Jewish Genealogical Society of Denmark

Links

LINKS - OTHER COUNTRIES

• JewishGen
  - the first, greatest and most important website for Jewish genealogy and history - with an abundance of information, good advice, online searchable databases from many countries, Yiskor books online, Holocaust research and inquiries, links og much, much more!
  - and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) focusing on various countries or shtetls - to mention just a few:
  • Scandinavia SIG (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden)
  • Latvia SIG (Latvia)
  • Litvak SIG (Lithuania)
  • Belarus SIG
    You can find a list of them all on:
  • JewishGen Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
• Ellis Island Database
  - online searchable database of arrivals at Ellis Island.
• Jewish Records Indexing - Poland (JRI-Poland)
  An online searchable database with more than 2 million records of Jewish vital records in the area, which was Polan between the two World Wars. The database is a work in progress and based on the work of volunteers.
• Jewish Web Index
• The Holocaust
  - the Icelandic historian, Snorri G. Bergsson's website. Chapter 2: "Jews and the North" gives a brief outline of the history of the Jews in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway.
• Federation of Eastern Europe Family Societies
  Website for genealogy in Eastern Europe
• Hamburg:
  • Online searchable database of passenger lists from Hamburg
  • A History of Jews in Hamburg
    - Emigration from Hamburg illustrated with many photos.
  • "Emigration Port Hamburg"
    - a web exhibition about emigration from Hamburg
  • A Jerusalém do Norte. Sefardische Juden in Hamburg
    - in German - many illustrations and photos!