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South Africa Jewish Rootsbank: The South African Jewish Database is a project at the Centre for Migration and Genealogy aiming to create a comprehensive database of records and information relating to Jewish immigration to South Africa. The primary goal of the project is to research and map the estimated 15,000 core families who migrated to Southern Africa between 1850-1950 from England, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, and Belarus in order to provide authoritative and definitive data for the Discovery Centre at the South African Jewish Museum (SAJM) and to integrate the genealogical data in multi-disciplinary research initiatives under the auspices of the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre at the University of Cape Town (UCT), where the project is based. The research examines passenger arrival lists, naturalisation lists, community records, records of marriages, births and deaths, and family trees, among other documents, in order to include information on immigrants such as first and last names, dates of birth and death, place of origins, and location of burial in the publicly available database records.

(Description adapted from information on project website)

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Contact
KC@uct.ac.za
screenshot of the home page of the Rootsbank
South Africa Jewish Rootsbank: The South African Jewish Database

South Africa Jewish Rootsbank: The South African Jewish Database is a project at the Centre for Migration and Genealogy aiming to create a comprehensive database of records and information relating to Jewish immigration to South Africa. The primary goal of the project is to research and map the estimated 15,000 core families who migrated to Southern Africa between 1850-1950 from England, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, and Belarus in order to provide authoritative and definitive data for the Discovery Centre at the South African Jewish Museum (SAJM) and to integrate the genealogical data in multi-disciplinary research initiatives under the auspices of the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre at the University of Cape Town (UCT), where the project is based. The research examines passenger arrival lists, naturalisation lists, community records, records of marriages, births and deaths, and family trees, among other documents, in order to include information on immigrants such as first and last names, dates of birth and death, place of origins, and location of burial in the publicly available database records.

(Description adapted from information on project website)