Niezhin

Town Leader: Tom Erribe

External website: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukrchern/

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1900s Name: Niezhin
1900s District: Nezhin
1900s Province: Chernigov
1900s Country: Russian Empire

1930s: Niezhin, Chernigov, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union
1950s: Nezhin, Soviet Union
Modern: Nizhyn, Ukraine

Other names: Nizhyn [Ukr], Nezhin [Rus], Niezhin [Rus], Niezyn [Pol], Nischyn [Ger], Nizhin, Neshin

Coordinates: 51°03'N 31°53'E Mapquest Google Maps

Projects

Name

Coordinator

Status

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CAHJP Catalog Card Translation, Niezhin

Ron Doctor

In progress

Acquire and translate catalog cards from Niezhin found in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People. There are a total of 15 cards. Some cards have more than one language to be translated: 16 in Russian, 1 in Hebrew, 4 in Yiddish. They are all printed.

Fundraising Project, Chernigov Region Cemeteries

Eric Feinstein

In progress

The JOWBR of JewishGen in coordination with the Ukraine Chernigov Research group of Rootsweb and the Ukraine SIG are working together to photograph and document all the remaining graves and headstones in the Jewish cemeteries found in Chernigov Gubernia or Province in Ukraine. Local photographers will be hired and the photographing will take place according to JOWBR guidelines in order to register all the names and inscription information in the JOWBR database. The towns scheduled to be photographed will be Chernigov, Borzna, Glukhov, Gorodnya, Konotop, Kozelets, Krolevets, Mglin, Nezhin, Novgorod-Seversk, Novozybkov, Oster, Sosnitsa, Starodub, Surazh, and Priluki.

Document and Dataset Collections

Name

Time frame

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Revision List 1782-1847, Niezhin

1782-1847

Supplemental Lists 1882-1906, Niezhin

1882-1906

CAHJP Catalog Cards, Niezhin

1856-1923

Photos of 15 Niezhin catalog cards from the CAHJP. Russian, Hebrew, and Yiddish. Translations are in progress. Contact Ron Doctor for more information.

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