Databases and Lists

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• American Jewish Yearbook PDFs 1899-2008

• Ancestry.com Card Catalog - search "Jewish" with "USA" - requires a subscription to view.

• FamilySearch "Hebrew" USA Browsable Image Collections to date for Helena (under Deer Lodge) MT; Jefferson City, MO; Charleston, SC; Atlanta, GA; Akron, OH; and 30,000 images for Hebrew Union College Archive, Inventory, and Library Records, References, and Registers.

• FamilySearch "Jewish" USA Browsable Image Collections to date for Harrison, TX; Providence, RI; Fort Wayne, IN; New Orleans, LA; Trinidad, CO; and misc. American Jewish Archives collections 1700-1960 including Brooklyn, NY; Sandusky, OH; New Orleans, LA; Albany, OR; Savannah, GA; and Detroit, MI.

• First American Jewish Families, 3rd ed., Malcolm Stern - book is digitized and can browse by page.

• First American Jewish Families Searchable Database or browse surnames in an alphabetical index and linked to page pdf.

• First American Jewish Families on Geni - this is a partial and unverified tree.

• IAJGS Cemetery Project

• JDC Names Index

• Jewish Atlantic World Image Archives by Laura Leibman

• Jewish Refugee Rabbis in the United States 1933-1990

• JewishData.com - requires a subscription to view.

• JewishGen USA Database
  - AJHS Manuscript Collection
  - JOWBR Burial Registry
  - Memorial Plaques Database

• JewishGen USA KehilaLinks Websites

• Loeb Jewish Portraits Database

• Modern-Day List of Jewish Organizations and Jewish Virtual Library List

• Operation Benjamin List of Jewish Burials

• Preliminary List of Jewish Soldiers and Sailors Who Served in the Spanish-American War (pub. 1900 in Amer. Jew. Yrbk.)

• Works Progress Administration (WPA) American Guide Series - digitized by state and often included "church" inventories including synagogues.

REGIONAL

• Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities

• Shapell Roster: Jewish Service in the American Civil War

• Southern Jewish Mayors (ISL)

• NYC Area Landsmanshaften Burial Database - NYC Area

• YIVO Landsmanshaftn Collection - NYC Area

STATE

• Atwood Farming Colony - CO

• Catskills Institute Jewish Hotel Postcards - NY

• Chicago Jewish Community Blue Book 1918 - IL

• Chicago Landsmanshaften Records - IL

• Cotopaxi Farming Settlers Index - CO

• FamilySearch "Jew" USA Browsable Image Collections to date for California synagogues and Jewish groups held at Judah Magnes Collection, Berkeley.

• Florida Jewish Photos 1880-1960 - FL

• Homestead Hebrews People and Records - PA

• Interviews with Jews in Utah - UT

• Jewish Buffalo Image Collection - NY

• Jewish Sports Hall of Fame of Western Pennsylvania - PA

• JGSI Jewish Chicago Database - IL

• Naturalizations of Jews in New York Under the Act of 1740 - NY

• Philadelphia Jewish Archives Photos - PA

• Pittsburgh Oral History Name Index - PA

• Works Progress Administration (WPA) Synagogue Index - NYC