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About Akevoth
Amutath Akevoth = (Amutah = registered foundation in Israel) (Akevoth = traces)
Research of the family history and the family inheritance of Dutch Jewry.
The aim of the foundation Akevoth is to collect, research and to save relevant data in order to publish the history of the Dutch-Jewish families and their heritage. The website contains a vast amount of material and it is characterized by its accessibility for the visitor and its quick reaction to queries related to its content.
The sources of the website are the registrations of births, circumcisions, deaths, funerals and marriages (including those conducted in synagogues), and also the results of censuses and permits for market stands in Amsterdam. The collection contains Portuguese/ Spanish as well as Ashkenazi data. A large space has been allocated for the collection of family trees and historical-demographical region-descriptions.
Part of the displayed material is the contribution of private historians and genealogists. A sub-division has been made between Amsterdam- the submenu ‘Mokum'- and the periphery-the submenu ‘Mediene'.
The activities of Akevoth are only based on the work by devoted volunteers. Contact is maintained by means of the Internet and a virtual secretariat. Akevoth has cooperation-connections with 5 sister-organizations in the Netherlands and Israel.
Databases worth of special mentioning:- persons buried in the world-famous cemetery of the Amsterdam Sephardi Jewish community ‘Beth Haim' in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, ‘In Memoriam’, the list of the Dutch-Jewish victims, perished during WW II and of whom the location of their graves is unknown, ‘Joodse graven’, a second database of the victims of whom the location of burial is known.
A long term project is the digitalization of the still existing gravestones in all Jewish (Ashkenazi) cemeteries, to be found on a separate domain:-http://www.stenenarchief.org.
This is a joint project with the NIK in the Netherlands, started in the beginning of 2008.
A new section in progress, with the purpose to serve genealogical research with auxiliary material, was recently started:- It will be composed of three parts:-kehilloth(communities), famous persons, and well known Dutch Jewish institutions, now extinct.
Except for its Internet activities, Akevoth has a genealogical library for reference and research, as well as for lending, situated in Jerusalem [For full text-click here].
