The Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina

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Start Your Family Research Now

Use the following sites to help you do your research.

www.stevemorse.org
A site that helps search other genealogy web sites with a good interface, and also directs you to them.

www.jewishgen.org
You'll need to register in order to participate and check databases, but the site is free. Site includes: Family Finder, Jewish Worldwide Burial Database, Family Tree of the Jewish People

www.ancestry.com
Essential to19th Century American research for census and immigration records. Membership required, but you can get a short-term trial, or one-month membership to begin. May also be available at most libraries.

www.google.com
I use it often. You'd be surprised ...

www.americanjewisharchives.org American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, OH
There is still a great deal of material in the card catalog which is not online, and the staff is wonderful, so don't hesitate to write with a specific inquiry; be sure to indicate a place as well as name. Even better - visit!

www.cjh.org Center for Jewish History, New York, NY
Online access to combined index to Partner Collections (American Jewish Historical Society, YIVO, Leo Baeck Institute). You can download valuable fact sheets from the Genealogical Institute.

www.cofc.edu/~jhc
Your local Charleston and S.C. resource, with library, oral histories and extensive archives.

Karen Franklin's favorite web sites for American Family History Research

 

 

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