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Community register
פִּנְקָס הַקָּהָל
Registers kept by communities — births, marriages, deaths, beth-din decisions.
Every assertion published by zakhor.ai points to a document — civil register, ketubah, gravestone, testimony. You see the facsimile, the reference code, the chain of reasoning.
Every piece of information indexed by zakhor.ai falls into one of these eight categories. The confidence level of an assertion depends on the number, quality, and independence of the sources supporting it.
Registers kept by communities — births, marriages, deaths, beth-din decisions.
Marriage contracts: names, places, dates, witnesses. Often three generations in a single archival item.
Jewish cemeteries photographed, transcribed, geolocalized. OCR of Rabbinic Hebrew.
Family memories recorded, transcribed, cross-checked with written archives.
European, Ottoman, colonial civil status records. Automatic transliteration of local scripts.
Marseille, Trieste, Hamburg, Ellis Island. Tracking transatlantic migrations.
Memorial books of disappeared communities, cross-checked with historical archives.
Individual records of Holocaust victims, documented by their relatives — a major source for interrupted lineages.
zakhor.ai does not hold the originals: the project always directs toward the holding institution and the reference code. Here, for guidance, are the major families of collections on which such work rests.
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