Over-all description The DOPJ database has 15,400 individual records, of which 10,600 are considered "Mainers". Of these "Mainers" , there is birth information on 3,119; spouse information on 7,004; parent information on 8,224; descendent information on 2,281; community service information on 993; and occupational information on 696.

Geographic coverageOf these "Mainers", 5303 have direct ties to the Greater Portland area and 5300 have direct ties to other Maine Jewish communities, including 518 Jewish Mainers in greater Bangor area, 469 in the the Lewiston-Auburn area, 312 in the greater Augusta area, and 262 in York county .

Maine Towns and Cities There are over 250 Maine cities and towns represented in the database. The Maine cities and town with over 10 identified Jews in the database are

Place	Frequency		Place	Frequency
Portland. Me	4470		Westbrook, ME	22
Bangor, Me	438		Old Town, ME	19
Lewiston, Me	243		Orono, ME	19
Auburn, Me	174		Brewer, ME	17
Biddeford, Me	140		Falmouth, Me	16
Waterville, Me	86		Winthrop, ME	16
Augusta, Me	85		Belfast, ME	15
South Portland, Me	71		Bridgton, Me	15
Rockland, ME	60		Lisbon Falls, ME	14
Brunswick, Me	53		Rumford, ME	14
Bath, Me	52		Yarmouth, ME	14
Sanford, Me	40		Bar Harbor, ME	13
York, Me	37		Skowhegan, Me	13
Saco, Me	31		Waldoboro, Me	12
Scarborough, Me	30		Freeport, Me	11
Cape Elizabeth, Me	29		Randolph, Me	11
Old Orchard Beach, Me	29		Ellsworth, Me	11
Waterville, Me	26		Dexter, ME	10
Ft Fairfield, ME	24		Newport, ME	10
Windham, Me	23		Orono	10
Gardiner, Me	23		St George, ME	10
Camden, ME	22		Thomaston, ME	10

Jewish Maine Organizations In the database, there is information on 172 Jewish-related organizations, of which 53 are Maine-based religious institutions and 90 are Maine-based Jewish community organizations. There is also basic information on some 64 Maine businesses that have been crucial to the history of specific Jewish families

Marriage Information There is date of marriage information on 3956 people
Burial Information There is burial information on 3531 people in the four Greater Portland Jewish cemeteries, of these 1980 deceased Maine Jews known to be buried at Mt Sinai cemetery, 319 at Mt. Carmel cemetery, 659 at Smith St cemetery, and 583 at Beth El Memorial Park

Currently there are records covering burials from 1860 to summer of 2004.

Time period	Number of known burials
1850-1874	1
1875-1899	148
1900-1924	447
1925-1949	651
1950-1874	1713
1975-1999	2141
2000-todate	222

Headstones There are currently 765 headstone images from the Mt. Sinai cemetery.

Last Names While there are 2600 unique last names in the DOPJ database, there are not surprisingly some that are quite common. The twenty most common last names along with their frequencies are

Family Name	Frequency		Family Name	Frequency
Cohen	530		Blumenthal	108
Levine	313		Berman	109
Silverman	214		Levy	108
Bernstein	198		Stein	104
Schwartz	146		Berenson	94
Lerman	139		Rosenberg	99
Shapiro	144		Goodman	87
Goldberg	138		Kaplan	74
Mack	132		Slosberg	79
Rosen	126		Weinstein	71
Jacobson	110		Miller	76

Last updated : 25 July 2006