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Index of Jewish Surnames in Beirut

Filed Under Uncategorized By Jacob Rosen-Koenigsbuch on January 19, 2024

[This index is dedicated to the memory of Ambassador Isaac Levanon (1944-2023)] As with other Jewish communities in the Levant, the size of the Beirut Jewish commnity during the 20th century can only be estimated. The Jewish population of the […]

À la rencontre de nos ancêtres Juifs Marocains et Algériens : NAJMA, la nouvelle association de généalogie dédiée aux juifs du Maroc et d’Algérie.

Filed Under Algerie الجزائر‎, Collaboration, DNA Studies, Maroc المغرب‎, Mediterranean, Uncategorized By Adam Brown on December 21, 2021

La présence de Juifs au Maroc et en Algérie est attestée dès le IIe siècle de l’ère moderne. Arrivés avec les Phéniciens, les Romains, les Arabes, ou à la suite des expulsions d’Espagne et du Portugal, ils forment un patchwork […]

JGSLA

Filed Under Uncategorized By Adam Brown on August 30, 2021

Slides from Adam Brown’s talk to the Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles on August 29, 2021: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FgFQ-sk9YBQCyJ_yeXwL30JDHFiv6-xm/view?usp=sharing

IAJGS 2021

Filed Under Uncategorized By Adam Brown on August 3, 2021

The Genomic History of the BronzeAge Southern Levant, by Lily Agranat-Tamir et al. We are posting here references cited today during Adam Brown’s talk today on the Genetic Origins of the Jewish People: The Genomic History of the Bronze Age […]

Avotaynu DNA Lecture Materials

Filed Under Uncategorized By Adam Brown on December 3, 2020

Jewish Gen Lecture December 2, 2020 To view a recording of Adam Brown’s lecture to JewishGen viewers on , visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QafFMkGDgVw Skip ahead 4 minutes to catch the beginning of the talk! To examine Adam’s slides, visit here (warning: file […]

Personal Journeys: Cousin Hillary Rodham Clinton

Filed Under Uncategorized, United States By Mark W. Gordon on December 25, 2016

At my home, we refer to Hillary Rodham Clinton as Cousin Hillary. More precisely, the correct term would be step-cousin. Detailed research demonstrates that Hillary’s grandmother married my father’s fifth cousin. But let’s start at the beginning. In August 1999, […]

Spanish-Jewish `Nobility’ of Aleppo, Syria

Filed Under España, Mediterranean, Portugal, Syria سوريا, Uncategorized By Anne de Sola-Cardoza on August 31, 2016

As recently as 1992, more than 4,000 Jews were being held against their will in Syria, unable to leave and kept under watch, branded as “Mussawi,” followers of Moses. At that time, 50,000 Jews from Syria lived in Brooklyn’s Flatbush […]

Launching the Converso Genealogy Project: Tracking the Diaspora of the New Christians

Filed Under Crypto-Jews, España, Indexing Projects, Mediterranean, Portugal, Uncategorized, Western Sephardim By Genie Milgrom on August 20, 2016

I was born into a Roman Catholic family in Havana, Cuba, but from a young age, I felt Jewish and inexplicably was drawn to all things Jewish. After converting to Orthodox Judaism at age 34, I found clues along my […]

Personal Journeys: A World War I Casualty

Filed Under Uncategorized By Madeleine Isenberg on December 2, 2015

It was not a “dark and stormy night.” It was a bright and sunny mid-afternoon. 17 May 2015 was Celebrate Israel Day set up once again in Rancho Park, Los Angeles, as has been done for the past several years. […]

Paul Armony z”l (1932—2008)

Filed Under Uncategorized By Victor Armony on October 1, 2008

Paul Armony, president of Asociación de Genealogía Judía de Argentina (Association of Jewish Genealogy of Argentina), died in Buenos Aires on October 24, 2008, after a battle with acute leukemia. Armony was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1932. His father, […]

Postsecondary Study of Genealogy: Curriculum and Its Contexts, by Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGL, FASG

Filed Under Uncategorized By Contributing Editors on October 1, 2007

College degrees in genealogy should be commonplace. The field’s pursuit is more demanding than many academic endeavors, peer-reviewed journals publish advanced genealogical scholarship,[1] and credentialing programs since 1964 have certified genealogists whose work meets high standards.[2] The field has its […]

East European Archival Internet Sites

Filed Under Uncategorized By Kahlile Bliss Mehr on July 1, 2007

The following article has been adapted from a presentation given at the IAJGS conference in Salt Lake City in July 2007—Ed The archival websites described here provide the greatest amount of detail on genealogical records and their locations. Many other […]

Collaborative Trees

Filed Under Uncategorized By Sallyann Sack-Pikus on March 12, 2000

Until recently, we genealogists began by building our own individual family trees. We started with our parents, siblings, children, spouses and continued to fill in as much as we could. When we reached a branch where we did not know […]

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