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October 28, 2018
Lara Diamond is a highly respected researcher who has contributed a great deal to Jewish genealogy. Her blog contribution re her family’s connection to Pittsburgh is well worth a read. It gives insight into the importance of HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) that the white supremacist attacker was so obsessed […]
October 22, 2018
In 2012, Jan Meisels Allen of the Ventura Conjego Valley JGS had the opportunity to meet the then director of the Kazerne Dossin Memorial Museum and Documentation Centre on the Holocaust and Human Rights, Mechlen, Belgium, when I stopped in unexpectedly on a trip to Belgium. The then director, Ward […]
October 18, 2018
Ancestor Hunt has published World War ll era Shanghai newspapers online. Shanghai became a haven for fleeing Jews during World War ll because of their lenient visa requirements and they accepted thousands of Jewish refugees. While the Shanghai Jewish Refugee Museum built a database that contained the name, occupation and […]
October 17, 2018
JRI-Poland founder Stanley Diamond makes an incredible discovery while assisting a user (who was rescued as a baby during the Holocaust) thanks to DNA. Read about it in the Canadian Jewish News
October 17, 2018
Follow this link to view the schedule of programs for Holocaust Education Week in November 1 – 8.
September 26, 2018
Member Ian McCallum points us to his discovery of Museum of the Jewish People https://dbs.bh.org.il This is a wonderful resource for Jewish genealogists to search family trees, millions of pictures, stories of communities etc.
September 12, 2018
A new collaborative website, Jewish Places, consolidates Jewish Life in Germany in one interactive map. A prototype was developed for March 20150-May 2016 and the launch of the official website is set for September 13, 2018, I have been able to access at the time of posting this. The website […]
September 4, 2018
The city of Lviv held a ceremony, called A Key to the City Reclaiming the Memory of the Past, on September 2, honoring dozens of Jewish heritage activists for their work in “preserving, promoting and carrying out research and educational work on Jewish heritage in Western Ukraine. One of […]
September 2, 2018
RootsTech 2019 is right around the corner, February 27 to March 2, 2019, and there are so many exciting reasons to attend! With more than 30,000 people expected to make the trek to Salt Lake City and the Salt Palace Convention Center, RootsTech has quickly become one of the largest […]
August 16, 2018
Judy Kasman, President of JGS Toronto wrote a letter to the editor of the Canadian Jewish News that succinctly states benefits of membership to the society. Judy’s letter can be accessed by going to CJN – Discovering Our Pasts