Goldberg Cohen Family Tree @ GoldbergCohenFamily.info

GENEALOGY RESOURCES

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The links listed on this page are resources we use for finding information on our Jewish families in Germany, the Netherlands, Lithuania, and several US cities; we hope this will help other researchers interested in the same locations and families.

*All websites below are free, though some may require registration.

General research

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Jewishgen is the main site used for Jewish genealogy research.

The FamilySearch.org website, offers an abundance of free information, from the social security index to images of birth certificates and census information; easy to use and free.

Yad Vashem , Digital Monument to the Jewish community in the Netherlands , and Das Bundesarchiv, are Holocaust-related sites from Germany and the Netherlands with searchable databases.

Worldcat provides a search engine for the collections of libraries worldwide. There are many books about the history of Jewish communities in small German towns that include the genealogies of the former Jewish population. Many local libraries can obtain copies of these books for a small fee.

The Find a Grave is a great website for finding and keeping photos of tombstones and cemeteries. If you need someone to take a photo of a grave, a volunteer (who lives near the cemetery) will answer a request to take a photo for you; we've had great success. We are putting more of our tombstone photos on our GoldbergCohen Memorial on findagrave.com's website.

Genealogy sites for Germany and the Netherlands

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*Note: Some of these sites do not have English translations. However, most searches require the knowledge of only a few words.

Steinheim-institut contains photographs of graves and tombstones in Jewish cemeteries, primarily located in North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen in German). Through this site and Jewishgen, we were able to find five generations on our mother's maternal side.

Jewish cemeteries in North Rhine-Westphalia This site lists the hundreds of small Jewish cemeteries in this state including the cemetery address, number of tombstones, and other helpful information.

Hessian Regional History Information System (LAGIS) This site not only shows tombstones from graves in the state of Hesse (Hessen in German), but gives extra information on names and family groups.

Hessen Jewish genealogy is on the Juden in Nordhessen website, from Hans-Peter Klein und Hans Pettelkau. This includes the Strauss Family , the Schaumberg Family and many more.

A free and easy to download digitized Judaica book collection from The Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (Hesse), includes books and articles about the families Feuchtwanger, Rosenberg, Katzenellenbogen, Morpurgo, Bacharach, Oppenheim, Adler, Luria and others; in German and some English. (Thank you Ton Tielen for the information)

There are two very useful sites for family research in the regions around Germany - Netherlands - Belgium. These sites have some of the same names, but each offers good information, Familienbuch-euregio and Durener Geschichtswerkstatt.

Two sites primarily for Dutch Jewish families (some with German origins) includes Jewish Genealogy Database of the Sittard area (Limburg, Netherlands)with over 8,000 people and Levie Kanes' website with over 200,000 names. Both of these sites were included as information in a larger website useful for those researching the Netherlands.

Genlias includes Dutch civil records, from 1811 to modern times.

Jewishgen and Jewishgen's Lithuanian interest group, LitvakSIG are the only sites we currently use; more will be added as we do more research on Lithuania.

*The links below are for US towns and cities (including suburbs) where multiple Goldberg - Cohen Families resided. Currently these locations include: Pittsburgh, Johnstown / Cambria Pennsylvania, Chicago, Peoria, Illinois, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, and Akron, Ohio

Jackson County, Missouri (that's Kansas City) marriage certificates online.

The state of Missouri has an excellent website with images of death certificates before 1958 or an advanced search option where multiple documents can be searched at one time. We have a book section below, but it's worth noting here that researching the Missouri and Jackson County records along with the valuable information in the book on Kansas City Jewish buriels, Gone But Not Forgotten by Anita Loeb will provide a lot of information on the Jewish families who lived in Kansas City and surrounding communities.

Cambria County, Pennsylvania, which includes Johnstown, Pennsylvania has a list of online resources , including an advanced search option at the top of the list.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and surrounding towns has the online and searchable Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project a collection of three Jewish publications from 1895 - Present.

Pittsburgh's Shaare Torah Cemetery was photographed by Rich Boyer, along with the inscription on many of the tombstones.

For everything on the Chicago Jewish community between 1911 - 1949, The Sentinel is a wonderful publication with all copies online and searchable.

Hundreds of graves from the Jewish cemetery in Peoria, Illinois, photographed.

The family websites listed below have some of our family's genealogy, along with many other unrelated families.

Our family members included in the website are from the location listed in parenthesis.

Petit-Rivir genealogy (Germany)

Edelmuth family (Germany)

Georg Stockschlaeder Genealogie (Germany)

Gershon-Lehrer (Germany, The Netherlands)

Max van Dam's Family Tree (Germany, the Netherlands)

Blank Geneology (Germany)

The Kaminsky Family (Germany)

Heuman Family (Germany)

Wibis Family Tree - in German (Germany)

The Fischer and Levin family history (Eastern Europe)

Articles and Books

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This section is for researchers seeking books and articles that we possess specific to the topics covered in this website.

Contact us for any information contained in these books or article; if possible, we will search/send you the information needed in these books and articles.

Books