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being Jewish," Weiner says. "When I
got involved in tracing my family his-
tory, I developed much more of an
awareness and appreciation of my
Jewish heritage.
"I work with books that have
pages stuck together because they
haven't been opened in 50 years, and I • i
visit towns where I was the first Jew to
vi`sit in 70 years. These were emotional,
historic, exciting and depressing times,
and they all had an impact on me." 111

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Miriam Weiner will speak at 1
p.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, at the Kahn
Jewish Community Center in
West Bloomfield. For information,
call (248) 661-1000. For more
information on Weiner's book, call
(201) 866-4075.

Genealogy Conference
Coming to Troy

Before Miriam Weiner speaks at the
Jewish Book Fair, there will be
another opportunity to get insight
into tracing ancestry — the
National Genealogical Society
Regional Conference, which is Oct.
16-17 at the Somerset Inn, Troy.
The Jewish Genealogical Society
of Michigan will be a sponsor of
the event.
Featured speakers include
Elizabeth Shown Mills, author and
lecturer specializing in research
methodology; Curt Witcher, man-
ager of the Historical Genealogy
Department of the Allen County
Library in Indiana, which concen-
trates on the use of government
resources; and John Vincent Wylie,
author and lecturer specializing in
computer skills related to genealo-
gY.
The speaker-subject schedule is
as follows. The talks are all on
Saturday, Oct. 17, with a choice
offered for some sessions. Mills will
be the banquet speaker on Friday,
Oct. 16:

• Mills: "Dear Editor: Letters
From the Genealogical Mailbag," 7
p.m. Friday; "Origins, Places and

Families: Methods That Work,"
10:30 a.m. Saturday; "Finding
Females: Wives, Mothers,
Daughters, Sisters and Paramours,"
1:30 p.m. Saturday.
• Witcher: "Historical Research
Methodology: Engaging the Process
to Find All the Answers," 8:30 a.m.
Saturday; "Mining the Motherlode:
Using Periodical Literature in
Genealogical Research," 10:30 a.m.
Saturday; "Using Your Tax Dollars:
Government Documents in
Genealogical Research," 3:30 p.m.
Saturday.
• Wylie: "Rich Man, Poor Man,
Beggar Man, Thief: How to Find
Them on the Internet," 8:30 a.m.
Saturday; "Six Pitfalls of
Technology in Genealogy," 1:30
p.m. Saturday; "How the
Genealogical Data Model Can
Help You Research," 3:30 p.m.
Saturday. ❑

— Suzanne Chessler

To learn more about the confer-
ence, call (800) 473-0060 or
visit the Web site at www.ngsge-
nealogy.org .

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