Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan

Sunday, June 7, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills
$20 per person Dessert Reception and Lecture
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Special Guest: Erin Einhorn
Author of The Pages In Between

When reporter Erin Einhorn found the family that hid her mother from the Nazis during World War II, she thought she’d cr...eated a made-for-TV-reunion for two families thrown together by history. A man who knew her mother as a child threw his arms around her and – tears streaming down his face – told her the little girl had been a sister to him. But the initial embrace soon gave way to half a century’s hurt feelings and resentments. Erin found herself apologizing for choices made years before she was born, untangling a real estate deal made on a handshake by people no longer alive and struggling to prove the death of a great-grandfather born in 1868. Then, as she confronted the heart-wrenching circumstances of her family’s tragic past, unexpected events in her own life altered her mission completely.
Erin Einhorn, originally from Metro Detroit, is a reporter for the New York Daily News where she’s covered New York City’s government and the nation’s largest public school system. She has written for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Fortune. A contributor to public radio’s This American Life, Einhorn and her story were the basis for one of the show’s most popular episodes. She lives in New York City.

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan Nominating Committee Presents the Following Slate of Officers for the 2009-2010 Operating Year. If any member of JGSMI would like to nominate themselves or another member for any of the following positions, please contact John Kovacs at 248-851-3481 prior to June 5, 2009.

President: Adina Lipsitz
VP, Programming: Diane Freilich
VP, Membership: Robert Starkman
VP, Publicity: David Goldis
Recording Secretary: Ruth Rosenberg
Corresponding Secretary: Shlomo Sperka
Treasurer: Irwin Alpern

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The Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan presents:
Advanced Googling for Genealogical Purposes

by Pamela Buchstaber Smith


Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 1:30PM
Holocaust Memorial Center
Zekelman Family Campus
28123 Orchard Lake Rd. Farmington Hills, MI 48334

Pamela Buchstaber Smith is a daughter of Jewish Russian immigrant. F...or the past nine years she is researching her family roots using her computer skills in solving genealogical mysteries of the past and present.

Pamela is a member of JGSMI as well as a treasurer and programming second vice-president of the Flint Genealogical Society.

Google is one of the best search engines available. It had made much easier for genealogists to discover information that otherwise would take days to find. With tips showing you how to do Advanced Googling you will be able to find books, photos, history, clothes and news about your family easier. Alerts will bring information directly to your email about your family, etc. Do you want to learn how to get information from all those BLOGS out there on your family? Well this talk will teach you all that and more.

JGSMI members -- free
Guests donation -- $5

RSVP: http://www.jgsmi.org/rsvp.php

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