Welcome to the Early American Special Interest Group of JewishGen
This site is used to store data temporarily while we get it orgaized.
If you want to put information here of value to people studying Jewish genealogy in the United States prior to 1870, please ask joshualevy @ yahoo dot com for the password.
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Links and Data for Specific States and Cities
Links in this section are sort first by state and then by city.
To add a new town (or add data to an old one) please read this: AddingNewTownsOrNewData.
Ideas for things to add to a city's page: IdeasToAdd.
If the city name is a link, then there is a web page for you to use. San Jose is an example that. If the city name is not a link, then there is only one or two links for that city and they are on this page. Santa Cruz is an example that that. If there is a link, but the page is empty, that means you can fill in information about that city into the blank page. Finally, if there is no link to a city you want to add, then please add it!
- AL Mobile
- CA San Jose
- CA San Francisco
- CA Santa Cruz Jewish History Article
- IN Evansville
- IA Davenport
- LA New Orleans
- OR LinnAlbany
- ME Portland has a great off-site web page.
- PA Chambersburg
- SD Deadwood Web Site for Jewish Gold Rushers
- TN Memphis
- TX Victoria
More Specific Links
- FullTextBooksOnLine -- Books of interest that are completely on line.
- If you go to http://ajcarchives.org/ you can see their complete on line archives including the Yearbooks back to 1899. From a genealogy point of view the material gives more of a 'flavor' of the times than anything concrete unless a family member is listed as a member in the yearbooks (then an address is given which might be useful).
- A good start would be Malcolm Stern's book on Early American Families. It's online at: http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/FAJF/intro.html
- Another resource: American Jewish Archive at Hebrew Union College online catalog: http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/catalog/index.html)
Cryptojews, conversos, anuism, etc.
(This section is most useful to New Mexico and Arizona, and other formally Spanish parts of the USA.)
- http://www.cryptojews.com -- Yearly conference and research
Immigration to the United States (or precursors)
- http://www.jewishgen.org/BohMor/early_immig.html -- FROM CZECH AND SLOVAKIA
Southern Jewish History
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