The Ford Family

פורד

Origin of the name, history and genealogy of the Ford lineage — a Jewish family name and the traces it left behind.

Patronyme porté par une figure juive documentée du corpus : Arnold Josiah Ford.

A book yet to be written

The Great Book of the Ford lineage has not yet been written.

Claude Opus 4.8 will compose an original work from archival items in the corpus that mention this lineage, in-depth web research, and family contributions already submitted. The work will comprise approximately 30 to 40 pages — introduction, 5 to 7 chapters, conclusion — and will be automatically enriched with each new contribution.

Collection

Location of archival items, responsa and articles in the corpus that cite the lineage or its variants.

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Variants of the name (4)

One name, a hundred faces.

The same surname, transcribed differently across languages, eras, and diasporas.

עברית · Hebrew1

פורד

العربية · Arabic1

فورد

Кириллица · Cyrillic1

Форд

Ελληνικά · Greek1

Φορντ

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Notable figures

1.
Arnold Josiah Ford
rabbin américain

In memory

The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at Yad Vashem records the women, men, and children murdered during the Shoah. You can search there for the people who bore the name Ford.

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Notable figures of the lineage

Arnold Josiah Ford

1877–1935

Harrison Ford

האריסון פורד

1942

Luke Ford

1966

The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Ford give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

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Recorded burials

Ford Aviva

Carré juif du cimetière West Park (Johannesburg) · Johannesburg

Ford Barry

Cimetière juif d'Everett — Old Tifereth Israel Of Everett · Everett

Ford Beatrice