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Community pinkas
פִּנְקָס הַקָּהָל
Registers kept by communities — births, marriages, deaths, beth-din decisions.
zakhor.ai cross-references communal registers, ketoubot, gravestones, and oral memories to reconstruct, link by link, the lineages that exile had scattered.
Type any spelling — Latin, Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino. The engine reconciles orthographic variants with canonical transliteration and proposes candidates ranked by confidence.
From scattered fragments — a birth certificate here, a gravestone there, a mention in a pinkas — the model proposes a plausible lineage, and signals each inferred link so you can accept it, contest it, or enrich it.
Every Jewish name travels across languages and borders — Cohen, Kahn, Kogen, Cahen, כֹּהֵן. zakhor.ai knows these metamorphoses and shows you, at a glance, how a name was written according to era, scribe, and host language.
From Toledo to Salonika, from Vilna to Buenos Aires, from Baghdad to Bombay. zakhor.ai traces, on the map, the actual path of a family — pogroms, expulsions, alyot — based on dates and places attested in its sources.
Every assertion is traced back to the document: civil register, ketubah, gravestone, testimony. You see the facsimile, the archive reference, and the chain of reasoning that leads to your tree.
Registers kept by communities — births, marriages, deaths, beth-din decisions.
Marriage contracts: names, places, dates, witnesses, sometimes three generations in a single archival item.
Jewish cemeteries photographed, transcribed, geolocalized. OCR reading of Rabbinic Hebrew.
Family memoirs recorded, transcribed, cross-checked with written archives.
When your lineage intersects with another user's, zakhor.ai alerts you — discreetly, with their consent. Families separated by three centuries of exile find one another in a few queries.
To know your name is to begin to know your history. To know the lineage of your name is to begin to know that of a people.
zakhor.ai is free for individuals and open to all diasporas. Import a GEDCOM, or begin with what you know — a grandfather, a city, an approximate date.