Odessa

Town Leader: Ariel Parkansky

JewishGen KehilaLinks: http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/odessa

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1900s Name: Odessa
1900s District: Odessa
1900s Province: Kherson
1900s Country: Russian Empire

1930s: Odessa, Odessa, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union
1950s: Odessa, Soviet Union
Modern: Odesa, Ukraine

Other names: Odesa [Ukr], Odessa [Rus], Odess, Odes

Coordinates: 46°28'N 30°44'E Mapquest Google Maps

E-mail distribution list: There's a dedicated e-mail distribution list for JewishGenners with roots in Odessa at Rootsweb. For more information see here

Projects

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Books Database, digitizing and translation, Odessa

Ariel Parkansky

Ongoing

This project consist in treating the books with an automatic process of 4 steps to make them searchable both in Cyrillic and Roman:
1) scanning the books (or getting the page images)
2) digitizing the images with an OCR
3) converting the resulting Cyrillic text to the reformed Russian orthography
4) translating to English by Google

Cemeteries: Documentation for JOWBR, Odessa, Book of gravestone inscriptions

Ariel Parkansky

Finished

Translation and indexing of the Book of Special annotations in the old and the new cemeteries of the Jewish congregation of the city of Odessa.
Published by the collector (Gabay) of Khevra Kadisha The year of "the Zionists of the city of Odessa" (or: "the marks of the city of Odessa").
Printed in Warsaw in 1889

Directory, property & business owners, Odessa 1902-1903

Ariel Parkansky

Finished

Translate/transliterate and process the alphabetical index of the All Odessa Trade, Commerce and Real Estate Address and Reference Book, 1902 & 1903. Prepare the database for posting in the JewishGen Ukraine Database.

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Document and Dataset Collections

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Telephone Directory, Odessa, 1948

1948

Logan Kleinwaks reported that "the Library of Congress recently placed online, scans of five Ukrainian telephone directories: Kiev 1935, Voroshilovgrad (Lugansk/Luhansk) 1939, Sevastopol 1941, Odessa 1948, and Lviv 1949." These directories can be viewed or downloaded at the Library of Congress website. The Library of Congress has other Ukraine telephone directories at the Library.

Kleinwaks" notes that "the full text of these directories can be searched on his Genealogy Indexer website,
either in the original Cyrillic or by entering a Latin script search
term and using one of the automatic transliteration options ("Add
Latin -> Cyrillic," which is the default, or "Only Latin ->
Cyrillic"). Search results link to page scans on the Library of
Congress" website."

Directory, All Odessa, 1901

1901

Directory, All Odessa, 1902-3

1902-3

All Odessa Trade, Commerce and Real Estate Address and Reference Book 1902 & 1903 (in Cyrillic)

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Master Name Index for Odessa

ABBA, ABOLENSKII, ABOMELIK, ABRAMOVA, ABRAMOVICH, ABRIKOSOVA, BAGROV-BLYUMIN, BLUMENFELD, BLYUMIN, GOLUBCHIK, GONIGGENDLER
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Articles

Title	Type	Author	View
Ukraine Journal: A Genealogical Journey to Warsaw and Ukraine (2002)	Travel Reports	Ron Doctor
Ukraine Journal: A Genealogical Journey to Warsaw and Ukraine (2002)	Travel Reports	Ron Doctor

Odessa

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Master Name Index for Odessa

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