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September 19, 2021

Rotenberg Ledger

https://oldsite-2022-10.jgstoronto.ca/resources/rotenberg-ledger-inserts/Link to Rotenberg LedgerThe Rotenberg Ledger are turn of the 20th century records of passengers who had their steamship tickets purchased by relations in Toronto. A large percentage of the names that are recorded in this Steamship Agent’s books are Jewish. From evidence in the annually published city directories, Louis […]
September 1, 2021

Sephardic Studies

  This is the link to the homepage of the Sephardic Genealogical Society   The Sephardic Genealogical Society has this website presence.
December 3, 2019

US Citizen and Immigration Services

Naturalization Certificate Files (C-Files), September 27, 1906 to March 31, 1956   Alien Registration Forms (Form AR-2), August 1940 to March 1944   Visa Files, July 1, 1924 to March 31, 1944   Registry Files, March 1929 to March 31, 1944   A-Files, April 1, 1944 to May 1, 1951 […]
October 10, 2018

Legacy Tree

Family Tree Research and Jewish History
September 26, 2018

Museum of the Jewish People

This is an excellent site for genealogists to view stories of communities, family trees and millions of pictures.  Click on the Open Databases Project.
September 14, 2018

Jewish Names and Naming – YIVO

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 […]
September 13, 2018

The Genetic Genealogists -Adding DNA to the Genealogist’s Toolbox

Blaine Bettinger, Ph.D., J.D., is a professional genealogist specializing in DNA evidence. He is the author of the long-running blog The Genetic Genealogist, and frequently gives presentations and webinars to educate others about the use of DNA to explore their ancestry.
September 13, 2018

Lara Diamond: The In-Depth Genealogist

Lara Diamond has been researching her family for over 25 years.  She has traced all branches of her family back to Europe and most multiple generations back in Europe using Russian Empire-era and Austro-Hungarian Records.  Most of her research is in modern-day Ukraine with a smattering of Belarus and Poland.  […]
September 5, 2018

Periodical Source Index

FindMyPast offers the “single best resource you may not be using”. The PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) enables you to easily locate key information about people and places. It contains over 2.5 million entries from thousands of historical, genealogical and ethnic publications, making it an invaluable, comprehensive family history resource. PERSI […]
September 5, 2018

Safe Computing

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 […]