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No detail was too trifling or obscure to share with the other genealogists at the seminar, who were in equal parts enthused about your work and ready for the chance to jump in and talk about their own. Everybody seemingly talked to everybody, and shared questions and answers and experiences. It usually wound up with each party to the conversation sharing mutual admiration for what the other had accomplished. The seminar included several renowned genealogists as speakers. Among them were Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern, president of the New York Genealogical Society, on the topics of Jewish surnames and of Jewish mi- gration through the ages. The semi- nar's scholar-in-residence, the energetic Lubavitcher Rabbi Shmuel Gorr, led a workshop about research sources available in Israel. And the authority who told us how and where to obtain vital statistics information in New York City was Steven W. Siegel. He and Kurzweil perodically produce a fine Jewish genealogy pub- lication called Toledot (available in the Midrasha College Library at United Hebrew Schools). We also learned what to do with artifacts of the family history we are piecing together, including such items as photographs, copies of birth, marriage and death certificates; naturalization papers and photo- copies of census records, Sam Eneman, an audio-visual producer and consultant, showed how slides of old photographs and documents could be teamed with music or por- tions of an oral history to create a presentation suitable for a special oc- casion in a family's history — like Bubbe and Zayde's golden wedding anniversary. Another workshop leader, Anna Olswanger, told how she is in the process of writing and publishing a three-part Olschwanger Journal for members of her family. Rather than undertake the time and expense of creating a book, she found that the magazine format provides an oppor- tunity to share a variety'of informa- tion with far-flung members of her family at a low, subscription rate. The discussion of how to or- ganize a family reunion, led by Bar- bara Alexander, offered her insights on the joys of bringing together hun- dredaof cousins who don't know each other for a weekend in the Catskills. She'd even do it again, despite the work. A reuniting of the clan is the heartfelt dream of most aspiring genealogists. Perhaps the most exciting mo- ments of the seminar came in doing research at several sites of genealog- ical importance in Chicago. Buses transported us to our choice of loca- tions; among them, the Chicago Pub- lic Library, the Spertus College of Judaica and Chicago's branch of the National Achives. In the library, I located the obituary for a Chicago aunt of my father's 80-year-old cousin, and learned that the first name nobody knew for her husband was Morris. Discovery No. 1. I also searched through Chicago city directories for a period of several years ranging from 1898 to 1941. A number of Allweiss/Allweis/Alweiss names were found there; some of the first names I knew already and some I didn't (yet). In the National Archives I was pleased - to find records of several Allweiss families and individuals in "A reuniting of the clan is the heartfelt dream of most aspiring genealogists." the 1900 U.S. Census. The Hyman and Annie Allweis I found (and six of their children) were grandparents of a fellow I've been corresponding with in Denver. A treasure for him per- haps; I don't know how I'm related to this Allweis line (yet). Then I looked through the ship passenger list index for ships arriv- ing at the Port of New York between June.,16, 1897, and June 30, 1902. I found a few more Allweisses from the distant past. Two separate docu- ments pertaining to a nine-year-old boy and his father turned out to be the father and grandfather of a re- tired Allweiss gentleman I've met who lives in Florida. It's something I'll be happy to pass on to him; but I don't know how I'm related to these people either (yet). The discovery that really made my day, though — and brought tears to my eyes and encouragement to everyone sitting near me, going through their own patient search of endless microfilm — was this: I found my great-uncle Jacob Allweiss' daughter maybe even two of them. I'd been told_ my father's cousin Herman Allir – eiss that four daughters of Jacob had come to America.before Herman was born in 1904. No one knew their names; only that they hadtome to New York. So it was a thrill when I fiiund the entry (portions of it misspelled, naturally) whose pertinent information I've partially recorded as: Allweiss, Golde; age, 16; nationality, Galician; last permanent address, Jaszlani; passage paid by brother-in-law J. Weissmann of 114 Sheriff St. (New York); arrival, Jan. 14, 1898; ship, S.S. Werkendam; departure, Amsterdam. My Allweiss line originates from