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Explore JewishGen's collections by region and topic. Each collection brings together vital records, censuses, business directories, burial registers, and more — or use the unified search to query every database at once.

General & Cross-Collection

Unified Search →

Search every JewishGen database at once — millions of records worldwide, continually updated.

JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) →

Surnames and towns being researched by more than 110,000 Jewish genealogists worldwide.

Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP) →

Data on more than 10 million people from family trees submitted by thousands of researchers.

Communities Database →

Historical names, jurisdictions, maps, and resources for more than 6,500 Jewish communities.

Burial Registry (JOWBR) →

More than seven million burial records from 7,500 cemeteries in 128 countries.

Memorial Plaques →

Information from synagogue yahrzeit plaques and other memorial records worldwide.

Topical Collections

Holocaust →

More than 6 million entries documenting Holocaust victims and survivors, from many sources.

Sephardic →

Sephardic genealogy records spanning five centuries across Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas.

Eastern & Central Europe

Austria / Czechia →

Records for Austria and Czechia from cemetery data, Yizkor books, and Holocaust sources.

Balkans →

Records from the Jewish communities of the Balkans — the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Greece.

Belarus →

Vital records, voter lists, business directories, and ghetto records from many sources.

Bulgaria →

Records for the Jewish community of Bulgaria.

Germany →

Citizenship records, vital records, cemetery data, survivor lists, and Holocaust sources.

Hungary / Slovakia →

Records for Hungary and former Hungarian regions: vital, census, and property tax records.

Latvia →

Courland, Livland, and Vitebsk gubernias — voter lists, census, vital, and Memorial Book records.

Lithuania →

Vital records, Revision Lists, directories, Yizkor books, and the LitvakSIG All Lithuania Database.

Poland →

Records for Poland from a wide variety of vital, census, and directory sources.

Romania / Moldova →

Romania, Moldova, and Bessarabia — voter lists, census, vital records, directories, and more.

Russia →

Records for modern Russian and former Soviet and Imperial Russian regions

Serbia →

Records for the Jewish communities of Serbia, Kosovo, and Montenegro.

Ukraine →

Voter lists, business directories, vital records, diplomatic records, and Yizkor books.

Western & Southern Europe

France →

Records for France, Belgium, Switzerland, and former French regions — marriage, cemetery, and more.

Greece →

Records for the Jewish communities of Greece, from a variety of sources.

Italy →

Records for the Jewish communities of Italy.

Netherlands →

Sephardic and Ashkenazi records for the Netherlands, Dutch colonies, and the Holocaust.

Portugal →

Records for the Jewish community of Portugal.

Scandinavia →

Records for Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden from a variety of sources.

Spain →

Records for the Jewish communities of Spain.

United Kingdom →

England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the Isles — marriage, cemetery, census, and directories.

Africa

Algeria →

Records for the Algerian Jewish community.

Egypt →

Records for the Jewish communities of Egypt.

Libya →

Records for the Jewish community of Libya.

Morocco →

Records for the Jews of Morocco, from a variety of sources.

South Africa →

The South African Jewish Yearbook index, cemetery records, colonial records, and more.

Tunisia →

Records for the Jewish community of Tunisia.

Asia & The Middle East

India →

Records for the Jewish communities of India.

Iraq →

Records for the Jewish community of Iraq.

Israel →

Records for the Land and State of Israel spanning 1665 to the present, including 1.6 million burials.

Lebanon →

Records for the Jewish community of Lebanon.

Syria →

Records for the Jewish communities of Syria.

Turkey →

Records for the Jewish communities of Turkey.

North America

Canada →

Cemetery and synagogue records, newspapers, immigrant aid societies, and organizational records.

United States →

Cemetery records, passenger lists, synagogue records, newspapers, and organizational records.

Central & South America

Argentina →

Over 277,000 entries for individuals living in Argentina's Jewish communities.

Latin America →

More than 300,000 entries for individuals living across Central and South America.

Venezuela →

Records for the Jewish community of Venezuela.

Tools & Utilities

JewishGen Calculator →

Convert Hebrew and Gregorian dates, display Jewish holidays, Soundex-encode names, and calculate distances between towns.

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