Janice Lovelace, Ph.D., a licensed clinical psychologist, recently retired from 30 years of full-time college teaching. She has 20 years of experience in family history research as well as academic work in the field and brings many years of teaching and presenting on a variety of topics including Women’s History and Cultural Studies.

“Becoming America – A Story of Immigration” (Weds-124), 7:30 – 8:45 A.M.

What conditions existed for your ancestors to leave their home countries and make a journey to a new place? What conditions existed to encourage settlement in the Americas, especially the United States. This presentation focuses on the push and pull factors for European Jewish immigration.

Topics: Immigration and migration over the ages