The next meeting of the Genealogy Club of Central Jersey (GCCJ) will be on Thursday, October 13 at 7 p.m. at Ahavas Achim Synagogue, 216 South 1st Ave. in Highland Park. The featured speaker will be Steve Stein, who will speak on “Were Your Family Members Telling the Truth? And Other Inaccuracies.”

Have you ever gotten conflicting facts from two or more different sources? Genealogical research often turns up document discrepancies, faulty memories, typos or outright lies. The group will be discussing how to recognize and assess these issues, use search strategies to overcome them and determine what is correct. Real examples from the speaker’s own research will highlight many of these situations.

Stein is a retired telecommunications software professional. He has been researching his own and his wife’s genealogies for nearly 40 years, whose origins include Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine and Romania. He is a member of the Executive Council of the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (of New York) where he is Webmaster and technology coordinator. He has volunteered for transcription projects for JewishGen’s Hungary Special Interest Group (H-SIG) and Jewish Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), and is currently coordinating research projects and the KehilaLinks page related to Nyasvizh, Belarus.