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Jewish Data Database

Access: On-Site Access Only

Description: The database contains more than 170,000 records about Jewish history and genealogy. The database is divided into three types of records:

Declaration of Intention Documents filed by Jewish immigrants (Jewish Passenger Records at Ellis Island ) and the Social Security Death Index.
Entire Jewish Cemeteries with images of every tombstone, easily searchable, including English indexing for some Hebrew only monuments. The database also includes many images from Canada, and Germany. Some of the tombstones from Germany are hundreds of years old.
A number of hard to find books on Jewish History and Genealogy such as Who's Who in American Jewry, 1926. Every name entry is indexed, and users can just click to see a clear image of the original page.

Also try JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy , which contains the JewishGen Family Finder (a database of 400,000 surnames and towns), the comprehensive directory of InfoFiles, ShtetLinks for over 200 communities, Yizkor Book translations, and databases such as the ShtetlSeeker and All Country Databases. JewishGen's Family Tree of the Jewish People contains data on more than three million people. JewishGen also serves as host to independent organizations such as Jewish Records Indexing - Poland.

Coverage: Various Dates

Subject(s)
African & Middle East Studies
History, Genealogy & Archives
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Related Databases On-Site Access Only
Ancestry Library Edition

Related Links
Yizkor Book Database
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