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Announcement: Exploring the Izmir, Turkey Census

Part of two of the pages of the register Waas discovered in the Ottoman Archives. This portion of the reggister was badly damaged and partly illegible.

Co-founder Michael Waas will be speaking on March 7, 2024 at 2 pm EST as part of the JewishGen Talk’s series about a discovery he made last year working in the Ottoman Archives: a surviving register from the first formal census of Ottoman Izmir in 1830s that contained a surprise: surnames of the Jewish community!

Read more about the lecture here and register for it. It is free with a suggested donation. This talk will be the first of many to come in Waas’s new capacity as a volunteer Associate Director of the Sephardic Research Division of JewishGen.