The Jewish Genealogical Society of
the Conejo Valley and Ventura County

Resources

Blogs

Cemeteries

Europe

Family History Centers

Genealogy Subscription Websites

General Interest

Government Archives With Documents/Index on-Line

Local/California Interest

Search Engine Websites

Vital Records:

California Department of Public Health

California Department of Public Health
Office of Vital Records – MS 5103
P.O. Box 997410
Sacramento, CA 95899-7410
Telephone: (916) 445-2684

http://www.cdph.ca.gov/certlic/birthdeathmar/Pages/default.aspx

Los Angeles County

Los Angeles County Clerk-Recorder
Birth, Death and Marriage Records Section
P.O. Box 53120
Los Angeles, CA 90053-0120

Certificate Information (562) 462-2137
Marriage License Information (562) 462-2137

http://www.lavote.net/RECORDER/BDM_Records.cfm

Ventura County

Ventura County Recorder's Office
800 South Victoria Avenue
Ventura, CA

(805) 654-2295

http://recorder.countyofventura.org/recorder.htm

Libraries:

Agoura Hills

County of Los Angeles
Agoura Hills Library (Holocaust Studies)
29901 Ladyface Court
Agoura Hills, CA 91301

(818) 889-2278

http://www.colapublib.org/libs/agourahills/

(JGSCV Library is maintained here)

County of Los Angeles Public Library (COLA) has a subscription to Heritage Quest which includes the US census from 1790-1930 (the most recently released census to the public). This is accessible from both the library and remotely from your home computer. You must have an LA County Library Card to access this research site remotely.

COLA has a subscription to ProQuest historical newspapers, however, many of the subscriptions are from late 1980's and 1990's to the current. The subscription includes the full text of nine national US newspapers from 1986 to current: Atlanta Constitution Journal, Barron's; Boston Globe; Christian Science Monitor; Denver Post; New York Times; USA Today; Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Enter the specific newspaper title in the "Publication Title" box of the "More Search Options" link on the search screen to locate articles specifically in a given newspaper, or click on the tab, "publications" to see the extensive list of newspapers, including the ProQuest Historical newspapers.

COLA also has the ProQuest Historical LA Times since 1986. These newspapers can be accessed remotely with a LA County Library Card.

http://www.colapublib.org

(LA County Library website)

Calabasas

Calabasas Library
23975 Park Sorrento
Calabasas, CA 91302
(818) 225-7616

http://www.cityofcalabasas.com/library.html

Has subscriptions to ProQuest Los Angeles Times from 1985-forward and Newsbank from 1977 back. You need a library card to access the database remotely. You do not have to be a resident of Calabasas to obtain a library card.

The City of Camarillo Public Library

The Camarillo Library left the Ventura County Library System effective January 1, 2011 and is independently run through the City of Camarillo.

Camarillo Public Library
4101 Las Posas Road
Camarillo, CA 93010
(805) 388-5222

http://www.camarillolibrary.org/

The City of Camarillo Public Library has a subscription to Ancestry.com library-edition. This subscription is only accessible for research at the library.

The City of Camarillo Public Library also has a subscription to HeritageQuest and America’s Newspapers.
The Ventura County Genealogical Society houses its genealogy reference library at the City of Camarillo Public Library.

A library card is obtainable to anyone with appropriate photographic ID which includes current address

The City of Moorpark Public Library

Moorpark City Library
699 Moorpark Avenue
Moorpark, California 93021
(805) 517-6370

http://www.moorparklibrary.org/

A Moorpark City library card is obtainable all California residents at no fee.

Thousand Oaks

Brimhall Library
1401 East Janss Road
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360

(805) 449-2660

http://www.toaks.org/library

(Genealogy-Conejo Valley Genealogical Society maintains its library here)

The Brimhall Thousand Oaks Library (TO Library) has a subscription to Ancestry.com library-edition. This subscription is only accessible for research at the library.

The TO Library also has subscription to the ProQuest Historical LA Times and Heritage Quest for US Census 1790-1930 ( the most recently released census to the public). Both of these sources are available remotely with a Thousand Oaks Library Card.

A Thousand Oaks Library card is obtainable all California residents at no fee.

Westlake Village

A branch of the County of Los Angeles Public Library.
See under Agoura Hills Library for the details of what is available

31220 Oak Crest Drive
Westlake Village, CA 91361
Phone: (818) 865-9230

http://www.colapublib.org/libs/westlake/

Woodland Hills

Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL)

630 West Fifth Street (between Grand and Flower, downtown)

Los Angeles, California 90071-2097

History & Genealogy Department

Tom Bradley Wing

Lower Level 4

Telephone: Information, Main Number (213) 228-7000

http://www.lapl.org

The closest LAPL to the Conejo Valley and Ventura County is the Woodland Hills branch (818) 226-0017. There is no charge for a library card.

ProQuest access to the Los Angeles Times Historical Database (1881-1985) is available on site or with a library card-holder password. The LAPL also has a subscription to ProQuest Newspapers which includes the more recent LA Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor. The LAPL also has ProQuest Newstand available and includes hundreds of newspapers from the 1990's- to current date.

Ventura County Library System

There are 13 libraries comprising the Ventura County Library System. They are all sharing the same computer system for databases and resources. You need a Ventura County Library Card to access the databases from your home computer. You do not need to live in one of the Ventura County communities to obtain a free library card.

The Ventura County Library System has subscriptions only to the ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Los Angeles Times (1985-forward), They are accessible remotely by using your Ventura County Library card

The VCLS also has subscriptions to:

Ancestry.com Library Edition (which may only be used in the library) a database includes over 4 billion names and 500,000 family trees. It provides extensive coverage of the U.S., including census data, birth, marriage, and death records, World War I draft registration cards, Social Security death records, and immigration lists.

Heritage Quest on-line ( which can be access remotely from your home). This collection includes: U.S. federal census data (1790-1930), over 20,000 family and local history books and over 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, and probate records.

http://www.vencolibrary.org

The 13 branches of the County Library are:

Avenue Library in Ventura
Fillmore Library
E. P. Foster Library (Ventura)
Historical Museum Library (Ventura County Museum-Ventura)
Meiners Oaks Library (Ojai)
Oak Park Library
Oak View Library
Ojai Library
Piru Library
Ray D. Preuter Library (Port Hueneme)
Saticoy Library
Simi Valley Library
Albert H. Soliz Library (Saticoy)

Specialty Libraries:

American Jewish University Library

Ostrow Library, Burton Sperber Memorial Jewish Community Library of Los Angeles and Phoebe and Werner Frank Family Learning Center (Genealogy)
Familian Campus
15600 Mulholland Dr.
Bel-Air, California 90077
1-888-853-6763 or (310) 476-9777
http://library.ajula.edu/

Simon Wiesenthal Library and Archives

1399 South Roxbury Drive (Third Floor)
Los Angeles, California 90035-4709
Tel: 310-772-7605
Fax: 310-772-7628
E- mail: library@wiesenthal.com
http://www.wiesenthal.com/library/

Museums:

Ventura County

The Ventura County Museum of History and Art
100 East Main Street
Ventura, CA 93001
(805) 653-0323

http://www.venturamuseum.org

(houses the A. Levy Collection)

Cemeteries:

Mt. Sinai Parks - Simi Valley
6150 Mt. Sinai Drive
Simi Valley, CA 93063

(800) 600-0076

http://www.mountsinaiparks.org

(Look for link to Simi)

Beth Olam Cemetery
5600 Lindero Canyon Road
Westlake Village, CA 91361

(818) 889-0902

http://www.piercebrothersvalleyoaks.com

(Within Valley Oaks - Griffin Memorial Park and Mortuary formerly Pierce Brothers - Valley Oaks Westlake Village)

Ivy Lawn Memorial Park
5400 Valentine Road
Ventura, CA 93003

(805) 642-1055

http://www.ivylawn.org

(They have a consecrated part of the cemetery known as Temple Beth Torah and another distinct part within Ivy Lawn Memorial Park for Jewish burials, in a non-consecrated area.)

Cemetery Park
Main Street
Ventura, California

http://www.restorestmarys.org

(Previously known as St. Mary's Cemetery then sold to the Presbyterian Church then deeded to an unnamed Jewish organization. In 1964 the city removed all gravestone markers, of the Catholic, Presbyterian, Jewish and Chinese interred there. A movement is to restore the cemetery markers many of which are stored in city hall. A private website includes the names of the people buried there. This cemetery includes Jewish pioneers of Ventura County with a Jewish presence since 1886. No burials have been in the park since 1941. It became a park in 1964 when the City of Ventura decided to remove the headstones, very old with no upkeep and maintain the area as a memorial park. There are small metal markers flush with the ground that can be keyed to the larger memorial bearing the names of all those buried in the cemetery.)

Conejo Mountain Memorial Park
2052 Howard Road
Camarillo, CA 93012

(805) 482-1959

http://conejomountainmemorialpark.com

(Non-sectarian Park with Jewish Section known as Beth Shalom)

Family History Centers:

http://www.familysearch.org

Family History Library Catalog

Los Angeles County

Los Angeles Family History Library
10741 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Los Angeles, CA 90025

(310) 474-9990

http://www.lafhl.org/

Ventura County

Camarillo California
1201 Paseo Camarillo
Camarillo, California
(805) 388-7215

Fillmore California
1017 First Street
Fillmore, California
(805) 524-7712

Newbury Park California
35 South Wendy Drive
Newbury Park, California
(805) 499-7448

Ojai California
411 San Antonio Street
Ojai, California
(805) 640-8351

Oxnard California 2nd
1190 Gary Drive
Oxnard, California
(805) 488-6253

Simi Valley California
5028 Cochran
Simi Valley, California
(805) 581-2456

Thousand Oaks California
3645 North Moorpark Road
Thousand Oaks, California
(805) 241-9316

Ventura California
3501 Loma Vista Road
Ventura, California
(805) 643-5607

Blogs:

Resource	Description	Web Site
AOTUS	Archivist of the US	http://blogs.archives.gov/aotus/
Blood and Frogs: Jewish Genealogy and More	Researching Jewish Family Roots	http://www.bloodandfrogs.com/
Census Bureau (USA)	Data on US Population and Census	http://blogs.census.gov/
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter	Free ( with option to pay for Plus Edition)- articles on genealogy- daily on-line newsletter	http://eogn.typepad.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/atom.xml
Google Cultural Institute		http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/#!home:page=1
Jewish Gen Blog	Blog on Jewish Genealogy items of interest	http://www.jewishgen.blogspot.com/
Library of Congress Blog		http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/
NARAtions	National Archives Blog	http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/
National Declassification Center Blog	Part of National Archives	http://blogs.archives.gov/ndc/
The Legal Genealogist	Legal Issues - General Genealogy	http://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog/
Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog	(On Hiatus) - Blog on Jewish Genealogy	http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com/

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Europe:

Resource	Description	Web Site
Austria-Czech Special Interest Group		http://www.jewishgen.org/AustriaCzech/
Belarus Special Interest Group		http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/
Bremen Passenger Lists	1920-1939	http://www.passengerlists.de/
Courland Special Interest Group		http://www.jewishgen.org/Courland/
DigiBaeck	Free digital archive of 500 years of German-Jewish speaking Jewish history	http://www.lbi.org/digibaeck/
Digitized Collection of Jewish Records	Eastern Galician: free searchable database of about 5000 digital copies of Jewish vital, communal, organizational, legal, immigration, school, and other categories of records	http://dcjr.org/
Federation of Eastern European Family History Societies (FEEFHS)	The Federation of East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS) is an umbrella organization that promotes family research in eastern and central Europe without any ethnic, religious, or social distinctions. While it primarily serves the interests of North Americans in tracing their lineages back to a European homeland, it welcomes members from all countries.	http://feefhs.org
French Special Interest Group		http://www.jewishgen.org/French/
GenTeam	Austrian, Moravian, and Czech vital records for Jewish communities	http://www.genteam.at/index.php?lang=en
Gesher Galicia	Special Interest Group for Galicia	http://www.jewishgen.org/Galicia/
Gesher Galicia	All Galicia Database	http://search.geshergalicia.org/
German Special Interest Group (GerSIG)		http://www.jewishgen.org/GerSIG/
Grand Duchy of Lithuania Project	The Grand Duchy Research Project identifies documents relating to the lives of Jewish families who lived in Poland-Lithuania during the 17th and 18th centuries, and translates and publishes them on the Jewish Family History Foundation Website. Poll-Tax/census lists made in 1784 and 1765 are the primary documents included in this phase of the project.	http://www.jewishfamilyhistory.org/index.htm
Hal Gal	Halychyna and Eastern Galicia	http://www.halgal.com/
Hamburg Port Immigration	For records, a pay site	http://www.ancestry.com
Hamburg Immigration Museum		http://tinyurl.com/4h4qumd
Heritage Foundation For Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries	List of Eastern European Cemeteries and Conditions of Preservation	http://www.hfpjc.com/news-updates/
Hungarian Special Interest Group (H-SIG)		http://www.jewishgen.org/Hungary/
Index of Victims of Soviet Repression [Karta]	fate of named Polish citizens who suffered repression at the hands of the Soviet Communist Party apparatus during the period 1939-1956	http://www.indeks.karta.org.pl/en/wyszukiwanie.jsp
Irish Jewish Roots	Information on over 48,000 individuals who lived in Ireland between 1700 and the present day.	http://www.irishjewishroots.com/
Italian Jewish Genealogy		http://www.italian-family-history.com/jewish/genealogy.html
Jewish Heritage Europe	Ruth Gruber’s clearinghouse for news and information on Jewish monuments and heritage sites all over Europe.	http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/
Jewish Historical Institute- Genealogical Research (Warsaw,Poland)	Contact:Anna Przybyszewska-Drozd or Yale Reisner, Head of Genealogy Center E-mail: familyheritage@jhi.pl	http://www.jhi.pl/en
Jewish Records Indexing - Poland (JRI-PL)	Index of vital records from Poland	http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl http://www.jri-poland.org
Jewish Roots In Poland (Shoreshim)	Free and pay site - varies by databases	http://www.shoreshim.org/en/default.asp
Judaica Europeana	Network with currently 30 institutions: libraries, archives and museums in Europe, Israel and the US	http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/
Latvia Special Interest Group		http://www.jewishgen.org/Latvia/
Lithuanian Special Interest Group (Litvak SIG)		http://www.jewishgen.org/Litvak/
Romanian Special Interest Group		http://www.jewishgen.org/romsig/
Roots to Routes Foundation	Miriam Weiner's Eastern European Archival Database	http://www.rtrfoundation.org/
Russian Jewish Heritage Society		http://www.jewish-heritage.org/starte.htm
Scandinavian Special Interest Group		http://www.jewishgen.org/Scandinavia/
Scottish Traditions	Scottish history and traditions	http://www.scotland.org/culture/history-and-tradition/
Shoreshim	information relating to the Jewish communities of Poland	http://www.shoreshim.org/en/default.asp
Sub-Carpathia Special Interest Group	focuses on parts of the pre-WWI Hungarian megyek (counties) of Bereg, Maramaros, Ugocsa and Ung, today located in Sub-Carpathia, Ukraine.	http://www.jewishgen.org/Sub-Carpathia/
Ukraine Special Interest Group		http://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/
United Kingdom Special Interest Group		http://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-UK/
Vienna City Archives		http://www.wien.gv.at/english/history/archives/index.html
Virtual Shtetl Portal	Museum of the History of Polish Jews	http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/cms/the-project/

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Genealogy Subscription Websites:

Resource	Description	Web Site
Ancestry.com	Pay genealogy site with many resources Jewish Family site mostly free. JewishGen resources accessed no cost on Ancestry or on JewishGen	http://www.ancestry.com http://www.ancestry.com/jewishfamilyhistory
Brightsolid	Pay as go US census records	http://www.censusrecords.com
Find My Past	Pay site - U.S. and United Kingdom records, family tree	http://www.findmypast.com/
Fold3.com (formerly Footnote.com)	Free and paid genealogy site with over 10 million documents	http://www.fold3.com/
Genealogy.com		http://www.genealogy.com/index_n.html
Godfrey Memorial Library	Pay genealogy site with many resources	http://www.godfrey.org
Mocavo.com	Free and pay site search engine	http://www.mocavo.com/
MyGenShare	Pay site focuses on identifying articles about how to do genealogical research	http://mygenshare.com/
MyHeritage.com	Free and pay site family tree software and search	http://www.myheritage.com/

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General Interest:

Resource	Description	Web Site
Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center		http://www.genealogycenter.org/Home.aspx
Avotaynu	Quarterly Journal of Jewish Genealogy, Avotaynu's Nu? What's New paid weekly newsletter, book publisher of Jewish genealogy books	http://www.avotaynu.com
Avotaynu Surname Index	Consolidated Jewish Surname Index 700,000 names from 42 databases	http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.htm
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites On The Internet	Almost 300,000 links	http://www.cyndislist.com
Cyndi's List for Jewish Sites		http://www.cyndislist.com/jewish/
Cyndi's List of Free Stuff		http://www.cyndislist.com/free-stuff
Family Search	Mormon Church Family History Library, includes catalog	http://www.familysearch.org/
Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS)		http://www.FGS.org
Find a Grave	Search and browse cemeteries	http://findagrave.com/
Flicker	Photograph Collections including National Archives, Library Congress and more	http://www.flickr.com/
Genealogy Book Links	US digitized books, by state and other digitized published materials	http://genealogybooklinks.com/
Genealogy Indexer	Logan Kleinwaks Collection of directories, Yizkor Books, Military and History	http://genealogyindexer.org/
GenealogyLinks.net	Over 50,000 links	http://www.genealogylinks.net
Google Genealogy Researcher		http://www.searchforancestors.com/google/searcher.html
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society	HIAS, founded in 1881, is the oldest international migration and refugee resettlement agency in the U.S.A. and is an important resource for immigrant family information	http://www.HIAS.org Immigrant Record Search Request Form (PDF)
Immigrant Ships		http://immigrantships.net/search.html
International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS)	List of international Jewish Genealogical Societies, Annual Jewish Genealogical Yearbook, updates on legislation effecting access to vital records and more	http://www.IAJGS.org
International Genealogy Sleuth	ProGenealogists International Site with multiple site links	http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm
Jewish Encyclopedia		http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/
JewishGen.org	Online genealogical site with discussion lists and research areas covering those countries of interest to studying Jewish genealogy	http://www.jewishgen.org
JewishGen Frequently Asked Questions	A MUST read for all Jewish Genealogists	http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/faq.html
JewishGen Info Files	Information on topics of relevance to Jewish genealogical research	http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/
Logan Kleinwaks	adds full-text and soundex search capabilities to important genealogical resources available elsewhere online	http://genealogyindexer.org/
Mocavo and Mocavo UK	Free genealogy search engine	http://mocavo.com/ http://www.mocavo.co.uk/
Museum of Family History	A virtual, multimedia website created by Steven Lasky dedicated to those searching their Eastern European roots, coming to America, US cemetery records and more	http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com
National Genealogical Society		http://www.ngsgenealogy.org
New York Public Library Dorot Collection - Yizkor Books		http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/chss/jws/ yizkorbooks_intro.cfm
Search Systems	Free Public Records Search	http://www.searchsystems.net
Social Security Death Index		https://familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/1202535 http://www.stevemorse.org/ssdi/ssdi.html http://www.familytreelegends.com/records/ssdi http://go.fold3.com/ssdi/?xid=527 http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/ssdi/?kbid=10435 http://www.mocavo.com/records/ssdi?gclid=CNrypsyc2LACFRM_tgodcWS26A http://www.americanancestors.org/Search.aspx?Ca=0344&Da=269 http://ssdmf.info/
Steve Morse	Web site for one-step help: find ships manifests, search US and NY census, Canadian and British census, vital records, dealing with foreign alphabets and much more!	http://www.SteveMorse.org
Surname Navigator	Searches Multiple databases with one entry	http://www.surnamenavigator.org/
Top Search Engines and Directories for Genealogy		http://www.academic-genealogy.com/ topsearchenginesdirectories.htm

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Government Archives With Documents/Index on-Line:

Resource	Description	Web Site
Australian National Archives		http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/recordsearch/index.aspx
Austrian National Archives		http://www.austria.gv.at/DesktopDefault.aspx?alias=oestaen&init
Canada National Archives	Library and Canada National Archives	http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/index-e.html
Czech Republic National Archives		http://www.nacr.cz/eindex.htm
European Board of National Archives	List of International National Archives	http://ebna.eu/list-of-national-archives/
French National Archives		http://www.archivesdefrance.culture.gouv.fr/
Gallica Records at French National Library	French National Library	http://gallica.bnf.fr/?lang=EN
German National Archives		http://www.archivschule.de/content/33.html
Greek State Archives		http://arxeiomnimon.gak.gr/index.html
Hungarian National Archives		http://mnl.gov.hu/angol/bal_menusor/about_us.html
Irish National Archives		http://www.nationalarchives.ie/
Italian National Archives		http://www.archivi.beniculturali.it/sitoenglish.html
New Zealand Vital Records on-Line		https://www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/Home/
Poland National Archives		http://www.archiwa.gov.pl/en/news.html
Portuguese National Archives		http://antt.dgarq.gov.pt/
Russia National Library		http://www.nlr.ru/eng/opac/
Scotlands People	Scotland archives	http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
Spanish National Archives	Housed in Ministry of Culture	http://en.www.mcu.es/archivos/index.html
Swiss National Archives		http://www.bar.admin.ch/index.html?lang=en
Turkish National Archives		http://www.turkishculture.org/general/museums/ottoman-archives/general-directorate-of-632.htm
Ukraine National Archives		http://www.archives.gov.ua/Eng/
United Kingdom National Archives		http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/default.htm

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Holocaust:

Resource	Description	Web Site
Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Books		http://www.auschwitz.org/
Buchenwald Concentration Camp	Website is in German. Click “Namen” at the left to browse through the list alphabetically. Click “Recherche” to search by name.	Memorial book: http://www.buchenwald.de/totenbuch Buchenwald photo archive: http://www.buchenwald.de/fotoarchive/buchenwald/ Virtual Exhibition: http://www.buchenwald.de/fotoausstellung/index_en.html
Death Camps	Akton Reinhard Camps (ARC) Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team	http://www.deathcamps.org
Displaced Persons	Displaced Person’s Camps	http://www.dpcamps.org
Documentation Center for Austrian Resistance		http://www.doew.at/ausstellung/shoahopferdb_en.html
Gedenkbuch	Lists German Jews who perished -- over 150,000 names	http://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/directory.html
Institute of National Remembrance	Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes Against the Polish Nation	http://www.ipn.gov.pl/portal/en/22/55/ Groups_of_Archival_Documents.html
International Tracing Service - Bad Arolsen		http://www.its-arolsen.org/en/homepage/index.html
Joint Distribution Committee		http://archives.jdc.org/sharedlegacy/
La Raffle Du Vélodrome D'Hiver Les Archives De La Police	First-time Exhibit Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the French Police Rounding up the Paris Jews	http://www.pixelle.com/HM3.html Brochure (PDF)
Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas	project of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum regarding Holocaust in Lithuania	http://www.holocaustatlas.lt/EN/
Los Angeles Holocaust Museum		http://www.lamoth.org/
Majdanek Camp and Museum		http://www.majdanek.eu/?lng=1
Mittelbau Dora Concentration Camp		Memorial book: http://totenbuch.dora.de Photo archive: http://www.buchenwald.de/fotoarchive/dora/ 'Forced Labor' exhibit: http://www.ausstellung-zwangsarbeit.org/index.php?id=273&L=1
Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive	50,000+ survivor interviews conducted by Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation from 1994 to 2005 now at USC	http://tc.usc.edu/vhitc/(blf5kv2iutqkvur5apj0nnu4)/default.aspx
Sobibor Camp Website	(not an official government website)	http://www.sobibor.info/index.html
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum		http://www.ushmm.org/
Warsaw Ghetto Database		http://warszawa.getto.pl/index.php?temp=temp&lang=en
Yad Vashem		http://www.yadvashem.org To Research or Submit Pages of Testimony http://www.yadvashem.org/lwp/workplace/IY_HON_Welcome

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Israel:

Resource	Description	Web Site
b144 telephone information (Bezeq)		http://english.b144.co.il/default.aspx
Beit Hatfutsot - Douglas E. Goldman Genealogy Center		http://www.bh.org.il/database-about.aspx?genealogy
Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Jerusalem (CAHJP)		http://sites.huji.ac.il/archives
Central Zionist Archives		http://www.zionistarchives.org.il/ZA/pMainE.aspx
Encyclopedia of Founders and Builders of Israel	Touro Library Encyclopedia - in English and Hebrew	http://www.tidhar.tourolib.org/
International Institute for Jewish Genealogy and Paul Jacobi Center	Aim is to develop Jewish genealogy into a recognized field of academic investigation	http://www.iijg.org/
Israel Genealogical Society		http://www.isragen.org.il/
Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA)	All Israel Database	http://www.genealogy.org.il
Israel Phone Book		http://www.israelpb.com/
National Library of Israel		http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/Pages/default.aspx
Rishon Le-Zion Digital Family Album	Documents the people who lived in Rishon Le-Zion during the first forty years (1882-1922)	http://www.gen-mus.co.il/en/about/

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Latin America:

Resource	Description	Web Site
Argentina Cemetery Databases		http://www.amia.org.ar/index.php/services/default/sepelios
Brazil immigration indexed database arrival records for the Port of Santos	(Portuguese)	http://www.memorialdoimigrante.org.br/
Center for Studies Latin American Immigration		http://www.cemla.com/busqueda.php

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Local/California Interest:

Resource	Description	Web Site
American Jewish University	Ostrow Library and American Jewish Libraries	http://library.ajula.edu/
California State Archives		http://www.sos.ca.gov/archives/
Hebrew Union College Library		http://www.huc.edu/libraries/LA/
Los Angeles Family History Library		Old site: http://www.lafhl.org/index.htm New Wiki site: https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Los_Angeles_Family_History_Library
Simon Wiesenthal Library		http://www.wiesenthal.com/library
Southern California Genealogical Society and Family Research Center		http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/
UCLA Judaica Library		http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special.cfm

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Maps:

Resource	Description	Web Site
David Rumsey Map Collection		http://www.davidrumsey.com/
Google Maps		https://maps.google.com/
Library of Congress (USA)		http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gnrlhome.html
Maps4U.LT	Old maps of Austria, Eastern Europe, Germany and Russia, etc	http://maps4u.lt/en/news.php
Old Maps Online	Search interface with over 60,000 maps from different map collections	http://www.oldmapsonline.org/
Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection	Map Collection	http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/
Russian Maps of 19^th Century		http://www.wwii-photos-maps.com/ 19thcenturyrussianmaps/
University of Toronto Map Collection		http://mdl.library.utoronto.ca/
US Geological Survey	historical printed topographic maps	http://nationalmap.gov/historical/

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Military Records:

Resource	Description	Web Site
Military Records (USA)		http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel/ http://www.archives.gov/research/order/order-vets-records.html http://aad.archives.gov/aad (NARA data base)
Military Lists - American	Genealogy Quest military (USA) lists since 1656	http://www.genealogy-quest.com/military/
Jews in Civil War and Wild West		http://www.jewish-history.com/Default.htm
NY State WWII Military Records	NY National Guard WWII Records	http://dmna.ny.gov/historic/
OnLine Military Indexes and Records	Directory of links to online military indexes and records for USA genealogy research	http://www.militaryindexes.com/
Russian Army Jewish Soldiers	Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905	http://www.bfcollection.net/fast/rjtownname.html
United States Military Records		http://www.archives.gov/st-louis/military-personnel/
WWII US Medical Research Center	On-line database containing the list of all WW2 US Medical Department Item Numbers and their descriptions	http://www.med-dept.com

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Miscellaneous:

Resource	Description	Web Site
e.jewish.info		http://www.ejewish.info/resources/
Family Tree DNA	DNA firm with strong Jewish interest	http://www.familytreedna.com
Genealogy Sleuth		http://progenealogists.com/ genealogysleuthb.htm
Generous Genealogists	Replaces Random Acts of Kindness, a group of volunteers who agree to provide free genealogy research and assistance, as an act of kindness, to 'those in need'	http://generousgenealogists.com/
Internet Archive	Free collection all sorts of information	http://archive.org/index.php
JewishWeb Index		http://jewishwebindex.com
Judaica Sound Archives at Florida Atlantic University	Judaica Music Archives Free site to listen	http://faujsa.fau.edu/jsa/home.php
Linkipendium	catalog of links to United States genealogy information, records, pages and sources, organized by geography	http://www.linkpendium.com/
National Yiddish Book Center		http://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/
Only Simchas	Site for searching Orthodox engagements, marriages, births, Bar Mitzvahs	http://www.onlysimchas.com
Southern Israelite Archive	Digital Library of Georgia: 1929-1958 and 1984-1986	http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/israelite

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Newspapers:

Resource	Description	Web Site
Australia newspapers	National Library of Australia	http://trove.nla.gov.au/
British Library and BrightSolid	Historical newspapers	http://www1.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
Canadian Jewish News	1960-1993	http://multiculturalcanada.ca/cjn2
Canadian Jewish Review	Newspaper Archives from 1921-1966	http://multiculturalcanada.ca/mcc_cjr
Google Newspaper Research		USA - http://news.google.com/archivesearch International - http://news.google.com/newspapers
Historical Newspapers	Index to Historical Newspapers on the Internet USA	http://www.researchguides.net/newspapers.htm
International Coalition of Newspapers		http://icon.crl.edu/digitization.htm
New York State Historical Newspapers		http://www.fultonhistory.com/fulton.html
New Zealand Newspapers	National Library of New Zealand	http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast
Pittsburgh Jewish Newspapers	Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project makes available more than one hundred years of Jewish newspapers published in Pittsburgh	http://digitalcollections.library.cmu.edu/pjn/index.jsp
University of Pennsylvania Historical Newspapers		http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/guides/hist/ onlinenewspapers.html
Wikipedia Worldwide On-Line Newspaper Archives	free and pay sites	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_archives_online

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Search Engine Websites:

Resource	Description	Web Site
411.com	Search site for people/businesses by white and Yellow pages	http://www.411.com/
Duckduck.com	Search for living persons	http://duckduckgo.com/
Internet Archives	(telephone directories, city directories and more)	http://www.archive.org/
Phone Book of the World		http://www.phonebookoftheworld.com/
Million Short	You can "narrow" the websites used in a search to the less popular ones	http://millionshort.com/
Pipl.com	Site for searching for people	http://www.pipl.com
ZabaSearch	Free people search	http://www.zabasearch.com

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Sephardic:

Resource	Description	Web Site
American Sephardi Federation		http://www.AmericanSephardiFederation.org/
Casa-Shalom	Institute for Marrano (Anusim) Studies	http://casa-shalom.com/
e-Sefarad	Notices of worldwide Sephardic articles (bi-lingual)	http://www.esefarad.com/
Routes to Sefarad	Jewish Heritage in Spain	http://www.redjuderias.org/google/index.php?l=en
Sephardic Genealogy Resources and Sephardic Special Interest Group		http://www.sephardicgen.com/ http://www.jewishgen.org/Sephardic/
Sephardim.com	Sephardic Name Engine plus more	http://www.sephardim.com/

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South Africa:

Resource	Description	Web Site
Kaplan Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town	South African Jewish Genelaogy and Migration Records	http://www.kaplancentre.uct.ac.za/
Poor Jews Temporary Shelter Database (England)	Site for immigration from Eastern Europe to South Africa with temporary stay in England 1896-1914	http://chrysalis.its.uct.ac.za/shelter/shelter.htm
South African Special Interest Group		http://www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica/

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United States:

Resource	Description	Web Site
American Jewish Archives	The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, located on the Cincinnati campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, houses over ten million pages of documentation	http://americanjewisharchives.org/
Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative	History of Jews in Brooklyn from its early beginnings in the nineteenth century, to its history in the making today.	http://brooklynjewish.org/
Castle Garden	1830-1892 Pre-Ellis Island NY Ship Arrivals	http://castlegarden.org
Center for Jewish History	Houses American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and the YIVO Insititute for Jewish Research	http://www.cjh.org
Early American Interest Group		http://www.jewishgen.org/EarlyAmerican/
Ellis Island	Search the Ellis Island database for passenger arrivals between 1892 and 1924	http://www.ellisisland.org
Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities		http://www.isjl.org/history/archive/
First American Jewish Families (Malcom Stern)	American Jewish Archives digitized version of Rabbi Stern's 600 genealogies 1654-1988	http://americanjewisharchives.org/FAJF/intro.php
Genealogy Resources by State	State Government Genealogical Resources	http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/History_Family/ State_Genealogy.shtml
Hebrew National Orphan Home	List of Hebrew Orphan Homes	http://hnoh.com
Italian Genealogy Group	Where to search for all NYC and surrounding counties vital records and naturalization documents	http://www.italiangen.org
Library of Congress	US Library of Congress	http://www.loc.gov/index.html
National Archives		http://www.archives.gov/research/genealogy/start-research/ home page for NARA : http://www.archives.gov/index.html Access to archives data base: http://aad.archives.gov/aad
New York City Clerk’s Office	Marriage Records	http://www.cityclerk.nyc.gov/html/marriage/records.shtml
New York City Municipal Archives		http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/vitalrecords/home.shtml
United States Archives by State		http://sos.georgia.gov/archives/what_do_we_have/ other_state_archives/default.htm
United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS)	Genealogy Requests Fee For Service Program	http://www.uscis.gov/genealogy
United States Genealogy Sleuth	Pro Genealogists Site of multiple genealogy sites	http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm
United States Ports of Arrival & Available Passenger Lists	Includes Canadian and Mexican Border crossings	http://www.genesearch.com/ports.html

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