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Landscape of Dreams: Jewish Genealogy in Canada

Kaye Prince-Hollenberg
Dec 15, 2023
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Speaker's Introduction
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Introduction
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Library and Archives Canada
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Census Records
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Immigration
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Naturalization
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Vital Records
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Military Records
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Announcements / prizes
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Questions / answers
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About this webinar

The landscape of Canada is extensive, and so are our genealogy resources! In this presentation we’ll take a look at accessing some of the most common Canadian genealogy documents available online including census, immigration, military, and vital records. We’ll also explore the abundant number of Canadian Jewish specific resources including archives and heritage organizations, newspapers, and digitized books.

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About the speaker

Kaye Prince-Hollenberg

Kaye Prince-Hollenberg
Kaye Prince-Hollenberg is a professional genealogist based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. She specializes in Jewish Genealogy and Holocaust Research. A Librarian by day, Kaye is also the Curator of the Margaret’s Legacy Holocaust Learning Cen
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    Gerry Townsend
    1 year ago

    Presenter very knowledgable on Jewish research for Canada. These webinars are always very informative and worth watching. Especially nice to be able to watch again. Well worth obtaining subscription so you can look at the huge collection of past webinars that are well organized by subject.

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    Herbert Adelsberg
    1 year ago

    Program has given me a few more sites to explore for a missing ancestor.. This search has been going on for over 20 + tears

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    Hannah Widlus
    1 year ago

    Lots of great information that I don’t think I would have come upon otherwise.

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    Allison Willis
    1 year ago

    I leaned alot from today’s webinar! Thank yiou!!

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    Webinar Viewer
    1 year ago

    very knowledgable, so much info, needs another look!

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    Great webinar, thanks!

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    1 year ago

    Excellent speaker with great knowledge of the resources and methodology for this topic. Enthusiastic and very helpful!

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    Slides and content great.

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