Jewishgen.org are pleased to announce a partnership between JewishGen and Dr. Jeffrey Malka resulting in the Jeff Malka Sephardic Collection. Because of this agreement, more than 146,000 records which have been compiled by Dr. Malka are now freely available to JewishGen researchers. The collection includes records of Sephardic and other …
Just one year ago an ambitious project was launched by The Jewish History Association of South Wales (JHASW) to tell the story of Jewish people in south Wales. The community has links back to the 1730s when, according to oral tradition, the first settlement was established in Swansea. An enthusiastic …
JSCN does NOT have the resources to assist you in tracing your family. But, here are some tips… primary ways of researching your ancestors… Under UK law all Jewish Births, Marriages and Deaths must be recorded by the Civil Registrar. Obtaining copies of these original documents is a good place to …
Lorna Kay of the Manchester branch of the Jewish Genealogy Society spoke to me about tracing your roots, reading a head stone, eastern european records, and much more. We caught up when she and her colleagues were on research visit to the Jewish Cemetery at Failsworth. (A stone mason was …
FURRIERS, GLAZIERS, DOCTORS AND OTHERS: A HISTORY OF THE PRESTON JEWISH COMMUNITY ~ author John Cowell John Cowell has mined the Jewish Chronicle online archives, local and national newspapers, local directories, birth, death and marriage records, and some of the surviving archives of the Preston Hebrew Congregation, all of them …
