{{Short description|US Jewish genealogy magazine}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Avotaynu | company = Avotaynu | frequency = Quarterly | total_circulation= | language = English | category = Genealogy<br />Family history | editor = Sallyann Amdur Sack-Pikus | publisher = Gary Mokotoff | firstdate = January 1985 | finaldate = Winter 2021 | country = United States | based = New Haven, Connecticut U.S. | website = {{URL|http://www.avotaynu.com/journal.htm|Avotaynu.com}} | issn = 0882-6501 }} '''''Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy''''' was a magazine that focused on Jewish genealogy and family history published by Avotaynu Inc. (New Haven, Connecticut). It was established in 1985. An index to the first 24 volumes is available.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.avotaynu.com/indexsum.htm |title=Index to the First Twenty-one Volumes of AVOTAYNU |publisher=Avotaynu.com |date= |access-date=2012-10-03}}</ref> The magazine gets its name from the Hebrew word, avotaynu, which literally means "our fathers," but has come to mean "our ancestors."
The Consolidated Jewish Surname Index (CJSI) is Avotaynu's metasearch engine which points to 42 different specialized data banks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.avotaynu.com/csi/databases.htm|title=List of Databases and Number of Surname Entries in CJSI|access-date=February 12, 2021}}</ref>
Avotaynu Inc. also published books on the same topic by such authors as Alexander Beider and Warren Blatt.
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== External links == * {{Official website|http://www.avotaynu.com/journal.htm|Avotaynu.com}} * [http://findingaids.cjh.org/?pID=1387354 Sallyann Sack Papers] P-917, American Jewish Historical Society, Boston, MA and New York, NY. {{Authority control}}
Category:History magazines published in the United States Category:Quarterly magazines published in the United States Category:Genealogy publications Category:Jewish genealogy Category:Magazines established in 1985 Category:Magazines published in Connecticut Category:Mass media in New Haven, Connecticut Category:1985 establishments in Connecticut
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