Thursday, July 12 – Middlesex County
Next Meeting of the Genealogy Club of Central Jersey (GCCJ)
Our meetings are held on the second floor of the building. The room where we meet can be reached by stairways either front or rear of the main lobby on the first floor., or by an elevator at the rear (parking lot side) of the building. The meeting room is at the front (First Avenue) end of the building.
Our speaker will be Elana Broch, Ph.D., MLS.
Using the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for Genealogical Research. Elana Broch, PhD, MLIS The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is one of the preeminent institutions for Holocaust-era research. Known worldwide as a museum, it is also invaluable to genealogists. This talk will cover strategies for using the Victims and Survivors database, the International Tracing Service Inventory Search, and the museum's archival holdings (particularly those that are available online) of artifacts, documents, photos, films, books, and personal stories. Methods in which the print collection in Washington DC may be used will be described.
Finally, she will cover some fundamental differences between archives and libraries and tips for researching archives via available finding aids.
Elana Broch, PhD, s the Assistant Population Research Librarian at Princeton University. She is an amateur genealogist who has spent much of her research efforts trying to find out about her grandfather, a 1941 "euthanasia" victim. What little progress she has made would not have been possible without the help of researchers and librarians at the USHMM.
