Nine new databases and another six were updated this month on IGRA’s AID collection, adding over 47,847 new listings, many of them with images. This month’s additions include the list of deaths in Jerusalem in the years 1939-1943. The following preview will give you a good idea about our latest additions. We invite you to find your family records in our search engine. https://genealogy.org.il/AID
1838-1908 Register of British Subjects – (images available)
This release includes the names of 4,659 people that are registered as British subjects or those under the protection of the British Consulate. People were required to register every year they resided in Eretz Israel. The documents are from the Israel State Archives.
1889-1901 First Aliyah Questionnaires – (images available)
The questionnaires are from the Yad Ben Zvi Collection at the Israel State Archives. They are from the research done by Yitzhak Ben-Zvi who was a historian, ethnologist, and Labor Zionist and the second president of Israel from 1952 until his death in 1963.
1890-1892 Odessa Donations – (images available) 4,081 update
This list of donors of Hovevei Zion is from a ledger from Odessa dated 1890-1893. The ledger includes reports on the settlement of Gedera, Petah Tikvah, Rehovot, Vadi Al Hanin (later Nes Tsiyyona), and Mishmat Hayarden and 8,995 people in greater Russia who donated money for the cause.
1915-1922 Jewish Legion – (images available) update
A list of honours & casualties of the 38th Battalion Royal Fusiliers listing 109 soldiers. The copy of the microfilm was found at the Lavon Institute.
Students Jerusalem Tachkemoni – (images available)
This is the first part of material found in the Jerusalem Municipal Archives from the Tachkemoni School. It includes the names of 5,245 students.
1936-1948 British Mandate Guards Force (Notrim) Collection – (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 5,531 listings for family names starting with the letter Resh The documents are from the Israel State Archives.
1939-1943 Deaths Jerusalem – (images available)
Two ledgers from the Jerusalem Municipal Archives listing the names of 2,688 people who died in Jerusalem in the years 1939-1943.
1944 Gadnah Instructors – (image available)
A picture with names of 46 Gadnah (Youth battalions) instructors for Gush Dan. The picture is considered as an “underground” picture because it was to prepare youth for the Haganah burning the British Mandate.
1948 Railroad Workers – (images available)
A list of 557 workers in Rekevet Israel (Israel Railways) in 1948 from the Heritage Archive of Rekevet Israel.
1950 Immigrant Registration Questionnaires – (images available)
Questionnaires for 5,702 immigrants from various countries that arrived in 1950. The surnames begin with the letter aleph. This part of a sample of questionnaires open to the public on the Israel State Archives website.
1948-1965 Students – (images available) update
A collection of various lists naming 4,581 students in various streams of education in various settlements in various years. All the lists were found in the Israel State Archives.
1948-1956 Residents Rosh Haayin– (images available) update
This is the fourth release of the ledgers of the Yemenite residents of transit camps in Rosh Haayim. It includes 7,829 names from three ledgers. These ledgers can be found on the website of the Israel State Archive.
1948-1953 Voters Local Authorities – (images available) update
The municipal elections in the first years of the State of Israel, were not all held at the same time. This update includes the voters for the elections that took place in Givatayim (1950). The release includes 5,631 voters. The documents are from in the Israel State Archives.
1959 Agudat Israel Candidates Local Histadrut Elections Banei Bark – (images available)
A list of 99 Agudat Israel Workers’ candidates for local elections for branches of the clerical and construction workers’ organizations in Banei Brak. The list was published in the Sheʻarim Newspaper that can be found in the historical newspaper collection of the Israel National Library.
1962-1964 Teachers – Hapoel Hamizrahi’s Moshavim – (images available)
This list of 171 teachers in settlements of Hapoel Hamizrahi Union was found in the Israel State Archives.
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