YIVO’s valuable family history research resources to be focus of Feb. 21, 2027, JGSI online meeting

Tom Tearney, YIVO’s reference and outreach archivist, will explain how to access the great variety of resources available to family researchers in “Genealogy Research at YIVO: Accessing Online Materials and Remote Research” for the Sunday, Feb. 21, 2027, Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois online meeting,.

Registration/RSVP will soon be available for this 2 p.m. CST free informative webinar. Note: This is an online only event, open to everyone who registers.

This webinar will be about genealogy research at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. Though located in New York City, many of YIVO’s materials are available to researchers around the world. This presentation will focus on collections of significant genealogical interest that are available online, and how to navigate the YIVO websites. Special attention will be paid to YIVO’s collections of HIAS materials, documents from displaced persons camps, and the National Desertion Bureau. The presentation will be followed by time for Q&A.

Tom Tearney is YIVO’s reference and outreach archivist. He holds a Ph.D. in Germanic Languages and Literatures from the University of Pennsylvania and an Master of Studies (MSt) in Yiddish Studies from the University of Oxford (Wolfson College). He previously worked as an indexer and researcher at the USC Shoah Foundation and completed research internships at the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach and the Jewish Museum Frankfurt am Main. He speaks Yiddish and German and has intermediate skills in Polish, Hebrew, and Italian.

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