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Did you know?[edit | edit source]

Columbus took Jews with him in hopes they could translate Oriental languages.
Jewish births are sometimes listed in local church records.
Emma Lazarus, daughter of Sephardic Jews, wrote the famous poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses..."
Jews are the oldest group with their national identity and cultural heritage intact.^[1]

Key Internet Links[edit | edit source]

International Assoc. of Jewish Genealogical Societies over 75 groups
Sephardim.com for Sephardic genealogy / Jewish genealogy research
Yad Vashem - Israeli Holocaust Museum and database
Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database
The Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is seeking the names of all survivors of the Holocaust and Nazi-era persecution–whether or not currently living–in order to record their experiences for future generations, assist survivors and their families in attempts to trace missing relatives and friends, and provide reference to scholars of the Holocaust, genealogists and members of the public.
Synagogue Scribes London Ashkenazi Synagogue records database
JewishGen databases and tools to help find family members
The_Knowles_Collection - Contains the records of over 1,000,000 individuals in 6 different database with genealogical details and family connections.
Federation of East European Family History Societies fosters research
American Jewish Historical Society books, photos, art and artifacts
Cemetery Scribes recording tombstone inscriptions in the UK
Ancestry.com Jewish Family History Collection world's largest online
Center for Jewish History databases, collections, guides, and events
EllisIsland.org NY passenger lists of 20 million immigrants. See also:

For more websites click here:

Helpful Guides[edit | edit source]

How to Start Your Family History Simple steps to begin your family history.
State Research Guides Individual guides to finding records and indexes in each U.S. state.
Research Outline Jewish Genealogy

Things you can do[edit | edit source]

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Sources[edit | edit source]

↑ Joseph Aaron, "Fun Jewish Facts" in Jewish News Online at http://www.chicagojewishnews.com/forums/showthread.php?t=338 (accessed 15 August 2009).

[1] Joseph Aaron, "Fun Jewish Facts" in Jewish News Online at http://www.chicagojewishnews.com/forums/showthread.php?t=338 (accessed 15 August 2009).

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-===Ethnic Divisions of Judaism===
-*'''Ashkenazi''' Communities of Jews that settled in Central and Eastern Europe. They speak a unique language called Yiddish, which is a mixture of Hebrew and German that originated in the 9th century.
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-*'''Sephardic''' Jews who descend from those who were expelled from Spain in 1492 and Portugal in 1496 and from Italy 1490 - 1510. Most of these Jews spoke a version of Spanish called Ladino and settled in the Ottoman Empire, Netherlands and the Holy Land. Sepharad means Spain in Ladino. <br>
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-*'''Romaniote''' Community with distinctive cultural features and who have lived in the territory of Greece, Italy and neighboring areas for more than 2,000 years. They trace their roots from the destruction of Jerusalem. Their languages were Yevanic, a Greek dialect, and modern Greek.
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-*'''Mizrahi''' Jews descended from local Jewish communities of the Middle East. The term Mizrahi is most commonly used in Israel to refer to Jews who trace their roots back to Muslim-majority countries. Mizrahi and Sephardic are often intermingled.
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-*'''Marrano''' Jews from Spain who converted or were forced to convert to Christianity, some of whom may have continued to practice Judaism in secret. Sometimes called Crypto-Jews
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-*'''Crypto-Jews''' A term used to describe descendants of Jews who maintain some Jewish traditions of their ancestors while publicly adhering to other faiths.
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-===Websites===
+=== Did you know?  ===
-*[https://jewishturkstones.tau.ac.il/ A World Beyond: Jewish Cemeteries in Turkey 1583-1900] Details of over 61,000 Jewish tombstones in Turkey.  The project is part of the Turkish and Balkan Jewry Documentation Project of the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center of Tel Aviv Research Center.
+*Columbus took Jews with him in hopes they could translate Oriental languages.
-*[http://americanjewisharchives.org/ American Jewish Archive] The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archive has a large and growing genealogy collection, with over 1,000 family genealogy files. In addition, we have extensive resources in the following areas: Jewish communities and immigration during the Colonial Period, early Jewish communities in the Caribbean Islands, along with congregational records from early Jewish settlement to modern times
+*Jewish births are sometimes [[Jewish Records in Other Denominations|listed in local church records]].
-*[http://www.ajhs.org/ American Jewish Historical Society] books, photos, art and artifacts
+*Emma Lazarus, daughter of Sephardic Jews, wrote the famous poem inscribed on the [[Jewish Emigration and Immigration|Statue of Liberty]], "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses..."
-*Ancestry.com [http://landing.ancestry.com/jewishfamilyhistory/us/default.aspx Jewish Family History Collection]
+*Jews are the oldest&nbsp;group with their national identity and cultural heritage intact.<ref>Joseph Aaron, "Fun Jewish Facts" in Jewish News Online at http://www.chicagojewishnews.com/forums/showthread.php?t=338 (accessed 15 August 2009).</ref>
-*[https://www.archives.com/genealogy/family-heritage-jewish.html Archives: Jewish Family History Resources]
-*[https://arolsen-archives.org/en/search-explore/search-online-archive/ Arolsen Archives] - 13 million Holocaust records online.
-*[http://avotaynu.com/ Avotaynu] Not the same as the website below. Avotaynu publishes books, newsletters and weekly emails for research
-**[http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.htm Consolidated Jewish Surname Index]
-*[http://www.avotaynuonline.com/ Avotaynu Online] intends to stimulate collaboration among genealogists. They are also the main sponsor behind the Jewish DNA collection effort.
-*[https://bloodandfrogs.com/compendium B&F Compendium of Jewish Genealogy] Over 25,000 Jewish genealogy resources for over 200 countries, 80 provinces, and over 1400 towns in Poland.
-*[http://www.cemeteryscribes.com/ Cemetery Scribes] recording tombstone inscriptions in the UK
-*[http://www.cjh.org/ Center for Jewish History] databases, collections, guides, and event
-*Crypto-Jewish and Sephardic resources: [https://instituteofjewishexperience.org/ancestral-search/ The Genie Milgrom Collection]
-*[http://www.cyndislist.com/jewish/ Cyndi's List/Jewish]
-*[http://feefhs.org/ Federation of East European Family History Societies] fosters research
-*[http://www.geshergalicia.org/ Gesher Galicia] Promotes and conducts Jewish genealogical and historical research for Galicia a province of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire.
-*[http://www.iajgs.org/ International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies] over 75 societies around the world.
+=== Key Internet Links  ===
-*[http://genealogy.org.il Israel Genealogy Research Association] (IGRA) the largest genealogy organization in Israel with over 1,000,000 records in its online database.
-*[http://www.jewishgen.org/ JewishGen] databases and tools to help find family members
-*[http://archives.jdc.org/about-us/ Joint Distribution Committee Archives] houses significant collections for the study of modern Jewish history. Comprising the organizational records of JDC, the overseas rescue, relief, and rehabilitation arm of the American Jewish community, the archives include over 3 miles of text documents, 100,000 photographs, a research library of more than 6,000 books, 1,100 audio recordings including oral histories, and a collection of 2,500 videos.
-*[http://www.italian-family-history.com/jewish/genealogy.html Jewish Genealogy in Italy]
-*[http://jri-poland.org/index.html JRI - Poland] Largest fully searchable database of indexes of Jewish vital records online
-*[http://www.bh.org.il/databases/jewish-genealogy/ Museum of the Jewish People] Housed within the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv.
-The Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center and is the only center of its kind in the world. At the Center, visitors can search a computerized database containing thousands of genealogies of Jewish families from all over the world and can also register their own family trees. There is also a way to order genealogy help even when you aren't
+*[http://www.iajgs.org/ International Assoc. of Jewish Genealogical Societies] over 75 groups
-at the museum
+*[http://sephardim.com/ Sephardim.com] for Sephardic genealogy / Jewish genealogy research
+*[http://www.yadvashem.org/ Yad Vashem] - Israeli Holocaust Museum and database
+*[http://www.ushmm.org/remember/the-holocaust-survivors-and-victims-resource-center/holocaust-survivors-and-victims-database Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database]<br>The Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is seeking the names of all survivors of the Holocaust and Nazi-era persecution–whether or not currently living–in order to record their experiences for future generations, assist survivors and their families in attempts to trace missing relatives and friends, and provide reference to scholars of the Holocaust, genealogists and members of the public.
+*[http://synagoguescribes.com/blog/ Synagogue Scribes] London Ashkenazi Synagogue records database
+*[http://www.jewishgen.org/ JewishGen] databases and tools to help find family members
+*[[The Knowles Collection|The_Knowles_Collection]] - Contains the records of over 1,000,000 individuals in 6 different database with genealogical details and family connections.
+*[http://feefhs.org/ Federation of East European Family History Societies] fosters research
+*[http://www.ajhs.org/ American Jewish Historical Society] books, photos, art and artifacts
+*[http://www.cemeteryscribes.com/ Cemetery Scribes] recording tombstone inscriptions in the UK
+*Ancestry.com [http://landing.ancestry.com/jewishfamilyhistory/us/default.aspx Jewish Family History Collection] world's largest online
+*[http://www.cjh.org/ Center for Jewish History] databases, collections, guides, and events
+*[http://ellisisland.org/ EllisIsland.org] NY passenger lists of 20 million immigrants. See also:
+:*[http://stevemorse.org/ellis/passengers.php?mode=ny&firstkind=close&FNM=&lastkind=starts&LNM= Searching $ New York (all: 1820-1957) Passenger Lists in One Step]
+:*[http://stevemorse.org/ellis/passengers.php?mode=hamb&firstkind=starts&FNM=&lastkind=starts&LNM= Searching $ Hamburg Outbound Passenger Lists in One Step]
+*For more websites click [[Jewish Websites|here:]]
+=== '''Helpful Guides'''  ===
-*National Library of Israel JPRESS. [http://web.nli.org.il/sites/JPress/English/Pages/default.aspx New titles on JPRESS] This site contains a collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods. Ongoing project.
+*[[How to Start Your Family History|How to Start Your Family History]]&nbsp;Simple steps to begin your family history.
-*[http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=186993 National Jewish Welfare Board Records] The collection documents the National Jewish Welfare Board's (JWB) evolution from an organization founded in 1917 to provide support for soldiers in times of war to an agency involved in all aspects of Jewish life both in the United States and abroad. In 1990 JWB recreated itself as the Jewish Community Centers Association of North America.
+*[[United States#States|State Research Guides]]&nbsp;Individual guides to finding records and indexes in each U.S. state.
+*[https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/2/24/Jewish_Genealogy_Research_Outline.pdf Research Outline Jewish Genealogy]
-*[http://www.rtrfoundation.org/index.shtml Routes to Roots] Jewish and civil records of Eastern Europe
+=== Things you can do  ===
-*[http://sephardim.com/ Sephardim.com] for Sephardic genealogy / Jewish genealogy research
-*[http://www.sephardicgen.com// Sephardic Gen] multiple databases and links for Sephardic research
-*[http://synagoguescribes.com/blog/ Synagogue Scribes] London Ashkenazi Synagogue records database
-*[http://www.jewishroots.uct.ac.za/ The South African Jewish database]. The primary aim of the project is to research the estimated 15,000 core families who migrated to Southern Africa between 1850-1950 from England, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus.
-*[[Utah Jewish Genealogical Society]]. The Utah genealogy society focused on Jewish research.
-*[http://www.heritageabroad.gov/ U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad] - contains lists of Jewish cemeteries and other historically significant sites. Information organized by country.
-*[https://vha.usc.edu/search Visual History Archive] at USC Shoah Foundation - index; collection of testimonies of Holocaust survivors/witnesses
-*[http://www.yadvashem.org/ Yad Vashem] - Israeli Holocaust Museum and database (contains the Holocaust Victims' Database)
-*[https://www.yivo.org/ Yivo Institute for Jewish Research] A 7-year initiative to digitally reunite prewar archival and library collections separated by the Holocaust.
-*[http://ellisisland.org/ EllisIsland.org] NY passenger lists of 20 million immigrants. See also:
+In order to make this wiki a better research tool, we need your help! Many tasks need to be done. You can help by:<br>
-:*[http://stevemorse.org/ellis/passengers.php?mode=ny&firstkind=close&FNM=&lastkind=starts&LNM= Searching $ New York (all: 1820-1957) Passenger Lists in One Step]
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-:*[http://stevemorse.org/ellis/passengers.php?mode=hamb&firstkind=starts&FNM=&lastkind=starts&LNM= Searching $ Hamburg Outbound Passenger Lists in One Step]
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+*[[Edit a page|Expand an article]] or [[Special:Shortpages|short page]]
+*[[How to author an article in the Wiki|Create a new article]]<br>
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+*[[Create an external link|Add external links to articles]]
+*[[Create an internal link|Add internal links to articles]]
+*If you are interested in being the [[FamilySearch Wiki:Moderator|moderator]] for Jewish Genealogy Research, {{please contact a Sysop}}.
-*[https://bloodandfrogs.com/2018/09/getting-started-in-jewish-genealogy.html Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy] at B&F: Jewish Genealogy and More
+|}
-*[[How to Start Your Family History|How to Start Your Family History]] Simple steps to begin your family history.
-*[[United States#States|State Research Guides]] Individual guides to finding records and indexes in each U [[Category:Jewish Records]]  [[Category:Israel]]  [[Category:Cultural Groups]]  [[Category:United States Cultural Groups]] .S. state.
-*[https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/img_auth.php/2/24/Jewish_Genealogy_Research_Outline.pdf Research Outline Jewish Genealogy]
-===Sources===
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