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Routes To Roots
Jewish genealogist Miriam Weiner
will share her experiences
at this year's Jewish Book Fair.
SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to The Jewish News
IV hen Miriam Weiner
bought an apartment in
Ukraine, she wanted to
put down roots — not
her own, but those belonging to Jews
of the world.
The apartment is a base for her
genealogical research excursions, with
findings eventually recorded into
lengthy guidebooks for genealogy trav-
el. Soon, she will be finished with one
on Ukraine and Moldova. After that,
Belarus and Lithuania will be her
focus.
Weiner's first book, Jewish Roots in
Poland: Pages From the Past and
Archival Inventories, was released in
1997 and is the model for the next
two.
The author, an adviser for the TV
series "Ancestors," will discuss her
work Sunday, Nov. 8, at this year's
Jewish Book Fair. Her talk is spon-
sored by the Jewish Genealogical
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"I'm glad that the book on Poland
is accomplishing what I hoped it
would accomplish, which is to dispel
the myth that all Jewish documents
were destroyed," says the author, 55,
whose tome includes historical
overviews of towns, color maps, a
guide to Jewish sites, lists and loca-
tions of surviving archival documents,
photographs and reading suggestions.
"The responses I'm getting from
people who visit these places and peo-
ple starting to do some research tell
me that my goal is being translated
into reality," she says.
The idea for Weiner's book came
during a trip to Poland in 1989.
Interested in leading tour groups
focused on tracing their ancestry,
Weiner met with members of the
Polish state archives to explore what
assistance they could give.
Although she found enthusiasm for
this kind of travel, it soon became
clear that Polish officials did not have
enough detailed information on a
town-by-town basis.
"While there was cooperation and
permission to organize
these trips — and I subse-
quently did a few of them
— there really wasn't a sys-
tem to help people decide
how to approach genealo-
gy research," says Weiner,
who writes a syndicated
column on .the subject.
"It was at that point that
I decided I wanted to
put together this inven-
tory."
Weiner, who holds a
bachelor's degree in his-
torical studies from
Empire State College in
New York, called upon
her work experience as
she planned her pro-
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