Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2023. We are working with records from following towns: Kishinev, Bendery, Akkerman, Skulyany, Kalarash, and more. See the progress.
Vital Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2023. We are working with Birth records from Kishinev, Soroki, Beltsy, Valea-lui-Vlad, Aleksandreny; Marriage records from Kishinev, Beltsy, Valea-lui-Vlad, Aleksandreny; Death records from Kishinev. See the progress.
Cemetery Projects Completed photographing and indexing of Phase 8 of Beltsy Jewish Cemetery and sent to JOWBR 331 burial records with 325 images. See information at the Beltsy Jewish Cemetery Report at Bessarabia SIG website at Beltsy Jewish Cemetery Report.
We have now 5,856 burial records for Beltsy Jewish Cemetery, and more will come in the next phase.
New acquisition in summer of 2023. We will start a new project - Jews lived in different gubernias of Russian Empire, and registered in Bessarabia. We received new records for Jews reside in Podolia, Kherson, Kiev, Grodno, Vilno gubernias in different towns, shtetlekh, but all registered in Bessarabia. We need a Project Leader for this new work with handwritten Russian skills and probably several translators. there are total of about 1,000 images for it.
Genealogical Conferences:
43rd IAJGS International Conference, London, July 30 to August 3, 2023 Bessarabia SIG participated in many events:
-Share Fair;
-Bessarabia SIG Meeting;
-Computer Lab-Genealogical Research for Bessarabia/Moldova genealogists.
Bessarabian Databases. Updates ready for everybody at JewishGen. Records are available already.
Below is a list of updates sent to JewishGen. Thank you very much to all volunteers who worked on these Bessarabian projects.
Vital Records.Soroki and Soroki uezd Birth records from 1895 -1920 (some years). Total of 2,434 records for Soroki and 41 towns, colonies, villages, including Brichevo, Dombroveny, Lyublin, Markuleshty, Vertuzhany and others. See the list of towns, shteitle added. Total # in Bessarabia Vital records - 184,964.
Project Leaders Yefim Kogan, translators Emilia Alexeeva, Michael Richman, Eti Ganin, Genny Imas, Yoni Kupchik, Talia Kogan, Katerina Kamenetzki, Gabor Adam, Valentin Lupu, Alex Russakovsky, David Zelikovskiy, and Yefim Kogan.
Revision Lists.13,215 records completed for 3,019 families. Revisions added for different towns and years, including Kishinev, Brichany, Lomachinets, Vadu-lui-Vlad, and others. See the list of towns, shteitle added. Total # in Bessarabia Revision List records 263,544.
Project Leader Yefim Kogan, translators Alan Levine, Claire Stuart, Alex Matlin, Elizabeth Fortun, Yuliana Murray, Ilana Voloshin, Avi Steinberg, Ethel V., Irina Tulchinska, Julia Maksimova, Sammy Lerner and Yefim Kogan.
Jews Involved in Public Life.483 records added. Project Leader and translator - Yuriy Daylis. Total of 2,357 records in that database.
Genealogical Conferences:
43rd IAJGS International Conference, London, July 30 to August 3, 2023 Bessarabia SIG is going to participate in the event. We will have Bessarabia SIG meeting, participate in Share Fair and more. Please join us at the conference. See Schedule of event related to Bessarabia at the conference. If you are interested in learning more about researching in the Bessarabia region, participate at the Computer Lab. It will help you in your person research.
04/26/2023 April 2023
Bessarabian Databases. Updates:
Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2023. We have completed 7,953 records from following towns: Kishinev, Brichany, Lomachinets, Orgeev, Soroki, Khotyn, and more. See the progress.
Vital Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2023. We have completed 1,595 Birth records from Soroki and 32 towns and villages from Soroki yezd: Markuleshty, Brichevo, Dombroveny, Vertuzhany, and more. See the progress.
Genealogical Conferences:
43rd IAJGS International Conference, London, July 30 to August 3, 2023 Bessarabia SIG is going to participate in the event. We will have Bessarabia SIG meeting, participate in Share Fair, also there are going to be a Computer Lab-Genealogical Research for Bessarabia/Moldova genealogists and more. Please join us at the conference. See schedule related to Bessarabia.
03/30/2023 March 2023
Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:
Completed photographing and indexing of Klishkivtsi Old Jewish cemetery. 77 burial records and 77 grave images were sent to JOWBR at JewishGen. The records will be available in June of this year, but you can see now at Bessarabia website the Cemetery report with maps, some photos, and also the Unknown Graves at the cemetery (58). See cemetery Report for Klishkivtsi Old Cemetery.
Bessarabian Databases. Updates:
Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2023. We have completed already more than 6 thousand records from following towns: Kishinev, Brichany, Lomachinets, Orgeev, and more. See the progress.
Genealogical Conferences:
43rd IAJGS International Conference, London, July 30 to August 3, 2023 Bessarabia SIG is going to participate in the event. We will have Bessarabia SIG meeting, participate in Share Fair, also I will teach a class: Computer Lab-Genealogical Research for Bessarabia/Moldova genealogists and more. Please join us at the conference.
02/28/2023 February 2023
Bessarabian Databases. Updates:
Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in July of 2023. We are working on records from following towns: Kishinev, Khotin, Lomachinets, Brichany, Lipkany, Novoselitsa, Skulyany, Orgeev, Soroki, and others. See the progress.
Vital Records, plan to upload in July of 2023. There are records from Soroki uezd birth records for several years, Kishinev Death records for several years, Beltsy and other towns. See the progress.
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