JGSCV Program: Researching Your Jewish Family Roots in Canada

Were your ancestors Canadian immigrants? Did your family immigrate to the US and later decide to settle in Canada? Did your family migrate to the US via a Canadian port? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, this program is for you. Speaker Marion Werle will discuss the major sources of Canadian genealogical records and will cover ship manifests, naturalization records, the Canadian census and census substitutes, city directories, voter registration records, 1940 residence records, Jewish sources, vital records and more, using her own research as an example. The focus of the program is on the major years of Jewish immigration to Canada after 1880. The talk will concentrate on the ever-expanding digital resources available to Canadian researchers, and the challenges of Canadian research.