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September 19, 2021

Toronto Jewish Families History Project

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto, in partnership with MyHeritage, is pleased to announce completion of the first phase of the Toronto Jewish Families History Project (TJFHP) and the opening of a searchable on-line database of more than 2,700 names. The project is based on the hypothesis that many of […]
September 19, 2021

Special Interest Groups

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and networking forums allow members with particular interests to share knowledge, ideas and information. Our SIGs help you connect with other members of JGST who have similar goals and challenges. At this time, five SIGs have been established: Poland, Ukraine, […]
September 19, 2021

Rotenberg Ledger

https://practice.jgstoronto.ca/resources/rotenberg-ledger-inserts/Link to Rotenberg LedgerThe Rotenberg Ledger are turn of the 20th century records of passengers who had their steamship tickets purchased by relations in Toronto. A large percentage of the names that are recorded in this Steamship Agent’s books are Jewish. From evidence in the annually published city directories, Louis […]
September 19, 2021

JGS Toronto Library Collection

The JGS Toronto’s Library Collection is located at the Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge Street (at Bloor Street). The collection is a reference, non-circulating collection, and is housed in closed stacks on the 2nd floor, in the Humanities and Social Sciences Department. The collection includes many volumes of local Jewish […]
September 12, 2021

Breakthroughs and Brick Walls June 2021

September 12, 2021

Budapest, Vienna and Prague – 3 great Jewish cities

This presentation was delivered on July 21, 2021 by Henry Wellisch (President Emeritus of JGS Toronto).  Henry was born in Vienna in September of 1922.  He escaped with his parents in 1940 via an illegal transport on the Danube and then by steamship on the Black and Mediterranean Seas, only […]
September 1, 2021

Sephardic Studies

  This is the link to the homepage of the Sephardic Genealogical Society   The Sephardic Genealogical Society has this website presence.
December 3, 2019

US Citizen and Immigration Services

Naturalization Certificate Files (C-Files), September 27, 1906 to March 31, 1956   Alien Registration Forms (Form AR-2), August 1940 to March 1944   Visa Files, July 1, 1924 to March 31, 1944   Registry Files, March 1929 to March 31, 1944   A-Files, April 1, 1944 to May 1, 1951 […]
October 15, 2018

Rotenberg Ledger

https://practice.jgstoronto.ca/resources/rotenberg-ledger-inserts/ Link to Rotenberg Ledger The Rotenberg Ledger are turn of the 20th century records of passengers who had their steamship tickets purchased by relations in Toronto. A large percentage of the names that are recorded in this Steamship Agent’s books are Jewish. From evidence in the annually published city […]
October 10, 2018

Legacy Tree

Family Tree Research and Jewish History