JewishGen adds thousands of records to its Worldwide Burial Registry

JewishGen has announced its summer update to the JOWBR (JewishGen’s Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The update is being done in 2 parts.  You can access the database here and see a complete listing of cemeteries in the database here.

JewishGen recommends that if you’re new to the database, you first  go to its screencast page and take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts.

​More from JewishGen:  This update, adds approximately 560,000 new records and 44,000 new photos.  The database is adding and/or updating 478 cemeteries.  This update brings JOWBR’s holdings close more than 7 million records and 2.6 million photos from approximately 12,000 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 145 countries! ​​

​Significant additions to JOWBR by country include: 

• ​ Australia / New Zealand – 1,500 new records from the Australian Jewish Historical Society.

•  Austria – 1,300 records including the Viena Seegasse Cemetery

• Belgum – 3,300 records from the Israelite Municipality in Antwerp.

• Canada – 4,000 photos from 18 new and existing cemetery sections submitted primarily from the JGS of Toronto. 

• Colombia – 100 new records and 1,375 photos from the Cementerio Hebreo de Cali.

• Czech Republic – 8,600 new records and 2,100 photos from 45 new and updated cemeteries, most thanks to the Jewish Community in Prague and maintained by Mantana a. s. Administration.

• Germany – 3,200 records and from 25 new and updated cemeteries.

• Hungary – 268,200 records from 242 cemeteries from across the country from the work done by Lajos Boros.

• Moldova – the latest installment of 4,000 new records and 1,400 new photos from the Kishinev Cemetery submitted by JewishGen’s Bessarabia Research Division.

• Romania – an additional 1,900 records from the Suceava cemetery in Bucovina.

• Russia – 144,400 records from 41 cemeteries thanks to the work of aGuter Beter, a community led organization based in St. Petersburg.

• Serbia – 3,200 new records from the Jewish Community of Novi Sad.

• Slovakia – 1,800 new records and photos from 15 new and updated cemeteries, the majority from Humenne and Topolcany.

• Switzerland – 1,400 new records, mostly of the Israelitische Friedhof in Basel.

• Ukraine – 900 new records, the majority from Khmelnytskyy in the Podalia region

• United States - approximately 112,200 new records and 13,700 photos for 40 new and updated cemeteries.