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You have been directed to JewishGen via a record you located on MyHeritage. As you begin to explore our website, we offer the following suggestions to help focus your research:

  1. Register and search the JewishGen Family Finder, whereby you can connect with more than 100,000 researchers who may be researching similar information that you are.
  2. Join the JewishGen Discussion Group to connect with nearly 20,000 researchers and seek research advice and guidance. Make sure to search the archives to see if there has been any discussion in the past of the information you are researching.
  3. If you are on Facebook, join our Jewish Genealogy Portal to connect with nearly 50,000 researchers and seek research advice and guidance. Make sure to search the archives to see if there has been any discussion in the past of the information you are researching.
  4. Search the entire JewishGen Archival Collections, which includes the JewishGen Holocaust Database and the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR).
  5. Search for a Jewish Community where your ancestor might have lived via the Jewish Communities Database.
  6. Learn about the lives of your ancestors, and the communities in which they lived, by reading a Yizkor Book translation.
  7. Explore our Research Divisions, which focus on topical and geographically specific areas.
  8. Learn more about Jewish genealogy, and take a class or watch a webinar with our experts!

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