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Article: Jewish genealogists gather to decipher what's behind a name
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- June 5, 2001
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Gladstone, Bill
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
06-05-2001
Jewish genealogists gather to decipher what's behind a name
By Bill Gladstone
TORONTO, June 4 (JTA) -- Jewish genealogists are looking for more than just
names of ancestors.
"Now we want all sorts of historical, cultural, sociological and
anthropological perspectives to help illuminate our family backgrounds,"
says Saul Issroff, a co-chair of the 21st International Conference on
Jewish Genealogy, which will be held in London from July 8 to July 13.
The conference, held last year in Salt Lake City and in New York in 1999,
expects to attract as many as 800 participants.
Topics will include Jewish carpets, tracing the genetic line of King David
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