Sunday, December 20, 2009

Major Jewish Genealogical Database With Over 50,000 Records From Istanbul, Turkey Goes Online

The International Society for Sephardic Progress is admiring to advertise that one of the better and a lot of important collections of Jewish affiliated annal from a Muslim country accept gone online.

New York, NY -- The International Society for Sephardic Progress (ISFSP) is admiring to advertise that one of the better and a lot of important collections of Jewish affiliated records, one that includes an all-encompassing aggregate of Sephardic data, has been fabricated accessible for accessible research.

The actual covers the aeon from 1870 to the present. The new online-accessible accumulating includes over 50,000 records, including added than 35 thousand Istanbul alliance annal and some 15,000 afterlife and burying annal from added sources including the Chief Rabbinate of Turkey and the Ashkenazi and Italian association records. The abstracts aswell comes from several Istanbul cemeteries. Researchers may appointment www.isfsp.org/istanbul to acceptance the new affiliated database.

ISFSP is acutely accountable to the Istanbul Jewish association for accouterment acceptance to these admired affiliated records. In particular, Lina Filiba and Erdal Frayman formed relentlessly to acquisition and archetype the documents. Special acknowledgment goes to the presidents of the accurate Istanbul Jewish organizations who are administration their annal in adjustment to account Jews about the apple in seek of their ancestors roots and history: the Ashkenazi Community, the Italian Community, the Kadikoy Community, the Kuzguncuk Community, and the Ortakoy Community.

The ISFSP expresses its abysmal acknowledgment to the dozens and dozens of volunteers who typed and proofed these records. Without their bags of hours of labor, these annal would abide in handwritten anatomy alone and would abide bare to a lot of researchers. This actual (in Turkish, French, Ladino, Hebrew, and Solitreo) was transcribed by associates of the Istanbul Jewish Genealogy Project, led by Professor Daniel Kazez, and through their collective efforts, has been fabricated accessible to the apple on the Internet. And while the activity has just been fabricated public, it is not complete. Professor Daniel Kazez mentions,

“We now accept typists and proofers alive on a set of over 1000 alliance annal from the Istanbul Italian Congregation, accoutrement the backward 1800s to the present. In addition, we are continuing our plan to transcribe all of the Jewish afterlife and burying annal from Istanbul.”

Commenting on the new database, Rabbi Nissim Elnecave, co-director of the International Society for Sephardic Progress said,

“The availability of this actual will be far reaching, acceptance ancestors of families to conduct affiliated analysis for years to come. As the astrologer said, the ‘Search may be fabricated in the Book of the Records of your fathers.’ Now in our avant-garde day, we still can apprentice about our fathers in a book of records, but one that is cyberbanking and accessible in our homes. Hazakim u-Berukhim, the Istanbul Jewish Genealogy Project aggregation should be adequate and blessed!”

About The International Society for Sephardic Progress
The International Society for Sephardic Progress is a Jewish cultural alignment committed to both the active Sephardic association that progresses with anniversary generation, as able-bodied as assiduity Sephardic history and ability through educational programs. The alignment was founded as a civic Sephardic alignment with the different absorbed to aswell focus on the all-embracing community. Our activities are centered on projects and issues both in the United States and abroad.

Point of contact:
Shelomo Alfassa 347-350-7695

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