JGSGW Database 101: Because Google Can’t Do This

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Harry Moatz

Speaker Harry Moatz created a Jewish genealogy database available only to members of the JGSGW, which he will be guiding us through. The database contains resources for over 150 countries and regions, as well as more than 50 topics, including towns/shtetl, metric, tax, voter and revision lists, censuses, police files, conscription, military records, cemeteries, etc.

This one-hour program, conducted over Zoom at 1:30 PM Eastern Time, is free for members. This is one of the many activities that is a benefit of JGSGW membership.

Harry Moatz: Retired attorney, from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office several years ago, where he was the Director of Enrollment and Discipline, after serving as an Associate Solicitor and Primary Patent Examiner. His former career served him well for genealogical research. Always having had an interest in the origins of his family in what is now Ukraine, Belarus, England, Sweden, Scandinavia and Hungary, he began his search over a decade ago for the facts behind family lore. His family tree now includes more than 7000 sourced individuals and multiple family lines. He learned the towns from which his grandparents emigrated, discovered that his paternal grandparents had siblings, found their descendants, found his paternal great-grandfather may have had at least three wives, and developed the family lines of the machatunim. He has made numerous genealogy presentations and is a member of or subscribes to several genealogy organizations and Facebook groups. He is the President of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Washington.