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Genealogy Guide: Rabbinical Genealogy

Online Resources

Rabbinic Genealogy SIG. The Rabbinic Genealogy Special Interest Group (SIG) is a forum for those interested in rabbinic genealogy or researching rabbinic ancestry within any geographic area or time period.  

Jewish Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire 1853-1854. An index to Prof. Genrich Markovich Deych's book, Sinagogi, Molitvenne Doma i Sostoyashchie pri nikh Dolzhnostne Litsa v Cherte Evreiskoi Osedlosti i Guberniyakh Kurlyandskoi i Liflyandskoi Rossiiskoi Imperii 1853-1854 [=Synagogues, Prayer Houses and their Employees in the Pale of Settlement and Kurland and Livonia provinces of the Russian Empire, 1853-1854]. 

American Jewish Year Book Cumulative Index of Obituaries. A compilation of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) from volumes 51-96 which includes names of over 3,000 prominent Jews who perished between 1948 to 1998.  

The JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database. A searchable database of lists of Holocaust martyrs published in the Yizkor Books that have been translated into English (through the JewishGen Yizkor Book Translation Project).*
* To view many original (i.e. untranslated) Yizkor books online, go to NYPL Yizkor Books

HebrewBooks.org has many books by and about rabbis. In particular, the following bibliography links on the site may be useful for genealogical research: American אמריקאים, Avos אבות, Chabad חבד, Chassidus חסידות, Rishonim קדמונים, Biography ביוגרפיה, and Rambam ם"רמב.
 

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