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The following news release was received from MyHeritage. Click here to see the entire article. We’re very happy to announce that, after five years of dedicated efforts, we’ve completed our ambitious goal of digitizing every cemetery in Israel. It is Continue reading MyHeritage Completed Digitizing All of Israel’s Cemeteries!
The following teaser is from the a posting December 7, 2015 at the foxnews.com website. A lead and wood artifact discovered in a roughly 6,000-year-old grave in a desert cave is the oldest evidence of smelted lead on record in Continue reading Ancient Lead Wand Found in Israel’s Northern Negav Desert
As we all know, Israel does not have a lot of land. Existing cemeteries are crowded and traditional burial space is nearly unavailable. Yarkon Cemetery (Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv) is near capacity with 110,000 graves on 150 acres. About Continue reading Vertical Cemeteries Built for Land-Starved Populations
The following excerpt is from the October 21, 2014 edition of israeltoday.co.il: Yaakov Khalloul, a two-year-old Christian child from the Galilee, made history on Monday when he became the first person in Israel’s modern history to be officially registered as Continue reading History is Made as Israeli Child is Registered as an Aramean
I got a note from Daniel Horowitz at MyHeritage.com this morning telling me that the MyHeritage Israel team just kick-started their global initiative that we recently announced together with BillionGraves, the project in which they wish to digitally preserve the Continue reading MyHeritage Team Captures over 50,000 Gravestone Images in 3 Hours in Isreal’s Segula Cemetery
The following was received from the President of IGRA: The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) has released a new search engine for their AID (All Israel Databases) section www.genealogy.org.il/AID/ . In July, at the IAJGS International Conference in Paris, IGRA Continue reading New Search Engine Released for All Isreal Databases (AID)