The next Ukraine SIG meeting takes place Sunday Nov. 29th @ 10:30 AM via Zoom The meeting will cover resources, which could be useful for your research into ancestors from Ukraine. Most of these resources, which are primarily online, have been made available or are easier to use with […]
The next meeting of the Poland Special Interest Group takes place via Zoom on Thursday Dec. 3rd @ 7:30 pm. We will have a round table discussion on new discoveries, research hints, interpreting life cycle documents and share information with each other of our family roots and travels. Here is […]
The next Lithuania, Lativia, Belarus Special Interest Group meets via Zoom on December 10th @ 7:30 pm.. We will have a round table discussion on new discoveries, research hints, and share information with each other of our family roots and travels Here is the link to register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sfuCtqTkjH9SB2rTk2jzQekBln6ttu48Q
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 […]
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 […]
Speaker: Nancy Trimble of Ontario Ancestors (formerly, the Ontario Genealogical Society). This will be a virtual Zoom event presented by JGS Toronto.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
