Avotaynu Home PageAVOTAYNU maintains an index to selected articles that have appeared in the first eighteen volumes (1985-2005) of the publication. Only shown are major articles and some excerpts from the sections "From Our Contributing Editors" and "From Our Mailbox." Not shown is the "U.S. Update" column, which is a digest of articles that appeared in publications of the Jewish genealogical societies and special interest groups. The articles in Volume III, Number 4 and many in Volumes IV-XXI, Number 4, were human interest features and, therefore, are not part of the index. Each entry is the title of the article followed by the volume/number/page. Back issues can be purchased for $10 each ($12 outside North America) from Avotaynu, Inc., 155 N. Washington Ave, Bergenfield, NJ 07621. Note: Most earlier back issues are available in photocopy version only. All back issues from 1985-2005 are available on CD-ROM for $99.95 plus shipping. An annual subscription to Avotaynu is $35.00. Subscribe now!
Volume/Year: I/1985, II/1986, III/1987, IV/1988, V/1989, VI/1990, VII/1991, VIII/1992. IX/1993, X/1994, XI/1995, XII/1996, XIII/1997, XIV/1998, XV/1999, XVI/2000, XVII/2001, XVIII/2002, XIX/2003, XX/2004, XXI/2005
India Jews of India XI/3/66 Indian Jews--Bene Israel XII/1/43 Indian Jews XII/4/64 Iran Iranian-Jewish Genealogy XIV/1/51 Jadid Al-Islam: The Jewish "New Muslims" of Meshhed XIV/2/61
Iraq Sources of information V/1/35 Iraqi Jewry XII/4/65 Jewish Records Found in Baghdad XIX/2/03
The Jews of Iraq XIX/2/05
Baghdad Records Reach Israel XX/3/51
Ireland LDS Family History Library has Irish-Jewish records VII/3/47 Irish Alien Registrations XVII/2/66 Israel Tombstone inscriptions of cemetery at Mount of Olives I/1/13 Beth Hatefutsoth opens genealogy center I/2/03 Genealogical items at Jewish National and University Library I/2/12 Pinkassim Hakehillot (Encyclopedia of European communities) II/1/26 Recent acquisitions of various Israeli archives II/2/19 A genealogical trip--sources of information III/3/14 Montefiore census of Jews of Palestine in 1839 III/3/22 Dorot genealogy center seeks 1,000,000 names IV/2/15 Dorot Genealogy Center makes three major announcements IV/3/14 Central Archives for History of Jewish People publishes Polish holdings IV/3/22 Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People V/1/18 Dorot Center founder gives position paper V/3/13 Israel trip yields additional [genealogical] finds VI/1/09 Genealogical sources as the Institute for Dutch Jewry in Jerusalem VI/1/31 Encyclopedia of Galician Rabbis project needs financial help VI/1/42
Census of 1939 to be indexed VI/2/27
Their Father's House: Studies and Sources in Family History VI/3/26
Lauds efforts of Batya Untershatz VI/4/62
Dorot Center--a major disappointment VII/2/03
Guide to resources in Israel: an update VII/2/04
More resources in Israel VII/2/06
Beit Maramaros VII/2/15
Censuses from the Ottoman Empire VII/2/27
The Kollel Galicia Archive VII/3/23
Operation of Hall of Names (at Yad Vashem) VII/3/43
Dorot Center success story VII/4/61
AVOTAYNU contributes WOWW database to Yad Vashem VIII/2/15
The 19th-century Montefiore censuses VIII/2/25
Translator for Nefus registers found VIII/2/57
Two sources for research on British Palestine VIII/3/35
Update on resources in Israel IX/2/17
Bar-Ilan University establishes project for study of Jewish names and Jewish
genealogy IX/2/37
The Valley of the Destroyed Communities IX/2/38
Sources for 1906-1920 Palestine period IX/2/50
Greek collection in Moscow IX/2/50
Key to the 1939 census of Palestine IX/2/50
Genealogically useful records at the Israel Labor Archives IX/3/17
The Jewish National and University Library--another Israeli resource IX/3/19
Three important archives in Israel IX/4/11
Yad Vashem Archives IX/4/71
Joint Distribution Committee records IX/4/71
Source for data on Russian immigrants to Israel at Ministry of Absorption IX/4/71
Burials in Israel IX/4/71
Records of Palestinian Jews who fought in World War I found IX/4/71
Research in Israel: Echoes from a vanished world X/1/19
New genealogy center opens in Tel Aviv X/1/22
Data available from Israeli sources X/1/22
International Tracing Service records at Yad Vashem X/1/22
Polish sources at the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People X/2/21
Two genealogical resources at the Keren Kayemeth X/2/38
American consulate, Jerusalem 1857-1924 X/4/13
Institute for Hebrew Bibliography X/4/19
Research projects at the Diaspora Research Institute X/4/54
History of the Rapaport family X/4/65
Book review: American Consuls in the Holy Land, 1832-1914 X/4/76
The G\1 Collection in Jerusalem's Central Archives for the History of the Jewish
People XI/4/25
Report on a Return Trip to Israel XI/4/21
A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel XI/4/73
Diaspora Research Institute documenting Carpatho-Russian Jewry XII/1/66
No Yad Vashem distributor in the United States XII/1/67
Privacy laws XII/4/64
A Genealogical Report on Israel, Fall 1996 XII/4/17
Printed Books on Jewish Cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in
Jerusalem: An Annotated Bibliography, Jews of Bukhara, Portuguese Jews in the
Caribbean, Ashkenazic surname in the Sephardi Diaspora XIII/1/39
Pinchas Lavon Labor Movement Research Institute XIII/3/49
Director of Yad Vashem Archives Describes Plans for the Future XIII/3/66
Holdings of the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People XIII/4/79
Kollels of Eretz Israel as a Genealogical Treasure XIV/1/38
Land claims in Israel XIV/1/46
Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People filming in Belarus and
negotiations with Lithuanians and Russians, Chinese Jews XIV/2/47
Paul Jacobi library XIV/2/47
Status of Pages of Testimony XIV/2/47
Yad Vashem Mobilizes Army of Workers to Computerize Names of Holocaust Victims XV/1/7
Genealogy in Israel: May 1999 XV/2/9
Israel State Archives Charges for Retrieving Files XV/4/66
Yad Vashem Opens Multimillion Name Database XVI/1/3
Yad Vashem Opens Combined Library and Archive Building XVI/1/4
Education Program and Facilities Expand at Yad Vashem XVI/1/67
Yad Vashem Still Needs Yizkor Books XVI/2/49
New Resources at the Diaspora Research Institute XVI/3/55
Jerusalem, Spring 2001 XVII/2/7
Indirect Genealogy: Unexpected Genealogical Resources at the
Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People XVII/2/9
Search Bureau Closes Its Doors XVIII/1/67
Israel, Spring 2002 XVIII/2/25
Safed Cemetery Data Now Online XVIII/2/67
Books about Jewish Legion of WWI XVIII/3/67
Describes Gorr Legacy XVIII/4/91
Central Archives Needs Financial Help XIX/1/67
Into the "Heart of Terror" XIX/2/23
Project to Research Turkish and Balkan Countries at Diaspora Research Institute XIX/2/36
Book Review: Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars XIX/3/65
Genealogical Resources at Yad Vashem XIX/3/10
Israel Has Unique Resources for Jewish Genealogical Research XIX/3/67
Jewish Cemeteries in Jerusalem XIX/3/15
Jews in Eretz Yisrael in 1875 XIX/4/08
1916 Jewish Census XX/1/47
Israel Genealogical Society Plans Major Projects for Annual Conference XX/1/23
Jacobi Indexing Project XX/1/47
Ottoman-era Censuses XX/1/47
Yad Vashem Central Database of Holocaust Victims' Names XX/1/49
19th-century Eretz Yisrael Vital Records XX/2/50
Evaluates Pages of Testimony Database XX/2/70
Montefiore 1875 census XX/2/50
Biographical lexicon of Polish rabbis and admorim XX/3/47
Yad Vashem Unveils Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names XX/3/05
Building a National Family Tree XX/4/32
Comments on Pages of Testimony XXI/1/62
Collecting Genealogical Data in Israel XXI/2/43
IGS Consolidated Surname Index XXI/2/43
Locating Page of Testimony Submitters XXI/2/43
Inventory of Family Trees in Jewish National and University Library XXI/3/52
Italy Jewish genealogical research in Italy VIII/1/20 Book review: Guide to Jewish Italy VIII/1/55
Center for Italian Jewry X/1/23
Venetian Jewry X/2/51
Jewish Livorno, Italy, 1841 XII/4/62
Two Key Italian Resources for Jewish Genealogists XIII/2/45
Jews of Milan XIII/2/50
Guidebook Series Spotlights Italy's Jewish Heritage XIV/1/40
Italian-Jewish genealogy on the Internet XIV/1/46
Italian-Jewish surnames XIV/3/69
History of the Jews of Italy XV/3/29
The Jews of Livorno, Italy: Archival Sources XVIII/2/42
Rapa and Rapaport Families in Northern Italy in the 15th and 16th Centuries XIX/1/29
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