S.L. Is Hosting Jewish Genealogy Conference

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For a culture that holds family in high esteem, asking about family history can be a sore spot for many Jews whose families suffered through or perished in the Holocaust.

Yet hundreds of Jewish ancestry buffs will converge on Salt Lake City this weekend for the 27th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy. The event will feature several speakers seeking to dispel the notion that European Jews can't trace their ancestry because all the records of their heritage were destroyed by the Nazis.

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S.L. Is Hosting Jewish Genealogy Conference

For many years after the war, "If you ask some Jews about their ancestry, they would say everyone died and the records were burned because they didn't want to deal with it," said Robert Neu, president of the Utah Jewish Genealogical Society...

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