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200 Years of Scottish Jewry: A Demographic and Genealogical Profile

Filed Under Academia, United Kingdom By Kenneth Collins, Neville Lamdan and Michael Tobias on July 30, 2016

The International Institute for Jewish Genealogy in Jerusalem is attempting the first-ever demographic and genealogical study of a national Jewry as a whole, from its inception to the present day. This article describes the project, its aims, methodology and preliminary […]

A Family Tree of Scottish Jewry: Records-Retrieval Stage Completed!

Filed Under Academia, Collaboration, Indexing Projects, Online Trees, United Kingdom By Neville Lamdan and Michael Tobias on April 29, 2015

The International Institute for Jewish Genealogy (IIJG) has been engaged for three years in an exhaustive demographic study of the Scottish Jewish community from the founding of the community to the present. The IIJG is pleased to announce that Michael […]

The Garnethill Hostel for Nazi-Era Refugees 1939-1948, in Glasgow

Filed Under Holocaust, United Kingdom By Harvey L. Kaplan on April 8, 2015

The Scottish Jewish Archives Centre is housed in the beautiful Garnethill Synagogue, Scotland’s first purpose-built synagogue, erected in the Garnethill district of Glasgow during 1879. The Centre houses a diverse collection of records of the Jewish experience in Scotland since […]

Getting It Right: Working with the British Commonwealth Graves Commission

Filed Under United Kingdom By Martin Sugarman on October 1, 2010

Since approximately 1995, a team of enthusiastic and dedicated historians and genealogists working with the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women (AJEX) has provided appropriate evidence to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) to amend errors in relation to the […]

Knowles Collection: Connecting Jewish Families

Filed Under United Kingdom By W. Todd Knowles on April 1, 2010

     Genealogists always look for new ways to break through stubborn brick walls. Whether walking through graveyards that have not been maintained, calling everyone with our surname from some obscure directory, or spending nights without sleep when trying to […]

Unwanted Jewish Aliens in France: A Guide to French (and Other) Holocaust Records

Filed Under België / Belgique, France, Helvetia, Holocaust, Italia, United Kingdom By Manuela Wyler on July 1, 2009

This article is based upon a talk given at the IAJGS Conference in Philadelphia, August 2–6, 2009—Ed. For the past five years, I have been researching the fate of Jewish refugees in Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom […]

British Migration Records, 1793–1960

Filed Under United Kingdom By Nicholas J. Evans on April 1, 2009

 This article is adapted from a talk given at the Chicago 2008 IAJGS conference—Ed. Genealogists sometimes tell me that they know what I do, but don’t need it because [they] have found [their] ancestor’s arrival records in the Ellis Island […]

Book Review: Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors. A Guide for Family Historians. Rosemary Wenzerul. Barnsley, S. Yorkshire

Filed Under United Kingdom By Saul Issroff on July 1, 2008

Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors. A Guide for Family Historians. Rosemary Wenzerul. Barnsley, S. Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books Ltd., 2008. Price: £ 12.99 This excellent guide focuses primarily on United Kingdom Jewish genealogy, but also has much to offer to […]

Coming to America through Hamburg and Liverpool Part II: Crossing the Atlantic

Filed Under Deutschland, Methods, United Kingdom, United States By Harry Boonin on April 1, 2008

In Part I of the saga, “Coming to America Through Hamburg and Liverpool,” in AVOTAYNU, Vol. XXII, No. 4, (Winter 2006), pp. 15–22, we tracked the six Boonin children across Europe to Hamburg, their crossing of the North Sea, their […]

Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Jewish Genealogy In the United Kingdom, by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain

Filed Under United Kingdom By BIll Gladstone on April 1, 2007

Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in the United Kingdom. Published by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain; contributing editor Rosemary Wenzerul, 2006. Paperback, 144 pages. Because my paternal grandfather and grandmother were born in London’s East End […]

Costa Fascination: One of England’s Oldest Jewish Families

Filed Under United Kingdom, Western Sephardim By David Nathan on April 1, 2007

Genealogy, the research and study of family history, is such a fascinating subject, so fascinating that it has been linked with addiction—not alcohol, gambling or drugs, but the sheer pleasure of finding new facts that lead on to more searching […]

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