by Susan Weinberg I’ve been doing talks around the country on immigration history, weaving in video clips from my interviews with Jewish...

by Susan Weinberg One of the things that intrigues me about genealogy are the little glimpses of history. There are so many things we...

by Susan Weinberg “I often get thrown out of archives and museums at closing time,” I remarked. I was at the local Family History Library...

by Jody Gorran 2019 marks the 100% anniversary of the forgotten 1919 pogroms in the Ukraine. This series of pogroms from 1917-1921 is...

by Susan Weinberg I sometimes wish I had a bigger family. Now that is not because I am especially family-centered, but as a genealogist I...

Do you have family members who may have fought in the Civil War? Recently I heard from the Shapell Manuscript Foundation about their...

by Sally Abrams We told her a bit about ourselves, then moved to the thing Jean most wanted to know. What was he like, the man who had...

This post is reproduced from the newsletter of the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest, written by Susan Weinberg - The...

Many of us are affected by Ancestry.com discontinuing support of Family Tree Maker software. Read about Software MacKiev and RootsMagic,...

A recent story in the press explored a story of members Ruth and Walter Elias that arose out of a roots exploration.  It presents a...

By Frederick Hertz - My great-grandfather David Blumenfeld arrived as a 20-year-old tailor with his mother and siblings in 1884,...

This post is reproduced from Layers of the Onion at sgweinberg.blogspot.com courtesy of Susan Weinberg - You know I’m intrigued by a...

This post is reproduced from Layers of the Onion at sgweinberg.blogspot.com courtesy of Susan Weinberg - I just returned from the...

By Susan Weinberg - We recently met for our first Breaking Down Walls discussion. The purpose of this gathering was to look at some of...

By Kate Dietrick, Assistant Archivist - Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives In late February I happily welcomed the...

By Walter Elias - You discover an old postcard in the attic possibly written before WWII and sent from Europe. But it’s in Yiddish or...

By Susan Weinberg - One of the sites that often helps to crack open a genealogical puzzle is stevemorse.org. Steve Morse has a number of...

By Susan Weinberg  - What do we mean when we talk about Jewish genealogy?  How is it different from plain old genealogy?   The “plain...

When I first began my search into my family history I was surprised to realize there was no Jewish Genealogical Society in the area.  I...