On Sunday, November 16, 2008, the Lucille Gudis Memorial Fund of the Jewish Genealogical Society of New York will present an all-day seminar, From Here to Eternity: Jewish Cemetery Research, Preservation and Restoration. The seminar will take place at the UJA-Federation located at 130 East 59th Street in Manhattan from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. There is a registration fee for the seminar, which includes the cost of a kosher buffet lunch. The registration form for the seminar can be downloaded at www.jgsny.org. ONLY ADVANCED REGISTRATION WILL BE ACCEPTED! REGISTRATION MUST BE RECEIVED BY NOVEMBER 10, 2008! REGISTRATION WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE AFTER THAT DATE! The schedule for the day is as follows: 8:45 - 9:00 Sign in Session 1 Joyce Field, JewishGen Vice President, Data Acquisition: The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) Session 2 Ada Green, Chair of the JGSNY Cemetery Project: How to Catalog Jewish Cemeteries for the JOWBR Lunch Session 3 Rabbi Abraham Laber, founder of Jewishdata.com: Do Stones Speak? - Interpreting Jewish Monuments; Visiting Jewish Cemeteries; Jewishdata.com Panel on Cemetery Preservation and Restoration: Chaim Bruder, Heritage Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries Steve Lasky, Founder of the Museum of Family History Norman Weinberg, Executive Coordinator of Poland Jewish Cemeteries Restoration Project Advanced registration for the seminar is required for the three earlier sessions and for lunch. The panel is an open session for all JGS members and it will be the November JGS meeting, which will begin at 2:30.