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==[http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Israel/group84.htm#Search U.S. Department of State Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Haifa Consular Post Records]== | |||
[http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Israel/group84.htm#Search The U.S. Department of State Jerusalem, Jaffa, and Haifa Consular Post Records] database, with its more than 9,000 entries, was created from Record Group 84, Foreign Service Post Records of the U.S. Department of State for Consular Posts: Jerusalem (1857-1935), Jaffa (1867-1917), and Haifa (1872-1917). | |||
The U.S. State Department's files from Foreign Service posts abroad are stored at the U.S. National Archives II, College Park, Maryland. | |||
Few of the original records were indexed, and many were disposed of in 1950. After a survey of these records by members of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington (JGSGW) in 1995, the volumes of records with the most significant genealogical material were indexed. Only those names assumed to be Jewish were included in the index. | |||
Records of genealogical value selected for indexing include: birth, marriage, death, probate and wills of American citizens; records of passports issued, visas (required as of 1917) and related matters of immigration and naturalization; registers of visitors, American citizens, and children born of American parents; property disposal and settlement of estates; and general correspondence and miscellaneous records concerning the protection of American citizens and their interests. | |||
The methods by which the State Department filed these records varied over time. Documents may have been filed in boxes or may have been bound in volumes. The pages of some volumes are numbered, entries in others are in alphabetical or chronological order, or by numbers assigned to the document based on the subject matter (i.e., 811.11 Visas/immigration). Therefore, the information given for retrieving a document varies. Be sure to copy all of the information given in the database. | |||