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 […]
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 […]
"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 […]
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 […]
This is a JGS event for members only. Jerry Scherer will be presenting "DNA a Refresher" by way of Zoom. Begins at 7:30 pm
POLAND SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP (SIG) MEETING WITH DAVID PRICE THURSDAY, 20 MAY AT 7:30 p.m. David Price writes: Suppose from age 15 you survived five years in a half dozen concentration camps and you came out thinking all your family was murdered. You have trouble even remembering what your parents […]
This is a virtual Zoom event presented by JGS Toronto. Henry Blumberg who sits on the Board of Directors is the featured speaker. Sharing Data on Genealogical Websites Uses and Abuses Speaker: Henry Blumberg VIRTUAL MEETING: Join from Home Wednesday, 26 May 2021, at 7:30 p.m. In an age […]
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Kenneth Golish raises the question: “Why Did My Grandfather Return to Poland After Settling in America”? Before his father’s death, Kenneth heard the story of his grandfather’s return to the Kielce area of Poland. Never knowing the real reason behind the return, he spent several years researching this question until the truth was […]
Prague, Budapest, and Vienna: History and Jewish Research. This is a Zoom Virtual Event. Our speaker will be Henry Wellisch who was born in Vienna and survived the War. Hernry, is President Emeritus of JGS Toronto and is a well known speaker on Central European Jewish History. VIRTUAL MEETING: […]
