Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories

xxii, 456 pp. The most comprehensive bibliography of published and unpublished Jewish genealogies, family histories, and individual family names compiled from books, newspaper and journal articles, Jewish encyclopedia entries, family papers, and family trees. More than 22,000 sources of some 12,000 family names. All surnames are indexed using the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex System to facilitate locating spelling variants.