ASF Events: Tracing Your Roots: A Two-Part Workshop with Genie Milgrom

The ASF Institute of Jewish Experience presents:

Tracing your Roots:
A Two-Part Workshop With Genie Milgrom

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Sunday 12 April at 12PM EST
(Part One)
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Sunday 19 April at 12PM EST
(Part Two)
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Tracing her family back 15 generations to the early 1500s in Spain, Genie Milgrom was able to unravel the web of lies and deceit that her family had spun around themselves in order to survive the Spanish Inquisition. This fascinating story brought her on a journey she could have never imagined.

For those of you looking to trace your own roots, or begin a genealogical expedition, Genie will share what she learned and how she has helped others trace their own roots. At the end of the first session there will be time for questions.

For more intricate inquiries, please email drora@americansephardi.org before the second session.

It is recommended that you read her first book, My 15 Grandmothers, before the workshop. There, Genie takes the reader through her journey—from growing up Catholic to finding her Crypto-Jewish lineage and embracing the religion of her ancestors.

Genie Milgrom was born into a Roman Catholic family in Havana, Cuba and today lives in Miami, Florida, where her family emigrated during the Cuban Revolution. Genie serves as President of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami,  the Tarbut Sefarad-Fermoselle, and the Society of Crypto-Judaic Studies at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs.

Genie appears in The Crypto Experience, an IJE semester-long online course. Featuring world-renowned scholars and experts, and presented in 10 minute segments, the course explores different crypto societies and how they maintained their identities.