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Jump to: Past or Recurring Events Upcoming EventsClick on an event name to RSVP. Most of our events are hosted at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills unless otherwise noted. Creating a Family Web Site or ShtetLinks page on JewishGen.orgLed by Robert Ruskin, JGSMI Member and Administrator of the
Bob Ruskin, a native Detroiter, is a retired radiologist (University of Michigan Medical School 1955). He practiced at Sinai Hospital of Detroit and in private practice until 1996. Following retirement, he attended the University of Michigan Film School. He was an Assistant Professor of Radiology at Wayne State University Medical School and taught a computer film making course at SOAR. Currently he is doing genealogy research on his parents, families (Orechkin/Shiffman). In 2009 he created a ShtetLink for Selets (Shiletz), Belarus-his father’s birthplace.  Ceil Jensen, Tour of Polish MissionSunday, April 11, 2010 from 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM   This event will highlight newly-discovered "yearbooks" with thousands of signatures of Jewish children. Marcin Chumiecki, Director of the Polish Mission of Orchard Lake Schools, invites the Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan to campus. Chumiecki and Ceil Wendt Jensen, Genealogist, will present the holdings of the Association of Former Political Prisoners of German and Soviet Concentration Camps. Opened in 1990, the collection holds uniforms, documents [including signatures of Jewish students from Mlawa, Olkusz and other Polish towns, camp art, and memoirs of Displaced Persons who settled in Michigan.] These former Polish citizens were incarcerated in Auschwitz, Dachau, Gross Rosen, Mauthausen, and the Soviet Gulag. The artwork of Jan Komski is featured. Komski’s artwork features both Jewish and Catholic inmates – he depicted both the Star of David and the red triangle with a black P which depicted political prisoners. The first part of the lecture is in the handicap-accessible Adam Cardinal Maida Library and the second part of the lecture requires climbing several flights of stairs in the “Ark” Building. Location: Film: The Brothers WarnerMonday, April 26, 2010 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM JGSMI is proud to co-sponsor The Brothers Warner at the Lenore Marwil Jewish Film Festival. This event is a special fundraiser for the Society. Your attendance and generous donation enables us to keep bringing you great programs and great speakers. $8 of your ticket price is tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowable by law. Join us for a preglow at the theater, including food, beverages and “goodie bag.” Preglow begins at 7pm, movie begins promptly at 8pm. About the film: Narrated by family member Cass Warner Sperling (Harry Warner’s granddaughter), the 60-minute film gives an insider look at these original Hollywood independent filmmakers and their varied personalities and business sense: the little-known major player, Harry Warner; Albert or “Honest Abe”; visionary Sam; and volatile Jack. Rare archival footage, family photos, and documents trace their scrappy rise from nothing, along with the personal tragedies and professional battles they overcame along the way. From opening their first storefront theater by hanging a sheet on the wall and borrowing chairs from a funeral parlor to creating one of the top studios in America, these four brothers built an empire on a dream and revolutionized Hollywood, and were the first to use mass media to “educate, entertain, and enlighten.” Commerce 14 Theatres Tour and research at the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public LibraryWith Jim Grey, former President of JGSMI and genealogy lecturer, and Mark Bowden, Assistant Manager of the Burton Historical Collection. Location: Meet at Jim Grey’s office no later than 5PM for caravan to Burton. We will leave promptly at 5:10 PM: You may also drive separately to the DPL. Plan on arriving there by 5:45 PM. Use Farnsworth parking area (designated for staff) – the JGSMI group has been granted free parking there for this event.
Past EventsGenealogical Resource Gems at the HMC
Learn to Use Resources at the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library -
With Mark Bowden, Special Collections Genealogy in the Round Movie: Captain Lácszló Ocskay, the Forgotten Hero Steve Luxenberg, author of Annie’s Ghost Steve Morse Computer Research Techniques For Genealogists Highlights of the IAJGS Conference held in Philadelphia Abstract City Directory—Unique Uses Annual Luncheon and Election of Officers Find Your Immigrant Ancestor the Easy Way Field Trip to the Reynolds Genealogical Collection Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS): HIAS - History in the Making March 9, 2008 February 17, 2008 January 13, 2008 December 16, 2007 - RESCHEDULED for January 13, 2007 November 16, 2007 November 4, 2007 October 7, 2007 September 9, 2007 August 19, 2007 July 15-20, 2007 July 12-14, 2007 June 24, 2007 April 29, 2007 May 1, 2007 March 26, 2007 March 11, 2007 February 25, 2007 January 23, 2007, 7pm November 19, 2006, 1pm October 29, 2006 Recurring EventsField Trips to the Burton Historical Collection of the Detroit Public Library will take place on Wednesdays. Anyone who is interested should call Jim Grey by noon of the day of the trip. His number is: (248) 540-9070. Each trip will depart at 6:00 P.M. from Jim's office building on Telegraph and 12 1/2 Mile Rd. Field Trips to the Abrams Genealogical Collection at the Library of Michigan
in Lansing, Michigan If you are interested in joining us, please contact JGSMI's Field Trips division. |
Last updated March 11, 2010.
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