Tuesday Winthrop 9am 6pm Whittier 9am 9pm* Wednesday & Thursday 9am 6pm. *ProQuest Databases are available only on Tuesday, 9am 9pm

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1 38 RESOURCE CENTER RESOURCE CENTER The Resource Center welcomes you to explore the variety of computer databases, reference books, and translation services available in our two Resource Center rooms, conveniently located across from each other on the 4th floor. Books & Translations Databases & Consultations Winthrop Room - 4th floor Whittier Room - 4th floor Hours (for both rooms) Sunday 1pm 6pm Monday 9am 6pm Tuesday Winthrop 9am 6pm Whittier 9am 9pm* Wednesday & Thursday 9am 6pm Friday 9am 12pm *ProQuest Databases are available only on Tuesday, 9am 9pm BOOKS & TRANSLATIONS (WINTHROP ROOM 4TH FLOOR) This room includes selected reference books that will help you start your research, discover your surname origins, learn about country-specific genealogical resources, understand Hebrew gravestone inscriptions, etc. A complete listing of the titles is available in the Syllabus and in the Winthrop Room. Books can be borrowed for use only in the Winthrop Room by leaving a government-issued photo ID or passport with Resource Center staff. Translation services will be provided by appointment only and the appointments are scheduled for 20 minutes each. Please come to the Winthrop Room to sign up. DATABASES & CONSULTATIONS (WHITTIER ROOM 4TH FLOOR) 30 computers will be available for complimentary searching of more than 20 databases. Most of these databases are normally available only by subscription or membership fees. The computers are available on a first-come-firstserved basis, and their use is limited to 30 minutes when there are people waiting to use them. Special research assistance will be provided by representatives of JewishGen, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Ancestry.com and the American Jewish Historical Society-New England Archives. The dates and times will be listed in the Whittier Room.

2 RESOURCE CENTER 39 REFERENCE BOOK COLLECTION Located within the Resource Center are the following reference materials: -RESEARCH GUIDES Malka, Jeffrey S. Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World Teaneck, NJ.: Avotaynu, Mokotoff, Gary, and Blatt, Warren. Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Sack, Sallyann and Gary Mokotoff, eds. Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Segal, Joshua L, Rabbi. A Field Guide to Visiting a Jewish Cemetery. Nashua, New Hampshire: Jewish Cemetery Publishing, Zubatsky, David S., and Berent, Irwin M. Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc DICTIONARIES OF NAMES A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names: Their Origins, Structure, Pronunciation, and Migrations. Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia. Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire. Rev. ed. Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Faiguenboim, Guilherme, Paulo Valadares and Anna Rosa Campagnano. Dictionary of Sephardic Surnames. 2nd ed. Bergenfield, N.J.: Avotaynu, Feldblyum, Boris. Russian-Jewish Given Names: Their Origins and Variants. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Gorr, Rabbi Shmuel. Jewish Personal Names: Their Origin, Derivation and Diminutive Forms. Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Menk, Lars. A Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames. Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, JEWISH COMMUNITIES Cohen, Chester. Shtetl Finder. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, Mokotoff, Gary and Sack, Sallyann Amdur. Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust. Rev. ed. Bergenfield: NJ, Avotaynu, Spector, Shmuel. The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust. New York, NY: New York University Press, TRANSLATION GUIDES Frazin, Judith R. A Translation Guide to 19th-Century Polish Language Civil Registration Documents. (Including Birth, Marriage, and Death Records) 3rd ed. Northbrook, IL: Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois, Shea, Jonathan D. & William F. Hoffman. Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Inc., Shea, Jonathan D. & William F. Hoffman. In Their Words: A Genealogists Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin, and Russian Documents. New Britain, Conn.:Language and Lineage Press, 2000.

3 40 RESOURCE CENTER COUNTRY RESEARCH Austria Skyte, Thea, Randol Schoenberg and Rosemary Wenzerul, eds., A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Germany & Austria. London: Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, Estonia Beare, Arlene. A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Latvia and Estonia. St. Albans, England: The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, France Klarsfeld, Serge. Memorial to the Jews Deported from France, : Documentation of the Deportation of the Victims of the Final Solution in France. NY: Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, Galicia Wynne, Suzan F. Finding Your Jewish Roots in Galicia: A Resource Guide. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Germany Skyte, Thea, Randol Schoenberg and Rosemary Wenzerul, eds., A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Germany & Austria. London: Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, Hungary Auslander, Jordan. Genealogical Gazetteer of the Kingdom of Hungary. Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Israel Sack, Sallyann Amdur. A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel. Rev. ed. Teaneck, NJ: Avotaynu, Latvia Beare, Arlene. A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Latvia and Estonia. St. Albans, England: The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, Lithuania Aaron, Sam, ed., A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Lithuania. London: Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, Rosin, Josef. ed. Joel Alpert. Preserving Our Litvak Heritage: A History of 31 Jewish Communities in Lithuania. League City TX: JewishGen Inc., volumes. Rosin, Josef. Protecting Our Litvak Heritage: A History of 50 Jewish Communities in Lithuania. Edited by Susan Levy and Joel Alpert. Coral Cables, FL: Friends of the Yurburg Jewish Cemetery, Inc., Moldova Weiner, Miriam, in cooperation with the Ukrainian State Archives and Moldovan National Archives. Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories. New York: Roots to Roots Foundation and YIVO Institute for Jewish Records, Poland Fifer, Susan. A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Poland. St. Albans, England: The Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, Luft, Edward David. The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and Bergenfield, NJ: Avotaynu, Rev. ed. Weiner, Miriam, in cooperation with the Polish State Archives. Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories. New York: Routes to Roots Foundation and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, South Africa Newman, Aubrey N., Nicholas J. Evans, et al., eds. Jewish Migration to South Africa: The Records of the Poor Jews Temporary Shelter, Capetown, South Africa: University of Capetown, Ukraine Weiner, Miriam, in cooperation with the Ukrainian State Archives and Moldovan National Archives. Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories. New York: Roots to Roots Foundation and YIVO Institute for Jewish Records, United Kingdom Wenzerul, Rosemary. A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in the United Kingdom. London: Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, 2006.

4 RESOURCE CENTER 41 NEW ENGLAND RESOURCES Connecticut Baulsir, Linda and Irwin Miller. The Jewish Communities of Greater Stamford. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, Hoffman, Betty N. A History of Jewish Connecticut: Mensches, Migrants and Mitzvahs. Charleston: The History Press, Hoffman, Betty N. Jewish West Hartford: From City to Suburb. Charleston: History Press, 2007 Maine Peck, Abraham J. and Jean M. Peck. Maine s Jewish Heritage. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, Massachusetts Cemeteries Cohen, Rabbi Edward A. and Lewis Goldfarb. Jewish Cemeteries of Western Massachusetts. Middletown, CT: Godfrey Memorial Library, Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts. History & Guide: Massachusetts Jewish Cemeteries. Newton, MA: JCAM, Segal, Joshua L, Rabbi. A Self-Guided Tour of Monuments of Jews Buried in the Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Nashua, NH: Jewish Cemetery Publishing,2007. Boston Blatt, Warren. Resources for Jewish Genealogy in the Boston Area. Boston: Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston, Dwyer-Ryan, Meaghan, Susan L. Porter & Lisa Fagin Davis. Becoming American Jews: Temple Israel of Boston. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, Feldman, Steven, editor. Guide to Jewish Boston and New England. Cambridge, MA: Genesis 2, Short histories with pictures of towns and areas around Boston before 1985 with descriptions of congregations, rituals, education, and community organizations. Morris, Norm. Ghetto Memories: Growing up in Dorchester/Roxbury/Mattapan. (Self-published, 1999) Morris, Norm. Ghetto Memories Revisited: Dorchester/Roxbury/Mattapan. (Self-published, 2001) Ross, Michael. Boston Walks' Jewish Friendship Trail. Belmont: Boston Walks, Sarna, Jonathan D., Ellen Smith and Scott-Martin Kosofsky. The Jews of Boston. New Haven: Yale University Press, Haverhill Woodman, Bertha. From the Hill to Main Street. Haverhill, Mass.: Trustees of the Haverhill Public Library, 1987 Lawrence Franklin, Dora, Hymie Axelrod, Zidle Reb Hymanson and Shirley Hymanson. History of the Jews of Lawrence, Sketches of the Lawrence Jewish Community. Andover, Massachusetts: Temple Emanuel, 1990.) Sandberg, Elizabeth Grady. Lawrence in the Gilded Age. Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Arcadia Publishing, Lowell Kolack, Shirley. A New Beginning: The Jews of Historic Lowell, Massachusetts. New York: Peter Lang, New Bedford Farrar, Judy and Yoken, Cynthia. Historical Tour of Jewish New Bedford. Dartmouth, Mass: University Library and Center for Jewish Culture-UMass, North Shore Pierce, Alan S. A History of Boston s Jewish North Shore. Charleston, SC: The History Press, Pierce, Alan S. and Avrom J. Herbster The Jewish Community of the North Shore. Charleston SC: Arcadia Publishing, Plymouth Goldstein, Karin J. A History of Jewish Plymouth. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, Rhode Island Goodwin, George M. and Ellen Smith, eds., The Jews of Rhode Island. Waltham MA: Brandeis University Press, A well illustrated and indexed story of the Rhode Island Jewish community from colonial times through the present

5 42 RESOURCE CENTER RESOURCE CENTER DATABASES The following databases are available at the computers in the Resource Center Accessible Archives Accessible Archives A large, unique collection of 18th and 19th century American newspapers, periodicals, and books. American Jewish Historical Society New England Archives Digital Archive Selected digitized documents from the AJHS archives of New England-based individuals, families, community and social service organizations. Ancestry.com Ancestry.com World Edition Unlimited access to all the historical records and images on Ancestry.com. Cercle de Généalogie Juive Access to entire website, including contents to the Member's Corner GALE/Cengage Learning 19th Century British Newspapers A collection of 48 national, regional, and local 19th century British newspapers. 19th Century US Newspapers A collection of 500 US newspapers from the 19th century. Fold3.com Fold3.com Collection of US Military records. GenTeam Die Genealogishche Databank-Austria Access to the entire website, including: Index of the Jewish Records of Vienna Resignations from the Jewish Community in Vienna between 1868 and 1914 Converts in Vienna Burials in Viennese Jewish Cemeteries Organization of genealogists and historians who produce databases related to Austria and neighboring lands. Godfrey Memorial Library Godfrey Scholar Library Edition Includes Godfrey's unique digitized content, including books, documents, and records. Searchable database of photos and descriptions of every tombstone in more than 800 Connecticut cemeteries. Israel Genealogical Society EIRI (Eretz Israel Records Indexing) Volunteer-created databases that include more than 400,000 records and around 20,000 different surnames of individuals. Israel Genealogical Research Association All Israel Database (AID) Includes some 156,500 records located in more than 100 different databases. Jewish Daily Forward Website and archives Archive to online English edition: present Archives of online Yiddish edition: January 2013 JewishGen The premier online resource for Jewish Genealogy. JewishGen's Value Added Services includes Enhanced Database Search Features.

6 RESOURCE CENTER 43 MyHeritage SuperSearch Includes over 4 billion records, including birth, marriage, death, burial, census, military, immigration, and yearbooks. NEHGS New England Historic Genealogical Society NEHGS Databases Includes nearly 3,000 unique searchable online collections. Newspapers.com Newspapers.com A collection of 1200 historical US newspapers. ProQuest Historic Map Works Library Edition Over 1.4 million high resolution full-color history maps. NewspaperARCHIVE Library Edition Includes more than 5,000 local newspaper titles from 1753 to the present. ProQuest Obituaries Provides more than 10 million obituaries and death notices from top US newspapers dating back to ProQuest Historical Newspaper Collection: Historical US Newspapers Complete content of twenty major US newspapers from the 19th century including the Boston Globe and the New York Times. Historical International Newspapers Complete content of seven major papers from Canada, England, India, Ireland, Scotland, and the Jerusalem Post ( ). Historical American Jewish Newspapers Includes the American Hebrew and Jewish Messenger ( ), The Jewish Advocate ( ), The American Israelite ( ), Jewish Exponent ( )"