a name, a street, and 800 years of history – one family’s story
7:00 PM BST / 9:00 PM Minsk & Israel / 2:00 PM EST / 11:00 AM PST
Some questions follow families for generations – passed from grandparent to parent to child like an heirloom with no key. For Philip Maymin, that question had gone unanswered for as long as anyone could remember. Within months of coming to The Together Plan, Philip had his answer.
Join us for a special online event where Philip will share his extraordinary research journey – from a single name and a grandfather born in a Belarusian shtetl in 1913, to a family line traced back to the eighteenth century and a question finally, definitively answered.
We recently published the full story of Philip’s journey on our website – you can read it here.
Alongside Philip, Vasily Zaitsau, Archive Services Project Manager at The Together Plan, will walk you through how the search was conducted – what our archivists do, what the Belarusian archives hold, and what it looks like when documents that have not been read in a century suddenly bring a family back to life.
what you will hear
• How one family’s questions – carried for generations – were finally answered through Belarusian archival research
• What our archivists actually find: census lists, tax rolls, trade licences, military records, and the texture of real lives
• What The Together Plan’s Archive Search Service can do – and what it might find for your family
this event is for you if
• Your family has roots in Belarus, or the broader region of the former Pale of Settlement
• You have always wanted to understand what archival research in Belarus actually involves
• You are simply curious what it feels like to find your family across centuries of silence
about the speakers
Dr. Philip Z. Maymin is a portfolio manager and co-head of global asset allocation at Janus Henderson, and holds the endowed Schramm Chair of Analytics at Fairfield Dolan, where he directs the graduate programme in business analytics and AI. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Chicago, a Master’s in Applied Mathematics from Harvard, and a J.D. He has worked as a portfolio manager at Long-Term Capital Management, Ellington Management Group, and his own hedge fund, and has been a professor of finance and risk engineering at NYU.
A finalist for the 2010 Bastiat Prize and a Wolfram Innovator Award recipient, he is also the only person to have won both the Grand Prize for Best Research Paper and the Hackathon at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.
Vasily Zaitsau is Archive Services Project Manager at The Together Plan. With a background in international financial project management, Vasily brings the same rigour and precision to helping families find their roots in Belarusian archives.
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Free event (donations can be made at people’s own discretion)