The JGS Toronto Resources section highlights the projects and public datasets that we have developed to expand access to our Society’s resources. The listings include information about our cemetery and memorial plaque projects, our quarterly journal that has been published since 1985, our library, a database of passenger information (the Rotenberg Ledger), as well as recordings of our public programming, and other supports for members. These resources are available on this website or are shared with partner organizations. The names of these partners are shown in brackets in the titles of those projects. All of these resources are publicly accessible, free of charge, with the exception of recordings of past presentations and the most recent four issues of Shem Tov. Upon joining JGS Toronto, they will also be available to you.  

Virtual Memorial Plaques Project

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto has created a new project, entitled the Virtual Memorial Plaques Project. This is an opportunity for you, at no cost, to memorialize deceased family members by creating one or more virtual memorial plaques. The information that you create will be stored in databases at JGS Toronto and JewishGen’s Memorial Plaques project.

Participating in creating these Virtual Memorial Plaques will allow you to add more information than that typically included on a memorial (yahrzeit) plaque in a synagogue: for example, you can include a tribute, the location of the burial, and a photograph of the tombstone or of the deceased.

These Virtual Memorial Plaques will be accessible online for anyone worldwide who wishes to view them. This project will fulfil the mitzvah of memorializing family members and will help future generations with their genealogical research.

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