JOWBR Updates

The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) aims to catalog data about Jewish cemeteries and burial records worldwide, from the earliest records to the present. JOWBR is a searchable database of names and associated information, including photographs of gravestones. As of January 2013, JOWBR contains more than 1.9 million burial records from 3,800 cemeteries in 81 countries. Search JOWBR Data Inventory Submitting Data Screencasts Why JOWBR? FAQ JOWBR Updates

This page contains links to JOWBR update announcements, in reverse chronological order.

• 2013 January Update — 94,000 new records, and 40,000 new photos.  The database is adding 216 new cemeteries, with updates/additions to 129 cemeteries, from 28 countries. 
  Totals: 1.95 million records, from more than 3,800 cemeteries, in 81 countries.

• 2012 June Update — 105,000 new records, and 21,000 new photos.  The database is adding 244 new cemeteries, with updates/additions to 343 cemeteries, from 46 countries. 
  Totals: 1.86 million records, from more than 3,600 cemeteries, in 80 countries.

• 2011 December Update — 60,000 new records, and 16,000 new photos.  The database is adding 120 new cemeteries, with updates/additions to 225 cemeteries, from 37 countries. 
  Totals: 1.76 million records, from more than 3,350 cemeteries, in 64 countries.

• 2011 July Update — 120,000 new records, and 49,000 new photos.
  182 new cemeteries, with updates/additions to 130 cemeteries, from 26 countries. 
  Totals: 1.7 million records, from more than 3,200 cemeteries, in 51 countries.

• 2011 January Update — 171,000 new records and 32,700 new photos.
  The database added 360 new cemeteries, with updates/additions to 213 cemeteries, in 21 countries.
  Totals: 1.57 million records, from more than 3,050 cemeteries, in 47 countries.

• 2010 June Update — 108,000 new records, 13,000 additional photos, in 170 new cemeteries, with updates to another 155 cemeteries, in 19 countries.
  Totals: 1.4 million records, from more than 2,700 cemeteries, in 46 countries.

• 2010 January Update — 104,500 new records, 20,700 new photos.  118 new cemeteries, with updates to 99 cemeteries, from 15 countries.
  Totals: 1.3 million records, from more than 2,500 cemeteries, in 45 countries.

• 2009 July Update — 94,000 new records, 12,000 new photos, from 16 countries.
  Totals: 1.2 million records, from more than 2,400 cemeteries, in 45 countries.

• 2009 April Update — 55,000 new records, 25,000 new photos, from 17 countries.
  Totals: 1.125 million records, from more than 2,100 cemeteries, in 45 countries.

• 2008 June - JOWBR Status —
  Total: One million records, from 1,900 cemeteries, in 40 countries.