Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors

Rosemary Wenzerul

• Publisher: Pen and Sword Family History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781526712981
• Year: 2015

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.

Table of contents

• Table of contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Where Do I Begin?
• Chapter 2 Drawing Your Family Tree
• Chapter 3 Links to the Internet
• Chapter 4 Public Records
• Chapter 5 Archives
• Chapter 6 Libraries and Museums
• Chapter 7 Marriage and Divorce
• Chapter 8 Death and Burial
• Chapter 9 Reading Gravestones
• Chapter 10 Extending Your Family History
• Chapter 11 The Armed Forces
• Chapter 12 The Holocaust
• Chapter 13 Names
• Chapter 14 Medical
• Chapter 15 Heraldry
• Chapter 16 UK Connections
• Chapter 17 Overseas Connections
• Chapter 18 Case Studies
• Glossary
• Index