New searchable Meknes Families database – 22,000+ names

The Raphael and Georgette Cohen Collection of Family Trees from Meknes, Morocco – consisting of 22,000+ individual names organized in family trees – was recently donated to the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center at Beit Hatefusot in Tel Aviv.

http://www.bh.org.il/database-about.aspx?genealogy

Jewish genealogists and especially Jews with ancestry from Meknes, Morocco, owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to Raphael Cohen for this labor of love that took decades of hard work to compile.

Thank you M. Cohen!

SephardicGen and Beit Hatfutsot are proud to announce that with the kind permission of Raphael Cohen a searchable index to this impressive collection is now available on SephardicGen at:

http://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/MeknesFamiliesSrchFrm.html

http://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/MeknesFamiliesSrchFrmFR.html (in French)

This important database is also part of the searchable «Consolidated Index of Sephardic Surnames» (CISS) containing over 120,000 Sephardic names that provides a search tool for the many constantly growing collection of SephardicGen databases.

The CISS is at

http://www.sephardicgen.com/databases/indexSrchFrm.html

NB: Thanks to Jeff Malka for the information

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The Raphael and Georgette Cohen Collection of Family Trees, from Meknes, Morocco

Introduction by Haim Ghiuzeli, Director, Databases Department, Beit Hatfutsot – The Museum of the Jewish People

Mr. Raphael Cohen, a native of the Meknes, started his career as an educator and teacher at the Julien Weill Alliance Israelite Universelle School in the city. He also held a number of leadership positions in the community. After studying in Morocco and subsequently in Paris, he worked for a number of state companies in Morocco. In the late 1960s, along with his family, he settled in Canada. During the 1990s, Mr. Cohen devoted much of his time and effort in documenting and preserving the rich heritage of the Jewish community of Meknes. He succeeded in amassing an impressive collection of family trees, the result of many years of dedicated research which has been conducted with collaboration of many relatives and friends in Morocco, North America, France and Israel.

Mrs. and Mr. Cohen have most kindly agreed to donate their collection of family trees to the database of the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center at Beit Hatfutsot – The Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, Israel. The collection is available on the Intranet system of the museum or by search orders from the museum’s website.

The index to The Raphael and Georgette Cohen Collection of Family Trees contains well over 20,000 entries of individuals recorded on all family trees. The index lists full biographical data for deceased individuals and the names of those living, in addition to the registration numbers of the family trees. Whenever asking for further information on an individual mentioned in the index it is mandatory to mention not only the full name, but also the registration number of the family tree as quoted by the index.

A presentation of the Collection is also available on the Pages of the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center of Beit Hatfutsot on Facebook.

List of Researched families and reference numbers at Beit Hatfutsot

by Raphael Cohen

Abergel Family (7470), Abu’hatsera -Abehsera Families (7310), Amar Family (7311), Ancêtres Petits-enfants Haichin (7312), Ancêtres Petits-enfants Cohen-Weinberg (7313), Attias Families (7314), Azerrad Family (7315), Azogui Family (7316), Barchechat Family (7689), Benabou Family (7318), Benamara- Benamram Families (7319), Benarrosh Families (7322), BenAttar Families (7472), Benchetrit Family (7320), Benchimol Family (7321), Benhaïm Family (7317), Bensimhon Families (7340), Berdugo Family (7323), Boussidan Family (7324), COHEN Families (7325), Ederhy-Derhy Families (7326), Elgrabli Families (7339), Elhadad Family (7327), Elkhrief Family (7328), Hassarfaty-Serfaty Families (7733), Hassine Family (7329), Kessous & Gozlan- Rezlan Families (7330), Lazimy-Loubaton Families (7331), Messas Family (7332), Mrejen Family (7333), Nahmani Family (7336), Ohana Family (7334), Sebbag Families (7335), Soudry Family (7337), Toledano Families (7338)