American Jewish Historical Society
Georgia Historic Newspapers – Southern Israelite digital archive
Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life – Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities
Historic Columbia – Columbia Jewish Heritage Initiative
Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, A Division of Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion
Jewish Heritage Collection, Special Collections, Addlestone Library, College of Charleston
Jewish Virtual Library – Anything you need to know from Anti-Semitism to Zionism
Life of the Synagogue – From the William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection
SCIWAY – South Carolina’s Information Highway
South Carolina Council on the Holocaust
Southern Jewish Historical Society
Synagogues of the South, Architecture and Jewish Identity – An Exhibition of postcards from the William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History
William A. Rosenthall Judaica Collection, Prints and Photographs
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
JEWISH-RELATED SEARCHES
All Hebrew Names: More than 3000 Hebrew and Israeli names that are used in Israel – All Hebrew Names
Avotaynu: publisher of products of interest for researching Jewish genealogy – Avotaynu
Center for Jewish History, New York, NY – cjh.org
Find a Grave: indexes many cemeteries throughout the country. Many have pictures of gravestones – Find-A-Grave
First American Jewish Families by Malcolm Stern, American Jewish Archives – website
International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies – IAJGS – IAJGS
International Jewish Cemetery Project, International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies – iajgs.org/cemetery/
JewishGen: site includes Family Finder, Jewish Worldwide Burial Database, Family Tree of the Jewish People. Registration (free) required to use certain services – jewishgen.org
Jewish Heritage Europe: Jewish gravestone history and meaning – Jewish Heritage Europe
Jewish Heritage Collection, South Carolina archival resources – jhc.cofc.edu
Knowles Collection helps the Jewish community find their roots, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/knowles-collection-jewish-records
GENERAL SEARCHES
Additional online resources by Sean Spencer – Genealogy Research Online
Ancestry: essential to 19th Century American research for census and immigration records. Membership required – ancestry.com
Family Search, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints – website
Fold3 by Ancestry: military records, membership required – Fold 3
GenealogyBank: newspaper searches. Membership required – GenealogyBank
Google Newspapers: a searchable collection of newspapers from many cities – Google Newspapers
Stephen P. Morse, One-Step Webpages, helps in searching other genealogy web sites – stevemorse.org
ThoughtCo.: vital records online by state – Vital Records
Vodien: getting started with genealogy on the web – Vodien Blog