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Online Resources

• Howiyyah: The Encyclopedia of Palestinian Families - Compilation of Palestinian villages and local families; in Arabic
• The Official Website for the Jerusalemite Family of al-Khalidi at Khalidi.org - Index for Al-Deiri, Al-Khalidi, and Al-Makhzumi families of Jerusalem; in Arabic
• Digital Palestinian Archive at Birzeit University - Documents of Palestinian families
• Digital Collections at the Palestinian Museum Digital Archive - Digitized documents and images
• An Honorable Pedigree Connected to Tamim al-Dari. Hebron: 1861. Online at: Archive.org; book is handwritten and reading it requires some knowledge of Arabic paleography
  • نسبة شريفة متصلة بتميم الداري. الخليل: 1861.
• The Tribes of Acre District (in Arabic), by Mahmud 'Abdullah Kallam. Beirut: Bissan Publishing and Distribution, 2016. Online at: Archive.org.
  • عشائر قضاة عكا، محمود عبد الله كلّم. بيروت: بسيان للنشر والتوزيع، 2016.
• See Compiled Genealogies for more resources.

Print Publications

• Palestinian Village Histories:Geographies of the Displaced, by Rochelle A. Davis. Stanford:Stanford University Press, 2010. At various libraries (WorldCat)
• Ramallah, its history and its genealogies, by Azeez Shaheen. Birzeit, Palestine:Birzeit University, 1982. FS Catalog book 956.94 R1 D2; At various libraries (WorldCat)

Types of Records

Village Histories

Village histories may record prominent families or tribes and family trees for them.
Throughout modern-day Israel, over four hundred Palestinian villages were depopulated in the 1947-1949 war. With houses mostly destroyed, mosques and churches put to other uses, and cemeteries plowed under, Palestinian communities were left geographically dispossessed. Palestinians have since carried their village names, memories, and possessions with them into the diaspora, transforming their lost past into local histories in the form of "village memorial books". Numbering more than 100 volumes in print, these books recount family histories, cultural traditions, and the details of village life, revealing Palestinian history through the eyes of Palestinians.

Through a close examination of these books and other commemorative activities, Palestinian Village Histories reveals how history is written, recorded, and contested, as well as the roles that Palestinian conceptions of their past play in contemporary life. Moving beyond the grand narratives of 20th century political struggles, this book analyzes individual and collective historical accounts of everyday life in pre-1948 Palestinian villages as composed today from the perspectives of these long-term refugees.

Oral Genealogies

• See Oral Genealogies for more resources.

Strategy

• Tracing Your Ancestry and Connecting with Your Heritage from the Palestinian Diaspora at RootsTech - online class recording
• See Compiled Genealogies for more online collections, catalogs, and repositories.
• Some repositories or societies may have additional compiled genealogies. See State of Palestine Archives and Libraries and State of Palestine Societies for more resources.