Jewish Records

Nature of Source

Duke’s Place Synagogue, Houndsditch, 1810

Introduction to Jewish Records
When researching Jewish ancestry, it is important to understand that the evolution of Jewish life in England did not result in a central Jewish authority gathering and collecting records on individuals. As a result, Jewish records are dispersed across various libraries, museums, and local synagogues. Jews were expelled from England in 1290 under King Edward I’s Edict of Expulsion. The ban lasted for 366 years until their unofficial readmission in 1656 under the rule of Oliver Cromwell.

Two main groups of Jews settled in Britain:

• Sephardic Jews: Arrived from Spain and Portugal following their expulsion in 1492.
• Ashkenazi Jews: Originated primarily from Eastern Europe, mainly from Russia and Russian-controlled territories from the 1880s.

Jewish communities settled all over Britain from large cities to small towns. A community could establish a synagogue if ten males were present to form a Minyan, the quorum required for certain religious obligations.

It is also worth noting Jewish marriages were exempt from the 1753 Hardwicke’s Marriage Act, which required marriages to be conducted in Anglican churches with published banns. This exemption allowed Jews to maintain their religious marriage practices.

This guide outlines key types of records, both Jewish specific and general which will offer guidance in tracing Jewish family histories.

Jewish Records

Immigration and Refugee Records
The 19th and early 20th centuries saw waves of Jewish immigration to the UK, driven by persecution in Eastern Europe and Nazi Germany. Important records include Certificates of Arrival of Aliens held at TNA in series HO 2. These certificates constitute an official record of aliens arriving at British ports between 1836 and 1852 and give the alien’s name, nationality, occupation, date of arrival and the last country visited. Another possibility is the lists of Immigrants and Returns of Alien Passengers made by masters of ships covering 1836 to 1869 and found in series HO 3. The records are unindexed and arranged by year of arrival.

The so called Metzner Index (which includes many Jews) compiled by Len Metzner is an alphabetical index  in two volumes containing the names of Germans, Poles and Prussians arriving in Britain between 1847 and 1869. The index is available at The London Archives and other libraries or for purchase from the Anglo German Family History Society who also have other indexes compiled by Len Metzner. Another useful resource for finding names is a book entitled ‘The Jewish Victorian: Genealogical Information from the Jewish Newspapers, 1861-1880’, transcribed and edited by Doreen Berger. The book contains pedigrees of hundreds of families as well as births, marriages and deaths within the community.

The Jews’ Temporary Shelter founded in 1885, provided a resting place for Jews passing through London on their way to other countries. The register entries available from The London Archives provide the following information: name of inmate, age, place travelled from, status, number of children, occupation and destination.

Many new arrivals would have sought poor relief from the Board of Guardians who ran the Poor Law Unions or from the Food For The Jewish Poor. The organisation was founded in 1854 in Spitalfields, East London to supply basic food twice weekly to poor Jews, especially immigrants, and later on to those who were sick or elderly. The records are held at The London Archives in series ACC/2942. The records of the Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor in Spitalfields covering 1872 to 1980 are also held at The London Archives. The collection includes minute books of the general and other committees and many account books. The UCL Archives Special Collections holds Soup Kitchen for the Jewish Poor Records covering 1854 to 1888. The records include minute books of meetings of donors, correspondence and papers and finance committee meetings.

The Jewish Refugee Committee now known as World Jewish Relief lists 40,000 Jews who fled Nazi persecution in Europe giving dates and places of birth, nationality, occupation, home address, date of arrival and address in the UK. Many of these immigrants were unaccompanied children and the operation is now referred to as the Kindertransport.

Naturalisation and Denization Records
For a variety of reasons many Jews sought British citizenship and the Naturalisation Papers available from The National Archives provide a wealth of genealogical information. They give the length of time resident in Britain, address, name of spouse, status, occupation, country of origin and the names of the guarantors. More detailed information is often supplied such as full addresses of the applicant, names of children, date of birth and names and nationality of parents. Some people including Jews and Catholics were unable to swear the oaths of allegiance and supremacy as part of gaining naturalisation. Instead, they used the denization procedure until the requirements for the oaths were withdrawn in the 19th century.

Circumcision
Circumcision or Brit Milah is a significant event in Jewish life, occurring eight days after birth. The records are valuable for research since Jewish families were often lax in registering births. Historically, these records were not kept by the synagogue but by the Mohel (ritual circumciser) as his personal property. Because of this most records are unaccounted for and are no longer in existence. The few registers that do survive provide an approximate date of birth as circumcision takes place eight days after the birth, however the registers often only supply the first name. Modern circumcision certificates contain more detailed information, including parents’ names (often with the mother’s maiden name), their address, date and place of marriage, and the child’s birth date.

Bar Mitzvah
The Bar Mitzvah is a religious ceremony celebrating a boy’s transition to adulthood at the age of thirteen. The records offer only limited genealogical information, providing an approximate the birth date which is thirteen years prior to the Bar Mitzvah.

Get (religious divorce document)
Orthodox Jews wishing to separate must obtain a Get, the Jewish document of divorce, before either party can remarry in the faith. Gets rarely have information of genealogical value other than the Hebrew names of the individuals.

Synagogue Records
Seat holder lists can place a person at a particular location at a particular time. The records are useful for tracking the movements of individuals within a community as many Jews lived within walking distance of the synagogue and therefore would have lived within the vicinity of the synagogue. The Jewish Museum and The London Archives in London hold some synagogue histories and lists of members.

Non-Jewish Records Relevant to Jewish Genealogy

Insurance Policies
A surprising number of Jews insured their London property against the risk of fire from the outset of the insurance business in the mid-16th century. Many policy registers from notable companies such as Hand-in-Hand, Sun and Royal Exchange are available amongst the records housed at The London Archives. A typical entry will include information such as the name, status, occupation and address of policy holder along with the name of agent, location of agency with the names, occupations and addresses of tenants.

School Registers
Several educational institutions have historical significance for Jewish families. St Paul’s School originally based in Hammersmith was the first public school to accept Jews and Clifton College in Bristol was the first college to have its own Jewish section (Polack House). The Society of Genealogists holds lists of school registers and where to locate them. School admission books will usually provide the name of the student, the address, date of birth and admission date. Sometimes the books will show previous and future schools.

The Jewish Free School was founded in 1732 at Ebenezer Square, Spitalfields and in 1822 moved to larger premises nearby at Bell Lane. It is estimated that over a third of all British Jewish children may have attended this school and by the end of the nineteenth century the school had taught over 4,000 pupils. The school’s admission and discharge registers (1869 – 1939) are available at The London Archives in series LMA 4046. Some 20.000 transcribed registers covering 1856 to 1907 are available to search on the JCR-UK Jewish Communities database hosted by JewishGen.

Newspapers and Magazines
Newspapers offer a rich source for Jewish research. The London Gazette can be used to trace an individual who arrived in the UK successful naturalisations were announced in the Gazette. The Gentleman’s Magazine often reported on the lives of wealthy Jewish families and is useful for births, marriages and deaths announcements. The Jewish Chronicle, first published in 1841, is the main publication for birth, marriage and death notices and a surprising amount of genealogical information is packed into a typical entry. The digital archive is accessible free to all JC subscribers and on a pay as you go basis for non-subscribers.

Printed Pedigrees and Biographies
A number of Jewish pedigrees are held at the Society of Genealogists and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain. The Leopold Muller Memorial library based in Oxford contains the Kressel Archive, an archive of some 12,000 biographies of leading Jews from the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Wills
Apart from the standard information of genealogical value, Jewish wills might provide clues of a country of origin as the deceased might have left legacies to relatives in their country of origin.

Jewish Naming Traditions
Jewish naming conventions is an important facet of  researching Jewish family history.

The Shem Ha’kodesh (Holy Name)
In Jewish tradition, every child is given a religious name known as the shem ha’kodesh, shortly after birth. This sacred name comprises three elements:

• The individual’s Hebrew given name, followed by:
• The phrase “son of” (ben) or “daughter of” (bat), followed by:
• The Hebrew given name of the person’s father

There is value to this naming pattern as it shows the name of the individual and the father’s name. Unfortunately, there are cases where the Hebrew name bears no relation to the father’s civil first name.

Ashkenazi Naming Patterns
The naming customs of Ashkenazi Jews originating from Central and Eastern Europe offer clues to Jewish family relationships. These traditions include:

• A new born is named after a deceased relative, thus narrowing down the date of death
• The first son is named after the paternal grandfather and the second son after the maternal grandfather.

In recent years, it has become common to use a relative’s name as a child’s middle name, further offering clues to common ancestry.

Sephardic Naming Patterns
In contrast to Ashkenazi customs, Sephardic Jews often name their children after living relatives and is considered a way of honouring the relative.

Also see
Denization
Holocaust (Shoah) Records
Jewish Registers
Naturalisation
Passenger Lists
Surname Origins and Distribution
Yizkor Books & Shtetl Records

Where Found

The London Archives
The holdings include:

• The proceedings of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, 1806-1995.
• The archives of the United Synagogue.
• The archives of the Office of the Chief Rabbi.
• Records of the London Beth Din.
• Records from the Federation of Synagogues including the Sephardi synagogue Bevis Marks and the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation archives dating from the mid-17th century.
• Records of other Congregation Synagogues including birth, marriage, burial and circumcision registers.
• Archives of the Jew’s Free School.
• Archives of the Westminster Jew’s School.
• Records of the London School of Jewish Studies.
• Records of Jewish welfare organisations.

Society of Genealogists
The society holds various resources including:

• Anglo-Jewish Archives. Includes community histories, family papers, and records from Jewish institutions.
• Publications of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain and the Jewish Historical Society which includes transcripts of synagogue records.
• The Society is home to the library of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain staffed by their volunteers and has its own space in the building.
• Colyer Fergusson Collection which has family pedigrees, lists of newspaper notices, and abstracts of wills.
• Hyamson collection of notes on Jewish families
• the Mordy Collection (Knowles Collection) which consists of a card index of information on individuals and families originally indexed and compiled by the late Isobel Mordy
• Montefiore-Hyamson Collection.
• D’Arcy Hart Collectionn.

Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
The society dedicated to promoting and supporting Jewish genealogical research in the UK. It assists both beginners and experienced researchers to discover more about Jewish family history research. The society hosts Special Interest Groups focusing on research in European countries and a number of member only databases. The library holds over 1,200 reference books, maps and leaflets and major Anglo-Jewish genealogies and other family trees. It holds one of the largest collections of Yizkor (Memorial) books in the UK, covering many of the destroyed communities of Europe The JGSGB’s Register of Professional Researchers and Translators is available on request. The society publishes a quarterly journal called “Shemot” (Names). The extensive library is located in the premises of the Society of Genealogists. The library is a separate entity and has its own space in the building.
The National Archives
The archives holds various series of records relating to immigration, alien registration and naturalisation.
The Jewish Museum London
The museum is dedicated to exploring and preserving Jewish history, culture and heritage in Britain. The collections mainly include social history material including a photo archive and information on occupations and trades associated with the Jewish community. The museum also holds synagogue records including copies of marriage and burial registers and bound copies of the Jewish Chronicle.
London School of Jewish Studies
The library holds the historic Jews’ College Collection, which contains over 70,000 volumes of Judaica and Hebraica.
Bishopsgate Institute Library
London Collection: Various holdings relating to the Jewish community especially around Bishopsgate and Spitalfields.
University of Southampton
Anglo-Jewish archives. The library hosts more than 850 collections of manuscripts of Anglo-Jewish archives. They have important holdings for prominent individuals such as Cecil Roth, Selig Brodetsky and the private and official papers of Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld. They hold the records of Jewish national organisations including the Jewish Board of Guardians.
University College London Library
The Hebrew and Jewish collection comprises chiefly rare books and pamphlets on a wide variety of Jewish topics. The collection is of national and international importance. UCL Special Collections also holds on deposit a substantial number of items from the library of Judith Lady Montefiore College. Holdings include Memorial Books.
Leopold Muller Memorial Library
The library is part of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and based at the Clarendon Institute on Walton Street, Oxford. The special collections include the Kressel, Elkoshi and Hugo Gryn collections all searchable on SOLO. The Library also holds many journals, periodicals and newspaper cuttings. The library holds a Yizor Book collection, the largest set of its kind in Europe.
Scottish Jewish Archives Centre
The centre is dedicated to preserving Scotland’s Jewish heritage. Collections include old Synagogue minute books and registers, membership lists, photographs, oral histories, testimonies, books of Scottish Jewish interest, personal papers, war medals, newspapers, magazines, immigration and naturalisation papers. The centre houses the Family Tree of Scottish Jewry database of over 100,000 Scottish Jews.
The Irish Jewish Museum
The Museum contains a substantial collection of memorabilia relating to the Irish Jewish communities and their various associations and contributions to present day Ireland. The museum has some family and genealogical records available for public consultation.
Manchester Jewish Museum
The museum holds over 31,000 items in the collections, documenting the story of Jewish migration and settlement in Manchester. The holdings include an extensive photographic collection numbering nearly 21,000 items.
Liverpool Libraries and Archives
Merseyside Jewish Community Archives. The Liverpool Record Office holds the archives of the Merseyside Jewish Community from the 18th century to the present day)
Irish Jewish Museum
The museum is dedicated to preserving and showcasing the history and heritage of Ireland’s Jewish community. The museum houses a collection of memorabilia relating to the Irish Jewish communities, original photographs and an archive of historical images as well as books and synagogue records.

Period Covered

1656 – Onwards

Genealogical Value

• Birth, marriage, death dates.
• Occupation and address.
• Education, biographical and career.

Further References

• Adler, Michael. British Jewry Book Of Honour 1914-1918 (Two volumes), Naval & Military Press
• Amsel-Arieli, Melody. Jewish Lives: Britain 1750-1950: Pen & Sword Books, 2013
• Arnold, Arthur P. Apprentices of Great Britain [Jewish entries] 1710-73: Jewish Historical Society of England, 1968
• Black, Gerry. Jewish London: An Illustrated History Breedon Books, 2008
• Cowell, John. Furriers, Glaziers, Doctors and Others: a History of the Preston Jewish Community: Cowell, 2009
• Cox, Jane. Tracing Your East End Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians: Pen and Sword Books, 2011
• Dobson, David. The Jewish Presence in Early British Records 1650-1850: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2014
• Englander, David. A Documentary History of Jewish Immigrants in Britain, 1840-1920: Leicester University Press, 1994
• Gandy, Michael. Family History Cultures And Faiths: How Your Ancestors Lived And Worshipped: TNA, 2007
• Goldberg, David J. The Story of the Jews: Andre Deutsch, 2014
• Grenville, Anthony. Jewish Refugees from Germany and Austria in Britain, 1933-1970: Vallentine Mitchell, 2009
• Hoffman William F & Shea, Jonathan D. In Their Words, A Genealogist’s Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin, and Russian Documents: Language and Lineage Press, 2017
• Hundert, Gershon David (ed). The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe: Yale University Press, 2008 (The online version is available at www.yivoencyclopedia.org)
• Jolles, Michael. A Directory of Distinguished British Jews, 1830-1930, with selected compilations extending from 1830-2000: Jolles Publications, 2000
• Joseph, Dr Anthony. My Ancestors were Jewish: Society of Genealogists, 2002
• Kadish, Sharman. Jewish Heritage in England: An Architectural Guide: English Heritage, 2006
• Kershaw, Roger. Immigrants and Aliens. 2nd ed.: TNA, 2004
• Kitching, Paula. Britain’s Jews in the First World War: Amberley Publishing, 2019
• Kolsky, Rachel & Rawson, Roslyn. Jewish London: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Visitors and Londoners: New Holland, 2012
• Kurzweil, Arthur. From Generation to Generation: How to Trace Your Jewish Genealogy and Family History: Jossey-Bass, 2004
• Leventhal, Michael & Goldstein, Richard. Jews in Britain: Shire Publications, 2013
• Lustig, Jason. A Time to Gather: Archives and the Control of Jewish Culture: Oxford University Press, 2021
• Mawer, Bryan. Sugarbakers: From Sweat to Sweetness: AGFHS Publications, 2011
• Metzner, Len. Catalogue of Len Metzner Indexes and Guide to Further Research Material: Anglo-German Family History Society Publications, 2001
• Mokotoff, Gary. Getting Started in Jewish Genealogy 2010 Edition: Avotaynu, 2010
• Mokotoff, Gary & Sack, Sallyann Amdur. Where Once We Walked: A Guide to the Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust: Avotaynu, 1991
• Rosenblatt, Stuart. The Yidiots Guide to Irish Jewish Family Ancestry: Varsity Press, 2011
• Rosenstein, Neil. The Unbroken Chain: Biographical Sketches and Genealogy of Illustrious Jewish Families from the 15th-20th Century: Computer Center for Jewish Genealogy, 1990 (Traces the descendants of Rabbi Meir Katzenelnbogen of Padua through 16 generations to the present. More than 25,000 people are identified as descendants)
• Russell, Charles & Lewis, Harry Samuel. The Jew in London: London, 1901 (Includes a coloured map , similar to the Booth maps, by George Arkell of the Jewish population as at 1899, although the accuracy for some areas is open to question)
• Steel, D & Samuel E. Sources for Roman Catholic and Jewish Genealogy and Family History: Society of Genealogists, 1986
• Street map of Jewish East London 1889: Old House Books
• Wenzerul, Rosemary. Tracing Your Jewish Ancestors: Pen and Sword, 2014
• Wenzerul, Rosemary. Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in the United Kingdom: Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, 2011
• Wenzerul, Rosemary. Genealogical Resources within the Jewish Home and Family: FFHS, 2002
• Williams, Bill. The Making of Manchester Jewry, 1740-1875: Manchester University Press, 1976 (Preview available from Google Books)
• Williams, Bill. Jewish Manchester: An Illustrated History: Breedon Books, 2008

Overseas

• Aaron, Sam. A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Lithuania; Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, 2011
• Beare, Arlene. Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Latvia and Estonia: Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, 2001
• Cohen-Mushlin, Aliza. Synagogues in Lithuania: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2010
• Fifer, Susan. A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Poland: Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, 2007
• Levitt, Ellen. The Lost Synagogues of Manhattan: Avotaynu, 2013
• Levitt, Ellen. The Lost Synagogues of Brooklyn: Avotaynu, 2009
• Levitt, Ellen. The Lost Synagogues of The Bronx and Queens: Avotaynu, 2011
• Saks, David. Boerejode: Jews in the Boer Armed Forces 1899-1902: 2010
• Wenzerul, Rosemary. Jewish Ancestors? A Guide to Jewish Genealogy in Germany & Austria: Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, 2001

Jewish Name Reference

• Beider, Alexander. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland: Avotaynu, 1996
• Beider, Alexander. A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire: Avotaynu. 1993
• Beider, Alexander. Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names: Avotaynu
• Beider, Alexander. Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia: Avotaynu
• Gorr, Shmuel. Jewish Personal Names: Avotaynu
• Guggenheimer, Henrich W., and Eva A. Guggenheimer. Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary: KTAV, 1992 (View online at Google Books)
• Kaganoff, Benzion. A Dictionary of Jewish Names & Their History: Schocken Books, 1977
• Menk, Lars. A Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames: Avotaynu, 2005

Websites

Organisations

Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain (The society promotes the preservation of Jewish genealogical records and resources and is dedicated to promoting and supporting Jewish genealogical research in the United Kingdom. The library is open to both members and non-members. The society publishes a Quarterly journal called “Shemot”.
International Institute for Jewish Genealogy
The institute seeks to advance the status of Jewish Genealogy within the field of Jewish Studies, principally through teaching and research.
International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
The association is composed of more than 90 member societies and promotes the research of Jewish family history research by collecting, preserving, and disseminating knowledge about Jewish genealogy.
Museum of Family History.
The website is a virtual online museum dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of Jewish families, particularly focusing on modern Jewish history and the experiences of Eastern European Jewry.
Scottish Jewish Archives Centre
The centre serves as a national heritage, information, and research centre dedicated to preserving the Jewish heritage in Scotland. The centre collects and preserves materials related to the experiences of Jewish people in Scotland over the past 200 years.
Israel Genealogy Research Association
The association helps people with their family research and makes available research material from the Ottoman period through the early years of Israeli Statehood, as well as additional documents about Jews from the Diaspora which are located in Israel. They work with archives to make records available online including the All Israel Database. Datasets include Jeff Malka SephardicGen Database Collection of 43,000 records in total offering a major resource to all Sephardic Jewish researchers.
The Jewish Museum London
The cultural institution is dedicated to exploring and preserving the history and heritage of Jewish people in Britain through universal themes of migration, family, faith and culture.
Foundation for Jewish Heritage
The organisation is dedicated to the preservation of Jewish architectural sites, historic synagogues, Jewish monuments and places of cultural significance. The Foundation’s project ‘Mapping the Historic Synagogues of Europe’ seeks to create an inventory of every historic synagogues that exist today across the whole of Europe.
The Jewish Historical Society of England
The society is dedicated to supporting those interested in Anglo-Jewish history and heritage and offers a variety of resources, including lectures, visits and access to archives.
Jewish East End Celebration Society
The society aims to increase awareness of the history and culture of London’s Jewish East End and to preserve what remains and record what has now gone.

Archives

University of Southampton
Survey of Jewish Archives. The aim of the survey is to bring together on a computerised database information about papers relating to Jewish individuals and families, Jewish organisations, congregations and communities in the UK and Ireland held both publicly and privately.
Taxonomy for Jewish Genealogy
The site hosts a master catalogue of all record collections holding Jewish genealogically relevant data. The site provides a comprehensive list of all record types useful for Jewish genealogical research.
Leopold Muller Memorial Library
Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. The collections are primarily focused on Anglo-Jewish and European Jewish materials, holding various special collections including the Kressel, Elkoshi and Hugo Gryn collections all searchable on SOLO. The library also houses 90,000 academic books and 1,000 periodical titles.
The Susser Archives
Search the documents and papers of the late Rabbi Dr Bernard Susser, historian of the Jews of South West England.
Europeana
The web portal features digitised cultural heritage collections from over 3,000 institutions across Europe including museums, libraries, university and research libraries and archives.
Google Arts and Culture
Explore and discover high-resolution images, videos, and information about artworks and cultural artifacts from Jewish museums, galleries and archives across the world.
Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
The archives hold the archives of hundreds of Jewish communities, as well as local, national and international Jewish organisations and private collections of many Jewish personalities. The Archives now holds an extensive collection of documents, pinkassim (registers) and other records of Jewish history from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Center for Jewish History
The Center, based in New York, is the home of five preeminent Jewish institutions, including the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute, dedicated to history, culture and art. The site includes research guides, collections search and family history databases.

Research

JewishGen
Jewish Communities and Records – United Kingdom: The aim of this website is to record details of more than 1,150 Jewish communities and congregations that have ever existed in the United Kingdom, as well as in the Republic of Ireland and Gibraltar. The aim is to make this information freely available. The site has an A-Z selection of recommended websites for those researching UK Jewish Genealogy.
JewishGen
Explore millions of records from around the world, identify relatives, discover the towns of your ancestors, experience how they lived, connect with our global JewishGen community, and more. The site hosts extensive resources for researching Jewish ancestry including calculator tools and InfoFile which provides information on topics of relevance to Jewish genealogical research.
Hidden Treasures
Celebrating Jewish Archives in Britain.
Hidden Treasures is a celebration of British Jewish archives. We support UK-based archives and archivists working with Jewish material and showcase their treasures to tell the story of Jews in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man over the past thousand years. Search by theme or browse through Britain’s leading Jewish history collections.
Jewish Archives
Directory of Contemporary Jewish Archives and Research Institutions. This directory lists important contemporary archives and research institutions dedicated to Jewish history, browsable by country.
Jewish Archives
A Brief History of Archives in Jewish Cultures.
The National Archives Research Guide
How to look for records of Jewish people and communities in Britain and its former colonies. This is a guide to records held at TNA that document the arrival, settlement, status and activities of Jewish people and communities in Britain and its former colonies over the last 900 years.
Memory Map of the Jewish East End
A digital resource to help explore more than 70 former sites of Jewish memory in East London, including schools and synagogues, street markets and cafes, cinemas and theatres, youth clubs and shops, amongst other places.
Avotaynu
The site covers various aspects of Jewish history with a particular focus on Jewish genealogy. of Jewish communities in the Levant and beyond This includes coverage of conferences and meetings, DNA studies, online family trees, social networking that have an impact on Jewish genealogy.
Avotaynu Books
Publisher of books and maps of interest to persons who are researching Jewish genealogy.
Sugar Refiners & Sugarbakers
Various resources for those with ancestors involved in the in the sugar trade including a 41,000+ Names Database, locations of sugarhouses with maps and history and a directory of sugarhouses.
Spitalfields Life
The Soup Kitchens Of Spitalfields. Philip Carstairs traces the history of Spitalfields through its soup kitchens.
Sephardic Genealogy
The website is a comprehensive resource for individuals researching their Sephardic Jewish ancestry. offering a wide array of tools and information.
Internet Archive
Harfield’s 1894 Commercial Directory of the Jews of the United Kingdom.
JGSGB Members Area
Access Educational Leaflets. Topics include French Jewish Genealogy; Jewish Newspapers of the UK; Kindertransport at the National Archives; Genetic Genealogy.
British Jews in the First World War
Documenting and commemorating the contribution British Jews made during the First World War. The site aims to create a permanent record of the lives of Jewish men and women and their families, both in the military and on the Home Front, during 1914-1919.
British History Online
History of Stepney and Mile End including a section on the ‘Burial-grounds of the Jews’ with some transcriptions of those buried.
Moving Here
Archived website: History and guide to Jewish immigration and transcriptions and images of original documents including photos.
International Jewish Cemetery Project
The site aims to document every Jewish burial site in the world. We have successfully collected information about thousands of Jewish cemetery sites all over the world along with information on the location of the cemetery and how to obtain more information.
British Jewry
Research articles, forums and transcribed records including burial and marriage registers, shul and school lists, name changes, Jewish Chronicle announcements and naturalisations published in the Jewish Chronicle between 1902 and 1906.
Survey of London
Histories of Whitechapel. The site allows users to share and explore the many histories of Whitechapel’s buildings and places. The map displays information about every building in Whitechapel with a linked history if available and the facility to overlay modern buildings onto maps including Ordnance Survey 1873 and Rocque 1746.
Jewish East End
London Photo Gallery & Commentary. Explore London’s East End Synagogues, cemeteries and more.
Society of Genealogists
Collections Guide 4: Sources for Jewish Genealogy. A guide to sources for Jewish Genealogy. The Society holds some collections of research into Jewish families compiled by various Jewish genealogists.
Jewish Genealogy Portal
A Guide to Jewish Projects and Resources on Geni. This Portal is a guide to significant Jewish genealogy umbrella or resource projects on Geni and is divided into geographical locations.
Chabad-Lubavitch Islington
Untold Stories: Islington Jewish Heritage Trail.
The project celebrates the rich Jewish history of Islington and its landmarks. Stories include people from all walks of life and background, coming from different Jewish origins, prime ministers to musicians, prisoners to refugees.
GenDocs
Victorian London Churches: List of London Synagogues.
LSE Charles Booth’s London
Jewish notebooks. Explore four notebooks that give an insight into the work and religious life of the London Jewish community of the 1880s and 1890s.
HaChayim HaYehudim
Jewish Photo Library. Image library featuring synagogues, cemeteries and Holocaust memorials from around the world.
YIVO Institute
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. The encyclopedia provides the most complete picture of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present.
SephardicGen
The Jewish Surnames in Medieval Spain. Names that Survived in the Sephardic Diaspora, compiled and prepared by Mathilde Tagger and Jeff Malka
B&F: Jewish Genealogy
Home of Jewish genealogy articles, forms, information, news, insight, resources and more.
Jewish Gem’s Genealogy
Mining for Your Elusive Ancestors. Blogging about information related to Jewish genealogy found on foreign language websites, including names, events, resources, etc.

Research Articles

FamilySearch Blog
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By Sunny Jane Morton
Findmypast Blog
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By Ellen Shindelman Kowitt
MyHeritage Article
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Judaism 101
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JewishGen Mythbusters
Top ten myths of Jewish family history research
The National Archives Research Guide
How to look for records of Immigration and immigrants
Historic Environment Scotland Blog
Edinburgh’s Jewish Heritage
Author Sara Sheridan follows in her family’s footsteps and explores the Jewish heritage of Edinburgh, with some help from the archives.
Center for Jewish History
Research Guides
The site offers guides covering a number of topics such as Starting Your Family History Research, Synagogue Records, Holocaust Research, Jewish Names, and Finding an Ancestral Town.

Overseas Research

Australia
Australian Jewish Historical Society
The site offers guides and resources to begin researching your Jewish family history.

Europe
European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative
European Jewish Burial Grounds. The site provides a comprehensive database of some 11061 European Jewish cemeteries, burial grounds and mass graves.
Jewish Heritage Europe
The site offers resources, news and information on Jewish monuments and heritage sites across Europe. The site has sections on numerous countries including the UK providing communal contacts and links to Jewish museums and heritage sites, cultural and research institutions, publications, news items and tourism and genealogy links. The site has extensive information and news on Jewish cemeteries in Europe.
European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative
The projects core objective is preserving Jewish cemeteries across Europe and most particularly in the regions impacted by the devastating consequences of the Shoah. The organisation protects and preserves Jewish cemeteries across Europe through the accurate delineation of cemetery boundaries and the construction of walls and locking gates.
Museum of Family History
The Synagogues of Europe Past and Present. The site offers photos of synagogues from 22 countries.
Judaica Europeana
The site aims to identify content documenting the Jewish presence and heritage in the cities of Europe including photos, postcards, recordings as well as several million pages from books, newspapers, archives and press clippings.
GenAmi
The Jewish Genealogy Association of France. The association provides assistance to their members with genealogical research in the Jewish community. Resources include a number of genealogical databases containing hundreds of thousands of names.

Europe East
Routes to Routes Foundation
Guide to the Jewish records and other relevant records such as vital records, census returns and voter lists held in the archives of Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland and Ukraine. The Archive Database allows searches for individual places showing the material available with guides to accessing the material.
YIVO Institute
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. The encyclopedia provides the most complete picture of the history and culture of Jews in Eastern Europe from the beginnings of their settlement in the region to the present.
Jewish Family History Centre
A centre for archival research that can reconnect you to the families and communities in the regions of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Lower Austria.
YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland
The online collection includes manuscripts, posters, photographs, music and other artifacts
Abandoned Jewish Memories
The site specialises in documenting abandoned Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and other Jewish sites, covering around 100 sites across Central and Eastern Europe.
Tsal Kaplun Foundation
The foundation collects and shares Jewish genealogical records and related information from archives of the former Soviet Union and former USSR territories. The site has a number of resources and guides relating to Shtetls, Jewish surname origins, anti-Jewish violence including pogroms and the Holocaust and lists of relevant documents held by a variety of archives.
Dovid Katz
Litvish (Lithuania) Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish. The atlas seeks to determine the historic external borders, the internal differentiation and the cultural and linguistic structure and characteristics of Lite the territory of traditional Jewish Lithuania.
London Museum
The Jewish East End. From the late 19th century, thousands of Jewish families fleeing persecution in Eastern Europe transformed Whitechapel and Spitalfields into a cosmopolitan district where Yiddish could be heard on every street.
Magyar Zsido Lexicon
Hungarian Jewish Lexicon. Read and search the online version of the volume published in 1929 edited by Péter Ujvári
Avotaynu
The Jewish Surname Process in the Russian Empire and its Effect on Jewish Genealogy, by Jeffrey Mark Paull and Jeffrey Briskman
Avotaynu
Jewish Surnames Adopted in Various Regions of the Russian Empire.
B&F: Jewish Genealogy & More
Finding and getting copies of Jewish records in Poland

Israel
Israel Genealogical Society
The organisation is dedicated to promoting and facilitating genealogical research in Israel, particularly focusing on Jewish family history and heritage. The site hosts various resources and tools for researchers.

North America
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History
The museum covers more than 350 years of Jewish history in America.
Museum of Family History
The Synagogues of New York City and Lower East Side. The site includes the address of each building, and where available, the names of the rabbi, synagogue president and other officials.
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
JDC Archives. The archives consist of the organizational records of JDC with records of activity in over 90 countries dating from 1914 to the present. The entire archive catalogue can be searched or individual collections such as the Photograph Collection, Text Collection of digitized pages from the JDC collections and the JDC Names Index.
The Canadian Jewish Heritage Network
The Network brings together databases and digital materials from the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives; Jewish Public Library Archives; Montreal Holocaust Museum; Ottawa Jewish Archives; Saint John Jewish Historical Museum; Shaar Hashomayim Museum & Archives; The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue. See the section Genealogy for a listing of the sources used for the family history related data.
JewishGen
Guide to Canadian Jewish Genealogical Research

South Africa
Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies
The centre is dedicated to the study and promotion of Jewish studies with a particular emphasis on the South African Jewish community.
Jewish Life in the South African Country Communities
Information about the multivolume series: Jewish Life in the South African Country Communities.

Online Databases

UK & Ireland
Jewish Chronicle Archive
Search the world’s oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper going back to 1841. The Archive is accessible free to all JC subscribers. Non-subscribers can gain temporary access on a ‘pay as you go’ basis.
MyHeritage
Online access to The Jewish Chronicle newspaper archive dating back to 1841. The Jewish Chronicle, based in London, is the world’s oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper and contains details of births, marriages and deaths that occurred within the British Jewish community.
MyHeritage
Compilation of Published Sources. This collection includes a digitised compilation of thousands of published books including Harfield’s 1894 Commercial Directory of the Jews of the United Kingdom.
British-Jewry
Transcribed records including burial and marriage registers, shul and school lists, name changes, Jewish Chronicle announcements and naturalisations published in the Jewish Chronicle between 1902 and 1906.
British Jewry The Leeds Database
Information on Leeds Jewish families extracted from sources including: birth, marriage and death/burial registers; census returns; absent voter’s lists; directories; Jewish Chronicle notices.
JewishGen
All United Kingdom Database. Search more than 480,000 records for England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man and Gibraltar and the Republic of Ireland extracted from a variety of sources, including synagogue birth, marriage and burial/cemetery records, census records, school records, business directories, the 1851 Anglo-Jewry Database, the Islington Jews Database, Jews’ Free School Admission Registers, 1856-1907, JewishGen Family Finder and others. The database is joint project of JewishGen and the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain.

British Newspaper Archive

• Jewish Chronicle, 1896
• Jewish Echo, 1928-1950. The Jewish Echo was for a long time ‘Scotland’s only Jewish newspaper.’ A valuable record of Jewish life in Glasgow, the Jewish Echo also covered Jewish news and matters from across the globe.
• Jewish Record, 1868-1871.
• Jewish World, 1877-1907.

The Susser Archives
Search the documents and papers of the late Rabbi Dr Bernard Susser, historian of the Jews of South West England.
Findmypast
The Jewish Year Book
discover more than half a century worth of content published in the Jewish Year Book between 1896 and 1955. The publication functioned as an almanac, directory and community record for the Jewish community in Britain.
Findmypast
London, Synagogue Seatholders, 1904. These records contain listings of seatholders and officeholders from a number of different synagogues across Greater London.
Findmypast
The British Jewry Book of Honor 1914-1920: The dataset contains nearly 57,000 colour images and transcripts of the original document. This two volume book was published in 1922 to record and honour the contribution made by the 50,000 Jews who served in the British and colonial forces during the First World War.
Forces War Records
Transcribed and searchable records from the Jewry Book of Honour . The book lists over 50,000 Jewish servicemen who paid the ultimate sacrifice in WWI by giving their lives
MyHeritage
United Kingdom, Jewish Death and Burial Records. This collection contains death and burial record of the Jewish community in the United Kingdom. The index consists of records from 1733 to 2012 and is provided by JewishGen.
The Genealogist
Jewish Records include:

• Records of Births, Bar Mitzvahs, Betrothals, Marriages, Deaths and Obituaries.
• Synagogue seatholders of London synagogues between 1920 and 1939.
• British Jewry Book of Honour containing the names of approximately 50,000 Jews who served in the British and colonial forces during World War I.
• The Jewish Chronicle covering the First World War.
• The Jewish Echo (Scotland and Ireland’s only Jewish paper of the time) covering years during the build up to World War Two.

Avotaynu
Consolidated Jewish Surname Index. Information on mostly Jewish surnames that appear in 42 different databases containing over 7 million records.
Anglo-Jewish Miscellanies
Search historical and genealogical information about the Jewish Community of the United Kingdom including: London Jews Database, first half of 19th century; Jewish Labour and the London Poor in 1851; Jewish Chronicle Birth Marriage and Death announcements and others.
Moving Here
Archived website: Resources include: Jews’ Free School registers and Internees Index; Internees at Liberty in UK; Digitised images from British Jewry Book Of Honour)
FamilySearch Genealogies
The Knowles Collection. The Collection includes records of the Jewish people originally indexed and compiled by the late Isobel Mordy and since added to. The collection consists of the following record sets: Birth, Marriage and Death records from the Great Synagogue of London; Birth, Marriage and Death records from Bevis Marks Synagogue; Cemetery records from Willesden Cemetery in London; Cemetery records from Hoop Lane Cemetery in London; Cemetery records from Southern cemetery in Manchester.
Kaplan Centre Jewish Studies
Poor Jews Temporary Shelter Database, 1896-1914. Search registers listing new arrivals to the shelter based at Leman Street, London. The database is a project of Professor Aubrey Newman and Dr. Graham Smith, both of the Department of History in University of Leicester.
Jewish War Graves
Searchable memorial site commemorating more than 2,300 Jewish soldiers who served in the British armed forces during World War II and gave their life. A full list of servicemen can be listed for each cemetery.
National Register of Jewish Memorial Boards
The site offers a searchable database of Memorial Boards containing names of members of the Jewish community who served during the First World War. Some are still on display in synagogues, cemeteries and museums whilst others are kept in archives or lost.
People’s Collection Wales
The website is dedicated to bringing together Wales’s heritage including collections from the Jewish History Association of South Wales. Explore digitised content relating to the Jewish community of Wales including cemetery photos, newspaper cuttings, audio clips, synagogue photos, obituaries, letters and other material.
Irish Jewish Genealogical Society
The Irish Jewish Family History Database. The database compiled by Stuart Rosenblatt contains information on over 61,821 individuals who lived in Ireland between 1700 and the present day. The records include birth, marriage and death registers as well as school and occupation details dating back to the 17th century. The database also includes Alien Registration records of 1914 to 1922.
Association of Jewish Refugees
Journal Archive. Online access the back catalogue of the AJR Journal, formerly AJR Information, back to the first edition in January 1946. Users can search the entire series or browse individual editions.

Worldwide
JewishGen
The site offers a comprehensive online resource dedicated to Jewish genealogy and family history research. It contains historical records, names, and information on over 6,000 Jewish communities across Britain, Europe and across the world. The Unified Search allows users to explore millions of records from around the world including more than 3.69 million records related to the Holocaust.
JewishGen
Worldwide Burial Registry. Search close to 4.2 million records and 908,000 photos from approximately 9,500 cemeteries or cemetery sections from 143 countries.
Historical Jewish Press
This site contains a collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods. View digital versions of each paper making it possible to view the papers in their original layout. Full-text search is also available.
Ohio State University Libraries
Union List of Digitized Jewish Historic Newspapers, Periodicals and e-Journals. Links to historic Jewish newspapers and journals showing place of publication, years covered, language and depository.
Jewish Data
The site offers over 1,000,000 transcribed and indexed Jewish genealogy records including cemetery records and school yearbooks and a variety of other sources. Records are mainly focussed on the US, Canada, Germany and Israel.
FamilySearch Genealogies
The Knowles Collection. The Collection consists of six databases that include records of the Jewish people originally indexed and compiled by the late Isobel Mordy and since added to. The six databases consist of: The Jews of the British Isles; The Jews of North America; The Jews of Europe; The Jews of South America and the Caribbean; The Jews of Africa, The Orient and the Middle East; The Jews of the South Pacific.
Rookwood Jewish Cemetery Sydney
Search cemetery burial records since 1907.
SephardicGen
Beirut Jewish Cemetery. Tombstone inscriptions prepared by Nagi Georges Zeidan.
SA Jewish Rootsbank
The South African Jewish Database. Jewish Migration and Genealogy. The aim of the project is to create a comprehensive database of records and information relating to Jewish immigration to South Africa between 1850-1950 from England, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus sourced from records such as passenger arrival lists, naturalization lists, community records, records of marriages, births and deaths, family trees. The site includes The Poor Jews’ Temporary Shelter Database.

Europe

Christine Usdin
Translations and transcriptions of the Riga Rabbinate birth, marriage, divorce and death records in Latvia and the 1897 Census.
JewishGen
The Jewish Vital Records of Latvia Database: Death Records. Transcriptions and translations are by Christine Usdin who set out to translate all surviving Jewish vital records held in the Latvia State Historical Archives.
Stephen P. Morse
Searching the 1933 German Jews Database in One Step. The database holds records of Jews resident in West German communities (not including Berlin) as defined in the Nürnberg laws in 1933. The project was initiated by the International Tracing Service who contacted communities in the 1960s asking them to compile lists of Jews who had lived within the area and what happened to them.
German War Memorial Website
The inscriptions commemorate German and Austrian soldiers killed in various wars throughout history including WWI and WWII. The project includes the RJF Memorial Book which memorializes Jewish WWI casualties of the German armed forces.
Foundation for Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries
Database of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland. Search transcriptions of the Warsaw Jewish Cemetery at Okopowa Street and Jewish cemeteries in Mazovia.
National Archives Czech Republic
Residence permit applications (conscriptions) of the Prague Police Directorate. The database contains 2,054,852 records of persons whose names have appeared on the conscriptions.
Books of Jewish Familiants
Jewish Family Books. Digitised volumes of Family Books of the Moravian Jewish religious communities in Hranice, Kostelec (Hodonín District) and Kyjov.
National Archives Czech Republic
Registers of Jewish Religious Communities from 1784 to 1949. In 2011, all volumes of registries of Jewish religious communities housed in the National Archives were digitized. In the course of this year, they will be made available in parts on VadeMeCum.
Universität Wien
People expelled from the University of Vienna, 1938. Searchable database of 2,700 predominantly Jewish members of the university who were dismissed and subsequently expelled and/or murdered.
Gravlov
The Jewish Cemetery project contains information about graves in four cemeteries in St. Petersburg.
Routes to Roots
The Archive Database consists of a town-by-town listing of surviving Jewish and civil records for towns in Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Lithuania and Poland (and districts/regions formerly known as Galicia, Bukovina, Bessarabia, Silesia, Austro-Hungarian Empire and White Russia.
Jewua
Online database of Jewish surnames extracted from various sources covering territories of the former Russian Empire including Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus and Moldova. Sources include the Census of the Jewish population in 1875 and the Russian Empire population census 1897.
Lipes Genealogy Database
Databases include: Russian Empire population census 1897 and the Russian Empire Military Census 1875.
JRI Poland
Jewish Records Indexing. Search indexes to more than 6 million Jewish birth, marriage and death records from current and former territories of Poland.
Gesher Galicia
All Galicia Database. Online database with over half a million records from Galicia including indexes covering vital records and census books, Holocaust records and lists of Jewish taxpayers. The territory is divided between southeastern Poland and western Ukraine.
JewishGen
Digitised 1912 Courland Directory. Courland (Kurzeme in Latvian, Kurland in German) is the historically distinct area of modern day Latvia.
JewishGen
GerSIG Name Adoption List Index. Compilation of lists of surname-adoption by German Jews. The lists provide previous names, some include extensive information about the whole family, some list the occupation and/or marital status of the head of household.
JewishGen
Germany Collection. The multiple database search facility incorporates all the datasets in the German Collection. In total, this continually updated collection includes more than 750,000 records for individuals who resided in Germany and former German region.
Ancestry
German Phone Directories, 1915-1981. This database contains telephone books covering the years 1915-1981 for five of Germany’s major cities: Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Leipzig, and Munich.
Ancestry
Germany and Surrounding Areas, Address Books, 1815-1974. This database is a collection of city address books for select cities in Germany and surrounding areas for the years 1815-1974.
Meyers Gazetteer
The goal of the Meyer’s compilers was to list every place name in the German Empire between 1871 and 1918. Each place searched is linked to the gazetteer entry as well as showing modern and historic maps and Catholic and Protestant parishes and Synagogues in the area.
Humboldt University
Jüdische Gewerbebetriebe in Berlin 1930 bis 1945. Jewish Businesses in Berlin, 1930-1945. Database of Jewish businesses in Berlin developed by the Humboldt University in Berlin.
Lodz Cemetery Database
Search for persons buried in the Cemetery at Bracka Street in Lodz, Poland. Searches of the cemetery records can also be carried using Stephen P. Morse website.
JRI Poland
Jewish Records Indexing. Lodz Registration Cards 1916–1921. Search the register of all residents taken during German control of the city during WWI.
National Library of Latvia
Periodika. Search more than 1,400 digital versions of newspapers and magazines from 1748 to the present. The digital collection can be searched by keywords, publication title, author, image title, publication number, and other criteria.
Genealogy Indexer
The site offers digitised and indexed Eastern European trade and street directories including the 1932 Palestine Directory and Handbook; Warsaw business directory for 1896; Warsaw telephone directories; German business directories 1801-1987; community and personal histories; Yizkor Books and other material.
Jewish Places
Information and photos about Jewish heritage sites in hundreds of German towns and cities. These include communal sites such as synagogues, Jewish cemeteries, and mikvaot but also secular sites such as Jewish sports clubs and cafes. Users will also be able to contribute their own information.
Stephen P. Morse
Searching the Memorial to the Jews Deported from France in One Step. The database identifies 78,000 Jews who were deported from France, died in internment camps in France or were shot in France during the Nazi occupation and Vichy regime.
Akevoth
Genealogical and historical research on Dutch Jewry. Records include registers of births, circumcisions, deaths, funerals and marriages and census returns. The site also has a collection of family trees and information on the historical Jewish areas.
Het Stenen Archief
The Stone Archive. Jewish cemeteries in the Netherlands
Amsterdam City Archives
The Archives have made their indexes and inventories free to view and download. Records include: Immigration Records; Person Cards; Passports; Family Cards; Population Registers; baptism and burial registers.
Jewish Gem’s Genealogy
Mining for Your Elusive Ancestors. Various transcripts taken from foreign language sites.
Site for Jews of Unterfranken, Bavaria, Germany. German language site containing information on individuals.
BalticGen
Cemeteries. Search Latvian and Lithuanian Jewish cemetery lists, compiled and maintained by Aleksandrs Feigmanis.
GenTeam
Search indexes to birth, marriage and death and cemetery records for the Jewish community of Vienna as well as other Jewish and civil records covering Austria and adjoining countries. Datasets include: House owners of the county of Salzburg in 1829; Index to Prague Jewish marriages between, 1784-1804.
FamilySearch
Czech Republic, Church Books, 1552-1981. Images and some indexes of baptisms/births, marriages, and deaths that occurred in the Roman Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran, and Reformed Church parishes, as well as entries in those registers for Jews.
FamilySearch
Slovakia Church and Synagogue Books, 1592-1935.

USA and Canada

Ancestry
Ancestry have partnered with JewishGen, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the American Jewish Historical Society, the Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the USC Shoah Foundation, and Arolsen Archives to create a collection of over 20 million Jewish historical records.
JDC Archives Names
Search the JDC database which currently includes 700,000 names found in historic documents and client lists with more being added regularly. The names relate to those who received JDC aid, financial or otherwise from 1914 to 1988.
Aufbau Indexing Project
Search an index of 57,000 births, engagements, marriages, deaths and other special occasions that appeared in the New York German Jewish newspaper, 1934-2004.
Library and Archives Canada
Naturalization Records, 1915-1951. Search indexed names of those who applied for Canadian citizenship. Produced by the Jewish Genealogical Societies of Montreal and Ottawa from annual reports of the Secretary of State and in the Canada Gazette.
American Jewish Committee
American Jewish Year Book. Browsable or searchable editions of volumes of the American Jewish Year Book from 1899 to the present
The Ancestor Hunt
Historic Jewish American Newspapers Online. Free historical newspaper links to help you find historical newspaper articles about your ancestors by state and county.
Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
Pittsburgh Jewish Newspapers. Online access to searchable and digitised editions of Jewish newspapers published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania composed of the Jewish Criterion, 1895-1962, the American Jewish Outlook, 1934-1962, the Jewish Chronicle, 1962-present and the Y-JCC series, 1926-1975.
Jewish Newspapers and their archives
This page provides links to archives of both community and regular Jewish newspapers from all over the world including Canada and America.
Find a Grave
Search Memorials in Mount Moriah Cemetery, New Jersey
New Montefiore Cemetery Records
Search cemetery transcriptions from the cemetery which has recorded the history of Jewish generations on its monuments and stones since 1928.
Montefiore Cemetery Records
Search cemetery transcriptions from the cemetery which has been serving the Jewish community in the New York area and throughout the world since 1908.
Mount Ararat Cemetery Records
Online access to cemetery transcriptions from the Mount Ararat Cemetery, State of New York from 1931. The cemetery acted as an alternative to the conventional Jewish cemetery.
Mount Carmel Cemetery Records
Online access to cemetery transcriptions. The cemetery has been serving the Jewish community in the State of New York from1906.
Mount Judah Cemetery Records
Online access to cemetery transcriptions. The cemetery has been serving the Jewish community in Brooklyn/Queens from 1912.
Mount Lebanon Cemetery Records
Online access to cemetery transcriptions. The cemetery has been serving the Jewish community in Glendale, Queens, New York since 1914.
Mount Zion Cemetery Records
Online access to cemetery transcriptions. The cemetery has been serving the Jewish community in New York since 1893.
Riverside Cemetery Records
Online access to cemetery transcriptions. The cemetery has been serving the Jewish community in New York and New Jersey since 1910.
Mount Hebron Cemetery Records
Online access to cemetery transcriptions. The cemetery has been serving the Jewish community in Ney York City since 1909.

Israel

The Mount of Olives Jerusalem
Cemetery Records. Search the name index with photos of the 150,000 estimated graves on the Mount.
Eretz Israel Records
Israel Genealogical Society. Search transcribed records produced by volunteers from the Society covering a variety of subjects with more than 100,000 records. Some data sets are only available to members. Datasets include Change of Names in the Palestine Gazette,1921-1948; 1915 Census of Tel-Aviv; Censuses of the Jewish inhabitants of the Holy Land, Alexandria, Sidon (Saida) and Beirut compiled by Sir Moses Montefiore between 1839 and 1876.
Israel Genealogy Research Association
All Israel Database. Search various databases covering the Ottoman Administration, to 1917, the British Administration, 1917-1948 and the Israeli Administration, from 1948 onwards Users can search in English or Hebrew. There is a virtual Hebrew keyboard.
The Montefiore Endowment
Censuses of the Jewish inhabitants of the Holy Land, Alexandria, Sidon (Saida) and Beirut, compiled by Sir Moses Montefiore taken in the years 1839, 1840, 1849, 1855, 1866 and 1875. The details recorded include personal and family particulars, occupations and countries of origin, together with surveys of Jewish religious institutions.

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