Volunteer-led teams expanding JewishGen's collection of records and town histories.
JewishGen Research Divisions focus on expanding our collection of records, adding informational content to our JewishGen Knowledge Base, and encouraging the creation of more KehilaLinks entries for towns that once had a Jewish community.
Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic), plus Austria, with a particular focus on Vienna.
The former Russian Empire gubernii of Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev, Vitebsk, and southern Vilna, now in Belarus.
The former Russian gubernia of Bessarabia, now in Moldova with parts in Ukraine. Also covers Transnistria.
France and French colonies, as well as other French-speaking areas such as Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.
Germany and German-speaking areas of Alsace, Lorraine, Switzerland, and Poland.
Records and resources documenting Jewish individuals and communities affected by the Shoah across Nazi-occupied Europe.
“Greater Hungary” or pre-Trianon Hungary — present-day Hungary and Slovakia, plus territory now within Ukraine, Austria, Romania, Croatia and Serbia.
Indexing millions of Jewish burial records from cemeteries around the world
Jews living in Central and South America.
The former Russian Empire gubernias of Courland, southern Livonia (Livland), and western Vitebsk.
Romania, including Bukovina.
Preserving and sharing the histories of Jewish communities from throughout the global Sephardic diaspora
Subcarpathian Ukraine — parts of the pre-WWI Hungarian megyék of Bereg, Máramaros, Ugocsa and Ung — today Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.
The former Russian Empire gubernias now in Ukraine: Podolia, Volhynia, Kiev, Poltava, Chernigov, Kharkov, Kherson, Taurida and Ekaterinoslav.
Jewish families who came to the United States before, during, and after the larger immigration waves of the 1880s.