Jewish Genealogical Society of North Jersey
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Click here for information on the next IAJGS conference.



At the November, 2008 meeting, Mike Schwartz gave in excellent presentation of available maps of the areas our ancestors came from. Click on the link below to download a PDF file of his presentation.

click here to download file

Indexes, Resource lists, How-to's

JewishGen

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A "must" for anyone doing Jewish Genealogy.Recognized in Family Tree Magazine's annual "101 Best Genealogy Web Sites for 2008".

Cyndi's List

A categorized & cross-referenced index to genealogical resources on the Internet.

Jewish Web Index

General Register Office of England & Wales

Citation Machine

Need the proper format for your resource citation? Check this site.

Free New York Times Archived Articles

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.

Passaic County Clerk's Office

Search for property or naturalization records on line.

Ancestry Look at Digital Records

In this article from Ancestry on line magazine, the author "scoured the Web to find which states are taking an active roll in getting genealogy records online." A detailed list with links follows.

Canadian Naturalizations

Repositories

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

The home page for the National Archives of the United States.

 

LDS Family History Search

Free Family History, Family Tree, and Genealogy  Records and Resources from Around the World from the Mormon Church. The genealogy web site of the LDS Church. Includes the ability to search the IGI, the Ancestral File, the Family History Library Catalog, and web site submissions. Also has user mailing lists, online ordering of FHL research materials and allows you to preserve your own research online. 

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.

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.

The Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center

The Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center is a national clearinghouse for persons seeking the fates of loved ones missing since the Holocaust and its aftermath

Internet Searching

Ancestry

Heritage Quest

Steve Morse One Step Web Site

Roots Web

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.

Where to Write for Vital Records

A state by state list compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics.

Family Genealogy and History Internet Education Directory

Jewishwebindex

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.

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.

Miscellaneous

Genealogy.com

The Ancestry store.

Avotaynu

Avotaynu, Inc. is the leading publisher of products of interest to persons who are researching Jewish genealogy, Jewish family trees or Jewish roots. Recognized in Family Tree Magazine's annual "101 Best Genealogy Web Sites for 2008"

My Heritage

MyHeritage.com is a fascinating new site that uses high tech face recognition software to build a data base. You can match photos to either a family member at a different age or photos from other people who have a photo of the same person. Check this site for other great features.

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.

Recognized in Family Tree Magazine's annual "101 Best Genealogy Web Sites for 2008".

A wide variety of great genealogy shows you can watch for free online.

Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness

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.

My Heritage

This is a site to add your family tree to share with your family. There are many interesting tools on this site for expanding your research.

Family Tree DNA

Other Related Societies

JGS of New York

JGS of Bergen County

Disbanded but contains some info.

JGS of Long Island, NY

JGS of Washington D.C.

The Genealogical Society of New Jersey

Passaic County Historical Society Genealogy Club

National Genealogy Society

North Jersey History and Genealogy Society

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.

The Toycrafter

Dor L'Dor

Gold 'n Cermaics

JewishGen Mall

Send any links you think are valuable to skobren@verizon.net

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