Hadassah Lipsius is a board member of Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, a board of Governor of JewishGen, the Database Manager for the Warszawa Research Group and a member of the Executive Committee of Jewish Genealogy, Inc. (New York). She also serves as the Archive Coordinator for Warszawa and Tomaszow Mazowiecki.

She has degrees in Metallurgical Engineering and is Supplier Quality Engineering Manager for a major defense contractor.

Hadassah takes pride that her family were city dwellers (Warszawa, St Petersburg and Vilnius) for over 200 years.

Computer Lab*: “JRI-Poland Beginner’s Computer Workshop” (Sun-118), 3:15-4:45 P.M.

This hands-on beginner’s workshop will explore the JRI-Poland website and allow the participant to practice initiating basic searches in the database. The goal of the session will be to familiarize the researcher with the JRI-Poland search screens and help understand the search results.

The workshop will explore narrowing techniques for managing large results and provide hints for effectively using the two stage results screen.

Experience using the Internet is recommended, but no experience with the JRI-Poland database is necessary.

Note: All participants must have a Jewishgen ID and know their password. To obtain an account please go to Jewishgen.org and register. [co-taught with Roni Liebowitz]

Topics: Beginning genealogists, Specific countries or geographic areas, Workshop – Technology

* NOTE: One must reserve one’s place in this computer workshop and pay a separate fee of $35 (in additional to the conference registration fee).

Computer Lab*: “JRI-Poland Intermediate Workshop – Advanced Search and Image Links” (Mon-115), 1:30-3:00 P.M.

This hands-on computer workshop presented by the Jewish Records Indexing – Poland (JRI-Poland) team will focus on how to make the most of your JRI-Poland database search. It is geared for intermediate researchers and will provide hints, tips and a strategy to help find that elusive family member hidden on the JRI-Poland database.

With actual images of millions of Polish Jewish records now available online from multiple sources and linked from the JRI-Poland search results, the workshop will also focus on how a search of the JRI-Poland online database can connect a researcher with digital images of the record.

Note: All participants must have a Jewishgen ID and know their password. To obtain an account please go to Jewishgen.org and register. [co-taught with Roni Liebowitz]

Topics: Specific countries or geographic areas, Workshop – Technology

* NOTE: One must reserve one’s place in this computer workshop and pay a separate fee of $35 (in additional to the conference registration fee).