While I try to credit every source and resource I use in each post, I feel obligated to list some general sources. These are the sources I use most frequently, those that inform me indirectly (helping me find my sources, for example), or those that I feel might be useful for other readers – or some combination of the above (so forgive me if some entries are too obvious, or conversely too specialized to be useful generally). This list will perpetually need updating, as I remember my unconscious indebtedness to more resources and as I learn of new ones, and is not intended at any point to be exhaustive.
For completeness, I will also credit here those who have helped me with various lines of research, and whose work (published or unpublished) I have used.
Genealogical databases and reference works
- JewishGen, the cornerstone of Jewish genealogy, especially the Unified Search database.
- Gesher Galicia, for Jewish genealogy of historical Galicia, especially the All Galicia Database and the archival record inventory database.
- [to be continued]
Newspaper databases
- The National Library of Israel’s Historical Press database
Specialized resources
- [to be continued]
Lviv
- The Lviv Street database by the Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, useful for finding the modern names of historical Lviv streets.
- The Skorowidz nowych i dawnych numerów realności, tudzież nazw ulic i placów król. stoł. miasta Lwowa […] of 1872, for converting pre–street name Lviv house numbers to modern-style street addresses, available from the Silesian Digital Library and Google Books.
Forums
- Ivelt Yiddish forums, especially the historical זכור ימות עולם and על הצדיקים ועל החסידים genealogical sub-forums.
Individual researchers
- Rabbi Shmiel C. Y. Gruber of Mechon Mishkenos Yaakov, New Square, New York (see available publications at Academia.edu)
- Rabbi Yosef Y. F. Hager
- Ján Hlavinka (see available publications at Academia.edu), for Medzilaborce research
- My cousin Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Meisels, for Mund family research
- My grandfather, Rabbi Shlomo Leib Mund, and his brother, Rabbi Daniel Mund, whose research (building on their father’s before them) my Mund family research expands.
- Binyamin Panteliat of תולדות ושורשים Toladot ve-Shorashim blog
- Yaron Pedhazur of מדור לדור Mi-Dor le-Dor / Generatree blog
- Rabbi Tzvi Rabinowitz
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- Eliezer Z. Zoberman