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Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy, 2011 Edition ; by Gary Mokotoff; Published: 2011; Softcover; 96 pp; 7x10; ISBN 9781886223479; Item AV479

The original version sold more than 2,000 copies. It is not a beginner’s guide. A beginner’s guide to Jewish genealogy would undoubtedly take many more pages and cost much more. Instead it is a getting started guide meant to convince the reader that tracing one’s Jewish ancestry can be done.

The resources described are primarily Internet resources. The Internet has revolutionized family history research. What used to take days or weeks now takes minutes or hours because of the wealth of resources on the Internet.

It describes in detail such resources as JewishGen, Morse One-Step site, FamilySearch, Ancestry.com and many more sites. It alerts the readers to what types of documents of their ancestors will aid in their research—such records as birth, marriage, death, Immigration, census and naturalization records.

Special focus is given to two problems often uttered by neophyte Jewish genealogists: (1) My name was changed at Ellis Island and (2) I do not know the town my family came from.

Contents

• Introduction
• If I Can Do It, So Can You
• Four Myths of Jewish Genealogy
• Get Started By Interviewing People
• Ask for Documents
• Ask for Photos
• Records Of Your Ancestors
• Vital Records
• Federal Census Records
• Non-Federal Censuses
• Naturalization Records
• Passenger Lists
• Other Resources
• Jewishgen: The Internet Home Of Jewish Genealogy
• Searching JewishGen Databases
• Stephen P. Morse One-Step Site
• A Strategy for Using the Morse Site to Search the Ellis Island Database
• Some Other Online Genealogy Sites
• FamilySearch and the Family History Library System
• Routes to Roots Foundation
• Jewish Records Indexing-Poland
• SephardicGen.com
• Museum of Family History
• Commercial Online Genealogy Sites
• Ancestry.com
• Findmypast.com
• Footnote.com
• WorldVitalRecords.com
• JewishData.com
• Important Non-Internet Resources
• Jewish Genealogical Societies and Annual Conference
• Avotaynu
• Holocaust Research
• Shoah Victims’ Names Database
• International Tracing Service (ITS)
• Yizkor Books
• Other Resources
• Special Problem: My Name Was Changed At Ellis Island
• Special Problem: Finding Your Ancestral Town
• Genealogical Software
• Glossary
• Appendix A: Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex System
• Appendix B: Case Study– The Paternal History Of Bernard Madoff
• Illustrations
• Birth Record
• Marriage Record
• Death Record
• Death Index:
• Russian Census
• Passenger Arrival Record
• Census Record
• Petition for Naturalization
• Tombstone Inscription
• Page of Testimony (Holocaust)
• Holocaust Document:
• JewishGen Discussion Group
• JewishGen Family Finder
• Consolidated Jewish Surname Index
• Social Security Death Index 87