Eastern Europe Websites

Devoted to genealogical and historical information about the Jewish community of Felshtin, Ukraine, its residents and the pogrom of 1919. Includes bibliography.

A very good introductory text.

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.

Sephardic Jewish genealogists with roots in the former Turkish Ottoman Empire including Turkey, Serbia, Greece, and Yugoslavia.

For anyone trying to trace their Jewish roots back to the surnames on the 18th century Grand Duchy of Lithuania censuses.

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.