How to Research and Construct Your Sephardic Family Tree
4 Wednesdays at 7 p.m. ET, Sept. 4-25
All classes will be recorded and sent to students
This class has started, but you can still sign up to join the remaining sessions and receive the recordings and materials from the course.
Are you tired of hearing the family rumors about your great-grandfather from Morocco? Or your great-great grandmother who was supposedly from Greece?
It's time to research and construct your Sephardic family tree!
In a new class from My Jewish Learning, respected genealogist Sarina Roffé will provide four one-hour sessions on researching Sephardic family trees.
While many Sephardic families may have roots in Spain and Portugal, most lived around the Mediterranean basin after the 15th century in Muslim countries such as Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Turkey and Morocco. Others settled in Holland, Greece and Italy, among others.
Sarina will go over basic information on getting started as a family historian; the ins and outs of data and document research and collection; software you can use to make a tree; cataloging; where to look for information; family interview techniques; and the specific nuances of Sephardic research and genealogy. There will also be discussion of how to put the information together so that it is flexible enough to modify as new information becomes available and pass down to future generations.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn about Sephardic Jewish genealogy from one of the field's top experts!
Each class is approximately 1 hour long. There are no refunds for this course.
About your instructor
Sarina Roffé is a professional genealogist, editor of the journal Dorot for the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York and founder of the Sephardic Heritage Project. She is the author of the book "Branching Out From Sepharad", which outlines the history of Jews in Spain, the 1492 expulsion, their history in Syria and their immigration to the Americas. She is co-chair of the Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative and chair of JewishGen's Sephardic Research Division. She presents often at genealogy conferences and runs a genealogy consulting business called Sephardic Genealogical Journeys.
