On Geni you can access and collaborate on the most comprehensive Jewish family trees ever created. This Portal is a guide to significant Jewish genealogy umbrella or resource projects on Geni.

Please do not add profiles here. Geni profiles should be added to the appropriate sub-projects of each of the Jewish sections

After the Historical Projects overview, the Portal is organized primarily by geographic region, similar to the database structure at JewishGen. The Portal is meant to complement and reorganize the Jewish Ancestry Research Guide and other Jewish projects. For assistance with Jewish genealogy on Geni, please start a discussion or contact Randy Schoenberg or one of the many other Curators with expertise in Jewish genealogy. Please follow or join the project as a collaborator so you can get updates on discussions related to Jewish genealogy. Collaborators can also edit the project page to add additional subprojects.

Like our Jewish Genealogy Portal page on Facebook.

Join our Jewish Genealogy Portal discussion group on Facebook.

IAJGS Conference 2017 - Orlando

Historical Projects

Biblical

• Biblical Tree

Holocaust

• Holocaust: The Final Solution - umbrella project for all Holocaust projects, including camps and ghettos

Rabbinic

• Exilarchs
• Jewish Dynasties - links to leading Jewish historical personalities, sages, Torah luminaries, venerable Hasidic dynasties and illustrious rabbinic lineages
• Rabbis
• Revered Rabbis, Kabbalists, Sages, and Scholarly Female Guides of Renown
• Jewish Mystics
• The Great Sanhedrin
• Misnagdim
• Chief Rabbinical Judges (Av Beit Din) - אבות בתי דין
• Authors of Hebrew Rabbinic Literature - מחברי ספרים

Sephardic

• Sephardic Luminaries
• European Sephardic Families
• Portuguese-Spanish Jewish Journey to Jamaica
• The Golden Age of Jews in Sepharad
• Sephardic Families Who Settled in Europe after Expulsion from Spain in 1492
• Barocas Uziel and Related Sephardic Families
• The Jews of Central Asia
• The Jews of Macedonia
• Jewish Families of Gibraltar

Other

• Jewish DNA Project at Family Tree DNA
• Jewish Celebrity Birthdays
• Yahrzeit Project
• Jewish Marshals, Generals & Admirals
• Jews of Khazaria
• Lost Tribes
• Missing Links - Profiles with recorded famous Jewish ancestors/descendants
• Jewish Diaspora Index

North and South American

• Jews of the United States of America
• Jews in Colonial America
• First American Jewish Families
• Latin American Jewish Odyssey
• Notable American Jews
• Notable Canadian Jews
• Jewish Argentina
• Philadelphians Pictured in Fifty years work of the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia-1848-1898
• Presidents of Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia
• Jewish Trenton, NJ
• Czech (Bohemian) American Jews
• Early Jewish Families from Los Angeles
• Early Jewish Families from San Francisco
• Jewish Members of the United States Armed Forces
• Jewish Recipients of the Medal of Honor
• The Alliance Colony
• Jewish Immigrants to the Caribbean
• Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
• Portugese-Spanish Jewish Journey to Jamaica

Eastern Europe

Belarus

• Jews of Belarus

Bessarabia

• Jewish Communities in Bessarabia - Moldova

Estonia

• Estonian Jews

Galicia

• Jewish Communities of Galicia
• Galician Jewish Family Projects
• Galician Eastern European Jews
• Jewish Families of Kraków

Latvia

• Latvian Jews
• Jewish Families from Rezekne

Lithuania

• Guide to Jewish Lithuania

Poland

• Jewish Communities of Poland
• Polish Jewish Family Projects
• Jewish Families of Volhynia (Wolin) Gubernia

Russia beyond the pale of settlement

• Moscow Jews

Slovakia

• Jewish Communities of Slovakia
• Jewish Families of Pezinok
• Jewish Families from Trencin
• Jewish Families of Nitra, Slovakia (formerly Hungary)

Ukraine

• Brody is no more
• Jewish Communities (Shtetels) of Ukraine
• Jewish Families from Drohobycz
• Jewish Families of Berdychiv
• Jewish Families of Kiev
• Jewish Families of Tul'chyn
• Jewish Families of Volhynia (Wolin) Gubernia
• Lvov Ghetto גטו לבוב
• Volhynia (Wolin) Gubernia - Immigration to America Midwest

Western Europe

Austria

• Prominent Jewish Families of Vienna
• Tolerated Jews of Vienna
• Jewish Communities of Burgenland
• Jewish Community of Hohenems
• Austrian Jewish Online Resources

France

• The Jewish French Connection
• Jews of the French German Nexus: Alsace and Lorraine
• Jewish Community of Metz
• Chief Rabbis of Paris
• Jewish Scholars of Magical Provence, France
• French / Benelux Jewish Online Resources

Germany

• Jewish Communities in Germany
• Jewish Families of Frankfurt
• Jewish Families of Königsberg (Ostpreußen) (now Kaliningrad)
• Jewish Families of Wiesbaden
• Notable German Jews
• Buchheimer Family of Germany
• Guxhagen Jews
• Mittelsinn, Burgsinn, Würzburg Region Jews ( Bavaria )
• Jewish Families Mack and Rauh of Küps and Altenkunstadt, Upper Franconia, Bavaria
• German Jewry in the Weimar Republic
• Gesellschaft der Freunde

Holland

• Dutch Jewish Online Databases
• Mokum - Wondrous Jewish Amsterdam

Italy

• Italian Jewish Communities Portal
• Italian Jewish History

Scandinavia

• JGS of Sweden and a short history of Jews in Sweden
• Meliza's Genealogy (Jewish Families of Finland)

United Kingdom

• UK Chief Rabbis and Famous British Jewish Leaders
• Jewish Community of Scotland

Central/Southern Europe

Bulgaria

• Avadic Family of Romania and Bulgaria

Czech

• Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia
• Židovská Šlechta (The Jewish Aristocracy)
• Jewish Families from Prague
• Czech (Bohemian) American Jews
• Small Historical Museums, Synagogues, and Other Sites in the Czech Republic

Greece

• Greek Jews
• Salonika - Center of Jewish Scholarship
• Jewish Families from Rhodes

Republic of Macedonia

• Macedonian Jews

Hungary

• Jewish Communities in Hungary
• Hungarian Jewish Online Databases
• The Hungarian Jewish Legacy

Romania

• Jewish Communities of Romania
• Finding Jewish graves in Transylvania
• Herta records transcription

Bosnia & the Balkans

• Sarajevo - Little Jerusalem of the Balkans
• Jewish Network in Croatia
• Macedonian Jews

Slovenia

• Jewish Families from Lendava

Middle East

Iran

• Persian Jewish Genealogy Portal

Iraq

• Iraqi Jewish Genealogy Portal
• Origins of the Baghdadi Trade Diaspora

Israel

• Israel Projects Portal
• Geni-Israel
• Notables on Israeli Stamps
• Israeli Heads of State and State Authorities
• Israeli all Knesset members
• Israeli Visionaries and Greats
• Founders of Tel Aviv Ahuzat Bait

Syria

• Aleppo

Turkey

• Turkish Jewish Genealogy Portal
• Turkish Historical Jewish Community
• Ankara Jewish Families

North Africa

Egypt

• Migrated Egyptian Jews

Libya

Morocco

• Jewish Communities of Morocco
• Morocco, Cradle of Jewish Scholarship & Art

Tunisia

Africa

• South African Settlers
• African Jewry
• Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi) - Jewish Community
• Lithuanian Jews in South Africa
• Abayudaya Jews of Uganda
• Ethiopian Jews - Beta Israel
• Igbo Jews of Nigeria
• Jews of Kenya

Asia

• Jews of Central Asia
• Jews in Bombay
• Jews in Calcutta
• Jews in Hong Kong
• Jews in Shanghai
• Jews in Singapore

Notable Jewish Family Projects

• Trup Diaspora
• The Unbroken Chain by Dr. Neil Rosenstein
• Carlebach Rabbinical Dynasty
• Ser-Charlap Family Association
• Friedman Family Circle
• Ger Hasidic Dynasty
• Admor of Sanz (Halberstam) Hasidic Dynasty
• The Levitical Horowitz Rabbinical Family Alliances Project
• Legendary Katzenellenbogen Family
• Margolis and Frankel Families
• The Rashi Legacy - Kalonymos, Treves, Luria and Spira Families
• Chabad Admors (Schneerson) Dynasty
• Twersky Rabbinic Dynasty
• Shealtiel Family World Association
• Rapoport Family
• Jaffe Rabbinical Family Tree
• Zvhil Mezbuz Zlotschov Rabbinical Dynasty
• Jacobi Monographs (IIJG)

On Geni you can access and collaborate on the most comprehensive Jewish family trees ever created. This Portal is a guide to significant Jewish genealogy umbrella or resource projects on Geni.

Please do not add profiles here. Geni profiles should be added to the appropriate sub-projects of each of the Jewish sections

After the Historical Projects overview, the Portal is organized primarily by geographic region, similar to the database structure at JewishGen. The Portal is meant to complement and reorganize the Jewish Ancestry Research Guide and other Jewish projects. For assistance with Jewish genealogy on Geni, please start a discussion or contact Randy Schoenberg or one of the many other Curators with expertise in Jewish genealogy. Please follow or join the project as a collaborator so you can get updates on discussions related to Jewish genealogy. Collaborators can also edit the project page to add additional subprojects.

Like our Jewish Genealogy Portal page on Facebook.

Join our Jewish Genealogy Portal discussion group on Facebook.

IAJGS Conference 2017 - Orlando

Historical Projects

Biblical

• Biblical Tree

Holocaust

• Holocaust: The Final Solution - umbrella project for all Holocaust projects, including camps and ghettos

Rabbinic

• Exilarchs
• Jewish Dynasties - links to leading Jewish historical personalities, sages, Torah luminaries, venerable Hasidic dynasties and illustrious rabbinic lineages
• Revered Rabbis, Kabbalists, Sages, and Scholarly Female Guides of Renown
• Jewish Mystics
• The Great Sanhedrin
• Misnagdim
• Chief Rabbinical Judges (Av Beit Din) - אבות בתי דין
• Authors of Hebrew Rabbinic Literature - מחברי ספרים

Sephardic

• Sephardic Luminaries
• European Sephardic Families
• Portuguese-Spanish Jewish Journey to Jamaica
• The Golden Age of Jews in Sepharad
• Sephardic Families Who Settled in Europe after Expulsion from Spain in 1492
• Barocas Uziel and Related Sephardic Families
• The Jews of Central Asia
• The Jews of Macedonia
• Jewish Families of Gibraltar

Other

• Jewish DNA Project at Family Tree DNA
• Jewish Celebrity Birthdays
• Yahrzeit Project
• Jewish Marshals, Generals & Admirals
• Jews of Khazaria
• Lost Tribes
• Missing Links - Profiles with recorded famous Jewish ancestors/descendants
• Jewish Diaspora Index

North and South American

• Jews of the United States of America
• Jews in Colonial America
• First American Jewish Families
• Latin American Jewish Odyssey
• Notable American Jews
• Notable Canadian Jews
• Jewish Argentina
• Philadelphians Pictured in Fifty years work of the Hebrew Education Society of Philadelphia-1848-1898
• Presidents of Congregation Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia
• Jewish Trenton, NJ
• Czech (Bohemian) American Jews
• Early Jewish Families from Los Angeles
• Early Jewish Families from San Francisco
• Jewish Members of the United States Armed Forces
• Jewish Recipients of the Medal of Honor
• The Alliance Colony
• Jewish Immigrants to the Caribbean
• Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
• Portugese-Spanish Jewish Journey to Jamaica

Eastern Europe

Belarus

• Jews of Belarus

Bessarabia

• Jewish Communities in Bessarabia - Moldova

Estonia

• Estonian Jews

Galicia

• Jewish Communities of Galicia
• Galician Jewish Family Projects
• Galician Eastern European Jews
• Jewish Families of Kraków

Latvia

• Latvian Jews
• Jewish Families from Rezekne

Lithuania

• Guide to Jewish Lithuania

Poland

• Jewish Communities of Poland
• Polish Jewish Family Projects
• Jewish Families of Volhynia (Wolin) Gubernia

Slovakia

• Jewish Communities of Slovakia
• Jewish Families of Pezinok
• Jewish Families from Trencin
• Jewish Families of Nitra, Slovakia (formerly Hungary)

Ukraine

• Brody is no more
• Jewish Communities (Shtetels) of Ukraine
• Jewish Families from Drohobycz
• Jewish Families of Berdychiv
• Jewish Families of Kiev
• Jewish Families of Tul'chyn
• Jewish Families of Volhynia (Wolin) Gubernia
• Lvov Ghetto גטו לבוב
• Volhynia (Wolin) Gubernia - Immigration to America Midwest

Western Europe

Austria

• Prominent Jewish Families of Vienna
• Tolerated Jews of Vienna
• Jewish Communities of Burgenland
• Jewish Community of Hohenems
• Austrian Jewish Online Resources

Czech

• Jewish Communities in Bohemia and Moravia
• Židovská Šlechta (The Jewish Aristocracy)
• Jewish Families from Prague
• Czech (Bohemian) American Jews
• Small Historical Museums, Synagogues, and Other Sites in the Czech Republic

France

• The Jewish French Connection
• Jews of the French German Nexus: Alsace and Lorraine
• Jewish Community of Metz
• Chief Rabbis of Paris
• Jewish Scholars of Magical Provence, France
• French / Benelux Jewish Online Resources

Germany

• Jewish Communities in Germany
• Jewish Families of Frankfurt
• Jewish Families of Königsberg (Ostpreußen) (now Kaliningrad)
• Jewish Families of Wiesbaden
• Notable German Jews
• Buchheimer Family of Germany
• Guxhagen Jews
• Mittelsinn, Burgsinn, Würzburg Region Jews ( Bavaria )
• Jewish Families Mack and Rauh of Küps and Altenkunstadt, Upper Franconia, Bavaria
• German Jewry in the Weimar Republic

Holland

• Dutch Jewish Online Databases
• Mokum - Wondrous Jewish Amsterdam

Italy

• Italian Jewish Communities Portal
• Italian Jewish History

Scandinavia

• JGS of Sweden and a short history of Jews in Sweden
• Meliza's Genealogy (Jewish Families of Finland)

United Kingdom

• UK Chief Rabbis and Famous British Jewish Leaders
• Jewish Community of Scotland

Central/Southern Europe

Bulgaria

• Avadic Family of Romania and Bulgaria

Greece

• Greek Jews
• Salonika - Center of Jewish Scholarship
• Jewish Families from Rhodes

Republic of Macedonia

• Macedonian Jews

Hungary

• Jewish Communities in Hungary
• Hungarian Jewish Online Databases
• The Hungarian Jewish Legacy

Romania

• Jewish Communities of Romania
• Finding Jewish graves in Transylvania
• Herta records transcription

Bosnia & the Balkans

• Sarajevo - Little Jerusalem of the Balkans
• Jewish Network in Croatia
• Macedonian Jews

Slovenia

• Jewish Families from Lendava

Middle East

Iran

• Persian Jewish Genealogy Portal

Iraq

• Iraqi Jewish Genealogy Portal
• Origins of the Baghdadi Trade Diaspora

Israel

• Israel Projects Portal
• Geni-Israel
• Notables on Israeli Stamps
• Israeli Heads of State and State Authorities
• Israeli all Knesset members
• Israeli Visionaries and Greats
• Founders of Tel Aviv Ahuzat Bait

Syria

• Aleppo

Turkey

• Turkish Jewish Genealogy Portal
• Ankara Jewish Families

North Africa

Egypt

Libya

Morocco

• Jewish Communities of Morocco
• Morocco, Cradle of Jewish Scholarship & Art

Tunisia

Africa

• South African Settlers
• African Jewry
• Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi) - Jewish Community
• Lithuanian Jews in South Africa
• Abayudaya Jews of Uganda
• Ethiopian Jews - Beta Israel
• Igbo Jews of Nigeria
• Jews of Kenya

Asia

• Jews of Central Asia
• Jews in Bombay
• Jews in Calcutta
• Jews in Hong Kong
• Jews in Shanghai
• Jews in Singapore

Notable Jewish Family Projects

• Trup Diaspora
• The Unbroken Chain by Dr. Neil Rosenstein
• Carlebach Rabbinical Dynasty
• Ser-Charlap Family Association
• Friedman Family Circle
• Ger Hasidic Dynasty
• Admor of Sanz (Halberstam) Hasidic Dynasty
• The Levitical Horowitz Rabbinical Family Alliances Project
• Legendary Katzenellenbogen Family
• Margolis and Frankel Families
• The Rashi Legacy - Kalonymos, Treves, Luria and Spira Families
• Chabad Admors (Schneerson) Dynasty
• Twersky Rabbinic Dynasty
• Shealtiel Family World Association
• Rapoport Family
• Jaffe Rabbinical Family Tree
• Zvhil Mezbuz Zlotschov Rabbinical Dynasty
• Jacobi Monographs (IIJG)