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| 2024-Dec-18 | Meeting |
Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story
(Jordan Salama)
Jordan Salama is an American writer of Argentine, Syrian, and Iraqi Jewish descent focusing on
culture and migration in the Americas. A graduate from Princeton University in 2019, Jordan
has published extensively and has worked on important radio and television shows.
His first book, Every Day the River Changes, was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2021 and a top new travel book by The New York Times. His latest book, Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story was published in February 2024 and has already garnered significant attention around the world. Member-only Zoom event. 7:30 PM Through a discussion of his recently published book Stranger in the Desert: A Family Story, acclaimed writer and journalist Jordan Salama will introduce us to his unique style of gathering and preserving family stories. During his presentation, Jordan will share his research, interviewing, and writing tips including: the diverse ways our families preserve and pass on our histories and understanding how our family stories manifest themselves in our everyday lives. He will provide guidance on using social media and technology to enhance family research, and how to plan a family research trip. A joint presentation of the Jewish Genealogical Societies of Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa. A special members-only event. A link will be sent to all members of both Societies prior to the meeting. No pre-registration required. |
| 2024-Jul-07 | Research |
Temple Emanu-El/Beth Sholom cemetery update
We are pleased to report that JOWBR, JewishGen.org's burial database,
has been updated. JGS-Montreal.org is well-represented, with updates
to Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Duvernay, Laval, and a "new" cemetery,
the Temple Emanu-El/Beth Sholom section in Mount Royal Cemetery in Outremont.
Although these JOWBR updates are data-only, with no new pictures,
photographs can be viewed from
JOWBR via the "more information" links in JOWBR detailed records.
Thanks to Jennifer Wiebe for her help with photographing Temple graves.
The two Temple sections in Beaconsfield have been photographed and can be searched and viewed from our Eternal Gardens home page, from which you can access our Mount Pleasant home page, and our Mount Royal home page. The Temple Emanu-El/Beth Sholom section (D3) has burials dating back to 1878, and contains most of the Jewish burials in Mount Royal Cemetery (MRC). Right in the middle of section D3 is section E2, with very old non-Jewish burials. MRC has Jewish burials in other sections (e.g., Mordecai Richler in the Rose Hill section). It was complicated to represent this in the submission to JOWBR, and there might be some inconsistencies that may not be fixed until the year-end JOWBR update. Please keep that in mind if you see Mordecai Richler in Temple Emanu-El/Beth Sholom. |
| 2023-Dec-06 | Research |
Gary Perlman: Tracing Your Roots
Gary Perlman gave a presentation on "Tracing Your Roots" to the Chevra Sisterhood,
Wednesday, December 6, 2023, from 2-4pm.
He discussed what is needed to start research
and make extensive use of the JGS-Montreal Genealogy Dashboard
to research a member of the audience.
The free presentation was on Zoom-only;
registration was required.
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