Did you miss out on this year’s
IAJGS conference in Los Angeles?

Australian Jewish Genealogical Society (Vic) Inc
in association with the Makor Jewish Community Library

invite you to attend an informative

PowerPoint presentation and panel discussion on
the 2010 IAJGS conference

Allan Jankie, Liz James, Debbie Jurblum, and Max Wald

Wednesday 1 September, 2010

at 7.30 pm

Beth Weizmann Community Centre, 306 Hawthorn Road, Caulfield South, Victoria

From 11 to 16 July 2010, a group of Melbourne delegates attended the
30th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy,
held at the new JW Marriot Hotel in Los Angeles.

More than 1000 genealogist attended this event, which offered 130 speakers and
over 250 presentations on a wide range of topics
and new genealogy resources.

They spent a full week immersed in lectures, computer labs and resource research rooms, and met up with other genealogists from around the world in special interest groups (SIGs). Every day was packed with exciting activities – the days commenced at
8 am and stretched long into the night.

Come and find out what they learned, what they liked, which lectures they chose to attend and what they discovered for their own research.

Also present at out meeting we welcome a visitor from Canada

Peter Wyant

Peter will give a brief outline of the Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary  (3rd - 7th September) on the arrival of the Dunera Boys who were incacerated at the Hay (NSW) internment camps 7 and 8.  He will talk about the experiences of his father, Gunther Weiss, who was arrested in England and transported to Hay in 1940.

A number of visitors will be attending events in Hay and Sydney.

Don't miss this outstanding meeting!

All welcome: members $4; non-members $6.
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