“Researching Individuals with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Resources” will be the topic of a presentation starting at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 29, 2018, in the large auditorium at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, 9603 Woods Drive, Skokie, Ill. The speaker at this special Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois event will be Diane Afoumado, chief of the Research and Reference Branch at the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Daniel Horowitz, the genealogy expert from MyHeritage, will give two presentations at the Sunday, Aug. 26, 2018, meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois at Temple Beth-El, 3610 Dundee Road, Northbrook.  Registration and networking at this free special event will open at 12:30 p.m. No Help Desk will be available for this meeting.

At 1 p.m., he will speak on “Research Genealogical Resources in Israel From Your Couch.” 

At 2:30 p.m., he will present “Overcoming Brick Walls with DNA Tests and Analysis.”

At each regular JGSI monthly meeting, its “help desk” will operate from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. Member volunteers will access online databases and answer genealogical questions one-on-one for members and visitors as time allows.

The JGSI library has more than 800 volumes of interest to Jewish family historians. Many are available for borrowing by JGSI members for a limited time. All are available for perusing from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. at each regular monthly meeting.