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Belarus (see also Russia, USSR)
Byelorussian archival holdings VI/3/10
Inquiries made at Minsk archives VI/3/39
Location of Vitebsk records VII/2/39
Minsk archives will research for $1,000 VII/3/46
What we know about genealogical records in Belarus IX/4/06
Belorussian archives revisited X/3/12
First Belarus Jewish records arrive at LDS Family History Library X/4/07
Sources for Jewish Genealogy in Belarussian Archives; New Discoveries from Recent
Research XI/3/31
On-Site Research in Minsk XI/4/27
Records for the Lida District Available in the Grodno Archives XI/4/75
Book review: Jewish Documentary Sources in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. . XII/4/81
Jewish communities in Grodno province XII/4/83
The Pinkas of the Chevra Kadisha of Slutsk XIII/2/28
Not All Jewish Vital Records from Belarus Are Microfilmed XIII/2/53
RAGAS Provides Mogilev Guberniya Inventory; Visit to Ukrainian Archives XIII/4/31
Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People filming in Belarus and
negotiations with Lithuanians and Russians, Chinese Jews XIV/2/47
Belarussian Resources XV/3/71
Jewish Genealogical Research in Belarus XVI/3/19
Some Belarus Records in Vilnius Archives XVI/3/27
GSU, Belarus SIG and Litvak SIG Arrange Cooperative Indexing Project XVII/1/3
Book Review: <I>Archival Judaica of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus</I> XVII/3/66
Documentation of Byelorussian Jewish History at The Central Archives
for the History of the Jewish People XVIII/2/17
Book Review: Jewish Documentary Sources in Belarus Archives XX/3/61
Belgium
Status of Jewish genealogy in Belgium I/1/11
Antwerp as a transit point from Eastern Europe to U.S. I/2/08
Holocaust survivors of Belgium II/1/23
The Jews of Antwerp II/2/14
Antwerp between the wars III/2/20
Accounting of Belgian Jews after Holocaust IV/2/17
Families who have lived in one place for generations V/1/15
New Belgian books on the Holocaust VI/2/25
Jews Who Contributed to the Belgian State Since Its Independence VI/3/20
Antwerp as haven for Jews after Spanish Inquisition VII/2/23
Marranos of Antwerp VIII/2/36
Jewish genealogical research in Belgium--an update XI/1/43
Museum of the Deportation and Resistance in Brussels inaugurated XI/3/62
Research on early Jews of Belgium XII/1/39
Museum of Deportation and Resistance XIII/3/49
Genealogy collections of the Jewish Museum of Belgium XIV/1/46
Jewish genealogical society founded in Brussels XIV/1/46
Resources in Belgium Illuminate Larger Geographical Area XIV/4/37
Brussels Jewry XIV/4/69
Museum of Deportation and Resistance in Mechelen (Malines), Belgium:
Holdings and Activities XVII/4/14
Migrations from Eastern Europe to the Netherlands and Belgium XIX/2/29
Papers Given at Dutch/Belgian Jewish Conference XIX/3/52
Bermuda
The Jews of Bermuda XIV/2/31
Book Reviews
1998 Cemetery Project on CD-ROM XIV/4/85
Address Book for Germanic Genealogy VIII/3/62
AJHS Reviews Books on Jewish Communities XIII/2/63
American Consuls in the Holy Land, 1832-1914 X/4/76
American Passenger Arrival Records IX/2/60
An Index to Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society X/4/77
Ancestry's Red Book VIII/3/63
The (Anglo) Jewish Year Book XII/1/64
Archival Sources for Canadian Jewry IV/2/25
The Archives VIII/2/54
Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy XX/3/61
Balkan Ghosts, A Journey Through History X/1/61
Bedford's Second Jewish Community X/2/63
Behind the Silken Curtain XIX/4/75
Bibliography of German-Jewish Genealogy IX/3/61
Bibliography of Projects on German Jewry and anti-Semitism IX/3/61
A Biographical Dictionary of Canadian Jewry, 1909-1914 VIII/4/61
Bohemia and Moravia Deportations: Terezin Memorial Book XII/4/81
Books About Towns XIII/2/63
Books on Hungary IX/4/69
Bridges to An American City: A Guide to Chicago's Landsmanshaften, 1870 to
1990 X/3/64
Bridging Three Worlds IX/1/62
Bukharian Jews VIII/4/62
Capital Collections: Resources for Jewish Genealogical Research in Washington, DC,
Area XII/3/70
The Center: A Guide to Genealogical Research in the National Capital Area XII/3/70
Cologne Gedenkbuch XII/3/71
Companion Guide to Romania X/1/61
The Concise Dictionary of American Jewish Biography X/4/75
Dallas Jewish Genealogical Guide X/2/62
Dicionário Sefardi de Sobrenomes XIX/4/75
A Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames XXI/2/64
A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia XX/4/76
A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire IX/1/61
A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire IX/3/10
A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Kingdom of Poland XII/2/58
Dictionary of Surnames--some comments VI/2/26
Disraeli: A Biography XII/1/64
A Documentary History of Jewish Immigrants in Britain X/4/79
Documents of Our Ancestors: A Selection of Reproducible Genealogy Forms and Tips
for Using Them XII/4/80
Do People Grow on Family Trees VIII/3/62
Edge of the Diaspora VI/4/57
Eliyahu's Branches: The Descendants of the Vilna Gaon and His Family XIII/4/96
Encyclopedia of Jewish Genealogy VII/1/34
Evidence! XIV/3/87
Family Diseases: Are You At Risk? V/3/34
Family Research for Jewish Ancestors from Baden Wurttemberg in Hohenlohe District X/3/63
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions About Jewish Genealogy XIII/1/64
Finding Home: In the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers XXI/1/60
Finding Your Jewish Roots in Galicia: A Resource Guide XIV/3/87
First American Jewish Families VIII/2/53
Following the Paper Trail: A Multilingual Translation Guide VIII/3/63
From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry XIV/4/85
From Generation to Generation X/3/59
From King David to Baron David VI/2/23
Gedenkbuch VII/3/36
Genealogical Guide to East and West Prussia XIX/4/75
Genealogical Resources in the New York Metropolitan Area V/1/29
Genealogica Hebraica: Jews of Portugal and Gibraltar VI/4/58
Genealogical Resources in the Atlanta Area XII/3/70
The Genealogist's Address Book VIII/4/62
A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your Female Ancestors XIV/4/85
De Geschiedenis van het Joodse Geslacht Schuit XII/2/63
Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945</I? XIX/3/65
Guide Book: Jewish Sights of Bohemia and Moravia IX/1/63
Guide to Jewish Italy VIII/1/55
A Guide to U.S. Military Records X/4/79
Hamburg Passengers from the Kingdom of Poland and the Russian Empire XIII/2/63
Handbook for Archival Research in the USSR V/4/10
Historical Atlas of Central Europe XXI/2/64
Hoffnung Amerika X/2/61
Index to Florida Jewish History in the American Israelite, 1854-1900 IX/2/59
In Memoriam XII/3/71
In Search of Your European Roots II/1/32
In Their Words--Volume 2: Russian XIX/1/60
Inventory of Emigration Sources in the Bremen Archives .X/3/62
Jacob's Children in the Land of the Mahdi: Jews of the Sudan XIII/4/96
Jadid Al-Islam: The Jewish "New Muslims" of Meshhed XIV/2/61
Jewish Community of Frankfurt V/3/34
Jewish Documentary Sources in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus XII/4/81
Jewish First Names in Amsterdam XIII/2/63
Jewish Genealogy Beginner's Guide VII/4/66
Jewish Heritage Travel: A Guide of Central and Eastern Europe IX/4/68
Jewish Immigration to Argentina VII/2/34
Jewish Memories in Alsace: Marriage Contracts of the 18th Century XIII/3/63
Jewish Personal Names: Their Origin, Derivation and Diminutive Forms VIII/3/61
Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories; And I Still See
Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews; Guide to the YIVO Archives; Luboml: Memorial Book
of a Vanished Shtetl XIV/1/63
The Jewish Travel Guide IX/4/68
Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia XIII/4/96
The Jews in Poland and Russia--Biographical Essay III/1/38
Jews in Poland: A Documentary History IX/4/69
The Jews in Poland and Russia: Bibliographical Essays XII/2/63
The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: A Historical Reader X/1/60
The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia: a Historical Reader IX/1/63
Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait X/1/63
The Jews of Hungary: History, Culture, Psychology XII/3/72
The Jews of Kurdistan X/1/63
The Jews of Lithuania XII/2/61
Jews of Posen in 1834 and 1835 IV/2/26
Jews of Toronto: A History to 1937 III/2/32
Korzenie Polskie: Polish Roots IX/2/61
The Library VI/4/58
The Library of Congress VI/3/32
Library Resources for German-Jewish Genealogy XIV/3/87
Literature on Jews in Russian, 1890-1945 X/4/79
Literature on Jews in Russian, 1890-1945 XII/1/65
Lithuanian Jewish Communities VII/3/36
The Lonely Days Were Sundays: Reflections of a Jewish Southerner X/3/63
The Lord's Jews VIII/2/52
The Luckiest Orphans: A History of the Hebrew Orphan Asylum of New York IX/2/60
Marriages in Amsterdam X/2/60
Morton Allen Directory IX/3/62
Names of Jewish Victims of Hungarian Labor Battalions IX/1/62
Comments on Jewish Personal Names review VIII/4/66
Parish Registers in Slovakia IX/4/67
Patterns of Migrations, 1850-1914 XIII/3/63
Poles and Russians in the 1870 Census of New York City IX/3/62
Polish Countrysides: Photographs and Narrative XII/4/81
Proceedings of the 5th International Seminar on Jewish Genealogy XIV/3/87
Producing a Quality Family History XII/4/81
Research Guide to Materials on Russian Jewry in Selected Archives of the Former
Soviet Union X/3/61
Resources for Jewish Genealogy in the Boston Area XII/3/70
Resources for Jewish Genealogy in the New York area II/2/28
Roots IV: Software to Make History IX/3/62
Russia Gathers Her Jews IV/3/17
Russian-Jewish Given Names: Their Origins and Variants XIV/2/61
San Francisco Bay Area: Gold Mine for Jewish Genealogical Research XII/3/71
The Sephardic Journey: 1492-1992 VIII/3/63
Sephardim in America IX/4/65
The Source I/1/16
Sourcebook for Jewish Genealogies and Family Histories XII/4/80
The Standard for the People: The 150th Anniversary of the Wellington Hebrew
Congregation, 1843-1993 XII/1/65
State Census Records VIII/4/62
Synagogues, Prayer Houses and Their Employees in the Pale of Settlement and Kurland
and Livonia Provinces of the Russian Empire, 1853-1854 IX/2/59
Taking Root--The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community IX/1/64
Taschenbuch f�r Familiengeschichtsforschung XIII/3/63
The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy XIII/1/64
Their Father's House VI/3/33
These Are the Names: Studies in Jewish Onomastics XIV/4/85
They Became Americans: Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic Origins XIV/4/85
They Came in Ships X/1/63
A Thousand Threads: A Story Told Through Yiddish Letters XXI/3/64
The Timetables of Jewish History X/4/77
Timetables of History X/4/77
A Travel Guide to Jewish Europe IX/4/68
The Unbroken Chain VI/1/37
Australian genealogy books in print III/3/31
Where Once We Walked VII/1/33
Wooden Synagogues X/1/62
Your English Ancestry: A Guide to North Americans X/2/62
Zidovsk‚ N bozensk‚ obce na Slovensku IX/1/63
Documentary Sources on Jewish History in the Archives of the CIS and Baltic
States XI/1/63
History and Culture of the Jews in Swabia XI/1/64
A Cat Called Adolf XI/1/65
Vom Shtetl an Die Lower East Side: Galizische Juden in New York XI/1/65
In Search of Your European Roots XI/1/66
The Jewish Burial Ground at Jewbury XI/1/66
Migration from the Russian Empire: Lists of Passengers Arriving at the Port of New
York XI/2/61
Judaica Americana XI/2/62
Yiddish Cuisine: A Gourmet's Approach to Jewish Cooking XI/2/63
Eat and Be Satisfied, A Social History of Jewish Food XI/2/63
Who's Who in My Family XI/2/63
The Jewish Traveler: Hadassah Magazine's Guide to the World's Jewish Communities
and Sights XI/2/63
How to Document Victims and Locate Survivors of the Holocaust XI/3/78
Germanic Genealogy: A Guide to Worldwide Sources and Migration Patterns XI/3/79
The Echoes That Remain XI/3/80
Death Books from Auschwitz Remnants XI/3/81
The History of the Harrogate Jewish Community XI/3/81
A Guide to Jewish Genealogical Research in Israel XI/4/73
Gedenkbuch Berlins der Judischen Opfer des Nationalsozialismus XI/4/74
Hamburger J�dische Opfer des Nationalsozialismus: Gedenkbuch XI/4/74
French Children of the Holocaust XV/1/64
Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations XV/1/64
The Hidden Half of the Family: A Sourcebook for Women's Genealogy XV/1/64
The Jewish Quarter of Philadelphia XV/2/65
The Jews of Jamaica XV/2/65
Kaminits-Podolsk and Its Environs XV/2/65
If I Forget Thee...: The Destruction of the Shtetl Butrimantz XV/2/65
Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories XV/3/68
Padyavand XV/3/68
Organizing Your Family History Research XV/3/68
The Jewish Victorian XV/4/61
Faces of the Jewish Experience in China XV/4/61
Nous Sommes 900 Francais XV/4/61
Avnei Zikaron XV/4/61
A Social History of the Jews of Hong Kong: A Resource Guide XV/4/61
The Book of Sorrow XV/4/61
DoroTree: The Jewish Genealogy Software; Getting Started Books XVI/1/63
Photos Capture "The Way We Were" XVI/1/63
Dozens of Cousins: Blue Genes, Horse Thieves and Other Relative Surprises
in Your Family Tree XVI/2/65
Two Guides to the Slovak Archives XVI/2/65
Saskatoon Jewish Community XVI/2/65
History of the Jews in Poland and Russia XVI/3/65
The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the
Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 XVI/4/87
In Their Words: A Genealogist's Translation Guide to Polish, German, Latin
and Russia Documents. Volume 1: Polish XVI/4/87
Frauen in den Aussenlagern des KZ Flossenbürg XVII/1/73
The Litvaks: A Short History of the Jews of Lithuania XVII/1/73
The American Census Handbook XVII/1/73
A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names XVII/2/63
The History of the Jews of Germany in Modern Times XVII/2/63
Long Distance Genealogy: Researching Your Family History from Home XVII/2/63
Discovering Your Jewish Ancestors XVII/3/66
Archival Judaica of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus XVII/3/66
From Shtetl to Milltown: Litvaks, Hungarians and Galizianers In Western
Pennsylvania 1875-1925 XVII/4/78
The Family Orchard; Kastner's Haggadah XVII/4/78
Beit Rabbanan: Sources of Rabbinical Genealogy XVIII/1/65
History of Latvian Jews XVIII/1/65
At the Edge of Memory: A Family Story XVIII/2/61
Who Sailed on Titanic? The Definitive Passenger Lists XVIII/2/61
Jewish Given Names and Family Names: A New Bibliography XVIII/2/61
Jewish Surnames in Amsterdam, 1669-1850 XVIII/2/61
The Holocaust in Lithuania 1941-1945: A Book of Remembrance XVIII/3/62
Names of the Deported Jews from Zala County XVIII/3/62
Jewish Officers in the Polish Armed Forces, 1939-1945 XVIII/3/62
Portraits of Our Past: Jews of the German Countryside XVIII/3/62
120 HIAS Stories XVIII/4/88
The ShipsList CD-ROM: Passenger Ship Arrivals, Canadian Ports 1865-1899 XVIII/4/88
A Dictionary of German-Jewish Surnames XXI/2/64
A Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from Galicia XX/4/76
A Thousand Threads: A Story Told Through Yiddish Letters XXI/3/64
Avotaynu Guide to Jewish Genealogy XX/3/61
Behind the Silken Curtain XIX/4/75
Dicionário Sefaradi de Sobrenomes XX/1/56
Dicionário Sefardi de Sobrenomes XIX/4/75
Finding Home: In the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers XXI/1/60
Genealogical Guide to East and West Prussia XIX/4/75
Going Greek: Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945</I? XIX/3/65
Historical Atlas of Central Europe XXI/2/64
In Their Words--Volume 2: Russian XIX/1/60
Jewish Documentary Sources in Belarus Archives XX/3/61
Journey to a Nineteenth-Century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik XX/2/50
Legacy: The Saga of a German-Jewish Family Across Time and Circumstance XX/1/56
Memorial to the Jews Deported from Greece XXI/2/54
Memorial Volumes to Jewish Communities Destroyed in the Holocaust XX/4/76
Mixed Blessings: New Zealand Children of Holocaust Survivors Remember XIX/3/65
Our Lives Are But Stories: Narratives of Tunisian-Israeli Women XIX/3/65
Prisoner Deaths in Majdanek 1942 XXI/2/64
Quellen zur Geshichte der Juden in Polnischnen Archiven Biographisches
Handbuch der Rabbiner XX/2/67
Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars XIX/3/65
Sefer HaZikaron LeKehilat Yurburg-Lita XIX/4/75
Sephardic Genealogy: Discovering Your Sephardic Ancestors and Their World XIX/1/60
Sephardic Onomasticon XXI/2/64
The Diaries of Bernhard Cahn: A Man of His Time XX/1/56
The Jewish Nation of the Caribbean XIX/1/60
The Journeys of David Toback XXI/3/64
The Lost Tribes of Israel: The History of a Myth XIX/3/65
The Lurie Legacy XX/3/61
Tracing Your Family History in Australia XIX/2/66
Two Worlds XXI/3/64
Verdrängte Geschichte Schauplätze des Naziterrors in Oesterreich XIX/1/60
Volumes on Hungarian Jewry during the Holocaust XXI/1/60
What's Behind a Name XIX/2/66
Zród a archiwalne do dziejów Żydów w Polsce XIX/3/65
Brazil
History of the Jews of Brazil IV/3/19
Books on Jewish tombstone inscriptions in Brazilian cemeteries IV/3/19
Dicionario Biografico--1500-1808 V/3/23
Crypto Jews in the State of Par VI/1/29
Sources of genealogical records VI/3/20
Famous Jewish Brazilian families VI/4/50
Jews, Judaizers and their slaves VII/1/20
Additional books by Egon and Frieda Wolff VII/3/28
Dicionario Biografico--Volume 4 VII/4/58
Memorial to two Jews buried in Vassouras VIII/4/53
Jews in the Amazonian rain forest IX/1/35
Books available on Brazilian Jewish history IX/3/47
Jews and marranos in northern Brazil IX/4/48
"Jewish Priest" of Caico IX/4/49
The Amzalak family history X/1/43
Jewish migration patterns X/4/62
Using Inquisition records X/4/62
Jews in the Amazon XI/2/47
Bentes family of Brazil XI/2/47
Jewish Memorial opens in Vassouras, Brazil XI/3/63
Early Jewish presence in Brazil XV/3/29
Saltiel Family of Brazil XX/1/47
Bulgaria
Bulgarian Jewish names XII/2/45
Projects to Document Jews of Turkey, Salonika, Bulgaria, and Belgrade XIV/2/40
Jewish Surnames from Bulgaria XIX/3/52
Jews of Bulgaria XIX/3/52
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