Eastern Europe Research Links

Europe

• Archives Portal Europe

Eastern Europe

• Family Search :  Eastern Europe Workshop
• FEEFHS : Foundation for East European Family History Studies
• Album of a Journey through Southern Russia and the Crimea, by Way of Hungary, Wallachia, and Moldova, (1837) World Digital Library (four large pdf files)

Immigration

• Immigration Time Line to USA
• 30 Canadian Immigration Waves
• Ellis island Passenger Search
• Library and Archives Canada – Passenger lists 1865 – 1922
• Castle Garden – Americas First Immigration Center
• Interesting reading regarding the Barge office and an immigrants first experience in the land of the free

Canada

• Archives Canada
• The Society for German Genealogy in EAstern Europe
• Toronto-Ukrainian Genealogy

Census

• Lisa Louise Cooke – article on German Census

Archives

Bulgarian	http://www.archives.government.bg/index.php?lang=en&page=11
Belarus	http://archives.gov.by/en/
Croatia	http://arhinet.arhiv.hr/_Pages/SearchIndexPage.aspx?Id=26
Czech Repulbic	https://test.nacr.cz/en/
Estonia	https://www.eesti.ee/en
Hungary	https://mnl.gov.hu/angol
Lithuania	https://www.archyvai.lt/en/archives/historicalarchives.html
Moldova	http://arhiva.gov.md/
Poland	https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/strona_glowna/
Romania	http://arhivelenationale.ro/site/?lan=0
Russia	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archives_in_Russia
Slovakia	https://www.slovakiana.sk/en/zoznam-institucii/sna
Ukraine	https://archives.gov.ua/en/

Poland

• Maps
• Polish Database
• Polish Civil registarion offices
• Genealogical Family books for Poland 
• Poznan Project
• Polish Genealogical Society of America
• List of official names of towns and their parts

Romania

• Romanian Country Archives list
• Romanian Genealogy Society
• Online Parish and Civil Registers for Bucharest and Brasov Country Archives

Ukraine

• Society for German Genealogy in Eastern Europe
• Greek Catholic and Orthodoc Parishes in Former Austrian Galicia, Malo Rus, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus
• Ukraine Genealogy links

Russian Federation and Imperial Russia

• Memory books from 1923 -1982 – Russian army
• Russian Federal Archives
• List of all Russian archives
• Russian World War II Database

Czech Republic

• Czech Republic National Archives
• Czechoslovak Genealogical Society International (CGSI)
• Acta Publica  Austria and Czech Republic parish books
• Map with website address when you can find the Parish books in Czech Republic
• National Archive – Jewish records
• Conscriptions and applications for Residence permits of Prague Police Headquarters

Hungary

• Hungarian Gazateer
• Hungarian Village Finder, Atlas, and Gazetteer for the Kingdom of Hungary

Slovakia

• Slovakia Ministry of Interior

Lithuania

• Lithuanian State Historical Archives

Estonia

• National Archives of Estonia

Latvia

• Latvian State Archives

Moldova

• State Archives Moldova
• Dissertation on Moldova – interesting read

Armenia

• National Archives of Armenia

Georgia

• National Archives of Georgia

Prussia

• Meyers Gazetteer
• see Poland and Germany

Germany

• Kartenmeister – maps
• Archion – German Lutheran church records
• Roman Catholic Church records
• Society for Computer Genealogy (CompGen)

Austria- Hungary

• The early 1900s gazetteer of Austria-Hungary
• FEEFHS Austro-Hungarian Empire Maps page (Foundation for East European Family History Studies)

Jewish

• Frequently Asked Questions about Jewish Genealogical Research in Eastern Europe
• JewishGen
• Arolsen Archives – International Centre on Nazi Persecution
• see also Czech Republic