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JewishGen |
- Communities Database
A database of the myriad towns and cities where our ancestors came from, with geographic data, and links to more information. This is the first place to find your shtetl (small town) and learn about it.
Geographical area: General
| - FTJP (Family Tree of the Jewish People)
A database of family trees, individually uploaded by other researchers. Here you can search for specific people, not just surnames. Here you can match generations as well as individuals. If you find a match, you can contact that researcher. Don't forget to upload your own family tree so others can find you!
Geographical area: General
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| - JewishGen Research Divisions
A collection of the many specialized research groups within the Jewish Genealogy umbrella. Join the ones which serve your own interests.
Geographical area: General
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- JGFF (JewishGen Family Finder)
A database of the surnames and towns being researched by others. Check your own towns and names,to see if anyone else matches. Upload your own places and names,so others can find you.
Geographical area: General
| - KehilaLinks
A collection of web pages commemorating the individual shtetls our ancestors grew up in. These pages are volunteer-created, and may have photos, stories, and other bits which "bring the towns to life".
Geographical area: General
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- Professional Researchers
This InfoFile is for JewishGen users interested in finding professional for-fee genealogical researchers experienced in various aspects of genealogical research in Eastern Europe. This material has been collected from users of JewishGen who have had experiences dealing with such professionals.
Geographical area: General
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Life in Ukraine |
- Agricultural Colonies of Southern Ukraine, KehilaLinks
JewishGen KehilaLinks has a separate website devoted to the Jewish Agricultural Colonies of southern Ukraine. The website includes individual pages for each colony/town/village. Click on the 'Individual Colonies List' button at the bottom of the page to see a list of the Colonies.
Geographical area: General
| - POLIN Museum Virtual Shtetl Project
The Virtual Shtetl was created through the efforts of the Jewish Historical Institute Association in 2009. In 2012, the website was taken over by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. Over the past eight years, the Virtual Shtetl has greatly expanded its resources. It is worth emphasizing that its content is made of some 200 thousand various items (texts, news, photos, genealogical records, interviews, etc.). Many of the formerly Polish towns are in present day Ukraine.
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Maps & Gazetteers |
| - 1910 Marx's Large world table Atlas and Gazetteer
Marx's Large world table Atlas is an adaptation of Debe's Atlas, with the placenames converted to Russian, and with the addition of sixteen plates of European Russia, Европейская Россія. This page links to scans of these sixteen plates.
Geographical area: General
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| - Topographic Maps of Eastern Europe, an atlas of the Shtetl
Topographic Maps of Eastern Europe offers a collection of small and large scale historical maps of the lands of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Pale of Jewish Settlement in late Tsarist Russia. Thousands of communities can be found in these images where our ancestors lived and eventually left.
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Online Databases and Archives |
- Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP)
The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People at Hebrew University in Jerusalem has an extensive town-based collection of documents dating from the late middle ages to the eve of the Holocaust. The Central Archives also has been obtaining from various Archives in Ukraine microfilms of important collections of documents including vital records.
Geographical area: General
| - Ellis Island Database
The first database to include immigration to the United States through Ellis Island. This link will take you to a search form designed by Dr. Stephen Morse, computer whiz, which is easier to use and more flexible than the one provided at the Ellis Island website.
Geographical area: General
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- FHL FamilySearch Ukraine Wiki
The FamilySearch Research Ukraine Wiki is a free, online genealogical guide created and maintained by FamilySearch, a non-profit organization. It contains links to genealogy databases, websites, other resources, research strategies, and genealogical guidance to assist in the search for your ancestors. Articles included are locality pages for countries around the world and topic pages that include pertinent genealogy record types explaining how to use the record, what it contains, and how to find it.
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- Jewish Records Indexing -Poland
A database to vital records held in various Polish archives. This is an index; directions are on the website to order the actual records.
Geographical area: General
| - One-Step Search Tools
After Dr. Stephen Morse designed a better Ellis Island search form, he realized there was a need for similar access to many databases. This link has all of them.
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- PRA.IN.UA - Ukrainian Database
Pra.in.ua project is the largest database of the Ukrainian residents born between 1650 and 1920.
Since 2023 the project belongs to genealogical society RIDNI. We have significantly changed the development strategy of the project. Now it is an open resource, integrated with archival sources.
Geographical area: General
| - Routes to Roots Foundation
Miriam Weiner's town-searchable database detailing the Jewish-genealogy-related inventory of many archives in Ukraine. The website contains suggestions for ordering documents from Ukraine Archives. The website also includes inventories for archives in Moldova and Poland.
Geographical area: General
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- State Archives of Ukraine
Official web portal of the State Archives of Ukraine. This website has contact information for the Central, Regional and Branch State Archives.
Geographical area: General
| - Yivo Institute for Jewish Research
YIVO is all these things: a research institute, an institution of higher learning, an adult education organization, a cultural organization, and a world-renowned library and archive.
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Shoah |
- US Memorial Holocaust Museum (USHMM)
The online catalog of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum has 293 documents and lists and many photos that deal with Ukraine Jews during the Holocaust period.
Geographical area: General
| - Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem has more than 1,000 documents, lists, photos and other datasets that deal with Ukraine Jews during the Holocaust period. Their catalog of items can be searched by town name, personal name, and keyword. This is a seriously underused resource.
Geographical area: General
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- Yahad - In Unum
A French organization conducting research on the Holocaust by bullets, has identified hundreds of killings sites of Jewish victims murdered during WWII and has recorded more than 1,500 interviews of eyewitnesses (bystanders) of the Shoah in the Ukraine. You can access the video testimonies, photos and archives for each village investigated by town name, by geo-localization and by keyword.
Geographical area: General
| - Yahad Map of Execution Sites of Jewish Holocaust Victims
Yahad - In Unum, a French organization conducting research on the Holocaust by bullets, created an interactive map indicating the mass execution sites located by Yahad teams in which the Nazis and their allies murdered Jews in towns and villages throughout Eastern Europe. Each site includes a link to a brief profile and research findings (video testimonies, archives, photos) for each location.
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