South America

GENERAL

Jewishgen Latin America Database https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/LatinAmerica/

Jewishgen Online Worldwide Burial Registry https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/

ARGENTINA

AMIA Grave Search JOWBR

Photos of gravestones can be requested by emailing cementerioTablada@amia.org.ar

Access to Public Records     https://www.dateas.com/en-us

Family History and Immigration Records https://www.dateas.com/en-us/services/familyroots/argentina

Certificates of Vital Records https://www.dateas.com/en-us/services/certificates/argentina

Jewish Cemeteries in Buenos Aires https://hebrewsurnames.com/jewish-cemeteries-in-argentina

Jewish Genealogy In Argentina https://www.hebrewsurnames.com/

Ships Arriving to Argentina https://hebrewsurnames.com/ships

CEMLA (Passenger Lists) https://cemla.com/buscador/

Immigration Background Check (For Argentinians) https://agnbicentenario.mininterior.gob.ar/web/migrante

Ship Inspection Files Search Page

https://www.familysearch.org/records/images/beta

1 step: Ort = Argentinien

2 step: Ereignis im Leben = Migration

3 step: Schiffsinspektionsakten

General Archive of Argentina: Registration to access portal

General Archive of Argentina: Maritime Passenger Entry Books

Asociacion Mutual Israelita Argentina https://www.amia.org.ar/

Argentina Research FB page https://www.facebook.com/groups/Gen.Judia.AR/

Judeo-Argentine Genealogy Association https://www.agja.org.ar/

Phonebook for Argentina https://www.telexplorer.com.ar/

Identification Number search https://www.dateas.com/es/consulta_cuit_cuil

Vital Certificate Request https://www.buenosaires.gob.ar/tramites/solicitud-de-partidas

Departing Ship Manifests 1883-1937 https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2700611

Ministy of Interior Immigration https://www.argentina.gob.ar/interior/migraciones/museo/registros-historicos

Maritime Passenger Entry Books https://atom.mininterior.gob.ar/index.php/libros-de-entrada-de-pasajeros-via-maritima

Naturalization Record Request https://www.electoral.gob.ar/nuevo/paginas/btn/tyf.php

Argentina Database (for Argentinians) https://agn200.mininterior.gob.ar/inicio/bienvenidx

Professional Jewish Genealogist for Argentina (Recommended by George Muenz)

Andres Rodenstein

https://www.facebook.com/andres.rodenstein

https://www.vitalrecords.com.ar/

Av. Cabildo 66 - 1426

Buenos Aires - Argentina

Phone +5411 4978 3581

Contact for pictures at Tablada Cemetery

Silvana Kesselman

Administración Cementerio de Tablada

AMIA I Crovara 2824 (B1766CRX) I Tablada Buenos Aires I Argentina.

Tel.: (+5411) 4454-0151 I Email: skesselman@amia.org.ar I Web: www.amia.org.ar

Suggestions From Alberto Guido Chester, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Eighty percent of Argentine Jews live or lived in Buenos Aires (city) or Greater Buenos Aires (city plus part of the province of the same name).  So concentrating in BA is a good choice, unless you know for certain they lived somewhere else in the interior of the country.

Immigration records for Buenos Aires can be found at "Cemla buscador". Note the records are incomplete (due mainly to book losses)and to not have Soundex capability so try different spellings. https://cemla.com/buscador/  Correction: as Yoni Kupchik has pointed out, there were other ports of maritime arrivals not included in this database. There are no online records for them.

The Buenos Aires Kehila at amia has a cemetery database for Jewish individuals. Again, no Soundex capability. Only burials for the Greater Buenos Aires. I know they sometimes answer specific questions through their email.

The Argentine Jewish Genealogy Association currently active. It has a Facebook page found at https://www.facebook.com/groups/Gen.Judia.AR/. The association has many projects which are painstakingly carried on by the sole effort of the members. They have a strong record of reuniting long lost families. 

In Argentina, naturalization is a judicial (as opposed to administrative) process. For this reason, naturalization cases are scattered in many federal courts around the country. It is not impossible, but I do not recommend this venue of research.

If you are looking for relatives, use telexplorer.com for mail address and landline phone number (in steep use decline in Argentina).  It has no Soundex capability, so try different spellings. If you try a phone call from abroad, engage someone who can speak Spanish. Most Argentinians studied English at school but find it very difficult to speak it. 

My suggestion is to try to get an email address from the conversation and communicate this way. People can google translate.  Argentinians are VERY suspicious of scam phone calls and do not feel comfortable answering cold calls (I have been told this happens in the USA also).  So you have to be patient.  I have been doing this kind of calls on behalf of Jewsihgenners since 1994 and seldom do them now because it requires a lot of patience and energy to prove you are not scamming.

A note on the agricultural colonies founded by Baron de Hirsch in Argentina:   Baron de Hirsch, a Jewish philanthropist, financed the well being of thousands of Jews from Europe by establishing agricultural colonies around the world. From 1891 he did so in Argentina with several colonies. The villages where these colonies were established still exist however most (but not all) of its Jewish inhabitants left them to look for a better future in urban centres.  I understand a small number of colonists´s lists are available online at present time. This can be searched in Jewishgen's Latin America Database. I do know that an immense archive of the Jewish Colonization Association is held at the Central Archives of the history of the Jewish people at  http://cahjp.nli.org.il/ but not catalogued or digitized.  Another additon from Yoni Kupchik:  "2) The JewishGen database of the agricultural colonies in Argentina is a growing one. We currently have online 20,000 different names from passengers lists and other sources. We are working hard on the actual census records from all colonies and from various years, hopefully a first batch of census records will go online soon.  

Another very good source for Jewish immigrants in Argentina is familysearch.org. They have scanned and put online two important databases - the Argentina 1895 census and the Civil Registration records for the district of Entre Rios for the years ~1900-1930. Entre Rios was the district where most colonies were located so these records have a tremendous amount of Jewish vital records. The records are in Spanish. According to familysearch.org the data in these records will be searchable soon. Right now most of the data can be browsed but not searched through the search engine. Most books have indexes so it's not a big deal looking for a name."

USHMM has the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA)-Argentina Office individual files (finding aid) from the CAJHP except for file 2001-2999 as well as selected records related to Jewish immigration and settlement in Argentina (finding aid) from Museo y Archivo Historico Regional de las Colonias Judias. You will need to come to the Museum to research them.