IGRA adds new databases
From the Israel Genealogy Research Association:
Seven new databases and another one were updated this month on IGRA’s AID collection, adding over 71,000 new listings, many of them with images. An eighth database was updated:
Immigrants 1919 – (images available) A list of 655 immigrants arriving at the Jaffa port in 1919.This collection from the Central Zionist Archive.
List of Residents of Pardes Hana – (images available) A list of 2,880 residents of Pardes Hana. It is from the British Mandate Period but there was no year on the document. The document is from Beit Rishonim – Pardes Hanna-Karkur.
Students Evelina de Rothschild School Jerusalem – (images available) This group of documents span the years 1921-1965. It includes 1,068 names in various types of documents, some containing more information and some less. They are from the Jerusalem Municipal Archives.
British Mandate Guards Force (Notrim) Collection 1936-1948 – (images available) Update: The Notrim were Jewish auxiliaries, mainly police, set up in 1936 by the British in Mandatory Palestine during the 1936–39 Arab revolt. These ledgers are an everyday record of the administration of the guards through 1948 throughout the country. This month’s release includes 10,948 listings for family names starting with the letters Beit. Het, Tet and Taf The documents are from the Israel State Archives.
Immigrants 1950 – (images available) It includes the names of 18,592 voters in the months May and June 1950 arriving by boat and overland. The documents are from the Israel State Archives.
Va’adat Haklait (Agriculture) Neve Yamin 1951 – (images available) The document deals with the division of land allotment among 37 members of the moshav Neve Yamin in 1951. The document is from the Israel State Archives.
Members Beit Din 1954 – (images available) List of 355 members of the Jewish religious courts in 1954. The document is from the Israel State Archives.
Cimetières Juifs du Maroc A list of burials in Morocco appearing on the website Cimetières Juifs du Maroc through the summer of 2026. The list of burials appearing here is with the consent of the developer of the website.
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