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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
Rabbinic Baal Shem Tov project II/2/03 Ashkenazic Rabbinic Families III/3/07 Descendants of Rashi--Opinion 1 IV/2/07 Descendants of Rashi--Opinion 2 IV/2/09 Descendants of Rashi V/1/Sp.Sup Are all Ashkenazim descended from Rashi? VI/1/28 Historicity of the Rashi descent VI/1/28 Book review: From King David to Baron David VI/2/23
Descent of Rashi: A review VI/2/35
Response to Jacobi's Rashi article VI/2/36
A seventeenth-century Luria manuscript VII/2/19
Questions Luria documentation VII/3/28
Question origin of surname Katz VII/3/28
Comments on Rosenstein's Luria lineage VII/3/47
More books on Rabbinic research VII/4/67
Rosenstein responds to critics VIII/1/57
Can we prove descent from King David VIII/3/29
Rashi's descent from King David VIII/3/31
From the seed of Rashi VIII/3/32
Chabad-Lubavitch literature as a genealogical source VIII/3/40
Expands on Chabad article VIII/4/66
The (Maternal) descent of Rashi IX/2/32
Descent from King David--Part II IX/2/34
Reprint of Otsar ha-rabanim available X/1/66
Spira and Luria families revisited X/4/17
Documenting the descendants of the Vilna Gaon XI/1/47
Which Rapaports Are Also SCHaCH Descendants? XI/3/50
The Reliability of Genealogical Research in Modern Rabbinic Literature XI/4/31
Englard's articles on questions in Rabbinic genealogy XII/1/36
Questions Rosenstein's article XII/2/66
Rappaport family: a response to Paul Jacobi XII/3/46
The Edelman Hoax and the Origins of Anglo-Jewish Aristocracy XIV/2/25
Hasidic dynasties XIII/3/49
Eliyahu's Branches: The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and His Family XIII/4/96
An Approbation for Neil Rosenstein and Dov Weber XIV/3/90
Sherwood "Forest" Through the Genealogical Trees XIV/4/21
Braude Beginnings XVI/3/43
Documentation of the Besht Found in Magnate Archives XVI/4/89
Questions "Braude Beginnings" XVII/1/75
A Method for Depicting Interconnected Rabbinical
Families Simultaneously: The Jewish Historical Clock XVII/3/10
Book Review: Beit Rabbanan: Sources of Rabbinical Genealogy XVIII/1/65
Genealogical Information in Rabbinical Texts: An Examination XVIII/2/43
Rabbinical Genealogies Prepared by Paul Jacobi XVIII/2/28
Genealogical Information in Rabbinic Texts II: An Examination XVIII/4/49
Descent from Rashi: A "Mythological Charter" XIX/3/03
Descent from Rashi: Response to Schellekens XIX/3/05
Descent from Rashi: Response to Rosenstein XIX/3/08
Shmuel Helman of Metz is the Son of Israel Heilprin: An Analysis XIX/4/27
Claims MaHaRam Pedigree Is Valid XX/1/58
The Mother of the Tosfot YomTov Revealed In Code XX/2/41
Ancestry of the Gaon of Vilna: Descent from King David XXI/3/43
Romania Selected sources on Romania at the Central Archives of the Jewish People VI/1/15 Romanian holdings in the Diaspora Research Institute VI/2/13 Jewish genealogical society founded VII/3/30 Romanian records in LDS Family History Library VII/3/44 Iasi Jewish records missing VII/3/45 Origins of the Jews of Romania and their history up to the Basic Rules of 1831-32 VIII/2/19 Genealogical records (in Romania) have been destroyed VIII/2/42 Says Romanian records exist VIII/3/64 Political situation in country VIII/4/57 Situation in Romania. IX/2/51 Romanian records at the Holocaust Memorial Museum IX/4/18 Research strategies for records still held in Romania IX/4/18 Book review: Companion Guide to Romania X/1/61
Researching Jewish Romania on site XI/1//8
Sources of research for Jewish genealogy in Transylvania XI/2/29
Romania: The Sudits and other Jewish discoveries XII/1/29
Sources for Jewish genealogical research in Romania XII/3/08
Seeking Romaniote Jews XIII/1/67
Genealogy and History: Sources of Jewish Genealogical Research in Romania (18th-20th
Centuries) XIII/3/42
Sources of Jewish Genealogical Research in the Romanian Archival System XIV/3/22
Book Review: The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and
Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 XVI/4/87
Jews in Transylvanian Towns in the First Half of the 19th Century XVII/2/29
B'nai Brith Plans Romania Project XVIII/1/78
Ashes and Flowers: A Family Trek to Jewish Poland and Romania XVIII/4/11
Adoption of Names in Romania XIX/2/54
Historical and Demographic Background of Jewish Family Research in Romania XIX/3/45
Resources for Romanian Jewish genealogy XX/4/62
Book Review: Finding Home: In the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers XXI/1/60
Access to Romanian Archives Moves Forward XXI/2/58
Russia (also see Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, USSR) New Jewish Records of Hungary and Russia Available at the LDS Library XIII/1/51 To Register or Not to Register: The Administrative Dimension of the Jewish Question in Czarist Russia XIII/1/6 Understanding Russian-Jewish Given Names XIII/2/3 Use of Revision Lists to Decipher a Family Tree XIII/2/43 RAGAS Reports Status of Record Access in Various Regions XIII/2/54 Hamburg Passengers from the Kingdom of Poland and the Russian Empire XIII/2/63
Jewish Migrations to Eastern Europe XIII/3/12
More on Revision Lists XIII/4/46
Danish Emigrant Lists on Web Include Many Russian Jews XIII/4/98
Notes Spelling of Vsia Rossiia XIII/4/98
Were There Jewish Revision Lists? XIV/1/26
Jewish Migration from Eastern Europe to Sweden from the 1850s to World War I XIV/1/39
Documents of the Soviet Evobshestvkom Committee as a Source of Genealogical
Information XIV/1/45
Russian Revision Lists Do Not Always Separate Jews from Christians XIV/1/67
Russian-Jewish Given Names: Their Origins and Variants XIV/2/61
Russian Revision Lists: A History XIV/3/59
Pseudo-Adopted Sons in Russian Revision Lists XIV/3/62
About the Russian Archivist's Soul XIV/3/66
Jewish Given Names in Eastern Europe and the U.S. XIV/3/9
In Which Haystack to Search: More on Sources for Russian-Jewish Genealogy XIV/4/16
Archival Sources for the Genealogy of Jewish Colonists in
Southern Russia in the 19th Century XV/2/14
Tackling the Lack of Surnames in 18th-Century Russian Records XV/3/17
Russia's Economic Crisis and Its Effect on Archives and Genealogists XVI/1/17
Residents' Lists and the Russian Military Draft XVI/1/20
Special Features of 20th-Century Resources for Genealogical Research in Russia XVI/1/23
Russian Court Rabbi Records Can Vary in Format XVI/1/67
Jewish Genealogical Research in the Imperial Russian Empire XVI/2/32
Gospodskaia Duma, Summer 1907; Voter Registration Lists XVI/2/38
Gubernskie Vedomosti on 35mm Microfilm XVI/2/40
The Russian National Census of 1897 XVI/3/29
Ships Missing from Migrations from the Russian Empire XVI/4/8
Tracing Our Families Through Russian Pogrom Records XVII/2/36
Book Review: Archival Judaica of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus XVII/3/66
The 1897 All-Empire Russian Census XVIII/3/23
Book Review: In Their Words--Volume 2: Russian XIX/1/60
Jewish Surname Changes Following Emigration from Russia XIX/2/16
New Sources for Genealogical Research in Imperial Russia XIX/2/21
Jewish Surnames in Russia, Poland, Galicia and Prussia XIX/3/28
Russian Exit Passports: Documentation of Emigrants from the Russian Empire XXI/1/03
Mining Russian Revision Lists for Hidden Information XXI/2/07
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