|
|
Flip-Pal
Mobile Scanner
Compact, lightweight, cordless mobile scanner empowers you to scan big or small originals in full colour... More information >>
|
|
|
Advertisement
Popular Database for Jewish Family History Research Expands
Free Resource Now Includes Records of 115,000 People
Posted 08 July 2010
By Paul Nauta, Public Affairs Manager, FamilySearch.org
A valuable resource for Jewish genealogical research has expanded to include records from all over the world. The popular Knowles Collection from FamilySearch is a free database connecting Jewish records of 115,000 people in 30 countries. The combining of those records into one collection makes it easier for researchers to find family sources.
"One of the biggest problems with Jewish records is that they are held all over the place and one person can have records in multiple locations," FamilySearch research consultant and the collection's manager, Todd Knowles, said. "That means someone just starting to research their Jewish ancestry will have to drive from archive to archive and from synagogue to synagogue to find what they are looking for. What this collection does is put all the records in one location, which is an incredible time and cost savings for patrons."
Knowles started the database in 2007 to help him find his own Jewish ancestry. The collection began with 6,500 records from the British Isles, but has now rapidly expanded into five geographically-based databases with over 115,000 names:
- The Jews of the British Isles (82,000 names)
- The Jews of the Americas (10,300 names)
- The Jews of Europe (18,697 names)
- The Jews of the Caribbean (2,200 names)
- The Jews of Africa and the Orient (367 names)
The Knowles Collection is compiled from over 200 different sources that have been transcribed and combined by volunteers. There is also a complete list of where the original records can be found. The entire collection is now linked electronically as families and fully searchable on FamilySearch's Community Trees project, found at http://histfam.familysearch.org. Researchers can also download GEDCOM versions of each collection from FamilySearch.org.
According to Knowles, much of the growth of the collection is due to the continued donations of family records by people throughout the world.
"We have received donations from families in the British Isles, Germany, Russia, Jamaica, and many places in the United States," Knowles said. "We also have a great collection of synagogue records from Mattersdorf, Hungary, as well as burial records from Charleston, South Carolina, and New Orleans, Louisiana. It seems as word spreads, more and more custodians of these types of records want to be involved by donating copies of their related work to help expand the collection. "
Those interested in donating their Jewish family records to the Knowles Collection can contact Todd Knowles at knowleswt@familysearch.org.
Paul Nauta
Public Affairs Manager, FamilySearch.org
Email: NautaPG@familysearch.org
About Family Search International
FamilySearch International is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services to learn more about their family history. To help in this great pursuit, FamilySearch has been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over 100 years. FamilySearch is a nonprofit organization sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Patrons may access FamilySearch services and resources free online at FamilySearch.org or through over 4,600 family history centers in 132 countries, including the renowned Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Canadian Genealogy & History Resources from Global Genealogy:
O R D E R D E S K
1-800-361-5168( 9-5 Monday to Friday )
|
|
|
Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, Father of the Canadian Crown Exiled from the court of his father, and accompanied by his long-time mistress Julie de St. Laurent, the 24-year-old Prince and future father of Queen Victoria arrived in Quebec City in 1791....
Read on...
Edwardsburgh Family Histories
[Grenville County, Ontario] Includes family histories of more than 70 families in Edwardsburgh Township and...
Read on...
Abbey pH Testing Pen A fast, easy, inexpensive and dependable way to determine the acidity of paper, documents, storage boxes, packing tissue and....
Read on...
Prisons, Asylums, and the Public:
Institutional Visiting in the Nineteenth Century sheds new light on popular nineteenth-century attitudes towards the insane and the criminal......
Read on...
Household Counts:
Canadian Households and Families in 1901 This collection not only makes an important contribution to family history, but also to the widening intellectual exploration of historical censuses......
Read on...
The Trail of the Black Walnut Starting soon after the outbreak of the American Revolution numerous Pennsylvania-German families and so-called "Plain Folk" (i.e. Mennonnites, Dunkards, Moravians, Amish, Hutterites, etc) migrated north to Canada in successive waves. Together, in cultural and religious and kinship groups they settled.....
Read on...
Catherine Tekakwitha: Her Life
"Lily of the Mohawks" The story is told by an eye-witness -- her spiritual director -- of the events in her life from the time she arrived at the Jesuit mission just outside of Montreal, known at that time as.......
Read on...
How Our Ancestors Died,
A Guide For Family & Local Historians
[United Kingdom & elswhere] In addition to describing causes of death and setting them in the context of the times, his book shows readers how to find and interpret patient records, death certificates and other documents in order to gain an accurate impression of how their ancestors died......
Read on...
Dictionary of Glengarry Biography
[Glengarry County, Ontario] BACK IN PRINT: A comprehensive history of Glengarry county told through the lives of pioneers, fur traders, soldiers, farmers, railway barons, politicians, criminals, anybody and everyone who helped make Glengarry one of Canada's most storied and celebrated counties. This thick book includes 1600 biographical sketches, with more than...
Read on...
|
|
|
| |
