29th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Session List
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CON  29th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Full Conference Set 
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August 2, 2009

S-01  BEGINNER TRACK: Jewish Genealogical Research Beginner Strategies Part 1     
S-02  What's New on Ancestry.com   
S-03  Finding Places in the Former Russian Empire     
S-04  Utilizing Archives Part II: Case Studies of Effective Research     
S-07  Mapping Madness   
S-08  Internal Passport Records of the Russian Empire     
S-09  Genealogical Research in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania   
S-14  New & Improved Jews in the News: Historical Newspaper Research   
S-15  The Role of Philadelphia Jews in the Rise of Basketball into National Prominence   
S-16  Tips and Tricks on Digital Imagery for Genealogy   
S-19  BEGINNER TRACK: Jewish Genealogical Research Beginner Strategies Part 2     
S-20  IAJGS MANAGEMENT SEMINAR: Teaching Genealogy from Children to Elders     
S-25  Non-Traditional Family Relationships: Issues of Privacy and Confidentiality in Constructing a Genealogical Tree   
S-27  BEGINNER TRACK: Jewish Surnames     
S-28  Jewish Genealogical Sources in Prussian Poland   
S-29  Getting the Most From Family Tree Maker 2010   
S-33  SPECIAL EVENT: Conference Opening Session   
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August 3, 2009

M-03  Research Resources at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania   
M-04  Understanding the "Jewish" in Jewish Genealogy   
M-06  Preserving Memory and History -The Volunteers who Take Care of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland     
M-07  Using DNA to Reconnect Victims of the Holocaust: The DNA Shoah Project   
M-08  A Day at the Museum: Navigating the Museum of Family History     
M-12  From Europe to Philadelphia: Using the Map Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia     
M-13  Jewish Given Names     
M-14  Reading and Interpreting Cyrillic Documents   
M-15  Restitution and Heritage Protection of Jewish Historical Sites in Poland     
M-16  Unwanted Jewish Aliens in France: A Guide through French Holocaust and Immigration Records   
M-17  Finding Your Jewish Ancestors on Ancestry.com   
M-18  Healthy Families in the 21st Century: How Genetics and Genealogy Can Work for You   
M-22  History and Translation Guide for Tombstones     
M-24  The World that was Lost: East European Jewish Civilization before the Holocaust   
M-25  The Photos Hitler Never Wanted You to See-- The Photos and the Stories Behind Them   
M-27  Where Did That Come From? Understanding the Inheritance Patterns of Common Genetic Traits and Diseases     
M-33  Court Records American --Overlooked for Research   
M-34  Choosing Genealogy Software   
M-35  SIG PROGRAM (Latvia SIG): Step by Step: A Personal Journey of Discovery: Reconnecting Past and Present.   
M-37  Archival Collections at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum other than ITS   
M-38  Jewish Settlement Patterns in the US: Why Jews Ended Up Where They Did   
M-39  Privacy Laws and Finding Family in Israel   
M-42  Using Federal Court Records   
M-43  Organizit: Reducing Your Research Clutter     
M-45  SIG PROGRAM (Gesher Galicia): Writing a Galician Jewish Saga: Research & Methodology   
M-46  Holocaust Records at the International Tracing Service   
M-48  Treasures and Questions in Creating a Database of Medical Professionals in Mandate Palestine     
M-51  The American Jewish Year Book as a Genealogical Resource     
M-52  Preserving Documents and Photographs: An Introduction   
M-53  Tips on Video-Documenting Roots Trips in Poland and Eastern Europe   
M-55  Where are the Children? The Children's Tracing Archive at the International Tracing Service, Bad Arolsen   
M-56  HIAS Archives - a Never Ending Story     
M-57  The Paul Jacobi Papers     
M-59  SPECIAL EVENT: An Old Faith in the New World: 350 Years of American Judaism   
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August 4, 2009

Tu-03  Gazetteers, Maps and Geographic Dictionaries for Jewish Genealogical Research in Poland   
Tu-06  Odessa - the Jewish Soul of a Cosmopolitan City     
Tu-07  Building the Jewish Communities of Camden, Burlington and Gloucester Counties   
Tu-08  Opening the Gates to America: The Truman Directive of 1945   
Tu-12  Using Pre-1826 Polish Parish Records in Jewish Research     
Tu-13  SIG PROGRAM (Austria-Czech SIG): Vienna Jewish Records: Volume, Structure, and Limitations   
Tu-14  SIG PROGRAM (UK SIG): UK Research - What's New and What's Coming     
Tu-16  Post 1850 Genealogical Resources at the New Jersey State Archives   
Tu-17  Jewish American Research before 1880   
Tu-18  Advanced Googling For Genealogists - Part 1: Search Techniques     
Tu-21  Strategies for the Integration of Genealogical Datasets     
Tu-22  SIG PROGRAM (Austria-Czech SIG): Putting Flesh on the Genealogical Bones   
Tu-26  A House Divided: The Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and the American Jewish Community   
Tu-27  Face Recognition and Photo Tagging for Genealogy Research     
Tu-31  SIG PROGRAM: Jewish Records Indexing - Poland; What's New     
Tu-32  SIG PROGRAM (Austria-Czech SIG): Major Jewish Families in Vienna and Their Connections to the World   
Tu-33  SIG PROGRAM (ROM-SIG): Archival Sources Pertaining to the History of Jewish People in Romania   
Tu-35  Jewish Agricultural Settlements in Southern New Jersey   
Tu-40  SIG PROGRAM (JRI-Poland): Polish Jewish Records -- What They Contain and How to Find Them     
Tu-41  The German Jewish Community Prior to the Holocaust -Where did it Go?   
Tu-43  A Report on the Archives of the Former Soviet Union   
Tu-44  National Farm School   
Tu-45  Genzyme Mini-Seminar on Jewish Genetic Diseases: Gaucher Disease and Your Family Health Profile   
Tu-46  Bagels & Grits: How Jews Made a Home in the US South   
Tu-49  SIG PROGRAM (JRI-Poland): Making the Most of Your Polish Research with JRI-Poland     
Tu-50  A Guided Tour through Central European Online Resources   
Tu-51  History of Jews in Bessarabia (Moldova) in the 15th to 19th Centuries     
Tu-52  Russian Empire Genealogical Primer     
Tu-53  Jewish Agricultural Colonies of Southern New Jersey Panel Discussion   
Tu-54  Not Everyone Lived in New York: Settlement in the Mid-West   
Tu-56  SPECIAL EVENT: JewishGen 2009     
Tu-57  SPECIAL EVENT: Jewish Genealogy Game Show Night   
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August 5, 2009

W-05  The Great Trek - Finding Hidden Yidn in South Africa   
W-06  Within and Beyond the Pale: Jews in the Russian Empire   
W-09  GenealogyIndexer.org: New Search Engine for Historical Directories, Yizkor Books, and Other Resources Not Searchable Elsewhere   
W-10  Only in New York   
W-15  The Great Exodus: Jewish Migration from Russia and Ukraine in the 19th and 20th Centuries   
W-16  Galicia: An Historical Introduction and Genealogical Primer   
W-17  Using DNA to count the Founders of Haplogroup J2   
W-18  Advanced Googling for Genealogists - Part 2: Beyond Search; The Many Other Features of Google     
W-19  NYC Vital Records Exposed!     
W-23  SIG PROGRAM (LitvakSIG): Town-Wide Research: Recreating your Ancestral Shtetl   
W-25  The Kahal and Vital Records in Galicia   
W-26  Ashkenazi Jews with Indicators of Sephardic Ancestry: A Y-DNA Project   
W-27  MyFamily and Facebook and Twitter, Oh My! - Virtual Family Reunions and Other Social Networking Activities   
W-32  Mosaic Magyar Metrical Madness   
W-33  SIG PROGRAM (LitvakSIG): The Present and Future of Lithuanian Research   
W-34  Photographs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum   
W-36  Fascinating New Insights from DNA Analysis for Genealogsts     
W-37  Found in Translation: Using Google Translate to Overcome Language Barriers   
W-38  The Wandering Jews: Geographic Mobility and the Building of Southern Jewish Communities   
W-42  SIG PROGRAM (Litvak SIG): Cataloging and Restoring Jewish Cemeteries in Lithuania and Belarus   
W-44  Galicia Doctors' Project     
W-45  A Plague on All Our Houses: Epidemics, Pandemics and Jewish Genealogy   
W-46  Interactive Family History Websites   
W-47  Pitfalls of the Professional Genealogist: A How-to and Who-dun-it     
W-52  Archives in Western Ukraine     
W-53  The Georgette and Raphael Cohen Collection of Family Trees from Meknes, Morocco   
W-54  Plotting Your Family History Using Google Earth     
W-55  Recreating Your Shtetl - Creating a Group and/or Website Dedicated to Your Ancestral Town   
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August 6, 2009

Th-03  Kippenheim: Stories from the Black Forest   
Th-04  A Visit to Your Ancestral Shtetl in Ukraine -- What Will You Find?   
Th-06  Following the Research Trail, Finding Max Einstein   
Th-08  Vital Records Part III - Death Records   
Th-09  Internet Resources for Sephardic Genealogy   
Th-11  SIG PROGRAM (GerSIG): Not in the Archives only: Surprising Resources for Family Research in Germany and Austria   
Th-13  Research into the Genealogical History of Old Jewish Families in Krakow, Poland     
Th-14  It's Called Research, Not Data Retrieval: Searching for Records Online and Off   
Th-15  Eugeen Van Mieghem (1875-1930) and the Jewish Emigrants of the Red Star Line     
Th-16  Coffin Maker, Undertaker, and Funeral Director: the Other Death Record Source     
Th-17  Grandees, Greenhorns and Ghetto Girls - Jewish Cultural Assimilation in America     
Th-22  Jewish Memory in Post-Holocaust Poland: From Repression to Revival   
Th-24  Creative Destruction: Jewish Immigrant Bankers, Financial Failure and the Ever-Shifting World of American Banking   
Th-26  Sephardic Genealogy and its Unique Resources   
Th-30  Yad Vashem - A Potential Genealogical Resource     
Th-31  Find Rich Information about Your Jewish Ancestry on Footnote.com   
Th-34  The Treasures and Challenges of Using the Landsmanshaft Press in Genealogical Research   
Th-35  Understanding and Interpreting 19th century Philadelphia Naturalizations   
Th-36  History of The Jews of Turkey From Biblical to Modern Times and Jewish Turkish Cooking   
Th-39  Nazi-Era Looted Art: An Update on Cases Solved     
Th-40  The Internet Beyond JewishGen & Steve Morse's Website   
Th-42  JDC Archives: Who We Are and What We Have to Offer Jewish Genealogists   
Th-43  Emergency Passport Applications   
Th-44  WW I & WW II Draft Registration Records: A Comparison     
Th-45  Sweet & Sour: How Jewish Traders Changed the Way the World Eats   
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August 7, 2009

F-03  Practicing Safe Computing     
F-05  Jewish Heraldry?   
F-10  Planning a Research Trip     
F-12  UK Records 1881-1918     
F-13  Write Your Family History NOW!   
F-19  Jewish Genealogical Resources in Latin America     
F-20  California, Here I Come! Sneak Preview of the 2010 IAJGS Conference in Los Angeles   
F-22  Yiddish: A Fun Look at the Language of our Ancestors   
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