Roots & History Club

"Hi Amy, Welcome to our club. I hope to see you on Wednesday."

"Welcome Erika, looking forward to meeting you on Wednesday!"

"Hi - Facinating topic especially for those of us interested in sharing resources to find our lost jewish ancestry. Beth"

"My name is Amy Greenstein and I diretd the HYL program nationally. I would love to be more in the loop of the group and get involved as I can."

"Hi Vlada. A friend told me about meetup.com and i searched genealogy and found your meetup. i'm very interested in jewish genealogy, have been working on my tree for a while now. would love to meet others doing similar work."

"Welcome Lauren!!! Hope to see you at the next Meetup! I think you'll find it both stimulating and informative."

"Dear all, Roots & History Club meets again on May 14th and this meeting will be unlike any other. It will be a communical event dedicated to remembering the vicitims of the Holocaust. We will have..."

"Hi. I am interested in family research and learning more about how to be successful."

"Here are some weblinks think some of you might find useful in your research; http://www.jgsny.... http://genealogy-... http://www.misbac... http://www.family... ..."

"Hi Brad, it was great having you at our meeting yesterday. It's inspiring to see how you want to be inspired about your jewishness. I hope you'll come again. A larger portion of our meetings is devoted to understanding recent historical events that affected the Jews in Europe by either strengthening or deforming their Jewish identify. You'll gain a new perspective on many events through Valery's mini seminars. "

"Hi Terrence, I am so glad you made it to the meeting yesterday! Stay in touch and start "digging" more using the resouces you'll find on this site and by asking other members for tips. I am sure you'll soon make some progress! Good luck! Vlada"

"Sorry you haven't been able to attend our last 2 meetings ddue to your scheduling conflicts, but I hope if you are free when we have a meeting you will be able to join us again. We will make sure to save you a slice!!!"

"Hi Jon, Sorry we missed you at our meeting tonight but welcome to our club just the same! Really hoping you can make the next meeting, can't wait to meet you. It will be nice to have a Rabbi at the meetings to lend some religious information & perspective to our collective research."

"Hi Dawn, I'm so sorry you haven't been able to make any of the meetings so far. I hope you will be able to join us at out next one. Our group is really coming together quite nicely and I think that you would really enjoy it. Hope to see you there."

"Am doing family tree 56yo Mental Health Counselor living in Brooklyn. Interests also in nutrition and music."

"I am a Rabbi and do work with young professional through Manhattan Jewish Experience (jewishexperience.or g). my father's family was from Odessa, and i want to find out more about his family from there. my mother's family were from austria and "

"Hi folks, our Russian-Jewish Heritage Meetup is very pleased to announce that our larger project (which includes historical and family research) has been incorporated with NYS Department of State..."

"I'm interested in Jewish history and see genealogy as a way to become more informed about it. I'm trying to become more involved in my Jewishness by joining related groups on the Meetup website."

"I am posting a link to a very helpful website that compiles a great number of resources on Jewish history, politics, statitsics, including maps, and breaks it down by country, so one researching the unfamiliar..."

"Hello, I'm Emma, and I'm from the Ukraine. I've been in Brooklyn for 2 years, in the USA- for 5years. My speaking English isn't perfect. But I hope, I'll understand you because I?m as interested to explore my roots as you. "

"Here are some websites that give reviews of Genealogy software for those of you who have been looking. Obviously prices may fluctuate depending on where you look but use these comparisons to determine..."

"Thank you Mike for leading the meeting last night and everyone who attended. Our little internet situation was a result of some major problems with Verizon in our building...so apologies for that but..."

"We would like to see more of you at the meetings, after all, it IS called "Meetup.com" ! Also, please post your questions & interests. We would love to tailor our meetings toward your needs!..."

"Greetings, fellow researchers: Our next meet up is still on and it's scheduled for Feb 20th, 7pm at HIAS headquarters. However, the meeting agenda has changed and that's why I am writing. Valery..."