Roni Seibel Liebowitz is Immediate Past President of Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (NY) serving from 2012 through 2014 and Vice President of Programming 2009 through 2011. Board member of Jewish Records Indexing-Poland, she is Archive Coordinator of Lodz and Town Leader of Belchatow. She serves as coordinator of JewishGen’s Lodz Area Research Group and Kehilalinks for Lodz and Belchatow, Poland.

As consultant/participant in a documentary about a World War II liberator and survivors, she traveled the United States, Poland and Israel interviewing subjects. In January 1997, she began her own family research.

She is a retired speech and language pathologist.

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 Hadassah Lipsius]

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 Hadassah Lipsius]

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).