Links

Here are some useful links to assist you with your research.

Digging Deeper: Researching Our Ancestors with Technology

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois presents this conference on June 9, 2013

Click here to find out more about the 33rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy. August 4-9, 2013

The 34th Annual IAJGS International Conference:
Salt Lake City, Utah
July 27 - August 1, 2014

A link not yet active. The conference will be cohosted by the IAJGS and Utah Jewish Genealogical Society.
For travel information.

The 35th Annual IAJGS International Conference: Jerusalem, Israel

The link for the 2015 web site is not yet active.

Can't decide if you want to attend a conference? Watch this Youtube video.
YouTube Information Video

Societies and Organizations

Internet Researching

JewishGen: The home of Jewish Genealogy. A "must" for anyone in Jewish Genealogy.
The JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF): Register here to find other people researching the same names and places.
Steve Morse One Step Web Site: Use Steve Morse's brilliant site to more easily help search for many records, including Ellis Island ship manifests. Many tools are included.
The Statue of Liberty - The Ellis Island Foundation: Search for original and typed ship manifests. Page through those lists also.
Ancestry: The World's Largest online family history resource.
The New York Public Library: The New York Public Library (NYPL) is digitizing all of the 1940 New York City telephone directories. They have them available on their website.
Fold3: Find military documents.
LDS Family History Search: Free Family History, Family Tree, Genealogy Records and Resources from Around the World from the Mormon Church. The genealogy web site of the LDS Church. Search the index for records you can use.
Fast Film: A computer science student at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Utah has developed a free program that allows a person to automatically download batches of digitized microfilm images from
FamilySearch.org to his or her hard drive.
United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum - Research page: An overview of the digital and library resources of the US Holocaust museum.
The World Memory Project: a joint venture between the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com, now has more than one million records online.
Yad Vashem Pages of Testimony: Search for family names and possible relatives lost in the holocaust.
Cyndi's List: A categorized & cross-referenced index to genealogical resources on the Internet.
US GenWeb Project: A group of volunteers working together to provide free genealogy websites for genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States.
Family Genealogy and History Internet Education Directory
Jewishwebindex
Where to Write for Vital Records: A state by state list compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics.
Canadian Archives: Searchable data base of Immigrants to Canada before 1865.
Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island; Yearbook Project: The JGS of Long Island undertook a project to list the yearbooks held by its members and others. The list is on-line. The requests go to the people holding those books. Read more at the link.
World-Wide Genealogy Resources: The WorldGenWeb has hosts for about half the countries in the world. In addition to sites for individual countries, WorldGenWeb sites exist for many regions.
Heritage Quest
My Heritage Search Engine
Center for Jewish History
Routes to Roots Foundation
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
General Register Office of England & Wales
Easy Google Genealogy Searcher
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee: The database currently includes 500,000 names found in the historic documents and client lists, with more being added regularly.
GenealogySpot: a free resource center that simplifies the search for the best online genealogy resources for beginners and experts alike.
Latvian Holocaust Victims: The purpose of the Latvia Holocaust Jewish Names Project is to recover the names and identities of these members of the Latvian Jewish Community who perished and to ensure that their memory is preserved.
The All Israeli Database: The free databases are divided into 3 eras: Ottoman Administration (- 1917), British Administration (1917-1948), Israeli Administration (1948- )
Genealogy InTIme search engine. Search their records for free.
Czestochowa-Radomsko Area Research Group finds, translates, and types Holocaust survivor lists and death lists from around Poland.
New York State death indices from 1957 to 1962.
Wikipedia list of online newspaper archives: List of free and for fee archives from all over the world.
Fulton History: Old NY State historical newspapers and postcards.
Don's list: Directories, Almanacs, Businesses, Registers, Street Guides by state.

Maps

Show My Street:
Mapywig : Their site contains a large collection of topographical maps owned by WIG - from Poland and neighboring countries (Lithuania, Germany, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia) between the two world wars. They also display many other scanned maps, not owned by WIG, from Austria-Hungary, Russia and the Soviet Union, Germany, and other parts of central Europe, from the early 19th century onwards.
Atlas of Historical County Boundaries: Historical U.S. boundaries for every state.

Cemetery Searches

Jewishgen Online Worldwide Burial Registry
Mount Hebron Cemetery, New York
Mount Carmel Cemetery, New York
Mount Zion Cemetery Maspeth, Queens, New York
Find a Grave
Riverside Cemetery, Saddle Brook: This is a searchable database for Riverside Cemetery, located in Saddle Brook, New Jersey. Click on "Genealogy search" on the left column.
Map of Newark, NJ cemeteries
The Graveyard Rabbit
Jewish Cemeteries of Lithuania: A non-profit Lithuanian organization has developed a website that identifies 272 Jewish cemeteries in Lithuania most of which are abandoned and desecrated.

Vendors

(Below are links to vendors who carry or specialize in Judaica. This list is in no way a recommendation - just a list of those I either know about or purchased from.)

Family Trees for Gifts: Looking for a great gift for the holidays or special occasion? Check here for pages of links to genealogy gifts you can purchase.
Genealogy.com
The Ancestry store
The Toycrafter
Dor L'Dor
Gold 'n Cermaics
JewishGen Mall
National Archives E-Store
Heirloom Ancestry

Photo Editing

Picasa: A free photo editing app by Google.
Picasa basics webinar: Learn some basics of using Picasa.
Gimp
Gimp tutorial
Photoshop:
Photoshop Elements:
Graphic Converter (Mac only)

Search for People on the Internet

Archives/Repositories: What Do They Have? How Do I Get It?

New Jersey State Archives: The home page for the New Jersey Archives.
The New Jersey Archives: Sending for Genealogical Records: This is an informational page for anyone who wants to send to the New Jersey Archives for vital records. You do not have to be a direct relative, but you do have to know relevant dates.
The National Archives: This page is provided for genealogists.
National Archives, NYC Branch
Newark Public Library: Selected Materials in the New Jersey Information Center Relative to New Jersey Genealogical Research. Included is an extensive list of the city directories -- some on microfilm.
Morristown Library: North Jersey History and Genealogy Center Collections
State Library in Trenton: Resources for Genealogy and Local History Collection
New York Public Library: Great resource for many kinds of records. Very cute video about the N.Y. Public Library's Irma and Paul Milstein Division of U.S. History, Local History and Genealogy
Passaic County Clerk's Office: Search for property or naturalization records on line.
The Joint Distribution Committee
International Tracing Service archives: Detailed records kept by the Nazis were taken to the German town of Bad Arolsen in Germany. This link is to the on-line search. To see a news video about Bad Arolsen, click on WorldNewsNBC.
The Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center: A national clearinghouse for persons seeking the fates of loved ones missing since the Holocaust and its aftermath.
Library of Congress Video: C-SPAN's original feature documentary, The Library of Congress, is a behind-the-scenes look at the national repository, providing the history of the institution, a tour of its iconic Jefferson Building, and glimpses of some of the library's rare book, photo, and map collections. 1 hour, 31 minutes.
The David Simonsen Archives: Chief Rabbi and Professor David Simonsen (1853-1932) was for more than six decades a central figure in Jewish Copenhagen Hs private library was aquired by The Royal Library in 1932, and the app. 25.000 volumes of Judaica and Hebraica were catalogued. Use Google translate to read the site.
Chronicling America:
Pennsylvania Dept. of Health Death Indices: 1906 -- 1961
Bibliography of North American Jewish Community Books: A listing of over 800 books about Jewish life in North American communities that are at Salt Lake City or can be requested on inter-library loan.
YIVO Archives: On line guide to the YIVO archives, a collection pertaining to Jewish life around the world, focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries, with some documents dating from the 14th through 18th centuries.

Share your Family Trees

Genealogy Software

Learn: Read, Blog, Watch, Podcasts etc.

Roots Television: A wide variety of great genealogy shows you can watch for free online.
Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog
Marian Smith's Blog: One of the great assets for understanding the process of immigration to the United States is Marian L. Smith, historian of the Citizenship and Immigration Service.
Legacy Family Tree Webinars: Many ongoing and archived webinars for all levels.
Jewishgen Blogspot
JewishGenLearning Center: A list of online interactive courses in Jewish genealogy. On the bottom are several free videos.
Jewishgen Discussion Groups
Free New York Times Archived Articles
Family Search Courses
Nu? What's New - Searchable Index of Archived Editions
Citation Machine: Need the proper format for your resource citation? Check this site.
Geneabloggers
Random Samplings: Official blog of the U.S. Census Bureau
Midwest Genealogy Center: Free video classes on a variety of subjects. Handout links are also available.
Avotaynu: Avotaynu, Inc. is the leading publisher of products of interest to persons who are researching Jewish genealogy. Recognized in Family Tree Magazine's annual "101 Best Genealogy Web Sites for 20011"
Dear Myrtle's Podcast: A podcast is a file (audio and/or video), or a related collection of such files, which is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers. The host or author of a podcast is often called a podcaster.
Family Tree Magazine Webinars (upcoming and archived): Get live genealogy hints and help from genealogy experts in these webinars.
Family Tree University: Interactive online courses provide you with how-to guidance to overcome your genealogical challenges and improve your research skills.
Family Tree Magazine Blog
Family Tree’s 101 Best Websites

Research Genealogical Resources in Israel from your Couch
GenealogyInTime Magazine: We are also much more than just an online magazine. We are a genealogy platform with tools and resources to help people find their ancestors.
Family Relationship Chart: View on line or download for your references.
RootsTech.org: There are good streaming videos on line of keynotes and lectures from the 2012 conference.
Rootstech.org: The videos for the 2013 conference.
Live Ancestry Channel: See what is being streamed live at Ancestry. http://livestre.am/8hRO
USCIS Genealogy Notebook: This tool is a place for the USCIS Genealogy Program to share answers to commonly asked Genealogy research and record questions, research tips, and provide updates.
Mocavo Learning Center
List of First Name Abbreviations: In many historic documents, first names were abbreviated.Knowledge of first name abbreviations can be very helpful in tracking down ancestors.
Ellis Island: All about Ellis Island including many links to other sites. Links include sites for teachers and children.
Five Minute Finds: A series of learning videos by ancestry.

Miscellaneous

Family Tree DNA
Preserving Family Treasures: This website, from the Library of Congress, provides simple instructions, as well as links to more comprehensive information for “Preparing, Protecting, Preserving” many types of family treasures.
Generous Genealogists: Genealogists willing to do free research or assist other genealogists. This is a nice replacement for Genealogical Random Acts of Kindness.

Foreign Language Searching

Cultural Links

Virtual Shtetl: The "Virtual Shtetl" is a museum without barriers, a consequent extension of the real Museum. Its main objective is to provide a unique social forum for everyone interested in Polish-Jewish life.

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