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| === Did you know? ===
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| *Columbus took Jews with him in hopes they could translate Oriental languages.
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| *Jewish births are sometimes [[Jewish Records in Other Denominations|listed in local church records]].
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| *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..."
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| *Jews are the oldest group with their national identity and cultural heritage intact.
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| *Celebrities with Jewish mothers: Geraldo Rivera, Fiorello Laguardia, Winston Churchill, Cary Grant, David Bowie, Robert DeNiro, Harrison Ford.<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>
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| === Key Internet Links ===
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| *[http://www.iajgs.org/ International Assoc. of Jewish Genealogical Societies] over 75 groups
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| *[http://sephardim.com/ Sephardim.com] for Sephardic genealogy / Jewish genealogy research
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| *[http://www.yadvashem.org/ Yad Vashem] - Israeli Holocaust Museum and database
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| *[http://synagoguescribes.com/blog/ Synagogue Scribes] London Ashkenazi Synagogue records database
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| *[http://www.jewishgen.org/ JewishGen] databases and tools to help find family members
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| *[[The_Knowles_Collection|The_Knowles_Collection]] - 615,000 individuals with genealogical details and family connections.
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| *[http://feefhs.org/ Federation of East European Family History Societies] fosters research
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| *[http://www.ajhs.org/ American Jewish Historical Society] books, photos, art and artifacts
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| *[http://www.cemeteryscribes.com/ Cemetery Scribes] recording tombstone inscriptions in the UK
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| *Ancestry.com [http://landing.ancestry.com/jewishfamilyhistory/us/default.aspx Jewish Family History Collection] world's largest online
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| *[http://www.cjh.org/ Center for Jewish History] databases, collections, guides, and events
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| *[http://ellisisland.org/ EllisIsland.org] NY passenger lists of 20 million immigrants. See also:
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| :*[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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| *For more websites click [[Jewish Websites|here:]]
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| === '''Helpful Guides''' ===
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| *[[How to Start Your Family History|How to Start Your Family History]] Simple steps to begin your family history.
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| *[[United States#States|State Research Guides]] Individual guides to finding records and indexes in each U.S. state.
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| *[https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/images/2/24/Jewish_Genealogy_Research_Outline.pdf Research Outline Jewish Genealogy]
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