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  • JGS – SIG Meeting: Ukraine

    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 […]

  • JGS – SIG Meeting: Poland

    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 […]

  • JGS – SIG Meeting: Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus

    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

  • Ukraine Training – not JGS sponsored( Recording Available if You Cannot Attend)

    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 […]

  • JGS Sponsored Event – live via Zoom – The Genealogical Importance of Gravestones and JOWBR

    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 […]

  • Ukraine SIG Virtual Meeting

    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 […]

  • Lithuania-Latvia-Belarus SIG

    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 […]

  • Poland SIG – Jewish Cemeteries

    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 […]