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02 January 2018

W. Todd Knowles speaking at Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland 28 Jan 2018




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Why the Knowles Collection?

From an early age I have been trying to find as much information as I could about my gggrandfather, Morris David Rosenbaum, a Polish Jew. In my search and through my work as a Deputy Chief Genealogist at FamilySearch, I have compiled records of The Jewish people. This collection, linking Jewish families, is available free to all. Hopefully, people will come together to share the stories of their own families.

Size of the databases

Jews of British Isles 228,619
Jews of Europe 479,775
Jews of North America 641,424
Jews of South America and Caribbean 21,453
Jews of Africa & Orient 43,682
Jews of South Pacific
21,684
Total 1,436,637

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.

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