Advanced Genealogy can be interesting for participants who already are familiar with basic genealogy resources online or know that they are ready to broaden the scope of their family history search to specific, local archival and online sources, inside and outside the United States. We share more of the tools and online databases that our staff colleagues in the CJH building have created to help look through records. This is a good follow-up to the basic session.

The Center for Jewish History in New York City illuminates history, culture, and heritage. The Center provides a collaborative home for five partner organizations: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research.

The partners’ archives comprise the world’s largest and most comprehensive archive of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel. The collections span five thousand years, with more than 5 miles of archival documents (in dozens of languages and alphabet systems), more than 500,000 volumes, as well as thousands of artworks, textiles, ritual objects, recordings, films, and photographs.