LINKS
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| JewishGen NOTE: JewishGen is the ‘parent’ website for extensive Jewish research worldwide. See their list of databases, Special Interest Groups, Yizkor Books, Kehila Links, JOWBR and much more. www.jewishgen.org |
| 5-minute screencasts on the basics of using JewishGen www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/FirstTimer.html |
| Guidelines for hiring a professional genealogist - produced by British Society of Genealogists http://www.sog.org.uk/uploads/employing_researcher_2012.pdf |
| 101 resources for finding your Jewish ancestors http://crestleaf.com/blog/jewish-genealogy-100-resources-jewish-ancestry-research/ |
| Jewish Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ |
| Avotaynu Online A comprehensive website that encompasses world Jewish genealogy http://www.avotaynuonline.com/ |
| Nu? What’s New? Avotaynu’s online weekly bulletins www.avotaynu.com/nu.htm |
| Cyndi’s List of genealogy sites on the Internet www.cyndislist.com/ |
| Blood and Frogs - an Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy, organized by country, with sub-categories of History, Genealogy, Cemeteries, Holocaust, Diaspora, Contemporary and Books. https://bloodandfrogs.com/encyclopedia |
| Genealogy Indexer Search more than 600,000 pages of historical directories (business, address, telephone, etc., primarily from Central and Eastern Europe), 28,000 pages of 64 Yizkor books (memorials to Jewish communities destroyed during the Holocaust), 32,000 pages of Polish and Russian military documents (lists of officers, casualties, etc.), 40,000 pages of community and personal histories, and 18,000 pages of Polish secondary school annual reports and other school sources. More genealogical resources are being added daily. genealogyindexer.org/ |
| Dick Eastman’s newsletter of online genealogy blog.eogn.com/ |
| Steve Morse’s website of databases -US arrival, census, Holocaust, plus language converter, calendar, relationship calculator etc www.stevemorse.org |
| Family Search familysearch.org/ |
| Museum of Family History www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/ |
| Geni surname search www.geni.com/surnames/ |
| Eli Rabinowitz Portal of Jewish Genealogy http://elirab.me/litvak-portal/ |
| Mocavo www.mocavo.com |
| History at Home - a guide to genealogy www.homeadvisor.com/article.show.History-at-Home-A-Guide-to-Genealogy.17370.html |
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A beginner’s guide to gathering information and creating a family tree. |
| Wikipedia – do not overlook this website for basic research into places, people and events www.wikipedia.org |
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Six 'secret' search tips from Google - may help you refine your Google searches |
| Ten common errors committed by genealogists http://familyhistorydaily.com/genealogy-help-and-how-to/how-to-fail-at-family-history-research-in-10-simple-steps |
| Jewish Virtual Library www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org |
| Google online translator translate.google.com |
| Genealogy Quest Includes an excellent Glossary for explaining old terminologies genealogy-quest.com/ |
| Ethics and privacy guidelines for genealogists www.ajgs-vic.org.au/index.php/ethicsandprivacy-menu |
| Twisted Twigs and Gnarled Branches The page that laughs with and at genealogists www.facebook.com/pages/Twisted-Twigs-On-Gnarled-Branches-Genealogy/269836083081714?hc_location=timeline |
| Jewish postcard collection www.jewishpostcardcollection.com/ |
| The photo genealogist - analysis service of old Jewish photos for time, place, lifestyle (fashion, furnishings, vehicles etc) www.sherlockcohn.com |
| Judaism 101 – the basics of every aspect of Jewish religion, life and culture www.jewfaq.org/index.shtml |
| Jewish family names www.bje.org.au/learning/jewishself/family/familynames.html |
| Jewish surnames, variants and origins en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Jewish_surnames |
| How to read a Jewish tombstone www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/tombstones.html |
| How to clean up a gravestone so you can read it – the Kalvarija (Lithuania) Project www.jewishvilkaviskis.org/Kalvarija%202009%20Introduction.html |
| Jewish Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ |
| Gravestone Photographic Resource www.gravestonephotos.com/?r=1&width=1440&browser=1256 |
| Billion graves billiongraves.com/ |
| Polish “Memory In Stone” Project Documents Jewish Tombstones Translation of introductory paragraph: “Memory in stone” is a project whose goal is to inventory of gravestones in Jewish cemeteries. On the basis of photographs tombstones, the names of the dead are read and translated from Hebrew to English or Polish. The resulting documentation is placed on the Virtual Shtetl. www.sztetl.org.pl/en/pwk/ Explanatory notes at www.sztetl.org.pl/en/cms/news/3931,lists-of-matzevos-from-ostrowiec-swietokrzyski-and-rohatyn-now-available-online/ |
| Stolpersteine – the Stumbling Stones that mark addresses in German towns where deported Jews once lived www.stolpersteine.eu/en/ |
| Family tree maker - Ancestry.com http://trees.ancestry.com.au |
| Library of Congress – preserving paper documents www.loc.gov/preservation/care/paper.html |
| Hazel Dakers genealogy sites.google.com/site/hazeldakers/ |
| Family tree preservation and storage www.myheritage.com/FP/beit_hatfutsot.php |
| Chaim Freedman’s blog on European Jewish family trees chfreedman.blogspot.com.au/ |
| Zeffert Family History www.zeffertt.co.uk/torvy/index.php?ctype=gedcom |
| Canada Facebook Pages directory - over 800 pages http://tinyurl.com/CanadaFacebook |
| Yad Vashem www.yadvashem.org/ |
| Yad Vashem Shoah Victims' Names Recovery Project - to contribute Pages of Testimony http://db.yadvashem.org/names/search.html?language=en |
| Yad Vashem central database of Shoah victims’ names db.yadvashem.org/names/search.html?language=en |
| Swiss Banks Release Names of Dormant Bank Accounts Holders Swiss banks have published the names of more than 2,600 people whose bank accounts in Switzerland have lain dormant for more than 60 years, giving them or their heirs one last chance to claim their wealth before it reverts to the state. It is believed that a number of these accounts are for Holocaust victims. The names can be searched at https://www.dormantaccounts.ch. Click on the “Publications” button at the bottom of the screen to access the search engine. The complete news item can be found at http://tinyurl.com/SwissDormantAccounts. |
| JewishGen Holocaust databases www.jewishgen.org/databases/Holocaust/ |
| United States Holocaust Memorial Museum www.ushmm.org/ |
| Holocaust films by Tomek Wisniewski www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/tomek/films.htm |
| Fold3 Holocaust records - extensive databases of German records (camps etc) go.fold3.com/holocaust_records/ |
| Holocaust: a call to conscience www.projetaladin.org/holocaust/en/homepage.html |
| Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota www.chgs.umn.edu |
| International Tracing Service – Bad Arolsen www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html |
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Holocaust – Auschwitz Archives continue to grow |
| World Jewish Congress www.worldjewishcongress.org |
| International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies www.iajgs.org |
| Museum of Family History by Steve Lasky www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/ |
| Historical Jewish Press web.nli.org.il/sites/JPress/English/Pages/default.aspx |
| Jewish Photo Library www.jewishphotolibrary.com/ |
| Central Archive for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem cahjp.huji.ac.il/ |
| Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) www.hias.org |
| Joint Distribution Committee Archives archives.jdc.org/sharedlegacy/ |
| International Council of Jewish Women www.icjw.org |
| Jewish Virtual Library www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/index.html |
| Historical maps at New York Public Library maps.nypl.org/warper/ |
| German geneaology – Habsburg Empire www.genealogienetz.de/reg/AUT/aut-hun.html |
| Maps of Jewish communities and their populations in Europe 1750-1950 iijg.org/maps-of-jewish-communities/ |
| Jewish genealogical research in Argentina http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/argentina.html |
| Jewish History in Australia http://jewishhistoryaustralia.net/jha/ |
| Australian Jewish Historical Society www.ajhs.info/ |
| Australian Jewish Genealogical Society NSW www.ajgs.org.au/ |
| Australian Jewish Genealogical Society Victoria www.ajgs-vic.org.au |
| National Archive of Australia www.naa.gov.au |
| Database of Jewish graves in Australia, NZ and war graves overseas ajhs.info/cemetery/ |
| Discovering Anzacs – WWI profiles of those who served discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/ |
| Australian War Memorial www.awm.gov.au |
| Trove – National Library of Australia newspaper archive trove.nla.gov.au |
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Australian Jewry Book of Honour - The Great War 1914-1918 by Harold Boas (full text) |
| Australian Cemeteries Index www.austcemindex.com |
| Rookwood Old Jewish Cemetery NSW - full alphabetical list of Jewish graves www.austcemindex.com/?cemid=1310 |
| National Council of Jewish Women of Australia www.ncjwa.org.au |
| Royal WA Historical Society histwest.org.au/ |
| JewishGen Shtetlinks hosted by Eli Rabinowitz http://elirab.me/litvak-portal/ |
| Western Australian Genealogical Society membership.wags.org.au/ |
| Cemetery search Perth www2.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/search.php |
| Australian Dictionary of Biography adb.anu.edu.au/ |
| Convict Transport Register www.findmypast.com.au/articles/world-records/full-list-of-australia-and-new-zealand-records/travel-and-migration/convict-transportation-registers-1787-1870 |
| Western Australia Outback Family History - A detailed local and family history of the Goldfields http://www.outbackfamilyhistory.com.au/ |
| Gen Team Austria – see Overview for genealogical databases www.genteam.at/ |
| Archives of Belarus archives.gov.by/eng/ |
| BELGIUM |
| Belgium War Dead (1914-18) http://www.wardeadregister.be/en |
| Dictionary of Bulgarian Jewish surnames online www.sephardicgen.com/databases/BulgarianSurnamesSrchFrm.html |
| Canada Facebook Pages directory - over 800 pages http://tinyurl.com/CanadaFacebook |
| Canadian tombstones canadianheadstones.com/ |
| Polish Jewish refugees in the Shanghai Ghetto 1941-1945 www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005589 |
| Jewish communities of China www.jewsofchina.org/ |
| EGYPT |
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List of 1689 surnames from 20th Century Cairo, compiled by Avotaynu |
| Jewish heritage in Europe www.judaica-europeana.eu/ |
| YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe www.yivoencyclopedia.org/ |
| Jewish Traces - in French jewishtraces.org/ |
| European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative www.lo-tishkach.org/en/ |
| Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies feefhs.org/ |
| Maps of Jewish communities and their populations in Europe 1750-1950 iijg.org/maps-of-jewish-communities/ |
| European Jewish Congress www.eurojewcong.org/ |
| Routes to Roots – tracing Jewish roots in Poland, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus www.routestoroots.com/ |
| Information portal to European Sites of Remembrance www.memorialmuseums.org |
| Historical Society of Jews from Egypt www.hsje.org/ |
| Cercle de Généalogie Juive www.genealoj.org/en |
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The Association of Jewish Genealogy in France |
| Jewish Virtual Library – France www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/France.html |
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Index of all persons deceased in France 1970-2019. Basic info free, paid subscription for full data. |
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Berlin directories - address and telephone 1799-1943 |
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Frankfurt directories - address and telephone 1834-1943 |
| GenWiki - the Gemany Jewish Genealogy network http://wiki-en.genealogy.net/Main_Page |
| German genealogy – Habsburg Empire www.genealogienetz.de/reg/AUT/aut-hun.html |
| Stolpersteine – the Stumbling Stones that mark addresses where deported Jews once lived www.stolpersteine.eu/en/ |
| International Tracing Service – Bad Arolsen www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html |
| Family Tree DNA – Rhodes family names www.familytreedna.com/public/RHODES%20ISLAND%20SEPHARDIC%20PROJECT/default.aspx |
| Hungarian Jewish Roots - databases + paid research service www.jewishroots.hu/en_generalgenealogy_1.html |
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Murdered on the Verge of Survival: Massacres in the Last Days of the Siege of Budapest, 1945 |
| Iraqi Jewish Archive - documents discovered in Iraq during the 2003 US war with Iraq http://www.ija.archives.gov/ |
| Irish Jewish Roots www.irishjewishroots.com/ |
| Yad Vashem www.yadvashem.org/ |
| Israel Genealogical Society www.isragen.org.il/ |
| Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) http://genealogy.org.il |
| Sir Moses Montefiore's censuses of the Holy Land, Alexandria, Sidon and Beirut taken between 1839 and 1875 www.montefioreendowment.org.uk/census |
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IGRA All Israel Database |
| The Jews in Latvia (M. Bobe 1971) – full text online, Index begins on Image 413 yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=2407 |
| Yidn in Letland (Jews in Latvia) 1972, in Yiddish (translation is in progress at JewishGen Yizkor Books, Latvia) yizkor.nypl.org/index.php?id=2408 |
| Latvia Jewish community website shamir.lv/en/ |
| Latvia State Historical Archive www.lvva-raduraksti.lv/en.html |
| All Latvia Cemetery List by Town - all known burials listed but incomplete data (dates, Hebrew patronymics, surnames vary from town to town) http://www.balticgen.com/cemeteries/All%20Latvia%20cemetery%20list-by%20town.pdf |
| Jews in Liepaja 1941-1945 - contains extensive data of thousands of Jews detained there from many parts of Latvia www.liepajajews.org/index.htm |
| Liepaja Jewish Cemetery burials 1909-1941 www.liepajajews.org/cem/CemIndex.htm |
| Mitau (Jelgava) addressbook 1898 – trades and street directory in Old German usdine.free.fr/mitavaadressbook.html |
| The Jewish cemetery of Glazmanka /Gostini /Dankere, Latvia – photographs of all graves with inscriptions where possible http://usdine.free.fr/gostinijewishcemetery.html |
| Lithuania-Jewish Special Interest Group www.litvaksig.org/ |
| Lithuania State Archive www.archyvai.lt/en/news.html |
| Protecting our Litvak Heritage – the history of 50 Jewish communities in Lithuania www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/lithuania6/lithuania6.html |
| Photographic record of Vilna & many other places during WWII www.vilnaghetto.com/ |
| JewishGen Litvak Shtetlinks hosted by Eli Rabinowitz http://elirab.me/litvak-portal/ |
| Vilkaviskis, where the Jewish community is no more www.jewishvilkaviskis.org/index.html |
| Akevoth http://www.dutchjewry.org/ |
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Dutch Archive Bank - free, in Dutch (use google translate) |
| Wie was Wie (Who was Who) family history archive www.wiewaswie.nl/en/home/ |
| History of the Jews in New Zealand – Rabbi LM Goldman - full text nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-GolHist.html |
| Archives New Zealand archives.govt.nz/ |
| New Zealand cemetery records: search by municipality. Most municipalities provide excellent records free. Religion not always stated. Use in conjunction with online sources - familysearch, ancestry etc. |
| Jewish Records Indexing - Poland jri-poland.org/ |
| Gen Dobry http://polishroots.org/GenDobry/tabid/60/Default.aspx |
| State Archive of Poland - in Polish http://www.archiwa.gov.pl/index.php# |
| Virtual Shtetl online museum www.sztetl.org.pl/en/cms/help/ |
| Polish Jews YIVO Archive polishjews.yivoarchives.org/ |
| Jewish Museum of Poland www.polin.pl/en |
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JewishGen Shetlinks hosted by Eli Rabinowitz |
| Sephardic Gen resources www.sephardicgen.com/ |
| Sephardic studies material arranged by country of origin www.sephardicstudies.org/entrance.html |
| History of the Jews under Muslim rule www.projetaladin.org/holocaust/en/muslims-and-jews/muslims-and-jews-in-history/history-of-the-jews-under-muslim-rule.html |
| Who counts as a Sephardic Jew? esefarad.com/?p=56623&mkt_hm=27&utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=22882&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Boletin_Se |
| Slovak Jewish Heritage site www.slovak-jewish-heritage.org/ |
| JewishGen South Africa www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica/ |
| Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies www.kaplancentre.uct.ac.za/ |
| JewishGen Shtetlinks hosted by Eli Rabinowitz http://elirab.me/litvak-portal/ |
| Cape Town Jewish Cemeteries Maintenance Board https://www.jewishcemetery.co.za/ |
| JewishGen Ukraine database www.jewishgen.org/databases/ukraine/ |
| JewishGen Ukraine town list www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/GEO_townlist.asp |
| State Archives of Ukraine www.archives.gov.ua/Eng/ |
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Sub-Carpathian Genealogy Inc website launched. Scroll down for a lot of information |
| Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain www.jgsgb.org.uk/ |
| Synagogue Scribes - London synagogue and civil records, some before 1837 http://synagoguescribes.com/blog/ |
| Scotland’s People www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ |
| AJEX the Jewish Military Museum Record of Honour www.ajexroh.org.uk/record.php |
| BMD and censuses on the Internet - by subscription www.ukbmd.org.uk/ |
| Database of headstones – >10,000 graves www.cemeteryscribes.com/ |
| Sketches of Anglo-Jewish History (1875) by James Picciotto – full text of the entire book archive.org/details/sketchesofangloj00piccuoft |
| UK and Ireland genealogy GenUKI www.genuki.org.uk |
| British Newspaper archive blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/ |
| London Street Gazetteer 1851 www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/1851/Gazetteer_intro.htm |
| Lancashire BMD free www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/ |
| United Synagogue, London - burial and marriage records www.theus.org.uk/gravesearch |
| Penzance Synagogue – a brief history www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/Penzance/Penzance_Synagogue.htm |
| The Susser Archive – archival collections of Rabbi Dr Bernard Susser z”l, including full text of his book and doctoral thesis “The Jews of South West England” www.jewishgen.org/JCR-UK/susser/ |
| Blacksheep Ancestors - genealogical prison records http://www.blacksheepancestors.com/uk/prisons.shtml |
| Pub History - a hugely comprehensive website of historic pubs, their licensees, addresses and names, also a footnote of the history of drinking laws in the United Kingdom from the year 680 http://pubshistory.com/index.shtml |
| USA – American Jewish Committee Archives – includes Jewish yearbooks www.ajcarchives.org/main.php |
| History of Ellis Island www.bbcleaningservice.com/history-of-ellis-island.html |
| Jewish Heritage Center on American Ancestors by New England Historic Genealogical Society http://www.americanancestors.org/jhc |
| Newsbank Ethnic American newspapers 1799-1971 www.newsbank.com/readex/press.cfm?press=53 |
| Searchable death indexes www.deathindexes.com/ |
| World War II USA Army Enlistment Archives http://www.ww2enlistment.org/ |
| Fold3 USA military records - first month free, then subscription required www.fold3.com/?home=b&s_tnt=67932:1:0 |
| Steve Morse’s website of databases (USA arrival, census etc) www.stevemorse.org/ |
| Radaris - a comprehensive USA public records search engine for information about people, properties, businesses and professionals https://radaris.com/ |
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Australian Jewry Book of Honour - The Great War 1914-1918 by Harold Boas (full text) |
| General Sir John Monash’s papers online - search Monash www.awm.gov.au/ |
| Discovering Anzacs – WWI profiles of those who served http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/ |
| Jewish battalions in Palestine http://www.israeldailypicture.com/search?q=fusiliers |
| Jewish Legion - Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Legion |
| The Jewish Legion 1915-1920 http://www.fusiliermuseumlondon.org/home# |
| Forces War Records UK http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/ |
| Australian War Memorial WWI http://www.awm.gov.au/atwar/ww1/ |
| National Archives of Australia WWI http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/explore/defence/service-records/army-wwi.aspx |
| The Australian homefront during WWI http://anzacday.org.au/the-australian-home-front-during-world-war1 |
| Belgium War Dead (1914-18) http://www.wardeadregister.be/en |
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United Kingdom – R.A.F. Museum. Officers’ casualty forms for WWI – Western Front and Middle East. Name required for search. |
| Commonwealth War Graves Commission Lists servicemen/women casualties of both wars, also civilian dead in WWII - includes Commonwealth countries https://www.cwgc.org/ |
| Yiddish Book Center www.yiddishbookcenter.org/ |
| Yiddish language and culture www.jewfaq.org/yiddish.htm |
| Lasky's famous Museum of Yiddish Theatre http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/ |
