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The Jewish Family

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 JewishGen, Sefaria, and Geni together into one cited workspace (with Yad Vashem joining once our institutional partnership lands) — and we treat memorial records with the reverence they deserve.

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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 (pending partnership)

Over 4.3 million Pages of Testimony naming Holocaust victims. Integration is pending an institutional partnership with Yad Vashem; when it lands we will surface these 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, Sefaria, and Geni together — instead of you re-typing it into different sites. Yad Vashem will join this search once our institutional partnership is in place.

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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 will 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

Illustrative facsimile of a Yad Vashem Page of Testimony — a synthetic sample shown with dignity, not a real victim record.
In memory — record shown with dignity
IllustrativeYad Vashem — Page of Testimony (illustrative)

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. Yad Vashem integration is pending an institutional partnership; when it lands, real Pages of Testimony will be surfaced with full citation and will never be placed behind a paywall.

Why this is different

On the big sites, JewishGen, Yad Vashem, Sefaria, and Geni are separate searches that never cross-reference each other — and some lock historical records behind a subscription. We fuse JewishGen, Sefaria, and Geni into one cited result (Yad Vashem joining once our institutional partnership lands), and we keep victim records open and shown in memory.

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