State of Palestine Research Tips and Strategies
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State of Palestine Research Strategies[edit | edit source]
Below are links to different research strategy Wiki pages to help you locate your ancestors in Palestine:
State of Palestine Research Tips[edit | edit source]
- 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 State of 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 State of Palestine Emigration and Immigration and State of Palestine Diaspora.
- See the State of Palestine Societies for organizations and communities focused on Palestinian genealogy. Connecting with these groups can provide insight into research questions.