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Finding My Family: A Genealogical Journey
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Finding My Family: A Genealogical Journey
with Fred Blum
Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 2:00 pm
MacColl Room, First Presbyterian Church
201 S. 21st St.

This program will help Penn’s Villagers trace their family origins through using various tools that are mostly online. This is a 1.5 hour program with a PowerPoint presentation followed by time for genealogy questions from attendees. Our speaker is Fred Blum, a professional investigator and Past President of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Philadelphia. Mr. Blum started his attorney service company, B&R Services for Professionals in 1971 and is a licensed Private Detective.
In 1998 he became interested in his own family history. To find out more, he first studied genealogy and was then able to locate ancestors dating back to 1810. To date, he has identified over 1200 family members. Mr. Blum volunteers with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to help locate Holocaust survivors. He will explain how he used his investigative skills to find his unknown family with techniques and resources that can help Penn’s Village members search for their own family roots, Jewish or not.
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This program will be held in the MacColl Room of the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, 201 South 21st Street, on the southeast corner of Walnut. The entrance is on the side of the building off of 21st Street. There is an accessible entrance behind the building off of Chancellor St.
This program is free of charge to our members and volunteer partners. Non-member guests are welcome to attend up to three programs before being required to join and/or volunteer with Penn’s Village, or pay $10 per additional program.
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If you cannot register online, you may email info@pennsvillage.org or call 215-925-7333. If you register but find that you cannot attend, please cancel your reservation to make room for others.
Registration cancellations will be accepted
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