Bulgarian Genealogy Websites, Books and Organizations

Websites

• Bulgarian Alphabet
• Bulgarian Genealogy Forum
• Bulgarian Genealogy Links
• Bulgarian GenWeb
• Bulgarian Mailing Lists
• Bulgarian Phone Directories

• Cyndi’s List: Eastern Europe

• Europeana
• Family Search Wiki
• History of Bulgaria
• International Jewish Cemetery Project: Bulgaria

• JewishGen Communities Database
• Library of Congress: Comparison of Bulgarian and Roman Alphabets
• Looking 4 Kin: Bulgaria Genealogy

Publications

• The Bulgarian Americans by Claudia Carlson (Chelsea House)
• “Bulgarian Genealogical Profile” by Kahlile B. Mehr in Federation of Family History Societies Journal, volume XIV, 2006 (order from FEEFHS)
• “Genealogy Bridge Bulgaria-USA: Djebaroffs from Lovech-Ugurchin and the Ancestry of Linda Gebaroff” by Lolita Nikolova in Federation of Family History Societies Journal, volume XIV, 2006 (order from FEEFHS)

• Historical Atlas of Central Europe by Paul Robert Magocsi (University of Washington Press)
• The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europe by Dennis P. Hupchick and Harold E. Cox (Palgrave Macmillan)

• Peter Menikoff: The Story of a Bulgarian Boy in the Great American Melting Pot by Peter Dimitrov Yankoff (Cokesbury Press)
• Under the Yoke by Ivan Vazov (Twayne Publishers)

Organizations and Archives

• Bulgarian Central State Archives
5 Moskovska Str.
1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
+359 (2) 9400153

• Bulgarian Macedonian Educational and Cultural Center
449 W. Eighth Ave.
Homestead, PA 15120
(412) 461-6188

• East European Genealogical Society

• Embassy of the Republic of Bulgaria
1621 22nd St. NW
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 387-0174

• Foundation for East European Family History Studies

 

From the July/August 2014 Family Tree Magazine 

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