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Genealogical Online Data Resources

Online collection of more than 700 Yizkor Books produced by the NYPL and the National Yiddish Book Center. Displays individual page images for each book.
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 The first database to include immigration to the United States through Ellis Island. This link will take you to a search form designed by Dr. Stephen Morse, computer whiz, which is easier to use and more flexible than the one provided at the Ellis Island website.
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The FHL records span billions of names across hundreds of collections—including birth, marriage, death, probate, land, military, IGI extracted, and more.
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 Database of ancestral towns and surnames currently being researched by Jewish genealogists worldwide. You can find there others who are seeking ancestors of the same surname or town of origin.
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A database of Jewish graves, with transcribed matzevah (gravestone) data, and sometimes photos.
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 More than one million records for Ukraine, from a variety of sources, including: voter lists, business directories, vital records, diplomatic records, yizkor books, and others. The database is a work in progress and new entries are being added regularly.
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Yizkor (Memorial) Books are a tribute to the towns and the people who were murdered during the Holocaust. They were written by groups of former residents, or landsmanshaftn.
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 Russian website dedicated to the Jewish Genealogy. Has a big database plus a forum with plenty of links and information.
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Genealogy Indexer adds full-text and soundex search capabilities to important genealogical resources available elsewhere online. Search more than 200,000 pages of historical directories (business, address, telephone, yizkor books, lists of Polish military officers, community and personal histories, schools annual reports and other school sources, etc.). More genealogical resources are being added daily.
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 The MJMD records are base on the applications of Jewish emigrants who applied to theJCA & ITO's information bureaux which were scattered all over the Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire in the early twentieth century. The MJMD includes records of applications between 1904 and 1914 only.
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A database detailing the Jewish-genealogy-related inventory of many archives in Ukraine.
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 Access to a number of Odessa State Archives digitized fonds including the Odessa rabbinate metrical books, the 1897 census and the list of prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp.
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A listing of cemeteries with Jewish burials,and innformation about the cemeteries.
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 The Family History Library has published 67,250 images (non indexed) corresponding to the 1897 census records
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Searcheable database created by Miriam Weiner (Routes to Roots Foundation). This alphabetical name index includes 4,505 heads of Jewish families that had a status of Odessa Meshchanin (city dweller).
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According to the website, they cover the European territory of the former Russian Empire, people born before 1918. We estimate that the Center's website has more than 6 million individual name entries ... between 500,000 and 1 million Jewish name entries.
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 he Jerusalem Museum of Holocaust, has a searcheable database with the names and biographical details of half of the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices.
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Other Research & Data Resources

The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP) were established in 1939. They hold the archives of hundreds of Jewish communities, as well as of local, national and international Jewish organizations and the private collections of many outstanding Jewish personalities. The Archives now hold the most extensive collection of documents, pinkassim (registers) and other records of Jewish history from the Middle Ages to the present day.
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French association for the conservation and difussion of the of the Odessite French and Jewish culture.
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Life in Old Odessa

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Site dedicated to New Russia. History, documents, images and forum.
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 In this blog you will find stories about the past and present of the Jewish community of the city of Odessa (Ukraine), told the students the ORT school ?94 within the framework of the World ORT "Chibur".
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Language: English  A revisit of old and modern Odessa through images by Larissa Oshmyany
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Image Gallery of Old Odessa
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Life in Odessa Today

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Language: Russian Translate with Google The website of the Jewish Community of Odessa (the russian version has more contents than the english one).
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Site and forum aimed at preserving the Odessa cultural heritage.
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Maps & Gazetteers

Language: English  Standard Finder is a FamilySearch Labs application which provides access to standardized information for names, locations, and dates. These databases are used by several FamilySearch applications to assist researchers in searching for exact spellings as well as for indexers who enter information used for RecordSearch.
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Tools

Language: English  After Dr. Stephen Morse designed a better Ellis Island search form, he realized there was a need for similar access to many databases. This link has all of them.
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