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successful in tracing her family.
But put together nearly 200
Jewish genealogists for a full
schedule of research opportunities,
workshops and presentations — and
that's real inspiration!
The Illinois conference was a
love-in of ad infinitum comparisons
of research past, present and future.
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

