Clay in My Boots: A Romp Through My Genealogical Past

  Happy New Year Family, As I mentioned in last year's genealogy letter I co-taught a three-day class on Jewish Genealogy in June for my Temple, Beth Ami. Unfortunately, it was taught over Zoom because of the pandemic, however class went extremely well and I received wonderful reviews.    Based on our performance we were invited to teach a 1/2 day class to our local Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington.    I'll also be solo teaching a 4 evening class for the Vitality Society in January. ( bit.ly/vsgenealogy ), thanks to a referral from our cousin Canter Daniel Singer of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in Manhattan.   I'd like to welcome Dan to the family, he is my 5th cousin 1x removed through the Highstein, Krieger, Shenker, and Khazen family-line as his Father's Singer family name was changed from Khazen a few generations back. Dan was nice enough to include me in a Zoom genealogical family meet-up this summer. I'd also like to welcome Ellen Davis to the

  http://sefer.ru/Birzhai.1-376%20(19.06).pdf Michael, Don’t know if you ever stumbled across this book? It is all about the old Jewish cemetery in Birzai. Too bad most of it is in Russian. Wish it was translated to English. There is a directory at the end and a map of the cemetery. Was surprised to see some familiar names there, but I didn’t see surnames. Would be interesting to at least match dates of death, if available, to the names in our trees. Cantor Dan Singer