General Resource Sites

• Ancestry.com - Beginning Jewish Research 
  Article by Barbara Krasner-Khait.
• 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 Genealogy Wiki 
• 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 Ireland 
  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.
• 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).
• 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 
• Kapciamiestis, Lithuania 
  Jews once lived in the village and rural district of Kopciowo in Suwalki gubernia now known as Kapciamiestis, Lithuania. This was a small community and many of its residents were related by marriage. They lived here from the late 18th century until 1941. No Jews live in Kapciamiestis today but their descendents can be found throughout the world. This site includes historical background, maps, Yizkur lists, research guides, cemetery information.
• 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.
• The Susser Archive 
  The documents and papers of the late Rabbi Dr. Bernard Susser, historian of the Jews of South West England.
• 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.

• Cyndi's List Genealogy Bookstore 
  A categorized list of genealogy research books that looks a lot like my bookshelf at home.

• Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - Jewish 
  The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.
  • Annihilation of Lithuanian Jewry 
    A book by Oshry Efroim.
  • Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy 
    A book by Gary Mokotoff.
  • The Beginner's Guide to Interpreting Ethnic DNA Origins for Family History : How Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Mizrahi & Europeans Are Related to Everyone Else 
    A book by Anne Hart.
  • Better Than Gold: An Immigrant Family's First Years in Brooklyn 
    A book by Fannie Silver.
  • Carved Memories: Heritage in Stone from the Russian Jewish Pale 
    A book by David Noevich Goberman.
  • A checklist of registers of Protestant & Jewish congregations in Quebec 
    A book by Neil Broadhurst.
  • Chronicle of the Old Testament Kings: The Reign-By-Reign Record of the Rulers of Ancient Israel 
    A book by J.W. Rogerson.
  • Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames 
    A book by Lars Menk.
  • A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History 
    A book by Benzion C. Kaganoff.
  • A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland 
    A book by Alexander Beider.
  • A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire 
    A book by Alexander Beider.
  • DPs: Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945-1951 
    A book by Mark Wyman.
  • An Echo in My Blood: The Search for a Family's Hidden Past 
    A book by Alan Weisman.
  • FAQ : Frequently Asked Questions About Jewish Genealogy 
    A book by Warren Blatt.
  • Finding Our Fathers: A Guidebook to Jewish Genealogy 
    A book by Dan Rottenberg.
  • Finding Your Jewish Roots in Galicia : A Resource Guide 
    A book by Suzan F. Wynne.
  • From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry 
    A book by Jack Kugelmass.
  • From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History 
    A book by Arthur Kurzweil.
  • Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy 
    A book by Gary Mokotoff.
  • The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe: A Travel Guide and Resource Book to Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest 
    A book by Eli Valley.
  • The Golden Land: The Story of Jewish Immigration to America: An Interactive History With Removable Documents and Artifacts 
    A book by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin.
  • A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel 
    A book by Sallyann Admur Sack.
  • History of the Jews in New Mexico 
    A book by Henry J. Tobias.
  • How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust: Documenting Victims, Locating Survivors (Avotaynu Monograph) 
    A book by Gary Mokotoff.
  • How to Trace Your Jewish Roots: Discovering Your Unique History 
    A book by Rabbie Jo David.
  • How We Lived: A Documentary History of Immigrant Jews in America, 1880-1930 
    A book by Irving Howe.
  • Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration 
    A book by Hasia R. Diner.
  • Inside Looking Out: The Cleveland Jewish Orphan Asylum, 1868-1924 
    A book by Gary Edward Polster.
  • Jacob's Children in the Land of the Mahdi: Jews of the Sudan 
    A book by Eli S. Malka.
  • Jewish American Family Album 
    A book by Dorothy Hoobler.
  • Jewish Americans: The Immigrant Experience 
    A book by Hasia R. Diner.
  • Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 
    A book by Daniel Soyer.
  • Jewish Family Names and Their Origins : An Etymological Dictionary 
    A book by Heinrich W. & Eva H. Guggenheimer.
  • Jewish First Names 
    A book by David C. Gross.
  • Jewish Immigrant Associations and American Identity in New York, 1880-1939 
    A book by Daniel Soyer.
  • Jewish Immigrants of the Nazi Period in the U.S.A. : Guide to the Oral History Collection of the Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration 
    A book by Herbert A. Strauss.
  • Jewish Museums of North America: A Guide to Collections, Artifacts, and Memorabilia 
    A book by Nancy Frazier.
  • Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories 
    A book by Miriam Weiner.
  • Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories 
    A book by Miriam Weiner.
  • Jewish Surnames in Prague : (15th-18th Centuries) 
    A book by Alexander Beider.
  • The Jews in Early America: A Chronicle of Good Taste and Good Deeds 
    A book by Sandra Cumings Malamed.
  • The Jews of Moscow, Kiev and Minsk: Identity, Antisemitism, Emigration 
    A book by Rozalina Ryvkina.
  • Ketubbah: Jewish Marriage Contracts of the Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum and Klau Library 
    A book by the Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum.
  • Ketubbot: Marriage Contracts from the Jewish Museum 
    A book by the Jewish Museum.
  • Library Resources for German-Jewish Genealogy 
    A book by Angelika G. Ellmann-Kruger & Edward David Luft.
  • The Luckiest Orphans: A History of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York 
    A book by Hyman Bogen.
  • The Marranos of Spain: From the Late 14th to the Early 16th Century, According to Contemporary Hebrew Sources 
    A book by B. Netanyahu.
  • Memorial Volumes to Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust 
    A book by Ilana Tahan.
  • Mordecai: An Early American Family 
    A book by Emily Bingham.
  • My Generations, a Course in Jewish Family History 
    A book by Arthur Kurzwell.
  • Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835 
    A book by Edward D. Luft.
  • The Penguin Atlas of Diasporas 
    A book by Gerard Chaliand.
  • Poyln: Jewish Life in the Old Country 
    A book by Alter Kacyzne.
  • Quarantine! : East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 
    A book by Howard Markel.
  • Resources for Jewish Genealogy in the Boston Area 
    A book by Warren Blatt.
  • Roots Schmoots: Journeys Among Jews 
    A book by Howard Jacobson.
  • Scattered Seeds: A Guide to Jewish Genealogy 
    A book by Mona Freedman Morris.
  • Schmelvis: In Search of Elvis Presley's Jewish Roots 
    A book by Jonathan Goldstein.
  • Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World 
    A book by Jeffrey S. Malka.
  • Some Archival Sources for Ukrainian Jewish Genealogy 
    A book by Aleksander Kronik.
  • Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories 
    A book by David S. Zubatsky & Irwin M. Berent.
  • Sources in the United States and Canada (The Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy, Vol 1) 
    A book by Miriam Weiner.
  • Special Sorrows: The Diasporic Imagination of Irish, Polish, and Jewish Immigrants in the United States 
    A book by Matthew Frye Jacobson.
  • A Student's Guide to Jewish American Genealogy 
    A book for sale.
  • Translation Guide to Nineteenth Century Polish Language Civil Registration Documents (Birth, Marriage & Death Records) 
    A book by the Jewish Genealogical Society.
  • Western Jewish History Center: Guide to Archival and Oral History Collections 
    A book by the Western Jewish History Center.
  • WOWW Companion : A Guide to the Communities Surrounding Central & Eastern European Towns (Avotaynu Monograph) 
    A book by Gary Mokotoff .
  • Yiddishland 
    A book by Gerard Silvain.
• Ancestor's Attic Discount Genealogy Books - Jewish Genealogy Books 
• Avotaynu, Inc. Home Page 
  Products and information for Jewish genealogy.
• Between Galicia and Hungary: The Jews of Stropkov 
  Melody Amsel, an American-born Israeli amateur genealogist, has created a beautifully written yizkor (Holocaust memorial) book about the Jews of Stropkov, Slovak Republic. Many Jewish genealogists have memorialized members of their family murdered in the Holocaust. Ms. Amsel went a step further and not only memorialized the Amsels of Stropkov, but all the Jews of Stropkov. The book has some unusual features for a yizkor book. It is written in two languages: Hebrew and English, each a mirror of the other. It does not have a necrology--a list of those who were killed. Instead, it lists all the Jews of Stropkov (and neighboring communities), identifying the survivors in bold face.
• Broder's Rare and Used Books  ~ Waterbury, Connecticut
  Rare, used and out of print books including Jewish, genealogy, town histories, and more.
• DoroTree - Jewish Genealogy Software 
  A multi-language software program for Jewish genealogy with user interfaces in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Hebrew. The only software on the market that enables the user to enter information in both Latin and Hebrew (Yiddish) characters, without a need for Hebrew Windows. Automatic name conversion from English to Hebrew/Yiddish, advanced Hebrew calendar, Bar/Bat Mitsva calculator, built-in links to Jewish genealogy sites, printing trees in both Latin and Hebrew characters etc.
• Genealogical.com - Religions/Jewish 
  The online store of Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. & Clearfield Company.
• Heritage Books: Jewish 
• ILANOT - Software for Jewish Genealogy 
• Jewish Cemetery Publications, LLC 
  Offers a list of publications on Jewish Cemeteries including "A Field Guide to Visiting a Jewish Cemetery".
• The Jewish Community of Cape Ann: An Oral History 
  A book for sale by Sarah V. Dunlap, about a Massachusetts Jewish community.
• Jewish Roots in Poland - Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories 
  A new book by Miriam Weiner.
• Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova 
  Book for sale from Routes to Roots.
• My Ancestors Were Jewish 
  Book for sale from the Society of Genealogists. By Dr. Anthony Joseph, this book covers the emancipation of Jews in Europe, marriage, death and burials, census, secular records, surname information, information on repositories, internet and more. This book is directed primarily to those researching Jewish ancestry in the UK.
• Nobis Press 
  Book for sale outlines the history of European Jews from the First Crusade through the 20th century, focusing the PASCH & OPPENHEIM families.
• The Road From Letichev - The History and Culture of a Forgotten Jewish Community in Eastern Europe 
  A book by David A. Chapin and Ben Weinstock. The two-volume set celebrates 500 years of Jewish history and culture in a forgotten corner of Eastern Europe. It is a sweeping saga about a unique Russian Jewish community, destroyed and almost forgotten-- now faithfully brought to life in vibrant words and images. Richly illustrated, it contains over 400 photographs. A valuable resource to genealogists, the book lists more than 8,300 different individuals with over 600 different unique surnames from more than two dozen different towns in Ukraine.

Queries, Message Boards & Surname Lists

• Ancestry.com - Message Boards - Jewish 
  • Jewish Roots 
  • Jewish-American Research 
  • Sephardim and Sephardic Judaism 
• Family Roots Forum 
  The Israeli forum for all issues regarding Jewish Genealogy (in Hebrew).
• Holocaust Names 
  Online meeting place for those who are seeking word of family members lost in the camps and other seats of Nazi terror, both those who might still be living and those who might be dead. The Names List section of this website offers free space to post messages from those who are looking, providing them a voice to share the names of those who have been lost and to ask for help in recovering their memories.
• Missing Identity Project 
  Holocaust survivor children still searching for their true identity and threads to their past.

Records: Census, Cemeteries, Land, Obituaries, Personal, Taxes and Vital
(Born, Married, Died & Buried)

Cemeteries

• Burials for the Istanbul Yukeskkaldirim Ashkenazi Synagogue 
  Transcribed index of over 3000 burials.
• Burial Societies in the New York Metro Area 
  From the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. (New York). A database of 10,200 entries from almost 100 cemeteries located in New York City, Long Island, Putnam County, Westchester County, and northern New Jersey. These include plots of landsmanshaftn (home town associations), synagogues, family circles, fraternal organizations and labor unions.
• Gura Humorului Jewish Cemetery 
  The aim of this site is to provide a photographic record and to provide the burial records of the Gura Humorului Jewish cemetery located in northern Romania.
• Herman Meyer & Son, Inc. Funeral Directors  ~ Louisville, Kentucky & Hollywood, Florida
  • Genealogy 
• How to Read a Hebrew Tombstone 
  Information on reading Hebrew tombstones, including the Jewish calendar, numbers, common phrases, and special symbols.
• International Jewish Cemetery Project 
• Irwin I. Cohn Michigan Jewish Cemetery Index  ~ Detroit, Michigan
  Online searchable index of approximately 52,000 Jewish residents who were buried in the Detroit metropolitan area from the mid-1800s through the end of 1999.
• Jewish Cemeteries  ~ Hamburg, Germany
• Jewish Cemeteries in Hungary 
  Information about Jewish cemeteries in Hungary. Cemetery surveys, descriptions, addresses of local interests, photo database of gravestones, transcription, translation.
• Jewish Cemeteries in the New York City Area 
• Jewish Cemeteries in the New York Metropolitan Area 
• Jewish Cemetery in Košice / Old Jewish Cemetery at Kosice, Slovakia 
  History of the cemetery, database of 5,517 names of buried persons.
• Jewish cemetery in Olmutz Czech Republic 
  Cemetery plan and list of interments.
• Jewish Cemetery of Rhodes 
  A listing of the 1,167 tombstones in the Jewish cemetery of Rhodes. Includes some photographs and translations of inscriptions.
• Jewish Cemetery Publications, LLC 
  Offers a list of publications on Jewish Cemeteries including "A Field Guide to Visiting a Jewish Cemetery".
• The Jewish Funeral Directors of America - Search For Funeral Chapels 
• Jewish Funerals, Burial and Mourning 
  Hundreds of pages of information and links to Jewish and other resources on death, funeral practice, tahara, burial, cemeteries, mourning and healing, suicide, organ donation, consumer rights and the death care industry.
• JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) 
  Database of names and other identifying information from Jewish cemeteries and burial records worldwide.
• Jewish graves in Ipswich Municipal Cemetery  ~ Suffolk, England
  Photographs & transcriptions.
• Jüdischer Friedhof - Hamburg/Altona  ~ Germany
  Photos of the old jewish cemetery in Hamburg-Altona.
• Mt. Hebron Cemetery  ~ Flushing, New York
  Historic Jewish cemetery in New York City with over 200,000 interments since 1909.
  • Interment Search 
    Online searchable database of interments.
  • Map of Mt. Hebron Cemetery 
  • Mt. Hebron Cemetery 
    Includes a history of the cemetery.
  • Societies at Mount Hebron Cemetery 
    List of societies and their areas of group interments.
• New Jewish Cemetery in Prague-Zizkov 
  Cemetery plan and list of interments.
• The Old Jewish Cemetery of Chambersburg, PA 
• Ozarow Cemetery Restoration Project 
  Story of the restoration of the Ozarow, Poland Jewish cemetery with photos and with tranlations of the tombstones.
• Poland Jewish Cemeteries Restoration Project 
  Restoration of the destroyed Jewish cemeteries of Poland.
• Tombstone Inscriptions in the Old Jewish Cemetery on Plymouth Hoe  ~ England

Census

Miscellaneous

• Anglo-Jewish Miscellanies 
  Historical and genealogical information about the Jewish Community of England including online databases.
• Exil ordinaire / Jewish Traces Ordinary Exile 
  Austrian Jewish refugees in France and Belgium. Searchable lists of victims and prisoners of the French Internement camps. Census of Jews in Lyon and other places France.
• Hungarian Jewish Roots 
  Jewish ancestral research on the territory of the former Hungarian Kingdom. Also a database with more than 10,000 names of Hungarian Jews from 1845-1944.
• Index to: Religious Personnel in Russia 1853-1854 
• Jewish Orphanages in the United States 
• Jewish Foundation for Education of Women Records, 1880-1988 
  From the New York Public Library's Manuscripts and Archives Division. The Jewish Foundation for Education of Women was founded in New York City in 1880 as the Louis Down Town Sabbath School for the purpose of helping under-privileged children of Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side. From 1895 to 1932 it was known as the Hebrew Technical School for Girls and offered courses in commercial and industrial arts to young women. The records include correspondence, minutes, annual reports, case files, registers of scholarship recipients, and miscellaneous administrative records.
• Jewish Record Indexing - Poland 
• Library & Archives Canada - Likacheff-Ragosine-Mathers (LI-RA-MA) Collection 
  When completed the collection will contain approximately 11,400 files including passports, passport applications, identity papers and questionnaires containing general information for Jewish, Ukrainian and Finnish immigrants who came to Canada between 1898 and 1922. This collection of the consular offices of the Russian Empire in Canada corresponds to the Russian Consular Records series in the United States.
• Liverpool Jewish Genealogy Service 
  Online searchable index of Jewish people of Liverpool. CD-ROM for sale
• London Jews Database 
• Olive Tree Genealogy - Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Manhattan New York 1900 
  Names of orphaned children in Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Manhattan New York from the 1900 census.
• Olive Tree Genealogy - Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York 
  Names of orphaned children in Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society of New York, Manhattan New York from the 1900 census. Includes year and place of birth.
• The Poor Jews' Temporary Shelter Database 
  Searchable database of over 45,000 register entries of those who arrived at the Shelter in Leman Street, London from 1896 to 1914.
• Research Guide - Safe Haven - Records of the Jewish Experience in Australia 
  From the National Archives of Australia.
• Searching the Ellis Island Database in One Step (Jewish Passengers) 
  Custom interface for the database, by Stephen P. Morse.
• Stephani-Volksschule Gunzenhausen 
  Students of Stephani school are researching the houses and their Jewish owners through WWII, and their descendants.
• United Order True Sisters Records 
  Inventory of the records held by the American Jewish Archives.
• Warszawa & Praga Homeowners' Lists (1852, 1869 and 1870)  ~ Poland
  Online searchable database of 9,000 entries from three homeowners' lists for Warszawa (Warsaw) & its suburb of Praga.
• Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Writers Project Survey of State and Local Historical Records (1939) Church Records Jewish - Synagogue  ~ Greater New York City

Obituaries

• American Jewish Year Book Obituary Index 
• The Boston Jewish Advocate Obituary Database 
• Cleveland Jewish News Obituary Database 

Vital Records: Birth, Marriage, Death

• The Ketubah in History 
  Background history of the traditional Jewish wedding contract.

Societies & Groups

• American Jewish Historical Society  ~ Waltham, Massachusetts
• American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee 
  Aid organization established in 1914 to assist Jews in distress overseas on behalf of American Jewry.
  • History of the JDC 
• American Sephardi Federation / Sephardic House 
  To promote and preserve the spiritual, historical, cultural and social traditions of all Sephardic communities as an integral part of Jewish heritage.
• Arizona Jewish Historical Society  ~ Phoenix, Arizona
  Collection of Jewish archival and genealogical material for Arizona.
• Asociación de Genealogía Judía de Argentina 
  Página Oficial de la Asociacion de Genealogia Judia de Argentina. Jewish Genealogical Society of Argentina (Official Site).
• Australian Jewish Genealogical Society 
• Australian Jewish Genealogical Society (Victoria) Inc. 
• Australian Jewish Historical Society 
• B'nai B'rith 
• Cercle de Généalogie Juive / French Jewish Genealogical Society 
  Genealogy and history of Jews from France, and from everywhere in connection with France.
• Charlotte Jewish Historical Society  ~ North Carolina
• Columbus Jewish Historical Society  ~ Ohio
  • Genealogy 
• CRARG - Czestochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group 
  Research to find, type, and index Holocaust survivor lists and death lists from around Poland (about 50,000 records so far). Research to find, type, and index lists of Jewish residents of Czestochowa, Radomsko, and a growing list of nearby towns (about 200,000 records so far). Research in Poland, the group is based in Springfield, Ohio.
• Dallas Jewish Historical Society  ~ Texas
• Dallas Virtual Jewish Community - Jewish Genealogy Home Page 
• David-Horodoker Organization 
  Founded by immigrants to Detroit from the shtetl of David-Horodok, in what is now Belarus.
• Etsi - Association de Généalogie et d'Histoire Séfarades / Sephardi Genealogical and Historical Review and Society  ~ Paris, France
• European Sephardic Institute 
• Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture 
  Culture, history and genealogy.
• GenAmi, Association de Généalogie Juive Internationale 
  Association for International Jewish Genealogy, Paris, France.
• The Genealogical Institute of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada  ~ Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society  ~ Texas
  A group of individuals residing in the area of greater Houston, TX who meet once a month for programs regarding Jewish genealogy. The society has an annual Jewish genealogy fair and sponsors genealogy reseach trips.
• Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society 
  Successor organization to those founded in New York City in the 1880s to assist Jewish immigrants.
• Hebrew National Orphan Home Alumni Including Jewish Orphanages In The United States 
• Historical Society of Jews From Egypt 
• Illiana Jewish Genealogical Society 
  A Jewish genealogical society covering Chicago's southern suburbs and northwest Indiana.
• International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, Inc. 
• The Israel Genealogical Society 
• Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts, Inc. 
• Jewish Family History Foundation 
  Works to preserve, acquire, translate and disseminate Jewish records from the archives and other repositories in eastern Europe. The major ongoing project is putting the 18th Century censuses of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania/Kingdom of Poland into an online database. Translating early 19th Century Russian revision lists on which Jewish families first had surnames, to serve as "bridge records" to the 18th Century lists where families did not have them. Provides support to family history researchers who establish groups to study the history of their ancestral towns and family origins.
• Jewish Family Research Association Israel (JFRA) 
• Jewish Funeral Directors of America 
• The Jewish Genealogical Institute of British Columbia  ~ Vancouver, Canada
• Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc.  ~ New York
  The Jewish Genealogical Society (JGS) is a nonprofit organization founded in New York in 1977 and dedicated to collecting, preserving and disseminating knowledge about Jewish genealogy.
• Jewish Genealogical Society, Los Angeles (JGSLA) 
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Argentina 
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Bergen County, New Jersey 
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Broward County, Inc.  ~ Fort Lauderdale, Florida
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Buffalo  ~ New York
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Canada (Toronto) 
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado 
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut 
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia  ~ United States
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain 
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain East of London (JGSGB EOL)  ~ Gants Hill, England
  East London and Essex group of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain based in Gants Hill, Essex. The group helps anyone trace his or her Jewish family tree and covers every aspect of Jewish genealogy. The Jewish Genealogical Society is a secular society and part of the Federation of Family History Societies.
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston 
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami, Inc.  ~ Florida
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Orlando  ~ Florida
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Philadelphia  ~ Pennsylvania
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois 
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan 
  Featuring the Society's activity calendar, membership information, top Michigan resources, hyperlinks to the best resources for Jewish genealogy, and links to personal web pages.
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal 
• Jewish Genealogical Society of New Orleans  ~ Metairie, Louisiana
• Jewish Genealogical Society of North Jersey  ~ Wayne, New Jersey
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Oregon 
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Ottawa  ~ Ontario, Canada
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County, Inc.  ~ Florida
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Rochester  ~ New York
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento  ~ California
• The Jewish Genealogical Society of San Antonio  ~ Texas
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Southern Alberta  ~ Calgary, Canada
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Southwest Florida 
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Sweden 
• The Jewish Genealogical Society of Tallahassee  ~ Florida
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Tampa Bay  ~ Florida
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Washington State  ~ Mercer Island, Washington
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Willamette Valley Oregon  ~ Oregon
• Jewish Genealogy Society of Cleveland  ~ Ohio
• The Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington, D.C. 
• The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island  ~ New York
• Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland 
• Jewish Genealogy Society of Orange County  ~ California
• Jewish Genealogy Society of Pittsburgh  ~ Pennsylvania
• Jewish Genealogy Society of Southwest Florida  ~ Sarasota, Florida
• Jewish Genealogy Society Southern Nevada-West 
• JewishGen Hungarian Special Interest Group (H-SIG) 
  Information for people with Jewish roots in the area known as "greater Hungary" or pre-Trianon Hungary.
• The Jewish Historical Society of Central Jersey 
• Jewish Historical Society of Delaware  ~ Wilmington, Delaware
• The Jewish Historical Society of England 
  The Society was founded in 1893 by leading Anglo-Jewish scholars and communal leaders. It was created to promote research, study and publishing on the history of Jews of Britain and of countries from which British Jewry came.
• Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven, Inc.  ~ Connecticut
• Jewish Historical Society of Lower Fairfield County 
  Including Greenwich, New Canaan & Darien.
• Jewish Historical Society of Maryland 
• Jewish Historical Society of Metrowest  ~ Whippany, New Jersey
• Jewish Historical Society of Napa Valley 
  The society has conducted programs detailing the "Marranos" of the Spanish Inquisition, the history of the "Shanghai Jews" who were refugees from Europe fleeing Hitler; the California gold rush and the impact on Jewish society.
• Jewish Historical Society of the North Shore  ~ Marblehead, Massachusetts
• Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina  ~ Charleston, South Carolina
• Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest  ~ St. Paul, Minnesota
  • Upper Midwest Jewish Archives 
• Jewish War Veterans of the United States 
• Jødisk Genealogisk Selskab i Danmark / Jewish Genealogical Society of Denmark 
• Kielce-Radom SIG 
  Jewish genealogy special interest group researching the southern Russian Polish regions of the Kielce and Radom gubernias.
• Kindertransport Association 
  Organization of child Holocaust survivors who were sent, without their parents, out of Austria, Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain.
• Latvia SIG webpage 
  Latvia special interest group attached to JewishGen.
• LitvakSIG (Lithuanian Special Interest Group) 
  For researchers of Lithuanian-Jewish genealogy worldwide.
• The Miriam Weiner Routes To Roots Foundation 
  Provides research advice, information and online databases of Jewish material, archives and Judaica from Eastern European archives.
• Nederlandse Kring voor Joodse Genealogie / Netherlands Society for Jewish Genealogy 
• New Mexico Jewish Historical Society 
• Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association 
• Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society  ~ Colorado
• San Diego Jewish Genealogical Society  ~ California
• San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society (SFBA JGS)  ~ California
• Schweizerische Vereinigung für jüdische Genealogie  ~ Switzerland
• Southern Jewish Historical Society 
• Texas Jewish Historical Society 
  The purpose of the Society shall be to collect, preserve, publish and disseminate materials having reference to the settlement and history of Jews in Texas and their participation in its social, economic, religious, political, professional and cultural growth.
• Utah Jewish Genealogical Society 
• Western Massachusetts Jewish Genealogy Society  ~ Northampton, Massachusetts

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