| Description: | The JewishGen Ukraine SIG is digitizing nine reels of microfilms from the Family History Library (FHL) of vital records from Priluki, a town in the Poltava Province of the Russian Empire. These records date from 1855-1917 and include births, marriages, deaths and divorces.
These vital records are record books handwritten by rabbis in cursive Russian and Hebrew documenting all births, deaths, marriages and divorces of the Priluki community. Each microfilm includes approximately 4-28 of these books. The records, especially from the early years, can be extremely damaged and very difficult to read. The majority of records, even from 1855, give family names and not just patronymics. The amount of information is enormous. There are, however, some gaps in the records, as a few books have evidently not survived: 1880 Births, for instance, is missing.
In addition to the FHL in Salt Lake City, all nine microfilms (listed below) are now in the collection of the Center for Jewish History (CJH) in Manhattan, NY.
This huge, multistep project involves the work of multiple people who will:
digitally scan the microfilms,
label each file,
translate the high resolution digital files,
place the information on specific format spreadsheets,
proof the spreadsheets,
process them for eventual upload to the JewishGen Ukraine Database
There are a total of approximately 12,000 individual records requiring thousands of hours of work.
Scanning of the microfilms started in the spring of 2013. It is estimated that the scanning will be completed by volunteers by the end of 2015.
To date, translation has been done on a volunteer basis and is going extremely slowly. It is hoped to raise enough funds to hire one or more professional translators to speed up the work and free the volunteers to tackle other, non-funded projects.
The new datasets will be integrated into the JewishGen Ukraine Database, Ukraine SIG Master Name Index, and appropriate KehilaLinks websites. |
