Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto

Online Lecture - Movement Between Towns in Eastern Europe
2019-11-14 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Toronto)
Please note: This lecture will be on Nov. 14 and not Nov. 12 as originally publicized. Time 7:30-8:30 pm

Nashi Predky 2019 Online Lecture (Thurs Nov 14 7:30pm to 8:30pm)
(please note date change to November 14)

Speaker: Lara Diamond President of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Maryland.
Nashi Predky 2019 Online Lecture (Thurs Nov 14 7:30pm to 8:30pm)
(please note date change to November 14)

Movement Between Towns in Eastern Europe (webinar)
Many researchers, once they have discovered the town from which their ancestors left Eastern Europe, assume that their families must have lived in that town or the vicinity for many generations. While this was true for some families, there significant movement through broad swaths of Europe by many Jews for a variety of reasons. The speaker (Lara Diamond) will demonstrate the breadth of some families’ movements with examples from her own research and will discuss the types of documents used to trace those families’ travels.
This is an online lecture: you can participate from anywhere in the world!
This is an online lecture: you can participate from anywhere in the world!
Get the full details and register.
For more about the entire Nashi Predky Online Lecture series, the link is here: Family History Group (https://www.ukrhec.org/family-history-group).

JGS Event: Family Tree Maker Seminar.
2019-11-17 10:30 - 12:00 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
Opportunity for a Seminar about Family Tree Maker
A RESPONSE IS REQUESTED
Speaker: Mark Olsen of Family Tree Maker
Shaarei Shomayim Congregation
470 Glencairn Avenue
Entrance: North (parking lot) doors
Sunday, November 17, 2019, at 10:30 am
(Doors open 10:00 am)
JGS Toronto is being offered the opportunity for a seminar about Family Tree Maker, DNA and other related Family Tree products.
Before we agree to accept this offer, we need to know how many of our members would be interested in participating on that date. This seminar would be of prime interest to current and possible future users of Family Tree Maker, but would also be of interest to users of other software as an opportunity to compare capabilities.
In December, 2015, Ancestry.com announced that it would discontinue Family Tree Maker. The announcement was met by fierce protest from Family Tree Maker users. In February, 2016, Ancestry.com announced that Software MacKiev, the company that had developed the Mac version of the software for more than six years, would acquire the Family Tree Maker brand, and take over the development and publishing of Mac and Windows editions. Recently MacKiev issued Family Tree Maker 2019.
If you are interested in participating in this seminar, please send an e-mail to lkelman@jgstoronto.ca, by Nov. 14, 2019 indicating that you intend to participate.
Members: Free Guests: $5
Opportunity for a Seminar about Family Tree Maker
A RESPONSE IS REQUESTED
Speaker: Mark Olsen of Family Tree Maker
Shaarei Shomayim Congregation
470 Glencairn Avenue
Entrance: North (parking lot) doors
Sunday, November 17, 2019, at 10:30 am
(Doors open 10:00 am)
JGS Toronto is being offered the opportunity for a seminar about Family Tree Maker, DNA and other related Family Tree products.
Before we agree to accept this offer, we need to know how many of our members would be interested in participating on that date. This seminar would be of prime interest to current and possible future users of Family Tree Maker, but would also be of interest to users of other software as an opportunity to compare capabilities.
In December, 2015, Ancestry.com announced that it would discontinue Family Tree Maker. The announcement was met by fierce protest from Family Tree Maker users. In February, 2016, Ancestry.com announced that Software MacKiev, the company that had developed the Mac version of the software for more than six years, would acquire the Family Tree Maker brand, and take over the development and publishing of Mac and Windows editions. Recently MacKiev issued Family Tree Maker 2019.
If you are interested in participating in this seminar, please send an e-mail to lkelman@jgstoronto.ca, by October 11, 2019, indicating that you intend to participate.
Members: Free Guests: $5

JGS Toronto - Poland SIG
2019-11-18 19:30 - 21:00 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
The first Poland SIG will be held at Shaarei Shomayim Congregation

Members Only Event

7:30 pm to 9:00 pm

Memories of Brantford's Jewish Community
2019-11-26 14:30 - 20:30
Please see link for details:https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/memories-of-brantfords-jewish-community-tickets-77116277863?ref=eattnewsrecs&utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_algo&utm_content=toronto-canada.p2019_47&utm_term=eattnewsrecs&afu=152273198872&rank=3&aff=eattnewsrecs
Tuesday Nov. 26, 2019
2:30 pm to 830 pm

JGS Event: Resources for Genealogical Research at Ontario Jewish Archives
2019-11-27 20:00 - 21:30 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
Donna Bernardo-Ceriz, Managing Director ONTARIO JEWISH ARCHIVES

Topic: Resources for Genealogical Research at OJA and Tips for Preserving your Historical Documents
Click on this link for details: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qEm5LOkqH8fQQ7TMTf9siGQRMbE_lSZH/view?usp=sharing

Shaarei Shomayim Congregation
Sisterhood Hall
Doors open at 7:30 pm

Untold Learning Series
2019-11-28 19:30 - 21:00 | Schwartz/Reisman Centre, 9600 Bathurst St., Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
Jerry Scherer speaks on Nov. 28th at the Schwartz Reisman Centre at 7:30 pm.
See https://srcentre.ca/adults_seniors/untold-learning-series.html for information.

JGS - Ukraine SIG Meeting
2019-12-12 07:30 - 21:30 | Family History Centre, 24 Ferrand Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The members of the Ukraine SIG will meet at the Family History Centre.
Please see the link for details: https://mailchi.mp/9a151a5e3a51/next-ukraine-sig-meeting-to-be-held-on-thu-dec-12?e=1acbd9d9d2

Dec. 12, 2019
Time: 7:30 pm

Toronto Jewish Storytelling Guild
2019-12-15 19:30 - 22:00 | Congregation Habonim, 5 Glen Park Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M6B 4J2, Canada
The Toronto Jewish Storytelling Guild will be hosting evenings of stories, the 3rd Sunday of each month at 7:30 PM at Congregation Habonim (5 Glen Park Ave., Toronto, M6B 4J2 one street north of Bathurst and Glencairn)
Each evening will feature a blend of tales – traditional and personal – from some of the city’s most accomplished raconteurs, while offering a chance for audience members to share their stories. Listeners are welcome.
Admission is pay-what-you-can, with a suggested donation of five dollars.
And with almost all Jewish events, refreshments will be available.
For more information contact:
jewishstorytelling@gmail.com

JGS Toronto Event: "The Not So Mythological Village of Chelm"
2019-12-18 20:00 - 21:30 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
Speaker: Steven Brock
Shaarei Shomayim Congregation
Sisterhood Hall
Doors Open at 7:30 pm
Jewish folklore is filled with stories about the village of Chelm. Outsiders consider the
villagers as fools, but they know that they are the great sages of the world and that
their logic always makes perfect sense – at least to them. Although Chelm seems like
a mythical place, it is in fact a real village in south-east Poland. In his presentation,
Steven will recount the history of the real life village and how it got its humorous and
less than flattering reputation.

DNA Special Interest Group
2019-12-19 19:30 - 21:00 | Family History Centre, 24 Ferrand Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Store Front Stories
2020-01-07 08:00 - 21:00
https://mnjcc.org/browse-by-interest/arts-culture/visual-arts/gallery/1387-storefront-stories.html?utm_source=MNjcc+Insider+Newsletter&utm_campaign=57a662e0a5-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9c54dabbe2-57a662e0a5-141918349

JGS Toronto Panel: Comparison of Genealogy Software: Advantages and Shortcomings
2020-01-26 10:30 - 12:00 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
A Panel of experienced genealogists from our JGS membership will present their views on family tree software. They will delve into the pluses and minuses of each.
Shaarei Shomayim Congregation
Room to be Announced
Doors open 10:00 am

The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust
2020-01-27 15:30 - 17:30 | Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Annual Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies Lecture
“The Archive Thief: The Man Who Salvaged French Jewish History in the Wake of the Holocaust”
Lisa Leff (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and American University)
Date: Monday, January 27th at 4:00pm, a reception will precede the event starting at 3:30pm
Location: Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy (1 Devonshire Place)
Description: Zosa Szajkowski, a Polish-born Jewish historian, took tens of thousands of Jewish documents from Europe in the 1940s and ‘50s and moved them, illicitly, to New York. He eventually sold them to Jewish research libraries in the United States and Israel. Was this a heroic act of salvage, or simply theft? Join us for a lecture by Lisa Leff, author of The Archive Thief, Professor of History at American University, and Director of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The event will be moderated by Doris Bergen (Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies), with responses by Eric Jennings (University of Toronto) and Sara R. Horowitz (York University).

This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and first-come, first-served. If you have any accessibility requirements, please emailcjs.toronto@utoronto.ca.

JGS: Lithuania-Latvia-Belarus SIG
2020-01-30 19:30 - 21:15 | Family History Centre, 24 Ferrand Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Please note the next Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus SIG will be held on January 30th, 2020 at the Family History Center at 7:30 pm to 9:15 pm
Please add to your calendars, social media, etc..
Henry Blumberg will discuss:
“My hundred and fifty year journey from Grobina., Latvia to Greenville, Mississippi, via Las Vegas.”

Sugar, Slavery and the Sephardim of Barbados 1654-1934
2020-02-16 10:30 - 12:00 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
Speaker: Simon Kreindler

Shaarei Shomayim Congregation
470 Glencairn Avenue
Entrance: North (parking lot) doors
Doors open at 10:00 am

The Portuguese brought sugar cane from their Atlantic colonies to Brazil in the early 1500s and within a relatively short time, that country became the largest sugar producer in the world. In 1630, the Dutch ousted the Portuguese and the Sephardi Jews from Holland followed and got involved in the production, trading and shipping of raw sugar.
Meanwhile, in 1627, Barbados was settled by the English and they introduced sugar cane from Brazil which rapidly replaced cotton and tobacco. When the Dutch lost control in Brazil in 1654, Sephardim with experience in the sugar industry came to the island and helped the planters with their technical expertise and shipping know-how. Within a few years Barbados had become England’s wealthiest Atlantic colony.
Simon’s presentation will look at the Sephardim’s success, their ultimate demise, and the legacy they left the Ashkenazi community that followed them.

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Simon Kreindler was born and grew up in Barbados. After completing high school there, he studied medicine at McGill University in Montreal and did post-graduate training in adult and child psychiatry in the United States. He recently retired after 48 years in private practice in Toronto.

Simon’s long-standing interest in his family’s history led to him writing an autobiography in 2013 for his children and grandchildren, incorporating his 40 plus years of genealogy research. His Ashkenazi research led to another book, Peddlers All, Stories of the First Ashkenazi Jewish Settlers in Barbados, which was published in 2017.

More recently, Simon has been researching the Sephardim who came to Barbados from Brazil in 1654 and who lived on the island for more than 250 years.

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Members: Free Guests: $5

Beach Hebrew Institute Lecture - 100 Years at the Beach
2020-02-18 19:00 - 20:15 | Beach Synagogue, 109 Kenilworth Ave., Ontario, Canada
see link for details: https://drive.google.com/file/d/19N4nP70cc7WmflsjXmZNxtxsOI3zMcoZ/view?usp=sharing

JGS - DNA Special Interest Group Meeting
2020-02-20 19:30 - 21:00 | Family History Centre, 24 Ferrand Drive, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Venue: Family History Centre

7:30 – 9:15 pm

Due to health concerns for our members the program planned for March 25 is postponed until further notice
2020-03-11
Due to health concerns for our members this program is postponed until further notice.
we will keep you updated

Legacy Webinars - 24 Hour Webinar
2020-03-12 - 2020-03-13
Legacy Family Tree webinars, part of the MyHeritage Family of companies and MyHeritage are holding a 24-hour genealogy webinar marathon with world- renown genealogists and educators. Its free! There will be time for questions and answers.
You must register in advance as space is limited
To see the list of classes, speakers and to register go to: https://familytreewebinars.com/24Remember this is worldwide, and a list of times is also available on the aforementioned site.

If you are unable to attend all recordings will be available on Legacy family Tree for one week for free. After that you can watch them for a fee with a webinar membership. More information is on the aforementioned URL.

POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE JGS Toronto Event: Finding and Using Naturalization/Citizenship Documents in Canada, USA and UK
2020-03-25 20:00 - 21:30 | Shaarei Shomayim Congregation, 470 Glencairn Ave., Toronto, Ontario, M5N 1V8, Canada
Due to health concerns for our members this program is postponed until further notice
We will keep you updated

Panel of Presenters from JGS: Les Kelman, Barry Spinner and Marla Waltman
Our panelists will show you how and where to obtain naturalization records in each of the three countries and will clarify the type of information available in these documents.
Open this link to see a full description of this program: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LqcaiOlW-AVzScp2esfSrlLR6RnWrrcB/view?usp=sharing
Shaarei Shomayim Congregation
Sisterhood Hall
Doors Open: 7:30 pm

“The Holocaust, 75 Years after It Ended”
2020-05-12 10:00 - 12:00
The Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies
“The Holocaust, 75 Years after It Ended”
Professor Gerhard Weinberg (Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Date: Tuesday, May 12th at 10:00am
Location: ONLINE through Zoom Webinar Live
To attend this lecture, go to https://zoom.us/j/93236274111 on Tuesday, May 12th at 10:10am. No registration required.
Description: How does the Holocaust appear now, to someone who both lived it and shaped the writing of its history? Join us for a remarkable opportunity to learn from the acclaimed military and Holocaust historian, Gerhard L. Weinberg. Born in Hanover in 1928, Weinberg escaped Nazi Germany on a Kindertransport to England. He served in the US army in 1946-47, worked as a research analyst in the war documentation project, and received his PhD from the University of Chicago. His many influential publications include A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II.

Finding and Using Naturalization and Citizenship Documents in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States (virtual)
2020-05-20 19:30 - 21:30 | Online, Canada
JGS Toronto Panelists:
Marla Waltman (Canada),
Les Kelman (UK) and Barry Spinner (USA)
Virtual Meeting: Join from Home
Wednesday, 20, May 2020, at 7:30 p.m.ng
It is necessary to sign up for this online program.
Please send an email to program@jgstoronto.ca and you will receive details for joining the Zoom event.
Our panelists will show you how and where to obtain naturalization records in each of
the three countries and will clarify the type of information available in these
documents. They will also explain which immigrants went through the naturalization
process and why some may not have needed to take part.
Marla Waltman, a researcher and writer, served on the Executive Committee and the
Board of JGS Toronto. Recently she was President of our Society.
Les Kelman was born in Scotland. He has been an active JGS Toronto member since
the early 1990s, serving as Past President and Chair of the Program Committee.
Barry Spinner’s ancestors came from Central Europe and lived in the United States,
providing him with a massive number of American naturalization records.

Ukraine SIG virtual
2020-05-27 19:00 - 20:30
The meeting, on Wednesday 27 May at 7:00 pm, will consist of an informal discussion about SIG members’ current research into their Ukrainian families, with the goal to try to provide suggestions about possible research tools that could be helpful. The meeting will also be used to discuss topics for upcoming meetings.
If you wish to attend this SIG meetings, please inform Marla Waltman, Ukraine SIG leader, by email at mwaltman@jgstoronto.ca. You will receive an invitation to the meeting a day or two before the event, with a link that you will use to join the meeting on the date(s) you have chosen. If you have not used Zoom before, please let Marla know so we can explain how you to download the app and try it out, well in advance of the meeting.

Ukraine SIG virtual
2020-06-10 19:00 - 20:30
The second meeting, on Wednesday 10 June at 7:00 pm, will focus on the topic originally scheduled for February. The goal is to share information about how our families traveled from their homes in Ukraine to various ports of departure on their emigration to Canada, the USA, Great Britain, or elsewhere. More information about this planned SIG will be shared at the meeting on May 27th.

If you wish to attend this SIG meetings, please inform Marla Waltman, Ukraine SIG leader, by email at mwaltman@jgstoronto.ca. You will receive an invitation to the meeting a day or two before the event, with a link that you will use to join the meeting on the date(s) you have chosen. If you have not used Zoom before, please let Marla know so we can explain how you to download the app and try it out, well in advance of the meeting.

JGS - Free Webinar hosted by Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage
2020-06-11 10:00 - 11:30
Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage is conducting free webinars for the Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto every Thursday at 10:00 am from June 11 – July 30. Click on this link for details and scroll to find the appropriate date.

JGS Toronto Event: Break Throughs and Brick Walls Online Event
2020-06-17 20:00 - 21:30 | Online, Canada
Volunteers from our membership discuss how they managed to make break throughs and bring down their brick walls. This is a great opportunity for members to learn from others the strategies and techniques for dealing with Brick Walls.
Registration details TBA

JGS - Free Webinar hosted by Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage
2020-06-18 10:00 - 11:30
Daniel Horowitz of My Heritage is conducting a free webinar for JGS Toronto. Scroll to the appropriate date through this link.

JGS Event - Annual General Meeting
2020-06-24 19:30 - 20:30
For the first time the Annual General Meeting will be held as a webinar. Please attend this ground breaking event.

JGS - Free Webinar - Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage
2020-06-25 10:00 - 11:00
Daniel Horowitz continues his webinar series for JGS Toronto at 10:00 am. Click on this link and scroll down to the appropriate date.

JGS Toronto - Free Webinar Hosted by Daniel Horowitz
2020-07-02 10:00 - 11:30
Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage continues his free lectures for JGS Toronto. Click here for details.
