Israel Cemeteries: Difference between revisions

Search engine - The world's largest headstone database with digitized images and transcriptions. According to the website, all of the cemeteries in Israel have been digitized and are included in this database.
Cemetery search

Mount of Olives Cemetery

Website - A website dedicated to the Mount of Olives Cemetery, including a grave search, stories about the deceased, maps, and other resources.

Burial Societies[edit | edit source]

Burial Societies in Israel - Very helpful information if you are trying to find where someone was buried in Israel. Each burial society maintains their own records of burials and can be contacted for more information.
Tel Aviv Burial Society Database Search Engine
Steve Morse Translating Aid

For Further Reading[edit | edit source]

Read the Jewish Cemeteries article.
Tidbits about Graves in Israel, by Dahn Cukier
Hebrew Acronyms on Tombstones and Death Registers Downloadable Chart.
Deciphering Jewish Gravestones, by Philip Trauring. Long article on understanding Hebrew epitaphs, including a 34-page PDF version.

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-==Resources==
+[[Category:Israel]]
-===Online Resources===
+==Online Resources==
-*'''1918-1928, 1933-1935''' {{FSC|123504|title-id|disp=Hauptgräberlisten, 1918-1928, 1933-1935, }}(*); Deutschland. Konsulat Jerusalem at FamilySearch Catalog - images
-*'''1932''' {{FSC|123730|title-id|disp=Hauptgräberliste für Syrien-Palestina, 1932, }}(*); Österreich. Konsulat (Jerusalem) at FamilySearch Catalog - images
-*{{FSC|454225|title-id|disp=Avene Zikaron, nosaḥe ha-mitsvot menayat ha-ʿolamin shel ha-moshava Rishon le-Ziyyon:}}(*); Gereyivski, Pinḥas Ben-Tsevi at FamilySearch Catalog - images
-*[https://genealogy.org.il/resource-guides/burial-societies/ Burial Societies in Israel] at Israel Genealogy Research Association - list of societies to contact
-*[http://www.kadisha.biz/showitem.aspx?levelid=59868 Database Search Engine] at Tel Aviv Burial Society - index
-*[https://mountofolives.co.il/en/search-grave/ Grave Search] at mountofolives.co - index & images; contains Mount of Olives cemetery only
-*[https://billiongraves.com/site-map?country=Israel Israel cemeteries - Browse] at BillionGraves - index & images
-*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-20862/israel-genealogy-research-association-igra?s=275764761 Israel Genealogy Research Association, Burial Records - IGRA] at MyHeritage — index & images ($)
-*[https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry] at JewishGen - index; [https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.php Database contents]
-*See [[Jewish Cemeteries]] for more information.
+==== Jewish Cemeteries ====
-==List of Cemeteries==
+* [https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Register] (JOWBR) at JewishGen -- [https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.php index]; The largest international Jewish burial database
-*[https://genealogy.org.il/resource-guides/burial-societies/ Burial Societies in Israel] at Israel Genealogy Research Association; list of societies to contact
-==Background==
-*[https://genealogy.org.il/tidbits-graves-israel/ Tidbits about Graves in Israel] at Israel Genealogy Research Association
-*[https://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/tombstones.html Reading Hebrew Tombstones] at JewishGen
-*[https://bloodandfrogs.com/2020/03/deciphering-jewish-gravestones.html Deciphering Jewish Gravestones] at bloodandfrogs.com
-===Types of Records===
-==Information Recorded in the Records==
+'''BillionGraves'''
-==Strategy==
-==References==
-{{reflist}}
-[[Category:Israel]]
+* [https://billiongraves.com/ Search engine] - The world's largest headstone database with digitized images and transcriptions. According to the website, all of the cemeteries in Israel have been digitized and are included in this database.
+* [https://billiongraves.com/search/cemetery Cemetery search]
+'''Mount of Olives Cemetery'''
+* [https://mountofolives.co.il/en/ Website] - A website dedicated to the Mount of Olives Cemetery, including a grave search, stories about the deceased, maps, and other resources.
+==Burial Societies==
+*[http://genealogy.org.il/resources/burial-societies/ Burial Societies in Israel] - Very helpful information if you are trying to find where someone was buried in Israel. Each burial society maintains their own records of burials and can be contacted for more information.
+*[http://www.kadisha.biz/showitem.aspx?levelid=59868 Tel Aviv Burial Society Database Search Engine]
+*[http://www.stevemorse.org/hebrew/kadisha.html Steve Morse Translating Aid]
+==For Further Reading==
+*Read the [[Jewish Cemeteries|'''Jewish Cemeteries''']] article.
+*[http://genealogy.org.il/tidbits-graves-israel/ '''Tidbits about Graves in Israel,''' by Dahn Cukier]
+*[http://genealogy.org.il/resources/ '''Hebrew Acronyms on Tombstones and Death Registers'''] Downloadable Chart.
+*[https://bloodandfrogs.com/2020/03/deciphering-jewish-gravestones.html '''Deciphering Jewish Gravestones'''], by Philip Trauring. Long article on understanding Hebrew epitaphs, including a 34-page PDF version.