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More Jewish Genealogy Websites by David Price (Revised 22 November 2016)

Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto
1. http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/collections/personalsites/CAHJP/Pages/default.aspx
The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People. They hold the archives of hundreds of
Jewish communities, as well as of local, national and international Jewish organizations and the
private collections of many outstanding Jewish personalities. The Archives now hold the most
extensive collection of documents, pinkassim (registers) and other records of Jewish history
from the Middle Ages to the present day.
2. http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/collections/jewish-collection/ketubbot/Pages/
default.aspx
National Library of Israel’s 4200 Ketubot collected from around the world.
3. http://archives.jdc.org/?ideaalm_lang=ENG
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Archives collection of 500000 names including
photos.
4. https://jhrgbelarus.wordpress.com/about/
Jewish Heritage Research Group in Belarus for Belarus genealogy
5. http://www.zchor.org/meirtchak/volume5.htm
Jewish military casualties in the Polish army WWII
6. http://www.russianimmigrants.org/
Russian immigrants including Poles to USA, 1834-1897, 406121 passengers
7. http://www.thedigin.org/jewish-studies-dh-projects/
54 Jewish studies digital humanities projects (including genealogical interest, holocaust
accounts)
8. http://genealogyindexer.org/directories
Genealogy Indexer including directories, yizkor, military, history and schools (I like this website!)
9. https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1784212
Archives of Ontario births 1869-1911
10. https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/home
WhoWasWho, Dutch genealogy
11. http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/view/all/what/Atlas%2BMap/where/Poland/
when/1890?cic=RUMSEY~8~1&sort=pub_date%2Cpub_list_no_initialsort&os=0&pgs=50
David Rumsey Map Collection, 1890 map of Poland
12. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gs&
Find A Grave
13. http://obituary.genealogiequebec.com/
Obituary in Quebec
14. http://genealogy.about.com/od/newspapers/tp/newspapers_online.htm
Historic newspapers online, international
15. https://www.tracingthepast.org/
Tracing the Past, European victims of the holocaust 1933-1945 e.g. 17000 German Jews 1939
German Minority Census by address
16. https://www.rothschildarchive.org/
The Rothschild Archive including Rothschild family tree

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17. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection, University of Texas, incredible map collection
18. http://www.jewishgen.org/ukraine/GST_HTR_ReadingOldRecords.asp
Translating Cyrillic (Russian) and Hebrew, Kremenets Vital Records Project of Jewish Genealogy
Ukraine SIG. Best source of learning Cyrillic, reason I can do it!
19. http://museumoffamilyhistory.com/ajc-yb-v08-pogroms.htm
Pogroms from 1903-1906 from Kishineff to Bialystok, American Jewish Year Book Volume 8
(1906-1907)
20. http://www.lkessler.com/jglinks.shtml
Louis Kessler’s Jewish Genealogy Links
21. http://www.zum.de/whkmla/histatlas/eceurope/haxpoland.html
WHKMLA Historical Atlas for Poland
22. http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/
EHPES Czernowitz-Sadagora area jewish genealogy
23. http://www.cjh.org/p/2
Center for Jewish History, NY. Five organizations including YIVO and Leo Baeck’s archival
documents
24. http://www.zchor.org/verbin/heritage.htm
Jewish Heritage, Poland
25. http://www.jewishtravel.pl/aboutus.htm
Jewish Travel in Poland, heritage tours
26. http://www.crarg.org/search-holocaust-records.php
CRARG, Czestochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group
27. mentoring@jgstoronto.ca
David Price, polish/Cyrillic extractions for Polish records (some not online), donation to JRI-
Poland.
28. http://maps4u.lt/en/news.php
Maps4U.LT, European maps e.g. Poland 1770-1939, Russia 1790-1917
29. http://cleveland.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/24630_comment.php
Auschwitz death certificates for surnames starting with ‘B’.
‘C’ go to http://cleveland.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/03/c.htm
‘A’ go to http://cleveland.indymedia.org/news/2007/03/24627_comment.php
30. http://www.zwangsarbeit-archiv.de/en/
Forced labor 1939-1945 memory and history (600 interviews)
31. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robert_Magocsi
Author of best references for atlas of Eastern/Central Europe, Galicia and Ukraine. U of Toronto
professor.
32. www.familytreemagazine.com/article/best-library-websites-2016
100 best Library websites to research family history.
33. http://shtetle.co.il/Index.html
My Shtetl: The Voice of Jewish Settlements has oral histories, memories, photos and historic
texts from Minsk, Vitebsk and Mogilev regions of Belarus (Grodno, Brest and Gomel regions
are still under construction). Buttons for English and Russian versions, but you must search

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*both* versions, since shtetls with only Russian texts do not show up on the English version.
Install Chrome browser so Google Translate app will give instant translation of the Russian.
34. http://straty.pl/index.php/en/
Search for victims of oppression of Poland (szukaj w baize), personal loss program of Poland.
35. http://jgaliciabukovina.net/139347/article/meorei-galicia
Jewish Galicia and Bukovina history of communities. Lots of info including rabbis, cemetaries,
notables.
36. http://shtetle.co.il/index_eng.html
Voices of the Jewish Settlements contains stories from the Jewish towns of Belarus.
37. https://bloodandfrogs.com/encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy has links for genealogy, history, cemetaries, holocaust, books,
etc.
38. http://newspapers.lib.sfu.ca/islandora/search/canadian%20jewish%20news?type=edismax
Canadian Jewish News 1956 to 2017.
39. http://www.anywho.com/whitepages
Look up someone by name, address or phone number, and reverse look up.
40. https://archive.org/details/nycmarriageindex
New York City Marriage records index images.
41. http://www.archives.gov.il/en/
Israel State Archives collections online mid April 2017.

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