Websites

This is an excellent site for genealogists to view stories of communities, family trees and millions of pictures.  Click on the Open Databases Project.

The most appropriate way of considering names used by Jews in Eastern Europe is to separate the discussion of personal names from that of family names. Indeed, personal names represent an organic part of Jewish culture. Their corpus developed over the centuries in a natural way, inside the community. Their […]

Hal Bookbinder of IAJGS has steered us to the series “The Internet is Forever”. This is on Safe Computing which was published in the September issue of “Venturing into Our Past”, the Newsletter of the Jewish Genealogical Society of the Conejo Valley and Ventura County (JGSCV). The twenty-four articles published […]

The newly formed Jewish Genealogy Society of Brooklyn has some wonderful links to important websites. This includes # 36, Emily Anne Croom’s lengthy treatise on the importance of citing your sources in either footnotes or endnotes. If you are going to pass your research to the next generation, as you […]

https://practice.jgstoronto.ca/links/how-to-read-a-jewish-tombstone/ Headstones are important primary sources of information for family researchers. Unfortunately, not enough of us are able to interpret the Hebrew text. Here are some basics on how to decipher a tombstone or matzeyva מַצֵבָה.

David Price’s “Beginners Guide to Jewish Genealogy Websites” https://drive.google.com/file/d/105o0kf-uFcIqaOJ4A3kUzvJV7ekcTXT0/view?usp=sharing

The JDC was founded to support Jewish communities dislocated by war and natural disasters. Genealogists may be very interested in searching their Archives for family members who were uprooted as a consequence of World Wars 1 and 2, or who may have emigrated to Palestine before the creation of the […]