 years, since she was too young to have a driver’s license and had to rely on her mother to drive her to the National Archives. She has traced all branches of her family back to Europe and most lines multiple generations back using Russian Empire-era records. Most of her research is in modern-day Ukraine, with a smattering of Belarus and Poland. Her genealogy blog is at http://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com. Carol Rombro Rider - Carol has been interested in researching her family ever since she discovered that almost no one else in the world shared her surname. Forty years later, using every conceivable resource, she has discovered the difficulty but delight in research. Learning to “think outside the box” has made all the difference in the world. Her research areas include Baltimore, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Mexico, Israel, and Romania. A trip to Romania several years ago was the highlight of her research. The program is free for paid members and $5 for non-members (applied to membership fee when a visitor joins JGSMD) after their first meeting. Refreshments will be available. Please check our web site at www.jgsmd.org for late updates and for the time, location, and program of future meetings.