Resources

By State

California

• California Digital Newspaper Collection
• California State Library - Sutro Library

Illinois

• The Sentinel
• Cook County Ancestry.com Message Board
• Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
• Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Chicagoland
• Encyclopedia of Chicago
• Online Resources for Chicago and Cook County Research
• Illinois State Genealogical Society
• Illinois State Archives
• Ward boundaries - Chicago
• Cook County, IL GenWeb

MA

• Inquiry Unlimited's Genealogy Mentor
• Genealogy and Family History Resources

New York

• Fulton History
• New York State Archives Genealogy Resources
• Family Search - New York Online Genealogy

Washington

• The Jewish Transcript
• Washington State - Ancestry.com collection
• Washington State Archives · Digital Archives

Other

Forums - Message Boards

• genealogy.stackexchange.com
• JewishGen Mailing Lists
• soc.genealogy.jewish
• rootsweb
• ancestry.com
• Search JewishGen Discussion Group Message Archives
• JewishGen SIG Lists Message Archives
• Cook County IL Rootsweb Message Board
• Cook County IL Mailing Lists

Full Text

• Newspaper digitization projects
• The Sentinel
• JPRESS
• HathiTrust
• Google Books
• Chronicling America
• California Digital Newspaper Collection
• Illinois Digital Newspaper Collection
• Historical Newspapers Online
• Fulton History
• Prologue Magazine
• Avotaynu Online

General

• Reading a Jewish Tombstone
• Where to Search - Help for Dead Ends
• Conferences and Meeting Calendar
• The Foundation for East European Family History Studies
• JewishGen Gazetteer
• Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names® Online
• Recently Added and Updated Collections on Ancestry
• Historical Record Collections
• List of national archives
• Cyndi's List Genealogy Categories
• The Cemetery Project
• Elephind
• View Ancestry.com hints by database
• Avotaynu Online
• JewishGen Gazetteer
• Blank census forms

Genetics

• Your Genetic Genealogist
• Beginners guide to Genetic Genealogy

Jewish Historical & Genealogical Research

• The Sentinel
• JPRESS
• International Jewish Cemetery Project
• The Jewish Transcript
• JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR)
• JewishGen Discussion Group Archives
• Routes to Roots Foundation
• Yad Vashem
• Home The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem (CAHJP)
• US Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Chicagoland
• Jewish Genealogy Research
• Jewish Genealogy Research Outline
• German Jewish Records
• People of a Thousand Towns
• Center for Jewish History Digital Collections
• GIVEN NAMES DATA BASES (GNDBs)
• Leo Baeck Institute
• The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

Ships & Passenger Lists

• Hamburg Passenger List Terminology
• Castle Garden
• Bremen Passenger Lists
• Ellis Island
• Searching for Ships in the Ellis Island Microfilms in One Step
• Searching for Ships in the Castle Garden Microfilms in One Step
• Pictures of Passenger Ships in One Step
• Ship Passenger List Extract Forms
• The Ship’s List
• A Guide to Interpreting Passenger List Annotations
• Finding Passenger Lists & Immigration Records 1820-1940s arrivals at US ports from Europe
• Hamburg Germany - NY Ship Names

Software

• The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding© ("TNG")
• Simple Links

Countries or Geographic Areas

Galicia

• GALICIA Mailing Lists

Israel

• IGRA All Israel Database
• Israel Genealogy from Family Search

Latvia

• Jewsin Liepaja/Latvia, 1941-45
• Maps - Latvia Administrative Divisions
• Maps - Historic
• Search english translations of some Latvian vital records
• Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania

Lithuania

• All Lithuania Database
• Lithuania - The Jewish Community
• Searching for your Jewish Ancestors in Lithuania

Poland

• GALICIA Mailing Lists
• Jewish Records of Poland

South Africa

• National Archives of South Africa
• Family Search Wiki
• How to use NAAIRS for electronic retrieval of documents