France Jewish Records

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Map of France

• To view present-day Germany at Google Maps, click here.
• For a Jewish population density map of Europe in 1900, click here.
  Note the higher concentration in the Alsace area.

France Civil Registration and Records

• French civil records begin in 1792 with some variation and some lost records. These records are now largely on line through the individual French Departments. To access the records by Department, click here.

The JewishGen Germany Database

More than 400,000 records for Germany, from a variety of sources, including: citizenship records, vital records, cemetery data, survivor lists, and Holocaust sources. Requires free registration. To search, click here.

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