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Ukraine Training – not JGS sponsored( Recording Available if You Cannot Attend)

There is an online training class coming up for anyone who is interested. It is sponsored by the Ukrainian History and Education Center. Ukrainian Jewish Genealogy 101 Dec. 16, 2020 7:00 PM The newest member of the Nashi Predky team Lara Diamond will present this webinar about genealogy resources available […]

JGS Sponsored Event – live via Zoom – The Genealogical Importance of Gravestones and JOWBR

The Genealogical Importance of Gravestones and The Toronto JOWBR InitiativeSpeaker: Steven BrockVIRTUAL MEETING: View from home Wednesday, 16 December 2020 at 7:30 p.m. For those tracing their family tree, gravestones can be an incredible source of information. They can provide the researcher with key details relating to their ancestors, including […]

Ukraine SIG Virtual Meeting

A Practical Guide to Using Ukrainian Archive Documents to Trace Your Roots Speaker: Howard Goldstein Alex Krakovsky is a Ukrainian from Kyiv who is working to reform the Ukrainian archives system and to get more archival records digitized and placed online. He has personally scanned thousands of pages of archival documents which have never before been […]

Lithuania-Latvia-Belarus SIG

Patrick Munits will be presenting and the program will include: Immigration and Naturalization records in Latvia from the interwar period Recent developments with regards to accessibility of documents stored in Latvian archives for the years between WWI and WWII. Overview of period passports, and other types of documents from Latvia […]

Poland SIG – Jewish Cemeteries

Jewish cemeteries in Poland and the pandemic – an update direct from Poland Witold Wrzosinski, Director of the Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland   Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto Poland SIG – Thursday evening, February 18th, 7:30pm ET   In recent decades a huge increase of interest in the Jewish […]

JGS Event — Identify Unnamed Ancestors for Genealogical Research

This is a Zoom event presented by JGS Toronto. Using Facial Recognition Tools to Identify Unnamed Ancestors for Genealogical Research Speaker: Scott Genzer VIRTUAL MEETING: Join from Home Sunday, 28 February 2021, at 10:30 a.m. Photographs have always been a genealogical challenge because, unlike more conventional sources such as vital […]

JGS Event – Hungarian Jewry: History, Holocaust and Genealogy

"Genealogical Resources for Researching Hungarian Jews"   Hungarian Jewry: History, Holocaust, and Genealogy Speaker: Karesz Vandor  VIRTUAL MEETING: View from home  Sunday, 21 March 2021 at 10:30 a.m. Karesz Vandor’s presentation will include: • A short history of Hungary Including maps, border changes, and the Holocaust timeline. • How to do […]

JGS Event – Exploring City Directories

This is a JGS virtual Zoom event. EXPLORING CITY DIRECTORIES A Family Tree Magazine Webinar Followed by Questions and Answers with Sunny Jane Morton VIRTUAL MEETING: View from home Wednesday, 28 April 2021, 7:30 p.m. EXPLORING CITY DIRECTORIES A Family Tree Magazine Webinar   Followed by Questions and Answers with […]