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September 5, 2018
Click on the link below (see Read More) to open up an extensive list of Jewish Genealogy related websites. Thanks are extended to David Price for compiling and updating this list. More Jewish Genealogy Websites by David Price Revised 22Nov2016 https://oldsite-2022-10.jgstoronto.ca/research_resources/additional-jewis…d-by-david-price/
September 5, 2018
IGRA celebrates International Jewish Genealogy Month! The first lecture in our series was on the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) by Nolan Altman. This webinar explores the importance of patronymics and how headstones are one of the best sources for this information. You’ll have a chance to get to […]
September 5, 2018
On November 9-10, 1938 Nazis conducted a wave of violent anti-Jewish pogroms throughout Germany, annexed Austria and areas of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia…it is known as Kristallnacht. “The Night of Broken Glass”, stems from the broken windows of 267 synagogues, homes and 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses destroyed during the action, as […]
September 5, 2018
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Long Island provides a series of informative and valuable training videos for researchers. Sharing a family tree with friends and family can be boring for many unless you provide some anecdotes about the lives of ancestors past. Occupations can offer a font of knowledge about […]
September 5, 2018
Can anyone explain what this chart means? https://oldsite-2022-10.jgstoronto.ca/research_resources/shared-cm-project/
September 5, 2018
This is an article from an early issue of Shem Tov that may be helpful for members researching relatives that went missing in the Holocaust. Researchers, here is the link to the Search Bureau. http://: https://oldsite-2022-10.jgstoronto.ca/research_resources/ontario-archives/
September 5, 2018
The newly formed Jewish Genealogy Society of Brooklyn has some wonderful links to important websites. This includes # 36, Emily Anne Croom’s lengthy treatise on the importance of citing your sources in either footnotes or endnotes. If you are going to pass your research to the next generation, as you […]
September 5, 2018
https://oldsite-2022-10.jgstoronto.ca/links/how-to-read-a-jewish-tombstone/ Headstones are important primary sources of information for family researchers. Unfortunately, not enough of us are able to interpret the Hebrew text. Here are some basics on how to decipher a tombstone or matzeyva מַצֵבָה.
September 5, 2018
David Price’s “Beginners Guide to Jewish Genealogy Websites” https://drive.google.com/file/d/105o0kf-uFcIqaOJ4A3kUzvJV7ekcTXT0/view?usp=sharing
August 30, 2018
The JDC was founded to support Jewish communities dislocated by war and natural disasters. Genealogists may be very interested in searching their Archives for family members who were uprooted as a consequence of World Wars 1 and 2, or who may have emigrated to Palestine before the creation of the […]