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• Ancestry.com - Search Birth, Marriage & Death Records

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

  • JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR)

    Names and other identifying information from cemeteries and burial records worldwide, from the earliest records to the present.

• Brooklyn Jewish Funeral Home: Nieberg Midwood Chapel

  The Nieberg Midwood Jewish Funeral Home, established 150 years ago, is located in Brooklyn, New York.

• Cemetery Scribes

  Transcriptions and photos from Jewish Cemeteries in the UK, over 1,000 entries, historical narratives and mini family trees and much more.

• Danish-Jewish Funerals and Tombstones until 1886

  A photographic database covering Mosaic funerals in modern Denmark with a special reference to the tombstones and their state today (year 2010-). The database encompasses all ten provincial cemeteries and the large cemetery in Mollegade in Copenhagen.

• Death & Bereavement in Judaism: Putting Stones on Jewish Graves

• Deciphering Jewish Gravestones

  A detailed article on how to read and interpret Hebrew inscriptions on Jewish gravestones.

• European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative - ESJF

  The ESJF project has begun the process of physically protecting Jewish burial sites in Europe, most particularly in places where Jewish communities were wiped out in the Holocaust. It involves a full mapping process with research, monitoring and individual proposals for protection. The ESJF has begun to survey 1,500 Jewish burial sites across five European countries, including Greece, Lithuania, Moldova, Slovakia, and Ukraine.

• Find a Grave | United Synagogue

  A database of United Synagogue cemeteries in England.

• Gura Humorului Jewish Cemetery

  The aim of this site is to provide a photographic record and to provide the burial records of the Gura Humorului Jewish cemetery located in northern Romania.

• Heritage Foundation for Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries (HFPJC)

  Preserving, and documenting Jewish Cemeteries in Eastern Europe.

• Herman Meyer & Son, Inc. Funeral Directors

  Louisville, Kentucky & Hollywood, Florida.

• How to Read a Hebrew Tombstone

  Information on reading Hebrew tombstones, including the Jewish calendar, numbers, common phrases, and special symbols.

• International Jewish Cemetery Project

  From the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies. The goal of the IAJGS International Jewish Cemetery Project is documentation of every Jewish burial site in the world.

• Irwin I. Cohn Michigan Jewish Cemetery Index

  Detroit, Michigan. Online searchable index of approximately 52,000 Jewish residents who were buried in the Detroit metropolitan area from the mid-1800s through the end of 1999.

• Istanbul Jewish Genealogy Project

  The Istanbul Jewish community holds close to 100 thousand records of genealogical insterest, including more than 35 thousand marriage records (Chief Rabbinate 1887-, Ashkenazi Community 1923-, Italian Congregation 1870s-) and 30 thousand burial records (Hemdat Israel 1899-, Italian burial list 1918-, Italian Şişli Cemetery 1800s-, Kuzguncuk Cemetery 1913-, Ortak

• Jewish Cemeteries

  Hamburg, Germany.

• Jewish Cemeteries - Jewish heritage Walking tours in Budapest

• Jewish Cemeteries in the New York Metropolitan Area

• Jewish Cemeteries in the New York/New Jersey Area

• Jewish Cemetery Association of Massachusetts ^FREE

  Includes a database with more than 50,000 Jewish names under "Genealogy/Ancestry Search."