The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) is a database of names and other identifying information from cemeteries and burial records worldwide, hosted by the parent website JewishGen. As of November 2021, JOWBR contains more than 4.1 million burial records and 863,000 photos from approximately 9,500 cemeteries or cemetery sections in 138 countries. In order to access JewishGen's databases, users first need to create a free account.
(Description adapted from information on project website)
Subject Period (epoch)
Subject Continent(s)
Subject Country(ies)
- Albania
- Algeria
- Angola
- Argentina
- Australia
- Austria
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- 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
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Ethiopia
- Finland
- France
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Greece
- Haiti
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kyrgyzstan
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- 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
- 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
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) is a database of names and other identifying information from cemeteries and burial records worldwide, hosted by the parent website JewishGen. As of November 2021, JOWBR contains more than 4.1 million burial records and 863,000 photos from approximately 9,500 cemeteries or cemetery sections in 138 countries. In order to access JewishGen's databases, users first need to create a free account.
(Description adapted from information on project website)