Genealogy
How Did They Get There from Here? – Bradshaw’s Railway Guide and Other Tools of Discovery
Led by Emily H. Garber
April 27, 2025 1:00-3:00pm
How did your European ancestors get from their homes to ports of embarkation? This presentation will feature resources to help us understand transmigration (European migrants’ overland routes) between about 1880 and 1914. What did emigrants know before they set off on the overland legs of their journeys? Which routes might they have taken? What did they likely experience during travel from their places of origin to European ports? Resources will include gazetteers, Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide, the Jewish Colonization Association’s Algemeyne Yediot, high definition maps, and immigrant journals.
About Emily H. Garber, BA, MA
An archaeologist by training (B.A., and M.A.), Emily Garber is a Jewish family history researcher, writer and speaker. She holds a certificate from Boston University’s Genealogical Research program and owns Extra Yad Genealogical Services.
Emily blogs at https://extrayad.blogspot.com, has written two books and several articles that have appeared in Avotaynu and NGS Magazine. She has spoken at NGS and IAJGS conferences and coordinated week-long Jewish genealogy seminars for the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy.
She is chair of the Phoenix Jewish Genealogy Group, Secretary of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, and a director on the board of the Arizona Jewish Historical Society.