Completed photographing and indexing sector 4 in Kishinev Jewish Cemetery and sent to JOWBR 1517 burial records with 1371 images and 33 images of Unknown graves can be viewed at Bessarabia SIG website at Kishinev Jewish Cemetery Report. or directly at Kishinev Jewish Cemetery Unknown graves.
Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2019. A number of Revision List sets are going to be completed for town of Kishinev, Ataki, Faleshty, Ismail, Bendery, Romanenko, Khotin see the progress.
02/01/2019 January 2019
Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:
Upgraded the inventory of all cemeteries in Bessarabia/Moldova. See the list from the cemetery section at the website or directly here.
Completed photographing and indexing Reni Jewish Cemetery and sent to JOWBR 263 burial records with 263 images and 241 images of Unknown graves can be viewed at Bessarabia SIG website at Reni Cemetery Report.
Bessarabian Databases. Updates:
Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2019. A number of Revision List sets are going to be completed for town of Kishinev, Ataki, Faleshty, Ismail, Bendery, Romanenko see the progress.
Holocaust. Addition:
Serghei Daniliuk presentation at the International Conference in Moscow, 2018. Serghei Danilijuk is a local historian, researcher and photographer who worked on numerous cemetery projects for JewishGen Bessarabia SIG. Serghei was a guest for Bessarabia SIG at the 38th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Warsaw, August 2018, where he made two presentations. Presentation. ---- The audio recording from the conference. Serghei's topic is from 2 hour 39min of the recording.
12/31/2018 December 2018
Bessarabian Databases. Updates:
Revision List set of records were sent to JewishGen in December of 2018. 11,610 records from 2,623 families were transcribed and translated from following towns: Soroki, Rashkov, Ataki, Ismail, Reni, Lyublin, Bolotina, Beltsy, Valya luy Vlad, Faleshty and from villages in Yassy/Beltsy district. See the list. We have an excelent group of translators for the Bessarabia Revision Lists. The total records we completed in 10 years is more then 193,000! Many thanks to our members who participated in this set translation: Alan Levine, Talia Kogan, Claire Stuart, Michael Richman, Ilana Voloshin and Yefim Kogan.
History and Geography / Maps. Updates:
A new section was created: Town Maps Translated into English. You will find 12 town maps translated from Yiddish, Hebrew, German and Russian, among them maps from Briceni, Dubossary, Leipzig (a German colony in Bessarabia!), etc. The new Maps. Thanks a lot to Roberta Jaffer for her hard work and dedication to this project.
12/02/2018 November 2018
Bessarabian Databases. Updates:
Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2018. A number of Revision List sets were completed for town of Beltsy and Yassy/Beltsy uezd (district) see the progress.
Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:
We have completed photographing and indexing a Nisporeni Jewish Cemetery. We have sent to JOWBR 173 burial records with 170 images and 264 images of Unknown graves can be viewed at Bessarabia SIG website at Nisporeni Cemetery Report.
Kishinev Jewish Cemetery events - fall of 2018. October 20, 2018. Prime Minister of Republic of Moldova visited the Jewish Cemetery in Kishinev, and demanded a plan to restore the cemetery. November 26, 2018. The work begin on the improvement of the Jewish cemetery! See the articles about these events.
History and Geography / General. Article added:
Towns in Bessarabia and in neighboring regions for 200 years. It is table of 8 major towns in Bessarabia and close by area of Bukovina, Podolia, Romania with all countries these towns belong to since 1800 to 2000. See the table with Towns and Countries.
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