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Finding Jewish relatives will be easier: the largest database in the world has been created

The Israeli Museum of the Diaspora combined databases with the American organization JewishGen, giving millions of Jews worldwide a chance to restore their origins, the newspaper writes.NEWS".

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The Museum of the Jewish People, or, as it is also called, the Museum of the Diaspora (“Museon ha-am ha-yehudi Beit ha-tfutsot”) is located on the territory of Tel Aviv University. It has a unique digital archive - it contains information about the origin of Jewish surnames that cannot be found in other sources, as well as photographic documents and historical evidence.

And recently, the museum collaborates with the American project JewishGen, which specializes in Jewish genealogy and the search for family roots.

On the Online Museum of the Diaspora, everyone can find the history of his family name, as well as find information about his relatives, who happened to be fate in different countries.

Database of Jewish surnames named after. Memi de-Shalit contains information in different languages ​​about the origin and meaning of Jewish surnames. Using it you can trace the transformations of surnames in different countries. So, for example, the Azrilevich family from the USSR and the Azrilowitz family from Germany may find that they descend from the same ancestor named Azriel. He may have once fled Spain, and in other countries his many sons were simply called "son of Asriel", which eventually became a surname.

On the site you can also find your namesakes.

The appearance of the diaspora Museum database was preceded by decades of hard work by numerous experts. Now it is a collection of various sources (research, onomastic dictionaries, information received from family members and diasporas). Any value of the surname is entered into the database after a thorough verification of data from at least two or several independent sources.

And now the search for their roots on the site will become even more convenient.

“Our collaboration with the American JewishGen project helps simplify the search for information about relatives - living, killed during the Holocaust or missing. It will also help many people restore their family history if important documents are missing,” says Chaim Guzieli.

American project JewishGen has the largest amount of information in the Jewish world. He has access to numerous databases in English, but his main specialty is family trees.

Now a person who is looking for information about relatives, their place of residence before the Holocaust, does not have to do double work: regardless of which site the search is carried out on - American or Israeli, the results will come from all databases simultaneously.

“If a person knows the names of his grandparents, then his chances of finding his relatives are very high,” says Haim. “In addition, many Jewish communities that faded under Soviet rule are now experiencing a revival, and thanks to this, it is possible to replenish the archive and expand the database.”

The website of the Museum of Diaspora has been translated into Russian, but the materials in the archive themselves are in different languages. For the most efficient search, it is better to use English.

Archives of names in the Museum of the Diaspora It began with a creative initiative in the 1980s. Museum visitors were handed out printouts from the archive about the origin of the names (then this information was nowhere to be found). Gradually, more and more people began to turn to the archive for information, and today, after three decades, its funds create a unique opportunity to reconstruct the history of their families in fragments.

In addition, the archive of the Museum of the Diaspora contains rare videos from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. This archive is constantly updated, as descendants often travel to the places of the former life of their families, videotaped destroyed Jewish synagogues, cemeteries and thus help others to find traces of their missing relatives.

“Using the American site in the basic version is free, in full - for a donation of $100. Website of the Museum of the Diaspora is absolutely free for everyone who wants to find out the origin of their surname, try to find their roots and build a family tree,” explained the director of the archive.

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