Resources
Vital Records:
California Department of Public Health
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
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
Woodland Hills
630 West Fifth Street (between Grand and Flower, downtown)
Los Angeles, California 90071-2097
Telephone: Information, Main Number (213) 228-7000
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/
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:
Los Angeles County
Los Angeles Family History Library
10741 Santa Monica Boulevard
West Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 474-9990
http://www.lafhl.org/
Mon, Fri, Sat 9AM-5 PM, Tues, Wed, Thur 9AM-9PM
Closed Sundays
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:
Europe:
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Resource
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Description
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Web Site
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Austria-Czech Special Interest Group
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http://www.jewishgen.org/AustriaCzech/
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Belarus Special Interest Group
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http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/
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Bremen Passenger
Lists
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1920-1939
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http://www.passengerlists.de/
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Courland Special Interest Group
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http://www.jewishgen.org/Courland/
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DigiBaeck
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Free digital archive of 500 years of German-Jewish speaking Jewish history
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http://www.lbi.org/digibaeck/
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Digitized Collection of Jewish Records
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Eastern Galician: free searchable database of about 5000 digital copies of Jewish vital, communal, organizational, legal, immigration, school, and other categories of records
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http://dcjr.org/
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Federation
of Eastern European Family History Societies (FEEFHS)
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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.
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http://feefhs.org
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French Special Interest Group
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http://www.jewishgen.org/French/
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GenTeam
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Austrian, Moravian, and Czech vital records for Jewish communities
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http://www.genteam.at/index.php?lang=en
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Gesher Galicia
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Special Interest Group for Galicia
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http://www.jewishgen.org/Galicia/
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Gesher Galicia
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All Galicia Database
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http://search.geshergalicia.org/
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German Special Interest Group (GerSIG)
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http://www.jewishgen.org/GerSIG/
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Grand Duchy
of Lithuania Project
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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.
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http://www.jewishfamilyhistory.org/index.htm
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Hal Gal
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Halychyna and Eastern Galicia
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http://www.halgal.com/
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Hamburg Port Immigration
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For records, a pay site
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http://www.ancestry.com
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Hamburg
Immigration Museum
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http://tinyurl.com/4h4qumd
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Heritage Foundation For Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries
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List of Eastern European Cemeteries and Conditions of Preservation
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http://www.hfpjc.com/news-updates/
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Hungarian Special Interest Group (H-SIG)
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http://www.jewishgen.org/Hungary/
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Index of Victims of Soviet Repression [Karta]
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fate of named Polish citizens who suffered repression at the hands of the Soviet Communist Party apparatus during the period 1939-1956
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http://www.indeks.karta.org.pl/en/wyszukiwanie.jsp
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Irish Jewish Roots
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Information on over 48,000 individuals who lived in Ireland between 1700 and the present day.
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http://www.irishjewishroots.com/
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Italian Jewish Genealogy
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http://www.italian-family-history.com/jewish/genealogy.html
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Jewish Heritage Europe
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Ruth Gruber’s clearinghouse for news and information on Jewish monuments and heritage sites all over Europe.
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http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/
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Jewish Historical Institute- Genealogical Research (Warsaw,Poland)
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Contact:Anna Przybyszewska-Drozd or
Yale Reisner, Head of Genealogy Center E-mail: familyheritage@jhi.pl
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http://www.jhi.pl/en
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Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
(JRI-PL)
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Index of vital records from Poland
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http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl
http://www.jri-poland.org
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Jewish Roots In Poland (Shoreshim)
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Free and pay site - varies by databases
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http://www.shoreshim.org/en/default.asp
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Judaica Europeana
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Network with currently 30 institutions:
libraries, archives and museums in Europe, Israel and the US
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http://www.judaica-europeana.eu/
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Latvia Special Interest Group
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http://www.jewishgen.org/Latvia/
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Lithuanian Special Interest Group
(Litvak SIG)
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http://www.jewishgen.org/Litvak/
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Romanian Special Interest Group
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http://www.jewishgen.org/romsig/
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Roots to Routes Foundation
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Miriam Weiner's Eastern European Archival Database
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http://www.rtrfoundation.org/
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Russian Jewish Heritage Society
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http://www.jewish-heritage.org/starte.htm
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Scandinavian Special Interest Group
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http://www.jewishgen.org/Scandinavia/
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Scottish Traditions
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Scottish history and traditions
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http://www.scotland.org/culture/history-and-tradition/
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Shoreshim
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information relating to the Jewish communities of Poland
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http://www.shoreshim.org/en/default.asp
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Sub-Carpathia Special Interest Group
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focuses on parts of the pre-WWI Hungarian megyek (counties) of Bereg, Maramaros, Ugocsa and Ung, today located in Sub-Carpathia, Ukraine.
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http://www.jewishgen.org/Sub-Carpathia/
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Ukraine Special Interest Group
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http://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/
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United Kingdom Special Interest Group
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http://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-UK/
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Vienna City Archives
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http://www.wien.gv.at/english/history/archives/index.html
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Virtual Shtetl Portal
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Museum of the History of Polish Jews
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http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/cms/the-project/
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Genealogy Subscription Websites:
General Interest:
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Resource
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Description
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Web Site
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Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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http://www.genealogycenter.org/Home.aspx
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Avotaynu
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Quarterly Journal of Jewish Genealogy,
Avotaynu's Nu? What's New paid weekly newsletter, book publisher of Jewish genealogy books
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http://www.avotaynu.com
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Avotaynu Surname Index
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Consolidated Jewish Surname Index 700,000 names from 42 databases
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http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.htm
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Cyndi's
List of Genealogy Sites On The Internet
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Almost 300,000 links
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http://www.cyndislist.com
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Cyndi's
List for Jewish Sites
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http://www.cyndislist.com/jewish/
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Cyndi's List of Free Stuff
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http://www.cyndislist.com/free-stuff
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Family Search
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Mormon Church Family History Library, includes catalog
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http://www.familysearch.org/
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Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS)
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http://www.FGS.org
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Find a Grave
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Search and browse cemeteries
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http://findagrave.com/
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Flicker
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Photograph Collections including National Archives, Library Congress and more
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http://www.flickr.com/
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Genealogy Book Links
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US digitized books, by state and other digitized published materials
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http://genealogybooklinks.com/
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Genealogy Indexer
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Logan Kleinwaks Collection of directories, Yizkor Books, Military and History
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http://genealogyindexer.org/
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GenealogyLinks.net
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Over 50,000 links
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http://www.genealogylinks.net
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Google
Genealogy Researcher
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http://www.searchforancestors.com/google/searcher.html
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Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society
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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
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http://www.HIAS.org
Immigrant Record Search Request
Form (PDF)
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Immigrant
Ships
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http://immigrantships.net/search.html
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International Association of Jewish Genealogical
Societies (IAJGS)
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List of international
Jewish Genealogical Societies, Annual Jewish Genealogical Yearbook, updates on legislation effecting access to
vital records and more
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http://www.IAJGS.org
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International Genealogy Sleuth
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ProGenealogists International Site with multiple site links
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http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm
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Jewish Encyclopedia
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http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/
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JewishGen.org
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Online
genealogical site with discussion lists and research areas covering those
countries of interest to studying Jewish genealogy
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http://www.jewishgen.org
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JewishGen
Frequently Asked Questions
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A MUST read for all Jewish Genealogists
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http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/faq.html
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JewishGen Info Files
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Information on topics of relevance to Jewish genealogical research
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http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/
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Logan Kleinwaks
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adds full-text and soundex search capabilities to important genealogical resources available elsewhere online
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http://genealogyindexer.org/
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Mocavo and Mocavo UK
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Free genealogy search engine
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http://mocavo.com/
http://www.mocavo.co.uk/
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Museum of Family History
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A virtual, multimedia website created by Steven
Lasky dedicated to those searching their Eastern European roots, coming to America, US cemetery records and more
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http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com
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National Genealogical Society
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http://www.ngsgenealogy.org
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New York Public Library Dorot Collection - Yizkor Books
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http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/chss/jws/ yizkorbooks_intro.cfm
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Search Systems
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Free Public Records Search
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http://www.searchsystems.net
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Social Security Death Index
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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/
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Steve Morse
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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!
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http://www.SteveMorse.org
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Surname Navigator
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Searches Multiple databases with one entry
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http://www.surnamenavigator.org/
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Top Search Engines and Directories for
Genealogy
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http://www.academic-genealogy.com/ topsearchenginesdirectories.htm
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Government Archives With Documents/Index on-Line:
Holocaust:
Israel:
Latin America:
Local/California Interest:
Maps:
Military Records:
Miscellaneous:
Newspapers:
Search Engine Websites:
Sephardic:
South Africa:
United States:
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