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Special Interest Groups
(SIGs) and Forum Sites
Undeniably, one of the best Jewish genealogy forums and one of the earliest Jewish sites available to learn about this most popular hobby ... genealogy ... is
www.jewishgen.org
Here, many volunteers contribute much information to develop a very prime source of information for those who are just starting out ... and it is a valuable source, as a reference point, for those who are professional genealogists. There are a number of other sites that also provide you with a "starting point", but none are focused exclusively on Jewish genealogy.
One problem that existed (until I created JewishWebIndex.com) is that many of the thousands of addresses and information were volatile. That is, once the information was exposed on a JewishGen Digest page, that information could only be found by searching the site's archives. And that's a tedious task since you have to know specifically what you are looking for. Since I never liked working tediously, I hope that you will find my INDEX to Jewish genealogy helpful and beneficial.
To subscribe go to
http://www.jewishgen.org
and follow simple directions. You can also send an e-mail: listserve@lyris.jewishgen.org and in the body of the message: subscribe (your first name) (your last name) You have a choice of either receiving single messages (you will be bombarded with over 25 messages a day) or the Digest form, which I heartily recommend. There is no charge for this service, but you will be asked to donate from time to time to help defray the expenses of this not-for-profit business.
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The JewishGen Discussion Group is mirrored to the Usenet newsgroup soc.genealogy.jewish and is therefore a public list. Not only are the archives searchable by anyone with an interest, messages can be retrieved from soc.genealogy.jewish and archived in programs such as Dejanews
www.deja.com
now Google
www.google.com
You can also access this group's archives via the home page of JewishGen http://www.jewishgen.org
http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~archpop
JewishGen Discussion Group archives is a great place to learn about common topics! The search page is located at
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/archive.htm
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/DiscussionGroup.htm
How to Post a Message
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/DiscussionGroup.htm
Cure - "Here's how it works. When accessing the JGFF to perform a search, you are asked to logon using either your e-mail address or your
JewishGen ID Number (JGID, formerly called the "JGFF Researcher Code"),
and your Password. If you have forgotten either, they can now be
retrieved automatically by using" http://www.jewishgen.org/CURE/password.html
"What CURE will do for JewishGen is enable us to better manage all of our
programs, assist in our planning process and provide the information we
need to better serve our constituents."
"In addition to greater security for your contact information, your
benefits will include not having to worry about updating your contact
information individually in each program or mailing list, but to update
it in one place and one place only -- CURE. We expect this "one stop
update" to be a great convenience and believe it will also result in far
fewer "lost researchers" who forget to change their e-mail address in
each and every place it is listed on JewishGen."
"The new CURE logon screen will apply to the JewishGen Family
Finder (JGFF). For complete information about the JGFF, see the "JGFF FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions about the JGFF"
http://www.jewishgen.org/jgff/jgff-faq.html
Archives - Check the JewishGen Discussion Group Archives for past topics at http://www.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.isa?jg~jgsys~archpop
Cemetery Project (International Listings)
http://www.jewishgen.org/Cemetery
Cemetery Information on Staten Island Cemeteries: http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/usnycsi.htm
Centennia On-line
Centennia - a map based guide to the history of Europe and the Middle East from the beginning of the 11th century to the present. It is a dynamic, animated historical atlas. You can watch over 9,000 border changes occur as the map reshapes itself from date to the next. This is a commercial product, but is worth looking over.
http://www.historicalatlas.net/
The company allows a download copy to use to try out. This 'Working Model' covers the period from 1790 to 1819. This was the era of the French Revolution, the Partition of Poland and the Napoleonic wars and is free for as long as you want. MAC models are not supported for the free download.
A historical atlas, where the borders of Eastern Europe's many states shifted from month to month
http://www.clockwk.com/clockwk2/shomap1.asp
Central-European Discussion List - C-EUROPE discussion email list is devoted to Central European politics, history and culture
http://www.ce.z.pl
It is in English.
Computer Genealogy Newsgroup
soc.genealogy.computing
Computer Special Interest Group (SIG) various special interest groups i.e. Lithuanian, Galicia, etc.
http://www.jewishgen.org/jgsp
Consolidated Jewish Surname Index, which includes the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland; All-Lithuania Database; All-Belarus Database; All-Latvia Database and JewishGen Family Finder is available at
http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.html
There are more than 65,000 contributors and over 77,000 unique surnames from 20,000 towns in 97 countries. Poland has the largest number of entries with more than 54,000. Malta is identified by only one contributor. The database receives close to 1.5 million visits a year
http://www.jewishgen.org/
Copy Service - provides photocopies of LDS indices at a reasonable charge:
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/toronto.htm
"Eastern European Research from your Home" a lecture at a recent JGS Seminar is available as AJGS Minigraph #102 from IAJGS for a nominal fee or at your local JGS library.
Eastern Europe FAQ - frequently asked questions about Jewish genealogical research in Eastern Europe offers a 'how-to' that should be read by anyone who is interested in researching his or her roots
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/eefaq.html
Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP) is a database with an wonderful search engine and is the place to submit your family tree. Hosted by JewishGen at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/gedcom/
Eastern Europe FAQ - frequently asked questions about Jewish genealogical research in Eastern Europe offers a 'how-to' that should be read by anyone who is interested in researching his or her roots
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/eefaq.html
Galicia Digest - To subscribe put the following in the subject line: subscribe Galicia (your name) (Your email address)
To send postings to the group: address your message to: galicia@lyris.jewishgen.org
Hebrew Genealogy Forum - 'Family Roots' is a genealogy forum (in Hebrew) that is not related to any association/organization and deals with all aspects of Jewish genealogy. The Forum is free-to-use and the subjects discussed in it are not moderated The Forum includes a: Table with all the surnames researched by its members; a Gallery for translation and recognizing requests; Links to sites mentioned and Articles originally written and translated. This is a place to talk about genealogy research, ask questions, help others, share your success or failures and meet other people of like interest
http://www.tapuz.co.il/tapuzforum/main/forumpage.asp?id=325
The Forum's manager is Arnon Hershkovitz arnonh@tx.technion.ac.il
How To Use JewishGen In Your Research - the basics of the JewishGen web site in 10 easy steps by Micha Reisel
http://www.toldot.net/jewishgen.html
Jewish Genealogical Family Finder - On-Line - This is a database of towns and surnames being researched by Jewish genealogists worldwide and can be searched via e-mail. Using this database, you can learn whether others are seeking ancestors of the same surname or town of origin. Besides searching, you can register your own surnames and towns as well as updating any existing entries. This is where you may want to start your search.
There are more than 70,000 contributors and now 90,000 unique surnames from over 20,000 towns in 97 countries. Poland has the largest number of entries with more than 54,000. Malta is identified by only one contributor. The site is
http://www.jewishgen.org/jgff
http://www.jewishgen.org/family/
To use the on-line JGFF system, send an e-mail to jgff@jewishgen.org No subject line is necessary. In the body of the request message follow this format: Surname: Town; District (if known) Country.
JewishGen Archive: Search engine http://www.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.isa?jg~jgsys~archives
JewishGen Calendar Converter -
http://www.jewishgen.org/jos/josdates.htm
JewishGen Databases - a source of all kinds of genealogical information http://www.jewishgen.org/jos/josfest.htm
JewishGen Discussion Group Digest - here's a web site that you will enjoy every time you access it where many of your questions will be asked and answered. It is addictive. jewishgen@lyris.jewishgen.org
JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) - a widely used searchable database which connects people who are searching the same ancestral towns and/or surnames
http://www.jewishgen.org
JewishGen Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP)
http://www.jewishgen.org/gedcom/
JewishGen FAQ's (Frequently Asked Questions)
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/faqinfo.html
also available in Spanish at
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/faq-sp.txt
JewishGen Festivals Calendar -
http://www.jewishgen.org/jos/josfest.htm
JewishGen Learning Center - if interested in various approaches to research, you might consider JewishGen's Basic Genealogy class
http://www.jewishgen.org/education/
JewishGen InfoFiles - there's much to be gleaned from this site.
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/eefaq.html
JewishGen Junk Mail InfoFiles -
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/junkmail.txt
JewishGen Litvak SIG: Home page at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/litvak
JewishGen Missing-identity Holocaust Web Site -
http://www.jewishgen.org/missing-identity
JewishGen Rabbinic Genealogy SIG - the purpose of this SIG is to act as a central clearinghouse to providing researchers of rabbinic ancestry and rabbinic genealogies with a forum for the exchange of information.
http://www.jewishgen.org/rabbinic/
JewishGen Special Interest Group -
http://www.jewishgen.org
JewishGen ShtetLinks sets up a link to other pages (by country and including Sephardic sites
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/
http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/shtetlfnd.txt
http://www.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.isa?jg~jgsys~shtetl
Here is how to use the ShtetlSeeker system
1. Search the site, using exact spelling or the Daitch-Mokotoff Soundex system. This search will display latitude and longitude for each location, as well as the distance to the country's capital city.
Searching the Shtetl Seeker site will also:
2. list all of the towns within a certain distance of a given latitude / longitude coordinates.
3. Go to
http://www.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/locrad.htm
where you will find ShtetlSeeker - Radius Search which will allow you to search for all towns within a 1 to 30 miles (you choose whatever distance you wish) centered at the coordinates you choose. You can even refine a search by limiting it to towns starting with a specific letter.
JewishGen Support Center
http://www2.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/Support.htm
Jewish Records Indexing - Poland (JRI-P) -
http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL
Kielce-Radom SIG -
http://www.jewishgen.org/krsig/
offers much information about these regions in southern Russian Poland
Kulanu - Dr. Jack Zeller is president and can be contacted at kulanu@ubmail.ubalt.edu Kulanu means all of us in Hebrew. This is a group of Jews and non-Jews who are working to embrace lost Jewish communities throughout the world. Kulanu is a home to any individual who is looking for a starting place or a place to help others start a more intense Jewish journey.
Litvak - Home page is at
http://www.jewishgen.org/litvak
Dues are voluntary - $36 per year. Checks may be mailed to LITVAKSIG, Inc., Dept. 77-9253, Chicago, Il 60678-9253
Manage Your JewishGen Subscription
http://www.jewishgen.org/listsrv/sigs.htm
To unsubscribe send an email to listserv@lyris.jewishgen.org with Unsubscribe in the subject line. No need to fill in your own address as a robot computer handles the actual details of cancellation.
Jewish Orphanages in the US Website - a very informative site that deals with orphanages in the US
http://www.scruz.net/~elias/hnoh
Jewish Search Engine Sites - A wonderful "jump-off" for researching your roots
http://search.aol.com/cat.adp?id=49182
JewishGen hosted SIGS
(Special Interest Groups SIG)
Note: I have also included known SIGS within the pages of their particular interest.
Belarus SIG - includes the former Russian Empire Guberniyas of Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev and Vitebsk.
http://www.jewishgen.org/
There is also a Belarus discussion list, not hosted by JewishGen for those interested in Belarus using Internet discussion list 'netiquette'.
http://www.belarus-misc.org/welcome.html
Bohemia-Moravia SIG - includes Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic) plus parts of Austria, especially Vienna.
http://www.jewishgen.org/
Denmark SIG - includes the Danish West Indies and other Scandinavian countries
http://www.jewishgen.org/
Galicia SIG - includes Austrian Poland, a province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1772 until 1917, now in southern Poland and western Ukraine.
http://www.jewishgen.org/
German-Jewish SIG - includes Austria, parts of Switzerland, Alsace, Lorraine, Bohemia and Moravia.
http://www.jewishgen.org/
Hungary SIG - includes parts of present day Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Hungary, Austria and Romania. Publishes Magyar Zsido.
http://www.jewishgen.org/
Kielce-Radom SIG - includes the two Guberniyas of the Kingdom of Poland (Russian Poland), located in south central Poland and covering much of the area between Warsaw and Krakow. Publishes Kielce-Radom SIG Journal.
http://www.jewishgen.org/
Latvia SIG
http://www.jewishgen.org/
Litvak SIG - includes Kovno and Vilna Guberniyas of the Russian Empire, which includes much of the territory of current Lithuania. This SIG acquires records from Lithuanian archives and publishes them in an on-line database.
http://www.jewishgen.org/
Rav-SIG - the Rabbinic Genealogy Special Interest Group deals with the subject of European and Hasidic rabbis and dynasties. The group publishes in both Hebrew and English a publication "Sharsheret Hadorot" Journal of the Israel Genealogical Society
http://www.jewishgen.org/Rabbinic/journal/main.htm
When posting a message to the Rav-SIG mailing list, be sure to include as much information as is known about geographic locations and approximate year (decade or century)
http://www.jewishgen.org/Rabbinic/discussion.htm
General Categories of Rav-SIG
General Bio-Bibliographical Works
Biographies and Family Genealogies
Sephardi and Mizrahi
Yizkor Books (having significant information on lineages or dynasties)
Regions, countries and towns (world-wide)
Periodicals and articles
Audiotapes and CD-ROMs
Romania SIG - including Moldova, Bessarabia and Bukovina. Publishes ROM-SIG News.
http://www.jewishgen.org/
Southern Africa SIG - including Lesotho (Basutoland), Botswana (Bechuanaland), Zimbabwe (S. Rhodesia), Zambia (N. Rhodesia), Swaziland, Mozambique and the former Belgian Congo.
http://www.jewishgen.org/
Stammbaum - German SIG - sponsored by the Leo Baeck Institute. http://www.jewishgen.org/
Suwalki-Lomza SIG - includes these two northeastern Guberniyas of Russian Poland, now in northeast Poland and southwest Lithuania. Publishes Landsmen.
http://www.jewishgen.org/
Landmanschaften Societies -
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/landshaf.txt
Regional Special Interest Groups -
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/sigs.htm
Sephardic Sites Info - (See also my Sephardic Links site) http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/sephardic.html
Tombstone Inscriptions - translations from Hebrew http://www.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.isa?jg~jgsys~archpop
ViewMate Image Gallery - you can upload your graphics to the site along with your graphical queries to assist researchers. All graphic uploads will be viewable for 7 days. Thereafter the graphics will be archived (permanently) in a searchable archive known
as the "ViewMate Image Gallery". This will give researchers the ability to seek additional help with their queries, and allow others to browse in the gallery.
To browse the gallery, go to
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/
and click the "Archive" button.
If you have not visited ViewMate before... see
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/
JewishGen participants seeking commentary or problem solving advise from
others, are encouraged to use ViewMate for the posting of Jewish genealogy
related graphics. Here you can post...
- Photos: for identification of people, clothing, buildings, scenes,
objects, artifacts, etc.
- Letters, documents, book pages, maps, etc. for analysis or translation
Yizkor Book - web site by shtetl in many Eastern European countries: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/translatons.html
JewishGen's Yizkor Book Translation Project. An article appeared on May 31,2004 issue of Time Magazine
http://www.time.com/time/generations/article/
0,9171,1101040531-641131,00.html
Yizkor Book Necrology Database - the JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology
Database has been updated with 15,000 additional entries from 8 Yizkor
Books:
Bedzin, Poland
Biala Rawska,
Lipno, Poland
Radomsko, Poland
Suprasl, Poland
Zawiercie, Poland
Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland
and Szekesfehervar, Hungary. Also updated is the necrology database for Kolomyia, Ukraine.
The Necrology Database may be searched at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Yizkor
The JewishGen Yizkor Book Necrology Database indexes the names of
persons in the necrologies -- the lists of Holocaust martyrs --
published in the Yizkor Books appearing on the Yizkor Book Project
site at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html
This database is only an index of names; it directs researchers back to
the Yizkor Book itself, where more complete information may be available.
This database currently contains over 150,000 entries from the necrologies
of 164 different Yizkor Books.
Other
Special Interest
Sites
Adoptions Site: Online searchable database dedicated to researching Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents and Siblings
http://www.birthquest.org/
Alumni Reunions - HNOH (Hebrew National Orphan Home) has a page devoted to Jewish Orphanages in the US> There are extensive lists of links too.
www.hnoh.com
American Red Cross - Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and Information Service, Linda Klein is the Director To see my success story as published on their web site and further information about the Red Cross and their various genealogical services
www.acrossla.org
Ancestry.com sites of Jewish interest including JewishGen, IAJGS and Avotaynu:
http://www.ancestry.com
http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/jewishmo.htm
Avotaynu Web Site - a subscription publication relating to Jewish genealogy:
http://www.avotaynu.com
http://www.avotaynu.com/InRemembrance.htm
Back issues of 'Nu What's Nu' are available at
http://www.avotaynu.com/nu.htm
Cyndi's list - Other resources
http://www.cyndislist.com/me.htm
IAJGS (International Jewish Cemetery Project) - the scope of this project is the documentation of every Jewish burial site in the world. The project does not include individual burial information
http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery
24th IAJGS conference in Jerusalem
www.ortra.com/jgen2004
Jewish Adoption Website:
http://www.birthquest.org
Jewish-American History
http://www.jewish-history.com/
Jewish Heritage Society - Information Resources is a jam-packed site worth your attention. It contains archival inventories of files containing documentary sources of Jewish history from various East European countries, sorted by Country and then by city. The only rub is that those pages I searched, are in Russian. You can download and print the information and have it translated, if you wish or you may want to try your hand at one of the free translating sites on my web site.
http://prorus.ru/~heritage/resoene.htm
Judaism and Jewish Resource - Jewish Communities - authored by Andrew Tannenbaum
http://shamash.org/trb/judaism.html#comm
Lawyer web site - information about names of current and past lawyers are included in this site located at:
http://www.martindalehubbell.com
LDS (Mormon Library) - an excellent place to start
www.familysearch.org
Mathematics Genealogy Project - everyone who has a doctorate in mathematics during the 20th century is supposedly listed in this 28,000 names site.
http://hcoonce.math.mankato.msus.edu/
Mila Begun - one of the first Jewish genealogists I met and became friends with, was Mila. We had dinner together whenever Shirley and I would visit New York with Mila and Tom. Mila and I shared the town of Talnoye, Ukraine as a common shtetl and shared information about the shtetl. There is a Wall of Honor setup for Mila.
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/WallofHonor/
Military Records - National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, MO: http://www.nara.gov/regional/stlouis.html
RootsWeb - Mailing list of all RootsWeb sites
http://lists.rootsweb.com/
Shtetl Finder - find information and map location of your shtetl http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/shtetfnd.txt
Shtetl/Uyezd Research Groups describes what a Guberniya is/was: http://www1.jewishgen.org/litvak/shtetl.htm
Southern California Genealogical Society & Family Research Library - located at 417 Irving Drive (at Glenoaks Blvd), Burbank, CA 91504 - Phone: 1 818 843 7247 e-mail scgs@earthlink.net The Library offers a 'virtual tour' of the facilities including the German Genealogical Society of America (one of the largest in the US) - Genealogical Society Hispanic America and French-Canadian Heritage Society of California (one of the larges in the US and Los Angeles Historical Society. The library contains over 30,000 books, manuscripts, maps, microforms, periodicals, and CDs.
http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/
Translation Service  LingvoSoft Dictionary software English <-> Yiddish for Windows - 400,000 words
With this LingvoSoft smart dictionary software on your computer, you can easily switch between English and Yiddish, for prompt translations of 400,000 words both ways! Download Free Trial now
VitalChek Network has a voice and fax network setup to help people get a certified copy of a birth, death, marriage certificates as well as other vital records. The site provides the information on how to obtain a vital record from VitalChek's listing of participating agencies:
http://www.vitalchek.com/
Please let me know if there is a favorite link of yours that is not included in my site and I will be happy to add it to Jewish Web Index
Email JWebindex@gmail.com
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