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Bases de Données Sepharade

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Bases de Données Sepharade

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This webpage serves as a comprehensive French-language portal for Sephardic genealogical databases, hosted on Jeff Malka's SephardicGen Resources website. The page is dedicated to providing extensive genealogical resources specifically for researchers tracing Sephardic Jewish family histories across the global diaspora. The site acknowledges that nearly all databases have been contributed by Mathilde A. Tagger, whose meticulous work spanning many years has created this invaluable repository for Sephardic genealogical research. The page offers an impressive array of specialized databases organized both thematically and geographically. Key resources include a master surname index containing over 170,000 Sephardic family names compiled by Jeffrey Malka, a database of more than 12,000 North African Jewish names based on onomastic studies by renowned scholars like Maurice Eisenbeth and Joseph Toledano, and collections covering 5,372 Balkan surnames and 2,721 family names from Spanish and Portuguese communities in Northern Europe. The site also features unique resources such as marriage contracts (ketubot), cemetery records, historical newspapers, and even a database of 200,000 individuals from Sephardic families of the Ottoman Empire and Middle East compiled by Alain Farhi. The database collection demonstrates remarkable geographical scope, covering Sephardic communities from Algeria to Argentina, with detailed country-specific sections including cemetery inscriptions, rabbinical records, deportation lists from World War II, birth and marriage registers, and historical community documents. Notable resources include the Constantine electoral records from 1880, Vienna's Turkish synagogue community registers (1848-1938), Bulgarian Jewish military casualties from the Balkan Wars, and Caribbean Sephardic family names. This comprehensive approach makes the site invaluable for both professional genealogists and individuals researching their Sephardic heritage. What makes this resource particularly significant is its academic rigor and collaborative nature, drawing from the work of established scholars in Jewish onomastics and incorporating primary source materials like cemetery inscriptions, community registers, and historical newspapers. The site represents one of the most extensive online repositories for Sephardic genealogical research, serving both the academic community studying Sephardic diaspora patterns and descendants seeking to trace their family histories across the complex migrations that characterized Sephardic Jewish communities from medieval Iberia through the modern era.

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Bases de Données Sepharade. (2025, 11 22). www.sephardicgen.com. https://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/databasesFR.html

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Domain www.sephardicgen.com
File Size 153 KB
Archived 2025-11-22T00:19:35.278439
Document ID #19
Languages 5 available