JewishGen - The largest and most comprehensive website for Jewish genealogy - research information, tools, and extensive databases. One must register to access some sites, but there is no fee. Below are some of JewishGen's offerings:

• A Beginner's Guide - Jewish Genealogy: Twelve Steps to Getting Started.
• Burial Registry - Project to document burials worldwide.
• Cemetery Project (IAJGS) - To find documentation of Jewish burial sites in Florida, read the instructional information section and then select North America/USA/Florida.
• Databases - If your ancestors came from Eastern Europe, this should be one of your first stops on the internet.
• Discussion Group - A place to ask questions and receive answers from other JewishGen members. Searchable archives.
• DNA - Genealogy by Genetics.
• EIDB - Search the Ellis Island database using Steve Morse's One-Step Webpages.
• Family Finder (JGFF) - Database of people researching certain surnames or towns. You may find new relatives here.
• Family Links - Database of family webpages. You can add your webpage too.
• Frequently Asked Questions - A primer on how to do Jewish genealogical research.
• Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP) - A database of gedcom files from around the world.
• Holocaust Global Registry (HGR) - A central place for anyone searching for Holocaust survivors.
• Holocaust Victim's Names - JewishGen joins Yad Vashem's latest drive to record the missing names of Jews who died in the Shoah.
• Info Files - Information is at your fingertips on topics of relevance to Jewish genealogical research.
• Jewish Records Indexing - Poland - Although included in the list of JewishGen databases and searchable from JewishGen, this extensive database of Polish vital records is a separate organization whose website is hosted by JewishGen (JRI-Poland.org).
• List Manager - Manage which email lists you belong to and how you'd like to receive them.
• ShtetLinks - A collection of links to web pages devoted to individual Jewish communities.
• ShtetlSeeker - Enter name of town and get latitude and longitude coordinates of all towns with that name, find how far a town is from any other town, find names of all towns a certain distance from a given town. If you click on the coordinates listed for a town, you can get map of area where town is located.
• ShtetlSchleppers - Organized tours of ancestral shtetls.
• Special Interest Groups (SIGs) - Hosted web pages for several SIGs whose interest is geographic region of origin or special topic.
• Support
• Tools
• ViewMate - Post photos, documents, or letters for identification, analysis, translation, or advice.
• Web Links
• What's New on JewishGen
• Yizkor Book Project - Memorial books created after WWII by survivors of destroyed communities, originally written mostly in Yiddish and Hebrew. Contain history of towns, stories about people in them, lists of those killed. English translations of many of these are being posted on the website chapter by chapter.
• Yizkor Book Necrology Index - Lists of names of victims of the Holocaust mentioned in numerous Yizkor books.

Akevoth - Dutch Jewish Genealogical Database - Many Marranos emigrated to Amsterdam during the Spanish Inquisition. This database includes birth, death and marriage information, as well as circumcision registers for several area mohels.

Audiotape recordings of Jewish genealogy lectures.

Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy - The leading publisher of products and information of interest to persons who are researching Jewish genealogy, Jewish family trees and Jewish roots.

Beth Hatefutsoth: The Museum of the Jewish Diaspora - Israel's premier site for genealogy.

CJH Genealogy Institute - at Center for Jewish History in New York City offers more than 40 fact sheets to guide family history researchers to resources at the center and elsewhere.

Cyndi's Jewish Section - Organized directory of 1000s of genealogy sites.

Eastern European FAQ - About Jewish genealogical research in Eastern Europe.

Holocaust Genealogical Research

IAJGS - The International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies is an independent non-profit umbrella organization coordinating the activities and annual conference of more than 75 national and local Jewish genealogical societies around the world.

Israel Genealogical Society - Your gateway to Israeli genealogical sources. In lower left corner, select "Archives in Israel" and "Resources in Israel."

Jewish Encyclopedia 1901-1906: Online version

Jewish Genealogy in Italy

Jewish Genealogy Web Index

Jewish Museum of Florida
301 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida 33139
Directions: I-95 to I-395 East over MacArthur Causeway
Phone: 305-672-5044

Jewish Records Indexing-Poland (JRI-Poland)- Although included in the list of JewishGen databases and searchable from JewishGen, this extensive database of Polish vital records is a separate organization whose website is hosted by JewishGen.

LDS - Jewish Records - Search this database for Jewish Records in the Family History Library Catalog.

Price Library of Judaica - University of Florida, Gainesville

Routes to Roots Foundation - Run by Miriam Weiner, a noted genealogist, this site contains an inventory of Jewish documents housed in Eastern European archives.

Sephardim.com - Extensive source for Sephardic genealogy.

ShoahConnect.org - Enables email addresses to be associated with Pages of Testimony at Yad Vashem and matches users associated with the same Pages. Maintains privacy of users and is a free service.

The Museum of Family History - The Museum of Family History is a virtual, multimedia, and interactive creation that was designed for those of us who are interested in learning more about those who have graced the many branches of our family trees. The museum humbly attempts to honor the Jewish people and the Jewish family unit in particular.

Yad Vashem - The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority. Search for Pages of Testimony.

JCAM Cemetery Database - Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts.

Irwin I. Cohn Michigan Jewish Cemetery Index

Natchez City Cemetery (Mississippi)

Temple Anche Chesed Cemetery (Vicksburg, Mississippi)

St. Louis Jewish Cemetery Index (Missouri)

New Mt. Sinai Cemetery (St. Louis, Missouri)

Temple Israel Cemetery of Springfield, Missouri

Mount Ararat Cemetery (Lindenhurst, New York)

Mount Carmel Cemetery (Ridgewood, New York)

Mount Hebron Cemetery (Flushing, New York)

Mount Judah Cemetery (Ridgewood, New York)

Mount Zion Cemetery (Maspeth, New York)

Mount Moriah Cemetery (Fairview, New Jersey)

Congregation B'nai Israel/Red Bank Hebrew Cemetery (Tinton Falls, New Jersey)

Hebrew Cemetery (Durham, North Carolina)

Augda Achim Cemetery (Columbus, Ohio)

Providene Cemetery (Scranton, Pennsylvania)

Koblentz Cemetery (Chattanooga, Tennessee)

Old Jewish Cemetery (Chattanooga, Tennessee)

Greenwood Cemetery (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

Milwaukee Jewish Historical Society - Listings of Milwaukee Jewish burials, obituaries and marriages.

A guide to Finding U.S. Naturalization Records

Ancestors - The companion website to the PBS video series.

Ancestry.com - Available by subscription or for free when accessed from many libraries. It contains every-name index of every available U.S. census from 1790-1930, as well as extensive passenger lists and many local records.

Canadian Passenger Lists 1865-1922

Castle Garden - America's first immigration center with database of 10 million immigrants from 1830 through 1892.

Cimorelli.com - Ships arriving U.S. from Europe (Morton Allan Directory).

Cyndi's List - Organized directory of 1000s of genealogy sites.

Distant Cousin - An online archive of genealogy records and scanned images of historical documents from a wide variety of sources, such as newspaper obituaries, city directories, census records, ship lists, school yearbooks, military records, and more. In all, there are more than 6 million genealogy records from over 1500 sources online.

Ellis Island - Ellis Island Passenger Lists records for most of the 25 million immigrants who arrived there from 1892-1924. Most easily searchable through Steve Morse's One-Step Webpages.

Encyclopedia of Genealogy - A free-content encyclopedia created by its readers; a clearinghouse of genealogy techniques.

Family Tree DNA - Site for the company with the largest Jewish database. Explains what DNA is and how it fits into genealogical research. Allows you to order kits for testing.

Federation of East European Family History Societies - Information pertinent to East European research—maps, databases, links to other sites.

Find My Past - Contains passenger lists featuring millions of people leaving the UK for destinations worldwide. Subscription service.

Foreign Business Directories - Searchable online.

Forms - Download Ancestral Chart and Family Group Sheet forms to chart your findings.

Genealogy.com - Available by subscription or for free when accessed from many libraries. It contains every-name index of every available U.S. census from 1790-1930, as well as extensive passenger lists and many local records.

Genealogy.com Learning Center - Offers how-to articles, genealogy classes and other resources.

Genealogy Research - Internet Search Links

Genealogy Wiki - A place where you can create articles about your ancestors, and easily link them to other articles about where and when they lived.

Global Newspaper Directory

Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Passenger lists.

Jamaican Family Search - A website devoted to Jamaican genealogy. Synagogue birth, death and marriage registers, wills, newspapers, obituaries, book excerpts, etc. Some free pages; some subscription-only pages.

LDS Family History Library - A step-by-step guide to the Family History Library system.

Massachusetts Vital Record Indices

Minnesota Historical Society - Genealogy - Download copies of birth certificates from 1900-1934 (2700 pre-1900 records included). Order copies of death cards for 1904-1907 and death certificates from 1908-2001.

National Archives - D.C.

National Archives - Southeast Region - Located in Morrow, Georgia, approximately 10 miles south of Hartsfield Atlanta Airport.

New York City Vital Records at Municipal Archives

Public Record Locator - Links to free public record databases on the internet.

RootsWeb.com - A sister site to Ancestry.com.

Stephen Morse One-Step Search Tools - An amazing assortment (over 100 divided into 12 categories) of enhanced database searching tools.

Social Security Death Index - SSDI records of most deceased persons who possessed Social Security numbers.

Switchboard.com - Look up names, phone numbers and street addresses of friends and family.

USGenWeb - Keeping internet genealogy free.

Alvin Sherman Library at Nova Southeastern University
3100 Ray Ferraro, Jr. Boulevard, Davie, Florida 33314
Phone: 954-262-5477
Directions: From I-595, head South on University Drive. Turn left at SW 30th Street. Turn right at SW 75th Avenue.
AncestryPlus & HeritageQuest Online available in library. Parking available in parking garage for $1 per hour.

Broward County Vital Records

David Posnack JCC and the Holocaust Learning Center

Florida, Clerks of Court Directory

Florida Newspapers Online

Florida Jewish Directory - Synagogues, JCCs, demographics, etc.

Florida Atlantic University Libraries - Molly S. Fraiberg Judaica Collections

Funeral Chapels Directory, Florida (JFDA)

Genealogical Society of Broward County, Inc. (our Broward neighbor)
P.O. Box 485, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33302
Genealogy library at the Alvin Sherman Library listed above.

Jewish Federation of Broward County

LDS - Family History Centers - Local branches provide access to most of the microfilms and microfiche in the main Family History Library in Utah.

Miami-Dade Public Library - Main
Genealogy Department (extensive reference department)
101 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida 33130
Phone: 305-375-5580
Directions: I-95 to Miami Avenue exit (toward Downtown/Biscayne Boulevard/Brickell Avenue).
Holdings: Complete collection of U.S. Census for all states and for all available years; U.S. City Directories covering major cities from 1860 through 1935; immigration lists, etc.

Soref JCC

Tracing People and Places in Florida