Memory Lane: How Genealogy Research Led to a Family Reunion and Summer Research Trip

Meyer Denn, originally from Bay City, Texas, has completed years of extensive genealogical research into his family origins. In 1983, Denn undertook an extensive historical and genealogical research excursion to Eastern Europe including travel to Poland, Czechoslovakia and to Hungary, making subsequent visits in 1988, 1989, 1990, 2008, and most recently in July of 2017, where he attended a week-long gathering of descendants of Jewish families of Lublin, his maternal hometown.  As a professional genealogist, Meyer has done research in the Polish and Slovak State Archives, local European town archives, cemeteries around the world, US Federal, State and County archives, and most recently the internet. He has lectured widely on the topic of innovations in Jewish genealogy, including a popular multi-part series at the American Jewish University. 
Denn will describe how his research led to a large family reunion and the subsequent research trip this past summer.  For the past ten years, Meyer has served as the executive director of the Center for Jewish Education of the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas.

Free to the public at Aaron Family JCC, 7900 Northaven, reservations requested to info@djhs.org.