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Ottoman Administration[edit | edit source]
For more information on Ottoman Nüfus Records (سجلات النفوس العثمانية), including content, locations, and how to access them, please see Palestine, Ottoman Census and Population Registers.
| Record collection | Years covered | Record type | Language | Who is in the records |
| Palestine, Ottoman Census and Population Registers at FamilySearch | 1876-1917 | Census | Ottoman Turkish and Hebrew | Population registers arranged into 10 districts in present day Israel/Palestine, Jordan, and Egypt. Registration within each locality is by religious affiliation. |
| Nüfūs registers (Ottoman census and population registers of Palestine) at FamilySearch FSC Center ONLY | 1883-1917 | Census | Ottoman Turkish and Hebrew | Includes birth, marriage, divorce, and death records. These records can only be accessed at a FamilySearch center or a FamilySearch affiliate library. The collection consists of 7 types of registers: preliminary registers; basic registers; early population registers; registers of births, marriages, divorces and changes of address; registers of men of military age; registers of foreigners; and Mukhtars' registers. Registers are arranged into 10 districts, each including cities (divided into neighborhoods) and villages in present day Palestine, Israel, and parts of Jordan and Egypt. Registration within each locality is according to religious affiliation. The records are in Ottoman Turkish, except for seven books of the Ashkenazi community in Jerusalem, which are in Hebrew. The collection also includes a catalog in English, created by the Israel State Archives (the current owners of the archives), which includes general background information about the registers, a locality index, and detailed descriptions of the contents of each register. |
| Nufus Jerusalem at Israel Genealogy Research Association ($) | 1890 | Census | Ottoman Turkish and Hebrew | This census contains only males and was probably prepared for use of the military in the Ottoman Empire. It contains males of all the various Jewish ethnic communities in Jerusalem. Sometimes it was hard to differentiate between the given name and the surname. This ledger is from the Archive of the Council of the Sephardi and Oriental Communities and is found in the Jerusalem Municipal Archives. It belongs to the Council of the Sephardi and Oriental Communities, Jerusalem, who have given permission to publish this database. Our thanks to Mr. Ephraim Levy who transcribed it to modern Hebrew script. |
| Nufus of the Council of the Sephardi and Oriental Communities of Jerusalem at Israel Genealogy Research Association ($) | 1910 | Census | Ottoman Turkish and Hebrew | This is a list from the ledger found in the Archive of the Council of the Sephardi and Oriental Communities. The nufus census was found in the Jerusalem Municipal Archives and was conducted for the Turkish government. The list contains 2,204 names of those living in the Old City of Jerusalem and in some of the neighborhoods outside of the walls of the Old City. The nufus includes year of birth and occupation. The ledger belongs to the Council of the Sephardi and Oriental Communities, Jerusalem, who have given permission to publish this database. Our thanks to Mr. Ephraim Levy who transcribed it to modern Hebrew script. |
| Records of the Land of Israel at The Israel Genealogical Society ($) | 1875-1917 | Census | Ottoman Turkish and Hebrew |
British Administration[edit | edit source]
| Record collection | Years covered | Record type | Language | Who is in the records |
| Tel-Aviv at Israel Genealogy Research Association ($) | 1922 | Census | English | This was the first census conducted by the British in Palestine. Not all of it remains. The census for Tel-Aviv includes 13,262 residents. It include names and most of the addresses. The census was found in the Historical Municipal Archives of Tel Aviv-Yaffo. |
| Karkur Census at Israel Genealogy Research Association ($) | 1931 | Census | English | This list was found in the Pardes Hana-Karkur Archives. It consists of the names of 81 people. |