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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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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Mona Siegel |
Mona Bache Siegel has been doing genealogy research for about 30 years, and started by ordering microfilm at her local Family History Center. She is still discovering family records in the online records from Germany, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine. Most of her ancestors arrived in the United States in the mid-to-late-1800s, but she has the Ellis Island inspection card for her great-great grandmother, who arrived in 1921. Mona is a graduate of Stanford, and was the academic technology specialist and webmaster at Palo Alto High School before retiring. She and her husband, Dave, have been married since 1985 and have two adult daughters. | |
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
