Family tree of David Ben-Gurion
Database of the Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center,
Beth Hatefutsoth

Jewish Genealogy Links

General

• Famillion - connecting the Jewish world
• פמיליון - מחברים את העולם היהודי
• Avotaynu
• JewishGen - the Home of Jewish Genealogy
• JewishGen Databases
• JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF)
• Jewish Genealogy at Genealogy Blog
• Jewish Surnames on the Web
• Jewish Names - Bar-Ilan University
• Jewish Names - Medieval Names Archive
• Jewish Names in Spain, Italy, and the Arab World
• Jewish Names in the World of Medieval Islam
• Jewish Women's Names in an Arab Context: Names from the Geniza of Cairo
• Archive Database - The Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation, Inc. (covers Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, and Ukraine)
• Frequently Asked Questions - Archive Database - The Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation, Inc
• FamilySearch - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Family History Centers - Find a Family History Center Near You
• Webpages by Stephen P. Morse - tools for Jewish Genealogists
• The JewishGen Shtetl Seeker
• The Rabbinic Genealogy Special Interest Group (SIG) - JewishGen
• Jewish Genealogical Societies Worldwide
• Jewish Research by Gary Mokotoff at Ancestry.com
• JewishGen InfoFile Index
• JewishGen FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
• JewishGen - Frequently Asked Questions about Jewish Genealogical Research in Eastern Europe
• Getting Started - Thirteen Steps to Your Jewish Roots
• Jewish Heraldry
• Archives Worldwide
• Repositories of Primary Sources
• Genealogy by Genetics
• Jewish Genetic Diseases
• GeneDis - Human Genetic Disease Database

Tools

• WhitePages.com
• Switchboard - find a person, business, maps, E-mail addresses
• Israel Phone Directory (in Hebrew)
• Israel Yellow Pages
• Synagogues Jewish - Temple and Jewish Community Finder from MavenSearch.com
• The Library of Congress - Genealogical Guides and Handbooks: Jewish
• Reading Hebrew Tombstones
• Global Gazetteer
• MapQuest
• NationMaster.com - Where Stats Come Alive!
• ShoahConnect - Reconnecting families separated by the Shoah

Holocaust

• The Hall of Names - Yad Vashem Jerusalem
• The Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center - American Red Cross
• Holocaust-Shoah -- Archives and General References
• International Tracing Service Bad Arolsen
• The Kindertransport Association (KTA)
• USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
• Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors - United Sates Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Tracing Family Members Lost in the Holocaust
• Liste de tous les convois partis de France
• Base des morts en déportation 1939-1945 - Memorial GenWeb
• How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust at Avotaynu
• Archival Collections at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
• Yizkor Books Online - Dorot Jewish Division, The New York Public Library
• Jewishgen - Yizkor Book Project
• Yizkor Books in the Special Collections Department - St. Louis County Library
• Guide to On-Line Resources on Holocaust Era Assets
• Dormant Accounts Website of the Swiss Bankers Association
• Schindler’s List
• Holocaust Survivor Children Missing Identity
• ShoahConnect - Reconnecting families separated by the Shoah

Emigration from Europe

• Bremen Passenger Lists 1920 - 1939
• Hamburg Emigration Lists - at Link to your Roots
• Mass Jewish Migration Database
• Passenger Lists on the Internet

Forums

• JewishGen Discussion Group
• Shorashim Mishpachtim at Tapuz (in Hebrew)
• Shorashim - Heker Hadorot at Ynet (in Hebrew)
• Israel Genealogy Forum - Genealogy.com
• Jewish Forum - Genealogy.com
• JewishReunion - Find Family
• Israel Genealogy Queries - CousinConnect.com
• Tracing the Tribe

Algeria

• Algerian Jews Deported from France or Executed in France during WW2
• Les naturalisations en Algérie et en Tunisie de 1830 à 1920
• Les Registres disponibles chez les Mormons (LDS microfilms)
• Les juifs d'Algérie - généalogie
• NOMINA

Argentina

• Jewish Genealogical Research in Argentina at JewishGen

Australia

• Archive of Australian Judaica - University of Sydney
• Australian shipping 1788-1968
• The National Archives of Australia - Records of the Jewish Experience in Australia
• NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
• Public Record Office - Victoria
• Jewish Cemetery, Goulburn
• Jewish Cemetery, Maitland - Headstone Transcriptions
• Jewish Cemetery, Tamworth - Headstone Transcriptions

see also under Holocaust

Austria

• Beginner's Guide to Austrian-Jewish Genealogy
• Austrian Victims of the Holocaust - contains information concerning the fates of more than 62,000 Austrian Jews who fell victim to the Holocaust
• Database of Jewish Cemeteries in Austria (in German)

see also under Holocaust

Austria-Hungary

See under Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Romania, Yugoslavia

Belarus

• Memorial Book of David-Horodok
• Eilat Gordin Levitan Home page - family info from 29 towns in Belarus and Lithuania
• National Center for Archives and Records Management (Belarus)
• Bereza & Antopol
• Minsk Vedomosti
• A list of Jewish Belarusan victims of Stalin's purges
• Jews from Bobruisk in the 1816 Revision List - LDS # 2,010,469
• "Hebrew" Korobochniks in the Minsk Gubernya in 1839
• Selected records for Jews in the Rechitsa District, 1838-1917

see also under Holocaust

Belgium

• A Circle of Jewish Genealogy in Belgium - Musée Juif de Belgique

Bessarabia

See under Moldova, Romania

Brazil

• NetJudaica.com.br - Genealogia
• Inquisition records from Brazil sent to Portugal (Record numbers at Torre do Tombo).

Bukhara

See under Uzbekistan

Bukovina

See under Romania, Ukraine

Bulgaria

• General Department of Archives at the Council of Ministers of Republic of Bulgaria, Central State Archives

Canada

• Pier 21, Halifax, Canada - Immigrant Gateway to Canada from 1928 to 1971
• Immigration Records (1925-1935) - at Library and Archives Canada
• Census of Canada, 1901 - at Library and Archives Canada
• Canadian Genealogy and History - A listing of Genealogical and Historical Web sites from East to Western Sea.
• Canadian Genealogy Center
• The Genealogical Institute of the Jewish Heritage Centre of Western Canada
• Jewish Vital Records Research In Quebec
• Jewish vital records of Montreal/Quebec, 1841 – 1942
• How to Find a Burial in Montreal
• Biographical Dictionary of Canadian Jewry, 1897-1909
• Biographical Dictionary of Canadian Jewry, 1909-14

Caribbean

• The Nevis Jewish Cemetery
• The Pinheiros of Nevis and Barbados

see also Jamaica, Cuba

China

• How to search for "lost" Shanghailanders
• The Iraqi Jews of Shanghai

Cuba

• Family Ties: Cuban Jewish Search Lists

Czech Republic

• Bohemia - Moravia Special interest group At JewishGen
• The Jewish cemetery in Olmutz
• The New Jewish cemetery in Prague-Zizkov
• Jewish Family History Centre, Prague

see also under Holocaust

Denmark

• Denmark - Scandinavia Special Interest Group (SIG) at JewishGen

Egypt

• Sephardic Genealogy Resources - Egypt
• Sephardic Web Sites - Egypt at JewishGen
• Historical Society of Jews from Egypt - Genealogy
• The Karaite Jews of America - Family Trees
• Historical Society of Jews from Egypt

Finland

• Finland - Scandinavia Special Interest Group (SIG) at JewishGen

France

• Cercle de Généalogie Juive/French Jewish Genealogy
• French Sephardim Online
• French SIG at JewishGen
• GeneraSion - Relèves de noms en cimetières juifs Gilles Plaut
• Généalogie et histoire des familles (1814-1853)
• Généalogie juive
• GenAmi - L'association de la généalogie juive
• Les actes d'état civil des DOM-TOM au Centre historique des Archives nationales
• Les actes d’état civil au Centre historique des Archives nationales
• Les fonds de la Légion d’honneur au Centre historique des Archives nationales
• List of Jews Deported from France - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Liste des juifs décédés au camp de Gurs
• NOMINA
• Recherche sur les changements de noms aux Archives nationales
• Sephardic Websites for Genealogy in France
• Services d'archives - archives nationales, communales et départementales

see also under Holocaust

Galicia

See under Poland, Ukraine

Germany

• German Jewish Special Interest Group at JewishGen
• Stammbaum - the Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research
• Family Research Program - The Leo Baeck Institute New York
• The Jewish Families of Jebenhausen, Wuerttemberg
• Jewish Families of Frankfurt am Main selected from Dr. Dietz's Stammbaum der Frankfurter Juden
• Against being forgotten - Names of more than 55.000 Berlin Jewish citizens who were tortured and murdered by the Nazis
• Memorials and plaques of Jewish-Bavarian Soldiers
• Zentralarchiv zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland

see also under Holocaust

Greece

• Rabbi Nissim Chilibi Cordon
• Sephardic Genealogy Resources - Greece
• The Jewish cemetery of Rhodes
• Sephardic Web Sites Turkey, Greece & the Balkans at JewishGen
• List of Jews Deported from Rhodes
• Index to the Rhodes Jewish Museum

see also Sephardi, Holocaust

Hungary

• Hungarian Jewish Special Interest Group at JewishGen
• Jewish Cemeteries in Hungary
• Jewish Cemeteries in Budapest

see also Romania (for Transylvania), Ukraine (for Ruthenia), Holocaust

India

• Jewish Ancestors in India

Iran

• Sephardic Genealogy Resources - Iran

Iraq

• Genealogy of Iraqi Jews - Links to Family Trees online
• Sephardic Genealogy Resources - Iraq
• The Genealogy Questionnaire for the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center on Iraqi Jewish Families
• The Genealogy of Hardoon

Ireland

• The Jews of Ireland Genealogy Page

Israel

• Places of Interest for Jewish Genealogy in Israel
• Krovim - find relatives and friends
• The Bureau for Missing Relatives - Jewish Agency
• Locating Relatives - Ministry of Immigrant Absorption
• The Central Zionist Archives
• The AJJDC (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) Archives in Jerusalem
• Nizkor et kulam ("We shall remember them all") - List the fallen in the defense of Israel (in Hebrew)
• List of Burial Societies in Israel
• List of Burial Societies in Israel (in Hebrew)
• Safed Online Information Resource
• Hevra Kadisha of Tel Aviv (includes Holon, Trumpeldor, Yarkon, Jaffo, Nachalat Yitzchak and Kiriat Shaul cemeteries)
• Israel GenWeb - Jewish Genealogy
• Immigrant Associations and Organizations in Israel
• Israeli Family Names
• The Meshi Center for Genealogical Research

Italy

• Sephardic Genealogy Resources - Italy
• Genealogy of the Jews in Italy Family History Resources Researches Databases

Jamaica

• Jamaican Jewish Genealogy

see also Caribbean

Latvia

• Courland Research Group at JewishGen
• Latvia SIG at JewishGen
• Talsi (Talsen)
• Tukums (Tukum)
• Valdermarpils (Shasmaken)
• Jews in Latvia

see also under Holocaust

Lebanon

• The Montefiore Census of the Jews of Sidon

Lithuania

• LitvakSIG - Lithuanian Special Interest Group at JewishGen
• Lithuanian Names Project
• Lithuanian Archives Department
• Eliyahu's Branches: The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and His Family
• Jewish Family History Foundation
• Jewish families who lived in Kverdana, 1816 -1935

see also under Holocaust

Mexico

• Sephardic Web Sites Mexico at JewishGen
• Mexico's Jewish Genealogical Resources

Moldova

• 1834 Revision List for Felshtin
• Jewish census for the year 1875 in the settlement Felshtin
• The German / Gurman / Germaine + Edelstein Family from Bessarabia

see also Romania, Ukraine, Holocaust

Morocco

• Sephardic Genealogy Resources - Morocco
• Jewish Genealogy in Morocco at JewishGen
• Genealogy - Les juifs du Maroc - Dafina.net

see also Sephardi

Netherlands

• Dutch Jewish Genealogical Data Base
• Sephardic Genealogy Resources - Netherlands
• The Genealogy of the Busnach Family
• Jewish gravestones in the Netherlands

see also under Holocaust

Norway

• Norway - Scandinavia Special Interest Group (SIG) at JewishGen

Peru

• Los judíos de Perú

Poland

• Lodz Jewish Cemetery
• Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
• Archiwa Państwowe / Polish State Archives
• Jewish Military Casualties in the Polish Armies in World War II - By Benjamin Meirtchak
• 1907 Kraków City Directory (Wielka ksie~ga adresowa Krakowa i Podgorza), at Polish Roots - The Polish Genealogy Source
• 1835 Posen City Directory (Adress-Kalender fuer die Provinzial Haupt-Stadt Posen auf das Jahr 1835) - Polish Roots - The Polish Genealogy Source
• Commercial directory for Poland and Danzig - 1923 (Handlowa ksiega adresowa Polski i Gdanska) - Digital Collections - Library of Congress
• The 1929 Polish Business Directory Project - Ksiega Adresowa Polski (Wraz z w.m. Gdanskiem dla Handlu, Przemyslu Rzemiosl I Rolnictwa)
• Kielce-Radom SIG Jewish Genealogy Special Interest Group at JewishGen
• The Suwalk-Lomza Interest Group for Jewish Genealogists at JewishGen
• Ozarow Cemetery Restoration Project
• Poland Jewish Cemeteries Restoration Project
• Zabludow Memorial Website
• Zolynia Memorial Site
• Ada Holtzman Home Page - Jewish Communities in Poland
• Czestochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group
• Gesher Galicia ("Bridge to Galicia") - The Special Interest Group for Galicia at JewishGen
• Galician Records - Jewish, at Polish Roots - The Polish Genealogy Source
• 1891 Lwow Business Directory (Kaufmannisches Adressbuch fur Industrie, Handel und Gewerbe, XIV. Galizien), at Polish Roots - The Polish Genealogy Source
• Jewish Krakow Documents
• The Jewish Holocaust Survivors List from Plock, Poland
• Jewish War Cemeteries in Western Galicia - Adam Bartosz
• Jewish Zolkiew Research Page
• Jewish cemetery in Klodzko (Glatz)
• List of Landsmanschaften from Poland in Israel
• Radzilow - Surname List -

see also under Holocaust

Portugal

• Sephardic Genealogy Resources - Portugal

Romania

• Alphabetical List of The Convoy N°37 - Mainly Romanian Jews Deported From France on September 27, 1942
• Bukowina
• Coordonatele de contact ale Arhivelor Nationale - Aparat central si directii judetene - Arhivele Nationale
• The Czernowitz-L Discussion Group Website
• Family Roots - The Romanian Jewish Community
• ROM-SIG-Special interest Group for Romanian Jewish Genealogy at JewishGen
• Jews of Radautz (Radevits): Victims of the Holocaust in Transnistria, 1941-44
• List of Holocaust Victims from Gura Humorului
• List of Gura Humorului former Jewish residents

see also Hungary (for Transylvania), Moldova (for Bessarabia), Ukraine (for Bukovina), and Holocaust

Russia

• Religious Personnel in Russia 1853-1854 by Genrich M. Deych
• Guide to Jewish Archives in Moscow

Sephardi

• Sephardic Genealogy Resources (Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans)
• Sephardic Genealogy Resources - Family Pages
• Sephardic SIG at JewishGen
• Sephardic Genealogy Resources - Crypto Jews
• Sepharadim.com - A Research Tool for Sephardic Genealogy
• Sephardic Genealogy Resources - Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture

see also under Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Yugoslavia (former)

Slovakia

• Jewish Cemeteries in the Eastern Slovakia

see also Hungary, Holocaust

Spain

• Archivos españoles en red - including the Lists of passengers to America from 1509 to 1790
• Sephardic Genealogy Resources - Spain

see also Sephardi

South Africa

• Southern Africa Jewish Genealogy Special Interest Group (SA-SIG) at JewishGen

Sweden

• Sweden - Scandinavia Special Interest Group (SIG) at JewishGen

Syria

• The Jews of Aleppo
• Surname Index of Biographies of Rabbis of Aleppo

Tunisia

• Les naturalisations en Algérie et en Tunisie de 1830 à 1920
• The Portuguese Jewish Community in Tunis

Turkey

• Istanbul Jewish Genealogy Project
• The Maya family in Silivria (Silivri), Turkey
• Genealogical and Historical Research on Jewish Families from Izmir
• Sephardic Web Sites Turkey, Greece & the Balkans at JewishGen

Ukraine

• Ukraine Special Interest Group at JewishGen
• Sudilkov Online Landsmanshaft
• The Road from Letichev - Surname Listing
• Ukraine State Archives
• The Himmelfarb Family from Kovel, Ukraine
• List of Sudlikov Jews murdered during the Holocaust
• Immigration of Sudlikov Jews to America

see also under Holocaust

United Kingdom

• The 1901 Census for England and Wales
• 1871 Census of the Jews in Manchester
• Jewish Communities and Records - United Kingdom, "JCR-UK" at JewishGen
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• Indexes of Births, Marriages and Deaths for England and Wales - 1837 Online.com
• Anglo-Jewish Miscellanies - historical and genealogical information about the Jewish Community of England
• Liverpool Jewish Genealogy Service (LJGS)
• Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain - Jews in Oxford at the population censuses 1841 - 1891
• The Rothschild Archive
• Tombstone Inscriptions in the Old Jewish Cemetery on Plymouth Hoe
• Jewish graves in Ipswich Municipal Cemetery - Suffolk
• The Poor Jews' Temporary Shelter Database, Shelter in Leman Street, London from 1896 to 1914
• Enfield Cemetery - Adath Yisroel Burial Society Records
• Jewish Survey Database - University of Southampton
• The Jewish Community in Mid-19th Century Britain (1851 Database)
• The National Archives: Anglo-Jewish History, 18th-20th Centuries: Sources in The National Archives
• The National Archives: Grants of British Nationality
• The National Archives: Refugees and Minorities
• The National Archives: Family History in England and Wales
• Moving Here - 200 years of migration to England

United States of America

• Early American SIG at JewishGen
• American Family Immigration History Center - Ellis Island
• Ellis Island Database FAQ by Elise Friedman for JewishGen
• Finding Passenger Lists & Immigration Records 1820-1940s arrivals at US ports from Europe
• Index of 1890-1891 New York Immigrants from Austria, Poland, and Galicia
• History, Genealogy and Education - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
• Online Genealogical Databases at the Center for Jewish History
• First American Jewish Families - at American Jewish Archives
• The Early Jewish Presence in Los Angeles
• The Chicago Jewish Archives
• Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War Index by Lynn Berkowitz
• Jews in the Civil War
• Jewish Cemeteries in the New York City area
• Irwin I. Cohn Michigan Jewish Cemetery Index
• Center for Jewish Education and Experiences - the repository of the materials of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Georgia
• Jewish Orphanages in the United States
• The Jewish Funeral Directors of America
• United States Vital Records
• Where to write for Vital Records
• Jewish Data
• Jewish Records at the Research Library of The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
• Research on Jewish Family History - Cleveland Jewish Archives
• Jewish Genealogy Resources - Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
• 1930 United States Federal Census
• United States Federal Census - 1790 -1930

Uzbekistan

• The descendants of Rabbi Yosef Maman (ha'Ma'aravi)(1742-1823

Yugoslavia (former)

• Sephardic Web Sites Turkey, Greece & the Balkans at JewishGen

see also under Holocaust

Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia)

• Marriage Certificates (Ketubbot) from Harare (formerly Salisbury)
• Marriage Certificates (Ketubbot) from Bulawayo - Dated 1895-1938
• Photographs of Tombstones from the Harare (formerly Salisbury) Pioneer St Cemetery
• Warren Hills Cemetery - Harare (formerly Salisbury)
• Tombstones from the Bulawayo Cemetery
• Kadoma (Gatooma) Cemetery
• Kwe Kwe (Que Que) Cemetery
• Family Biographies

see also under South Africa

Jewish Genealogy Conferences

• 24th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, 2004
• The 25th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
• The 26th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, New York, August 2006
• First Annual IGS Yom Iyun on Jewish Genealogy - Beth Hatefutsoth, November 28, 2005
• Second Annual Yom Iyun on Jewish Genealogy, 20 November 2006, Beit Volyn, Givatayim
• The 25th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
• The 27th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Salt Lake City, July 2007

Directories of Jewish Genealogy Links

• eJewish.info - genealogy
• Cyndi's List
• Jewish Genealogy Links
• Louis Kessler's Jewish Genealogy Links
• Jewish Web Index by Ted Margulis
• Jewish Mailing Lists
• Ethnic-Jewish Mailing Lists at RootsWeb.com
• Jewish Genealogy Links - Chat
• Jewish Roots Ring
• Jewish Genealogy Resources
• Hareshima - Jewish Genealogy
• CyberPursuits - Jewish Genealogy
• Genealogy links (NY, MA, CT, general, Jewish)

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