Resources
By State
California
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
New York
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
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
Countries or Geographic Areas
Galicia
Israel
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
South Africa
- National Archives of South Africa
- Family Search Wiki
- How to use NAAIRS for electronic retrieval of documents
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