Dr. Serafima Velkovich, head of the Family Roots Research Section at Yad Vashem Archives will speak at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 8, at The Florida Holocaust Museum in St. Petersburg. Her talk will be about how family memories can help families reconstruct their sense of belonging and identity through stories passed down across generations, fragments of documents. "In the aftermath of the Holocaust, when so many lives and entire communities were destroyed, family memory became

Gesher Galicia has added searchable summaries of Jews prosecuted by the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Soviet agency overseeing internal security and political repression in the USSR. From Gesher Galicia: These files cover arrests by the NKVD between September 1939 through 1941, with the content of the files extending further through interrogations and deportations to labor camps. The additions bring the total number of records to 3,700. Records includ

Yad Vashem has recovered the names of five million Jews of the six million murdered in the Holocaust new technologies like AI and machine learning. There are still an estimated one million names of Jewish victims who are unknown and many will likely remain so forever.  The names are compiled in Yad Vashem's  Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names .

In his Halloween edition of his blog "AI Genealogy Insights," Steve Little, AI Program Director for the National Genealogical Society, offers 16 AI prompts designed to "to conjure better AI responses."  Overall headings of these prompts are analysis, condensation, meta-prompts, specialized and advanced. Little points out what we all have to remember about using artificial intelligence: "Remember: AI is a tool, not a truth oracle." Get his prompts here . Check out his AI Gene

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Family Tree Maker Genealogy Community Ambassador Mark Olsen will showcase the latest edition of Family Tree Maker at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 9, at Riverview Public Library, 9951 Balm Riverview Road. Olsen will give interactive demonstrations and have a Q&A session highlighting the software. Registration is not required. The event will take place in the James B. Jim Johnson Community Room 109 A & B. For more information, click here .