• JewishGen Family Finder:  (JGFF) is a compilation of surnames and towns currently being researched by over 50,000 Jewish genealogists worldwide.  It contains over 250,000 entries: 75,000 ancestral surnames and 18,000 town names, and is indexed and cross-referenced by both surname and town name.

• Discussion Group Archives: Jewish genealogy content from 1993.

• Shtetl Seeker: Locate towns in Eastern or Central Europe, by name or location.

• Yizkor Book Project: Yizkor (Memorial) Books are some of the best sources for learning about Jewish communities in Eastern and Central Europe. Groups of former residents, or landsmanshaften, have published these books as a tribute to their old homes and the people who were murdered during the Holocaust.

• Jewish Records Indexing - Poland: Searchable database of indices to 19th century Jewish vital records from current and former territories of Poland.

• LDS Microfilms: Locate of records from Poland, based on geographic coordinates.

• Gesher Galicia:   Special Interest Group for the region of Galicia.

• The Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation Eastern European Archival Database.  Jewish genealogists seeking family documents from Eastern Europe are now able to search this single online source for listings of their ancestral towns. The database includes the combined archival holdings in Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland and Ukraine. Also are included are documents from civil registration offices in Poland (Urzad Stanu Cwyilnego offices) and civil registration offices in Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova (ZAGS Offices); the Jewish Historical Institute (Warsaw, Poland); Pinkassim collection of the V. Vernadskyi Library (Kiev, Ukraine); Regional Museum (Ostrog, Ukraine) and the private collection of Rabbi Moishe Leib Kolesnik (Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine).

• Polish Genealogical Society of America (PGSA)

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