• JGS Event – Exploring City Directories

    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 […]

  • JGS Event – Poland Special Interest Group

    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 […]

  • JGS Toronto Event – Break Throughs and Brick Walls

    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 […]

  • JGS Event – Prague, Budapest, and Vienna

    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: […]

  • DNA Sig The Avotaynu DNA Project: The Genetic Origins and Migrations of the Jewish People

    Online , Canada

    The Avotaynu DNA  Project: The Genetic Origins and Migrations of the Jewish People Speaker:  Adam Brown Tuesday, 19 October at 7:30 pm ET Under the auspices of the Technion (Israel’s MIT), the Avotaynu DNA Project is a landmark scientific study that has tested over a thousand men in far-flung Jewish […]