IAJGS is pleased to welcome as a new Associate Member the Anyksciai Cousins’ Club, a group of descendants from Michael Nossen Berman of Anyksciai, Lithuania, and his extended family.

IAJGS is pleased to welcome JewishGen.org as its newest Associate Member.

IAJGS welcomes the Jewish Genealogy & History Society of South Australia as its newest member. For more information about the Adelaide group, please contact Margot Bailey (kwbailey@optusnet.com.au).

IAJGS welcomes the Jewish Genealogy Society of Central Maryland as its newest member. For more information, visit the society's Facebook Group.

IAJGS welcomes two new member societies: Miami Valley Jewish Genealogical and Historical Society (a successor group to the former JGS Dayton in Ohio) and Sociedade Genealógica Judaica São Paulo in Brazil.

On behalf of the IAJGS Board and our current membership, it is with great pleasure that we welcome the Western North Carolina Jewish Genealogical Society as the newest member of our growing family of IAJGS organizations.  For more information about the Asheville based group, please contact their president, Barbara Weitz (weitzb@fiu.edu) or Vice-President Barbara Newman (newman.barbara49@yahoo.com).

The group’s next meeting will be held Sunday, September 23rd at 4:00 PM at the Asheville JCC (236 Charlotte St, Asheville, NC). Speaker Sharon Fahrer will present “Meeting Your Ancestors”.  Sharon is the owner of History@Handit and specializes in applied history, collecting people’s stories and putting research into usable forms such as interpretive panels, exhibits and books.  Sharon has done extensive work creating an archive on Jewish Life in Western North Carolina at the University of North Carolina Asheville. Most recently she chaired the 37th annual meeting of the Southern Jewish Historical Society in Asheville.

If you are interested in more information on the group or this program, please contact either Barbara at the email address above or see their Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/Western-North-Carolina-Jewish-Genealogical-Society-1742784945774673/

IAJGS welcomes its newest member, Sociedade de Genealogia Judaica do Rio de Janeiro (SGJRJ).

On behalf of the IAJGS Board and our current membership, it is with great pleasure that we welcome Sociedade de Genealogia Judaica do Rio de Janeiro (SGJRJ) as the newest member of our growing family of IAJGS organizations.  For more information about the Brazilian group, please contact their president, Charles Goldenzon at charlesgoldenzon@hotmail.com

The group is still in the process of arranging their meeting schedule but will probably hold their next meeting at the end of September.  In addition, SGJRJ will also be considering projects to index records of all kinds from local Rio de Janeiro sources.  If you are interested in joining the group and/or helping with their local projects, please contact Charles at the email address above.

On behalf of the IAJGS Board and our current membership, it is with great pleasure that we welcome the Northeast Indiana Jewish Genealogy Society as the newest member of our growing family of IAJGS organizations. For more information about the Fort Wayne, Indiana group, please see their website (https://neindianajgs.wordpress.com/) their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/NEIndianaJGS/) or contact Betsy Gephart at NEIndianaJGS@gmail.com.

The group’s next meeting will be Sunday, November 4th at 2:00 PM in the Genealogy Center of the Allen County Public Library (900 Library Plaza, Fort Wayne). November’s meeting will feature Avrami Groll, JewishGen’s Director. Avrami will give an overview of the JewishGen site including new and underused features and updated databases. Additional meetings have been scheduled, program details to be announced.

On behalf of the IAJGS Board and our current membership, it is with great pleasure that we welcome MyHeritage, Ltd. as the first company to become an Associate Member of our growing family of IAJGS organizations.

MyHeritage, one of the world’s preeminent genealogical database and genealogy service companies, is based in Israel, and was founded in 2003 by Gilad Japhet.  As an avid genealogist, Gilad took special care presenting Jewish and Israeli research sources by understanding their difficulties.  Some of the accomplishments that MyHeritage is most proud of are their internationally diverse collection of family trees and groundbreaking search and matching technologies, its long-time partnership with JewishGen and Beith Hatfutsot to update family trees, digitizing and indexing Israeli cemeteries and Sephardic Converso records from Spain, Portugal and the Caribbean, and the growth and importance of MyHeritage DNA. MyHeritage is user friendly worldwide since they are the only genealogy site available in Hebrew and 40 other languages.  For more information about MyHeritage, please visit their website at http://myheritage.com.

On behalf of the IAJGS Board and our current membership, it is with great pleasure that we welcome the Jewish Genealogy Society of Northeast Florida as the newest member of our growing family of IAJGS organizations.  For more information about the Jacksonville, Florida society, please see their website at https://jgsofneflorida.wordpress.com/ or their Facebook group "Jewish Genealogy Society of Northeast Florida" (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1711798505498114/)

The group meets monthly in the Auditorium at River Garden Senior Services, 11401 Old St. Augustine Road, Jacksonville, Florida.   Some of the groups' upcoming meetings will include discussions of the first Jewish families in Jacksonville and the possibility that that some of the early settlers in 1565 St. Augustine were conversos. Additionally, later this summer they plan to screen some documentary films with Jewish genealogy content.