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General:
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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.
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The JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF)
The JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) is a compilation of surnames and towns currently being researched by over 110,000 Jewish genealogists worldwide.
It contains over 585,000 entries: 140,000 ancestral surnames and 18,000 town names, and is indexed and cross-referenced by both surname and town name.
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The Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP)
Data on more than 10 million people, from family trees
submitted by more than 8,000 Jewish genealogists worldwide.
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The JewishGen Communities Database
Historical names and jurisdictions, maps, JewishGen links and
resources for more than 6,500 Jewish communities in Europe,
North Africa, and the Middle East.
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The JewishGen Gazetteer
Locate over 4 million localities in 63 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Australia and the Americas.
U.S. Board on Geographic Names data for 54 countries.
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Holocaust:
Austria & Czechia:
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The JewishGen Austria-Czech Database
More than 4.8 million records for Austria and Czechia (the Czech Republic),
from a variety of sources, including: cemetery data, Yizkor books,
and Holocaust sources.
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Belarus:
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The JewishGen Belarus Database
More than one million records from many different sources:
vital records, voter lists, business directories, ghetto records.
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Canada:
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The JewishGen Canada Database
More than a quarter-million records for Canada, from a variety of sources, including:
cemetery records, synagogue records, newspapers, immigrant aid societies,
organizational records, and others.
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France:
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The JewishGen France Database
More than 230,000 records for France, Belgium, Switzerland, and
former French regions, from a variety of sources, including:
marriage records, cemetery records, and others.
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Germany:
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The JewishGen Germany Database
More than 1 million records for Germany, from a variety
of sources, including: citizenship records, vital records, cemetery data,
survivor lists, and Holocaust sources.
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Hungary:
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The JewishGen Hungary Database
More than 2.19 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.
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Israel:
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The JewishGen Israel Database
More than 4 million records for the Land and State of Israel, spanning 1665 to the present day, including more than 1.6 million burials.
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HaMagid Donor Lists
Town index to more than 2,000 donor lists published in the
Hebrew-language newspaper HaMagid, 1856-1900.
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Latin America:
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Latvia:
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The JewishGen Latvia Database
More than 258,000 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.
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Lithuania:
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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.
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Netherlands:
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The JewishGen Netherlands Database
More than 530,000 records for the Netherlands, from a variety of sources,
including both Sephardic and Ashkenazi communities, as well as records from Dutch colonies and the Holocaust.
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North Africa:
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Poland:
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Romania & Moldova:
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The JewishGen Romania Database
More than 1.6 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.
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Russia:
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The JewishGen Russia Database
More than 173,000 records for the former Russian Empire and current State of Russia from a
variety of sources, including: voter lists, census records,
business directories, vital records, military records, yizkor books, burial records,
and others.
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Sephardic:
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The JewishGen Sephardic Database
Nearly 170,000 Sephardic genealogy records spanning close to 500 years, covering communities across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas.
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Jeff Malka Sephardic Collection
More than 146,000 previously inaccessible and/or difficult to access records collected and generously donated by Dr. Jeff Malka
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South Africa:
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Ukraine:
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The JewishGen Ukraine Database
More than 5.4 million records for Ukraine, from a
variety of sources, including: voter lists, business directories,
vital records, diplomatic records, yizkor books, and others.
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United Kingdom:
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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.
Utilities:
If you are creating a database relevant to Jewish genealogy of
more than 1,000 items which would lend itself to a web search engine
and would like to house it on the JewishGen server, please read
“Contributing Databases to
JewishGen”.
Last Update: 2.2.2026 by CHW
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