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Avotaynu, the leading publisher of books
on Jewish genealogy as well as, AVOTAYNU,
the journal of Jewish genealogy is pleased to present the Consolidated
Jewish Surname Index (CJSI). CJSI is your gateway to information about
699,084 surnames, mostly Jewish, that appear in 42 Different
Databases . These databases combined contain more than 7.3
million records. CJSI is sequenced phonetically rather than
alphabetically using the Daitch-Mokotoff
Soundex System. Therefore, spelling variants of a name that
sound the same are grouped together.
Some people use CJSI to determine if a surname is Jewish. The fact that
you find a surname in this index does not necessarily mean.... more>>
This option is meant only for people that are familiar with soundex
searches. If you enclose characters of the name being searched in
brackets it signifies that the letter should not be soundexed but must
appear as is. For example, searching for the name Tartacki will provide
all elements of the database that have the soundex 393450 including
those names that start with the letter "D" which has the same soundex
code as "T." However, if you request a search of [T]artacki, you have
specified that the initial letter must
be "T." Any number of consecutive letters may be bound in brackets. Any
number of sets of characters can be bound in brackets. Users should be
reminded that attempting to reduce the number of false positives may,
in fact, eliminate true positives, so the feature should be used
judiciously.
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