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September 25, 2017
The Board for Certification of Genealogists (BCG) is offering 6 free webinars on October 6 between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM mountain time USA. These webinars are open to the public. They are being broadcast by Family Tree Webinars and one can sign up for multiple or individual webinars. To […]
September 20, 2017
This post is directed only to Members of JGS TORONTO JGST has been receiving numerous inquiries from our membership regarding attending the IAJGS Conference August 2018 in Warsaw. Many members have been asking if JGST would consider organizing either a Jewish Heritage tour post, or pre Conference. Additionally, members have […]
September 14, 2017
Those who attended the 37th IAJGS Conference in Orlando last week and attended the banquet had the experience of hearing Henry Louis Gates, Jr. who treated us to the premiere of the coming attraction for the new season of Finding Your Roots which begins on October 3 on your local […]
September 4, 2017
Eli Ari Applebaum was born in Poland. Jay Houpt, his great-great-great-grandson, compiled his family tree on a simple spreadsheet. Contained within the spreadsheet is a tree that includes almost 500 of Applebaum’s descendants and a smorgasbord of family names. Every year brings new names to the familial stew. Applebaum’s descendants […]
July 13, 2017
This course is designed for those researchers relatively new to JewishGen who wish to use all our databases and communication facilities to explore a family branch. It’s a mentored course, thus students have an instructor who will personally respond to questions, make suggestions and assist in researching the branch you […]
June 29, 2017
IAN McCALLUM’S DISCOVERY, THANKS TO DNA Ian McCallum spoke to our Society on Oct. 30th, 2016. He employed very extensive use of DNA to trace his grandfather’s lineage. Ian provided our members with a lengthy, and technical, explanation of DNA and specifically how he was able to track down his […]