From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Thu Sep 28 03:59:42 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8S9xgYn017695; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:59:42 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8S9xZmt026112 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:59:35 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k8S7HMFI008731 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:17:22 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8S7HMkh008730 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:17:22 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k8S242FI008108 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:04:02 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8S4k42a015442 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:46:04 -0600 X-Envelope-From: vctinney@sbcglobal.net Wed Sep 27 22:46:04 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k8S4k4Yn015431 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:46:04 -0600 Received: from web56112.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web56112.mail.re3.yahoo.com [216.252.110.206]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k8S4jpWE019648 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:46:00 -0600 Received: (qmail 78595 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Sep 2006 04:45:47 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=HW9x/hcAo85O9tkkyhir/nxZOhO7cToAHGP0SgdAw4v1AUI4GVpyUarwmKASmqTkARiVQ+CuWd5A54oDyr+/9tD6+EwaG2hryajFuLK9aeykhlU6L+qBXaAKdAiIvnNy6C80TXabzLi8KSpJazOQRDkjJ+hzI6iVU6S3PJJjaTk= ; Message-ID: <20060928044547.78593.qmail@web56112.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Received: from [71.140.2.243] by web56112.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:45:47 PDT Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 21:45:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Tinney To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com In-Reply-To: <200609280030.k8S0UmPm008817@lists5.rootsweb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] JEWISH SURNAMES, Re: ROOTS-L Digest V06 #419 ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com wrote: . . . From: Shirley Hornbeck Subject: This and That Jewish Surnames . . . JEWISH SURNAMES: -- "First American Jewish Families." This book attempted to document all descendants of Jews who arrived in the U.S. prior to 1838. If you have colonial ancestors who you think may have been Jewish and the surname is not in the book, do not be disappointed. There is some evidence the book may have only captured half the possible people. In addition, the author did not include any Jews who came to America and brought up their children as non-Jewish; there had to be at least one generation of Jewish-Americans in the family. REPLY: This book is listed online at: http://www.americanjewisharchives.org/aja/genealogy/index.html RESEARCH NOTE: May 11, 2003 Nu? What's New? [Online] News About Jewish Genealogy from Avotaynu Gary Mokotoff, Editor . . . "Most deceased persons identified in Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern's book, First American Jewish Families--some 30,000 persons--have been discovered in the International Genealogical Index (IGI). . . . First American Jewish Families identifies more than 35,000 people who are descendants of the earliest Jewish immigrants to the United States. Rabbi Stern is considered by many to [be] the father of contemporary Jewish genealogy. . . . " "The evidence is that these ordinances were" [legally and lawfully] "performed prior to the 1995 agreement between the Mormon Church and major Jewish organizations at which time the Church agreed to discontinue baptism of deceased Jews." . . . The IGI records themselves have been added to, in some cases, to provide additional source information, including non-Jewish family connections. Respectfully yours, Tom Tinney, Sr. Who's Who in America, Millennium Edition [54th] through 2004 Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, [both editions] Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory http://www.academic-genealogy.com/