What porges does

Porges (porges.net) is a privately maintained, non-commercial online genealogical and historical archive dedicated to the Porges families and related Central European Jewish communities. The site consolidates more than sixty family trees and biographies, hundreds of historical documents, photographs, maps, and registers of births, marriages, deaths, deportations, and burials, drawing on primary sources in German, French, English, Czech, Croatian, and Hebrew. Its scope spans roughly four centuries, from Moses ben Israel Naphtaly Hirsch Porges (born ca. 1600, died 1670 Jerusalem) to present-day descendants dispersed across at least sixteen countries, and includes Holocaust documentation covering 254 Porges deported to Terezín.

The technical platform is a traditional website at porges.net; a 2026 overhaul replaced legacy code with a more modern framework and harmonized the visual design across pages. The 2026 research update introduced AI-assisted text analysis of 232 Porges-related obituaries from the Neue Freie Presse (Vienna) and the Prager Tagblatt (Prague, 1877–1938) and incorporated genealogical material from the Geni platform. The site exposes no applications, APIs, or SDKs, and registers no patents, certifications, or formal partnerships beyond the incidental Geni data ingestion. Distribution is purely self-serve web access with optional email-based contributor registration.

The business model is explicitly non-commercial: the site states "this is a non-commercial website," sells no products or services, discloses no pricing, and operates without funding, investors, advertising, or institutional sponsorship. Antoine Porgès, based in Paris, is the sole identified curator and maintainer. The customer base consists of family members, genealogical researchers, and historians, all served free of charge; revenue is effectively zero by design.

Name

porges

Legal name

Porges Families Website (porges.net)

Website

https://www.porges.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2000

Operating status

Operating

Short description

porges.net is a privately maintained, non-commercial online archive documenting the genealogy and history of the Porges families and related Central European Jewish communities across four centuries and six languages, curated by Antoine Porgès from Paris.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Genealogical Archive and Historical Research

NAICS

Libraries and Archives (51921), Libraries and Archives (519210), Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (5192)

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

Libraries, Archives & Special Collections (BPAGAHAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Archives, Special Collections & Preservation Operations (Rare Materials, Conservation) (EDAEAGAJ), Cultural Heritage Institutions (Archives, Historic Houses, Monuments Foundations) (THAJADAI)

Keywords

• Genealogical archive
• Family history research
• Holocaust memorial records
• Jewish heritage documentation
• Historical document preservation

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel

Distribution channels1 record

Core offering

Porges is a privately maintained, non-commercial online genealogical archive that documents the history of Porges families and related Jewish communities across four centuries. The site provides free access to 60+ family trees, biographies, historical documents, photographs, maps, cemetery records, and Holocaust documentation drawn from German, French, English, Czech, Croatian, and Hebrew sources.

Product overview

The Porges Families Website is a non-commercial genealogical archive offering a unified platform containing multiple interconnected resources: the core family trees and biographies database (60+ branches), historical maps collection, cemetery documentation, Holocaust memorial records, and a bibliography archive. The site functions as a multilingual reference work covering Central European Jewish history from Prague 1600 to the present, with content drawn from German, French, English, Czech, Croatian, and Hebrew sources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Family Trees and Biographies Database Over 60 named branches and individual biographies ranging from 17th-century rabbis to 20th-century writers, artists, politicians, and scientists.
• Porges Families Website A privately maintained online genealogical archive covering four centuries of Porges family history, featuring 60+ family trees, biographies, historical documents, photographs, maps, and Holocaust memorial documentation across six languages (German, French, English, Czech, Croatian, Hebrew).
• Historical Maps Collection Maps covering Austro-Hungarian monarchy, Bohemia, Moravia, Prague 1900, Hungary, Transylvania, Slovakia, Germany, and Nazi concentration camps.
• Cemetery Documentation Detailed cemetery records including Prague New Jewish Cemetery (138 Porges burials 1890-1975), Vienna cemeteries, Pilsen, and Paris Père Lachaise.
• Holocaust and Terezín Memorial Documentation of 254 Porges deported to Terezín, with lists, transport records, survivor interviews, and spoliation documentation.
• Bibliography and Source Archive Catalog of works by Porges authors and references in encyclopedias, with library locations at Jewish Theological Seminary, NYPL, Alliance Israélite Universelle, Leo Baeck Institute, and Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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AI capability2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Geni (genealogy platform)minorOthersThe 2026 update incorporated material drawn from the Geni genealogy platform to enhance family tree documentation. This is an incidental data source rather than a formal partnership.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Geni: A collaborative online genealogy platform that Porges already uses as a data source for family tree documentation. Both operate as web-based genealogical archives; Geni is commercial and multi-surname while Porges is surname-specific and non-commercial.
• JewishGen: The leading free Jewish genealogy resource, aggregating databases, discussion groups, and memorial records. Highly comparable in audience and mission (Central/Eastern European Jewish family research) but operates at a community-wide scale rather than a single surname.
• YIVO Institute for Jewish Research: Major archive and research institution focused on East European Jewish history. Highly comparable in preserving Central/Eastern European Jewish documentary heritage and serving academic and family historians, though institutionally backed rather than individually maintained.
• Leo Baeck Institute: Archive dedicated to the history of German-speaking Jewry, one of the libraries explicitly referenced in Porges's bibliography. Direct peer in mission (preserving Central European Jewish documentary heritage) though operating at broader institutional scale.

Broad incumbents

• FamilySearch: Operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch is the world's largest free genealogy archive. Comparable as a non-commercial (free-access) genealogical platform, but vastly broader in scope and backed by institutional infrastructure.
• Ancestry: The dominant commercial genealogy platform with billions of historical records. Comparable audience (family historians, genealogists) but operates at global scale with paid subscription model and corporate backing rather than a single-curator project.
• MyHeritage: Commercial genealogy and DNA-testing platform with strong European user base. Comparable in serving family-history researchers with web-based family tree tools, but operates at multi-surname commercial scale.

Regional players

• Center for Jewish History: US-based consortium housing multiple Jewish archives (including YIVO and Leo Baeck). Comparable as a multi-archive hub serving researchers of Central European Jewish family history, though based in North America and serving an institutional rather than surname-specific mission.

Others

• Yad Vashem: Israel's official Holocaust memorial and research center, documenting victims including via its Names Database. Adjacent because Porges contains Holocaust victim documentation (254 deportees to Terezín), though Yad Vashem operates as a national memorial rather than a genealogical archive.
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Federal institution preserving Holocaust documentation including survivor testimonies and victim records. Thematically connected to Porges's Holocaust memorial section, but operates as a major museum/research institution rather than a genealogical archive.

Market position

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Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks3 records

Key highlights6 records

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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