Resources and Services
JGSLI Reference Collection
Our reference collection at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Library is housed in a dedicated bookcase near the Reference Librarian's desk. The library is located at 999 Old Country Road, Plainview (516) 938-0077. Our holdings include the Arthur Kurzweil collection.
For directions and more information on the library, please see http://poblib.org/
Tips and Tricks
At every monthly meeting, a new tip or trick is announced. Members are free to share either at the meeting or on our Facebook site.
The Mishpocha Mavens are on hand before every meeting to help, and many members are active on our Facebook group.
Plainview Family History Center
The Family History Center, located at 160 Washington Avenue, Plainview (516) 433-0122, contains many city directories and microfilms of census data, ship's manifests, etc. and computer access to many restricted digitized microfilms . It is open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 10AM to 2PM and on Thursday evenings from 7PM to 9:30PM; Saturdays from 11am to 3PM. The center is closed the third Saturday of each month. The Plainview Family History Center holds 10 books specific to Jewish Genealogy (provided by the JGSLI). Ask about them when you visit.
For more information, please see
https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Plainview_New_York_Family_History_Center
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The Holocaust Memorial and Educational Center of Nassau County
The center, located at 100 Crescent Beach Road, Glen Cove (516) 571-8040, is open Monday thru Friday 9:30AM until 4:30PM and Sunday 11AM thru 4PM.
For more information, please see https://www.holocaust-nassau.org/index.php
Research Links
JewishGen - the premier Jewish genealogy site
Ancestry.com - Subscription site which is one of the largest online repositories of genealogical and historical records. Especially helpful for large-scale record collections such as census records, passenger records, etc.
Family History Library - This collection is going through a major digitizing project. The Plainview Family History Center is Family Search’s local office.
Stephen Morse's One-Step Webpages - A wide variety of free searching tools and databases, including immigration, census, vital records, transliteration tools, calendar converters and more!.