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JewishGen free webinar: Introducing the JewishGen Crypto Jewish Collection - 10 Nov 2020

From JewishGen:

We invite you to attend another free presentation in our series of JewishGen Talks webinars, with our speaker, Genie Milgrom.

Introducing the New JewishGen Crypto Jewish Collection
Tuesday, November 10, 2020
3:00 pm Eastern Time (New York)

Advance Registration Required - Please Click Here!
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about how to join the webinar.

About the Talk:
It has been extremely difficult for those trying to trace their ancestors back to the 14th and 15th centuries since, during the Inquisition, many Jews were forced to convert, change their names, and assume Christian identities in order to save themselves from death sentences. Many of these Jews were exiled from Spain and later from Portugal, and they scattered throughout Europe and Latin America. In this presentation, Genie Milgrom will describe the data she has spent more than 15 years compiling, and how it can be accessed through JewishGen.

About Genie Milgrom:
Director of JewishGen's Crypto Jewish Research Division · Genealogist and Global Speaker on Crypto Jewish Genealogy · Developed a method to trace Jewish Lineages from the 1400s · Past President of the Society for Crypto Judaic Studies at Colorado State University · Past President of the Society of Jewish Genealogy of Greater Miami · President of Tarbut Sefarad Fermoselle in Barcelona · Author of My 15 Grandmothers, How I found my 15 Grandmothers, Pyre to Fire and The Recipes of my 15 Grandmothers all available on Amazon in English and Spanish · Some of the books have been translated to Hebrew, Yiddish and Farsi · Speaker at the Knesset (Parliament in Israel) · Speaker at the Press Box at the EU Parliament in Brussels · Spoken Internationally in Spain, Portugal, Guatemala, Ecuador, Uruguay, Denmark, Argentina and many more countries · Winner of the 2015 and 2018 and 2020 Latin Author Book Award · Winner of the Literary Titan Silver award for the book, Pyre to Fire

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