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Welcome to JewishGen —
The Global Home for Jewish Genealogy

The largest online Jewish genealogy and history resource. 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!


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JewishGen Search Tips:
Phonetically Like (the default): Groups names that sound alike across languages. Best for almost every search.
Schwartz also finds Shvarts, Cvartz.
Is Exactly: Your exact spelling, plus JewishGen's built-in name synonyms. The only mode that reads wildcards.
Chana also finds Hannah, Anna.
Wildcards (*): Fill in unknown letters anywhere in a name. Works only with Is Exactly.
Sch*artz finds Schwartz, Schvartz.
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Schwartz, Weiss vs. Schwartz Weiss.
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