Laura Arnold Leibman

Main Feeder Communities for Jews in the Colonies

 

Amsterdam

• Circumcision Registers

• Marriage Records

  • Originals 1578-1811: Amsterdam Municipal Archives [Stadsarchief Amsterdam]

    • After 1811 City Registery

    • Prior to 1811 See Ketubot Books by Congregation

  • Print Index: Verdooner, Dave and Harmen Snel. Trouwen in Mokum (Jewish Marriage in Amsterdam, 1598–1811). 2 vol. ’s-Gravenhage: Warray, [1991?]. (FHL book 949.234/A2 F22v.)  ISBN: 9072477251; 9789072477255

• Cemetery Records

  • Jewish Cemetery Beth Haim at Ouderkerk aan de Amstel

• Synagogue Records: Amsterdam Municipal Archives [Stadsarchief Amsterdam]

  • Excerpts and History: Gans, Mozes Heiman. Memorbook: History of Dutch Jewry from the Renaissance to 1940. Baarn: Bosch & Keuning, 1977. (FHL book 949.2 F2g.)

• General

• Guide to the Jewish Genealogical Records at the Amsterdam Municipal Archives

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London

• London Jews Database (prior to 1850): Addresses and other resources

• Birth Registers

  • Rodrigues-Pereira, M.; Loewe, C. eds., The Birth Register (1767-1881) of the Spanish andPortuguese Jews’ Congregation, London, Bevis Marks Records, 5. London: Jewish Historical Society, 1993.

• Circumcision Register

  • Barnett, R D, and Miriam Rodrigues-Pereira. The Circumcision Register of Isaac and Abraham De Paiba (1715-1775). Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Congregation [in association with]Jewish Historical Society of England, 1991.

• Marriage Records

  • Online: Marriages at Bevis Marks Synagogue (1766-1837) and the Great Synagogue (1791-1837)  indexed in Webb's London Marriages (for pay searching)

  • Print Abstracts:

    • Barnett, L.D. ed., Abstracts of the Ketubot or Marriage contracts. from the Earliest Times until 1837, Bevis Marks Records,

      2. London: The Congregation, 1949.

    • Whitehill, G.H. ed., Abstracts of the Ketubot or Marriage contracts and of the Civil Marriage Registers of the Congregation, 1837-1901, Bevis Marks Records, 3. London: Jewish Historical Society, 1973.

• Cemetery Records

  • Rodrigues-Pereira, M.; Loewe, C. eds., The Burial Register (1733-1918) of the Nuovo (New) Cemetery of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation, London (with some later entries), Bevis Marks Records, 6. London: The Congregation, 1997

  • Barnett, R. D. "THE BURIAL REGISTER OF THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE JEWS, LONDON 1657—1735 (with Some Later Entries)." Miscellanies (Jewish Historical Society of England) 6 (1962): 1-72. http://www.jstor.org/stable/29777128.

• The London Jews Database (pre-1850)

• Synagogue Records (LMA) - most require permission to access

• General

  • Rosemary Wenzerul, A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in the United Kingdom

  • Publications of the Jewish Historical Society of England

    • Free access to back issues online for members: https://jhse.org/publications/

    • Access via Jstor by subscription or can be used in most academic libraries

      • Jewish Historical Studies 1982 - 2014

      • Transactions & Miscellanies (Jewish Historical Society of England) 1968 - 1981

      • Miscellanies (Jewish Historical Society of England) 1925 - 1962

      • Transactions (Jewish Historical Society of England) 1893 - 1962

  • Todd M. Endelman, The Jews of Britain, 1656 to 2000

  • Sharman Kadish, Jewish Heritage in Britain and Ireland: An Architectural Guide (2015)

  • Sharman Kadish, The Synagogues of Britain and Ireland: An Architectural and Social History (2011)

Hamburg

• Cemetery Database

• General

  • Michael Studemund-Halévy, Biographisches Lexikon der Hamburger Sefarden : die Grabinschriften des Portugiesenfriedhofs an der Königstrasse in Hamburg-Altona

 

Spain

• Archivo Historico Nacional (AHN), Madrid; Portada del Archivo Historico Nacional

• Spanish Colonies

  • New Spain: Archivo de la Nación (fondo de Instituciones coloniales), Mexico City

  • Peru: Archivo General de la Nación, Lima; Guia del Archivo Colonial [Guide to the Colonial Archive]

 

Portugal

• Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo, Lisbon

• Portuguese Inquisition Trials (limited but in English, no links to original texts)

 

Africa

• The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database (US)