Directory of Eastern Europe Resources

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• A.L. Bell's Minsk Gubernya Translation Center

  http://allbell.tripod.com/minsk.html
  First systematic effort to put translations of notices from the Russian Empire's official newspapers on the Internet. 19th century Jewish/non-Jewish Eastern European history.

• Felshtin Society

  http://www.felshtin.org/
  Devoted to genealogical and historical information about the Jewish community of Felshtin, Ukraine, its residents and the pogrom of 1919. Includes bibliography.

• Jewish Records Indexing - Poland

  http://jri-poland.org/
  A ground breaking project to create a computer database of indices to the 19th century Jewish vital records of Poland. Launched in early 1995, JRI - Poland is already the largest fully searchable database of Jewish vital records accessible through the Internet. Teams of volunteers around the world (called "Shtetl CO-OPs") are actively working to expand the database.

• Lithuania-Jewish

  http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Religion/LITHUANIA-JEWISH.html
  For anyone trying to trace their Jewish roots back to the surnames on the 18th century Grand Duchy of Lithuania censuses.

• Routes to Roots

  http://www.routestoroots.com/
  Tracing Jewish Roots in Poland, Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus. Site of a U.S. firm with offices in Ukraine and Poland specializing in Jewish research in the archives of Eastern Europe and Customized Tours. Besides self-promotion, the site features a number of maps and pictures of various towns and places, synagogues, monuments, etc.

• Turkish Jews

  http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Religion/Turkish_Jews.html
  Sephardic Jewish genealogists with roots in the former Turkish Ottoman Empire including Turkey, Serbia, Greece, and Yugoslavia.

• Vital Records in Poland

  http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/polandv.html
  A very good introductory text.

 

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