JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO SEARCHING EASTERN EUROPEAN ROOTS (ROMANIA/MOLDOVA) AND FINDING MORE THAN EXPECTED Speaker: Harry Bolner, Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal VIRTUAL MEETING:

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Catastrophe and Rebirth, 1939–1973 New Anthology by The Posen Library Live Virtual Discussion This conversation will celebrate the publication of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization,

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Tomorrow (11/24) at 3:30 pm ET, tune into the Center for Jewish History's Facebook page for the next episode of Genealogy Coffee Break. Our genealogy librarian, J.D. Arden, will speak with Leo Greenba

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JGS-Montreal presents Stanley Diamond Nov 23 - 7:30 pm - https://youtu.be/XBAr94gW83o Victoria Barkoff victoria.barkoff@...

Unfortunately our contact email address did not appear correctly when we posted it for our meeting on December 6th. The contact address to sign on for the meeting is latviaRD@... We look forward to we

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Google has decided to extend support for Chrome users on Windows 7 until at least January 15,2022 to allow enterprise users more time to transition to Windows 10. The end date had been July 15, 2021.

It would be wonderful if Stanley would allow us to read a transcript of his lecture. It is very difficult to catch anything in real time from USA to Israel, because it means being up at strange brain

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Many Yizkor books have portraits of humble people who are unlettered, poor, mocked and who eke out their living in the lowliest professions. But over their lives, they prove their worth, and even mark