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Contents 1 Did you know? 2 Key Internet Links 3 Helpful Guides 4 Things you can do 5 Sources

Did you know?

• Columbus took Jews with him in hopes they could translate Oriental languages.
• Jewish births are sometimes listed in local church records.
• Emma Lazarus, daughter of Sephardic Jews, wrote the famous poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses..."
• Jews are the oldest group with their national identity and cultural heritage intact.
• Celebrities with Jewish mothers: Geraldo Rivera, Fiorello Laguardia, Winston Churchill, Cary Grant, David Bowie, Robert DeNiro, Harrison Ford.^[1]

Key Internet Links

• International Assoc. of Jewish Genealogical Societies over 75 groups
• Sephardim.com for Sephardic genealogy / Jewish genealogy research
• Yad Vashem - Israeli Holocaust Museum and database
• Synagogue Scribes London Ashkenazi Synagogue records database
• JewishGen databases and tools to help find family members
• Federation of East European Family History Societies fosters research
• American Jewish Historical Society books, photos, art and artifacts
• Cemetery Scribes recording tombstone inscriptions in the UK
• Ancestry.com Jewish Family History Collection world's largest online
• Center for Jewish History databases, collections, guides, and events
• EllisIsland.org NY passenger lists of 20 million immigrants. See also:

• Searching $ New York (all: 1820-1957) Passenger Lists in One Step
• Searching $ Hamburg Outbound Passenger Lists in One Step

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Helpful Guides

• How to Start Your Family History Simple steps to begin your family history.
• State Research Guides Individual guides to finding records and indexes in each U.S. state.
  

Things you can do

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