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Suggested Links

Getting Started Guides

Beginner's Guide to Family History Research - Desmond Walls Allen and Carolyn Earle Billingsley

Genealogy "How To" Guide - Family Tree Maker

Getting Started in United Kingdom and Ireland Genealogy - Gen Uki

Info and Tips for Beginning Genealogy - RootsWeb

The JewishGen FAQ - Getting Started - Warren Blatt

Website Information from the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain -Lorna Kay

JewishGen

The JewishGen Discussion Group - Chat with others about your research.

The JewishGen FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) - A must-read for Jewish Genealogists.

Sites with Other Genealogy Links

Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - over 188,000 links

Federation of East European Family History Societies

GenealogyLinks.net - over 18,000 links

Helm's Genealogy Toolbox

Jewish Genealogical Societies - Information about all JGS's, Worldwide

Jewish Genealogy Web Index

National Genealogical Society

Rand Genealogy Club

RootsWeb.com

Search Systems - links to over 15,000 free public records databases

United States Genealogy Sleuth

Yahoo Genealogy Index

Interesting Information

1930 Federal Population Census - Availablity date, questions asked, indexing

1920 & 1930 Federal Population Census - Stephen Morse's Enumeration District Identification Facility

The American Immigrant Wall of Honor - How to include the name of your immigrant ancestor in the Ellis Island memorial

American Jewish Historical Society - Learn about the research resources of the AJHS

Ancestry's Social Security Death Index (and other indices) - Find SS#, birth, and death dates for deceased persons

Any Birthday - Search for birthdays for more than 100 million Americans

Archives (Worldwide) - Contact information for national, regional, state & municipal archives all over the world

Avotaynu Home Page - Publications and resources available from Avotaynu

Avotaynu's Consolidated Jewish Surname Index - Search for your family name in numerous databases

Beit Hatefutsoth - Jerusalem's Museum of the Jewish Diaspora

The Bloom Southwest Jewish Archives - Historical information about Jews of the Southwest

The Board for Certification of Genealogists - Interested in becoming a "Certified Genealogist"?

Calendar Conversions, Hebrew (Jewish) Calendar - Converts Hebrew to Civil dates and vice versa

California State Vital Records - Information on obtaining Birth, Death, and Marriage Records

Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History - Resources on this ancient Jewish community

The Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center - Learn about Beit Hatefutsoth's genealogy resources

Eastern European Archival Database - Miriam Weiner's searchable catalog of archived records by town

Ellis Island Database - Search the Ellis Island database for passenger arrivals between 1892 and 1924

Ellis Island Database - One-step search - Stephen Morse's facilities to enhance searches of the Ellis Island Database

England & Wales 1901 Census - Search this census from your computer

French genealogy - The Cercle de Généalogie Juive is the first Jewish Genealogical Society in France

French cemeteries - Lorraine - Judéo-Lorraine et mon arbre regroupe entre autres, les patronymes suivants: WORMS, CAHEN, etc...

Genealogy.com Data Online - Search Genealogy.com's online catalogue of over 300 million names

Grand Duchy of Lithuania(GDL)Research Project - Documents about Jewish families in the Grand Duchy in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) - Information on an organization which assisted many of our immigrant ancestors

Jewish History - A century-by-centry synopsis of the major events in Jewish history over the ages

Jewish History - Jewish Literacy, A crash course in Jewish History

JewishGen Databases - Access a wide range of databases available for your Jewish genealogical research

JewishGen Family Finder - Find others who are researching the same surnames that you are

Jewish Genealogical Societies - Information about all JGS's, Worldwide

Jewish Studies Program at UCLA

Jewish Web Index - A free compendium of links in alphabetical order by Country

Judaica Archives in the U.S. - Locations and collections for Jewish research

The Khazaria Info Center - Resource for Turkic and Jewish History in Russia and Ukraine

Latin America and the Caribbean - Links to Internet resources on Jews, by region and country

Library of Congress Home Page - Searchable databases of LOC holdings

Los Angeles County Vital Records - Information on Birth, Death, Marriage, and Real Estate Records

Los Angeles Regional Family History Center - Information about the Center in Los Angeles

Los Angeles Regional Family History Center (Unofficial version) - Jon Schweitzer's site on the LARFHC

Los Angeles Public Library - Information about LAPL Genealogical Holdings

National Address Server - Find 9 digit zip code for any US Address

National Archives Home Page - Information about the NARA, including microfilm indices

Polish Genealogy - A Guide - Where to write for records and more

Reverse Phone Directory - Find names and addresses from telelphone numbers or find names and telephone from address

Sephardic Genealogy Sources - Where to go to research your Sephardic roots

Steve Morse's One-Step Search Engines

Telephone Directory - U.S. - Find businesses, people, including reverse look up

Telephone Directory - White Pages for South Africa

Transcribe Old German Script into Roman letters - Suetterlinstube at the Foerderverein of the Ansgar-Center for the Aged

UK & Ireland Genealogy - Genealogical information pages for England and Ireland

Yizkor Books Online at the New York Public Library - Digital images of complete Holocaust memorial books

Family Sites

Algaze - Research experience in Istanbul

Belinkoff - Story of four ordinary Jewish families from Russia in mid-Nineteenth Century

Blumenfeld - Traces the family from Courland in 1770 to many countries

Frank - THE WERNER L. FRANK FAMILY HOME PAGE

Gold and Roth - Gold and Roth Family Family of Moische GOLD and Esther ROTH of Riga

Klotchman - Family of Yidel Leib KLOTCHMAN of Medzhibozh

Pollack - A Pollak Family of NagyKanizsa

Sachs - Family of David and Sarah SACHS of St. Petersburg

Zweiback - The ZWIEBACK Family Name