Index to name changes in the Palestine Gazette. [microform] (ID: 29819)
Authorship or Source:
Mokotoff, Gary.
Year:
1990
Title or Main Description:
Index to name changes in the Palestine Gazette. [microform]
Place Published or Holding Institution:
[Teaneck, NJ] : G. Mokotoff ; Avotaynu
Description:
- 6 microfiches : negative
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- Approx. 28,000 Names.
Type of Work:
Microfiche
Alternate or Series Title:
- Palestine Gazette name changes.
- Palestine Microfiche.
- Official gazette of the government of Palestine. Index.
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
- USHMM Library: [Microfiche section]
- Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.). Call Number: CS1503 Microfiche 96/3 Hebr Fiche 54.
- Source Institution: Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Washington (in the Isaac Franck Jewish Public Library, Board of Jewish Education, 11710 Hunters Lane, Rockville, MD).
Keywords:
- Palestine Gazette --Indexes.
- Jews --Palestine --Registers.
- Palestine --Emigration and Immigration --Registers.
- Israel --Emigration and Immigration --Registers.
- Names, Personal --Jewish --Registers.
- Names, Personal --Palestine --Registers.
- Names, Personal --Jewish --Indexes.
- Names, Personal --Palestine --Indexes.
- Jews --Israel --Genealogy --Sources.
- Holocaust survivors --Israel --Registers.
- [Additional Keywords: Vatikim, Aliyah]
Abstract:
List of over 28,000 persons, mostly Jews, who legally changed their names while living in Palestine during the British Mandate from 1921-1948. Such name changes were announced in the then-current newspaper of record, the Palestine Gazette (available at Library of Congress as: 'Official gazette of the government of Palestine', Call No. J8 .B5795 Microfilm 39395, LCCN: 21-018207 ).
Language and Other Notes:
- Title from microfiche header.
- Names arranged in 3 sequences: by Daitch-Mokotoff soundex number, alphabetically by old surname, and alphabetically by new surname.
- Title in this catalog previously interpreted provisionally as: Palestine Gazette name changes.
- As of November 2004 this microfiche is available for purchase as at http://www.avotaynu.com/microf.htm.
- Although there is no record of this item in its Catalog, it is nevertheless in the USHMM Library's Microfiche Collection.
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
Former Q&A Name Lists Database File Number-- AA0274