Searching Ashkenazic Reference Books for Jewish Surnames in One Step

Stephen P. Morse and Alexander Beider

Surname:	(any phonetic equivalent of the name will do)
Note: this utility uses an advanced phonetic-matching facility in addition to soundex matching.
Phonetic matching generates significantly fewer false hits than soundex does.
Search in:	A Dictionary of German Jewish Surnames, Lars Menk (2005) -- dgjs A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia, Alexander Beider (2004) -- djsg A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland, Alexander Beider (1996) -- djskp A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire, Alexander Beider (2008) -- djsre

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Beider-Morse Phonetic Matches						Daitch-Mokotoff
(exact)		(approx)		(Hebrew)		Soundex Matches
dgjs: Gompertz dgjs: Gomperz				dgjs: Gumpertz dgjs: Gumperz		dgjs: Comperz dgjs: Gomberich dgjs: Gomberz dgjs: Gombrich dgjs: Gompertz dgjs: Gomperz dgjs: Gumberich dgjs: Gumbertz dgjs: Gumbrich dgjs: Gumperich dgjs: Gumpers dgjs: Gumpertz dgjs: Gumperz dgjs: Gumprich djsg: Gimprech djsg: Gomprich djsg: Gumprich

© Stephen P. Morse and Alexander Beider, 2007