Write your family name: we will tell you if it remains to be written — or if it awaits enrichment.
6,615 families listed — 5,519 are still waiting for their Great Book.
Would you prefer to browse the directory? View listed lineages
Family is often the first step — but everything is a Great Book.
Nothing has yet been written about your family. You lay the first stone: the lineage record becomes the book's site of work.
Search for your name above. If it appears in the directory without a book, open its record.
Begin writing from the record: the narrative is built on archival items and sources that cite the lineage.
Revise, correct, add your documents: the book is published, translated, and you remain its first witness.
The Great Book is already there. It never freezes: each item submitted makes it grow and will be cited in the bibliography.
Open your lineage's book and read what is already recorded there.
Submit what is missing: a document, a photo, an account, an object — signed and dated.
A reviewer validates it, the item joins the book and the narrative is regenerated around it.
Documents, photos, stories, objects, films, recordings: the material is the same in both paths — it is what makes a book.
Ketubbot, religious books, letters, civil records, correspondence, family manuscripts.
Portraits, weddings, bar mitzvahs, ceremonies, places of memory, graves and cemeteries.
Memories of forebears, life stories, oral traditions, liturgical chants, handed-down recipes.
Megillot, hanukkiot, tallitot, besamim, ceremonial objects passed down from generation to generation.
Filmed testimonies, home movies, recordings of ceremonies and events.
Piyyoutim, liturgical chants, Sephardic and Ashkenazi melodies, voices of the elders.
GEDCOM (.ged) file from MyHeritage, Geneanet, Filae or Ancestry, or entered by hand — imported into your private space.
Import your treeThe Encaoua lineage (variants: Al-Nakawa, Ankaoua, and twenty-four other recorded spellings) now has a reference Great Book published on encaoua.org. There one follows its passage from Toledo to Tlemcen in the fifteenth century, its scholarly figures — Ephraïm ha-Nakawa, Ménahem ben Yehouda —, its ties to Maimonides and Nahmanides through the poems and responsa of the corpus, and the documents that families have contributed in a personal capacity.
It is this model that we wish to extend to all lineages — 6,615 are already referenced, each can become the subject of its own Great Book.
Search for it among the 6,615 lineages already recorded, or bring the first pieces that will make it possible to write its Great Book. Find my lineage
A Great Book begins with a gesture: yours. Open your account and lay the first stone — the memory of a family, a place, a community.
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