Tuesday, August 3, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Montefiore census data goes online - 'Information collected in censuses instigated by the great 19th century philanthropist and traveller, Sir Moses Montefiore, about Jews living in Palestine, Lebanon and Egypt (Alexandria), is being made public for the first time. The data will be of interest to descendants and to historians and geneaologists. Traditionally Jews avoided the Ottoman census, but these are estimated to be 99 percent accurate...'
