JewishGen Databases. [Internet resource] (ID: 32457)
Authorship or Source:
JewishGen.
Year:
c1995-2002
Title or Main Description:
JewishGen Databases. [Internet resource]
Place Published or Holding Institution:
[League City, Texas] : JewishGen, Inc.
Description:
1 computer file [HTML]
Type of Work:
HTML document with hyperlinks to searchable databases
Provenance:
Compiled collaboratively from varied sources, including several contributions by the staff and volunteers of the Survivors Registry of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Keywords:
- Jews --Genealogy --Sources.
- Jews --Genealogy --Indexes.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Registers of dead.
- Cemeteries --Indexes.
Abstract:
An directory of annotated links to a variety of searchable online databases useful to Jewish Genealogy, arranged geographically.
Language and Other Notes:
- COMPLETE CONTENTS:
- General:
- -- The JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF): Surnames and ancestral towns being researched by 60,000 Jewish genealogists worldwide. Over 295,000 entries.
- -- The Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP): Data on over two million people, from family trees submitted by 1,800 Jewish genealogists worldwide.
- -- The JewishGen Discussion Group message Archives, 1993-2002: Search over 100,000 previous JewishGen postings.
- -- The JewishGen SIG Lists Message Archives, 1998-2002: Search messages posted to the JewishGen SIG mailing lists.
- -- Jewish Records at the Family History Library: An inventory of the Jewish-specific resources at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
- -- The JewishGen Holocaust Database: Over 195,000 entries regarding Holocaust victims and survivors, from many sources.
- -- Ellis Island Foundation Database: One-Step Search Tools-enhanced search capabilities for easier access to data on www.ellisisland.org.
- Eastern Europe:
- -- The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker: Locate towns in Eastern or Central Europe, by name or location. U.S. Board on Geographic Names databases for 24 countries.
- -- The Yizkor Book Project Database: Eastern European Memorial books-bibliographic database. -- The Yizkor Book Necrology Database: Over 128,000 entries from lists of Holocaust martyrs, published in Yizkor Books.
- -- Vsia Rossia Database: Over 32,000 entries from Russian Empire business directories, 1895-1911.
- -- Jewish Religious Personnel in Russia, 1853-54: Over 4,000 synagogue employees from 900 towns throughout the Pale of Settlement.
- -- Jewish Given Names Database: Given names (first names) used in Europe, 1795-1925.
- Belarus:
- -- The "All Belarus" Database: Over 180,000 records from many different sources: vital records, voter lists, business directories, ghetto records.
- Latvia:
- -- The "All Latvia" Database: Over 60,000 records for Courland, Livland and Vitebsk gubernias, from a variety of sources, including: voter lists, tax records, census records, newspaper articles, police and military records, Memorial Books, and extracts from the Extraordinary Commission lists.
- Lithuania:
- -- LitvakSIG "All Lithuania" Database: More than 300,000 records from many different sources, including complete Revision Lists as well as vital records, tax, voters, and cemetery lists.
- -- HaMagid Lithuanian Donors 1871-72: Names of 5,000 donors to Persian famine relief, listed in this Hebrew periodical.
- -- HaMelitz Lithuanian and Latvian Donors: Names of almost 20,000 Lithuanian and Latvian charity donors, listed in this Hebrew periodical, 1893 to 1903.
- -- Lithuanian Medical Personnel: Information about 874 Jewish medical personnel, found in two Lithuanian medical directories, 1923 and 1925.
- -- Sugihara Database: Names and visa dates of 2,139 Lithuanian, Polish, German and Russian Jews, all of whom were saved by passports from the Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara in 1940.
- -- Kelme Database: Indexes to various archival and published records about the town of Kelme, 1816-1944.
- -- Keidan Cemeteries Database: Tombstone inscriptions from seven Keidaner cemeteries: in Lithuania, New York and Chicago.
- -- Kovno Ghetto Cemetery, 1941-1943: Transcripts of nearly 900 burials from the register of the Chevra Kadisha of Viliampole Slobodka.
- -- Vilna Gubernia Conscripts Photographs: Names and photographs of 1,222 Jewish conscripts from Vilna gubernia into the Russian army, 1900-1914.
- Poland:
- -- Jewish Records Indexing-Poland: An index to over 1.5 million 19th-century Jewish birth, marriage and death records from over 250 Polish towns.
- -- 1929 Polish Business Directory-Town Index: An index to more than 34,000 locations in inter-war Poland, with links to directory pages for each city, town and village.
- -- LDS Microfilm Master-Poland: Locate LDS microfilms of records from Poland, based on geographic coordinates.
- -- The 1891 Galicia Business Directory: Over 20,000 names from over 1,000 different towns throughout Galicia.
- -- Lvov Ghetto Database: Names of over 10,000 Jews in the Ghetto of Lwów Poland, 1942-1945. -- Kraków Ghetto Database: Names of over 19,000 Jews in the Ghetto of Kraków Poland, in 1940.
- -- 1890 New York Immigrants from Poland, Austria and Galicia: An index to over 44,000 passenger arrivals.
- -- Oshpitsin Yizkor Database: Information on over 5,000 residents of the town of Oshpitsin (Oswiecim).
- -- Warszawa Death Notices from Nasz Przeglad: Over 2,700 death notices from this Warsaw newspaper, 1923 and 1937-38.
- -- Warszawa Homeowners Lists: Data on over 9,000 homeowners in Warszawa (Warsaw) and Praga, 1852, 1869, 1870.
- -- Warszawa Gubernia Duma Voters Lists, 1907: Over 10,000 Jewish men living in Warszawa gubernia (Warsaw province), eligible to vote for the Czarist State Duma.
- Germany:
- -- Aufbau Survivors Lists: Over 33,000 Holocaust survivors, published in the German-language newspaper Aufbau, New York, 1944-1946.
- -- Germans, Swiss and Austrians Deported from France: Information about 825 Holocaust victims, 1942-1944.
- -- Jewish Families of Northern Germany: 3,000 families from Lower Saxony, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Hamburg, Bremen, and Hessen.
- -- Westphalian Jews and the Holocaust: The fate of over 8,000 Westphalian Jews.
- -- German Jews at Stutthof Concentration Camp: Names of 2,750 German Jews at this concentration camp near Gdansk.
- -- West Prussia 1812 Citizenship: Names of 2,400 Jews in 50 towns in West Prussia who were granted Prussian citizenship in 1812.
- Czech Republic:
- -- Nikolsburg Graveyard Register: Over 4,500 persons buried in the Jewish cemetery of Nikolsburg (now Mikulov).
- Hungary:
- -- 1828 Hungarian Property Tax Census: Names of 8,000 Jews owning taxable property, listed in the 1828 Property Tax Census.
- Romania:
- -- U.S. Consular Post, Bucharest, Romania: Emergency Passport Applications and other item -- nearly 1,000 records from the U.S. State Department, 1860-1941.
- Great Britain:
- -- The Jews of London (pre-1850): Names and addresses of 9,000 Jews in London in the first half of the 19th century, compiled principally from London trade directories of the period. -- Bristol Cemetery Database: Index and tombstone photographs of three cemeteries in Bristol, England. 815 entries.
- -- Welsh Census Returns - 1851, 1891: Entries on 1,800 Jewish residents listed in the 1851 and 1891 census returns of South Wales.
- Israel:
- -- U.S. Department of State Consular Post Records: Index to over 9,000 records of U.S. Consulates in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa, 1857-1935.
- South Africa:
- -- South African Jewish Year Book Database: Index to over 1,000 biographies of Jews in South Africa, from publications in 1929 and 1945.
- America:
- -- American Jewish Historical Society Manuscript Catalog: Full descriptions of over 1100 manuscript collections held by the AJHS.
- -- The Boston Jewish Advocate Obituary Database: Index to over 21,000 obituary notices from this Massachusetts newspaper, 1905-2001.
- -- The Cleveland Jewish News Obituary Database: Index to 24,000 obituary notices from this Ohio newspaper, 1964-2001.
- -- The Chicago Obituary Database: Index to over 8,800 obituary notices from an Illinois newspaper, 1994-1998.
- -- Chicago Marriages-Sinai Congregation: Index to over 500 marriages by Rabbi Bernhard Felsenthal, Chicago, Ilinois, from 1861 to 1905.
- -- The Boston Jewish Advocate Wedding Announcements Database: Index to over 20,000 wedding announcements from this Massachusetts newspaper, 1939-2001.
- -- Boston Marriages-Rabbi Aaron Gorovitz: Index to nearly 1,000 marriages performed by Rabbi Aaron Gorovitz of Boston, 1910 to 1956.
- -- Jewish-American Civil War Veterans: Over 7,000 Jewish-American U.S. Civil War Veterans, both Union and Confederate.
- -- American Jewish Year Book Obituary Index: Index to over 3,000 obituaries of prominent Jews, 1948-1998.
- -- The Rabbi Samuel Langer Database: Over 5,000 entries from personal notebooks-births, Bar/Bas Mitzvahs, marriages, funerals/unveilings, etc. Eastern USA, 1930s-1960s.
- Utilities:
- -- The JewishGen Date / Soundex / Distance Calculator: Calculate Hebrew/Gregorian calendar dates; Display all Jewish holidays for any civil or Jewish year; Encode names in Soundex (both Daitch-Mokotoff and U.S. National Archives); Calculate distance/direction between towns.
- -- Search the JewishGen Website: Find any word on any static page on the JewishGen web server.
- "Updated by WSB 20 Oct 2002."
- Access Date: 23 December 2002.
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