Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors: A Guide For Family Historians

by Rosemary Wenzerul

Overview

This fully revised second edition of Rosemary Wenzerul's lively and informative guide to researching Jewish history will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to find out about the life of a Jewish ancestor. In a clear and accessible way she takes readers through the entire process of research. She provides a brief social history of the Jewish presence in Britain and looks at practical issues of research – how to get started, how to organize the work, how to construct a family tree and how to use the information obtained to tell the story of a family. In addition she describes, in practical detail, the many sources that researchers can go to for information on their ancestors, their families and Jewish history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473821279
Publisher:	Pen and Sword
Publication date:	08/02/2014
Series:	Tracing your Ancestors
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Rosemary Wenzerul is passionate about family history and has traced her family back to c.1750 in England and c.1725 in Holland.
For many years she was a council member and trustee of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain and played an active role in its educational and family history work. She was the author/editor of most of the Society's 'Jewish Ancestor' series of Guides on Family History which, in 2008 the Society won the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Society's Outstanding Publications Award for this series.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Where Do I Begin? 10

Chapter 2 Drawing Your Family Tree 20

Chapter 3 Links to the Internet 28

Chapter 4 Public Records 39

Chapter 5 Archives 55

Chapter 6 Libraries and Museums 66

Chapter 7 Marriage and Divorce 79

Chapter 8 Death and Burial 88

Chapter 9 Reading Gravestones 93

Chapter 10 Extending Your Family History 100

Chapter 11 The Armed Forces 111

Chapter 12 The Holocaust 122

Chapter 13 Names 135

Chapter 14 Medical 138

Chapter 15 Heraldry 143

Chapter 16 UK Connections 147

Chapter 17 Overseas Connections 152

Chapter 18 Case Studies 177

Glossary 182

Index 185