Upcoming Meeting

W. Todd Knowles AG, currently serves as Deputy Chief Genealogical Officer at FamilySearch, where he has been for over 25 years.  After being introduced to family history at the age of 12, he soon discovered his Jewish roots. The journey to find these Polish Jews has led to the creation of the Knowles Collection (knowlescollection.blogspot.com),  6 databases that now contain the genealogical records of over 1.5 million people.

Todd is past President of the Utah Jewish Genealogy Society.

He will be the Chair for the 2027 IAJGS convention

Program

For more than 125 years, FamilySearch and its predecessors have been gathering, preserving and sharing genealogical information worldwide. Through the website www.familysearch.org, researchers all over the world have free access to billions of records. This presentation will help the attendees find the records of their Jewish ancestors within the records of FamilySearch.

International Association of Jewish Genealogy Societies Award

The International Association of Jewish Genealogy Societies is an umbrella organization for 80+ local Jewish Genealogy Societies and other related groups. At their 2025 annual conference, the Southern Arizona Jewish Genealogy Society received their Member of the Year Award