Genealogy
Sephardic Genealogical Society host regular online meetings on Sephardic genealogy
Sephardic World on YouTube.
Sephardic Genealogy has links to the most important Sephardic genealogical resources and archives.
The Sephardic Diaspora is a Facebook group for Sephardic genealogists.
A Nação Hebraica are using AI to transcribe early modern Portuguese-Jewish language manuscript.
International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies hosts annual conferences on Jewish genealogy.
JewishGen hosts databases and discussion groups. Mainly Ashkenazi, but they are now host content from the former SephardicGen website.
Avotaynu DNA Study researches the genetic history of the Jewish people.
Avotaynu published books of Jewish genealogical interest.
OCR & Handwriting Recognition
Transkribus. AI-powered handwriting recognition for historical documents.
Google Document AI. OCR and text extraction for structured and unstructured documents.
Tesseract OCR (by Google). Open-source OCR engine for historical document processing.
Microsoft Azure Form Recognizer. AI-driven OCR and text extraction.
ABBYY FineReader. Commercial OCR software with historical document support.
AI for Genealogical Research & Data Extraction
FamilySearch Labs. Experimental AI tools for genealogy.
MyHeritage AI Tools. AI-driven facial enhancement, animation, and document transcription.
Google Dataset Search. AI-powered dataset search, useful for finding historical and genealogical datasets.
RecordLink. AI-powered name matching and entity resolution for genealogical databases.
Geni’s AI Matching. AI-powered family tree matching and record suggestions.
AI-Powered DNA & Genetic Genealogy Tools
DNAPainter. AI-assisted chromosome mapping for genealogists.
GEDmatch Genesis. DNA comparison tools with AI-assisted matching.
Genetic Affairs AutoCluster Tool. AI-driven clustering of DNA matches.
DeepTree (by FamilyTreeDNA). AI-generated ancestral trees based on DNA.
AI for Historical Research & Archival Data
Europeana AI Lab. AI-powered archival research in European heritage.
British Library Digital Research. AI-enhanced tools for exploring historical archives.
HathiTrust Research Center. AI-powered text analysis for historical texts.
Internet Archive AI Projects. AI-driven OCR and digital archiving.
Old Bailey Online NLP & AI Tools. AI-powered search and transcription of historical court records.