A work in progress!
GENEALOGY — MAJOR SITES
Avotaynu – major publisher of Jewish genealogy books & journal
JewishGen – home of Jewish genealogy on the internet
Ancestry.com – top commercial genealogy website
familysearch.org – FamilySearch (LDS Library)
ogs.on.ca – Ontario Genealogical Society
rtrfoundation.org – Routes to Roots Foundation (Miriam Weiner)
Note: the following website apparently offers discount coupons for Ancestry and other commodities and services. www.billgladstone.ca has not tested and does not endorse the veracity of this website. http://www.therawfeed.com/stores/ancestry-com
CANADA
www.collectionscanada.gc.ca – Canadian Genealogy Centre
Features Canadian naturalizations (1915-1936) by name; to 1951 by date & month; immigration records (1925-1935); soldiers of the First World War CEF (1914-1918);LI-RA-MA Records (Russian Consular Records); Canadian censuses (not searchable by name); and much more.
multiculturalcanada.ca/mcc_cjr – Canadian Jewish & other ethnic newspapers
archives.gov.on.ca – Archives of Ontario
ontariojewisharchives.org – Ontario Jewish Archives
pier21.ca – Pier 21
Genealogy Canada – daily genealogy blog
Canadian Jewish Casualties of WW2 in Northern France (Ellin Bessner blog)
http://wholemap.com/historic/toronto.php?neighbourhood=North%20Toronto – Historic photos from around North Toronto
jgstoronto.ca – Jewish Genealogical Society of Canada (Toronto)
benjaminsparkmemorialchapel.ca – Benjamin’s Park Memorial Chapel (Toronto obits)
steeles.org – Steeles Memorial Chapel (Toronto obits)
Toronto Then and Now – Toronto history in photos
http://www.russianbooks.org/crime/cp0.htm – Crime & Punishment in Canada
UrbanToronto.ca – Toronto photos, memorabilia
http://www.torontoplaques.com/ – Toronto historical plaques
http://fridaynightmag.com/blog/ – Jewish Toronto online magazine
George White: Toronto Star Newsboy Builds a Stairway to Broadway (Part 1)
George White: Toronto Star Newsboy Builds a Stairway to Broadway (Part 2)
http://chuckmanothercollectionvolume5.blogspot.com/ – Toronto postcards
http://chuckmantorontonostalgia.wordpress.com – more Toronto photos & postcards
http://ivansker.blogspot.ca/ – Ivansker Mutual Benefit Society blog
http://www.ivanskproject.org/index.html – Ivansker Society history & newsletter
http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/lndsmn-radom-tor.htm – Radom Society photo with names
A brief history of what is now known as Dundas Street (BlogTO)
INTERNATIONAL & MISCELLANEOUS
freebmd.org.uk – FreeBMD – (index of British civil registrations)
Jewish Encyclopedia – 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, on-line
http://www.tenement.org – Lower East Side Tenement Museum
nypl.org/research/chss/jws/yizkorbooks_intro.cfm – NYPL Yizkor Books
yadvashem.org – Yad Vashem (Holocaust research)
http://www.ruchel-isaac.org/ – Wagman family cousins club
http://bossincousins.wordpress.com/ – Bossin family cousins club
http://www.sherlockcohn.com – Sherlock Cohn, Photo Genealogist
stevemorse.org – Stephen P. Morse (terrific internet search tools)
http://jewishgenealogyjourney.blogspot.ca/ — Blogger examines new 1940 US census & much more
http://genealogy.caroldeckelbaum.com/index.html — Deckelbaum Family Tree
http://fun.mivzakon.co.il/video/General/8740/%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%A7%D7%A8.html — Fascinating video about Jewish DNA
