IAJGS Lifetime Achievement Award to Mathilde Tagger

The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented to a living individual for a lifetime
of outstanding contributions of major significance and benefit to Jewish genealogy.

IAJGS Lifetime Achievement Award for 2007 was presented to  Mathilde Tagger

"In recognition of her huge impact on the advancement of Sephardic Jewish genealogy,
through her personal research, including translations, transliterations, and indexes;
through the publication of her book
Guidebook for Sephardic and Oriental Genealogical Sources in Israel;
through her numerous scholarly publications; and through her unstinting personal
assistance to individual researchers.."

Unable to attend the conference, Mathilde Tagger received the award in Israel
from the Secretary of the Tel-Aviv Branch of the Israel Genealogical Society,
Rose Feldman, who accepted the award at the banquet in her behalf.