SFBAJGS--Officers, Board Members, and Addresses
SFBAJGS--Officers, Board Members, and Addresses
Current Officers and other members of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society:
Jeremy Frankel  |
Jeremy's foray into his family genealogy began during the 2nd night of Passover 1985 when his maternal grandfather asked him what he knew about the Levy family. After making some inroads, real life and work intervened and the project was placed on a back-burner until the arrival of the internet and online databases. Jeremy's work in England as a cartographer for 14 years brought together two passions, history and geography. This helped enormously when studying families and migration patterns. Thirty-five years later and the tree is burgeoning with 7000+ people. |
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Preeva Tramiel |
Preeva Tramiel is an amateur genealogist and author of a memoir, The Girl On The Wall, who has been researching the Adler family of Mukacheve since 2008, including going back to Transcarpathia and Hungary to see where her family lived. She runs the meetings on the South Peninsula. |
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Dana Kurtz |
An IT project management consultant, Dana returns to the Board after a long hiatus. In more than 30 years of membership, Dana has held almost every Board and Officer position: President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Membership, ZichronNote Editor, Webmaster, Publicity, Librarian, Family Finder/Roster producer, Annual Workshop Coordinator, Elections Chair; and brought cookies to meetings. |
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Pierre Hahn  |
I was born in 1928 in Paris, France, escaped with my parents in 1941 to the United States, finished my education in the US as an Engineer. Worked in the aerospace industry, gravitating into the specialty of measurements, from helicopters, airplanes, missiles, satellites, biological experiments in orbit, circadian rhythms, sleep disorders and a few other side endeavors, ending prior to retirement to having a teaching and research position in the department of Psychiatry of the Medical School of SUNY at Stony Brook.. |
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Stephen G. Harris, Ph.D. |
I was born in New York City, and received a Ph.D.in Research Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. I have been a consulting genealogist since 1991. My academic background, and post-doctoral teaching of courses in research methods and statistics, have proven helpful in my genealogy practice, where proving hypotheses and weighing the probabilities of purported facts are central to solid research outcomes. My research engagements have most often focused on American genealogy, but past projects have involved research in the British Isles, Greece, Italy, France and Eastern Europe. I have enjoyed serving the profession as past president of the California Genealogical Society and through genealogy lecturing and pro-bono coaching throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. I also enjoy solving historical mysteries using genealogical methods. |
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Roy Ogus
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Roy Ogus has been researching his family history since 1985. He has documented his family worldwide, and has traced his ancestors back to Lithuania and Belarus in the early 18th century. Roy was born in South Africa, and has been living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area since the 1970s. A member of the San Francisco Bay Area JGS for nearly 30 years, he has published articles in the journals Avotaynu, ZichronNote (JGS San Francisco), Shemot (JGS Great Britain), and Roots-Key (JGS Los Angeles), and has given presentations at numerous IAJGS annual genealogy conferences. Roy is the Vice-President and Journal Editor of the JewishGen Southern African Research Division, a LitvakSIG District Coordinator, and an Avotaynu Contributing Editor. He is a computer engineer by profession. | |
Janice Sellers  |
Janice M. Sellers is a professional genealogist specializing in Jewish, Black, forensic, and newspaper research. She is the editor of ZichronNote for SFBAJGS and the former editor of four additional genealogy journals and newsletters. She is also a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists, Council for the Advancement of Forensic Genealogy, Genealogical Speakers Guild, and Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon (of which she is currently the acting president). She has been on staff at LDS FamilySearch centers and libraries since 2000 and gives presentations on many genealogical topics at the local, regional, state, and national levels. |
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Barbara Stack
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Barbara has been researching her family roots in Poland and Ukraine since the late 1980s when her sister met a maternal cousin, Joseph Chandler, of Portland, Maine, who had made an enormous hand-written family tree. Joe passed along a copy, and Barbara began to map it into Reunion. She also started exchanging letters with far-flung aunts and uncles. Many busy years passed. In late 2009, a mutual friend introduced her to Jeremy, who pointed to the LDS Family History Library in Oakland and to the SFBAJGS. A website became necessary to organize and share the mounting piles of research. Repeated gentle inquiries of the Chandler family led to a revised tree, a narrative history, a scrapbook and the hope of discovery of correspondence. And then there’s her mother’s father’s family and her father’s family from Nowy Dwor. A long story. If you do genealogy long enough it becomes something other than what it seemed at the outset. Barbara's most recent pleasures have been in reintroducing members of long-separated branches of the family. 1969: BA, Brandeis University, Economics; 1975: MA, U. Massachusetts Amherst, Linguistics. In her professional life Barbara has been a systems analyst, a fiddler, a youth orchestra ED, and most recently a database manager, archivist, editor, and writing coach. |
Newsletter exchange-- For other JGS chapters wishing to exchange emailed copies of their newsletters for emailed copies of ZichronNote: ZNexchange@sfbajgs.org
To contact the SFBAJGS by U.S. Mail, address your letter to:
SFBAJGS
P. O. Box 318214
San Francisco, CA 94131-8214
