Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland meeting
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Pikesville Library meeting room
1301 Reisterstown Rd
Pikesville, MD 21208
Ask the Experts! Please join us on Sunday, January 25, 2015, at 1:30 p.m. at the Pikesville Library�s meeting room for our next program: �Ask the Experts!� Panelists who are experienced in Jewish genealogy research will help guide you on ways forward in research and will give advice on places to look to break through a brick wall. Please send questions to JGSofMD@gmail.com by January 18; a selection of those questions will be addressed by the panel. Please be specific in what you are looking for and what you have already tried. Give as much background information as possible. In addition, we�ll have an open floor at the end for additional questions. Our panelists are: Lara Diamond - Lara is President of JGSMD and has been researching her family for 25 years. She has traced all branches of her family back to Europe and most lines multiple generations back using Russian Empire-era records. Most of her research is in modern-day Ukraine, with a smattering of Belarus and Poland. Dick Goldman - Dick is immediate past President and prior past President (1996-2002) of JGSMD and is the current Vice President. He has attended eight IAJGS conferences since 1996 and has made three trips to the Family History Center in Salt Lake City and countless trips to Archives in New York City and Washington. His serious family research began 60 years ago, and he now has more than 9700 individuals in his family tree. He is a frequent lecturer on Jewish genealogy. Carol Rombro Rider - Carol has been interested in researching her family ever since she discovered that almost no one else in the world shared her surname. Forty years later, using every conceivable resource, she has discovered the difficulty but delight in research. Learning to �think outside the box� has made all the difference in the world. Her research areas include Baltimore, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Mexico, Israel, and Romania. 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.