The Book of Ancestry: preserve your family history for centuries to come
The Roda Book will become a gem of your home library. It is the result of painstaking research and analytical work of genealogists and historians, creatively designed into a folio. It is a legacy that will remain in the family forever, a book that will be handed down from generation to generation.
The Am haZikaron Institute offers a full range of services for creating a Book of Ancestry – from searching and systematizing information to professional design and artistic presentation. Experienced specialists in the field of Jewish genealogy will study the history of your family. Archivists and analysts, journalists and historians-genealogists, writers and editors, designers and layout designers – everyone contributes to turn the final work into a unique publication. Rod’s book is published in an exclusive edition of a few copies.
Before we write a book, we spend:
- Research on family legends and interviews with older family members
- Archival research in different countries and databases
- A study of rabbinic literature, religious sources and linguistic analysis of names
- Historical analysis, creation and testing of hypotheses to determine possible locations of members of the genus
- Reconstructing migration routes to reconstruct the family’s path through the generations
Am haZikaron researchers build connections between events in private and shared history, helping you see what role your family played in the fate of the country and the Jewish people.
When all the data has been collected and verified, work begins on the book itself, each page of which is an exciting narrative full of discoveries:
- About the origins of your family and your family’s surnames
- About the lives and destinies of family members
- About professions, occupations, hobbies of ancestors
- About the places where they lived, served, and worked
- About the events they have participated in and the achievements they have made
- About your family narrative and your family’s mission statement
Creating the Book of Kin is a complex, laborious process that requires months of research, analysis and reflection, but the final result is worth every effort. When it is in your hands, you will feel proud of your family, of your clan, of your history, of belonging to the Jewish people.