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
Speaker: Lara Diamond Title: “Movement between Towns in Eastern Europe” (a.k.a. “Ancestral Towns May Not Have Been So Ancestral”) Date and Time: Sunday, March 27, 2016, 1:30 p.m. Location: Hadassah meeting room, 3723 Old Court Rd (Dumbarton Offices entrance), Pikesville, MD Please join us on Sunday, March 27, 2016, for our next program, “Movement between Towns in Eastern Europe” (a.k.a. “Ancestral Towns May Not Have Been So Ancestral”), presented by Lara Diamond. Many researchers, once they have discovered the town from which their ancestors left Eastern Europe, assume that their families must have lived in that town or the vicinity for many generations. While this was true for some families, there was significant movement through broad swaths of Europe by many Jews for a variety of reasons. The speaker will demonstrate the breadth of some families’ movements with examples from her own research and will discuss the types of documents used to trace those families’ travels. Lara Diamond is President of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland (JGSMD) and has been researching her family for 25 years, since she was too young to have a driver’s license and had to rely on her mother as a chauffeur. She lives in Maryland. Lara has traced all branches of her family back to Europe and most multiple generations back in Europe using Russian Empire-era and Austria-Hungarian Empire records. Most of her research is in modern-day Ukraine, with a smattering of Belarus and Poland. She runs several town-focused projects to collect documentation to assist all those researching ancestors from common towns. She blogs about her mostly Eastern European research at http://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com. 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.