JewishGen is designed as an online resource for research on Jewish genealogy. In addition to a community of researchers, it has a collection of databases that collectively hold more than 30 million records relating to Jewish history. Amongst their various databases and projects, especially notable are their Holocaust Database, Communities Database, Online Worldwide Burial Registry, Family Tree of the Jewish People, Family Finder database, Yizkor Book Project, and Memorial Plaques Database. In order to access JewishGen's databases, users first need to create a free account.
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Subject Country(ies)
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Bahamas
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Cambodia
- Canada
- Cape Verde
- Chile
- China
- Colombia
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Czechoslovakia
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- France
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Greece
- Haiti
- Hungary
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Libya
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- (North) Macedonia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Malta
- Mauritius
- Mexico
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar (Burma)
- Namibia
- New Guinea
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Philippines
- Poland
- Portugal
- Romania
- Russia / Soviet Union
- Russian Empire
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- St. Kitts and Nevis
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- The Netherlands
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Venezuela
- Yugoslavia
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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JewishGen is designed as an online resource for research on Jewish genealogy. In addition to a community of researchers, it has a collection of databases that collectively hold more than 30 million records relating to Jewish history. Amongst their various databases and projects, especially notable are their Holocaust Database, Communities Database, Online Worldwide Burial Registry, Family Tree of the Jewish People, Family Finder database, Yizkor Book Project, and Memorial Plaques Database. In order to access JewishGen's databases, users first need to create a free account.
(Description adapted from information on project website)