Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute

Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute Center for Jewish History 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 (917) 606-8217 gi@cjh.org http://genealogy.cjh.org

The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History provides access to a wealth of genealogical resources through the Center’s partner collections and the Institute’s extensive reference collection, online databases, and research guides.The partners’ archives comprise the world’s largest and most comprehensive archive of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel. The collections span a thousand years, with more than 5 miles of archival documents (in dozens of languages and alphabet systems) and more than 500,000 books, including family and community histories, memoirs, newspapers, photographs, as well as records of various communal, cultural, political and professional organizations.