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  • Unified Search
    Explore millions of records from around the world, including more than 3.69 million records related to the Holocaust, and more than 4.1 million burial records. Records are continually updated/added.
  • The JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF)
    Surnames and ancestral towns being researched by 110,000 Jewish genealogists worldwide.  More than 600,000 entries.
  • The Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP)
    Data on more than eight million people, from family trees submitted by 6,000 Jewish genealogists worldwide.
  • The JewishGen Communities Database
    Historical names and jurisdictions, maps, JewishGen links and resources for more than 6,000 Jewish communities in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
  • The JewishGen Gazetteer
    Locate places in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, by name or location.  U.S. Board on Geographic Names data for 54 countries.
  • The JewishGen Holocaust Database
    More than 2.75 million entries regarding Holocaust victims and survivors, from many sources.
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    New Partnership with Miriam Weiner & The Routes to Roots Foundation

Eastern Europe:

Belarus:

  • The JewishGen Belarus Database
    More than one million records from many different sources: vital records, voter lists, business directories, ghetto records.

Latvia:

  • The JewishGen Latvia Database
    More than 240,000 records for Courland, Livland and Vitebsk gubernias, from a variety of sources, including: voter lists, tax records, census records, death records, newspaper articles, police and military records, Memorial Books, and Extraordinary Commission lists.

Lithuania:

  • The LitvakSIG All Lithuania Database
    As a free service to the community, JewishGen.org is proud to partner with Litvak SIG and host the All Lithuania Database, which currently contains more than 2 million records.

Poland:

Germany:

  • The JewishGen Germany Database
    More than 500,000 records for Germany, from a variety of sources, including: citizenship records, vital records, cemetery data, survivor lists, and Holocaust sources.

Austria & Czech Republic:

  • The JewishGen Austria-Czech Database
    More than 950,000 records for Austria and the Czech Republic, from a variety of sources, including: cemetery data, Yizkor books, and Holocaust sources.

Hungary:

  • The JewishGen Hungary Database
    More than 1.7 million records for Hungary and former Hungarian regions (Slovakia, Croatia, northern Serbia, northwestern Romania, and Sub-Carpathian Ukraine) from many different sources: vital records, census records, property tax records, etc.

Romania & Moldova:

  • The JewishGen Romania Database
    More than 1.2 million records for Romania, Moldova and Bessarabia, from a variety of sources, including: voter lists, census records, business directories, vital records, diplomatic records, yizkor books, and others.

Ukraine:

  • The JewishGen Ukraine Database
    More than two million records for Ukraine, from a variety of sources, including: voter lists, business directories, vital records, diplomatic records, yizkor books, and others.

United Kingdom:

  • The JewishGen & JGSGB United Kingdom Database
    More than 390,000 records for England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar, as well as the Republic of Ireland – from a variety of sources, including: marriage and cemetery records, census records, business directories, and others.

France:

  • The JewishGen France Database
    More than 150,000 records for France, Belgium, Switzerland, and former French regions, from a variety of sources, including: marriage records, cemetery records, and others.

Scandinavia:

  • The JewishGen Scandinavia Database
    More than 18,000 records for Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, from a variety of sources, including: census, tax, cemetery records, and others.

South Africa:

Israel:

Syria:

United States:

Canada:

  • The JewishGen Canada Database
    A quarter-million records for Canada, from a variety of sources, including: cemetery records, synagogue records, newspapers, immigrant aid societies, organizational records, and others.

LatinAmerica:

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