Press Release

Congratulations to our new UJGS officers. Our election was held yesterday at our regular meeting. All of our officers have been re-elected to another two-year term. Returning are Todd Knowles…

MyHeritage is available at the Family History Library, making it accessible to our Utah JGS members fairly easily, but it's always more convenient to search from home, at any hour,…

A new resource has been made available from Hal Bookbinder. A series of short articles on Practicing Safe Computing have appeared monthly in "Venturing Into Our Past", the newsletter of…

Did you know that the US National Archive has held a Genealogy Fair every year since 2005? The 2016 Fair takes place on October 26 and 27 and it's free…

Utah JGS would like to extend its congratulations to  Marelynn Zipser who received the Volunteer of the Year award from the IAJGS at the 2016 Conference. Marelynn's award acknowledges her…

Thank you to everyone who attended our meeting tonight. Every other year, we have elections for officers at our final meeting of the year. After several years of the same…

Have you signed the Genealogists' Declaration of Rights yet? If you went to the IAJGS conference last summer, you may have signed the books at the IAJGS table in the…

The Knowles Collection, a quickly growing, free online Jewish genealogy database linking generations of Jewish families from all over the world, recently reached its one millionth record milestone. The database…

Tomorrow is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day or Holocaust Remembrance Day. To mark the occasion, the Salt Lake City JCC is holding an event on Thursday, April 16th, from 1-3pm.…

Avotaynu Inc. is pleased to announce the creation of Avotaynu Online, an exciting new venture intended to stimulate collaboration among Jewish genealogists in all its forms. Leading participants in the…