Eileen Polakoff of New York City McCarran International Airport
A long-time leader in the genealogical community, Eileen cut her
genealogy teeth trying to sort out the relations in her fiancée’s family. She
found her first brick walls with Bubbe and Zayde Schwartz, not realizing until
after she visited her future husband’s grandaunt that bubbe and zayde were
Yiddish for “grandmother” and “grandfather,” respectively.
Eileen joined the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (NY) in 1984
and served fifteen years on the JGS Board of Directors. Within two years of
joining the Association of Professional Genealogists in 1986, she was elected
Treasurer (1989−1990). She also served APG as Board member (1998−2004) and
founder and coordinator of the Roundtable (1992−2002) and the Professional
Management Conference (1997−2005). Since 1992, Eileen has led research trips to
the Family History Library in Salt
Lake City
Beginning in 1988 and for more than twenty years Eileen
consistently attended what she calls “the big three national genealogical
conferences”—NGS, FGS, and IAJGS. After an absence from NGS and FGS conferences
in recent years, Eileen jumped at the chance to attend NGS in Las Vegas
She looks forward to NGS in May, because seeing her old
genealogy friends “will be like attending a family reunion,” and she can’t wait
to enjoy her upgraded room and limousine service.
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