Websites of Interest

American Jewish Historical Society

Georgia Historic Newspapers – Southern Israelite digital archive

Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life – Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities

Historic Columbia – Columbia Jewish Heritage Initiative

Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, A Division of Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion

Jewish Heritage Collection, Special Collections, Addlestone Library, College of Charleston

Jewish Virtual Library – Anything you need to know from Anti-Semitism to Zionism

Life of the Synagogue – From the William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection

Mapping Jewish Charleston

Museum of Family History

SCIWAY – South Carolina’s Information Highway

South Carolina Council on the Holocaust

Southern Jewish Historical Society

Synagogues of the South, Architecture and Jewish Identity – An Exhibition of postcards from the William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.

Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History

William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection, Prints and Photographs

Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Genealogy Research Sites

JEWISH-RELATED SEARCHES

All Hebrew Names: More than 3000 Hebrew and Israeli names that are used in Israel – All Hebrew Names

Avotaynu: publisher of products of interest for researching Jewish genealogy – Avotaynu

Center for Jewish History, New York, NY – cjh.org

Find a Grave: indexes many cemeteries throughout the country. Many have pictures of gravestones – Find-A-Grave

First American Jewish Families by Malcolm Stern, American Jewish Archives – website

International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies – IAJGS – IAJGS

International Jewish Cemetery Project, International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies – iajgs.org/cemetery/

JewishGen: site includes Family Finder, Jewish Worldwide Burial Database, Family Tree of the Jewish People. Registration (free) required to use certain services – jewishgen.org

Jewish Heritage Europe: Jewish gravestone history and meaning – Jewish Heritage Europe

Jewish Heritage Collection, South Carolina archival resources – jhc.cofc.edu

Knowles Collection helps the Jewish community find their roots, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/knowles-collection-jewish-records

GENERAL SEARCHES

Additional online resources by Sean Spencer – Genealogy Research Online

Ancestry: essential to 19th Century American research for census and immigration records. Membership required – ancestry.com

Family Search, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – website

Fold3 by Ancestry: military records, membership required – Fold 3

GenealogyBank: newspaper searches. Membership required – GenealogyBank

Google Newspapers: a searchable collection of newspapers from many cities – Google Newspapers

Stephen P. Morse, One-Step Webpages, helps in searching other genealogy web sites – stevemorse.org

ThoughtCo.: vital records online by state – Vital Records

Vodien: getting started with genealogy on the web – Vodien Blog

Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina

CONTACT

JHSSC
205 Calhoun Street
Charleston, SC 29424
843.953.8880


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