Boston.com has an article about Carol Clingan of Dedham, Massachusetts. Clingan and others of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston have complied databases that are about to go public to help Jews all over the world track their Massachusetts roots.
In the lists, every synagogue in the state is inventoried, as well as all Jewish cemeteries and newspapers, rendering the search for family a little more manageable for those starting out.
In the lists, every synagogue in the state is inventoried, as well as all Jewish cemeteries and newspapers, rendering the search for family a little more manageable for those starting out.
The 568-item database Clingan compiled contains a listing of every congregation in the state, past and present. It says when and by whom it was founded, the various locations it occupied, as well as when it closed and what happened to its records, and tracks the many mergers among congregations, to the last surviving one.
That list is cross-referenced to a cemetery database compiled by Groton resident Alex Woodle, and a third database prepared by David Rosen of Boston that lists the state’s Jewish newspapers.
You can read more in an article by Michele Morgan Bolton at http://tinyurl.com/3629q8g
