Past Presentations and Workshops

Cemeteries are a great source of genealogical information.  Be prepared to make the most of your visit, no matter if it’s for your personal research or if your group is planning an indexing project. https://youtu.be/Hx5G-m7Zvqc  

Jerry Scherer: Born in Siberia and the son of Holocaust survivors, Jerry always wondered about his parents’ experience during the War and upon their arrival to Canada.  He was able to get permission to view the video testimony of forced labour survivors’.  He also researched JIAS records such as the […]

Hank Lobbenberg:  Shortly after Hank’s parents, refugees from Germany, were married in England in 1940 they were interned as “enemy aliens”.  Knowing very little about his mother’s Grunhut family, he chose an unusual research route and contacted Jewish Bloggers who could possibly assist him. Hank Lobbenberg – (Audio only 15 […]

Marla Waltman, Ukraine SIG leader discusses immigration: https://1drv.ms/v/s!Aj0KbYtxFZQsg55ZNRj5kA0vsXTmiw?e=vaNqJa

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research was founded in Vilna, Lithuania in 1925.  It rise during the interwar period and rescue during the war, as well as its current digitization projects are part of an incredible story of the beginnings of Jewish European consciousness:  the understanding that Jews had their […]

Daniel Horowitz is the Genealogy Expert at My Heritage, providing key contributions, liaising with genealogy societies, bloggers and media, as well as lecturing and attending conferences around the world. Since the destruction of the second temple in 70 A.D., Jews have moved across the world.  In every place they were […]

Lecture by David Price – Chmielnik https://1drv.ms/v/s!Aj0KbYtxFZQsg55XzwuH__I20ZW2gQ?e=VohE56

Archives contain so much information that it’s hard to know where to start!  Navigating the various websites, databases and guides can be a daunting process.  This presentation by Carol Radford-Grant focuses on resources available for genealogical and house property research. Ms. Radford-Grant has been the City Archivist for the City […]

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