Documenting Jewish Families in America: The Early Years 1654-1880
Ellen Kowitt
Content
Introduction
9m 39s
Earliest Congregations
6m 45s
Jewish Records
9m 10s
FamilySearch
4m 30s
Ancestry
4m 56s
Jewish History Collaborative
7m 44s
Newspapers
6m 19s
JewishGen
6m 24s
Strategies
2m 52s
About this webinar
Strategies and resources to document the earliest Jews in America 1654-1880. Learn how to navigate early American secular records and Jewish institutional materials to create a successful research plan. Land, military, languages used, and historical collections will be featured. A timeline will help identify when to look for Jewish synagogue, burial, or other Jewish community documentation, and when only government-generated records will fill the gap.
About the speaker
Ellen is JewishGen USA Research Division Director and is a former Director-at-Large of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. She currently serves as Daughters of the American...
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Comments (1)
The word in the marriage record that you did not recognize was se’nnight (an abbreviation of seven night) meaning a week. This would mean that they were married Wednesday of last week.