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Databases to search
The Internet has produced a flood of new information, some of it collected in databases that can be searched over the Web. Here are several of interest to those researching Keidan. Clicking on the buttons below will take you out of this site, so you'll need to hit the "Back" button on your browser to return.
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| The JewishGen Family Finder |
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This is where you can find the names of others interested in Keidan. The Family Finder is an interactive database that allows genealogists to trade family and town names, make connections and expand their circles of information. Click here to launch a search, here to add your own information to the database. |
"HaMagid" and "HaMelitz"
The names of 5,000 donors to a
Persian famine relief drive in 1871 were listed in this Hebrew periodical of the time. Click here to launch a search or to learn more about the HaMagid Database.
The names of almost 20,000
Lithuanian and Latvian charity donors were listed in this Hebrew periodical from 1893 to
1903. Click here to learn more about the HaMelitz
Database or search for a specific name.
| Religious Personnel in Russia 1853-1854 |
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This is an index to a 219-page Russian book printed privately in New York in 1992, whose title translates as "Synagogues, Prayer Houses and their Employees in the Pale of Settlement and Kurland and Livonia provinces of the Russian Empire, 1853-1854." It contains the results of a survey conducted by the Czarist Ministry of Internal Affairs in St. Petersburg during those years. More than 4,000 individuals are listed in more than 900 communities. Click here to get to the search page; from there you can look for either family or town names.
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| U.S. Holocaust Museum |
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The Washington, D.C. museum has a database of documents you can search
for references to Keidan. Click here
to launch your search, or here to learn about the museum and its archives.
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