Research in Ukraine: Challenges
Sunday, June 30, 2024 at 10 AM Central Time
rsvp for Zoom link: nashvillejgs@gmail.com
We look at a map today and see Ukraine, a very large country. We know that borders changed over time, and over the last decade have seen that firsthand. What did the area now called Ukraine look like in the century before World War I and how does that affect our research today? We’ll take a look at different types of records and discuss briefly the laws behind them and discuss the implication these have for research into our ancestral families.
Dr. Janette Silverman is a professional genealogist, heading up a team of 11 researchers specializing in Eastern European and Jewish genealogy at AncestryProGenealogists® the division of Ancestry.com that does private client research.
Janette began her journey into her own family's history more than 40 years ago, with her dad, hoping to answer some questions about their family's early days in the U.S., never thinking that they would be able to trace parts of the family back to 18th century Europe. What began as a hobby turned into an obsession and ultimately led to a shift in her career from Jewish education to genealogy. Her doctoral dissertation, "In Living Memory" was based on her genealogical research into four branches of her own family, putting into historical context their experiences as they made their way from Eastern Europe to settle in the U.S. from the 1880s until the 1920s.
She was previously the chair of the Phoenix (Arizona) JGS, lead co-chair of the 2016 IAJGS conference in Seattle, Washington, and a JewishGen volunteer. She speaks virtually and in-person at conferences and for smaller groups all over the world, has been published in Avotaynu, APGQ, Tennessee Historical Quarterly, The Galitzianer, and Genealogy at a Glance. She is looking forward to publication of her book, “Stories They Never Told Us,” in 2024.
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