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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

They can provide invaluable information to genealogists on the location, condition, and other information regarding the Commonwealth soldiers' graves in their care. Please include International Reply Coupons when writing to them from outside Britain.

Crowd Sourced Indexing: IGRA Projects

The Israel Genealogy Research Association [IGRA] has set as one of its primary aims the preparation of databases based upon various records, mainly found in Israel, for as wide an audience as possible. We do this with volunteers that help us transcribe + transliterating (English <-> Hebrew) records we digitize in multiple archives.

Istanbul Jewish Genealogy Project

The Istanbul Jewish community holds close to 100 thousand records of genealogical insterest, including more than 35 thousand marriage records (Chief Rabbinate 1887-, Ashkenazi Community 1923-, Italian Congregation 1870s-) and 30 thousand burial records (Hemdat Israel 1899-, Italian burial list 1918-, Italian Şişli Cemetery 1800s-, Kuzguncuk Cemetery 1913-, Ortak

JewishGen - Jewish Names in Selected U.S. State Department Files (RG59)

Class 3, Protection of Interest, 1910-1929, primarily from Palestine, Romania & Austria.

JewishGen - Memorial Plaques Database

A database of more than 100,000 names and other information from synagogue yahrzeit plaques and other memorial records, worldwide: Argentina, Canada, Croatia, Israel, Italy, Morocco, Slovakia, USA, Wales.

The Mount of Olives

Located in Israel.