Custodial Entity Type Taxonomy
A Master Checklist
WHERE ARE ALL THE RECORDS?
Historical records are held in archives, historical societies, and synagogues – just to name a few of the 54 types of facilities that we have identified. We have compiled a draft Master Checklist of the various types of historical records repositories for you to use in planning your research. This checklist, or DoJR Custodial Entity Taxonomy, is currently being used to guide our DoJR survey work, region by region.
WHERE ARE ALL THE RECORDS?
Historical records are held in archives, historical societies, and synagogues – just to name a few of the 54 types of facilities that we have identified. We have compiled a draft Master Checklist of the various types of historical records repositories for you to use in planning your research. This checklist, or DoJR Custodial Entity Taxonomy, is currently being used to guide our DoJR survey work, region by region.
SEARCH THE Master Checklist
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Tips for Using the Master Checklist
- SEARCH: Use the search box at the top right of the Checklist to enter any keyword(s). The match will find records where all the keywords are found, in any column including the Descriptions.
- FILTER: The full Checklist can be filtered using the 2 dropdown boxes above the Checklist. Filter selections will show only the selected Category(ies) and or Sub-Category(ies). More than one filtering selection can be made under Category or Sub-Category by opening the dropdown to select each choice. To delete a selection, click on the term under the dropdown.
- SORT: In the blue heading row, use the up and down arrows in each column to sort the records by that column in ascending or descending order.
- SHOW ENTRIES: Use the dropdown at the top left of the Checklist to display more entries at a time.
- VERSION: This Master Checklist is Version 1.0 Draft last updated 5 Sep 2022.
| Category | Subcategory | Definition | Examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| Information | Libraries | Organizations primarily engaged in providing library services. These organizations are engaged in maintaining collections of published documents (e.g., books, journals, newspapers, and music) and facilitating the use of such documents (recorded information regardless of its physical form and characteristics) as required to meet the informational, research, educational, or recreational needs of their user. Note, some libraries may include an archive. See subcategory Archives. Some libraries are part of larger organizations (see Colleges and Universities). | National Library of Australia, New York Public Library |
| Information | News and Media | Organizations engaged in publishing newspapers, magazines, other periodicals, books, directories, and software. Also includes Organizations that create content or acquire the right to distribute content and subsequently broadcast or distribute that content through television, radio, streaming distribution, social media or other platforms. | San Francisco Chronicle, The Forward, British Broadcasting Corporation, Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle |
| Cultural Heritage and History | Museums and Historical Sites | Organizations primarily engaged in the preservation and exhibition of objects of historical, cultural, and/or educational value and those primarily engaged in the preservation and exhibition of sites, buildings, or communities that describe events or persons of particular historical interest. | Jüdisches Museum Wien, Jewish Museum of Australia |
| Cultural Heritage and History | Cultural and Historical Organizations | Organizations and trusts dedicated to preserving, collecting, researching, and interpreting historical information or items, often created to help future generations understand their heritage. They vary in specialization, with focuses ranging from specific geographic areas to ethnic and religious groups to preservation of historic buildings. | American Jewish Historical Society, Société pour l’histoire des israélites d’Alsace et de Lorraine (SHIAL), Penina Zylberman Yiddish Cultural and Educational Foundation Inc |
| Cultural Heritage and History | Family History Organizations | Genealogy organizations that provide access to databases and other resources, host family trees, offer DNA mapping and matching, message boards, and/or other services to support family history research. | JewishGen, Geni, FamilySearch, Ancestry.com), Loebtree.com |
| Cultural Heritage and History | Archives | Organizations that primarily acquire, research, store, preserve, and generally make accessible collections of published and unpublished documents, photographs, maps, audio material, audiovisual material, and other material of historical interest. Some archives are part of larger organizations (see Colleges and Universities). | Jewish Women's Archive, Zentralarchiv zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland |
| Religious Organizations | Synagogues | Jewish houses of worship. | Central Synagogue (New York), Grande Synagogue de la Victoire (Paris) |
| Religious Organizations | Movements and Denominations | Organizations primarily engaged in supporting organized branches of the Jewish community that vary according to practice and understanding of Jewish law. | United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Council of Orthodox Synagogues of Victoria |
| Religious Organizations | Rituals and Kashrut | Organizations supporting compliance with Jewish law. Examples include: Chevrah Kadisha, Mohel, kashrut certification. | Orthodox Union, Kashruth Council of Canada |
| Religious Organizations | Non-Jewish Religious Organizations | Organizations operating and supporting houses of worship for religions other than Judaism. | Notre-Dame de Paris |
| Educational Services and Youth | Elementary and Secondary Schools | Organizations primarily engaged in furnishing academic courses and associated course work that comprise a basic preparatory education. A basic preparatory education ordinarily constitutes kindergarten through 12th grade. This category includes after-school programs offering Jewish education to youth, and also includes school boards and school districts. | Solomon Schechter Day School, Kesher Newton |
| Educational Services and Youth | Colleges and Universities | Organizations primarily engaged in furnishing academic courses and granting degrees at associate, baccalaureate or graduate levels. Includes seminaries that ordain clergy. Universities may hold a wide vary of archives of other organizations or communities. | University of Oxford, Jewish Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University |
| Educational Services and Youth | Other schools | Organizations engaged in offering or providing instruction primarily to adults other than colleges and universities. Includes business, computer, management, technical and trade instruction. | Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning |
| Educational Services and Youth | Extracurricular Learning and Activities | Organizations primarily engaged in offering educational/recreational activities for youth and adults. Includes overnight and day camps and associations of camps. | Camp Ramah, Limmud, Birthright Israel |
| Educational Services and Youth | Youth Movements | Organizations formed for Jewish children and adolescents for educational, social, and ideological development, using informal education approaches to educate toward the movement's ideological goals. | Tzofim Onot - Israeli Scouts, Hashomer Hatzair |
| Civic, Social, and Professional Organizations | Civic and Social Organizations | Organizations primarily engaged in promoting the civic and social interests of their members. | Beth Weizmann Jewish Community Centre, Alpha Epsilon Pi Hillel International |
| Civic, Social, and Professional Organizations | Professional Organizations | Organizations primarily engaged in supporting the professional interests of their members, including business organizations, labor unions, and political organizations. | American Medical Association |
| Social Advocacy Organizations | Advocacy for Jewish Causes | Organizations primarily engaged in social advocacy or advancement of Jewish causes, such as antisemisim and Zionism. These organizations may solicit contributions and offer memberships to support these causes. | B'nai Brith, Hadassah, Jewish National Fund of Australia, World Jewish Congress |
| Social Advocacy Organizations | Advocacy for Secular Causes | Organizations primarily engaged in social advocacy or advancement of social causes in issues such as human rights, environmental protection, peace and international understanding, and community action. These organizations may solicit contributions and offer memberships to support these causes. | Greenpeace, American Civil Liberties Union |
| Social Advocacy Organizations | International Organizations | Non-governmental organizations that operate in at mulitple countries, typically with a humanitarian or social development purpose. | Medecins Sans Frontieres |
| Grantmaking and Philanthropic Services | Fundrasing for the Jewish Community | Organizations that raise and distribute funds to support social welfare, social services, health, and educational needs, in order to protect and enhance the well-being of the Jewish community locally and worldwide. | United Jewish Appeal |
| Grantmaking and Philanthropic Services | "Friends of" Organizations | Organizations created to allow tax-deductible contributions to support the charitable activity of a foreign entity. | Australian Friends of Shaare Zedek Inc, American Friends of Bar Ilan University |
| Grantmaking and Philanthropic Services | Fundraising for the General Community | Organizations that raise and distribute funds to support specific social welfare, health, social services, educational, environmental, and other causes, to protect and enhance the well-being of the community at large. | United Way, The Minneapolis Foundation |
| Health Care and Social Assistance | Hospitals | Hospitals provide medical, diagnostic, and treatment services that include physician, nursing, and other health services to inpatients and the specialized accommodation services required by inpatients. Hospitals may also provide outpatient services. | Mount Sinai Hospital, Royal London Hospital |
| Health Care and Social Assistance | Ambulatory Health Services | Organizations that provide health care services directly or indirectly to ambulatory patients and do not usually provide inpatient services | North Shore Physicians Group, Magen David Adom |
| Health Care and Social Assistance | Social Assistance Organizations | Organizations primarily engaged in providing individual and family social assistance services, including Landsmanshaften, outside of residential care facilities-provided services. | Visit and Care Bikur Cholim, Jewish Family & Children's Service, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Pinsker Progressive Aid Society (Landsmanshaft) |
| Health Care and Social Assistance | Residential Communities | Nursing and Residential Care Facilities provide residential care combined with either nursing, supervisory, or other types of care as required by the residents. Also includes organizations primarily engaged in providing residential and personal care services for (1) the elderly and other persons who are unable to fully care for themselves and/or (2) the elderly and other persons who do not desire to live independently. | Dallas Home for Jewish Aged, Hebrew SeniorLife |
| Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation | Performing and Cultural Arts | Organizations that produce, manage and/or promote live presentations involving the performances of actors and actresses, singers, dancers, musical groups and artists, and other entertainers. | Zamir Chorale of Boston, Opéra National de Paris |
| Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation | Spectator Sports | This industry comprises sports teams or clubs primarily participating in live sporting events, including facilities owned by teams and clubs for presenting their activities. | Macabbi Victoria, Hakoah Vienna |
| Public Administration | Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support | Government organizations serving as offices of executive, legislative, or other governing bodies; their committees and commissions; and those that provide general support for government. Government-administered archives and census agencies are included in this category. | London Municipal Archives, Consistoire Central, U.S. Social Security Administration |
| Public Administration | Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities | Civilian courts of law, agencies of criminal and civil law enforcement, correctional institutions, and other governmental offices of public safety. | Federal Bureau of Investigation, Middlesex County Court, United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth |
| Public Administration | Administration of Human Resource Programs | Government organizations involved in the administration of education, human resources, public health, public assistance, veterans’ affairs, air and water resource and solid waste management, and land use and conservation. | United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Illinois Department of Human Services, Long Island State Veterans Home |
| Public Administration | Space Research and Technology | Government organizations primarily engaged in the administration and operations of space flights, space research, and space exploration. | National Aeronautics and Space Administration, European Space Agency |
| Public Administration | Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development | Government organizations primarily engaged in the administration and planning of housing programs, regional and urban planning, and economic development. | New York City Housing Authority |
| Public Administration | National Security and International Affairs | Government organizations of the Armed Forces primarily engaged in national security and related activities. | Israel Defense Forces, United States Marine Corps |
| Business Enterprises | Funeral and Cemetery Services | Organizations primarily engaged in preparing the dead for burial or interment and conducting funerals (i.e., providing facilities for memorial services, arranging transportation for the dead, selling caskets and related merchandise), and organizations primarily engaged in operating sites or structures reserved for the interment of remains and/or cremating the dead. For Chevra Kadisha see Religious Organizations, Rituals and Kashrut. | Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts, Riverside Funeral Home |
| Business Enterprises | Personal Care Services | Organizations engaged in providing personal services to individuals, households, and businesses, excluding death care services. | Vidal Sassoon Hair Salon, Express Laundry Center |
| Business Enterprises | Accommodations | Lodging or short-term accommodations for travelers, vacationers, and others. | Grossingers, Imperial Hotel Tokyo, Windermere Reception Centre and Hostel |
| Business Enterprises | Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting | Organizations engaged in crop production, animal production, forestry, fishing and hunting, and related support activities. | Empire Kosher Poultry, Terhune Orchards |
| Business Enterprises | Food Services | Organizations that prepare meals, snacks, and beverages to customer order for immediate on-premises and off-premises consumption, including caterers. | Premier Caterers, Katz's Delicatessen |
| Business Enterprises | Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction | Organizations engaged in operating and developing oil and gas fields, mining, and related support activities. | ExxonMobil, Trap Rock Industries |
| Business Enterprises | Utilities | Industries that provide electric power, natural gas, steam supply, water supply, and sewage treatment and disposal through a permanent infrastructure of lines, mains, and pipes. | Pacific Gas & Electric, Colonial Pipeline, Thames Water |
| Business Enterprises | Construction | Organizations engaged in construction of buildings, engineering projects such as highways and dams, utility systems, and related specialty trades. | Bechtel Corporation, ECI Engineering and Construction Company |
| Business Enterprises | Manufacturing | Organizations engaged in the production of goods from raw materials. | Inland Steel, Triangle Waist Company, Heaven Hill Distillery |
| Business Enterprises | Wholesale Trade | Organizations that sell capital or durable goods to other businesses. | Bunzel Distribution USA, Sysco Corporation |
| Business Enterprises | Retail Trade | Organizations involved in the sale of goods to the public. | Macy's, Family Dollar |
| Business Enterprises | Transportation and Warehousing | Organizations involved in the transportation of goods or passengers and pipeline distribution of products, as well as related support activities; delivery and warehouse services including postal service. | FedEx, BritishRail |
| Business Enterprises | Finance and Insurance | Organizations that engage in providing deposit and lending services, underwriting or maintaining markets for securities, and managing portfolios; and insurance companies and agencies. | Goldman Sachs, CNP Assurances |
| Business Enterprises | Real Estate and Rental and Leasing | Organizations primarily engaged in renting or leasing real estate or tangible goods to others, and related activities. | Coldwell Banker, United Rentals |
| Business Enterprises | Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Organizations that make available the knowledge and skills of their employees, often on an assignment basis, where an individual or team is responsible for the delivery of services to the client. | Deloitte Consulting, Nanotech Solutions |
| Business Enterprises | Management of Companies and Enterprises | Organizations that administer, oversee, and manage other companies or enterprises; and/or those that hold the securities of (or other equity interests in) these establishments. | Berkshire Hathaway |
| Business Enterprises | Administrative and Support Services | Organizations engaged in activities that support the day-to-day operations of other organizations (and sometimes consumers), usually on a contract or fee basis, including those that provide travel arrangements and reservation services and those engaged in the collection, treatment, and disposal of waste materials. | ADP, Thomas Cook Travel |
| Business Enterprises | Repair and Maintenance Services | Organizations that provide repair and maintenance services. | The Appliance Doctor, Paul's Foreign Auto Works |
| Private Households | Personal or Family Collections | Collection of objects (correspondence, art, memorabilia, etc.) in the private collection of an individual or family. | The Rothschild Archive London |