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Commercial Sites Georgia Resources Holocaust Immigration International Jewish Genealogy Links-to-Links New York Specific Searchable Databases Tutorials/Publications United States Resources
Jewish Genealogy
JewishGen
- JewishGen: The Official Home of Jewish Genealogy
- The mother of all Jewish Genealogy sites - so eat up.
- JewishGen - Shtetl Seeker
- Search for ancestral villages, locations and facts.
Other Jewish Genealogy Links
- Ancestors of the Eastern European Jews
- Genetic study of the Ashkenazim.
- Aronson.com Jewish Books
- Arthur Kurzweil's book company.
- Avotaynu, Inc. Home Page
- The leading publisher of information and products of interest to persons who are researching Jewish genealogy and Jewish family history.
- American Jewish Historical Society
- Self-explanatory.
- Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - Jewish
- Huge list of Jewish Genealogical links.
- Mailgate - soc.genealogy.jewish newsgroup
- Searchable Jewish genealogical newsgroup database.
- Routes to Roots Foundation
- Miriam Wiener's Eastern European records database.
- Sephardic Genealogy Sources
- Sephardic Genealogy
- The largest single database of Sephardic names and research references combined with the largest list of Sephardic heraldry on the Internet.
- Stammbaum - Journal of German-Jewish Genealogical Research
- Articles, etc. on German-Jewish genealogical interest.
- Synagogue Art Research
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Holocaust
- Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
- Searchable Death records.
- Holocaust - How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors
- Basic steps, a case study and more to help you research people caught up in the Holocaust.
- JewishGen Holocaust Database
- Incorporates 74 databases, which contain over 900,000 entries.
- Nevek-Klarsfeld
- Access to details concerning over 350,000 Jews of Greater Hungary and their fate during and following the Holocaust.
- Yad Vashem
- Vashem has been entrusted with documenting the history of the Jewish people during the Holocaust period.
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Jewish Software and Tools
- PilotYid
- List of Jewish-specific software for handheld computers (PDAs).
United States Resources
- AnyBirthday.com
- Find birthdays of living people (some deceased). May take some detective work to assure you have the correct individual.
- CDC - Where to Write for Vital Records
- To use this valuable tool, you must first determine the State or area where the birth, death, marriage, or divorce occurred, then click on that State or area.
- Obituary Depot
- Newspapers by state with on-line obituaries.
- National Archives and Records Administration - NARA
- Main site for NARA.
- Online Searchable Death Indexes for the USA
Social Security Death Index at Ancestry.com- Information provided by the Social Security Administration through the end of February 2000.
- Social Security Death Index at Rootsweb
- Soundex Converter
- Surname to Soundex Code
- Veterans Benefits and Services - Nationwide Gravesite Locator
- Virtual Chase
- Links to many public records
Immigration/Emigration
- Emigration
- Links and lists regarding ships, passengers and emmigration.
- Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: All about immigration and migration
- Several Immigration articles and other info.
- German Roots: Emigration & Immigration: Passenger Lists, Naturalization Records
- Not just for Germans.
- Mayflower Descendents
- New England, Pilgrim and Plymouth resources.
- Passenger List info
- Information about researching passenger lists.
- US Ports of Arrival & their Passenger Lists 1820 - 1957
- This is a list of nearly every port in the United States that has published immigration records (passenger arrival lists) 1820-1957, organized by state.
International
- Babel Fish
- On-line translations. Simply amazing. French, German, Italian, Portuguese, French, Russian, and English combinations.
- Canada - inGeneas
- On-line searches for Canadian ancestors.
- Canadian Genealogy Centre Web site
- The Canadian Genealogy Centre is a single window providing electronic access to genealogical resources in Canada.
- GENUKI Home page
- The UK & Ireland Genealogical Information Service.
- travlang's Translating Dictionaries
- Great resource for finding English translations of words in vital records.
Warning - Annoying pop-up windows.- Ukrainian Info
- Genealogical resources on the Ukraine. The home page has many general Ukraine resources.
- Brooklyn Eagle Online
- The BPL presently has the Eagle from 1841 to 1902 ready for use and they will be adding later years as the OCR work is done.
- The Italian Genealogical Group
- Naturalization Records Index for Southern District Court of NY, Suffolk and Nassau Counties
- New York Genealogical & Biographical Society
- Access to New York Times articles (with membership).
Photographs
- Visual Fashion Dictionary
- Date old photos by searching clothing style by Time, Subject or Geographic Area
Searchable Databases
- Ancestry.com
- Searchable databases, indexes, and more. Free databases and membership charge for other databases.
- FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service
- From the Church of Latter Day Saints, the most experienced documenters of vital records information. The site is fairly new and getting many hits so be patient, there is an incredible amount of info here.
- Online Searchable Military Records & Databases
- Repositories of Primary Sources
- A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholars.
- RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
- Free, free free.
Tutorials/Publications
- How To Use Google More Effectively For Genealogy Searches
- More Google Tips
- Treasure Maps - The How-to Genealogy Site
- Very interesting primers and articles on getting started with genealogy, the Federal Census, Family History Libraries and others.
General Genealogy Links-to-Links
- Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
- More links than you can ever imagine.
- The Genealogy Home Page
- Because it's there.
Commercial Sites
- Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Home Page
- Home of the popular software package. Many free resources.
- Hungarian Jewish Roots Research
- Lineages, Inc. - info@lineagesnet.com
- Searchable, but must register (free). Other services/products cost.
