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The Liverpool Jewish community was the earliest to be formed in the north of England (approximately 1745). Examination of this important minority community, from a religious, historical, demographic, sociological, and genealogical perspective has been severely hampered by the lack of a unified source of information about Jewish individuals and families resident in the area during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A searchable database of all Jewish persons with a documented connection with the Liverpool area, from the earliest times to 1881 has been produced. Jewish individuals were identified by a novel use of distinctive names, occupations and birth places in secular census and vital records and, in combination with extant records held within the Jewish community, have been used to produce a database of over 10,000 persons.  A key element is the linking of individuals into family groups, rather than simply producing a list of names, dates, and addresses. Those familiar with the format of a GEDCOM genealogical data file will recognise the use of FAM (family identification numbers), with FAMS numbers indicating the family identification number of the family in which the individual is a spouse, and FAMC numbers which link an individual to the family in which he or she is a child. These FAM numbers are built into the database.

Main Topics:

Names, family connections, dates of birth, marriage, and death, addresses and occupations of Jewish individuals connected to Liverpool between 1740 and 1881.

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Compilation/Synthesis