Logan Joseph Kleinwaks is a Board Member of Gesher Galicia, Coordinator of the JewishGen Danzig/Gdansk SIG, and creator of online genealogy research tools. His website GenealogyIndexer.org, a full-text search engine of historical directories, yizkor books, school reports, military records, and other sources received the IAJGS 2012 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Jewish Genealogy via the Internet, Print or Electronic Product, and was one of Family Tree Magazine‘s 101 Best Websites for 2015.

A hobbyist genealogist living near Washington, D.C., he has a research background in physics and started a literacy charity aiding refugees from the genocide in Darfur.

Visit his website at http://genealogyindexer.org/

“GenealogyIndexer.org: New Sources, New Ways to Search” (Tues-141), 7:30-8:45 A.M.

GenealogyIndexer.org is a free website enabling full-text and Soundex search of more than 750,000 pages of historical directories (business, address, telephone), Yizkor books, Polish and Russian military documents, community and personal histories, Galician secondary school reports, and more. Containing millions of personal names – often with towns, street addresses, and occupations, and sometimes with vital dates or patronymics – this huge collection is mostly comprised of data not searchable elsewhere.

This talk will focus on newly added sources and new search functionality. Recipient of the IAJGS 2012 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Jewish Genealogy via the Internet, Print or Electronic Product, and one of Family Tree Magazine”s 101 Best Websites for 2015.

Topics: Ashkenazic research, Beginning genealogists, Genealogy and Jewish history related to WWI, Holocaust research, Immigration and migration over the ages, Mizrachi research, Sephardic research, Specific countries or geographic areas, Technology in support of genealogical research