IGRA has added three new databases and updated two others, adding over 37,994 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/
Register of Patients in the Greek Hospital in Jerusalem 1895-1899 – (images available)
These ledgers are in Greek. The names were transliterated into English for IGRA. The list is of 2,314 patients. This is an example of the international face of the residents of Jerusalem in the 19th century. This microfilm is of material from the Jerusalem Municipal Archive, and is in the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.
British Consul Cairo – Passport Registration 1925-1934– (images available)
The British Consul sent updates to the offices in Palestine regarding the payment made by Palestinian citizens in Egypt dealing with the handling of their passports. The list includes 210 citizens. The documents are from the Israel State Archives.
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 7,839 listings for family names starting with the Hebrew letter Gimmel. The documents are from the Israel State Archives.
1946 Bricha Movement (no images available, a URL link to the original file)
Bricha was a clandestine movement to bring Jews from Eastern and Central Europe to Palestine following the Holocaust. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) helped provide support to the migrants as they passed through the American zones in Germany and Austria. This specific list documents Jews who had reached the border town of Nachod in June-December 1946. Information includes name (rendered in Czech), birth date, and birthplace. It is the first of three parts of the document. The documents are from the JDC Archives in New York.
1949 National Voters Tel Aviv – (images available) update
The first national elections in Israel were held on 25 January 1949. The election was for the Constituent Assembly, with the name changed from Assembly to Knesset later. According to a census held in preparation for the election, the number of eligible voters consisted of half a million people. Due to the number of voters, this is a work in progress and therefore released in sections. This release includes an additional 15,992 voters eligible to vote in Tel Aviv-Yafo. The documents are from the Israel State Archives.
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