Project: Jewish Roots
Categories: Jewish Roots | Judaism | Ethnic Roots Projects
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Announcements
- April Connect-a-Thon is right around the corner, April 12-15. Registration will open March 13th.
Mission
- To improve all profiles of ancestors with Jewish Roots, which may include biography building, sourcing, and making connections.
- To collect in one place information and resources to assist in building and documenting Jewish Genealogies.
- To bring together WikiTreers interested in connecting Jewish families to the Global Family Tree.
- To maintain a logical and organized structure to help individuals identify their ancestors and celebrate their history.
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- The Jewish Roots Project was first envisioned and established by ROBERTA BURNETT with our thanks.
Join us !
- Project Leaders: Elaine Martzen and Bob Hvitfeldt.
- Coordinators: seeking additional volunteers.
- Answer our G2G welcome post to join the Jewish Roots project and get a badge.
- Add jewish_roots to your followed tags.
- We use Google Groups and G2G (use jewish_roots tag) for communication.
- Check out our maintenance categories for our project needs, then jump in and start helping!
- Look at one of the Jewish Roots project's example profiles to see what we hope for in profiles that are part of our project. Other excellent examples from our project and others can be found in the Examples Gallery.
To Do
Feel free to chip away at the to-do list; we could use a volunteer to manage each item below.
- Notables
- Research Resources: Could include various research tools, from the most common to the smallest regional archive; books about a family line or on-line tools for genealogists; a website for DNA for research.
- Create new location categories in towns where Jews traditionally lived. Make sure to have at least one profile for the category before creating it. Example high-level category: Shtetls Lithuania
- Create a list of historical pogroms (see Wikipedia entry ) and other deterrents for Jews (weather events; geo-political events; epidemics; international laws relating to persecution). Make new categories where appropriate, in consultation with Categorization Project.
- Cemetery work - We would also like to make a record of places of burial for each person who is in our family trees. If the headstone contains Hebrew writing, we would like it to be translated.
Jewish Roots Resources
Substantial Resources are Welcome! Please add them on our resource page: Jewish Roots Resources
Resource People
- For a full list of project members, see the badge report.
- Lynn Gazis is the coordinator for a Yizkor book project for Thessaloniki.
Jewish Roots Categories and Sticker
Category stream for maintenance (unsourced, needs profiles created, etc): Jewish Roots Maintenance Categories
You can add the Jewish Roots Sticker to any records for profiles of persons of Jewish Heritage by cutting and pasting the following into the bio section (anywhere below the == Biography == header): {{Jewish Roots Sticker}}
Alternatively, you may use the Jewish Roots Category: [[Category:Jewish Roots]]
Sometimes this is preferred if there are multiple templates or stickers on a profile. it is not necessary to add this when the sticker is used, since the sticker auto-adds the category.
Using the sticker or the category helps the Project find, maintain, and improve profiles. Here's the list of profiles currently in the Jewish Roots category: Jewish Roots
Project Statistics
Jewish Roots Project Statistics updated monthly (Or close. I try! -Elaine)
Related Projects and Groups
- There may be overlap between profiles in this project and in the following other projects:
- Czech Roots
- Dutch Roots
- German Roots
- Holocaust
- WW1: The Great War 1914-1918
- World War II
- Slavic Roots Gateway to Czech, Polish, Russian, Romanian, Croatian, and Ukranian Roots Projects
- Global Cemeteries
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