About the Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto
Established as a registered charitable organization, JGS Toronto provides a forum for the exchange of genealogical knowledge and information through this website and also via its newsletter, Shem Tov, its collection of books at the Toronto Reference Library, regular monthly presentations, workshops and Special Interest Groups.
Shem Tov
Shem Tov is the quarterly newsletter of the JGS Toronto. Thirty years of back issues of Shem Tov have been indexed and are searchable by date, subject and author.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE MARCH 25, 2020, PROGRAM POSTPONED Due to the current COVID-19 situation, JGS Toronto is postponing until further notice its March 25, 2020, program, Finding and Using Naturalization and Citizenship Documents in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Likewise, for the time being, meetings of the Special Interest Groups are cancelled We hope to see an early resolution of this situation and send best wishes to all for good health. For further details on an event, please click on its name.Our event calendar can be linked to your personal device as well.
Jewish Genealogical News
April 2, 2020
The U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division, the 42nd Infantry Rainbow Division and the 20th Armored Division entered Dachau rescuing 32,000 prisoners. Dachau was the first Nazi concentration camp established in 1933. Forty railway cars filled with decomposing bodies were found near the camp, as the Nazis did not have time to send […]
April 1, 2020
Legacy Family Tree Webinars, a member of the MyHeritage family of companies, announced for the month of April, they will provide one free webinar from their membership library each day. They have selected classes on a 7-day rotating theme: Sundays – Methodology Mondays – DNA Tuesdays – Ethnic Genealogy Wednesdays […]
March 29, 2020
U.S. census records are an invaluable resource for genealogists with ties to the United States. Conducted every 10 years, they typically record the members of a household, their ages, places of birth, residence, occupation, immigration and citizenship details, marriage information, military service, and more. The breadth of their coverage makes […]
March 29, 2020
Sharon Taylor writes about her great grandmother and what she faced in Galicia during the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic along with pogroms, food shortages, cholera and typhoid Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia . This should put into perspective what we as Jews have faced in the past and how we have […]
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