There's always something new at Steve Lasky's virtual Museum of Family History. Here's the March update: - “Churbn Lettland: The Destruction of the Jews of Latvia� – Very important telling of events, written in 1947 by a survivor. More material from the English... Continue reading here.......

We Jews are called the People of the Book for good reason, and throughout history, many of our books have been lost for well-known reasons. If you have a spare $40 million in your pocket and love rare Jewish books, this 13,000-item (Sotheby's says "more than 11,000") collection is for you. If you do...

Our friend Joel W. Davidi writes the Jewish History Channel. He's been offline for awhile working on a very detailed paper on the history and genealogy of Sephardic Jews who settled in Eastern Europe. To paraphrase, in case there are still some unbelievers out there: Yes, Virginia, there were Sephar...

Tracing the Tribe readers will find an interesting new post (and photographs) over at the International Jewish Graveyard Rabbit, by new contributor Ellen Shindelman Kowitt, webmaster for the Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado. She is a former IAJGS board member, past president of the JGS of Gre...

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Los Angeles has announced a program change for its Sunday, December 7 meeting, due to the original speaker's illness. Hale Porter's talk on the Yiddish Theatre will be rescheduled. The new program will include the screening of a documentary, "The Tree of Life." Thi...

As Tracing the Tribe has previously noted, Sicily had a large medieval Jewish population. Following the 1492 expulsion of Jews from Spain, many of them came to Sicily. Unfortunately, the Jewish community was expelled from the island in 1493. Many left for mainland Italy, across the Straits of Messin...

A new blog - Bear Stone Cottage, offers the history of the Jews in Iceland. According to this posting, Jews were called Gydingar - a diminutive of Gud (God). The 13th-century Gydinga Saga - the Saga of the Jews, is a translation of Maccabees I with bits of Flavius Josephus. Another word for Jew was ...

Petra Laidlaw has informed us that the latest set of revisions have been uploaded to the 1851 Anglo-Jewry Database. The database now includes some 25,000 entries. Petra believes that there were about 30,000 Jews in the British Isles then, so this should represent some 80% of them. If your ancestors ...

Bob Rubin Mayo has been involved with the Jews of Rhodes for quite some time and organized the Jews of Rhodes DNA Project, which has gathered some 46 participants over the past year: The purpose of the Jews of Rhodes Project is to try to identify the original 50 families who were Iberian, Italian, a...