Event Name

Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland meeting

Time

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Location

Pikesville Library meeting room
1301 Reisterstown Rd
Pikesville, MD 21208

Description

Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland �Ellis Island and the Immigrant Experience� The December program of the JGSMD will be held on Sunday, December 28, 2014, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., in the meeting room of the Pikesville Library, 1301 Reisterstown Road. Barry Nove, author of The Ellis Island Experience: A Sampling of Stories and How You Can Research Your Own, will share the story of how families from Europe came to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He will speak about the immigration documents that can be found and will offer research tips to help you learn your family�s story. His presentation will include photos of the ships his ancestors came over on, and he will share a replica manifest. His book will be offered for sale after the program. Barry Nove�s fascination with the Ellis Island experience began when work and hobby aligned and he organized the first family re-enactment tour of Ellis Island in the mid-1990s. In planning the program, he met with the museum archivists, arranged period clothing for the participants, and learned about the experience his grandparents, great-grandparents, and relatives went through when they arrived in America. The tour of the Ellis Island Museum (which included 120 people of all ages) was filmed by PBS as part of Ancestors, a 10-part television series, which aired in 1997. Barry Nove�s Ellis Island tales have appeared in anthologies. In 2014, he published The Ellis Island Experience: A Sampling of Stories and How You Can Research Your Own. Barry grew up in St. Louis, MO, and currently lives in the greater Washington, DC, metropolitan area. He is Executive Director of Oseh Shalom in Laurel, MD, and is a member of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington. Check out his Jewish genealogy blog on his web site at www.BarryNove.us, or follow him on twitter at @jewishgenealogy. The program is free for paid members and $5 for non-members (applied to membership fee when a visitor joins JGSMD) after their first meeting. Refreshments will be available. Please check our web site at www.jgsmd.org for late updates and for the time, location, and program of future meetings.

url

www.jgsmd.org