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It's Not Just Names Anymore

BILL GLADSTONE
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

By Goldfein

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11 ewish genealogists are looking for more than just
ual objects such as prayer shawl and skullcap. But
names of ancestors.
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"Now we want al' >orts of historical, cultural,
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sociological and anthropological perspectives to
help illuminate our family backgrounds," says Saul Issroff.
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He's co-chairing the 21st International Conference on
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Jewish Genealogy July 8-13 in London, England. Topics
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range from studying the carpets woven by Jews over the
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millennia, tracing the genetic line of King David from
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ancient to modern times and examining the pattern of mar-
riages between cousins within the House of Rothschild.
While many attendees will be learning how to trace the
noble lineages of barons and kings, others will be busy dis-
covering ways to find their families' lost "black sheep"
through the use of FBI files, prison records, police crime
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reports and other sources.
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Participants will learn about the Jewish role in Great
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Britain's industrial revolution and the use of genealogical
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techniques to trace looted cultural property in the Nazi era.
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"It's a much wider range of speakers and topics than
offered by any previous conference," says Issroff.
— Martha Jo Fleischmann
He added that the program places special emphasis on
Sephardic sources, Anglo-Jewry, genetics and Jewish migration.
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The first conference in 1981 attracted about 75 people.
The growth of the Internet is responsible for some of this
tremendous growth since ther , says Gary Mokotoff, former
president of the International Association of Jewish
Genealogical Societies, which boasts 85 member societies
worldwide.
"We dreamed about Israel. My mother was against it, but I
As publisher of Avotaynu, a leading journal of Jewish
saw it as my Zionist responsibility."
genealogy, Mokotoff began issuing a free monthly news
— Nitzana Partza, who came to Israel from Ethiopia 10
bulletin over the Internet about two years ago. Its subscrip-
years ago at age 11 as part of Operation Solomon, a 36-hour
tion list now exceeds 5,000 names.
airlift- of 14,000 Ethiopian Jews from Addis Ababa.
"It's amazing that interest among Jews in tracing their
family trees went from hundreds of people in the early
"I didn't even think he had any deep-rooted hatred against
1980s to tens of thousands of people today," he says.
the Jews. I think that if he had been asked to get rid of 11
million tennis players, he would have done it with exactly
More information about the 21st International Conference on
the same efficiency and skill."
Jewish Genealogy is available at the Web site
— Actor Kenneth Branagh, on SS Gen. Reinhard Heydrich,
www.jewishgen.org/London2001/
whom he portrays in the HBO film, Conspiracy.

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