Allan, Morton

Directory of European Passenger Steamship Arrivals for the Years 1890 to 1930 at the Port of New York and for the Years 1904 to 1926 at the Ports of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Baltimore

1933

Gives points of origin, arrival, date of arrival, year, month, day and names of ships from 1890 to 1930

Beider, Alexander

A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names: Their Origins, Structure, Pronunciation, and Migrations.

Avotaynu, Inc

2001

Beider, Alexander

A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland

Avotaynu, Inc

1996

Beider, Alexander

A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire

Avotaynu, Inc

1993

Bookbinder, Hal

Jewish Genealogy Yearbook 2000 and Syllabus for the 20th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy. Salt Lake City

International Association of Jewish Genealogy Societies

2000

Brilliant, Richard

Facing the New World

1998

Yiddish

Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo

Discovering Your Female Ancestors

Avotaynu, Inc

199-

Chapin, David A. and Weinstock, Ben

The Road from Letichev

Writer’s Showcase

2000

2 Volumes

Cohen, Chester G. And Rosenstein

Shtetl Finder and Gazetteer

1989, 1990

2 volumes

Doctor, Ronald D.

Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy: A Handbook for Beginners 2nd Ed.

JGSO

2000

JGSO’s Handbook

Doctor, Ronald D,

Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy: A Handbook for Beginners 3^rd Ed.

JGSO

2002

JGSO’s Handbook

Doctor, Ronald D.

Ukraine Journal: A genealogical journey to Warsaw and Ukraine

2003

Text and photos describing Ron’s genealogical travels to Ukraine and Warsaw

Dollardhide, William

Managing a Genealogical Project

1992

Dubnow, Simon

History of the Jews in Russia and Poland

Avotaynu, Inc

1910-1916

Reprint of 3 volume work

Edlund, Thomas Kent

The German Minority Census of 1939, An Introduction and Register

1996

Eisenberg, Ellen

Jewish Agricultural Colonies in New Jersey 1882- 1920

Syracuse University Press

1995

Feldblyum, Boris

Russian-Jewish Given Names

Avotaynu, Inc

1998

Freedman, Chaim

Eliyahu’s Brancjes: The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and His Family

Avotaynu, Inc.

1997

Frazin, Judith R.

19th Century Polish-Language Civil Registration Documents, 2nd Ed.

1989

Glazier, Ira

Migration from the Russian Empire

1995

2 volumes

Gorr, Shmuel

Jewish Personal Names: Their Origin, Derivation, and Diminutive Forms

Avotaynu, Inc

1992

Greenbaum, Marsha

The Jews of Lithuania: A History of a Remarkable Community, 1316-1945

Avotaynu, Inc

1995

Guggenheimer, Heinrich W. And Eva H.

Jewish Family Names and Their Origins-An Etymological Dictionary

1992

Guzic, Estelle

Genealogical Resources In New York

2003

Gyemont, S. (Ed.)

Studia Judaica, Cluj Napoca

1994 -1998

Symposiums of '94, '95, '97, '98;Lectures given at annual conferences on Jewish development in Romania

Hendrikson, Nancy

Finding your roots online

Betterway Books, Cincinnati, Ohio

2003

Oversize paperback. ISBN 1-55870-635-6

Johnson, Lt. Col. Richard A.

How to Locate Anyone Who Is or Has Been in the Military

1995

Kemp, Thomas J.

International Vital Records Handbook, 3rd. Ed.

1995

Kliger, Hannah

Jewish Hometown Associations and Family Circles in New York

Indiana University Press

1992

Kramer

Sephardic Jews in the West Coast States

1996

2 volumes

Kranzler, David

My Jewish Roots-A Practical Guide to Genealogy and Family History

1979

2 copies

Kurzweil, Arthur

From Generation to Generation

1980, 1982

2 volumes

Kurzweil, Arthur

How to Search Your Jewish Roots: A Journey With Arthur Kurzweil

Ergo Media Production

1995

VHS Video Tape

Length, 33 minutes

Kurzweil, Arthur and Miriam Weiner

The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy, Vol. 1

1991

Lackey, Richard S.

Cite Your Sources: A Manual for Documenting Family Histories and Genealogical Records

1980

Levin, Dov

The Litvaks: A Short Story of the Jews in Lithuania

Yad Vashem

2000

Mokotoff, Gary and Blatt, Warren

Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy

Avotaynu, Inc

1999, 2000

2 copies; one an expanded reprint

Mokotoff, Gary

How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust

Avotaynu, Inc

1995

2 copies

Mokotoff, Gary and Sack, Sallyann

Where Once We Walked Companion

Avotaynu, Inc

1995

Mokotoff, Gary and Sack, Sallyann

Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust

Avotaynu, Inc

1991

Mokotoff, Gary and Sack, Sallyann Amdur

Where Once We Walked-Revised Edition: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust

Avotaynu, Inc.

2002

Gazetteer of Towns of Eastern Europe

Moses, Nissim and Jeffrey Malka

The Bene Israel of India

Indo-Israel Support Services, Paras Reprographics, New Delhi, India

Jan 2003

Newman, John J.

Uncle, We Are Ready!: Registering America's Men 1917-1918

Heritage Quest

2001

Valuable instruction on obtaining draft registration application forms from WWI

Rochlin, Harriet and Fred

Pioneer Jews/Far West

Houghton Miflin Co.

1984

Rosenberg, Stuart E.

Jewish Community in Rochester, 1843-1925

Rosenstein. Neil

The Unbroken Chain: Biographical Sketches and the Genealogy of Illustrious Jewish Families from the 15th-20th Centuries

CIS Publishers

1990

Two volumes from The Computer Center for Jewish Genealogy

Rottenberg, Dan

Finding Our Fathers- A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy

1977

Sack, Sallyann Amdur

A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel

Avotaynu, Inc

1995

Sack, Sallyann

Index to Russian Consular Records

Avotaynu, Inc

1988

7 microfilms

Schaefer, Christina

Guide to Naturalization Records of the US

Avotaynu, Inc

Shea, Jonathan D.

Russian Language Documents from Russian Poland

1989

Shea, Jonathan D. And Hoffman, William F.

Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide

1994

Shea, Jonathan D. and Hoffman, William F.

In Their Words: A Genealogist’s Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin, and Russian Documents

Language and Lineage Press

2002

Volume I: Polish

Shea, Jonathan D. and Hoffman, William F.

In Their Words: A Genealogist’s Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin, and Russian Documents

Language and Lineage Press

2002

Volume II: Russian

Silvain, Gerard and Minczeles, Henri

Yiddishland

Ginko Press

1999

Steinore, Michael

Passenger Arrival Information

1999

In thick black binder

Stern, Rabbi Malcolm H.

First American Jewish Families, 1654-1988

1991

Large flat book in Yizkor cabinet

Szucs, Loretto Dennis

They Became Americans: Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic Origins

1998

Tapper, Lawrence F.

Archival sources for the study of Canadian Jewry, 2^nd ed., revised & expanded

National Archives of Canada

1978

Ethnocultural series. ISBN 0-662-55320-9

Weiner, Miriam

Jewish Roots in Poland

YIVO Inst. For Jewish Research

1997

Weiner, Miriam

Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova

YIVO Inst. For Jewish Research

1999

Weinreich, Muriel

Modern English-Yiddish, Yiddish English Dictionary

YIVO Inst. For Jewish Research

1977

Wheeler, Marcus

Russian-English, English-Russian Dictionary

Oxford University Press

1997

Wolfman, Ira

Do People Grow on Family Trees?-Genealogy for Kids and Other Beginners

1991

Wynne, Suzan F.

Finding Your Jewish Roots in Galicia: A Resource Guide

Avotaynu, Inc

1991

Zubatsky, David S.

Jewish Genealogy: A Sourcebook of Family Histories and Genealogies Volume 2

1990

Facing the New World:  Jewish Portraits in Colonial Federal America

1997

In Yizkor Book cabinet

Jewish Genealogy Family Finder

Avotaynu, Inc

1993, 1996

Large binder on bottom shelf

Guides to German Records Microfilmed at Alexandria, Virginia, 5 volumes:

No. 32. Records of the Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of the German Police (Part I), 1961

No. 33. [Same], Part II, 1961

No. 39, [Same], Part III, 1963

No. 81, [Same], Part 4, 1982

No. 84, Records of the German Armed Forces High Command, 1985

National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

1961, 1963, 1982, 1985

Each numbered partpart is a separate report.

The Scribe

1920-1953

2 notebooks

Syllabus: 22^nd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, 8/4-8/9, 2002. Toronto, Canada

IAJGS

2002

Western States Jewish History

Skiball Cultural Center

1998-1999

World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors 6/14-6/18, 1981.

List of Participants

1981

Morse, Steve

The 1930 Census (56:34 minutes)

Steve Morse & IAJGS

20-25 July 2003

This is a recording of Steve Morse’s presentation at the 2003 IAJGS Annual Conference. Steve Morse granted permission to use the recording for JGSO’s Library. The recording was transferred to audio cd-rom by Joe Mayer.

Morse, Steve

White, Blue, and Gray (The Ellis Island database) (63:05 minutes)

Steve Morse & IAJGS

20-25 July 2003

This is a recording of Steve Morse’s presentation at the 2003 IAJGS Annual Conference. Steve Morse granted permission to use the recording for JGSO’s Library. The recording was transferred to audio cd-rom by Joe Mayer.

Morse Steve

WEB (The 1980 Census + The Ellis Island Database) (59:22 minutes)

Steve Morse & Joe Mayer

15 Oct 2003

This is a recording of Steve Morse’s presentation at JGSO’s October 2003 meeting. Steve Morse granted permission to use the recording for JGSO’s Library. The recording was transferred to audio cd-rom by Joe Mayer.

McNamee, Patty

Finding the Gems at the National Archives in Seattle (113:26 minutes)

Joe Mayer & JGSO

19 Nov 2003

This is a recording of Patty McNamee’s presentation at JGSO’s November 2003 meeting. Patty McNamee granted permission to use the recording for JGSO’s Library. The recording was transferred to audio cd-rom by Joe Mayer.

Franklin B. Hough, Editor

American Biographical Notes, Being Short Notices of Deceased Persons, Chiefly Those Not Included in Allen's or in Drake's Biographical Dictionaries

Ancestry Inc.

1875

This item is on the Ancestry Reference Library, 2000 CD-Rom.

Eichholz Alice, Ph.D., C.G., Editor. Maps by William Dollarhide

Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County & Town Sources

Ancestry.com.
ISBN 0-916489-47-7

1992

This item is on the Ancestry Reference Library, 2000 CD-Rom.

Ancestry Reference Library on CD-Rom

2000

Contains numerous reference materials such as Guidebook of American Genealogy, Guide to National Archives, DAR, LDS Family History Library. See individual items in this listing.

Loretto Dennis Szucs & Sandra Hargreaves Luebking

The Archives: A Guide to the National Archives Field Branches

Ancestry.Inc.
ISBN 0-916489-23-X

1988

This item is on the Ancestry Reference Library, 2000 CD-Rom.

Avotaynu on CD-Rom, 1985-1999

Avotaynu

1999

Full-text, searchable index of all articles appearing in Avotaynu from 1985 through 1999

Mabel Ward Cameron, Compiler

The Biographical Cyclopaedia of American Women, Volume I

Ancestry Inc.

1924

This item is on the Ancestry Reference Library, 2000 CD-Rom.

United States Government Printing Office

Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949; The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788; and, The Congress of the United States, From the First to the Eightieth Congress, March 4, 1789 to January 3, 1949, Inclusive

Ancestry Inc.

1950

This item is on the Ancestry Reference Library, 2000 CD-Rom.

Phebe A. Hanaford

Daughters of America; or Women of the Century

Ancestry Inc.

1882

This item is on the Ancestry Reference Library, 2000 CD-Rom.

Ronald D., Doctor

Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy: A Handbook for Beginners 3^rd Ed.

JGSO

November 2002

JGSO’s Handbook. This item is on the JGSO CD-Rom.

Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Archives

Ancestry Inc.

1994

This item is on the Ancestry Reference Library, 2000 CD-Rom.

Thomas William Herringshaw, Editor

Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century

Ancestry Inc.

1902

This item is on the Ancestry Reference Library, 2000 CD-Rom.

Francis B. Heitman

Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army During the War of the Revolution: April 1775, to December 1783

Ancestry Inc.

This item is on the Ancestry Reference Library, 2000 CD-Rom.

Ronald D. Doctor

I know my grandfather’s name. Now what do I do?

JGSO

25 January 2002

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. It is the text and slides of a Powerpoint presentation at JGSO’s January 2002 monthly meeting.

Ronald D. Doctor

Jewish Given Names, Russian & Hebrew Images from Vital Records

JGSO

December 2003

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. These files contain images from the Kremenets vital records of the handwritten given male & female names that appear in the records along with their English transliteration. A file of similar images from the death records for “cause of death” and a file of images of keywords, occupations and social status also are presented.

Ronald D. Doctor, Compiler

The JGSO CD-Rom

JGSO

December 2003

JGSO’s first cd-rom contains the JGSO Getting Started Handbook, Images of given names from Russian vital records, JGSO’s Oregon Jewish Burials database, various presentations at JGSO’s monthly meetings, all back issues of Shalshelet, and Ron Doctor’s Ukraine Journal … and more. See individual items in this listing. The free Adobe Acrobat PDF and Microsoft Powerpoint viewers are on the CD-Rom.

LDS Family History Library Catalog, as of March 2000

LDS

2000

Searchable CD-Rom

LDS, Jewish Records in the Family History Library Catalog, as of 1 Feb 2001

LDS

2001

Searchable CD-Rom containing extracts from the LDS FHL Catalog

Family Tree of the Jewish People

IAJGS

1999

CD-Rom with 600,000 names from family trees

Family Tree of the Jewish People, 2nd Ed.

IAJGS

2001

CD-Rom with about 1.8 M names from family trees

Ira A Glazier. & P. William Filby

Germans to America, 1850-1874: Passenger and Immigration Lists, vol. 1-31

Genealogy.com, Family Tree Maker CD #355

Searchable surname index for about 2 million immigrants from German states or territories plus parts of France, Switzerland, & Luxembourg

Ira A Glazier. & P. William Filby

Germans to America, 1875-1888: Passenger and Immigration Lists, vol. 32-56

Genealogy.com, Family Tree Maker CD #356

Searchable surname index for about 1.5 million immigrants from German states or territories plus parts of France, Switzerland, & Luxembourg

Ronald D. Doctor

Get Organized!

JGSO

17 Sept 2003

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. It is the text and slides of a Powerpoint presentation at JGSO’s September 2003 monthly meeting.

Scott Cline

History, memory, myth, and bunk: On doing family and community history

JGSO

21 May 2000

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. It is the text of a presentation at JGSO’s May 2000 monthly meeting.

IAJGS Jewish Cemeteries Project

IAJGS

1998

CD-Rom 450,000 names from 850 cemeteries where Jews were buried.

Ronald D. Doctor

Jewish Migration to, and within, Eastern Europe

JGSO

9 April 2000

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. It is the text and slides of Ron Doctor’s Powerpoint presentation at the Winterfest Symposium, which JGSO co-sponsored.

JGSO By-laws

JGSO

June 2003

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. These are the current By-laws of JGSO.

LDS

LDS Family History Centers, Portland Area

JGSO

June 2003

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. It is a list of the locations and hours of all of the LDS Family History Centers in the greater Portland area.

Johni Cerny & Wendy Elliott

The Library: A Guide to the LDS Family History Library

Ancestry.com
ISBN 0-916489-21-3

1988

This item is on the Ancestry Reference Library, 2000 CD-Rom.

James C. Neagles assisted by Mark C. Neagles

The Library of Congress: A Guide to Genealogical and Historical Research

Ancestry.com
ISBN 0-916489-48-5

1990

This item is on the Ancestry Reference Library, 2000 CD-Rom.

Library List

JGSO

December 2003

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. This is a complete list of JGSO’s Library holdings. It includes print, audio, cd-rom, and microfiche items.

National Genealogical Society

NGS Standards for Sharing

NGS & JGSO

2002

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. This document describes the standards recommended by the National Genealogical Society for sharing information with others and for using information that you obtain from others.

Elliot Axel

Oregon Jewish Burials Database

JGSO

December 2003

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. Elliot Axel led a JGSO project to index the graves of all Jews buried in Oregon. The database contains 8,435 records covering the period from 1809 through August 2002.

Oregon WW1 Draft Registration Records, Index

Genealogical Forum of Oregon (GFO)

2001

Searchable index to Oregon WW1 draft registration records.

Eugene Aubrey Stratton, FASG

Plymouth Colony: Its History and People 1620-1691

Ancestry Inc.

1986

This item is on the Ancestry Reference Library, 2000 CD-Rom.

Ronald D. Doctor

Re-Creating your family history

JGSO

20 Sept 2003

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. It is the text and slides of a Powerpoint presentation at MJCC’s Jewish Educational Shuk in September 2003.

Ira A. Glazier

Russians to America, 1850-1896: Passenger and Immigration Lists

Genealogy.com, Family Tree Maker CD #360

Searchable name index to Glazier’s books covering this period.

Shalshelet, 1992-2003

JGSO

2003

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. Digitized images of JGSO’s Newsletter, Shalshelet. (PDF format)

Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, editors

The Source: Guidebook of American Genealogy

Ancestry.com, ISBN 0–916489–67–1

1997

This item is on the Ancestry Reference Library, 2000 CD-Rom.

Ronald D. Doctor

Ten steps to successful genealogy

JGSO

19 March 2003

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. It is the text and slides of a Powerpoint presentation at JGSO’s March 2003 monthly meeting.

Rossiter Johnson, Ph.D., LL.D, Editor-in-Chief

The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans: Volume I

A—Browne

Ancestry, Inc.

1904

This item is on the Ancestry Reference Library, 2000 CD-Rom. It appears to be a limited version of the original dictionary.

Doctor, Ronald D.

Ukraine Journal: A genealogical journey to Warsaw and Ukraine

JGSO

2003

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. 111 pages of text and more than 200 color photos describing Ron’s genealogical travels to Ukraine and Warsaw. In PDF format.

US Federal Census Index, New York City, 1910.

Heritage Quest

2001

CD Rom Index (Soundex) of 1910 US Census for New York City

US Federal Census Index, Philadelphia, PA and Philadelphia County, 1920.

Ancestry.comt

2001

CD Rom Index (Soundex) of 1920 US Census for Philadelphia, PA

James C. Neagles

U.S. Military Records: A Guide to Federal and State Sources

Ancestry Inc.

1994

This item is on the Ancestry Reference Library, 2000 CD-Rom.

Victims of the Holocaust

LDS

1997

Searchable CD-Rom containing names of 250,000 Jewish Holocaust victims.

Ronald D. Doctor

The vital records of Kremenets

The FEEFHS Journal, Volume IX

2001

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. It is Ron Doctor’s article analyzing patterns of Jewish birth and death in the late 1800s in the Ukrainian town of Kremenets. The FEEFHS Journal is an annual publication for Central & East European Genealogical Studies. It is published by the Federation of East European Family History Societies.

Ronald D. Doctor

Yizkor Books and their value

JGSO

17 Oct 2001

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. It is the text and slides of a Powerpoint presentation at JGSO’s October 2001 monthly meeting.

Yizkor Books at Neveh Shalom Library

JGSO

2001

This item is on The JGSO CD-Rom. It is a list of the titles of approximately 123 Yizkor Books in the Neveh Shalom Library collection.

Birth Index of Budra Jewry, 1820-1892. 2 rolls microfiche.

Microfiche

Burials in Adas Israel Cemetery, 1870-1919

Microfiche

Burials in Old Section of Washington Hebrew Congregation Cemetery

Microfiche

Consolidated Jewish Surname Index

Avotaynu, Inc

1992

Microfiche

Galician Towns and Administrative Districts

Microfiche

Gazetteer of Eastern Europe, Grid Location Sequence

6 microfilms

Jewish  Applicants for Emergency US Passports, 1915-1924

Microfiche Index to US Dept. of State Records

Jewish Cemeteries Throughout the World

1995

microfiche

Jewish Genealogical People Finder

Avotaynu, Inc

1995

Microfiche

Jewish Genealogical Societies Publications

IAJGS

23 microfilms

Jewish Genealogy Family Finder

Avotaynu, Inc

1995

Microfiche

Jewish residents of Greater Quebec Province in the 1871-1901 Census of Canada

Avotaynu, Inc

1994

microfiche

Jewish Residents of the Maritime Provinces in the 1871-1901 Census of Canada

Avotaynu, Inc

1995

microfiche

Noms de Juifs du Maroc (Moroccan Jewish Names)

microfiche

Protection of Interests of US Citizens in Romania (Index to Jewish Names)

US Dept. of State

microfiche

Protection of Interests of US Citizens, in Austria-Hungary.

US Dept. of State

microfiche

Protection of Interests of US Citizens, Part II (1910-1929) Palestine (1994)

US State Dept. Central Decimal File

Avotaynu microfiche

Registration of US Citizens: Jerusalem, 1914-1918

US Dept. of State

microfiche