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General:

	The JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) Surnames and ancestral towns being researched by 85,000 Jewish genealogists worldwide. More than 400,000 entries.
	The Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP) Data on more than four million people, from family trees submitted by 3,700 Jewish genealogists worldwide.
	The JewishGen Discussion Group message Archives Search more than 100,000 previous JewishGen postings, 1993-date.
	The JewishGen SIG Lists message Archives Search messages posted to the JewishGen SIG mailing lists, 1998-date.
	The JewishGen Holocaust Database More than two million entries regarding Holocaust victims and survivors, from many sources.

	The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) More than one million entries from cemeteries and burial records worldwide, from the earliest records to the present.
	The JewishGen Communities Database Maps, historical names and jurisdictions for more than 5,000 Jewish communities.
	Jewish Records at the Family History Library An inventory of the Jewish-specific resources at the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
	Ellis Island Foundation Database One-Step Search Tools — enhanced search capabilities for easier access to data on www.ellisisland.org.

Eastern Europe:

	The JewishGen ShtetlSeeker Locate towns in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, by name or location. U.S. Board on Geographic Names databases for 45 countries.
	The Yizkor Book Project Database Eastern European Memorial books — bibliographic database.
	The Yizkor Book Necrology Database More than 200,000 entries from lists of Holocaust martyrs, published in Yizkor Books.

	Vsia Rossia Database More than 39,000 entries from Russian Empire business directories, 1895-1911.
	Jewish Religious Personnel in Russia, 1853-54 More than 4,000 synagogue employees from 900 towns throughout the Pale of Settlement.
	HaMagid Donor Lists Town index to more than 2,000 donor lists published in the Hebrew-language newspaper HaMagid, 1856-1900.
	Jewish Given Names Database Given names (first names) used in Europe, 1795-1925.

Belarus:

The JewishGen Belarus Database

More than 460,000 records from many different sources: vital records, voter lists, business directories, ghetto records.

Latvia:

The JewishGen Latvia Database
More than 95,000 records for Courland, Livland and Vitebsk gubernias, from a variety of sources, including: voter lists, tax records, census records, newspaper articles, police and military records, Memorial Books, and extracts from the Extraordinary Commission lists.

Lithuania:

	LitvakSIG "All Lithuania" Database More than 700,000 records from many different sources, including complete Revision Lists as well as vital records, tax, voters, and cemetery lists.
	The JewishGen Lithuania Database More than 830,000 records for Lithuania, from a variety of sources, including: vital records, Revision Lists, business directories, voter lists, Yizkor books and other Holocaust sources. This database includes the LitvakSIG "All Lithuania" Database.

Poland:

	Jewish Records Indexing - Poland An index to more than 3.2 million Jewish birth, marriage and death records from over 500 Polish towns, as well as indices from other sources, such as census records, legal notices, passports and newspaper announcements.
	The JewishGen Poland Database More than four million records for Poland, from a variety of sources, including: vital records, business directories, voter lists, passenger manifests, Yizkor books and other Holocaust sources. A joint project of Jewish Records Indexing - Poland and JewishGen.
	1929 Polish Business Directory - Town Index An index to more than 34,000 locations in inter-war Poland, with links to directory pages for each city, town and village.
	LDS Microfilm Master: Poland Locate LDS microfilms of records from Poland, based on geographic coordinates.

Germany:

The JewishGen Germany Database
More than 150,000 records for Germany, from a variety of sources, including: citizenship records, cemetery data, Yizkor books, survivor lists, and other Holocaust sources.

Austria / Czech Republic:

The JewishGen Austria-Czech Database
Nearly 300,000 records for Austria and the Czech Republic, from a variety of sources, including: cemetery data, Yizkor books, and other Holocaust sources.

Hungary:

The JewishGen Hungary Database

More than 800,000 records from many different sources: vital records, census records, property tax records, etc.

Romania:

The JewishGen Romania Database
More than 600,000 records for Romania and Moldova, from a variety of sources, including: voter lists, census records, business directories, vital records, diplomatic records, yizkor books, and others.

Ukraine:

The JewishGen Ukraine Database
More than one million records for Ukraine, from a variety of sources, including: voter lists, business directories, vital records, diplomatic records, yizkor books, and others.

Great Britain:

The JewishGen U.K. Database
More than 60,000 records for England, Scotland and Wales, from a variety of sources, including: marriage and cemetery records, census records, business directories, and others.

Scandinavia:

The JewishGen Scandinavia Database
More than 12,000 records for Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, from a variety of sources, including: census, tax, cemetery records, and others.

Israel:

U.S. Department of State Consular Post Records
Index to more than 9,000 records of U.S. Consulates in Jerusalem, Jaffa and Haifa, 1857-1935.

South Africa:

South African Jewish Year Book Database
Index to more than 1,000 biographies of Jews in South Africa, from publications in 1929 and 1945.

America:

	The JewishGen USA Database More than one million records for the United States, from a variety of sources, including: cemetery records, passenger lists, synagogue records, newspapers, organizational records, and others.
	American Jewish Historical Society Manuscript Catalog Full descriptions of more than 1,100 manuscript collections held by the AJHS.

Utilities:

	The JewishGen Date / Soundex / Distance Calculator - Calculate Hebrew/Gregorian calendar dates; - Display all Jewish holidays for any civil or Jewish year; - Encode names in Soundex (both Daitch-Mokotoff and U.S. National Archives); - Calculate distance/direction between towns.
	Search the JewishGen Website Find any word on any static page on the JewishGen web server.

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