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Dicover your story in our Jewish family history records.

We’ve partnered with JewishGen®, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the American Jewish Historical Society, the Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation, Inc., the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the USC Shoah Foundation, and Arolsen Archives to create a collection of over 20 million Jewish historical records.

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Ancestry makes it easy to search for your Jewish ancestors in historical records from all over the globe. And these collections are growing every month.

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These Jewish family history collections will remain as long as they exist on Ancestry.*

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More Countries

The first collection in Ancestry’s non-European Jewish record collection is from Israel. More collections about Jews living outside of Europe will become available on the site in the coming months.

Ancestry has the U.S. Department of State Consular Post Records, which contain an index to records of U.S. consulates in Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Haifa, from 1857-1935. These indexes contain more than 9,100 names.

Watch this space for more records of Jews who lived in places other than the European nations and North America.

Written by Gary Mokotoff for Ancestry

About Gary Mokotoff

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Gary Mokotoff is an author, lecturer, and leader of Jewish genealogy. He has been recognized by three major genealogical groups for his achievements. He is the first person to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS); and is the recipient of the Grahame T. Smallwood Award of the Association of Professional Genealogists, and the Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Humanitarian Award of the Federation of Genealogical Societies. Mokotoff is also known for his application of computers to genealogy. Among his accomplishments is co-authorship of the Daitch-Mokotoff soundex system; the JewishGen Family Finder, a database of ancestral towns and surnames being researched by some 50,000 Jewish genealogists throughout the world; and the Consolidated Jewish Surname Index.