Update: 26th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy

The schedule is now on-line for the 26th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy to be held at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel, August 13-18. This six-day genealogy conference will feature about 280 lectures, computer labs, SIG meetings, Birds-of-a-Feather meetings, luncheons, and visits to nearby museums and Jewish cemeteries. Dr. Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States, will address the 26th Annual conference on Sunday August 13, 2006.

The conference is expected to attract attendees from all over the world. This may be the largest genealogy conference of the year in North America.

The schedule of events is available at http://www.jgsny2006.org/conference_program.cfm. The conference web site's main page is at http://www.jgsny2006.org. You can read my earlier article about the 26th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2006/03/iajgs_internati.html