Sephardic Databases for genealogy

Sephardic Names

Jewish Surnames in North Africa by Mathilde Tagger

Over 12,000 surnames. Based on the onomastic studies of Maurice Eisenbeth, Abraham Laredo, Paul Sebag, Jacques Taieb, and Joseph Toledano.

Jewish Surnames in the Balkans by Mathilde Tagger

5,372 surnames. Based on several onomastic studies.

Sephardic Surnames of Northern European Communities by Mathilde Tagger

2,721 surnames. Based on several sources.

Sephardic Surnames of the Caribbean Communities by Mathilde Tagger

1,335 surnames. Based on several sources.

Sephardic Surnames of the Portuguese Isles by Mathilde Tagger

126 surnames. Based on several sources.

Sephardic Surnames from a number of Jewish Sephardic sources    by Jeffrey Malka
Sephardic Family Trees   Links to Sephardic Family Websites by Jeffrey Malka
Les Fleurs de l'Orient   (Link off-site) Sephardi families from the Ottoman Empire and Middle-East, 80,000+ individuals by Alain Farhi
List of 41,000 Sephardic Surnames   (Link off-site) by Harry Stein
Sepharades et Barbaresques    by Lionel Levi
Sephardic Studies   Contains a number of name lists

Databases by Country

Algeria
(see also section "WEBSITES BY COUNTRY" )

Voters List in Constantine (Algeria) and its District in 1880

Philippeville cemetery - Click on "Inhumations" for burials data (names, dates, etc.)

Old Cemeteries of Algiers: Tombstone Inscriptions Annotated Index of Rabbi Isaac Bloch book (Paris, 1888)

Algerian cemeteries - Click on registres. (Link off-site)

Rabbis of Algeria Database Annotated Index of Eliahu R. Marciano. Malkhei Yeshurun. Jerusalem, 2000

Jews from Algeria Deported from France in WWII

Austria

The Turkish Community of Vienna; Birth Register (1848-1938)

The Turkish Community of Vienna; Wedding Register (1846-1938)

Some Sephardim Buried in the Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria

Sephardic Graves - Vienna, Zentralfriedhof (Link off-site)

Bulgaria

Jews from Bulgaria Deported from France in WWII

Bulgarian Jews from France exterminated in Concentration Camps

Bulgaria's Chief Rabbis

Russe (Rutschuk) Wedding Register (1889-1929)

Index of Arditti: Prominent Jews of Bulgaria in the 19th & 20th Centuries ( Enlarged version)

Bulgarian Jewish Casualties in Balkan Wars and WW1

Burials in Shumen Cemetery

The 1919 Directory of the Kingdom of Bulgaria

Bulgarian Surnames - A Dictionary

Egypt
(see also section "WEBSITES BY COUNTRY" )

Prominent Jews in Egypt (1942-1943)   (Annuaire des Juifs d'Egypte 1942 & 1943)
Fargeon, Maurice. Les Juifs d'Egypte des origines a nos jours. Cairo, 1938.   Annotated Index.
Jews from Egypt Deported from France in WWII
Egyptian Jews from France exterminated in Concentration Camps
Refugees from Erets Israel to Alexandria in WWI   (Link off-site)
1840 Montefiore Alexandria Census online   (Link off-site)
Marriage Authorizations by Alexandria rabbinate 1934-35   (Link off-site)

Eretz Israel (Land of Israel)
(see also section "WEBSITES BY COUNTRY" )

Montefiore 1839 Census of Eretz Yisrael (Sephardim in the Montefiore 1839 Census)

Database Compiled by Mathilde Tagger and Rose Feldman

Gaon, Moshe David. [Oriental Jews in Eretz Yisrael], Jerusalem, 1938

Annotated Index Compiled by Mathilde Tagger

Sephardic Chief Rabbis in Erets Yisrael for the Period 1665-2007 by Mathilde Tagger

Sephardim in Helkat Mehokek: the Mount of Olives

Index of Family Trees in the JNUL archives (Link off-site)

EIRI-Eretz Israel Records Indexing (Link off-site) by the Israel Genealogical Society.

More than 100,000 records and around 20,000 different surnames of individuals (click on "pdf file" to see records):
- Records from the Ottoman period (Mount of Olives gravestones, 2 Montefiore censuses British consulate records)
- WW II Records (Refugees in Alexandria, Jewish Legion soldiers, US citizens 1917)
- Records from the British Mandate (1922 British Mandate census, Name changes from 1921-1948 Palestine Gazette, 1929 riot victims, etc.)

France
(see also section "WEBSITES BY COUNTRY" )

French Jews exterminated in Concentration Camps

Great Britain

JGS of Great Britain and JewishGen's searchable UK Databases (Link off-site)

British Proteges and Subjects in Erets Israel 1839-1914 (Link off-site)

Greece
(see also section "WEBSITES BY COUNTRY" )

Nehama J. Histoire des Israelites de Salonique. Thessaloniki: 1936-1978. 7 vols.   Annotated Index. Compiled by Mathilde Tagger
Jews from Greece Deported from France in WWII
Greek Jews from France exterminated in Concentration Camps
Rabbis buried in Saloniki 5281 - 5460 (1521 - 1800 C.E.)
Recanati, Aure. The Jewish Community of Salonika, 1943
16th Century Saloniki Synagogues and their memberships
Rhodes Jewish Cemetery - Names   (Link off-site)
Janina Holocaust Victims   (Link off-site)
Volos Holocaust Victims

India

Calcutta Cemetery Inscriptions
500 Tombstone pictures from 39 cemeteries in India by Isaac Solomon (Link off-site)

Irak
(see also la section "WEBSITES BY COUNTRY" )

Jews of Irak deported from France during WWII
Montefiore Census of 1839 (Jews of Sidon (Saida) in Lebanon are included in the 1839 Montefiore census)

Italy

Venezia Ancient Cemetery

Name Index of Luzzatto's Gal Avanim, Trieste, 1851

Surnames in Italy (Searchable) (Link off-site)

Lebanon

Jewish Surnames in Lebanon

Jews from Lebanon Deported from France in WWII
Montefiore 1839 Census of Eretz Yisrael (Jews of Sidon (Saida) in Lebanon were counted in the Montefiore 1839 Census)

Database Compiled by Mathilde Tagger and Rose Feldman

Libya

Jewish Victims of Libyan Riots in 1945, 1948, and 1967
Libyan Jews deported from France during WWII

Morocco
(see also section "WEBSITES BY COUNTRY" )

Jews from Morocco Deported from France in WWII

Moroccan Jews from France exterminated in Concentration Camps

Index of Ben Naim. Malkhei Rabbanan [Rabbis of Morocco]

Index of Ovadia. Fas vehakhameiha [Fes and Her Rabbis]

Mogador (Essaouira) Illuminated Ketubot- Index of Book (1789-2003)

Victims of 1948 Riots in Oujda and Jérada

Tangier Beit Hahayim Cemetery (Link off-site)

Searchable database of names with parents, etc.

Essaouira - Mogador Cemeteries (Link off-site)

Searchable database of names and other identifying information from the cemeteries of Essaouira (Mogador), Morocco.

Melca site on Mogador (genealogical data on 8,400 individuals) (Link off-site)

Casablanca Jewish Cemetery (5800+ tombstone photos) (Link off-site)

Agadir Jewish Cemetery (Link off-site)

Click on "Cimetiere Israelite d'Agadir" for photos and tombstone inscriptions.

1000 Maghrebians (Index of book by Abraham Elharar) - Searchable database (Link off-site)

Netherlands
(see also section "WEBSITES BY COUNTRY" )

Poor Sephardic Jews given Sedaka in Amsterdam to move elsewhere

Amsterdam Personal Files at CAHJP

Beth Haim at Ouderkerk aan de Amstel Jewish Cemetery (Link off-site)

Searchable databases of Jewish Cemetery at Ouderkerk, Marriages in Mokum, Family Name adoptions, Portuguese marriages, etc.

Vaz Dias Index of Sephardic Name aliases

Index of dowries for Pautas (poor Sephardic girls).

93 Sephardic burials at Middleburg, Netherlands (Link off-site)

Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands Dutch Shoah victims (Link off-site) click on "news"

Portugal
(see also section "WEBSITES BY COUNTRY" )

Faro Cemetery in Portugal. Index of Burials (1838-1932)

Portuguese Inquisition Trials at CAHJP

Portuguese Inquisition Trials (off-site)

Romania

Craiova War Memorial for Jews who perished in 1913, 1916-19.

Serbia

Census of Jewish Family Heads In Beograd, Serbia in 1856

Spain
(see also section "WEBSITES BY COUNTRY" )

Search Ancient Toledo Tombstone Inscriptions

Jewish Surnames from the Periodical Sefarad 1941-2007

Jewish names extracted from Hispania Judaica v.1: Regne, History of the Jews in Aragon

Jewish names extracted from Hispania Judaica v.4: Leroy, Jews of Navarre

Jewish names extracted from Hispania Judaica v.6: Assis, Jews of Santa Coloma de Queralt

Jewish names extracted from Hispania Judaica v.8: Castellon, Burriana, Villareal

Jewish names extracted from Hispania Judaica v.9: Valencia

Jewish names extracted from Hispania Judaica v.11: Medieval Ketubot

Syria

Jews from Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, and Syria Deported from France in WWII
Tombstone Inscriptions of Aleppo Rabbis
Rabbis buried in Damascus 5410 - 5693 (1650 - 1933 C.E.)
Aleppo, Syria: Marriages and Burials (Link off-site)

Tunisia
(see also section "WEBSITES BY COUNTRY" )

Jews from Tunisia Deported from France in WWII
Tunisian Jews from France exterminated in Concentration Camps
Tunisian Rabbis: Inscriptions in Tunis Old Cemetery (Arditti)

Turkey
(see also section "WEBSITES BY COUNTRY" )

Jews from Turkey Deported from France in WWII
Turkish Jews from France exterminated in Concentration Camps
Chief Rabbis of Turkey: 1454-2007
Rabbis buried in Izmir 5300 - 5620 (1540 - 1860 C.E.)
Galante, A. [History of the Jews of Turkey]. Istanbul, 1941. 9v. Annotated index of the first four volumes

Istanbul Rabbinate Jewish Records (Marriage and Burial) (Link off-site)

35,000 Name Database Transcribed and Compiled by Dan Kazez and Volunteers

General Databases Off-site

French Archives in Aix en Provence

Online indexes of birth/wedding/death from French civil registers

Historical Jewish Press

Online indexes of historical Jewish newspapers (Palestine Post, AIU Bulletin, papers from Morocco, Egypt, etc.)

Family Tree of the Jewish People (FTJP)

Database (on JewishGen). You will need to register and login to search this database.
Though mostly Ashkenazi families, there are Sephardic families too.
This is a very useful tool for researchers of the same families to find each other. While there register the families you are searching so others can contact you.

JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR)

Searchable database of names and other identifying information from cemeteries and burial records worldwide, from the earliest records to the present.

Steve Morse's search engines

Permits you to easily search passenger ship records of immigrants to the US, US census records, etc.