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Unless noted
otherwise,
we meet
at 7:30
pm on the
first Wednesday
of each
month in
the Miller
Auditorium
on the second
floor of
Menorah
Park, 27100
Cedar Road,
Beachwood.
For a MapQuest
map,
click here.
Meetings
are free
and open
to members,
their guests
and other
interested
persons.
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Wednesday May 5, 2010
Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland
Commission on Cemetery Preservation's
Database Project Update
“Using 21st Century Technology To
Find Your 19th Century Ancestors
–-- Jewish Cleveland’s New Cemetery
Database” |
Susan Hyman
A new database compiled by the Jewish
Community Federation of Cleveland's
Commission on Cemetery Preservation.
A dozen volunteers, some of them
from the Jewish Genealogy Society
of Cleveland, spent about six years
compiling some 71,000 records of
burials in 14 Jewish cemeteries
and in Jewish sections at two other
cemeteries.
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Wednesday June 2, 2010
Researching At Fairview Park
Library: One Day In The Life
Of A Family Historian.
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Joni Mihelich
The Genealogy Specialist at the
Fairview Park Branch of the Cuyahoga
County Library will discuss the
genealogy resources available at
that library by using a case study. |
NEXT MEETING
Wednesday July 7, 2010
Myths And Mistakes: What To
Avoid When Researching Jewish
Families.
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Cynthia Spikell
Our own Cynthia Spikell will expose
some common assumptions, myths,
and mistakes in doing Jewish family
research and tell how to avoid and
overcome them.
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Wednesday August 4, 2010
Suddenly Jewish.
In August 2008, at the age of
61, Roma Baran received a stunning
e-mail from a Jewish genealogist
looking for heirs to a small
estate of a Holocaust
survivor -- her father's cousin
- and learned that her casually
Christian
parents, and the whole rest
of her family were not Polish
Catholics, but
Jews, including a rabbi and
a Warsaw ghetto leader, and
that her parents had survived
the Holocaust under assumed
names. Roma learned that
not only were her family's names
and identities false, but that
she had actually lived in Israel
from 1949 to 1951.
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Roma Baran
Ms. Baran will describe -- with
photos, documents and maps -- how
she systematically reconstructed
her past over the last year.
She will focus on the Galizianer
side of her family, and will include
her new research on her father's
Warsaw family. She will trace
her parents' war-time escape from
the Przemysl ghetto to Tarnawa,
Krakow, and other towns, and their
post-warjourneys to Israel and Canada.
She will also examine the emotional
consequences of uncovering family
secrets of staggering proportions.
Roma Baran, producer, engineer,
musician, attorney, grew up in Montreal,
and has lived in New York City since
1976. She has produced
many albums, in the US, Canada and
Europe. For 12 years, she
produced most of Laurie Anderson's
recorded work, from "O Superman"
which shot to the top of the British
pop charts, to Grammy-nominated
"Strange Angels," and, most recently
worked on Anderson's soon-to-be-released
"Homeland." With co-producer
Vivian Stoll, she has produced two
Grammy-nominated albums for artist
Rosalie Sorrels, and won 2006 CFMA
Best Canadian Folk Album award for
a CD with Canadian artist Penny
Lang. She has also worked
on a number of film soundtracks
as composer, sound designer, and
music producer, from Lizzie Borden's
"Working Girls" to "Jonathan Demme's
"Swimming to Cambodia." She
was nominated for an Academy Award
for Best Feature-Length Documentary
for producing "Bernard Herrmann:
Music for the Movies." As
an attorney, she specializes in
forensic audio, and has represented
many indigent criminal defendants.
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