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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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