Rose Feldman known on twitter as jewdatagengirl, operates two twitters for the Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA): Israelgenealogy and IGRA_Hebrew and IGRA’s facebook page. She is in charge of developing new databases for IGRA.

Rose has lectured at eight IAJGS conferences, starting in 2003; various annual seminars of the Israel Genealogical Society; branch meetings of IGRA and IGS; the Israeli Association for Archives and Information workshop; and the last two years at the genealogy workshop of the Central Zionist Archives.

She is one of the three coordinators of the Montefiore Censuses Project and has four Kehilalinks sites on JewishGen.

“Immigration to Eretz Israel” (Tues-110), 9:00-10:15 A.M.

The term aliaya in Biblical times referred to going up to Eretz Israel from Egypt. Now it refers to immigration to Eretz Israel from all over the world. This lecture will review the various waves of immigration, starting with the Prushim in 19th century, and documentation found.

The following databases dealing with immigration are available online in the IGRA collection:

• Ruslan Passenger List 19 Dec 1919;
• Third Aliyah: Dec 1919-Apr 1921;
• Exiled to Palestine: The Emigration of Zionist Convicts from the Soviet Union, 1924-1934;
• List of Farmers from Galicia Requesting Aliyah 1935;
• Swiss Aliyah Requests 1945; and
• Lists of Immigrants from Hungary 1947.

There are a number of databases that deal with illegal immigration to Palestine based on documents from archives in Israel and around the world.[co-taught with Garri Regev]

Category: Beginning genealogists

Topics: Immigration and migration over the ages, Mizrachi research, Repositories, Sephardic research, Specific countries or geographic areas

“Marriage & Divorce Certificates during the Mandate Period in Palestine” (Thurs-105), 4:30-5:45 P.M.

In the fall of 2014 the Israel State Archives approached the Israel Genealogy Research Association [IGRA] with a request to build a database based upon Marriage & Divorce Certificates from their digitization project. IGRA has taken on this project from the Mandate Period.

In the late spring of 2015 IGRA received over 50,000 certificates for the period 1922-1948. The types of certificates found in the first files IGRA started working for were: marriage certificates, divorce certificates, annulment of marriage, request for correction, and copies of certificates.

It is not sure if all the certificates issued were deposited or if everyone registered in the ledgers of the Rabbinate, received or asked for a certificate. In November 2015, the first 4,220 certificates were uploaded to our website showing all of the information included. Scans are available, as well. These certificates provide a unique opportunity to access records not previously available. (presented with Garri Regev]

Category: Beginning genealogists

Topics: Ashkenazic research, Immigration and migration over the ages, Mizrachi research, Organization and preservation, Sephardic research, Specific countries or geographic areas, Technology in support of genealogical research