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JewishGen France Database

Welcome to the JewishGen France Database.  This is a multiple database search engine which includes (but is not limited to) all the databases listed below.  The combined databases have over 230,000 entries, referring to individuals living in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and former French regions and colonies.  The database is a work in progress and new entries are being added regularly.

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Component Databases:

  • JewishGen Family Finder
    More than 14,000 entries by genealogists researching Jewish families in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and French-speaking regions.
  • JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry
    More than 80,000 burial records in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and French-speaking regions.
  • Aveyron Deportations
    This collection contains records of 391 Jews residing in the department of Aveyron, situated in south-central France, who were deported during the period 1940-1944.
  • Jewish Passengers Leaving Bordeaux 1713-1787
    150 records of Jewish passengers leaving via the port of Bordeaux, France between 1713-1787
  • Circumcision Book of Samuel Gomes Atias
    A list of circumcisions conducted by the mohel Samuel Gomes Atias during 1725-1773. For the most part they took place in the southwestern part of France inhabited by the Spanish and Portuguese Jews living around the area of Bayonne, Bidache and Peyrehorade.

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