JGST Virtual Event: Using Artifacts to Make Connections with Families
Tentative Date: April 24, 2022 Speaker: David Matlow https://www.thestar.com/life/2021/05/26/toronto-collector-of-theodor-herzl-artifacts-aims-to-reunite-families-with-their-documents-and-heirlooms.html Register: front page, https://oldsite-2022-10.jgstoronto.ca
Collecting the Dream “Including Tales of Using Memorabilia to Enhance Your Research”
Hybrid MEETING: Participate in person at Sha’arei Shomayim or OR View from home Sunday, 24 April 2022, 10:30 AM David Matlow owns the world’s largest private collection of Theodor Herzl memorabilia. Through his website and weekly Canadian Jewish News online column, David uses his collection to inform people about the […]
JGS Toronto – Special Interest Group – DNA
Gil Bardige and Arthur Sissman (both recognized as experts in Jewish DNA) are two new members of JGS Toronto who will host this Q & A. Open this link for the details. This is a virtual event that will be open to members as well as non-members. Participants will be […]
JGST Virtual Event – Comparing the Genealogy Giants
Comparing the Genealogy Giants Ancestry.com, FamilySearch.org, Findmypast.com, and MyHeritage.com Speaker: Sunny Morton Wednesday, 1 June 2022, 7:00 pm Go to https://oldsite-2022-10.jgstoronto.ca to Register Participate from Home on Zoom Open this link to see the full description of this event
JGST Virtual Event – Brick Walls and Breakthroughs
Every year in June JGS Toronto invites 4 members to share their breakthroughs. BRICK WALLS AND BREAKTHROUGHS Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 7:30 pm Kenneth Golish, a lawyer, Bathurst Manor raised, lives with his family in Windsor. He has been working on his family tree for over twenty years. Kenneth […]
JGS Toronto – Annual General Meeting – Virtual Only
We encourage our Members to be sure to attend our Annual General Meeting as a new Board will be elected. This is a very important event as our executive and volunteers plan our programming, prepare our workshops and seminars, assist our newbies in getting started. As members of JGS Toronto […]
JGS Hybrid Event — President Emeritus Henry Wellisch – 100th Birthday
JGS Hybrid Event -- President Emeritus Henry Wellisch - 100th BirthdayJoin us to honour Henry Wellisch, our President Emeritus, on his 100th Birthday Hybrid MEETING: Participate in person at Sha’arei Shomayim OR View from home Sunday, 18 September 2022, 10:30 AM Henry Wellisch will respond to questions from Neil Richler, […]
JGS Toronto Event *** Cancelled “He thought that his family was wiped out in the Holocaust
Shaarei Shomayim Congregation 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, OntarioDue to illness Mr. Cilevitz has had to cancel. Please monitor our website for a rescheduling of this event. Ralph Cilevitz will relate the story of how he discovered new connections and relatives. If you will be viewing from home go to https://oldsite-2022-10.jgstoronto.ca/register There are over 75,000 descendants of the same […]