Databases
- JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) is a compilation of surnames and towns currently being researched by over 90,000 Jewish genealogists worldwide. It contains over 475,000 entries, including 100,000 ancestral surnames and 18,000 town names, and is indexed and cross-referenced by both surname and town name. The Family Finder, like JewishGen's other databases, uses soundex and phonetic matching technology to yield results on all the different spellings of the name being searched. It also connects users who are researching the same names and towns.
- Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP) is a database of Jewish family trees. The central purpose of the FTJP is to enhance Jews' ability to connect and re-connect their families and to increase interest in Jewish genealogy.
- The JewishGen Gazetteer (formerly the "ShtetlSeeker") is a database containing the names of all localities in 54 countries in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. The data is based on the U.S. Board on Geographic Names databases.
- JewishGen Communities Database contains information on over 6,000 Jewish communities in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, together with Jewish population figures, historical town names and jurisdictions, inset maps, and links to JewishGen resources.
- Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) is a database of names and other identifying information from cemeteries and burial records worldwide, from the earliest records to the present.
- Holocaust Database is a collection of databases containing information about Holocaust victims and survivors. It currently contains over two million entries, including concentration-camp lists, "transport lists, ghetto records, census lists, and ID cards".
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