Palestine Research Tips and Strategies

Palestine Wiki Topics

Palestine Beginning Research

Getting Started Online Learning Record Finder Research Strategies

Record Types

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Palestine Background

Biographies Diaspora Gazetteers History Languages Maps Naming Customs Periodicals Social Life & Customs

Palestine Genealogical Word Lists

Arabic Turkish

Local Research Resources

Archives & Libraries Societies Local FamilySearch Center

In other languages: العربية

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Research Strategies

Purpose of Research Tips and Strategies Wiki Page The Palestine Research Tips and Strategies page consists of links to specific research strategies for Palestine. It also contains general tips and other resources for finding your ancestors in this locality.

Palestine Research Strategies

Below are links to different research strategy Wiki pages to help you locate your ancestors in Palestine:

• Getting Started
• Record Finder
• Palestine Emigration and Immigration

Palestine Research Tips

• Online Learning - video classes on research in Palestine and the Middle East in general
• Record Finder - gives suggestions for which kinds of records to search based on the information being sought
• Beginning Your Middle East Family Tree - FamilySearch blog article
• Many areas of historical Palestine have been within Israel since 1948. For Jewish research in the region and information on Arab areas of Israel post 1948, please see Israel Genealogy.
• From 1920 to 1948, Palestine was administered as a British mandate.
• Until the end of World War I in 1918, Palestine was a part of the Ottoman Empire. During this period the country was divided into different administrative districts known as sanjaks and was sometimes considered a part of Greater Syria. For more information on Ottoman Palestine, see Palestine History. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Ottoman Empire conducted detailed censuses of its population. FamilySearch provides access to some of these digitized records. For more information see Palestine, Ottoman Census and Population Registers and Palestine, Nablus, Population Registers.
• Millions of Palestinians today live outside of Palestine, due to conflict and seeking better opportunities abroad. For more information on the Palestinian diaspora, see Palestine Emigration and Immigration and Palestine Diaspora.
• For more information about Palestinian tribes, including links to books detailing the histories and genealogies of certain tribes in the country and throughout the Arab world, see Palestine Tribes and Clans.
• See the Palestine Societies for organizations and communities focused on Palestinian genealogy. Connecting with these groups can provide insight into research questions.