Genealogical and Historical Resources

Below is a list of genealogical and historical links for Romania. If you are aware of additional valuable resources, please let us know!

Romanian Archives

• National Archives of Romania (Arhivele Naționale ale României) [English page]

• Regional Archives List

• National Archives Catalogue (searchable)

General Romanian Genealogy Resources

• FamilySearch: Guide to Romanian Genealogy

• Foundation for East European Family History Studies: Romania Resources

• Ancestry: Romania, Vital Records from Selected Regions, 1607-1914 (includes Jewish records and civil records from Transylvania)

• Romanian Genealogy (Facebook; non-sectarian)

• Historical Population Database of Transylvania

• Rail Routes out of Romania, by Marcel Glaskie

Jewish Romanian Genealogy Resources

• JewishGen Romania Database

• JewishGen KehilaLinks (websites for specific towns)

• GeneaSearch Database (for Czernowitz and other Bukovina locations)

• Center for Jewish History, Jewish Family History Research Guide: Romania

• Resource Guide: Searching Your Jewish Ancestors from Romania (by Marcel Glaskie)

• Blood & Frogs Compendium of Jewish Genealogy: Romania

• Jewish Bukovina: Sources for Genealogical and Family History Research

• List of all Romanian Burial Societies (landsmanshaftn) in New York Cemeteries (JGSNY)

• Jewish Genealogy in Romanian Moldova (Facebook)

• Jewish Cemeteries in Romania [Hebrew] (Facebook)

• Iasi Jewish Ancestors (Facebook)

• National Library of Israel, Historical Jewish Newspapers (includes some Romanian newspapers)

• IAJGS International Jewish Cemetery Project: Romania

• Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities in Romania (Pinkas Ha-Kehilot)

• List of historical Romanian occupations translated into English

• Hebrew University Center for Research on Romanian Jewry

• Jewish History Museum in Romania

• Centrul pentru Studiul Istoriei Evreilor din Români (CSIER)

Jewish Romanian History and Culture

• Jewish Heritage Europe: Romania

• YIVO Encyclopedia: Romania

• Jewish Virtual Library: Romania Virtual Jewish History Tour

• Jewish Encyclopedia: Rumenia (1906)

• Wikipedia: History of the Jews in Romania

• Jewish Galicia & Bukovina

• US Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad, Historic Jewish Sites in Romania (2010)

• Federaţia Comunităţilor Evreiești din România, Memoria Cimitirelor Evreiești [document on Jewish cemeteries in Romania]

• Jill Culiner, Finding Home: In the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers (book)

• History of Sephardic Jews in Romania

• Jewish Heritage Romania (Facebook)

Romania and the Holocaust

• US Holocaust Museum Holocaust Encyclopedia

• Yad Vashem