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[http://knowlescollection.blogspot.com/ The Knowles Collection]. In the mid-20th century, a Jewish genealogist named Isobel Mordy collected and indexed a group of English Jewish records. Her collection is now available on microfilm at the {{FHL|329168|title-id|disp=Family History Library}}. Todd Knowles has taken and built upon the Mordy collection and created an on-going database.  

The Jews kept meticulous records, were very reluctant to part with them, and were not requested to deposit them by the Registrar General in the mid-19th century, thus they remain with the Jewish community. They may be at synagogues, Jewish institutions, or Jewish cemeteries and burial societies. Some have been deposited into the care of local or county archives and much has been microfilmed, to be found under FamilySearch Catalog - COUNTRY - (COUNTY) - (TOWN) - JEWISH RECORDS, not under CHURCH RECORDS. The Exchequer Court of the Jews contains the early records of taxes for Jews and civil litigation between Jews and Christians. Many of their records have been transcribed and published by the Jewish Historical Society of England and are in the Family History Library, for example the Calendar of the Plea Rolls 1218-1272 in {{FHL|374206|item|disp=FS Library book 942 B4j}}.  

Most records of these synagogues over 100 years old seem to be filmed and on the IGI, In addition the United Synagogue births, marriages and burials of Ashkenazis 1791-1879 are on 11 films starting at {{FHL|217145|item|disp=FS Library film 0094657}}.  

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'''Chart: Birth and Circumcision Register 1767-1881 of Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation, London-''' {{FHL|707161|item|disp=FS Library book 942.1/l1 K35S}}  

<br> '''Chart: Civil Registration of Marriages of Jews'''<br>{{FHL|510721|item|disp=FS Library film 1752194}}  

*'''Probate'''<br>Since they were not affiliated with the Christian hierarchy Jewish wills before 1858 were not probated in the lower ecclesiastical courts but only in the PCC (Prerogative Court of Canterbury). It is particularly important to find the wills of the original immigrants in the family, since they often mention their relatives in their homeland. Arnold (Anglo-Jewish Wills and Letters of Administration in Anglo-Jewish Notabilities, their arms and testamentary dispositions. Jewish Historical Society. {{FHL|239638|item|disp=FS Library film 0990054}}) published a list of PCC wills of those with Jewish names from 1383-1848 which is on {{FHL|239638|item|disp=FS Library film 0990054}}. Since 1858 Jewish wills have been in the single national probate registry index. Instructions for finding the indexes, wills, administrations and other probate documents for the PCC and the Probate Registry are given in the National Institute for Genealogical Studies course ''English: Probate Records.''<ref>Christensen, Penelope. "England Additional Jewish Records (National Institute)," ''The National Institute for Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/England_Additional_Jewish_Records_%28National_Institute%29.</ref>

*Isobel Mordy’s collection of pedigrees and indexes on 12 films starting at {{FHL|329168|item|disp=FS Library film 1279240}}.  

*Index to Bevis Marks records on {{FHL|259045|item|disp=FS Library film 0978426}}.  

*Printout (index) to Hambro Synagogue births and christenings 1770-1860 on {{FHL|629077|item|disp=FS Library fiche 6903808 (1)}}.  

*List of Jewish residents in Leeds, Yorkshire from the 1891 census in {{FHL|723804|item|disp=FS Library book 942.74/L1 X22}}*.

*Gandy, Michael. ''My Ancestor Was Jewish: How Can I Find Out More About Him?'' London, England: Society of Genealogists, 1982. (FS Library book {{FHL|69465|title-id|disp=929.1089924 G153}}.)