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Mr. Rottenberg shows how to do a successful search by probing the memories of living relatives, by examining marriage licenses, gravestones, ships' passenger lists, naturalization records, birth and death certificates and other public documents and by looking for clues in family traditions and customs. Supplementing the "how-to" instructions is a guide to some 8,000 Jewish family names, giving the origins of the names, sources of information about each family, and the names of related families whose histories have been recorded. Other features include a county-by-country guide to tracing Jewish ancestors abroad, a list of Jewish family history books, and a guide to researchign genealogy in Mormon records and in Israel.

GENEALOGY  JEWISH