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JGSCO Library


Location:
Congregation Emanuel
51 Grape Street
Denver, CO  80220
(303) 388-4013
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JGSCO Library Inventory - last updated 8/17/2007

  • A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From The Russian Empire - Beider - Avotaynu, Inc. l993. 
  • A World of Records-FGS/UGA 2000 - 6-9 Sept. 2000 Salt Lake City, Utah. 
  • Finding Your Jewish Roots in Galicia-A Resource Guide - Suzan F. Wynne Avotaynu, Inc. l998. 
  • The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy - Edited by Arthur Kurzweil & Miriam Weiner, Jason Aronson, Inc. l991. 
  • Morton Allen Directory of European Passsenger Steamship Arrivals l890-1930 - Genealogy Publishing Co. N.Y. l931, Reprinted l979-l980, l987-l993. 
  • Dallas Jewish Genealogical Guide - David A. Chapin, Dallas Jewish Historical Society l993. 
  • New York Jews and the Quest for Community-the Kehillah Experiment l908-l922 - Arthur a. Goren l970, Columbia University Press. 
  • Organizing Your Family History Search - Sharon Bartolo Carmack, Betterway Books l999. 
  • How To Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust - Gary Mokotoff Avotaynu, Inc. l995. 
  • Jewish Personal Names - Rabbi Shmuel Gorr, Avotaynu, Inc. l992. 
  • Documents of Our Ancestors - Michael J. Meshenberg, Avotaynu, Inc. l996. 
  • A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel - Sally Amdur Sack, Ph.D. Genealogical Publishing Co.Inc. l987. 
  • They Came In Ships - John P. Colletta, Ph.D. Ancestry, Salt Lake City, Utah l989, l993. 
  • Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy - Gary Mokotoff and Warren Blatt. Avotaynu, Inc. l999. 
  • Guide to YIVO Archives - Fruma Mohrer and Marek Web, YIVO Institute For Jewish Research, M.E. Sharpe l998. 
  • Shtetl Finder - Chester G. Cohen, Heritage Books, Inc. l989. 
  • Jewish Roots in Poland - Miriam Weiner, Miriam Weiner Roots to Roots Foundation, Inc. & YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, l997. 
  • The German Minority Census of l939 - Thomas Kent Edlund, Avotaynu, Inc. l996. 
  • Immigrant & Passenger Arrivals - National Archives Trust Fund Board, l991. 
  • Description of the Latvian Database - Mary Barkan. 
  • Jewish Sites of Bohemia and Moravia - Jiri Fiedler, Sefer Prague 1991. 
  • Following The Paper Trail - Jonathan D. Shea & William Hoffman, Avotaynu, Inc. l994. 
  • The Early Jews of New Orleans - Bertram Wallace Korn, American Jewish Historical Society, l960. 
  • Jewish Vital Records, Revision Lists & Other Jewish Holdings in the Lithuanian Archives - Compiled by Harold Rhode and Sally Ann Amdur Sack, Avotaynu, Inc. l996. 
  • When Your Ox Is In A Ditch - Vera McDowell, Genealogical Publishing Co. 1995. 
  • Not Strictly Kosher-Pioneer Jews in New Zealand - Odeda Rosenthal, Starchand Press l988. 
  • Resources For Jewish Genealogy In the Boston Area - Warren Blatt, Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Boston, l996. 
  • JGSCO Forms Book 
  • The Jews of Charleston - Charles Reznikoff, Jewish Publication Society of America l950. 
  • Finding Our Fathers - Dan Rotenberg, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. l986. 
  • World of Our Fathers - Irving Howe, Simon & Shuster, l976. 
  • A History of Russia - Jesse D. Clarkson, Random House, l961. 
  • The Destruction of the Dutch Jews - Jacob Presser, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. l965. 
  • Webster's French & English Dictionary - Galahad Books, l967. 
  • Dictionary of the Polish-English Languages - W. Kierst & Prof. O. Callier, l944. 
  • Kramer's Engels - Dr. F.P. Van Wely 
  • Concise Dictionary of 26 Languages - Peter M.Bergman, Bergman Pulishers, l968. 
  • German-English Dictionary - Edited by The Langenscheidt, l976. 
  • The Pocket Polish Dictionary - Langenscheidt. 
  • Engels Nederlands - Walters'. 
  • Russian-English Dictionary - l987. 
  • Der Grosse V.A.G. Atlas - Riverlag, 91/92. 
  • Avotaynu-The International Review of Jewish Genealogy - Spring l991-Fall l995, Full year 2000 issues, 2002-Present.  Many back issues from the l980's. 
  • Jewishgen Family Finder - Gary Mokotoff, Editor, l995, l996, l997. 
  • Jewishgen Network-Yizkor Book Lists - 1996. 
  • A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research at the Denver Public Library - 1997. 
  • Colorado Resource Handbook - Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies, Denver, Co.l998. 
  • JGSCO Newletters and Past Program Announcements
  • 15th Summer Seminar on Jewish Genealogy Syllabus Boston 1996. 
  • A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia, Alexander Beider, Avotaynu 2004. 
  • Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy, Sallyann Sack, Gary Mokotoff, editors, Avotaynu 2004 
  • Where Once We Walked Revised Edition, Mokotoff and Sack, Avotaynu 
  • Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World, Jeffrey S. Malka, MD, Avotaynu 20002 
  • Encyclopedia of Jewish Life - 3 volumes - edited by Samuel Spector 
  • The Routledge Atlas of the Holocaust, Martin Gilbert,  3td Edition 2002 
  • Carved Memories Heritage in Stone from the Russian Jewish Pale, Goberman, Hundert. 
  • Russian Jewish Names, Boris Feldblum, Avotaynu, l998. 
  • Guide to Naturalization Records of the U. S., Christina K. Schaefer, Genealogical Publishing Co. 
  • Where Once We Walked Companion Guide, Gary Mokotoff, Avotaynu 
  • A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names, Alexander Beider, Avotaynu, 2001 
  • Galveston; Ellis Island of the West, Bernard Marinbach, State University of N.Y. Press, 1983 
  • The 1930 Federal Population Census,  NARA 
  • Dor L’ DorIAJGS Conference Syllabus, London. 
  • There Once Was A World, Yaffa Eliach, Back Bay Books, Little, Brown & Co. l998. 
  • The Wayfarers, Stuart Tower. 
  • An American Rabbi in Korea, Milton  J. Rosen, Edited by Stanley R. Rosen 2004, Univ. Of Alabama Press. 
  • From Generation to Generation Revised Edition, Arthur Kurzweil, Jossy-Bass Pulisher, 2004.
  • A Dictionary of German Jewish Surnames,  Lars Menk, Avotaynu, 2005. 
  • Genealogical Gazeteer of the Kingdom of  Hungary,  Jordan Auslander, Avotaynu 2005.
  • To The End of the Earth, A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico, Stanley Hordes, Columbia University Press.
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