Savoir faire — JGS-Montreal indexes Canadian naturalization records

JGSMontrealHats off to the the members at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal (JGS-Montreal) who have worked to index 200,000 Canadian naturalization records, 1914 to 1932, and who are now indexing 400,000 naturalization records from 1932 to 1951.

Thursday, Library and Archives Canada issued the following news release about the project.

Naturalization Records, 1915-1951 database – 2015 Update
November 4, 2015 — Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce the release of a new version of the online database Naturalization Records, 1915-1951. The nominal index has been extended with the addition of more than 68,000 names and now covers the years from 1915 to 1944, inclusively. Work is ongoing to extend the nominal index to 1951, and volunteers are welcome to help. Those interested should write to Cdn-Nat-Coord@jgs-montreal.org.

This database is one of the few Canadian genealogical resources specifically designed to benefit researchers having roots other than British. The reference numbers indicated in the database can be used to request copies of the original naturalization records, which are held by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

Library and Archives Canada would like to thank the Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal and its volunteers, without whom this project would not have happened.

At Tuesday’s JGS-Montreal meeting, I rapidly took notes while President Stanley Diamond spoke about several of the society’s other ongoing projects, some in conjunction with the Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives, such as:

  • The 1926 book, The Jew in Canada
  • Who’s Who in Canadian Jewry – 1967
  • Family Who’s Who – 1969
  • Obituaries in Der Keneder Adler, a former Montreal daily Yiddish newspaper.

Nice work, JGS-Montreal!

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