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
Methodology Proposal for a Jewish soundex code I/1/05 Genealogical research by mail II/1/17 Jewish soundex--A revised format II/1/19 Is it really luck? V/2/15 Cemeteries: information source about the living V/4/22 A proposed standard for identifying Jewish months in genealogical data bases VIII/3/64 Hiring a professional genealogist: A genealogist's view IX/2/44 Hiring a professional genealogist: A client's view IX/2/45 Prenumeraten as a source for Jewish genealogists X/2/42 Seven guiding principles for family research X/4/44 The soundex problem of false positives XI/1/19 Luzer Isn't Layzer XI/1/19 Researcher's bane: The "misspelled" name XII/2/11 More about Jewish family names: A cautionary tale XII/2/17 Using photographs to solve family puzzles XII/4/48 Evidence! XIV/3/87
Living Vertically: Urban Research Methods XIV/4/6
Holistic Geography XV/1/16
Conducting One-Surname Research: An Introduction XV/3/33
A Blueprint for Conducting One-Surname Research XV/3/35
Converting Hebrew Dates on Tombstones XV/3/71
Genealogical Research in Its Historical Context:
Tracing My Family Back Eleven Generations XV/4/17
Corrects Tombstone Inscription Article XV/4/66
Common Hebrew Abbreviations on Tombstones XVI/1/29
More About Reading Jewish Tombstones XVI/1/31
Genealogy: The Great Paper Chase XVI/1/35
The Art of the Interview XVI/4/31
Twelve Steps from the Past to the Present XVI/4/33
Searching for Eve: A Methodological Lesson XVII/2/40
Genealogical Records: Should We Believe What We Read? XVII/2/45
Pinkassim of Those Called to the Torah as a Source for
Historical and Genealogical Study XVII/4/23
How to Find Your Relatives or How to Let Them Find You XVII/4/33
Researching Public Archival Collections and Indexing Personal Family Papers XVIII/2/11
Two Major Errors on a Gravestone--Or Just One? XVIII/4/28
Given Name Analysis: A Tool for Single-Surname Research and Very Large Families XVIII/4/62
Beware of Both Documented and Oral Histories XX/2/24
Revisit Your Old Research XXI/1/62
A Template for Evaluating Evidence XXI/2/10
Creating State or Country Databases of Jewish Births, Marriages and Deaths XX/3/45
Creation of Widespread Use of Compound Artificial Jewish Family Names XX/3/17
Brothers, Cousins--or Both: A Family Brainteaser XX/4/09
The Virtue of Persistence: A Story of Discovery and Some Rules Learned Along the Way XX/4/41
A Scientific Approach to the Etymologies of Jewish Surnames XXI/1/09
Looking for a Book or Periodical Article Online at a Library Research Facility XXI/1/18
Guidelines for Converting Documents Written in Hebrew and Yiddish into English XXI/2/19
Using GenMerge to Analyze the Jews of Pusalotas XXI/2/17
Moldova (see also Russia, USSR)
Record Searcher Available in Moldova XIII/2/67
Travel to Bukovina and Moldova XV/4/42
Jewish Genealogical Research in Moldova XVI/3/22
Bukovina Cemeteries, Archives and Oral History XVIII/3/9
Moldovan Ancestry Research XIX/1/09
Morocco Jewish surnames III/2/23 Civil records of Algeria and Morocco VI/1/29 Books about Spanish Jews of Morocco VII/2/26 Sources of information VIII/2/37 About the Jews of Morocco, Algeria and Libya X/3/38 Sephardic genealogical research in Morocco X/3/40 Bibliography for Jewish genealogy in Spanish Morocco X/3/42 Reports address of Moroccan Jewry source XI/1/67 Moroccan rabbis XI/4/55 Moroccan given names XII/1/44 Moroccan rabbis XIII/3/49 Moroccan community in Buenos Aires XIII/4/79 European Refugees Who Found Shelter in Morocco During World War II XX/3/47
Moroccan Jews in Latin America XX/3/47
Jews of Tetuan XXI/1/47
Sack of Fez in 1912 XXI/1/47
New Zealand History of Jews of New Zealand I/2/13 Tracing relatives in New Zealand II/2/20 First workshop on genealogy III/2/24 Book review: Not Strictly Kosher--Pioneer Jews in New Zealand V/3/26
Book on Auckland Jewry VII/1/28
Alexander Turnbull Library VIII/2/41
Books on local Jewry IX/1/41
Jewish oral archive established X/2/52
Book review: The Standard for the People: The 150th Anniversary of the Wellington
Hebrew Congregation, 1843-1993 XII/1/65
Book Review: Mixed Blessings: New Zealand Children of Holocaust Survivors XIX/1/41
Holocaust Remembrance Day in Auckland XIX/2/54
Jews of New Zealand XX/4/62
North Africa (see also Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) North African Jewry V/3/25 Consular records of the Levant and North Africa XIV/3/69
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