IGRA wishes to thank the many volunteers helping our society over the years.
Call for Volunteers
IGRA is looking for people with specific skills who can dedicate a couple of hours a week to help. Full instructions and guidance will be provided to the volunteers. Although we appreciate any time you can dedicate to us, we have established a minimum requirement for each role. Some tasks are flexible and can be done at your own pace, while others must be completed at specific times during the month.
- Zoom Technical (4 hours a month) Attending the Zoom webinar is required. Responsibilities include setting up webinars, conducting a test with the speaker, checking registrations, opening the room, admitting participants, ensuring everyone is muted, allowing the speaker to share their screen, activating the recording, monitoring for “intruders,” ending the session, downloading the recording, and uploading it to Vimeo.
- WordPress Publisher (6 hours a month): Create posts on the IGRA WordPress website in English and Hebrew. All texts and images will be provided โ no translations required. Responsibilities include scheduling posts or publishing them immediately, and assigning images to the posts
- Transliterators (2 hours a week): Transliterate names in Excel (English to Hebrew and/or Hebrew to English) This is a transliteration task, not a translation. While tools like AI or Google Translate can assist, human review and standardization are always required based on the provided guidelines.
- Database Q&A (4 hours a month): After each monthly release, review the database to ensure all records are up to date, all localities and countries are translated correctly, images are displayed properly when needed, and there is no missing or duplicate information in the new records.
- Image editors (6 hours a month): Use image editing tools to prepare images for publication. Tasks include cropping, resizing, changing formats, adding watermarks, and blocking (hiding) personal information in the images, among other adjustments.
- Transcribers (6 hours a month): Work with images of handwritten records in English or Hebrew to transcribe key data into Excel-type files.
- Proofers (6 hours a month): Review Excel files and images to ensure the transcriptions are accurate, correct formatting and typos, verify that no information is missing, ensure images are correctly associated with the records, and combine similar Excel files where necessary.
Help genealogists and family researchers around the world find their roots in Eretz Yisrael. We need you to:
Manage the creation of English databases to expand the All Israel Database
Transcribe material in English or Hebrew โ it’s quick and easy to do!
Transliterate names from Hebrew to English, or English to Hebrew
Manage Live Events such as lectures
Help manage the website (which runs on WordPress), schedule posts, and improve the site
Graphic Design for event promotion on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
Use Photoshop to help prepare materials for indexing
Manage Online Events such as Webinars, Facebook Live or Youtube
Help with other Languages including Arabic, Turkish, Russian and Polish
Contact us at [email protected] or via our contact page if you would like to get involved.
If you’d like to find out more about indexing of records for new databases, go to our indexing page.