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500 Selected Web-Based Resources for Genealogical Selected web-based resources for genealogical research Essential websites: www.cyndislist.com Clearinghouse for genealogy websites, Cyndi’s list has more than 281850 links, categorized & cross-referenced, in over 180 categories” with more being added daily. http://yadvashem.org/ databases at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem http://www.jewishgen.org/ databases of vital records pertaining to Jewish Genealogy worldwide, research information, family trees http://stevemorse.org/ a one-step portal for on-line genealogical research http://www.ancestry.com/ subscription based databases of international records, family trees, and general research information http://ellisisland.org/ database of ship manifests arriving at Ellis Island, NY http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp databases of genealogical records and resources compiled by the Church of the Latter Day Saints Forms and Charts http://genealogy.about.com/library/free_charts/Family_Tree.pdf family tree chart with fillable form fields http://www.genwed.com/state/ny/nygen.htm forms for obtaining New York marriage records on-line http://www.familytreeregistry.org/ family tree can be uploaded & search for other trees http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/ ordering vital records in England & Wales http://www.geni.com/family-tree/start family tree can be built. http://www.bloodandfrogs.com/2011/02/finding-and-getting-copies-of- jewish.html - Jewish Genealogy techniques & forms Photos & Maps: http://polmap.republika.pl/polska1.htm Polish maps: in Polish http://english.mapywig.org/news.php Maps developed by the Polish Military Geographical Institute http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html#F U.S. Library of Congress print and photograph catalog. 500 http://memory.loc.gov/service/mss/pldec/002/0198.jpg Signatures of students in Stanislawow. http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Map/Maps.Main.html Historical maps of New York. http://www.forgotten-ny.com/ New York City historical areas. http://www.tenant.net/Community/LES/contents.html Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century. http://english.mapywig.org/news.php maps of east and central Europe. Shoah http://www.errproject.org/jeudepaume/ Database of Cultural Plunder http://www.zchor.org/searchin/searchin.htm Searching for Victims of the Shoah http://www.doew.at/cgi-bin/shoah/shoah.pl?lang=engl Database of Victims http://www.jewishtraces.org/search.php Archives and history of the Shoah http://yadvashem.org/ Yad Vashem http://www.ushmm.org/ USHMM http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=242023 Wiesenthal Center http://www.holocaustcenter.org/ Michigan Holocaust Center http://www.jewishgen.org/registry/ JewishGen Holocaust Registry http://www.jewishtraces.org/ Holocaust History and Archives http://www.dpcamps.org/ Database of Displaced Persons’ Camps http://www.zchor.org/friedman/june.htm The Story of June Steinberg Friedman Family Genealogy Websites & Blogs http://www.wertheimer.info/family/GRAMPS/Haapalah/plc/d/8/bc39f05bdfe366a 568d.html Wertheimer family. http://agravecuriosity.com blog of David Suddarth, a genealogist from St. Paul, MN http://allaboutgenealogy-sacredsisters3.blogspot.com/ Sarah Greenberg’s Mogilev family http://www.avaslan.net/ Brian Friedman’s search for Zlotover ancestors http://blog.branchesofourtree.com Blog & family tree of Bret Petersen 501 http://browncountygenealogy.blogspot.com/ Genealogy in Brown County Indiana http://www.family-gruenwald.at/ Gruenwald family research (in German) http://familyhistorynuggets.blogspot.com blog of Kevin Huigens from Nebraska http://findingkline.wordpress.com blog of Courtney Kline http://geneodyssey.blogspot.com/ From Australia a research blog by Dani H. http://grossmanproject.net/Table%20of%20Contents.htm Max Elijah Grossman’s project http://www.horowitzassociation.org/ Horowitz Family http://judiology.blogspot.com/ blog of Judi Lee, former director of the Calgary FHC http://khcplgenealogy.blogspot.com blog of Kokomo-Howard County Library in Kokomo, Indiana http://www2.mcdaniel.edu/Psychology/HBO/JHWyszkow3.html Howard Orenstein’s project http://michelle-goldstein.blogspot.com/search/label/Copenhague Michelle Goldstein’s blog (in French) http://patientgen.blogspot.com Genealogy of Geiszler, Comfort, Brown and Long. http://www.paulgassfamily.com/index.htm Carole Vogel’s Paul Gass Family website http://www.pegslist.blogspot.com blog of Peggy Ingles from Baltimore, MD http://perskiefamilygenealogy.com Persky - Perski - Perskie Family Tree http://rememberingancestors.blogspot.com blog of Sara Campbell of Western, MA http://suffragewagon.wordpress.com blog of Marguerite Kearns http://www.reproots.org/ Family tree and blog from Israel by Gershon Lewental http://rubyfamily.blogspot.com/ Ruby family tree www.rutherfordgenealogy.org Rutherford Genealogy http://www.schlissel.org/ Schlissel/Schlussel Family https://sites.google.com/site/efronfamilyhistory/ Efron family genealogy http://stephendanko.com/blog/ Stephen J. Danko’s Blog http://www.thekesters.net/Genealogy/Home.html Daniel Kester’s family tree http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/q/u/Lynn-Squire/ODT2-0001.html Descendants of David Zwerin http://vladimirets.org/ Family tree of Terryn Barill Tower 502 http://who-knew-it.blogspot.com Gunzendorfer family search http://genpals.blogspot.com/ web sites which transcribe Jewish records from the UK. http://chfreedman.blogspot.com/ blog of Chaim Freedman, the author of Eliyahu's Branches. http://efronfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/ Jim Yarin’s Efron, Effron, Ephron, Affron family http://idogenealogy.com/blog/ blog of Banai Feldstein from Salt Lake City. http://jewishgen.blogspot.com/ The official blog of JewishGen http://jewishgraveyardrabbit.blogspot.com/ blog on international Jewish cemeteries http://uzlyanykaddish.blogspot.com/ history of Eli and Fruma Fuchs of Uzlyany in Belarus. http://knowlescollection.blogspot.com/ database of hundreds of thousands of Jews http://sgweinberg.blogspot.com/ blog of a journey to Vilnius and shtetls http://mishpachtoblogia.co.il/ joint blog (in Hebrew) of three Israeli genealogists http://genblog.myheritage.com/category/jewish/ Blog of myheritage.com http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/ blog of Janice M. Sellers http://community.livejournal.com/jewishxroots/ Dmitri Tartakovsky’s genetic genealogy http://www.moldovaimpressions.blogspot.com/ record of a Moldava day trip in 2008 http://blogs.archives.gov/online-public-access/ National Archives blog http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com/ Schelly Talalay Dardashti’s Tracing the Tribe blog http://www.genealogyandfamilyhistory.com/ Blog about genealogy books and their authors http://www.whatsbehindthelights.com/ Light family genealogy http://czernowitz.blogspot.com/ Edgar Hauster’s Czernowitz blog General Research Tools & Magazines: http://www.geneamusings.com/ Genealogy research tips and techniques http://www.geneabloggers.com/ the genealogy community’s resource for genealogy blogging 503 http://genealogytipoftheday.blogspot.com/ daily genealogy tip http://mjmd.haifa.ac.il/search/ mass Jewish migration database http://www.geneaservice.nl/navigator/israel/ surname navigator http://www.jewishfamilyhistory.org/index.htm Jewish family history foundation http://www.jewishphotolibrary.com/ HaChayim HaYehudim Jewish Photo Library http://www.behindthename.com/nmc/bibl.php etymology of first names http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.htm main page of Avotaynu, publisher of genealogy materials http://www.historicmapworks.com/ historic maps collection http://www.google.com/language_tools Google translate tool http://www.familytreemagazine.com/ website of Family Tree Magazine http://www.worldwidetopsites.com/sites/genealogy.html Top genealogy websites worldwide http://www.movinghere.org.uk/galleries/roots/jewish/tracingjewishroots/tracingj ewishroots.htm U.K. Jewish research https://www.familysearch.org/ main search page for the LDS databases http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ Ancestry.com’s rootsweb database collection and search http://www.findmypast.com/home.jsp Databases of UK vital records, census, immigration data http://www.academic-genealogy.com/regionalgenealogy.htm#usa links to regional databases in the US http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2007/07/follow-up-lds-c.html Dick Eastman’s magazine http://www.dar.org/library/onsiteDatabases.cfm#HeritageQuest DAR library and links http://www.cjh.org/ Center for Jewish History http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/ Museum of Family History http://www.worldcat.org/ Network of library content and services http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Main_Page Genealogy Wiki http://www.legacy.com/NS/ Obituaries from over 800 English language newspapers http://www.op.nysed.gov/opsearches.htm Office of professions database http://www.theshipslist.com/ Passenger ship lists primarily for Canada, Australia 504 and the US http://mjmd.haifa.ac.il/index.php?link=home Mass Jewish migration database of the early twentieth century http://www.reverso.net/text_translation.asp?lang=EN Translation service http://rtrfoundation.org/ Genealogical guide to Jewish and civil records in Eastern Europe http://www.library.drexel.edu/blogs/collections/ Drexel University archives http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/index.php more than 40,000 digitized genealogy and family history publications DNA Resources http://www.familytreedna.com/ FamilyTree DNA http://www.ysearch.org/ YDNA testing comparisons http://www.jewishgen.org/DNA/ JewishGen DNA links and discussion group Newspapers and Periodicals http://news.nnyln.net/ Northern New York historical newspapers http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
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