About Stanley M. Diamond, Project Director

Born 1933 in Montreal, Canada. 

Education: McGill University, Montreal (B. Commerce '54), Harvard (MBA '58). 

Founder and Chairman, Intalite International Group of Companies, 1960 - 1986. Winner of 1984 Canada Export Award.

Lecturer, author and subject of many articles, among them,

• (one subject in) "The New Entrepreneurs - 80 Canadian Success Stories", Alan Gould, Author; Seal Books, Canada. 

• "Probable Identity by Descent and Discovery of Familial Relationships by Means of a Rare B-Thalassemia Haplotype" (co-author). Human Mutation. Volume 9, No. 1, 1997. (research related to Beta-Thalassemia genetic trait in Ashkenazic Jewish families)
• "Shtetl-Based Jewish Genealogical Research."   Avotaynu, The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, Spring 1998.
• "Jewish Vital Records Research in Quebec." Shem Tov, Journal of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Canada (Toronto). June 1998.
• "Breaking New ground: The Story of Jewish
Records Indexing - Poland." Avotaynu, The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, Volume XVII, Number 1, Spring 2001 (Used with permission of the publisher).
• "Documenting the Fate of the Jews of Ostrów Mazowiecka."  Avotaynu, The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, Fall 2001. 
• "Indexing the Jewish vital records of Quebec." (co-author) Avotaynu, The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, Summer 2002.
• "How I Traced the Beta Thalassemia Trait" Avotaynu, The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, Volume XXII, Number 4, Winter 2006. (Used with permission of the publisher)
  
• "The Role of the Jewish Genealogist in Medical and Genetic Family History" Avotaynu, The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, Volume XXIII, Number 1, Spring 2007. (Used with permission of the publisher)
  

Active family historian since 1991; founder and president, Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal. 

Genealogist member of genetic research project team with McGill University - Montreal Children's Hospital and Hebrew University-Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem; Project Coordinator, Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, an award-winning international project to create an Internet-searchable index of surviving Jewish vital records of Poland. 

Awarded the IAJGS (International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. 

Click the image for a larger view of IAJGS plaque.		Click the image for a larger view of Stanley M. Diamond with IAJGS plaque.

Married to the former Ruth Mirjam Peerlkamp of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; three daughters and four grandchildren.

Stanley M. Diamond
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H4W 1V4
Tel: (514) 484-0100
Fax: (514) 484-7306
Email: SMSDiamond@aol.com