Lectures on genealogy:
- “How to Get Started”, how to search as well as life stories of my parents and family
- Basic concepts of genealogy and genealogy research
- Surnames – Ashkenazim – Sephardic – Rabbis, renaming and immigration
- Where did you come from? City land and cadastral map, immigration
- Introduction to major genealogy sites: Jewishgen, ILAM, IGRA, FamilySearch, “Gesher Galicia”, JRI Poland
- Familiarity with genealogy software and applications for building family trees: MyHeritage, Ancestry, Geni
- Establishing an online family tree – a collaborative tree
- Methods for managing and organizing genealogy research
- Information sharing and research sharing on social networks and in general – finding solutions and promoting research
- A person’s life trajectory in the light of genealogy – an attempt to trace the trail of documents and evidence of his life
- Databases – Digitization and sharing with offline databases
- Databases – Different processes of digitization of existing information – what happens behind the scenes
- Databases – how technology has evolved in recent years and what I hope will be in the coming years
- Searching and deciphering tombstones – challenges and reality
- Press – Meeting with yesterday’s news
