IGRA has added 10 new databases and updated 3 databases, adding over 57,175 new listings, many of them with images. With a variety of subjects, from immigration to military, from the Ottoman period to the Israel times after the British mandate, 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/ .
1880 Voters Election Petah Tikva – (images available)
This release includes the names of 65 people who had the right to vote. Some of them were still living in Jerusalem at this time.. It is from a private collection.
1891 Donations – (images available)
This release includes the names of 1,289 donors found in HaMoreh LeTzadka Ma’aravim in the National Library of Israel. The donors are from Eretz Israel and abroad.
1904 & 1913 Recipients of Financial Support – (images available)
This release includes the names of 3,289 found in HaMoreh LeTzadka Ma’aravim in the National Library of Israel. It includes the names of people in the Sephardim community of Jerusalem who received financial support.
1909 Flour for Mazot – (images available) update
This list is of 251 widows of the Sephardim community of Jerusalem who received flour for Mazot was found in the Jerusalem Municipal Archive.
1925-1928 Recipients of Financial Support – (images available)
This release includes 2,101 people in the Sephardim community of Jerusalem found in HaMoreh LeTzadka Ma’aravim in the National Library of Israel.
1925-1928 Flour for Mazot – (images available) update
This list of 1,683 in the Sephardim community of Jerusalem, who received flour for Mazot, was found in HaMoreh LeTzadka Ma’aravim in the National Library of Israel.
1921-1928 Infectious Diseases – (images available)
This ledger is a collection of the information sent to the Department of Health, of those with infectious diseases in the northern section of Palestine.The documents are from the Israel State Archives.
1925 Immigration Jaffa Port – (images available)
A request from the British Mandate government for a refund for the lunch vouchers given to 8,568 immigrants that arrived at the port. The documents are from the Central Zionist Archive.
1927-1951 Mukhtar’s Ledger Safed – (images available)
Asher Barshod was the Mukjtar of Safed. This release contains the names of residents of Safed in those years found in these ledgers. His archive is in the Israel State Archive.
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 10,521 listings for family names starting with the letters Daled, Heh, Zion and Ayin. The documents are from the Israel State Archives.
1948-1956 Residents Rosh Haayin– (images available) update
This is the second release of the ledgers of the Yemenite residents of transit camps in Rosh Haayim. It includes 9,705 names from three ledgers. These ledgers can be found on the website of the Israel State Archive.
1929-1940 Immigrants from Lithuania – update
This is an additional 689 immigrants from Lithuania from the Palestine Office (Misrad Erez Israel) material in theLithuanian Central State Archive (LCVA). It was received from the Litvak SIG. Not all the immigrants arrived in Palestine.
Thank you to all our volunteers who had a part in making these databases available. Can you help us prepare additional databases? Write to us at [email protected]
