Dear fellow JGS of Canada (Toronto) members. I am pleased to announce that Board Member and Chair of the Cemetery Committee, Allen Halberstadt, has been recognized by IAJGS for his work in photographing, documenting and uploading data to the Jewish Worldwide Burial Records indexing project (JOWBR). Allen wins the Salute Award for his remarkable efforts to personally record over 40,000 burials and assisting his committee to get another 30,000+ burials into the JOWBR database. A pleasant unintended consequence of this fine work was to cleanup the records of many of the synagogues, landsmanshaften, and benevolent societies who provide plots to their membership. Allen is frequently called upon for advice in helping families who are searching for long lost relatives whom they know are buried in Toronto. Mazel Tov Allen for a superb job!!
Tracing Our Roots Telling Our Stories has gone through 4 printings. We hope to surpass the 500 mark in sales very soon.
Lastly, I would like to make mention of our intention to establish a Mentoring Program. This is an area that we feel needs to be improved. So we are looking for a chairperson to head the committee, as well as volunteers to act as mentors to our newbies.
I welcome any thoughts or suggestions that would help us improve service to our members. Please call me If you have ideas that you would like to share. I can be reached on the JGS phoneline by email at
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Respectfully yours,
Harvey Glasner
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