The following article has been adapted and updated from a presentation given at the IAJGS conference in New York City in August 2006— Ed. Jewish genealogists tracking ancestors who emigrated to the United States generally are amazed to discover how […]
IAJGS 2007 Salt Lake City, Here We Come!
Jewish genealogists from around the world will be heading to Salt Lake City, Utah, to attend the 27th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy from July 15–20, 2007. Co-chairs Hal Bookbinder (Los Angeles, California) and Michael Brenner (Las Vegas, Nevada) […]
Israel Report, Spring 2007
No traces of the Second Lebanese War were apparent in early March, neither down by the Port of Haifa, nor anywhere in the stunning vistas surrounding Tzippori, an archeological park in the lower Galilee. Tzippori is the place where Rabbi […]
Some Issues in Ashkenazic Name Searches
During the symposium that inaugurated the International Institute of Jewish Genealogy in September 2006 in Jerusalem, one lecture particularly attracted my attention, that given by Professor H. Daniel Wagner of the Weizmann Institute of Science. During his presentation, Wagner enumerated […]
The Ties that Bind: Jewish Kinship Networks and Modernization in Darbenai and its Diaspora
From the outset of work on this project, I have developed a very large bank of data on which to base my conclusions concerning Jewish life and family networks and in the shtetl of Darbenai, Lithuania and its Diaspora during […]
About the Life of Barney Hysinger
After recovering the basic details of my ancestors’ lives, such as dates and places of birth, marriage and death, I like to learn as much as possible about their personal lives. Searches of the daily newspapers several days after death […]
Posen Province Archival Holdings at the Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
Edward David Luff describes his 2003 visit to the Archives and describes it holdings of genealogical interest.
Collaborative Trees
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 […]
United States Citizenship Records: Derivative, Replacement, and Repatriation Certificate Files
Family history researchers long have known the value of naturalization records. Most researchers interested in documenting naturalizations in the United States begin by searching for court copies of the records that today are located in courthouses, local archives, and regional […]
Jewish Surnames Adopted in Various Regions of the Russian Empire
Generally speaking, it is relatively easy to distinguish Sephardic surnames from Ashkenazic surnames. For example, if one sees two lists, the first with the names Abitbol, Cordovero, Haddad, Modigliani, Oliveira and Toledano, and another list with the names Bergelson, Goldman, […]
The Feuchtwanger Stammbaum, by Susan Edels
The Feuchtwanger Stammbaum, by Susan Edels, is the family tree of the Feuchtwanger family from Fuerth, Bavaria, Germany, of Seligmann and Fanny Feuchtwanger and their 18 children. It includes information on the family from 1769 to 2009, plus some articles […]
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