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Iraq

Societies

Genealogical Societies

FamilySearch

• Arab Ancestry Community (مجتمع الأصول العربية) - Active community forum for Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa and the Arab diaspora

Ancestry

• Message board - Genealogical discussion forum for Iraq.

WorldGenWeb

• Country page - Genealogical resources for Iraq

National Society of Arab & Arab American Genealogy (NSAB)
Website
LinkedIn

• Fosters interest in Arab and Arab American genealogy by encouraging education, research, writing, recording family histories, and preserving records.

Historical Societies

Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center

Sderot Mordehai Ben Porat 83

Or Yehuda, Israel

The Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center houses a large, special collection of databases compiled over several decades, which reflect the life of the Jewish community in Iraq. The collections contain manuscripts, films, photographs, liturgical songs, Iraqi-Jewish music, names and family trees. Some of the items in the collections are rare and can only be found at the center.

• Website
• Digital repository

The Iraqi Mutual Aid Society has much on the history of Iraq.

Website: http://www.iraqimutualaid.org/iraqi-history--civilization.html

The National Museum of Iraq provides many references to local history.

Website: https://www.facebook.com/museummm/