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ARCHIVES IN EASTERN EUROPE

National Center For Archives and Records Management (Belarus)
archives.gov.by/home/organy-arhivnogo-dela-i-deloproizvodstva-i-sistema-gosudarstvennyh-arhivnyh-uchrezhdenij

Lithuanian Archives Department
www.archyvai.lt/archyvai/index.jsp


Moldova National Archives
arhiva.gov.md/


Polish State Archives
www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/


Ukraine State Archives
old.archives.gov.ua/Eng/

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ON-SITE ARCHIVE RESEARCH IN POLAND, UKRAINE, BELARUS AND MOLDOVA

Routes to Roots
73 Harbor Key,
Secaucus, NJ 07094
www.routestoroots.com


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JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES AND SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

There are more than 80 Jewish genealogical societies (JGSs) and affiliates worldwide, with the number increasing at a rapid rate. For a current list, see:

International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies
www.iajgs.org/membership/member-societies/

In addition to the JGSs, the following Special Interest Groups (SIGs) are composed of genealogists interested in a specific geographic region.

See
www.jewishgen.org/listserv/sigs.htm for more information about SIG groups.


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JEWISHGEN INTERNET URLS

JewishGen, Inc.
Edmond J. Safra Plaza
36 Battery Place
New York, NY 10280
www.jewishgen.org


KehilaLinks
kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/


JGFF [JewishGen Family Finder]
www.jewishgen.org/jgff/


Belarus SIG
www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/


Bessarabia SIG
www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/


Litvak SIG
www.jewishgen.org/databases/


Ukraine SIG
www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/


Ten Steps to JewishGen
www.toldot.net/jewishgen.html


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OTHER SITES OF INTEREST

Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute,
15 West 16th Street,
New York, NY 10011
www.cjh.org/family/

American Red Cross
The Holocaust and War Victims Tracing and Information Center,
4800 Mount Hope Drive,
Baltimore, MD 21215-3231
collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/bib83436

Ancestry, Incorporated,
266 West Center Street,
Orem, UT 84058
www.ancestry.com

Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance,
ul. Janusza Kurtyki 1,
02-676 Warsaw
Poland
straty.pl/index.html

Auschwitz Jewish Center,
Pl. Ks. Jana Skarbka 3-5,
32-600 Oswiecim, Poland
ajcf.pl/en/

Avotaynu, Inc.,
30 Beard Sawmill Rd #225,
Shelton, CT 06484
www.avotaynu.com

Beth Hatefutsoth - Museum of the Jewish Diaspora,
Ramat Aviv, P.O.B. 30359,
Tel Aviv 61392, Israel.
www.bh.org.il


Center for Jewish History,
15 West 16th Street,
New York, NY 10011
www.cjh.org

Central Archive for the History of the Jewish People,
P.O. Box 1149,
Jerusalem 91010, Israel
cahjp.nli.org.il/

Cyndi’s List. More than 128,300 links in 119,950 categorized and
cross-referenced links; more than 150 categories.
www.cyndislist.com


Douglas E. Goldman Jewish Genealogy Center
(located at Beth Hatefusoth, see above).
www.bh.org.il/databases/jewish-genealogy/

Ellis Island Foundation,
52 Vanderbilt Avenue,
New York, NY 10017-3898
www.ellisislandrecords.org/

Family History Library,
35 North West Temple Street,
Salt Lake City, UT 84150
www.familysearch.org/

Foreign Embassies of Washington, D.C.
www.embassy.org/embassies/index.html

Galicia Jewish Museum,
Dajwor Street 18,
31-052, Krakow, Poland
www.galiciajewishmuseum.org

Galicia SIG
www.jewishgen.org/Galicia/


Hebrew Immigration Aid Society (HIAS),
1300 Spring Street, Suite 500
Silver Spring, MD 20910
www.hias.org;

Jewish Genealogical Society (New York),
P.O. Box 6398,
New York, NY 10128
www.jgsny.org

Jewish Historical Institute,
ul. Tlomackie 3/5,
00-090 Warsaw, Poland
www.jhi.pl/en

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC),
711 Third Avenue
New York, NY 10017
JDC Archives

JRI-Poland [Jewish Records Indexing Poland]
www.jri-poland.org


Judaica Foundation: Center for Jewish Culture
ul. Meiselsa 17,
31-058, Krakow, Poland
www.judaica.pl/

Leo Baeck Institute,
15 West 16th Street,
New York, NY 10011-6301
www.lbi.org

Library of Congress,
Jefferson Building, Second Street SE,
Washington, D.C. 20540
loc.gov

New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (NYG&B),
36 West 44th Street - 7th Floor,
New York, NY 10036-8105
www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org/

New York Public Library,
42nd Street & Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10018
catnyp.nypl.org

Polish Roots: The Polish Genealogy Source
www.polishroots.org


The Ronald S. Lauder Foundation – Poland: Jewish Genealogy Project,
ul. Tlomackie 3/5,
Warszawa 00-090 Poland
www.jhi.pl/en/genealogy/searching-for-family-roots

The Together Plan
The Studio
60 Glencoe Road
Bushey, Herts, WD23 3DS, ENGLAND
Telephone: 044/0/20/3375 0656
www.thetogetherplan.com

United States Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad
1101 Fifteenth Street NW, Suite #1040,
Washington, DC 20005
www.preservationcommission.org


United States Holocaust Memorial Museum,
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW,
Washington, D.C. 20024
www.ushmm.org (Holocaust Survivors & Victims Database)
www.ushmm.org (Home Page)

United States National Archives, Cartographic & Architectural Branch,
8601 Adelphi Road,
College Park, MD 20740-6001
www.nara.gov

United States National Archives – The Genealogy Page
700 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW, Washington, D.C. 20408
www.nara.gov/genealogy/genindex.html

Virtual Shtetl
Internet counterpart of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in
Warsaw, The Virtual Shtetl is a unique community portal and interactive database containing texts, photos, videos and audio material presenting Jewish life in prewar and contemporary Poland.
13 Mazowiecka St.
00-052, Warsaw, Poland
http://www.sztetl.org.pl/?cid=27&lang=en_GB

World Monuments Fund,
95 Madison Avenue, 9th Floor,
New York, NY 10016
www.wmf.org/

Yad Vashem,
P.O. Box 3477,
Jerusalem 91034 Israel
www.yadvashem.org

YIVO Institute for Jewish Research,
15 West 16th Street,
New York, NY 10011-6301
www.yivoinstitute.org

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POLISH AND EASTERN EUROPEAN GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES

Networking with other Polish genealogists, even if not Jewish, could be helpful. You may find someone else researching the history of your town and other related documentation.

East European Genealogical Society, Inc.,
P.O. Box 2536,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3C 4A7

www.eegsociety.org


Federation of Eastern European Genealogical Societies,
P.O. Box 510898,
Salt Lake City, UT 84151-0898
feefhs.org

There are numerous active Polish genealogical societies throughout the United States, including the following:

Polish Genealogical Society of America,
984 North Milwaukee Avenue,
Chicago, IL 60622
www.pgsa.org

Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut and the Northeast,
8 Lyle Road,
New Britain, CT 06053-2104
www.pgsctne.org

Polish Genealogical Society of Greater Cleveland,
906 College Avenue,
Cleveland, OH 44113
feefhs.org/members/pgs-cleveland.html

Polish Genealogical Society of Michigan, Detroit Public Library,
5201 Woodward Avenue,
Detroit, MI 48202-4067
www.pgsm.org


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