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Websites new to our list for 2021 are indicated by an asterisk (*). Sites marked with a dollar sign ($) require a subscription or other payment to fully take advantage of their content; otherwise free sites that have some sort of premium tier or paid add-on have this noted in the write-ups.
All summaries written by David Fryxell
The result of a state-of-the-art digitization project by Germany’s major Protestant denomination group, Archion makes millions of pages of church registers available to browse (with searching planned). Subscriptions start at about 23 USD per month.
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Don’t be put off by the plain exterior of this search engine for central and east European records. Inside you’ll find 1.8 million pages in 3,240 historical directories; 159,000 pages of memorials of Jewish communities; 46,000 pages of community and personal histories; and more.
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Cherchez your French families with digitized records, genealogical society indexes and in-depth guides to other resources (mostly available in English). A premium membership runs about 50 USD annually, but you can do beaucoup here for free.
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Search more than 37 million records in this volunteer-created site from the Polish Genealogical Society, organized by province.
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Free registration unlocks more than 21 million user-submitted entries about ancestors in Austria and neighboring regions.
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This handsome Hungarian Cultural Heritage Portal serves up more than 4 million pages of digitized publications, 100,000 old maps, 300,000 census pages, and a “Budapest Time Machine.”
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Though not exclusive to European records, this site affiliated with the Museum of Jewish Heritage includes databases of East European towns, Jewish surnames, Holocaust victims, and families.
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Explore scanned parish registers—mostly records of birth, marriage and death—from Austria, Germany, Poland, Serbia and Slovenia.
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The best site for Italian research, Il Portale Antenati (“The Ancestors Portal”) features more than 100 million images and 1.3 million registries from 65 Italian archives.
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Search archives, photos and postcards by town, or search by surnames in indexes to surviving Jewish and civil documents in the archives of Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania and Moldova.
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Now boasting more than 230 million Dutch records, this site searches civil registrations, population records, church books and more.
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