Working with others is better than working alone. For years, genealogists have worked to solve the puzzle of their family tree in isolation. However, each of us is just one piece of a much larger jigsaw puzzle of the world's family tree. Collaboration on a single online family tree brings all these small puzzles together so that we all can work on the same giant puzzle. This session will explore how collaboration in a single world family tree, such as Geni.com's World Family Tree, can improve your family tree by focusing on verifying existing information rather than repeating existing research, freeing genealogists to explore new leads and discoveries. Collaboration also brings opportunity to become a part of a much larger genealogy community who are all working on the same goal to preserve our shared family history.

 

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. Instructions for joining the online meeting will be placed under Meeting Info & Links in the Members Only Files. (These files become visible on this website after members sign in.) Nonmembers may register to attend for a fee of $5.  

 

Speaker: E. Randol Schoenberg is an attorney known for his work recovering Nazi-looted artworks, as portrayed in the 2015 film “Woman in Gold." Schoenberg graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and a certificate in European Cultural Studies and received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern California.  He is a former board member of JewishGen.org, a volunteer curator for Geni.com, and the founder of the Jewish Genealogy Portal on Facebook.  In Schoenberg’s recent documentary film “FIORETTA” (2023), he traces his family back 500 years to the beginning of the ghetto in Venice, Italy.