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Friday, February 28, 2014

Repositories—Greater Washington, DC

Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington Library


Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington Library
6301 Montrose Avenue
P.O. Box 1614 (20849-1614)
Rockville, MD 20852

President@jgsgw.org
http://JGSGW.org/
No telephone

Repository

The JGSGW Library is located in the Media Center of B’nai Israel Congregation, 6301 Montrose Avenue in Rockville, MD. We are usually open the first Sunday of the month from 10:00 a.m. to noon, Wednesdays between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m.by appointment, and after JGSGW meetings at B’nai Israel.  Our catalog and contact information are on the JGSGW website at http://JGSGW.org/ in the Library section.

Be Prepared

Our collection is entirely a reference collection, so all materials are always available.  You can view materials, make photocopies (no charge), or use a scanner and save it to your own flash drive. We also have access to Ancestry World edition, Fold3 and Genealogy Bank.  WIFI is available for your computer.

Holdings

Books such as Our Parents Lives and World of Our Fathers, Auswandererhafen Hamburg Emigration, and Attachments: Faces and Stories from America’s Gates can be used to gain insight into the lives of our ancestors, the difficulties of immigration and their Americanization.

Collections

The library is focused on Jewish genealogy: methodology, family histories, surname, and given name directories and gazetteers for Eastern European and Russian, histories of the Jews in European countries and major towns in the U.S.  The surname works on the Russian Empire, Galicia, the Kingdom of Poland and Prague by Alexander Beider are heavily used as is his Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names: Their Origins, Structure, Pronunciations, and Migrations.  Location guides to towns and shtetls are also well used. Guides and works on Sephardic genealogy are also included.

Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington Library

Maps and Conference Recordings


You can pour over 50 historical maps, primarily from Europe, including countries that no longer exist—such as Galicia and Bukovina, the Suwalki area, and historical German Kingdoms. Recordings of many annual IAJGS conferences are available to use with headphones.

Vera Finberg
JGSGW Librarian
Vera.finberg@verizon.net



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