Among the Institute’s major goals is the development of tools and cutting-edge technologies
for the work of Jewish family historians and of social scientists in general.
Since its opening in January 2006, the Institute has been active in both of these
areas and has produced a series of concrete results. Moreover, a number of projects
are currently in progress and others are planned for the future.
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Tools and Technologies already produced
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Tools
- An original system for the determination and synchronization of Absolute Generations for genealogical purposes - devised
by the late Dr. Paul Jacobi.
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- Hand-list of the type-written
research monographs in the Jacobi Genealogical Collection.
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for details.
- Annotated inventory of the
handwritten materials in the Jacobi Collection.
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for details.
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Technologies
- An innovative soundex system called the
Beider-Morse Phonetic Name Matching.
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for details.
- A pioneering system for the integration and Merging of Genealogical Datasets.
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for details.
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Work in Progress
- Production of a Genealogical
Glossary in Hebrew - by a team of linguistic experts and others, headed by
Dr. Chanan Rapaport.
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for details.
- Indexing of Jacobi Researches
- Indexing of the handwritten materials in the Jacobi Genealogical Collection.
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for details
- Indexing of the Shmuel Gorr
Genealogical Collection.
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for details.
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Repository
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Negotiations are in hand for the establishment of a Central Repository for Jewish genealogical archives
and collections.
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Future Projects
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Production of computer-based Inter-Active
Maps for Jewish Genealogists
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Mapping of Sources and Resources
for Jewish genealogy worldwide
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Master Bibliography
for Jewish genealogy
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Digitalization of articles
on Jewish genealogy
These and other projects will be launched at some future date.