SephardicGen Collection

Resources mentioned in the SephardicGen Collection that will become part of the IGRA Collection

Acknowledgement:
Almost all the databases below were provided to SephardicGen by Mathilde Tagger.
They are the result of many years of careful dedicated work and we all bear an enormous debt of gratitude to Mathilde Tagger.

• CISS – Consolidated Index of Sephardic Surnames, from the Sephardic Databases on this website170,000+ Name index compiled by Jeffrey Malka. Includes all the names from the databases listed below.

Separdic Names

• Sephardic Names Archived name list with sources from Sephardim.com website that is no longer on the web.
• Jewish Surnames in North Africa Over 12,000 surnames. Based on the onomastic studies of Maurice Eisenbeth, Abraham Laredo, Paul Sebag, Jacques Taieb, and Joseph Toledano.
• Jewish Surnames in the Balkans 5,372 surnames. Based on several onomastic studies.
• Sephardic Surnames of Northern European Communities 2,721 surnames. Based on several sources.
• Sephardic Surnames of the Caribbean Communities1,335 surnames. Based on several sources.
• Sephardic Surnames of the Portuguese Isles126 surnames. Based on several sources.
• Sephardic Given Names   by Mathilde Tagger1,484 Given Names in the Sephardic diaspora with their meanings and diminutives.
• Sephardic Surnames from a number of Jewish Sephardic sources by Jeffrey Malka
• Sephardic Family Trees   Links to Sephardic Family Websites by Jeffrey Malka
• Les Fleurs de l’Orient Sephardi families from the Ottoman Empire and Middle-East, 200,000 individuals (not all Sephardim) by Alain Farhi
• Sepharades et Barbaresques by Lionel Levi
• Sephardic Studies Contains a number of name lists

Gazetteer
Gazetteer of Localities with Jewish Communities in the Sephardic Diaspora 

Databases by Country

Algeria

• Annotated Index of Rabbi Isaac Bloch book (Paris, 1888)
• Algerian cemeteries – Click on registres
• Archives Nationales d’outre mer (contains some Algerian civil records)
• Jews from Algeria Deported from France in WWII
• Ketubot Sépharades d’Algérie
• La voix d’Israël
• Malkhei Yeshurun. Jerusalem, 2000
• Old Cemeteries of Algiers: Tombstone Inscriptions 
• Oran (1914-1923) – Name Index
• Philippeville cemetery – Click on “Inhumations” for burials data (names, dates, etc.)
• Rabbis of Algeria Database Annotated Index of Eliahu R. Marciano.
• Voters List in Constantine (Algeria) and its District in 1880

Argentina

• Ashkenazi-Sephardi marriages in Argentina – Jewish Genealogy
• Buenas Aires Avellaneda Cemetery

Austria

• Sephardic Graves – Vienna, Zentralfriedhof (see also Reconstruction of the Vienna Turkish (Sephardic) Synagogue)
• Some Sephardim Buried in the Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria
• The Turkish Community of Vienna; Birth Register (1848-1938)
• The Turkish Community of Vienna; Wedding Register (1846-1938)
• Turkish Community of Vienna (1788-1818)

Bulgaria

• Bulgarian Jewish Casualties in Balkan Wars and WW1
• Bulgarian Jews Deported to Bergen Belsen
• Bulgarian Jews from France exterminated in Concentration Camps
• Bulgarian Surnames – A Dictionary
• Bulgaria’s Chief Rabbis
• Burials in Shumen Cemetery
• Index of Arditti: Prominent Jews of Bulgaria in the 19th & 20th Centuries  (Enlarged version)
• Jewish Bulgarian Partisans  by Michael L. Hoffman, Ph.D.
• Jews from Bulgaria Deported from France in WWII
• Memorial Plaques in Synagogues of Bulgaria
• Russe (Rutschuk) Wedding Register (1889-1929)
• The 1919 Directory of the Kingdom of Bulgaria

Egypt

• Egyptian Jews from France exterminated in Concentration Camps
• Jews from Egypt Deported from France in WWII
• Les Juifs d’Egypte des origines a nos jours. Cairo, 1938.   Annotated Index.
• Marriage Authorizations by Alexandria rabbinate 1934-35 
• Prominent Jews in Egypt (1942-1943) (Annuaire des Juifs d’Egypte 1942 & 1943) Fargeon, Maurice.
• Sephardic Surnames in the Ottoman Empire
• 1840 Montefiore Alexandria Census

Eretz Israel (Land of Israel)

• Montefiore 1839-1875 Censuses of Eretz Yisrael 
• Gaon, Moshe David. [Oriental Jews in Eretz Yisrael, Jerusalem, 1938 Annotated Index Compiled by Mathilde Tagger
• Sephardic Chief Rabbis in Erets Yisrael for the Period 1665-2007 by Mathilde Tagger
• Sephardim in Helkat Mehokek: the Mount of Olives
• Sephardic Ketubot from Israel Index of Family Trees in the JNUL archives 
• Sephardim from Eretz Israel Deported to Bergen Belsen

France    

• Sephardic Ketubot from France

Germany   

• Sephardic Ketubot from Germany

Gibraltar

• Databases for the Jewish Community of Gibraltar
• Gibraltar Jewish Community website
• Sephardic Ketubot from Gibraltar

Great Britain

• British Sephardim Deported to Bergen Belsen
• Sephardic Ketubot from Great Britain
• Marriages at Bevis Marks (1701-1900)
• JGS of Great Britain and JewishGen’s searchable UK Databases 
• British Proteges and Subjects in Eretz Israel 1839-1914

Greece

• Crete Holocaust Victimes
• Nehama J. Histoire des Israelites de Salonique. Thessaloniki: 1936-1978. 7 vols. Annotated Index. Compiled by Mathilde Tagger
• Florina Holocaust Victims
• Greek Jews Deported to Bergen Belsen
• Greek Jews from France exterminated in Concentration Camps
• Janina Holocaust Victims
• Jews from Greece Deported from France in WWII
• Persons from Rhodes Who Were Transferred to the Ferramonti Internment Camp in Italy
• Rabbis buried in Saloniki 5281 – 5460 (1521 – 1800 C.E.) Recanati, Aure.
• Persons from Rhodes Who Were Transferred to the Ferramonti Internment Camp in Italy
• Rhodes and Cos Holocaust Victims 
• Rhodes Jewish Cemetery – Names
• The Jewish Community of Salonika, 1943
• Volos Holocaust Victims
• 16th Century Saloniki Synagogues and their memberships

India

• Calcutta Cemetery Inscriptions
• 500 Tombstone pictures from 39 cemeteries in India by Isaac Solomon

Iraq

• Jews of Iraq deported from France during WWII

Italy 

• Venezia Ancient Cemetery
• Livorno 1841 Census of Jews
• Tuscany: Archivio di Stato di Firenze: Online Civil registrations for Napoleonic Period 1808-1814; Italian Restauration 1816-1865
• Livorno: Civil registrations Napoleonic Period 1808-1814
• Livorno: Civil registrations during Restauration 1816-1860
• Livorno: Civil registrations during Restauration 1861-1865
• and similar for civil registrations of Pisa, Firenze, Siena, Pitigliano, etc. (Thanks to Michele Sacerdoti for this information)
• Two Charity Societies in Livorno, Italy (1664 and 1715)
• Name Index of Luzzatto’s Gal Avanim, Trieste, 
• 1851 Surnames in Italy (Searchable)
• Sephardic Ketubot from Italy (786 Ketubot, 3,200 persons)
• Italian Sephardim Deported to Bergen Belsen

Lebanon

• Beirut Jewish Cemetery Database compiled by Nagi Georges Zeidan
• Jews from Lebanon Deported from France in WWII  Montefiore 1839 Census of Eretz Yisrael  (Jews of Sidon (Saida) in Lebanon were counted in the Montefiore 1839 Census)Database compiled by Mathilde Tagger and Rose Feldman
• Jewish Surnames in Lebanon
• Sephardic Ketubot from Lebanon
• Sephardic Surnames in the Ottoman Empire

Libya

• Jewish Victims of Libyan Riots in 1945, 1948, and 1967
• Libyan Jews deported from France during WWII
• Libyan Jews Deported to Bergen Belsen
• Sephardic Ketubot from Libya

Morocco

• Meknes Family Trees, 26,000+ individuals (Raphael and Georgette Cohen Collection at Beit Hatfutsot)
• Jews from Morocco Deported from France in WWII
• Moroccan Jews from France exterminated in Concentration Camps
• Index of Ben Naim.
• Malkhei Rabbanan [Rabbis of Morocco]
• Index of Ovadia. Fas vehakhameiha [Fes and Her Rabbis]
• Mogador (Essaouira) Illuminated Ketubot- Index of Sephardic Ketubot from Morocco (402 ketubot, 2900 individuals)Book (1789-2003)
• Melca site on Mogador (genealogical data on 8,400 individuals)
• Victims of 1948 Riots in Oujda and Jérada
• Tangier Beit Hahayim Cemetery Searchable database of names with parents, etc.
• Essaouira – Mogador Cemeteries Searchable database of names and other identifying information from the cemeteries of Essaouira (Mogador), Morocco.
• Casablanca Jewish Cemetery (5800+ tombstone photos)
• Marrakesh Jewish Cemetery (names and photos)
• Tetuan Jewish cemetery (searchable)
• Agadir Jewish Cemetery  (archived webpage) Click on “Cimetiere Israelite d’Agadir” for photos and tombstone inscriptions.
• La Voix des Communautés [French]  historical Jewish newspaper in Morocco
• 1000 Maghrebians (Index of book by Abraham Elharar) – Searchable database

Netherlands

• Sephardic marriages in Amsterdam (Mokum) 1598-1811
• Portuguese marriages in Amsterdam 1664 – 1926
• Akevoth (Jewish Genealogical research in the Netherlands)   Superb resource
• Poor Sephardic Jews given Sedaka in Amsterdam to move elsewhere
• Amsterdam Personal Files at CAHJP
• Beth Haim at Ouderkerk aan de Amstel Jewish Cemetery Searchable databases of Jewish Cemetery at Ouderkerk, Marriages in Mokum, Family Name adoptions, Portuguese marriages, etc.
• Vaz Dias Index of Sephardic Name aliases
• Index of dowries for Pautas (poor Sephardic girls).
• Promesas, finta and impostas of 17th century Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam.
• Sephardic Ketubot from The Netherlands
• 93 Sephardic burials at Middleburg, Netherlands
• Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands Dutch Shoah victims click on “news”
• Dutch Sephardic Jews Deported to Bergen Belsen

Portugal

• Faro Cemetery in Portugal. Index of Burials (1838-1932)
• Funchal Cemetery, Madeira
• Portuguese Inquisition Trials at CAHJP
• Portuguese Inquisition Trials at Torre do Tombo
• Portuguese Inquisition Trials at Torre do Tombo (Unofficial but better)
• Torre do Tombo Search Pag 

Romania

• Craiova War Memorial for Jews who perished in 1913, 1916-19.
• The Sephardi Jews in Romania’s economic life

Spain

• Jewish names extracted from Hispania Judaica v.1: Regne, History of the Jews in Aragon
• Jewish names extracted from Hispania Judaica v.4: Leroy, Jews of Navarre 
• Jewish names extracted from Hispania Judaica v.6: Assis, Jews of Santa Coloma de Queralt
• Jewish names extracted from Hispania Judaica v.8: Castellon, Burriana, Villareal
  Jewish names extracted from Hispania Judaica v.9: Valencia
• Jewish names extracted from Hispania Judaica v.11:
• Jewish Records in 15th Century Seville Archives
• Jewish Surnames from the Periodical Sefarad 1941-2007
• Medieval Jewish Surnames That Survived in the Sephardic Diaspora
• MedievalKetubot
• Search Ancient Toledo Tombstone Inscriptions
• Sephardic Ketubot from Spain
• Sephardic Origins and Transformations in the Spanish Extremadura: Project Synopsis and Database User Guide. by Roger L Martinez-Davila Download database and instructions at above link or here.

Syria

• Aleppo Brit Milah (Circumcision) Database, 1868-1945
• Jews from Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, and Syria Deported from France in WWII
• Tombstone Inscriptions of Aleppo Rabbis
• Rabbis buried in Damascus 5410 – 5693 (1650 – 1933 C.E.)
• Sephardic Ketubot from Syria (170 persons)
• Sephardic Surnames in the Ottoman Empire

Tunisia

• Jews from Tunisia Deported from France in WWII
• Tunisian Jews from France exterminated in Concentration Camps
• Jewish Martyrs who Perished in Nazi Forced Labor Camps
• Tunisian Rabbis
• Inscriptions in Tunis Old Cemetery (Arditti)
• Sephardic Ketubot from Tunisia

Turkey
(see also Austria section)

• Jews from Turkey Deported from France in WWII
• Turkish Jews from France exterminated in Concentration Camps
• Chief Rabbis of Turkey: 1454-2007
• Rabbis buried in Izmir 5300 – 5620 (1540 – 1860 C.E.)
• Galante, A. [History of the Jews of Turkey]. Istanbul, 1941. 9v. Annotated index of the first four volumes
• Turkish Jews deported to Bergen Belsen
• Sephardic Ketubot from Turkey
• Sephardic Surnames in the Ottoman Empire
• Istanbul Rabbinate Jewish Records (Marriage and Burial) 35,000 Name Database Transcribed and Compiled by Dan Kazez and Volunteers
• Civil Records of the Jews of Tire, Turkey 7,200 individual records from 1800s to 1960s plus images, etc.

Venezuela

• Sephardic Cemeteries in Venezuela – searchable database 
• Coro Sephardic Cemetery in Venezuela – searchable database 

(ex) Yugoslavia

• Yugoslavian Jews Deported to Bergen Belsen
• Index of Jews of Monastir (Bitola) who perished in Treblinka Death Camp in March 1943.
• Census of Jewish Family Heads In Beograd, Serbia in 1856
• Sephardic Ketubot from Croatia
• Sephardic Ketubot from Kosovo
• Sephardic Ketubot from Macedonia
• Sephardic Ketubot from Serbia

General Databases

• French Archives in Aix en ProvenceOnline indexes of birth/wedding/death from French civil registers
• Historical Jewish Press
• Online indexes of historical Jewish newspapers (Palestine Post, AIU Bulletin, papers from Morocco, Egypt, etc.)
• Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP) Database (on JewishGen). You will need to register and login to search this database.
• Though mostly Ashkenazi families, there are Sephardic families too.
• This is a very useful tool for researchers of the same families to find each other. While there register the families you are searching so others can contact you.
• JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) Searchable database of names and other identifying information from cemeteries and burial records worldwide, from the earliest records to the present.
• Sephardic-Mizrahi Postal History & Ephemera Database (multiple countries) by Ron Lab