JewishGen
JewishGen headquartered at the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City
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Preserving Our History for Future Generations
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| Founded | 1987 |
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| Founder | Susan E. King |
| Type | Non-Profit |
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Key people
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Warren Blatt Avraham Groll Michael Tobias |
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Employees
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3 staff 1,000+ volunteers - worldwide (2013) |
| Website | jewishgen |
JewishGen is a non-profit organization founded in 1987 as an international electronic resource for Jewish genealogy. In 2003, JewishGen became an affiliate of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York City. It provides amateur and professional genealogists with the tools to research their Jewish family history and heritage.
JewishGen was founded in 1987 by Susan E. King in Houston, Texas, as a Fidonet bulletin board with approximately 150 users interested in Jewish genealogy. To access the bulletin board, users dialed into the connection via telephones. Annual donations of $25 were requested to fund the service.
Around 1989 to 1990, JewishGen moved to the internet as a mailing list and online forum, and was called the Jewish Genealogy Conference. It was loosely managed by founding members and volunteers that included Warren Blatt, Susan E. King, Bernie Kouchel, Gary Mokotoff, Michael Tobias, and others active in the community. JewishGen had a website by 1995.
At the end of 2002, King announced that in 2003 JewishGen became an affiliate of the Museum of Jewish Heritage. In 2005, the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) gave King an IAJGS Achievement Award for her work with JewishGen, citing the organization's worldwide impact. In March 2008, King retired, and JewishGen relocated its office to the museum's facilities.
In 2008, in a partnership with JewishGen, Ancestry.com took over the data center hosting of the JewishGen computerized assets. The agreement improved the JewishGen website's performance, which had been problematic, and created a licensing agreement with Ancestry.com for database access that created a revenue stream for JewishGen. The partnership increases Ancestry.com's access to and integration of Jewish genealogical resources from JewishGen.
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