The Jewish Records Corpus
Every Jewish source, in one place — finally fused.
JewishGen, Yad Vashem, Sefaria, and Geni each hold a piece of your family’s story. Today they live on four separate sites that don’t talk to each other. We bring them together into one cited workspace — and we treat memorial records with the reverence they deserve.
Four corpora, one workspace
The sources we fuse
Each of these is a leading Jewish-genealogy source on its own. The hard part was never finding them — it was making them work together. That’s what we do.
JewishGen
Soundex name-matching across birth, marriage, and death registers, plus Yizkor memorial books — so a name spelled five different ways still finds its record.
Yad Vashem
Over 4.3 million Pages of Testimony naming Holocaust victims. We surface them as cited proofs, shown in memory — never as an upsell.
Sefaria
Sefaria’s open API connects names, places, and rabbinic lineages to the texts that mention them — context most family trees never reach.
Geni
Collaborative tree data that links living descendants back to the same ancestors the records describe.
How the fusion works
Searched once, sourced everywhere
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One search, every corpus
You search a name once. We query JewishGen, Yad Vashem, Sefaria, and Geni together — instead of you re-typing it into four different sites.
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Matched and cross-referenced
Soundex catches spelling drift; we line up a census entry, a memorial page, and a tree profile that all point to the same person.
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Cited into your narrative
Each match becomes a sourced sentence in your family story — with the collection and locator attached, so you can always see where it came from.
Shown with dignity
A Page of Testimony, never paywalled
When a search touches a Yad Vashem Page of Testimony, we render it in memory — with its source cited and no marketing on top of it. We never blur a victim’s record to sell you an upgrade.
In memory of the six million
A Page of Testimony preserves the name, and the memory, of someone murdered in the Shoah. In your workspace it appears as a cited record you can read and honor — not a teaser locked behind a price.
Source: Yad Vashem — Central Database of Shoah Victims’ Names, Page of Testimony (illustrative facsimile)
Illustrative facsimile only. Real Pages of Testimony are surfaced from Yad Vashem with full citation and are never placed behind a paywall.
Why this is different
On the big sites, JewishGen, Yad Vashem, Sefaria, and Geni are four separate searches that never cross-reference each other — and some lock historical records behind a subscription. We fuse all four into one cited result, and we keep victim records open and shown in memory.