The 2020 Conejo Valley Walk to End Genocide will take place on April 19 at Temple Adat Elohim. In addition to our traditional Walk, we will be offering exciting new […]
Due to concern over the Coronavirus, for our members and friends, the board of directors of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV) has decided […]
The Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV) will hold a general meeting, co–sponsored with Temple Adat Elohim on Sunday, June 2, 2019 at Temple Adat Elohim 2420 E. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks, 91362 1:30-3:30 p.m. The program is about the Latest New Features and Records release by MyHeritage. During the […]
Have you been working on your genealogy for a while and need some ideas of where to focus next? Whether you are new to genealogy or a seasoned genealogist there is something for everyone to learn in this program covering family documents, time lines, census records, immigration and naturaliza…
Award-winning author and speaker Marcia Fine shares “A Sephardic Journey,” the story of Jews who were persecuted around the world for almost 400 years by the Inquisition. While many were forcibly converted, others remained true to their faith by going underground. Still others left Spain and Portugal to venture to the New World. Marcia will speak about […]
During World War ll, Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat served as vice-counsel in the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, disobeyed instructions from his own government and issued visas for Jews fleeing Nazi persecution from German-occupied Western Poland, Russian-occupied Eastern Poland, as well as Lithuanian residents. Sugihara issued more than 2,000 transit visas to Jewish refugees […]
Google has been recognized as a great search engine for genealogists. It also provides a number of other tools that can be of great help to family historians. In this presentation, we’ll examine several and discuss how to: • Use Google Earth and Google Maps to unearth information about where your ancestors lived. • Learn […]
The discussion will include: a history of Polish border changes, geography and place-name changes; how to find and locate your ancestral shtetl and historical information; the vital records-keeping system in Poland; how to find and translate birth, marriage and death records; Polish-Jewish surnames and given names, language spelling and grammar issues; Yizkor books and landsmanschaftn; […]
The Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV) will hold a general meeting, co-sponsored with Temple Adat Elophim on Sunday 4 December, 2016 at Temple Adat Elohim 2420 E. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91362 1:30-3:30 pm. The Topic: The Stedman Story: Mystery, Intrigue, Adoption and DNA: Jewish Genealogicy Strategies Unravel […]
This is a true life story involving mystery, bigamy, adoption and DNA. The secretive life of Jesse Oppenheimer, alias John Stedman (1887-1950) was unraveled using family research techniques that are useful to all genealogists. In this talk, Karen will reflect on the trajectory of research beginning with his son, Jon Stedman (1933-2009), whose papers she […]
