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WW-Person : A data base of the higher nobility in Europe. Over 350,000 names. WW-Person now contains 87000 persons of English nobility (including Irish nobility and Scottish nobility), 20000 persons of Italian nobility, 25000 persons of Spanish nobility, 13000 persons of Russian nobility, 60000 persons of French nobility and over 100000 persons of German nobility (including Austrian nobility and Swiss Nobility). For each person original names, titles, dates and relatives are given.

Royal Genealogies (archived website). This is a conversion of a huge Gedcom file into a HTML format for use with web browsers.

thePeerage.com. A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.

Genealogies of European Royal Families (archived website).


  • Albania

    Cemeteries in Albania.


  • Austria

    Austria, Vienna Population Cards, 1850-1896. The cards include: name; birth date and place; marital status; old and new places of residence; and dates of arrival and departure. Frequently the names of the spouse and children are listed.

    WWI Aces of Austria-Hungary. Honoring WWI pilots granted the designation of Ace. Biographies, medals and decorations, photos, etc.

    Schrattenthal Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions, Lower Austria. Schrattenthal is located in Lower Austria, on the former crossroads between Moravia, Bohemia and Austria.

    Southern Waldviertel Family History Project Data (archived website). The Waldviertel or "Forest Quarter" is a picturesque semi-mountainous region less than an hour's drive west of Vienna, Austria. The aim of the project is to document all families living in select Catholic parishes between 1600-1900.


  • Belarus

    Street Map of Antepolia Before 1942 : A map of Antopal, Belarus listing residents.

    1892-1924 : Ellis Island records for Bereza and Antopol, Belarus

    1924 Business Directory, Dvorets, Belarus

    Street Map of Kartuz Bereza Before 1942. A map of Biaroza, Belarus listing residents.

    Kartuz Bereza Sections of Various New York State Cemeteries. Kartuz Bereza (or Biaroza) is a town in Belarus.

    1874 Borisov Revision List, Belarus. These Revision Lists for Borisov Uyezd contain names from the following towns in Belarus: Berezino, Borisov, Dokshitsy, Es'mony, Kholopenichi, Krasnolutsk, Logoysk, Nestanovichi, Okolovo, Pleshchenitsy, Shamok (Shamki), Smolevichi, Velyatichi, Zembin.


  • Belgium Genealogy Databases


  • Bulgaria

    Bulgarian Jewish Names

    Bulgarian Jewish Deportees from France (Shoah) (pdf document)

    Burials in the Jewish Cemetery of Shumen, Bulgaria

    Listing of Bulgarian Jewish (Sephardic) Soldiers Killed During the Balkans Wars and WWI 1912 CE - 1918 CE


  • Croatia

    Directory of Croatian Surnames. The directory contains more than eleven hundred surnames borne by Croats and other nations living on the teritory of the Republic of Croatia.

    Index to Death notices found in Voce Giuliana from 1989 to 1998 (archived website).. The majority of the notices are from the Istrian peninsula of Croatia.

    Cross Index of Croatia Surnames (and Locations) in Roman Catholic Parishes of Croatia (archived Web site - may be unavailable or slow to respond).

    Surnames of Konavle, Croatia. This list shows over 98% of the surnames of Konavle since around 1800.


  • Czech Republic

    Database of Czech immigrants in USA

    German-Bohemian Surname Database

    Moravian Immigration to Pennsylvania 1734-1767

    Moravian Immigrant Database Index (archived website).

    Czech Republic, Church Books, 1552-1981. Images and some indexes of baptisms/births, marriages, and deaths that occurred in the Roman Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran, and Reformed Church parishes, as well as entries in those registers for Jews. These images are of original parish records created by local priests of each parish now stored in the regional archives of Litomìøice, Tøeboò, and Zámrsk. Births are available through 1912, marriages and deaths through 1937.


  • Denmark

    The 1700 census of men in Denmark (archived website): The following counties are online : Frederiksborg, Skanderborg, and Akaer (later part of Arhus County).

    Danish Censuses 1787 - 1916

    The Danish Emigration Data Base. Search emigration lists compiled by the Copenhagen Police from 1869 to 1908 (394.000 emigrants)

    Danish Probate Index: Thisted, Viborg, Aalborg, & Randers Counties

    Bornholm, Denmark Land Tenancy Books for 1658 (partial) (archived website).

    Bornholm, Denmark Land Tenancy Books for 1662 (partial) (archived website).

    Bornholm, Denmark Land Tenancy Books for 1689 (partial) (archived website): compiled by the Swedish Crown which then ruled the island.

    Danish Census of School Children, 1730s (archived website).

    Oeders Eftr. 1771. Oeders Eftr. of married couples, widowers and widows from Sjælland, Amager, Møn and Bornholm, Denmark (In Danish).

    Danish Emigration to Exira, Audubon County, Iowa.

    Denmark to Oconto County, Wisconsin


  • Estonia

    Political Arrests in Estonia 1940-1988 (archived website).

    Album Academicum Universitatis Tartuensis 1918-1944. Academic album of Tartu University, Estonia. Note : you can browse all 31402 names in the database by leaving all fields blank and clicking on Osti (in Estonian)


  • Finland

    Bibliography Index Extracted from California och dess Svenska Befolkning. The names and brief background information on 335 Swedes and Swede-Finns who were living in California between 1900 and 1910. A free online edition of this book is available: California och dess svenska befolkning


  • France Genealogy Databases


  • Germany Genealogy Databases


  • Gibraltar

    Gibraltar, Church Records, 1697-1991: Baptism, marriage, and other church records created by various parishes and diocese in Gibraltar. Some of these records have been indexed and are searchable as part of this collection.


  • Greece

    Index to Transcript of St Paul's Anglican Church Registers - Athens, Greece : Baptisms and marriages 1834-1945, burrials 1840-1945.

    Greeks to America in 1892 - Surnames : A to C, D to G, H to P, Q to Z


  • Hungary

    Hungary Civil Registration, 1895-1980. Images of births to 1920, marriages to 1950, and deaths to 1980 reported to and recorded by civil registrars. Coverage varies by locality.

    Zichydorf, Torontal County, Hungary 1828 Land Census

    Zichydorf, Hungary : Queen of The Rosary Roman Catholic Church Baptisms 12 Jul 1789 - 31 Dec 1842

    Known and Suspected Zichydorfers in Saskatchewan, Canada. Zichydorf is an Hungarian village where about 85% to 90% of the population were German Catholics : Surnames A-K, Surnames L-Z (archived Web pages).

    Known and suspected Zichydorfers in the 1901 Census of Canada - Southern Saskatchewan (archived Web page).

    WWI Aces of Austria-Hungary. Honoring WWI pilots granted the designation of Ace. Biographies, medals and decorations, photos, etc.

    Most frequent surnames in Hungary in 1891

    Emigration from Banat in the U.S. National Archives Ship Records (1889-1916). Banat is a historical region currently divided among Romania, Serbia, and Hungary.


  • Iceland

    The National Archives of Iceland Census Database: 1703-1920.

    The National Archives of Iceland Document Files Database. Search parish records and more.

    Icelandic settlers in Utah (archived Web page).

    Index to the Book Saga Islendinga í Norður-Dakota (archived Web page).. Name index to Chapter 8 which deals with Icelandic pioneer families in North Dakota.


  • Ireland


  • Italy

    Italian Surnames: Ethymology and Origin

    L'origine dei cognomi (archived website). Origin of Italian surnames (Web site in Italian)

    Il Significato Dei Nomi Propri (archived website). Signification of Italian surnames (in Italian)

    L'Italia dei Cognomi : Distribution of Surnames in Italy

    The meaning of Sicilian Names

    Florence Tratte of Office Holders 1282-1532 (Italy). This site gives access to a database (c. 165,000 records) with information about office holders of the Florentine Republic during its 250-year history.

    Florence Catasto of 1427 (Italy). This is a World Wide Web searchable version of tax assessment data for the city of Florence in 1427-29.

    Calabrian Surname Database. Find others researching the same surnames or towns.

    Italian Emigrants to the United States, Argentina and Brazil
    Free registration required.
    - The United States data bank contains the files on about 200,000 Italian emigrants recorded in the Ship Passenger Lists who arrived in New York between 1880 and 1891.
    - The Argentinian data bank is made up of 1,020,000 files on Italians who arrived in Buenos Aires between 1882 and 1920. The information is taken from the disembarkment lists.
    - The Brazilian data bank is mainly based on information taken from the embarkment registers of ships leaving Italy, to which have been added checks and additions through other archive sources. The information covers about 27,000 Italian emigrants who arrived in Vitoria between 1858 and 1899.

    Search the The Italian Genealogical Group Databases: Over 16 million entries of vital records, naturalization and other genealogical records, mainly from the United States.

    Caduti di Arandora Star (archived Web page - may be unavailable or slow to respond). People who died when the Arandora Star was sunk in WW II. Mainly Italian names, along with birth date, place of birth (mainly in Italy), and place of residence at time of death (mainly in the UK)

    Estratto dal Catasto Onciario, Fallascoso 6 settembre 1753. Fallascoso, Province of Chieti, Abruzzo, Italy 1753 census (in Italian.)

    WWI Aces of Italy. Honoring WWI pilots granted the designation of Ace. Biographies, medals and decorations, photos, etc.

    Italian Immigrant Ships to the U.S. Passenger Lists

    Montefusco, Avellino, Campania, Italy Records of Births thru Deaths


  • Latvia

    Talsi, Latvia Records


  • Luxembourg

    Luxembourg Parish/Civil Records Index, 1600-1890

    Septfontaines, Luxembourg Misc. Records. Census and vital records.

    Useldingen and Rippweiler, Luxembourg Marriage Index 1623-1793 (archived pdf document)

    Luxembourg Napoleon Soldiers Database

    Médaillés de Ste-Hélène Luxembourgeois. Soldiers from Luxembourg who fougth with Napoleon between 1792 and 1815, and who were still living in 1857. (In French, archived pdf document.)

    Passenger List for Emigrants from Luxembourg and Surrounding Areas. Compiled out of the Luxemburger Gazette (archived pdf document).


  • Malta

    Malta Genealogy


  • Moldova

    Glueckstal, South Russia Births, Deaths and Marriages 1833-1900 (Today Hlinaia, Moldova). Compiled from the St. Petersburg Lutheran Evangelical archives published by the LDS.


  • Netherlands (The)

    Yvette's Dutch Genealogy Database. The database features over 50,000 people and roughly covers the 1500-1900 period. Most of them are from Winterswijk, Aalten, Bredevoort and Dinxperlo. The database includes information about over 6,000 emigrants that emigrated from the area between 1840 and 1920.

    Rotterdam Municipal Archives’ Notarial Records (The Netherlands). The archive holds public notary records from the period 1585 – 1935. A portion of these registers are digitised and searchable online.

    City Archives of 's-Hertogenbosch: People Search.

    Akevoth Web Wite. Dutch Jewish Genealogical and Historical Records.

    Middelburg, The Netherlands Jewish Cemeteries (archived Web page). Burials at Ashkenazi cemetery, Walensingel, Middelburg, 1759-1946, and Sephardic burials at Jodengang cemetery in Middelburg 1656-1727.


  • Norway

    Norway Vital Records 1634-1927. Data submitted by volunteers over the past 30 years : Baptisms - Marriages - Burials

    Norway Heritage Passenger lists 1825 - 1873. The transcriptions are done by a group of volunteers dedicated to get all (most) of the pre 1875 Norwegian emigrants listed in the database. There are currently over 70,000 passengers from more than 450 journeys in this database.

    National Archives of Norway Online Resources. Digitised Parish Registers, Digitised Probate Records, Digitised Real Estate Registers, and more.

    Norway, Probate Index Cards, 1640-1903

    Trøndelag, Norway Emigrant Biographies

    Norway Land Registers 1886 and 1838: downloadable as Excel-files.

    Matrikkelutkastet av 1950 : Norway's draft land registry from 1950 containing all real estates outside the cities with the name of the owner in 1950 (in Norwegian).

    Norwegians in the U.S. Civil War


  • Poland

    Lomza Yizkor Book Index This document is designed for genealogical researchers who are interested in research in the city of Lomza, Poland.

    Families and Individuals originating from Narol (Lubaczow), Rzeszow, Poland

    Polish Soldiers in France. This dadabase compiles information on Polish Soldiers who died during the Second World War and were buried in different cemeteries in France.

    Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States, Volumes 1-13. Polish Declarations of Admiration and Friendship for the United States was compiled in 1926 and delivered to President Calvin Coolidge to honor the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The collection includes the greetings and signatures of national, provincial, and local government officials, representatives of religious, social, business, academic, and military institutions. Volumes 7 through 13 present the signatures of students and faculty of secondary schools, as well as some elementary schools.

    1943 Address Book of Gerlachsheim (archived Web page : may be unavailable or slow to respond). Gerlachsheim was a German village that now belongs to Poland.

    Germany, Posen, Church Book Duplicates, 1800-1874. Images of the state copies of some parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials. Most of the Posen villages are now in Poland.

    Ryglice and Uniszowa, Poland Selected Vital Records 1774-1896 : Baptisms - Marriages - Deaths

    Jodlowa and Dembowa, Poland Selected Vital Records 1778-1920 : Baptisms A-K, Baptisms K-Z, Marriages, Deaths

    Buffalonians in the Polish Army (Buffalo, Erie County, New York (archived Web page).

    PGSNYS Members - Surname List : Various Polish surnames that members of the Polish Genealogical Society of New York State are researching, with contact information.

    Scots in Germany and Poland, XVIth, XVIIth and XVIIIth Century : From the book Scots in Germany by Th A Fischer (first published in 1902) Part 1 - Part 2

    Cemetery Database of the Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut and the Northeast: Surname database from cemeteries in Poland, United States and Canada.

    Surnames Being Researched by Members of the Polish Genealogical Society of Connecticut & the Northeast.


  • Portugal

    Obituary Index : Azores. Index to obituaries of individuals born in the Azores. Mainly 1998-2002.

    List of Persons of Portuguese Descent who left Trinidad to serve in the Great War

    Madeira, Portugal Baptism Database.

    Madeira, Portugal Marriage Database. This database of the Regional Archives of Madeira includes all pre 1911 marriages.


  • Romania

    Jews of Radauti (Romania) Victims of the Holocaust in Transnistria, 1941-44 (archived Web page).

    Emigration from Banat in the U.S. National Archives Ship Records (1889-1916). Banat is a historical region currently divided among Romania, Serbia, and Hungary.


  • Russia

    ODESSA ... a German-Russian Genealogical Library. Browse or search over 300 Mbytes of data.

    American Historical Society of Germans From Russia Obituary Collection Index

    Germans from Russia : Index to the 1798 census for the Lower Volga Valley Villages. Surnames : A-L, M-Z

    Origin and Meaning of Doukhobor Surnames. This glossary compiled by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff contains roots and meanings of 569 Russian surnames occurring among the Doukhobors, together with over 2,600 English spelling variations.

    Revision lists of Gansau / Hansau, 10th revision, 1857 : Revision lists concerning Mennonites emigrating from Prussia in 1855-1856 to Russia, Samara gubernia, Novousensky uezd, 1857 Nov 8 (archived Web site - may be unavailable or slow to respond).

    Deutsch-Michalin Mennonites. The earliest Mennonite settlement in Russia started in Deutsch-Michalin in 1787. Records for this early period have not surfaced. We know the names of emigrants from Montau for 1804-1805 who show up later in Deutsch-Michalin.

    Kuban Colony Census, 1869 (Mennonites, South Russia)

    Lists of Mennonites emigrating from Danzig to Russia 1804-1805 (archived Web page).

    Migration of Mennonites from West Prussia to Russia 1820 - 1841

    Kratzke - Brent Mai's Research Germans from Russia (archived website). Details on over 12,000 families from Prussia (Germany) & Russia.

    Germans from Russia : The Lower Volga Villages Obit Project (archived website).

    Membership List, Karpovka Mennonite Brethren Church, Sointsevsk Council Borough, Isil-Kul District, Siberia. Includes birth year (ranging from 1856 to 1916)

    Immigrants from the Russian Empire (LI-RA-MA). The Likacheff-Ragosine-Mathers collection (LI-RA-MA) contains documents created between 1898 and 1922 by the consular offices of the Russian Empire in Canada. The series on passports and identity papers is comprised of about 11,400 files on Jewish, Ukrainian and Finnish immigrants who came to Canada from the Russian Empire. The series includes passport applications and questionnaires containing general information.


  • Scandinavia

    Scandinavian LDS Pioneer Index

    1870-1871 : Passenger List of the England, England to New Zealand (archived website) - About 110 passengers, many recruited from Scandanavia for New Zealand under the Vogel Immigration Scheme.


  • Serbia

    Emigration from Banat in the U.S. National Archives Ship Records (1889-1916). Banat is a historical region currently divided among Romania, Serbia, and Hungary.


  • Slovakia

    Jakubany, Slovakia Church Records 1772-2004+.


  • Slovenia

    Everyname Master Index A-Z of Slovenian Church Histories Volume I (archived website). This volume contains indexes from 26 Slovenian-American church histories.


  • Spain

    Index to the Enciclopedia Heráldica Hispano-Americana of Alberto and Arturo García Carraffa. The structure of this 88 volumes work provides an index in each volume. As the work progressed, supplemental names were added, breaking the alphabetical continuum. Without perusing all the volumes one could never be sure that an article may have been missed. This present automated index, compiles all the names mentioned in the respective indices and allows a comprehensive search of all volumes at one time.

    List of survivors of the first voyage around the world (mainly Spanish names)

    The Conquistadors of the Yucatan 1526-1546. A list of 160 of the individuals that served the King of Spain with Francisco de Montejo from 1526 to 1546.

    1495 Census of Blesa, Aragon, Spain.

    Bezana, Navarre, Spain Births to the year 2000 (archived website).

    Spanish Names from the Late 15th Century

    Apellidos del pueblo de Uncastillo (Zaragoza), Aragón, España (archived website). Common surnames of Uncastillo, Aragon, Spain, their meaning and the moment in the history of the town where they appear for the first time.


  • Sweden

    Gravsten-Sök. Search nearly half a million gravestones (over a million names) in Sweden (in Swedish).

    Indexes to books about Swedes in America : Swedish Element in Rockford (Illinois); Swedish Settlements in Iowa and Western Illinois; Swedish Blue Book (1927); Svenskarne i Illinois (the Swedes in Illinois) (archived Web page - may be unavailable or slow to respond).

    Bibliography Index Extracted from California och dess Svenska Befolkning. The names and brief background information on 335 Swedes and Swede-Finns who were living in California between 1900 and 1910. A free online edition of this book is available: California och dess svenska befolkning

    Ernst Skarstedt's Oregon-Swedish Biographies. The book covered the period 1880 to 1910.

    Indexes to books about Swedes in America (archived Web page - may be unavailable or slow to respond)

    Swedes in Sioux City, Iowa (1938) (archived website).


  • Switzerland

    Fideris, Canton of Grisons, Switzerland 1835 Census (archived website).

    Küblis, Canton of Grisons, Switzerland 1835 Census (archived website).

    Maienfeld, Canton of Grisons, Switzerland 1835 Census (archived website).

    Serneus, Canton of Grisons, Switzerland 1835 Census (archived website).

    St. Antönien, Canton of Grisons, Switzerland 1835 Census (archived website).

    Untervaz, Canton of Grisons, Switzerland 1835 Census (archived website).

    Foreigners in Haute-Garonne, France : from Switzerland 1888 to 1894


  • Ukraine

    ODESSA ... a German-Russian Genealogical Library. Browse or search over 300 Mbytes of data.

    Index to the 1835 Molotschna Census (Mennonites, Russia) (now in Ukraine).

    Zuerichtal, South Russia Births, Deaths, and Marriages 1833-1839. Compiled from the St. Petersburg Lutheran Evangelical archives published by the LDS.

    Eigenheim, South Russia Births and Deaths 1861-1884 (now in Ukraine).

    Freudental, South Russia Births, Deaths and Marriages 1833-1885 (today in Ukraine). Compiled from the St. Petersburg Lutheran Evangelical archives published by the LDS.

    Rohrbach, South Russia Births, Deaths, and Marriages 1835-1885 (now known as Vynohradne (Berezivka), Odesa, Ukraine). Compiled from the St. Petersburg Lutheran Evangelical archives published by the LDS.

    1847 Molotschna Colony Voters' List (Mennonites, South Russia) (now Zaporizhzhia Oblast in Ukraine).

    Schoenhorst Register, Chortitza Colony South Russia (now part of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine). The register was taken to Canada after World War II and is currently in the possession of a family in Vancouver. Copies of the register are available at the Centre for Mennonite Brethren Studies and the Mennonite Heritage Centre, both located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

    1814 Chortitza, Russia Landowners List (pdf document).

    Births, Marriages & Deaths, Chortitza Colony, Russia 1801-13. Free download of gedcom files from the Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta (links at the bottom of the right hand column.)

    Chortitza, Census of October 14, 1797 (pdf document).

    1801 Census, Kronsgarten, Chortitza, South Russia

    Vaccination Records, Chortitza Colony, 1809 an 1814 (Mennonites, Russia)

    Censuses for the Yazykovo Colony : 1858, 1869, 1873 (Mennonites, Russia)

    Ethnic Germans in the Ukraine : Village Reports for Adelsheim, Bereslaw, Blumengart, Burwalde, Eichenfeld, Kronsthal, Neuendorf, Osterwick, Schoenhorst, Tiege (Early 1940s, mainly Mennonite surnames.)

    Yazykovo Colony Census Lists, State Archive of the Zaporizhzhe Region, Zaporizhzhe, Ukraine.

    Grossliebental, South Russia Births, Deaths and Marriages 1833-1885. Today in Ukraine. Compiled from the St. Petersburg Lutheran Evangelical archives published by the LDS.

    Neusatz, Crimea Births, Deaths and Marriages 1833-1869. Compiled from the St. Petersburg Lutheran Evangelical archives published by the LDS.

    Odessa City, Ukraine Births, Deaths and Marriages 1840-1885. The data source is the St. Petersburg Lutheran Evangelical archives published by the LDS. Also some pre-1833 Odessa area births.

    Misc. Kutschurgan Documents. The Kutschurgan is a river northwest of Odessa in the country that is now called Ukraine. In the early 1800s villages were established there for immigrants from Alsace, Pfalz and Baden. Documents from the villages of Baden, Kandel, Elsass, Mannheim, Selz, and Strassburg are currently online.

    Ukraine : Zhitomir Evangelische Lutherische Kirche : Membership list, circa 1933

    Zhitomir area, Ukraine Expropriation lists 1915

    Parish of Alt Elft, Bessarabia, South Russia (located on the territory of today's Ukraine) : Birth Records, 1855-1863, Marriage Records, 1820-1899, Marriage Records, 1900-1920

    Bessarabia, South Russia Births, Deaths and Marriages 1833-1885. This information was compiled from the St. Petersburg Lutheran Evangelical archives published by the LDS.

    Village of Beresina Family Group Records, 1834 (Bessarabia, Ukraine)

    Volhynia, South Russia Births, Deaths, and Marriages 1835-1885. Compiled from the St. Petersburg Lutheran Evangelical archives published by the LDS.


  • United Kingdom

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