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 […]

"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 […]