Marlene has been a genealogist for 52 years. She has undertaken many genealogy-related projects. From 2006-2008, she was  President of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington (JGSGW). Prior to that she was the VP for Programs and the VP for Membership of that organization. She is presently the Coordinator for North America for the International Association of Jewish Genealogy Societies, Cemetery Project, Research Coordinator for JGSGW, and Co-Chair for the forthcoming 2011 International Conference on Jewish Genealogy to be held in Washington, DC.

After graduating from SUNY at Oswego, Marlene did graduate work at Penn State and was Chief Operating Officer for a multi-million dollar corporation. She earned a MS in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh. Marlene has extensive experience as an IT consultant and systems solutions architect.

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Ernie performed data and database work for JewishGen (www.jewishgen.org) for both the Yizkor Book Necrology Index and the Jewish Online World-wide Burial Registry (JOWBR) projects.  He was also the LitvakSIG (www.jewishgen.org/litvak) webmaster for several years, and built and maintains a website for the Olkeniki (Valkininkai), Lithuania, shtetl.

Ernie is retired from IBM; he was a programmer, systems engineer, manager, and international technical support representative.  He owned a small consulting company, and later went to work for the Federal Government as a Computer Scientist, from which he is now retired.

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Rabbi Marvin I. Bash is Rabbi at the Pentagon and at Fort Belvoir, VA. He is Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation Etz Hayim of Arlington, VA where he served with distinction for thirty-six years. He is a graduate of Yeshiva University’s College and was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary with a Masters of Hebrew Literature degree. JTS also awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. He also earned a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University’s Teacher College, New York, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from American University, Washington D.C. 

He has served in various posts in the Greater Washington, D.C. Jewish community and is the author of Messages of the Chofetz Chaim, 2006.

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Harvey Kabaker retired from daily newspaper reporting and editing in 1996, embarked on a second career as a technical writer and retired a second time in 2008. Over the years he has been what he calls a "serious amateur" photographer. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in political science, respectively, at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Temple University (Philadelphia). From 1964 to 1966 he taught English to middle school students and teachers in Thailand. He has been researching his paternal ancestors and Kabaker cousins in the U.S. for more than 20 years, but with more intensity during the past two. His paternal grandfather emigrated in 1884 from the town of Serei (Seirijai) in the northern tip of Suwalki gubernia of Congress-Poland, now in Lithuania. He has been married to Andrea Kline for nearly 27 years; they have two children.

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Eli has long been a volunteer for JGSGW; he was the co-chair of the 2003 IAJGS Conference held in Washington, D.C., and has been involved in many other activities.