Steven M. Cohen

 

Steven M. Cohen

Stephen M. Cohen has a PhD in chemistry, is an independent scholar and writer, and Treasurer of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association. He has researched his family history since age 7.

 

He is a Board member, US Section–Royal Society of Chemistry.  Steve has many interests and has written books about Chemistry. He published a book, What’s in a Name-A Young Person’s Jewish Genealogy Workbook, and gives a variety of Genealogical talks.

 

His genealogical talks include:

    1. You Are What You Eat (on tracing your family using foods from your past)
  1. Unlock the Secrets of the Cemetery (on reading gravestones in a Jewish cemetery)
  2. A Genealogy Story from Whole Cloth (on finding his family in Philadelphia, who ran a Catholic-school uniform factory)
  3. Jews’ Clues: How One Book, Two Authors, and a Few Good Clues can Jumpstart Your Jewish Genealogy Quest (a basic intro to Jewish genealogy)
  4. To Tell the Sleuth: Things You May Think are True about Jewish Genealogy, but are Not (Jewish genealogical myths)
  5. Find Your Genealogical “Golden Ticket” (on a bit of luck in solving a genealogy mystery)
  6. Haim Kantorovitch: Socialist and Cousin (on uncovering the life of a member of his family)

From JewishGen Press, “What’s in a Name?” https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip/YBIP_WhatsInAName.html

Authors: Stephen M. Cohen and Caryn Alter