How to use | First American Jewish Families
To Trace the Ancestry Of An Individual:
1) Check the Index for the individual whom you seek. This
is important as the individual may appear in any of four places:
a. On his or her own family chart; b. On the spouse's family
chart; c. In the section marked Addenda et Corrigenda, pages
309 to 314; d. In the section marked Update, pages 320 to 341.
2) After locating in the Index the individual you are seeking,
look first at any references to pages 309 to 341, as these
pages correct information that may appear on the genealogical
charts. Note the ancestry supplied in those pages as they invariably
lead upward to a forebear who is the connecting link to the
genealogical charts. This is usually the first person mentioned
for that specific family and the Index, will lead you to his
or her page among the genealogical charts.
3) Find this forebear on the genealogical chart. Then trace
him upward to parents, grandparents, etc. The male line can
usually be followed upward to the first known member of the
family. Whenever you reach a person marked "q.v." or "vid.," you
must turn to the page so indicated to continue that line upward
to earlier ancestors.
Reading the Genealogical Charts:
Sources. In the upper left corner of each genealogy will be
found the list of Sources. These are the bibliographical or
personal sources from which the Compiler derived the information
contained on that family tree. For the explanation of abbreviations
in the naming of sources see the list of Bibliography and Sources
to be found on pages 315-320.
Family Names. Each page is headed by a family name. Roman
numerals (I, II, III, etc.) indicate several unrelated families
who bear the same name. Arabic numerals in parentheses (1),
(2), (3), indicate several pages for one family. The family
name heading the page is usually that of the progenitor of
the family (or of its first American representative) and of
his descendants in the male line. If the female line is continued
on that page, her spouse will have his name underlined. All
lines descending from an underlined name bear that surname.
When an individual changed his name, the adopted name has a
double underline, and all descendants bear the new name unless
otherwise indicated.
Cross-References. Many of the families in this volume intermarried
with other families in the book. Two methods are used to show
cross-references to another page: 1) q. v. {quern vide, meaning "which
see"). This shows that the spouse appears on the page
bearing his or her surname. For example: On page 1, in the
chart labelled AARONS I, HANNAH AARONS married ABRAHAM ALEXANDER,
]R. Under his name appears the cross-reference indication "q.
v.(l)" This means that full data for ABRAHAM ALEXANDER,
]R. is to be found on the first page of the ALEXANDER family
chart. The second form of cross-reference is indicated by the
term "vid." (abbreviation of "vide" = see).
This is used when the spouse so indicated appears on a page
headed by a different family name. For example: On page 1,
in the chart labelled AARONS II, we find AARON married to HENRIETTA
LEVY, and under her name, "vid. LYONS III." This
means that HENRIETTA does not appear on a LEVY page but will
be found on the third of our LYONS genealogies.
Additional Information
Dedication and acknowledgements
from the 3rd Edition
Foreword to the 3rd Edition by
Jacob Rader Marcus
Preface to the 3rd Edition by
Malcom H. Stern
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