Several of the Jewish genealogy books at Forbes library are together on a shelf in the reference section donated by WMJGS. Purchase of the books was made possible by a generous grant from the Harold Grinspoon Foundation.
If you have books of general interest to Jewish genealogy researchers that you would like to donate, please contact us.
Forbes library also has a fantastic section for those who are researching local genealogy. WMJGS holds many of its meetings at Forbes. Heritage Quest Online and Ancestry.com are excellent databases that are available for FREE use at Forbes Library!
Among the books available to researchers at Forbes Library are:
- A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From Galicia; Alexander Beider
- Lists 25,000 surnames used by Jews in Galicia.
- A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From the Kingdom of Poland; Alexander Beider
- A compilation of 32,000 Jewish surnames with origins in the part of the Russian Empire known as the Kingdom of Poland.
- A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames From the Russian Empire; Alexander Beider
- A compilation of 50,000 Jewish surnames from the Russian Pale of Settlement.
- Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy; Sallyann Amdur Sack and Gary Mokotoff, Eds.
- The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust; Shmuel Spector and Geoffrey Wigoder, eds. 3 volume set
- Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide; Jonathan D. Shea and William F. Hoffman.
- From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Personal History; Arthur Kurzweil.
- How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust; Gary Mokotoff.
- Jews in the Russian Army: Through the Military Towards Modernity (1827--1914); Yohanan M. Petrovsky-Shtern, PhD
- Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories; David S. Zubatsky and Irwin M. Berent. A guide to over 22,000 published and manuscript genealogies in archives and libraries worldwide.
- There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok Yaffa Eliach 800 pp. 1998.
- Where Once We Walked - Revised Edition A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust; Gary Mokotoff and Sallyann Amdur Sack, with Alexander Sharon. A gazetteer of over 23,500 Central and Eastern European localities, including 17,000 alternate names, map coordinates, and Jewish population prior to the Holocaust.
- Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy. Periodical. Sallyann Amdur Sack and Gary Mokotoff, editors. Subscription beginning 2005.
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