JGSGW, Rockville Maryland, Sunday, October 14, 2007

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JGSGW Program in October

Sunday, October 14, 2007
Bnai Israel, Fanaroff Auditorium
Rockville, MD

Program (Open to the Public)
Time: 1:00 PM Schmooze Time 1:30 PM Program
Topic: Searching Online Historical Documents
Speaker: Logan J. Kleinwaks

Logan will describe how to use a search engine he developed based on
optical character recognition (OCR) software to search Eastern European
directories, with an emphasis on how to find what you are looking for
despite errors introduced by the OCR process. The OCR-based approach allows
data from print sources to be made searchable very quickly, with little
manual intervention. Its applications to other Jewish genealogy projects
will be discussed also.

As a bonus, there will be a brief presentation of a new tool to reunite
families separated by the Shoah, which allows email addresses to be
associated with Pages of Testimony found on Yad Vashem's website, and
automatically matches people associated with same Pages.

Logan Joseph Kleinwaks, is the creator of the online tools
www.ShoahConnect.org, for Page of Testimony research, and
www.kalter.org/search, for searching historical business directories, as
well as the general genealogy site www.FamilyTreeRegistry.org. His broader
genealogical interests include the photographic documentation of Jewish
cemeteries, improving Internet access to genealogical information, and
privacy.

For directions to B'nai Israel, Rockville, please refer to our website:
www.jewishgen.org/jgsgw
You may send an E-Mail to rpgersh@xxxxxxxxxxx for more information.
All are welcome to visit. We charge $5 to non-members to attend a program
meeting, but the fee can go towards membership if you join at a meeting.

Jeff Miller
VP, Administration/Logistics and Publicist
Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington
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