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    Surnames and ancestral towns being researched by 110,000 Jewish genealogists worldwide.  More than 600,000 entries.
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    Data on more than eight million people, from family trees submitted by 6,000 Jewish genealogists worldwide.
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    Locate places in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, by name or location.  U.S. Board on Geographic Names data for 54 countries.
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    More than 2.75 million entries regarding Holocaust victims and survivors, from many sources.

Eastern Europe:

Belarus:

  • The JewishGen Belarus Database
    More than one million records from many different sources: vital records, voter lists, business directories, ghetto records.

Latvia:

  • The JewishGen Latvia Database
    More than 240,000 records for Courland, Livland and Vitebsk gubernias, from a variety of sources, including: voter lists, tax records, census records, death records, newspaper articles, police and military records, Memorial Books, and Extraordinary Commission lists.

Lithuania:

  • The LitvakSIG All Lithuania Database
    As a free service to the community, JewishGen.org is proud to partner with Litvak SIG and host the All Lithuania Database, which currently contains more than 2 million records.

Poland:

Germany:

  • The JewishGen Germany Database
    More than 500,000 records for Germany, from a variety of sources, including: citizenship records, vital records, cemetery data, survivor lists, and Holocaust sources.

Austria & Czech Republic:

  • The JewishGen Austria-Czech Database
    More than 950,000 records for Austria and the Czech Republic, from a variety of sources, including: cemetery data, Yizkor books, and Holocaust sources.

Hungary:

  • The JewishGen Hungary Database
    More than 1.7 million records for Hungary and former Hungarian regions (Slovakia, Croatia, northern Serbia, northwestern Romania, and Sub-Carpathian Ukraine) from many different sources: vital records, census records, property tax records, etc.

Romania & Moldova:

  • The JewishGen Romania Database
    More than 1.2 million records for Romania, Moldova and Bessarabia, 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 two million records for Ukraine, from a variety of sources, including: voter lists, business directories, vital records, diplomatic records, yizkor books, and others.

United Kingdom:

  • The JewishGen & JGSGB United Kingdom Database
    More than 390,000 records for England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and Gibraltar, as well as the Republic of Ireland – from a variety of sources, including: marriage and cemetery records, census records, business directories, and others.

France:

  • The JewishGen France Database
    More than 150,000 records for France, Belgium, Switzerland, and former French regions, from a variety of sources, including: marriage records, cemetery records, and others.

Scandinavia:

  • The JewishGen Scandinavia Database
    More than 18,000 records for Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland, from a variety of sources, including: census, tax, cemetery records, and others.

South Africa:

Israel:

Syria:

United States:

Canada:

  • The JewishGen Canada Database
    A quarter-million records for Canada, from a variety of sources, including: cemetery records, synagogue records, newspapers, immigrant aid societies, organizational records, and others.

LatinAmerica:

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