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Genealogy Guide: Sephardic and Mizrahi Research

Web Resources

Genie Milgrom collection of crypto-Jewish and Sephardic resources. Made available through the ASF Institute of Jewish Experience.

https://instituteofjewishexperience.org/ancestral-search/ 

 

Jeffrey Malka’s site of Sephardic genealogy. Check the links below for special interest within this Website:  

http://www.sephardicgen.com

 

Jews from Lebanon. Searchable database includes the details of 3,184 tombstones

http://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/BeirutCemeterySrchFrm.html

 

Sephardic Genealogy Databases. Includes many searchable Sephardic databases.

http://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/databases.html

 

Les Fleures de L’Orient. Sephardi families from the Ottoman Empire and Middle-East.  

http://www.farhi.org/genealogy/index.html

 

Netherlands Society for Jewish Genealogy -  www.nljewgen.org/eng/index.html

Cemeteries http://www.nljewgen.org/begraafplaatsen

Family Trees http://www.nljewgen.org/stambomen

 

Special Interest Group on Sephardic Jewry - www.jewishgen.org/SefardSIG

 

Sephardic names, search engine and discussion forum from http://www.sephardim.com

 

National Library of Israel searchable database of digitized ketubbot collections throughout the world. http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/collections/jewish-collection/ketubbot/Pages/collections.aspx  [English]

 

Genealogy Indexer: Directories (Europe, Middle East, North Africa, Caribbean, South America, Asia)

http://genealogyindexer.org/directories

 

Sources for Sephardic Genealogy by Jeff Malka  

http://www.jewishgen.org/Sephardic/sources2.HTM

 

The Jewish History Resource Center, Hebrew University – Sephardic/Middle East/Dutch sections

http://jewishhistory.huji.ac.il/internetresources/gen.htm#Sephardic

 

European Sefardic Institute [French, English, Spanish]

http://sefarad.org/connection/?safa=en

 

The Historical Jewish Press provides fully digitized and searchable newspapers, including those in French, Judeo-Arabic, and Judeo-Spanish, from countries including Israel, France, and North Africa.

http://web.nli.org.il/sites/JPress/English/Pages/AllJPressPage.aspx

 

A site and forum dedicated to the Jews of Iraq who left Baghdad during the 1960’s and 1970’s.

http://iraqijews.awardspace.com/index.html

 

Journal of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian Crypto-Jews (JOSPIC-J)

http://www.cryptojewsjournal.org/links.html

 

A short list of Genealogical Sources for the Sephardim at the Jerusalem City Archives:  

http://www.isragen.org.il/downloader.asp?file_id=482

Jerusalem City Archives - http://www.isragen.org.il/siteFiles/1/212/4850.asp

 

Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture – links to various name lists and community histories. 

http://www.sephardicstudies.org/entrance.html

 

Alliance Israelite Universelle library, archives, photos, manuscripts:

http://www.aiu.org/recherche [French]