The Knowles Collection: Knowles Collection update

06 February 2013

Knowles Collection update

The growth of the Knowles Collection continues. Today, three of the individual databases were updated with new records. The increase in numbers comes from many sources, including a large number of cemetery records and the addition of the remainder of the records of the 1869 Hungarian Census.
The databases and the new number of people included in the records are:

Jews of the Caribbean and South America 18,939
Jews of the South Pacific 18,572
Jews of Africa and the Orient 15,934

In addition, over the next week the databases for the other three databases will also be updated. Those databases and the number of people included are:

Jews of the British Isles 157,249
Jews of North America 246,000
Jews of Europe 158,000

My thanks to everyone who has submitted their records to the Knowles Collection.

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Growth and Change

In the 12 years since the Knowles Collection was first published, the numbers have climbed from 7,500 to over 1,4000,000. So many of our ancestors left their native lands for new homes. Because of that movement the collection will now be in 6 different databases. All of them will be under the Knowles Collection umbrella. They are Jews of The British Isles; Jews of the North America; Jews of Europe; Jews of South America and the Caribbean; and Jews of Africa and the Orient and the newest one, Jews of the Southern Pacific.. This is a great indication of how universal our families are, and of how much still needs to be done.