General Resource Sites

• Ancestry.com - Beginning Jewish Research 
• Ancestry.com - Jewish Research 
  Article by Gary Mokotoff.
• Avotaynu, Inc. Home Page 
  Products and information for Jewish genealogy.
• The Channel 4 Guide to Genealogy or How to Find Your Roots 
  • Tracing an Ancestor Who Was an Immigrant 
    • Jewish 
• Cross-Index to HomePages of Jewish Genealogy - from FEEFHS 
• Eastern European Jewish Immigration to Maryland 
  A scholarly review of immigration into Maryland from the very first colonists to modern immigrants.
• FamilySearch.org - Jewish Family History Resources 
  • Finding Records Of Your Ancestors - Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors From The United States To Europe 1850 to 1930 
  • Research Outline - Jewish Genealogy 
• Immigration: The Jewish 
  A brief history of Jewish immigration to the United States.
• Israel GenWeb - Jewish Genealogy Resources 
  Jewish Genealogy resources for the State of Israel.
• Jamaican Jewish Genealogy 
• JGeneWiki 
  Jewish Genealogy Wiki (in Hebrew) with terms, articles, guides and people and family pages.
• Jewish Genealogy Research Tools and Techniques 
  Article covering the basics of doing Jewish Genealogy research with a focus on techniques for finding European town of origin and surnames.
• Jewish Genealogy Web Index 
  Compendium of thousands of links and bits and pieces of information that may offer value in researching one's Jewish roots. In alphabetical order by country or subject and it is free.
• Jewish Genetic Diseases 
  Mazornet's staff is dedicated to compiling helpful information and resources concerning Jewish genetic diseases.
• JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) -- ONLINE 
• JewishGen FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions 
• JewishGen: The Official Home of Jewish Genealogy 
• Jewish/Israel History: Genealogy, Archeology, Diaspora, Israel History... 
• Jewish Records Indexing - Poland 
• Jewish Roots Ring 
  A web ring for Jewish genealogy sites.
• JGL: Jewish Genealogy Links 
  A list of several hundred Jewish Genealogy Links, cross-indexed by subject.
• Looking 4 Kin - Jewish Genealogy Links & Chat 
• Roots Television 
  Roots Television is an online television network by and for avid genealogists. Videos include how-to demonstrations, conference lectures, and region-specific programming including Irish, Hispanic, British, Jewish, African-American research and more. Videos are available online, on-demand, and virtually all of them are absolutely free.
  • Program Guide 
    • Jewish Roots 
• Sephardic Genealogy Sources 
  • Inquisicion and other early Hispanic Archives 
• Sephardim.com 
  A research tool for Sephardic / Jewish genealogy. This site serves as a research tool for Sephardic genealogists world-wide. Sephardim are Spanish and Portuguese Jews exiled to Iberia by the Romans. Many of these Serphardim would later disperse to the four corners of the world in 1492.
• SefardSIG 
  A JewishGen resource for researchers of Sephardic genealogy and history. (Sephardim are Jews who are descendants of the former Jews of Spain and Portugal). The site features 'KahalLinks' where individuals create genealogy web pages devoted to a Sephardic community (kahal). 'Sefard Forum' is the companion discussion group.
• This is no fish tale: Gefilte tastes tell story of ancestry 
  Onlne article from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Explains the geographic divide between taste preferences in gefilte fish in Eastern Europe as well as other clues to Jewish geographic origins including prayer books, head coverings, and tombstone shapes.
• Tracing Ancestors who were Immigrants - Jewish 
  From the UK Channel 4 television program Extraordinary Ancestors.
• Tracing the Tribe - The Jewish Genealogy Blog 
  The only focused Jewish genealogy blog, Tracing the Tribe was established in mid-August 2006, in conjunction with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (www.jta.org), a major news agency, which asked noted Jewish genealogy journalist Schelly Talalay Dardashti to begin the new venture. Tracing the Tribe will cover events, publications, resources, methodology, answer reader queries and more. Dardashti was the genealogy columnist for the Jerusalem Post (1999-2005), is genealogy contributor to www.ynetnews.com and writes for JTA, The Forward, Avotaynu, NGS Quarterly and other media. A researcher since 1989, her personal quest covers Spain, Belarus and Iran, Ashkenazic and Sephardic genealogy.

History & Culture

• 350th.org - 350 Years of American Jewish History 
  A joint project from The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, The American Jewish Historical Society, The Library of Congress, and the National Archives & Records Administration.
• Centropa 
  History of the Jewish peoples in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. From the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation.
• From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History 
• Hebrew Alphabet 
• History of Suriname 
  Jewish history in Suriname, South America.
• Internet Jewish History Sourcebook 
• Jewish-American History on the Web 
• Jewish West 
• Kolel: Reb on the Web Archives 
  Why stones or pebbles are placed on Jewish tombstones.
• Why Do Jews Put Stones On Tombstones? 
• Why put stones on graves? 
• Yahoo!...Judaism...History 

The Holocaust

• Archival Collections at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum 
  
• Cybrary of the Holocaust 
  • Tracing Family Members Lost in the Holocaust 
• Finding Aids: Yizkor Books in the Special Collections Department 
  List of Yizkor books in the Special Collections Department of the St. Louis County Library.
• Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies 
  A collection of over 4,200 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust.
• Holocaust Global Registry 
  From JewishGen. For anyone searching Holocaust survivors, for survivors searching family members or friends, and for child survivors searching clues to their identity.
• Holocaust Names 
  Names of those who perished in the Holocaust.
• Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and Information Center 
  The Red Cross' clearinghouse for persons seeking the fates of loved ones missing since the Holocaust and its aftermath. Assists U.S. residents searching for proof of internment, forced/slave labor, or evacuation from former Soviet territories on themselves or family members.
  • The Tracing Process 
• How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust 
  Partial contents online of the book by the same title from Avotaynu.
• International Tracing Service - Bad Arolsen  ~ Germany
  Originally organized to search for non-German persons who had become missing or displaced during the war and to assist separated families in being reunited. It now holds millions of records on concentration camp prisoners, Jews, foreigners in German-controlled territories & displaced persons.
  • History 
  • Tracing Work 
• Kindertransport Association 
  Organization of child Holocaust survivors who were sent, without their parents, out of Austria, Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain.
• Missing Identity Project 
  Holocaust survivor children still searching for their true identity and threads to their past.
• Nadworna, Ukraine 
  English language section of the yizkor book for Nadworna, Galicia (today Nadvirna, Ukraine).
• One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse 
  Alternate search functions for many online databases. Includes tools for immigration, census, vital records, calendars, soundex, foreign alphabets, Jewish and Holocaust research.
  • Holocaust and Eastern Europe 
• Poland's Holocaust - A Family Chronicle of Soviet and Nazi Terror 
  The history of a Polish family scattered by World War Two.
• Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation 
  In 1994, after filming Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg established Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation with an urgent mission: to videotape and preserve the testimonies of Holocaust survivors and witnesses. Today, the Shoah Foundation has collected more than 50,000 eyewitness testimonies in 57 countries and 32 languages, and is committed to ensuring the broad and effective educational use of its archive worldwide.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum  ~ Washington, DC
  • Registry Of Jewish Holocaust Survivors 
  • Voyage of the "St. Louis" 
    Documents the attempts of Jewish refugees to flee pre-war Germany.
    • Passenger List 
    • The Search 
      Provides scanned images of documents relating to four of the passengers on the "St. Louis". Interactive learning site which allows a visitor to use the scanned original records to learn the ultimate fate of the four passengers
• Yad Vashem - The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority  ~ Israel
  Commemoration and documentation of the events of the Holocaust, collection, examination, and publication of testimonies to the Holocaust, the collection and memorialization of the names of Holocaust victims, and research and education.
  • Remebrance 
    • Commemorating the Names 
      • The Hall of Names 
      • Submitting Pages of Testimony 

Jewish Calendar

• 50 Year Yahrzeit Calendar Calculator 
• Calendar Conversions 
  Scott Lee's free on-line service for converting to/from dates in Gregorian, Julian, French republican and Jewish calendars.
• Judaism 101: Jewish Calendar 
• Yahrzeit Calendar 
  Converts Gregorian to Hebrew dates and vice versa. Gives Yizkor dates through 2012.

Language & Names

• Alternate Surnames in Russian Poland 
• Ancestry.com - Dictionary of Jewish Surnames in Russian Empire 
  Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Original source: Beider, Alexander. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire. Teaneck, NJ, USA: Avotaynu, 1993.
• Foreign Name Cross Reference 
  Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Slovak, Russian or Yiddish given first names with their English equivalents.
• Jewish Names 
• Jewish Names 
• Judaism 101: Hebrew Alphabet 
• Names: All About Them 

Libraries, Archives & Museums

• The American Jewish Archives  ~ Cincinnati, Ohio
  Houses over ten million pages of documentation. It contains nearly 5,000 linear feet of archives, manuscripts,nearprint materials, photographs, audio and video tapes, microfilm, and genealogical materials.
  • Collections 
  • First American Jewish Families 
    Online searchable database of 600 genealogies from 1654 to 1988.
    • Search Genealogies 
  • Genealogy 
  • Research Requests 
• American Sephardi Federation with Sephardic House 
  National Jewish organization with local chapters. It is dedicated to ensuring that the history, legacies and traditions of the Sephardic communities throughout the world be recorded, remembered and celebrated as an integral part of Jewish heritage.
• Bancroft Library  ~ Berkeley, California
  University of California at Berkeley.
  • Biography and Genealogy Resources 
  • Collections 
    • Catalonian Manuscripts 
    • Latin Americana 
      • Judaica in the Mexican Inquisition documents 
• Berkeley Digital Library SunSITE 
  • Digital Collections (DL SunSITE) 
    • The Last Jews of Libya 
      From the University of California, Berkeley.
• Beth Hatefutsoth Museum of the Jewish People 
  The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora
  • Beth Hatefutsoth Family Names Database 
  • The Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center 
• Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives  ~ Arizona
• Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History 
• Center for Jewish History 
  • The Center for Jewish History Genealogy Institute  
• The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People  ~ Israel
  Founded in 1938 as the Jewish Historical General Archives. Their aim is the reconstruction of an unbroken chain of historical documentation, reflecting the collective past of the Jewish people.
  • Genealogy 
• Central Zionist Archives  ~ Israel
  The Central Zionist Archives is the official historical archives of the World Zionist Organization, the Jewish Agency, the Jewish National Fund, Keren Hayesod and the World Jewish Congress. It also holds the personal papers of individuals involved in the Zionist movement or active in Palestine/Israel.
• Chicago Jewish Archives  ~ Illinois
• Dinur Center for the Study of Jewish History - Genealogy 
• Family History Library Catalog 
  From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. Also search for other localities by place name.
  • Israel 
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania 
  Includes a research library with materials on immigration studies.
  • A Guide to Manuscript and Microfilm Collections of the Research Library of the Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies 
    • Jewish 
• International Institute for Jewish Genealogy  ~ Israel
  The Institute's goals are to conduct genealogical research and to make Jewish genealogy an academic discipline within overall Jewish Studies. Located in the Jewish National and University Library at the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University.
• Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada 
  • JHCWC - Our Extensive Archives 
• Jewish Museum of Belgium 
• Jewish Museum of Greece 
• Jewish Women's Archive 
  The mission of the Jewish Women's Archive is to uncover, chronicle and transmit the rich legacy of Jewish women and their contributions to our families and communities, to our people and our world.
• Leo Baeck Institute  ~ New York
  Research center and archive for the study of German Jewish history.
  • Visting the LBI for Family Research 
• Musee Juif de Belgique - Jewish Museum of Belgium 
  A Circle of Jewish Genealogy in Belgium.
• The Museum of Family History 
  This virtual museum honors and preserves the memory of Jewish families, history and culture, and offers much information of relevance to those who might be researching their Jewish roots.
• National Museum of American Jewish History 
• Ratner Center Archives 
  Collects the records of major agencies of the Conservative movement, rabbis, synagogues, and educators. ~ New York
• Rauh Jewish Archives  ~ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• The Rothschild Archive  ~ London, England
• Survey of Jewish Archives in the UK and Eire  
  From the University of Southampton Libraries.
• The Susser Archive 
  The documents and papers of the late Rabbi Dr. Bernard Susser, historian of the Jews of South West England.
• Western Jewish History Center || The Magnes 
  The Western Jewish History Center preserves the history of the Jewish community of the thirteen western states, with a special focus on California and its San Francisco Bay Area. It contains a lot of genealogical-related resources, especially in its holdings from various synagogues (especially marriage and death registers).
• Western Reserve Historical Society Library  ~ Cleveland, Ohio
  • Cleveland Jewish Archives 
    • Research on Jewish Family History 
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research 

Locality Specific

• Australia & Jewish Genealogy 
• Bielsk Podlaski  ~ Poland
  The former Jewish shtetl of Bielsk Podlaski. Photos, materials from the Bielsker Bruderlicher Untershtitzungs Verein, cemetery information and links pertaining to Bielsk Podlaski.
• Cuban Jewish Search Lists-Family Ties 
  Lists, book indexes, and other information to help people locate Jewish families that settled in Cuba over the past 100 years.
• Dutch Jewish Genealogy Homepage 
• An Introduction to Jewish Genealogy in Manitoba 
• Belarus SIG 
  Provides research data for Jewish genealogist with roots in the country known as Belarus, formerly Byelorussia or White Russia.
• Bocicoiu Mare, Maramures, Romania 
  Information on the Jewish shetls of Bocicoiu Mare.
• The Chernigov Genealogy Group 
  A companion web site to the UKR-CHERNIGOV mailing list for anyone researching their Jewish roots in Chernigov Gubernia (Russia until 1929/1932) or Chernigov Oblast in the Ukraine (1932 to present).
• Dutch Jewish Genealogy Homepage 
  Dutch Jewish volunteer research services.
• Federation of Jewish Communites of the CIS 
  Genealogical research and contacts with Jewish communites in fifteen countries in the Former Soviet union.
• From Wuerttemberg to America 
  A 19th century German-Jewish village on its way to the New World.
• Genealogy of the Jews in Italy: Family History, Resources, Researches, Databases 
  Jewish Genealogy In Italy: Sephardic and Ashkenazi. A guide on how to research, resources, archives, documents examples, censuses, records, maps, names, surnames, genealogy and family history, databases, databases projects, heraldryplaces, ghettos, Livorno, Roma, Venezia, Pisa.
• German-Jewish Special Interest Group (GerSig) 
  Links and data bases and a moderated discussion group on Jewish Genealogy in German-speaking regions, Europe & elsewhere.
• Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Chicagoland 
  Contains information on more than 75 research locations to aid the Jewish/Chicago researcher. The site contain specifics about each location—including address, phone, fax, e-mail, website, a description of the resources available, and information about accessing the records. In addition, the website has a section organized by the type of record—including vital records, residence records, life in Jewish Chicago, arrival records, and “old country” information. These web pages guide the user by each record type to the locations where the information can be found.
• Humenne, Slovakia Shtetlinks Website 
• Iraqi Jews 
  Families who left Baghdad in the 1960s & 1970s.
• Jebenhausen - A Jewish Community in Wuerttemberg (1777-1900) 
  Vast information on the Jewish community of a village in Southern Germany, including family history and genealogy.
• Jewish Communities and Records - United Kingdom (JCR-UK) 
• Jewish Family History Centre (Prague) 
  Research project for Jewish families dwelling in Bohemia and Moravia within the period 1790-1848.
• JewishGen Hungarian Jewish Genealogy 
  For those researching their Jewish roots in the area generally known as Greater Hungary or pre-Trianon Hungary.
• Jewish guide and genealogy in Poland, Cracow and Auschwitz 
  Jewish genealogy in Poland and former Galicia. Location of documents and family data. Organization of visits to particular places of interest in Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Ukraine connected with family stories.
• Jewish names in Suriname between 1666 and 1997 
• Jewish Records Indexing - Poland 
• The Early History of Jews in Los Angeles  ~ California
  The history of the Jews in Los Angeles 1848-1945.
• Genealogy of Jews of Gyonk/Jink, Tolna County, Hungary 
• Hungarian Jewish Roots 
  Jewish ancestral research in the territory of the former Hungarian Kingdom.
• Jewish Genealogical Researches in Argentina - Jewish Genealogy in Argentina 
• JewishGen Belarus SIG 
  To aid Jewish genealogy researchers with an interest in the gubernii (provinces) of Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev and Vitebsk, as well as in the Lida and Vileika uyezds (districts) of the Vilna gubernia.
  • Grodno Guberniya 
  • Minsk Guberniya 
  • Mogilev Guberniya 
  • Vilna Guberniya 
  • Vitebsk Guberniya 
• JewishGen Shtetlinks Web Page for Krakes Lithuania 
  Information gathered from a variety of sources on the town of Krakes in Lithuania and it's former Jewish inhabitants.
• Jewish guide and genealogy in Poland, Cracow and Auschwitz 
  Poland, Cracow, Casimir, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Shtetl with a Jewish, privat guide. Jewish genealogy and travel in Poland and Galicia.
• Jewish Telegraph Newspaper - Roots Directory  ~ United Kingdom
  >Regional Jewish newspaper for Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool & Glasgow with a genealogy notices section.
• The Jews of Ireland Genealogy Page 
  Outline of the history of the Irish Jewish community from the earliest times to the 20th century.
• Juden in Baden und Württemberg 
• Kurenets/Kurenitz/Kureniec 
  Pictures, stories & information about the Vileyka District, Belarus.
• Lida District (Uezd) 
  Research in the former Lida uezd. Formerly in Vilna guberniya, Lithuania; Grodno guberniya, Russia; and Nowogrodskie woj., Poland. The site's primary interest is Jewish family research.
• The Memorial Website to the Destroyed Shtetl (town in Yiddish) of Mazheik or Mozheik (in Yiddish) Mazeikiai (in Lithuanian) 
  This website comes to preserve the memory of the Jewish community of Mazheik (Mazeikiai in Lithuanian). Main topics: Geography, History of town and its Jewish community, Holocaust, memorial, family research, memories and stories.
• The Middle East 
  See this category on Cyndi's List for related links.
• Moving Here - 200 Years of Migration to England 
  Online searchable database of digitized photographs, maps, objects, documents and audio items recording migration experiences of the past 200 years.
  • Jewish Migration Histories 
  • Jewish Roots 
• Nagy Bocsko 
  Romanian communa consisting of Bociciou Mare, Craciunesti, Tisa, Lug, Velykiv Bychkiv & Zakarpatska.
• Peter Spiro's Home Page 
  Resources and reference material regarding Jewish genealogy in eastern Hungary.
• PolishRoots: The Polish Genealogy Source 
• Radzilow, Poland - Memorial to a Once-Vibrant Jewish Shtetl 
  History and documentation of most Jewish families that lived in this town in Lomza Gubernia, including many photos of the town and its residents.
• Remembering the Jews of Lubaczow 
  Lubaczow is in southeastern Poland.
• Researching Jewish Genealogies in South Africa - Part A 
• Researching Jewish Genealogies in South Africa - Part B 
• Riga 
  Riga History with special reference to Jewish History and Jewish Genealogy. Genealogical information.Links to Genealogical sites related to Latvia.
• Ruzhany Belarus 
  Information about Jewish Ruzhany, a small town in what is now Belarus.
• Schneidemühl 
  Dedicated to the history and memory of the former Jewish community of Pila and Schneidemühl, in the heart of Wielkopolska, Great Poland, the area that later became the Prussian province of Posen.
• Shoreshim - Finding Your Jewish Roots in Poland 
  Dedicated to the preservation and propagation of information relating to the Jewish communities of Poland.
• ShtetlLinks - Dvorets, Belarus 
• ShtetLinks Page - Seta/Shat, Lithuania 
• ShtetlLinks - Pavoloch  ~Ukraine
• ShtetlLinks - Poienile de Sub Munte  ~ Romania
• Shtetl Nadworna 
  The former Jewish Shtetl of Nadworna/Nadvorna, Galicia.
• Surinam Jewish Computer Genealogy 
  Provides settlement history for the Jews of Dutch Guyana.
• Talsi, Latvia 
  Records, photographs and other genealogical information for the town of Talsi, with a focus on Jewish families.
• Tukums, Latvia 
  Photographs, records and other genealogical information for Tukums, Latvia, with a focus on Jewish families.
• Valdemarpils, Latvia 
  Photographs, records and other genealogical information for Valdemarpils, Latvia, with a focus on Jewish families.
• West Virginia Jewish History & Genealogy 
  Devoted to the promotion of West Virginia Jewish history, life and genealogy.
• Zabludow 
  Memorial to Jewish Zabludow, Poland. Includes town history, family history, details of holocaust in Zabludow including an English translation of holocaust related documents. Rare photos of 17th century synagogue.

Mailing Lists, Newsgroups & Chat

• Genealogy Resources on the Internet - Jewish Mailing Lists 
  Most of the mailing list links below point to this site, wonderfully maintained by John Fuller. John indexes links for all known genealogy mailing lists, including RootsWeb and others.
• RootsWeb: Genealogy Mailing Lists: Ethnic-Jewish 
  The majority of genealogy mailing lists are hosted by RootsWeb.com. Messages on RootsWeb lists are archived. The links to RootsWeb below point you to the archives (browse or search).

• AUSTRIA-HOLOCAUST Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Austrians who were interned in the German Holocaust camps. Archives: browse or search.
• AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN-JEWISH Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in Jews with Austro-Hungarian ancestry. Archives: browse or search.
• BDS&V Mailing List 
  Supporting the Borislav, Drogobych, Sambor & Vicinity (BDS&V;) Research Group. Borislav, Drogobych, and Sambor were variously part of Austria (the eastern section of Galicia), Poland, and now the Western Ukraine.
• BELARUS Mailing List 
  A regional special interest group (SIG) mailing list for researchers with Jewish family roots in the country now known as Belarus and more specifically from the former Russian Gubernii (provinces) of Minsk, Mogilev, and Vitebsk.
• BERDICHEV Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Berdichev, Ukraine, Russia with a focus on Jewish genealogy. Archives: browse or search.
• BOBRUISK Mailing List 
  Devoted to sharing research data, history, and lore of Bobruisk, Minsk Guberniya, Belarus.
• BOHMOR Mailing List 
  For researchers with Jewish family roots in the areas formerly known as Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic) plus parts of Austria, especially Vienna, but not Galicia.
• Boslovlist Mailing List 
  For anyone with an interest in Jewish genealogy related to the town of Boslov (Boguslav) in the Ukraine.
• BRITISH-JEWRY Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in British Jews. Archives: browse or search.
• Chelm Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the town of Chelm, Poland. The list will also address Jewish Holocaust issues related to the town since the entire Jewish population of the town was forced to leave during World War II.
• CIECHANOW Mailing List 
  Serves as an information-gathering vehicle and clearinghouse for Jewish genealogical and historical information relating to the Jewish community in and around Ciechanow, Poland.
• COURLAND Mailing List 
  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding the acquisition, study, transcription, and creation of scanned images and computer database of census documents that contain information about Courland (within Latvia) Jews (e.g., property owners' lists, business owners' lists, house lists, census lists, tax records).
• DENMARK Mailing List 
  For researchers with Jewish family roots in Denmark, the Danish West Indies, and other Scandinavian countries.
• DNA Mailing List 
  A forum for the discussion of all areas relating to when and how to best utilize DNA testing for your personal genealogical pursuits.
• EARLYAMERICAN Mailing List 
  For those researching Jewish immigrants to the United States before 1880.
• EKATERINOSLAV Mailing List 
  Supporting the Ekaterinoslav Area Research Group which is dedicated to serving as an information-gathering vehicle and clearinghouse for Jewish genealogical and historical information relating to the Jewish community in and around the city formerly known as Ekaterinoslav and now called Dnipropetrovsk in the Ukraine.
• EURO-JEWISH Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Migration, History, Culture, Heritage and Surname search of the Jewish people from Europe to the United States and their descendants in the United States.
• FRENCHSIG Mailing List 
  Ffor Jewish genealogical research in France and French colonies, as well as other French-speaking areas such as Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
• GALICIA Mailing List 
  For those interested in researching their Jewish roots in the former Austrian province of Galacia.
• GEN-Jewish-Roots Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in British Jews in any time period. Topics include all aspects of Jewish life and culture, research techinques and resources, religious records held in Britain (bryss, marriage, burials), and civil registration.
• GERMAN-JEWISH Mailing List 
  A bilingual English-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in people with German-Jewish ancestry. Archives: browse or search.
• GERSIG Mailing List 
  Focuses on Jewish genealogy in German-speaking regions (e.g., Germany, Austria, parts of Switzerland, Alsace, Lorraine, Bohemia, Moravia).
• GRODNO Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Grodno Gubernia, a division of the Russian Empire.
• Hrubieszow Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the town of Hrubieszow, Poland. The list will also address Jewish Holocaust issues related to the town since the entire Jewish population of the town was forced to leave during World War II.
• H-SIG Mailing List 
  For those with Jewish roots in the area known as "greater Hungary" or pre-Trianon Hungary and includes areas that at one time were predominantly Hungarian speaking.
• ISRAEL Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in Israel. Archives: browse or search.
• IsraelGenWeb Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Israel. Archives: browse or search.
• jebenhausen Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the Jewish community of Jebenhausen, Wuerttemberg, Germany (founded in 1777 and dissolved in 1900), in order to achieve a virtual reunion of the descendants of Jebenhausen's Jewish families.
• jewishgenealogy2000 Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in their Jewish ancestry.
• jewishgenealogydallas Mailing List 
  A Jewish Genealogy Interest Group, sponsored by the Dallas Jewish Historical Society, to stimulate interest in Jewish genealogical research, educate those interested in how to pursue Jewish genealogical research, and provide a forum for mutual exchange of information on Jewish genealogical research efforts.
• JEWISHGEN Mailing List  gatewayed with the soc.genealogy.jewish newsgroup
• Jewish Museum of Belgium 
  For anyone who is interested in Jewish genealogy; in Belgian or English.
• JEWISH-NOBILITY Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in Jewish nobility during Biblical times. Archives: browse or search.
• JEWISH-ROOTS Mailing List 
  For anyone interested in Jewish genealogy. Archives: browse or search.
• jfra Mailing List 
  Sponsored by the Jewish Family Research Association of Israel, for anyone interested in learning how to discover their Jewish roots.
• J-Frankfurt Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Jewish families originating in the ancient German city of Frankfurt am Main.
• JRI-PL Mailing List 
  The Jewish Records Indexing Poland project is designed to create a searchable database of indexes to all available Jewish vital records of Poland.
• JUDEO-ALSATIAN Mailing List 
  A multilingual English-French-German mailing list for anyone with a genealogical, cultural or historical interest in the Province of Alsace, nowadays France, related to their Jewish roots. Anything that concerns Jewish-Alsatian traditions, culture, folklore, heritage, or why not old recipes and daily life in ancient times in the Province of Alsace is an appropriate topic. Archives: browse or search.
• KEIDAN Mailing List 
  For anyone with roots or interest in Keidan and its history as a Jewish community to share information and discuss its past and present and the region that surrounds it in Lithuania.
• Koningsberg Mailing List 
  For anyone with an interest in Jewish genealogy related to the town of Koningsberg, Germany.
• KULANU-L Mailing List 
  Kulanu ("all of us") is an organization of individuals of varied backgrounds and practices dedicated to finding lost and dispersed remnants of the Jewish people.
• LATAMSIG Mailing List 
  For researchers with Jewish family roots in all countries of Latin America.
• LATVIA Mailing List 
  For researchers of Jewish families of Latvian descent.
• LITHUANIA-JEWISH Mailing List 
  For anyone trying to trace their Jewish roots back to the surnames on the 18th century Grand Duchy of Lithuania censuses. Archives: browse or search.
• LITVAKSIG Mailing List 
  For those who are interested in the preservation and computerization of primary sources of genealogical data for the descendants of the Lithuanian Jewish community.
• LODZ Mailing List 
  A mailing list in support of the Lodz Area Research Group (LARG) which aims to provide researchers with a forum, clearinghouse and resource for the collection and dissemination of genealogical and historical information relating to the Jewish communities of Lodz, Poland.
• LVIV Mailing List 
  A mailing list supporting the Lviv Area Research Group which has, as its primary function, the study and exchange of genealogical research data related to the city of Lviv (Lemburg, Lwow), Ukraine, and the towns within a 15 mile radius of this city.
• maramaros-sig Mailing List 
  For anyone who is researching their Jewish ancestry in the Maramaros County area of Hungary/Romania.
• MOTOL Mailing List 
  A mailing list supporting the Motol Research Group that addresses the former Jewish communities in the Motol, Belarus, area. The goals of the group are to share information of genealogical and historical interest regarding the Jews of Motol; collect and share books, documents, and records about Motol and to translate some of these resources into English; collect and share information about communities of former Motol residents such as the Motol community in Chicago; and look for common relatives that will enable us to link our individual family trees.
• NESVIZH Mailing List 
  For discussions of topics of genealogical interest related to Nesvizh, Minsk Guberniya, Belarus.
• Olkieniki Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the town of Olkieniki, Lithuania. The primary focus of the list is Jewish genealogy.
• Piotrkow Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the Jews of Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland, and their ancestors and descendants.
• POL-KRAKOW-RESEARCH-GROUP Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the Jews of Krakow, Poland. Archives: browse or search.
• POLONNOYE Mailing List 
  For amateur genealogists researching the Ukrainian shtetl of Polonnoye and the nearby shtetls of Poninka and Novolabun.
• PULTUSK Mailing List 
  A mailing list supporting the Pultusk Research Group (PRG) which is dedicated to serving as a clearinghouse for Jewish genealogical information pertaining to Pultusk and the various shtetls within the Pultusk area. Pultusk was a part of the Lomza Gubernia until 1894 when it was transferred to the Warsawa Gubernia.
• Radoshkovichlist Mailing List 
  For anyone with an interest in Jewish genealogy related to the town of Radoshkovich (a town on the road from Vilna to Minsk in Eastern Europe).
• RAVSIG Mailing List 
  For those interested in Rabbinic genealogy or researching rabbinic ancestry within any geographic area or time period.
  • Rav-SIG: Welcome to the Rabbinic Genealogy SIG 
    Forum for rabbinic genealogy or researching rabbinic ancestry.
• ROM-SIG Mailing List 
  For researchers with Jewish family roots in The Banat, Bessarabia, Bukovina, Dobruja, The Maramures, Moldavia, Transylvania and Wallachia (all within the modern nations of Romania, Moldova, and southwestern Ukraine).
• SAFRICA Mailing List 
  To discuss the genealogy and family history of Jewish communities of South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia (Rhodesia), Swaziland, Mozambique, and the former Belgian Congo.
• Schirrhoffen Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the town of Schirrhoffen, Bas-Rhin Alsace, France. The principal focus of the list is Jewish genealogy.
• SEFARD Mailing List 
  For Sephardic genealogy research (Jews who are descendants of the former Jews of Spain and Portugal).
• SephardicForum Mailing List 
  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding Sephardic/Jewish genealogy, genealogy tools, history, customs, and related issues.
• SephardicJewishGenealogy Mailing List 
  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding Sephardic Jewish and Anusim families from France and Canada.
• SEPHARDIC-ROOTS-SOUTHEAST-USA Mailing List 
  For for the discussion and sharing of information regarding Sephardic ancestry in the early southeastern United States. Archives: browse or search.
• SEPHARDIM Mailing List 
  For anyone who is researching their Sephardim ancestors. Archives: browse or search.
• SHTETLINKS Mailing List 
  For participants in the SHTETLINKS Project where individuals create genealogy web pages devoted to a Jewish community (shtetl) and then upload it to the JewishGen web site.
• Turkish_Jews Mailing List 
  For Sephardic Jewish genealogists with roots in the former Turkish Ottoman Empire including Turkey, Serbia, Greece, and Yugoslavia. Archives: browse or search.
• TX-JEWISH Mailing List 
  For the discussion and sharing of information regarding the genealogy and history of Jewish immigrants and religion in Texas. Archives: browse or search.
• TX-ROCKDALE-JEWISH-CEM Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Jewish Cemetery in Rockdale, Milam County, Texas. Archives: browse or search.
• UKRAINE Mailing List 
  For researchers with Jewish family roots in the former Russian Empire gubernias now in the Ukraine: Podolia, Volhynia, Kiev, Poltava, Chernigov, Kharkov, Kherson, Taurida and Ekaterinoslav.
• UKR-ODESSA-GEN Mailing List 
  For research, discussion, and sharing of information regarding Jewish genealogical questions, family research and existing information about the past Jewish communities of the city of Odessa, Russia (now Ukraine). Archives: browse or search.
• UKR-VLADIMIRETS Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in Vladimerets, a shtetl currently in the Ukraine. Archives: browse or search.
• Volochiskians Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical interest in the Shtetl Volochisk (Woloczysk), Ukraine.
• WARSZAWA Mailing List 
  A mailing list supporting the Warszawa Research Group which has undertaken the massive project of researching and indexing City business directories and life cycle information on the Warszawa, Poland, community.
• Woodbine-NJ Mailing List 
  For anyone with an interest in Jewish genealogy related to the town of Woodbine, New Jersey.
• Yahoo! Groups - J-Pultusk : Pultusk Jewish Genealogy 
  A mailing list for anyone researching Jewish families from the town of Pultusk, near Warsaw in Poland.
• Yahoo! Grupos - gen-judio 
  Forum of the jewish genealogy.foro para la genealogia judia.
• YIZKOR Mailing List 
  Yizkor (Memorial) Books, published by groups of former residents as a tribute to their old homes and the people who were murdered during the Holocaust, are some of the best sources for learning about Jewish communities in Eastern and Central Europe.
• YTANDV Mailing List 
  Supporting the Yiddish Theater and Vaudeville Research Group, for those genealogists tracing relatives who were involved in Yiddish theater and/or vaudeville in any capacity, in any location, and in any time period.
• Zamosc Mailing List 
  For anyone with a genealogical or historical interest in the town of Zamosc, Poland. The list will also address Jewish Holocaust issues related to the town since the entire Jewish population of the town was forced to leave during World War II.
• Zdunska-Wola Mailing List 
  Dedicated to genealogy and to the preservation of the Jewish heritage in Zdunska-Wola, Poland and its neighboring towns.