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The 24th Annual International Association of Jewish Genealogists (lAJGS) International Conference on Jewish Genealogy was held July 4-9 this year in Jerusalem.
The Vancouver-based Jewish Genealogical Institute of British Columbia (JGIB) is affiliated with the 80-member lAJGS so-
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Lento right, Cissie Eppel, Ed Goldberg and Cattierlne Youngren at the 24th Annual International Association of Jewish Genealogical Conference in Jerusalem.
cieties worldwide. Three JGIBC members, foimdcr Cissio Eppel, president Catherine Yoimgren and vice-president Ed Goldberg joined the large contingent of Canadian registrants. More than 765 amateur and professional Jewish genealogists from 21 coimtries attended. This year's gathering had the highest concentration of Sephardi subjects ever at a Jewish genealogy conference. This fact contributed to a large nimiber of delegates coming from Portugal, Spain, South America and Israel to attend their first such conference.
The Israel Genealogical Society, with the coK)peration of Yad Vashcm and scholars from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem prepared a rich and varied program of 150 lectures, computer workshops, discussion panels and Power Point presentations. Participants were able to "ask the expert^ in faco-to-lace consultations.
During the five-day conference, lectures were headed by experts covering a variety of topics, including, Jewish Personal Names, Locating Ancestral    Shtetls, Geographic
Resources for Central and East-em Europe, Sephardaica, Genetics and Genealogy, and Migration and Transmigration. Beginner sessions and computer workshops were held to help the less experienced genealogist. Birds-of-a-Feather sessions provided the opportunity for researchers with common goals to exchange information. Methods on how to locate imknown family members, particularly those lost in the Holocaust, were presented.
Jerusalem's imique collection of repositories such as Yad Vashem, the Jewish National and University Library, as well as the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People and the Central Zionist Archives, all extended their hours to conference participants. The well-known daily radio station The Voice of Israel dedicated their Searching for Your Relatives program to conference requests.
'There is a saying that everyone has family roots in Israel and this certainly proved true for Eppel, Yoimgren and Goldberg. Youngren wdth an Israeli re-
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searcher who found a branch of her family who had made aliyah to Palestine in 1936. Yoimgren met three sisters in Tel-Aviv, aged 80, 82 and 84, who were able to describe the town of prc-Second World War Zychlin, Poland, and its beautiful synagogue, with its marvelous paintr ed ceiling. In Jerusalem, Youngren met another branch, whose matriarch, Leah, made aliyah in 1926. It was decided that Youngren should be given Leah's ori^nid journals and photo album from 1925, when Leah attended the opening of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Answering an e-mail enquiry from EUk Yucha of Tel-Aviv recently, Eppel learned that Yucha not only shared the same uncommon surname as her maternal grandfather, but he had ancestors who came from the same shtctl. Yucha's father had told him that all the Yuchas who came from Varaklani, Latvia, were related. At a Friday night diiuier, Eppel met tJu-ec genera-Please see GENEALOGY on page 7