JewishGen USA Database

All USA:

• JewishGen Family Finder
  More than 55,000 entries by Jewish genealogists researching families in the USA.
• JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry
  More than one million burial records for cemeteries in the USA.
• The JewishGen Memorial Plaques Database
  Information from synagogue yahrzeit plaques and other memorial records.  160,000 records.
• Jewish-American Civil War Veterans
  More than 7,000 Jewish-American U.S. Civil War Veterans, both Union and Confederate.
• American Jewish Year Book Obituary Index
  Index to more than 3,000 obituaries of prominent Jews, 1948-1998.
• The Rabbi Samuel Langer Database
  More than 5,000 entries from personal notebooks — births, Bar/Bas Mitzvahs, marriages, funerals/unveilings, etc.  Eastern USA, 1930s-1960s.
• 1890-1891 New York Immigrants from Poland, Austria and Galicia
  An index to more than 96,000 passenger arrivals.
• Jewish Names in Selected U.S. State Department Files, 1910-1929
  Nearly 10,000 entries from the Central Decimal Files of the U.S. Department of State, Record Group 59.
• Emergency U.S. Passport Applications, 1915-1926
  6,000 Emergency Passport Applications, at various U.S. Consular Posts.
• A Gallery of Missing Husbands (1908-1914)
  1,048 translated entries of the “Gallery of Missing Husbands,” which the Forward printed regularly to solicit the community’s help in locating husbands who had deserted their wives and children.
• Breman Oral Histories
  More than 1,000 records relating to interviews collected by the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, focusing on the documentation of Jewish life in Georgia and Alabama.
• Jewish Soldiers/ Sailors in the Spanish-American War
  2,532 records.
• Early American Jewish Portrait Index
  Index to over 800 images of Jews living in America during the British Colonial and Antebellum periods through 1862.

Colorado:

• The Intermountain Jewish News Obituary Database
  Index to 15,000 obituary notices from this Denver newspaper, 1918-2011.
• Feldman’s Mortuary Database
  Records of 17,000 funerals in Denver, between 1936 and 2015.
• Jewish Consumptive Relief Society, Denver
  Records of 7,190 patients at this TB sanatorium in Denver, Colorado, 1904-1940.

Connecticut:

• The Connecticut Jewish Ledger Obituary Database
  Index to 5,000 obituary notices from this New Haven newspaper, 1975-2002.

Illinois:

• The Chicago Obituary Database
  Index to 8,800 obituary notices from an Illinois newspaper, 1994-1998.
• Chicago Marriages - Sinai Congregation
  Index to 500 marriages by Rabbi Bernhard Felsenthal, Chicago, from 1861 to 1905.

Massachusetts:

• The Boston Jewish Advocate Obituary Database
  Index to more than 26,000 obituary notices from this Massachusetts newspaper, 1905-2020.
• The Boston Jewish Advocate Wedding Announcements Database
  Index to more than 27,000 wedding announcements from this Massachusetts newspaper, 1905-2011.
• The Boston Jewish Advocate "Seeking Kin" Announcements Database
  More than 5,000 names in "Seeking Kin" advertisements, 1916-1990.
• Boston Marriages - Rabbi Aaron Gorovitz
  Index to nearly 1,000 marriages performed by Rabbi Aaron Gorovitz of Boston, 1910-1956.
• The Rabbi Ber Boruchoff Marriage Database
  Records of 1,423 marriages, 1906-1939, performed by Rabbi Ber Boruchoff of Malden.
• Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Boston Arrivals
  Records of 24,000 Jewish immigrant arrivals via Boston, 1882-1929.
• Rabbi Icek Benkowitz of Chelsea, Massachusetts, Marriage Records: 1922-1954
  This database contains 305 records from the Rabbi’s personal notebooks.
• City of Boston Rabbis Registrations, 1893-1939
  This database contains 540 records.

New York:

• Central Islip State Hospital – 1925 State Census
  Data on more than 6,000 employees and patients at this State Hospital on Long Island, from the New York State 1925 census.

Ohio:

• The Cleveland Jewish News Obituary Database
  Index to more than 32,900 obituary notices from this Ohio newspaper, 1964-2017.

Pennsylvania:

• Philadelphia Jewish Exponent Obituary Database
  Index to more than 69,000 obituary notices from this newspaper, 1887-2013 (in progress).
• Blitzstein Bank Passage Order Records
  An index of more than 30,000 immigrants who had steamship tickets purchased for them at this Philadelphia bank, 1899-1930.
• Lipshutz/Peoples Bank Passage Order Records
  An index of more than 25,000 immigrants who had steamship tickets purchased for them at this Philadelphia bank, 1906-1949.
• Rosenbaum Bank Passage Order Book Records
  An index of nearly 83,000 immigrants who had steamship tickets purchased for them at this Philadelphia bank, 1890-1934.

Texas:

• The Houston Jewish Herald-Voice Database
  Index to more than 67,000 events from this Texas newspaper, 1908-2020.
• El Paso, Texas Jewish Families Database
  An index of 645 individuals found in the book Insights and Hindsights of Some El Paso Jewish Families.