familytreemagazine.com 23SIGHTSEEING IN EUROPE
$ ArkivDigital
Swedish researchers who’ve exhausted free
resources will want to dig dip and splurge (about
$190 a year) to access the 82 million scanned col-
or images here, including church, court and tax
records and estate inventories.
*Compgen.de
Created by bona fi de German genealogists and
run by Germany’s largest genealogy group,
this site has enough English content to get
you started with its research wiki, digitized
documents and pedigree database. Transla-
tion tools can help explore the rest, and free
registration unlocks even more. (See our
guide in the October/November 2018 issue
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You can fi nd some of this UK- and Common-
wealth-focused collection’s 1 billion records
elsewhere. But the more obscure resources
(such as trade directories and parish probate
registers) really make it worth $49.95 per year.
Foundation for East European
Family History Studies
How did we discover some of the cool Eastern
and Central European links on this list? Credit
FEEFHS, which has been keeping an eye on the
region’s genealogy for a quarter-century.
Genealogy Indexer
Dedicated to making Central and East Euro-
pean records accessible, this site now includes
1.8 million pages of 3,200 historical directories,
148,000 pages of memorials to Jewish com-
munities destroyed in the Holocaust, 32,000
pages of military lists, 45,000 pages of commu-
nity and personal histories, and 24,000 pages of
school sources.Geneanet
<en.geneanet.org>
Say bonjour to your French ancestors, with
this English-friendly collection of how-tos and
950,000 user-submitted family trees.*Geneteka
<www.geneteka.genealodzy.pl>
In partnership with the Polish Genealogical
Society, this volunteer-sourced site is the big-
gest database for Polish genealogy, with more
than 10 million indexed records. Some pages
have an English icon, but you’ll need translation
tools elsewhere.*GenTeam
<www.genteam.at>
Free registration unlocks nearly 20 million
user-submitted entries about Austrian gene-
alogy. It’s worth a look even if your ancestors
aren’t Austrian, as submissions also cover
neighboring lands.*Hungaricana
<www.hungaricana.hu/en>
Find your Hungarian ancestors in this remark-
able collection of more than 4 million pages of
digitized publications, 100,000 old maps, and
300,000 pages from the Urbarium census of- Take some time, too, to play with the Buda-
pest Time Machine, which lets you view this
historic city through the ages. You don’t even
need to read Hungarian to get started, as there’s
a complete English-language version.
JewishGen
<www.jewishgen.org>
Though not exclusive to Eastern Europe—its
gazetteer covers 54 countries—this site affi li-
ated with the Museum of Jewish Heritage is a
must for those with Jewish roots there. Quick
searches look for surnames or towns. Or click on
Databases to delve into the Family Tree of the
Jewish People, 2.7 million entries on Holocaust
victims, and the JewishGen Family Finder.E
For detailed guides to the web’s best
genealogy resources, check out the
Ultimate Genealogy Websites Guide eBook
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