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last update on 1/21/2006.

OUR ASSOCIATION 

The Cercle de Généalogie Juive is the first Jewish Genealogical Society in France. Founded in 1984, the CGJ has almost 600 members. The CGJ belongs to the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS) and to the Fédération Française de Généalogie (FFG).

A non-profit organization, the Cercle is composed of amateur genealogists, experienced and beginners and its purposes are multiple.

the Cercle offers various possibilities.

  • To help you to build, enrich, and publish your personal Jewish genealogy, whatever your previous knowledge, your geographical origin, your mother tongue, your philosophical or religious convictions.

  •  To exchange information with other members

  •  To participate in global interest projects. The most experienced members take part in research teams of global interest listing the gravestones in cemeteries, collecting and digitalizing civil records, notarial data, military files, etc… Join them!

  •  To establish a network of specialists in several branches of genealogical interest : onomastics, paleography, history of Jewish communities…They will inform about their discoveries in our Revue and on our Website. They will enrich our section What’s new !

 

To join the Cercle and to subscribe to our Revue, click here on the Registration Form.

 

By clicking on one of the buttons at left, you will explore this site and discover our activities

  •   Our Library,

 

  • The summaries of our Quarterly Journal,

 

  •  The list and analysis of our Publications,

  •  In the Meetings section :
     -  information is given on the periodical lectures in Paris and in other branches through France.
    - on the meetings of Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

         And many other  aspects of our activities.

  •  And have you seen our brand new section, for our members only ?

Members' Corner