Israel has many archives with documents from Jewish communities from the Mediterranean Basin. The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) has made it an aim to gather such material dealing with the residents of communities from the countries around the Mediterranean Basin from which the Jews may or may not have immigrated to Palestine. As of today, 5% of IGRA's collection includes materials dealing with the Jewish residents of Morocco, Tunis, Egypt, Syria, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Greece and others.
About Daniel Horowitz
Dedicated to Genealogy since 1986, Daniel was the teacher and the study guide editor of the family history project "Searching for My Roots" in Venezuela for 15 years. He is involved in several crowdsource digitization and transcription projects, and holds a board-level position at The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA). Since 2006 Daniel has been working at MyHeritage liaising with genealogy societies, bloggers, and media, as well as lecturing, and attending conferences around the world.
If you have problems joining, please email chair@jgsgb.org.uk, preferably in the 15 minutes before the meeting proper starts.
JGSGB members, please remember to log in to the members’ area of the JGSGB website before booking, and your £5 fee will be waived.