Sunday, April 18, 2010
1:00 p.m. (Doors open at 12:30 p.m.)
Oakland Regional Family History Center
4766 Lincoln Avenue
Oakland 94602
San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society Lecture and Meeting: Mapping Madness with Ron Arons
Member and author Ron Arons will be the featured speaker at an upcoming SFBAJGS meeting. Ron will discuss numerous websites where one can find historical maps and he will review the online mapping facilities provided by the two Goliaths in the field: Microsoft and Google. He will also introduce the audience to several other online mapping facilities, including: Microsoft’s MapCruncher, IBM’s Many Eyes, and Muckety.com
Born and raised in New York, Ron Arons has traced his roots to England, Poland, Romania, the Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania. In researching his book, The Jews of Sing Sing, Ron took a genealogical approach, collecting a variety of original source documents. The book includes biographies of more than a dozen famous gangsters and lesser-known criminals and paints a broad canvas of Jewish criminality in New York City. Ron’s newest book is the recently released Wanted! U.S. Criminal Records: Sources and Research Methodology.
Copyright © 2010 by Kathryn M. Doyle, California Genealogical Society and Library.
