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28 October 2018

Pittsburgh’s Jewish Community and HIAS

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 […]

22 October 2018

Kazerne Dossin

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 […]

18 October 2018

Historical Shanghai Jewish Era (World War 2)Newspapers are Online

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 […]

17 October 2018

JRI Poland Founder and DNA Discovery

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

17 October 2018

Neuberger Holocaust Education Week 2018

Follow this link to view the schedule of programs for Holocaust Education Week in November 1 – 8.

26 September 2018

The Open Databases Project – Museum of the Jewish People

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.

12 September 2018

Jewish Places – Germany

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 […]

4 September 2018

A Key to the City – Lemberg (Reclaiming the Past)

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 […]

2 September 2018

Research and Roots Tech 2019 – Plan Your Visit

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 […]

16 August 2018

Discovering Our Pasts – CJN Posting

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

24 July 2018

Vernadsky National Library

The Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine is the main academic library and main scientific library information center of the Ukraine and one of the world’s 20 largest national libraries. It is located in Kiev Ukraine. The Jewish Archive at the Vernadsky Library is celebrating its centennial this year and has […]

11 June 2018

Important – Special Interest Groups and Forums

*sponsored by JGS Toronto The Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and Forums are special features for members to permit them to share knowledge, ideas and information relating to particular regions and interests. SIGs have been organized for Lithuania, Poland, Central Europe, Ukraine & DNA. Meetings are […]