The Art of Jewish Genealogy.
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn106844
- Collection
- Ottawa Jewish Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Fonds No.
- O0045
- Date
- September 21, 2007
- Collection
- Ottawa Jewish Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- moving images
- Date
- September 21, 2007
- Publication
- Hymie Reichstein
- Fonds No.
- O0045
- Storage Location
- vault
- History / Biographical
- Topic: Lecture; “the art of jewish genealogy” Date: september 24, 2007 Location: Agudath Israel Synagogue Duration: 1:08:17 Number of tapes: 1 Introduces Hymie. He went to the Montreal Talmud Torah. Graduated from McGill with an electrical engineering degree. Came to the National Research Council and worked there for 35 years, in electrical and communications Hymie has worked closely with the Ottawa Jewish community and its charity organizations. President of the Maziki Hadas from 1997-1999. Served on the Ottawa Torah Institute as treasurer. In 1995 he and other genealogists, founded the Jewish Genealogical Society of Ottawa. This group won an award from the international Jewish Genealogical society. They photographed all the gravestones in an Jewish Cemetery. Hymie thanks Shirley for the introduction and introduces his talk Acknowledges that Jewish family records were destroyed in the Holocaust, but many do still exist Discusses how to start you own genealogy including recalling what you know, getting out documents and photos, record names you find, interview relatives, search for names Discusses how and when Jewish families adopted family names, and how the spelling of those names changed when they came to North America Discusses how to find different spellings of names, using the source “Where Once We Walked” and jewishgen.org or jgsn.org In Ottawa, there is the Ottawa Jewish Archives and the Jewish Historical society, that has marriage records, photographs, biographical files and bulletins Discusses how to find arrival information from 1919-1935 online. Pre 1919 is harder if you do not know the exact year. Government Canada and the Genealogy centre website has research tools for finding immigration records. The family Centre of Prince of Wales drives also has different certificates available from 1869-1907. These records are also available online Discusses the different ways you can find birth, marriage, and death certificates at different Ontario institutions Different countries also have large collections of Jewish records, including the United States, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary. Gabriel Drouin in 1941 in Montreal went around the province and collected all the birth and marriage records. Marriage and Death records are available at LAC from 1926- 1936. Paperman and Sons have funeral records for Montreal, and the large Jewish cemetery records are available online at jewishgen.org Canadian Congress Archives also have plenty of records In Toronto, the archives and 2 main funeral chapels and the City of Toronto archives have records on Jewish families as well. Many jewish marriage records from Ottawa are actually from Montreal, and are located through the Drouin records and online through the Montreal Genealogy Society. Uses the example of how he found his parents wedding certificate in Montreal, and it gave him information about his parents and grandparents. Canadian Naturalization records are the most important records- The Jewish Gen. societies of Montreal and Ottawa cooperated in indexing their records between 1915-1932 for these records. Discusses how he used the Canadian naturalization records to find his wife’s family Discusses the use of Ancestry.com and Rootsweb as websites to find records. Stresses the importance of using maiden names when researching. Discusses the different passenger lists from different American cities that are available through Ancestry or the genealogy society Canadian censuses are also useful for finding records. Discusses different organizations in New York that also hold records including the New York Public Library, and the National Archives of the Northeast Region. Discusses how he was able to use the resources listed to find his family's history Discusses the history books written about shtiebels [?] but people from before the war, and they contain different stories. Different archival institutions have these shteibel [?] history books. Most were written in Yiddish or Hebrew, so Jewish Gen has been working to translate all these books for researchers Discusses different Jewish magazines that come out through the genealogy society. *Audio ends*
- Notes
- Shirley Berman introduces Hymie Reichstein before his presentation. Question period follows the presentation. The Power Point presentation is 75 minutes.
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Ottawa Jewish Archives
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