Prerecorded Webinar: The Ins and Outs of IGRA’s Database Collection

Speaker: IGRA Past President, Garri Regev

Sunday, December 20, 2020
12:00 PM Eastern
Zoom – Free

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Are you looking for relatives in Israel? This prerecorded lecture is an introduction to the Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) website and the All Israel Database (AID) collection.

About the All Israel Database:
This search engine currently features 1,770,881 records and was last updated on 10 October 2020.

The Israel Genealogy Research Association [IGRA] has set as one of its primary aims the preparation of databases based upon various records, mainly found in Israel, for as wide an audience as possible. The large amount of archives located in Israel dealing with communities in Israel and Jewish communities outside of Israel have records in a variety of languages but mostly in Hebrew and English. Their data comes from Archives as well as publications which are on open shelves in libraries.

They scan the materials, build databases with the pertinent information, and then link to the original scans, where archival permission has been granted. Surnames and first names will be transliterated from Hebrew to English, and vice versa, depending on the language of the original material. This will enable researchers who are not familiar with the other language to find the families they are searching for.

The collection includes records from:

  • Ottoman Administration (- 1917)
  • British Administration (1917-1948)
  • Israeli Administration (1948- )
  • Miscellaneous

This webinar was recorded by IGRA in 2016.

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