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Odessa (Town)Odessa 1897 CensusIn progress
Coordinator: Ariel Parkansky
A cooperative project with FamilySearch.  Translation from Russian of the Jewish records from the total of 67,000 pages of the census.
Ariel Parkansky is managing the translations, Harvey Kabaker is managing the data acquisition and various people are working on the translations - Anna Royzner, Ruth Bridgens, Laura Breitberg
Odessa (Town)Data Acquisition and Translation for Birth, Marriage, Death Record, 1894-1902, OdessaIn progress
Coordinator: Yoni Kupchik
Acquired index for Odessa birth, marriage & death records: These indexes contain the given name, surname, year and month of event and the location in the actual birth records book.  All the entries are in Russian.  


Birth indexes - 4,182 images for 1875-1918.
Marriage indexes - 1,604 images for 1875-1912, 1914, 1915, 1918, 1919
Death indexes - 1,569 images for 1875-1920
Odessa (Town)Odessa 1897 Census TranslationIn progress
Coordinator: Ariel Parkansky
Translation and Indexing of the 1897 Odessa Census record available at the FHL
Odessa (Town)Acquisition and indexing of Odessa Archives Indexes for Jewish Records (1875-1920)In progress
Coordinator: Yoni Kupchik
The Odessa archives have in their possession Jewish vital records ranging from 1875 to 1920. Most of these books have indexes of the names included in the books. 

We have already more than 6000 document images and the project continues.

We need your help both with donations (to hire professional translators) or as a volunteer translator.

Thanks in advance,

Ariel Parkansky

Current status: acquired all images. Translated/indexed births 1878 to 1889, 1891, 1896, 1897, 1900
Odessa (Town)Fundraising Project, Odessa Document Acquisition and Translation ProjectsIn progress
Coordinator: Ariel Parkansky
The project includes the research, acquisition and translation of new “fonds” as well as translation of existing ones. Professional and volunteer researchers will extract data from original records, translate them into English, and enter the data into a spreadsheet template provided by JewishGen. Once those tasks are complete, JewishGen will integrate the new data into the JewishGen Ukraine Database
Odessa (Town)Books Database, digitizing and translation, Odessa Ongoing
Coordinator: Ariel Parkansky
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
Odessa (Town)Vital Records translations, OdessaOngoing
Coordinator: Ariel Parkansky
A centralized database compiled from documents provided by individual Odessa genealogists (currently around 2700 records). This database is being incremented frequently and in the future will be posted in the All Ukraine Database.
Odessa (Town)Fundraising Project, OdessaOngoing
Coordinator: Ariel Parkansky
The Odessa fundraising project has been opened at JewishGen. Donations are being received.
Odessa (Town)Yizkor book translation, OdessaOngoing
Coordinator: Susan Curelop
Susan Curelop has translated Never To Be Forgotten: Jewish Victims of Nazism and Heroes of the Resistance, The Book of Memory by Boris Gidalevitch, 1997. She is preparing the book for submission to JG Ukraine DB .
Odessa (Town)Letter about a cholera epidemic in Odessa and Kremenets, 1847Not Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Private letter, in florid Hebrew, without an addressee or sender specified, about a Cholera epidemic that broke out in both Odessa and Kremenets, where the addressee resided (maybe Itskhak Ber Levizoh?), 1847; CAHJP RU 1385.
Odessa (Town)Data from the informational statistics department of Evobshestkom (Committee to Aid VNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Data from the informational statistics department of Evobshestkom (Committee to Aid Victims of Pogroms) about the number of pogrom victims in every population center. The list includes establishments serving pogrom victims in the Kiev, Volynia, Podolia, and Chernigov Provinces; in Kharkov, Aleksandrovsk, etc. Lists of orphans who received American rations through the Odessa Evobshestkom. Organizations mentioned: Culture League, ORT, OZE, EKOPO, Jewish section of Narobraz (national education), etc. Russian, Yiddish., 1920-1921, CAHJP HM2/9499.8.

Committee to Aid Victims of PogromsCommittee to Aid Victims of PogromsGAKO, Kiev, Fond 3050, Inv. 1, File 41
Odessa (Town)About the activity of the branches of the 'Society of educating Jews' in the cities oNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
About the activity of the branches of the "Society of educating Jews" in the cities of Akkerman, Baku, Balta, Belostok, Bobruisk, Vil"no, Vitebsk, Voronezh, Gomel", Dvinsk, Yekaterinoslav, Yelisavetgrad, Irkutsk, Kazan", Kiev, Kishinyov, Kursk, Mariupol", Minsk, Mogilyov, Moskva, Nizh.-Novgorod, Odessa, Oryol, Orenburg, Perm", S.-Peterburg, Pinsk, Poltava, Priluki, Riga, Rostov, Samara, Saratov, Slutsk, Taganrog, Tomsk, Tula, Kharkov, Tsaritsyn, Chelyabinsk, 1911-1916; Russian; CAHJP HM2/9046.5.

The office of Peterburg"s GovernorTsGIA, Saint-Petersburg. Fond 287, op. 1, d. 85
Odessa (Town)Circulars, records of proceedings, correspondence, and other materials about the cNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
1. Circulars, records of proceedings, correspondence, and other materials about the changes in the regulations of religious bodies of the Jews in the Empire, i.e. the procedure of appointing Rabbis, of defining their responsibilities, of setting up charitable societies at houses of prayer and financial inspectorate. 2. Rules of electing the Odessa Rabbi and his assistants. 3. Statystic reports on the number of Jews and synagogues in the provinces of Russia, 1888-1892; Russian; CAHJP HM2/7944.2.

Department of ReligionRGIA, Saint Petersburg, Fond 821, op. 8, d. 458
Odessa (Town)About setting up Jewish college commissions in Belorus, Derpsk, Kiev, Odessa educatioNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
About setting up Jewish college commissions in Belorus, Derpsk, Kiev, Odessa educational districts. Information about college commissions, kheders, talmud-torahs, beit-midrashes, about teachers and students of Volyn, Yekaterinoslavsk, Kiev, Kurlyandsk, Podolsk, Poltava, Tavriya, Kherson, Chernigov provinces and Bessarabskaya region, 1840-1852; Russian; CAHJP HM2/9465.1.

Department of Public EducationRGYA, Saint Petersburg. Fond 733, op. 97, d. 16
Odessa (Town)Data about information of Bureau of Statistics JOINT about the number of victims of pNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Data about information of Bureau of Statistics JOINT about the number of victims of pogroms at each settlement. Lists of the organisms who care for victims of pogroms on Kiev, provinces of Kiev, Volhynia, Podolsk, Chernigov, Kharkov on Alexandria and others. Lists of orphans receiving rations through the Odessa American JOINT.Organizations mentioned: Culture-ORT Liga, OZE, EKOPO, Evsektsiia in the department of education, and others, 1920-1921; Russian, Yiddish; CAHJP HM2/9499.?.

Kiev Committee for Assistance to jewish victims of pogromKiev National Historical Archive from Ukraine
Odessa (Town)About the expulsion of Jews in Odessa Uman traders for not fulfilling the conditions Not Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
About the expulsion of Jews in Odessa Uman traders for not fulfilling the conditions of contract, 1803; Russian; CAHJP HM2/7928.12.

Office of the province of KievKiev National Historical Archive from Ukraine
Odessa (Town)On issuing by: OPRODGUB' ( the food commission) security certificates to commisionersNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
On issuing by: OPRODGUB" ( the food commission) security certificates to commisioners of the Committee for Assistance to the Jewish Victims of Pogroms for food delivery to populated localities of Kyiv and Podolia Provinces and also to towns: Novograd-Volynskiy, Zhitomir Region State Archives, Odessa, Chernigov, 1920-1922, Russian & Yiddish, CAHJP HM2/9957.8.

Committee for Assistance to the Jewish Victims of PogromsState Archive of Kyiv Oblast (GAKO), Kyiv, Fond 3050, Opis 1, Delo 26
Odessa (Town)Baron Hirsch Jewish Immigration to Argentina from Dobraya, Novaya Poltavka; OdessaNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Regarding the application of Baron Hirsch for Russian Jewish immigration to Argentina, which was transferred to the Russian government by authorization of Baron Arnold White, who visited Russia and described the situation of the Russian Jews. In the process, 
- the account of the Jewish colonies in Dobraya and Novaya Poltavka, 
- verification of the establishment of educational agricultural farm and professional institution in Odessa, correspondence of activities in Russia with England Jewish colonial organization, about opening local immigrant committees, about immigration, relocation, etc., 1801-1904, Russian, French, German, Yiddish, Hebrew, HM2/9025.13.
"Industrial Department, Police (1881-1904) “Jewish matters”
Description of the Colony, 1891-1902"
GARF, Moscow, Fond 102, Opis 76-a, Delo 1033
Odessa (Town)Video: 'Alliance Israelite Universelle,' OdessaNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Video: "Alliance Israelite Universelle," Hebrew, CAHJP HM 9943, 9945.
Odessa (Town)Form of marriage conditions, 20th Century, OdessaNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Form of marriage conditions, 20th Century, 20th Century, CAHJP RU RU1360.
Odessa (Town)Photo, Corn loading in the Jewish kolkhoz, 1926, OdessaNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Photo, Corn loading in the Jewish kolkhoz, 1926, CAHJP RU 441.
Central State Archives of Film, Photo, Phonographic Documents of the Ukraine, Kiev
Odessa (Town)Group photo of Jewish grain-growers'meeting, 1926, OdessaNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Group photo of Jewish grain-growers"meeting, 1926, CAHJP RU 441.
Central State Archives of Film, Photo, Phonographic Documents of the Ukraine, Kiev
Odessa (Town)Empty registration forms for civil and criminal proceedings in 'Folks Gerikht' (peoplNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Empty registration forms for civil and criminal proceedings in "Folks Gerikht" (people"s court), 1920; Yiddish; CAHJP RU1413.
Odessa (Town)Letters to Paris office of Jewish Colonization Assn. from Kiev and Odessa about JewisNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
2 letters to Paris office of Jewish Colonization Assn. from Kiev and Odessa about Jewish hospital (1919, 1920), plus pages from magazine, Soviet Russia with copy of a poster from Odessa (21 Aug 1919), 1919-1920; English, French, Russian; CAHJP RU-1432.
Odessa (Town)Manifests on anti-communist lectures, 1917-1919Not Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Manifests on anti-communist lectures, 1917-1919, CAHJP RU18.
Odessa (Town)Manifest of fund raising and various Jewish organizations, 1917Not Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
The unit: "Committee of the company for the support of the farmers and workers among the people of Israel in Syria and in Eretz Israel - Odessa"/ - Manifest of fund raising signed by Ussishkin. 1919 (?). Manifest of "HaKhaver", "Tseirei Zion" in Moscow and a description of the Keren Kayemet (Jewish National Fund), 1917, Hebrew & Yiddish, CAHJP RU95.
Odessa (Town)Ad - in Hebrew and Yiddish - about the foundation of the 'HaZamir' associationNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Ad - in Hebrew and Yiddish - about the foundation of the "HaZamir" association, before 1917, Hebrew & Yiddish, CAHJP RU48.
Odessa (Town)Announcement about seats in the synagogue, before 1914?Not Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Announcement about seats in the synagogue, before 1914?, CAHJP H/19 or RU19.
Odessa (Town)A report of the big Yeshiva of Odessa for the years 1907 and 1908Not Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Hebrew still needs to be translated.
Collection of documents mostly relating to the Greek community in Odessa (non-jewish material), 1912-1941, CAHJP HMF/701 (A-S).
Odessa (Town)A report of the big Yeshiva of Odessa for the years 1907 and 1908Not Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
A report of the big Yeshiva of Odessa for the years 1907 and 1908, including chapters from the Talmud lectures read by the head of the Yeshiva, 1909, CAHJP RU131.  55 pages.
Odessa (Town)Report on Odessa's Big Yeshiva, 1907-1908Not Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Report on Odessa"s Big Yeshiva, 1907-1908, CAHJP TD/1027.
Odessa (Town)Post-Pogram Assistance, 1905-1907Not Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
1) Announcement about the foundation of a help committee; 2) Letter in Yiddish: program for the foundation of the international assistance foundation; 3) Manifest about the financial help (in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian) with details on amounts of donations, 1905-1907, Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, CAHJP RU42.
Odessa (Town)Odessa Haskalah Organization Documents, 1905Not Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
1) Manifest about collecting money; 2) Anti-zionist manifest published before the elections to the organization"s committee in Odessa; 3) Zionist manifest ("Opposition") published before the same elections; 4) The bequest of A. Soloveichik for the Organization, 1905, CAHJP RU43.
Odessa (Town)School Awardees, Odessa & PetersburgNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
2 Silver medals for good studies with a certificate of excellence (Roza Kogan) 1904. School for women, Odessa 1895, pedagogic courses of schools for women, Petersburg 1903, 1903-1904, CAHJP RU/61.
Odessa (Town)'Public response of Oppenheim' to the Rabbi of Vishniva, 1900Not Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
"Public response of Oppenheim" to the Rabbi of Vishniva, 1900, Russian & Hebrew, CAHJP RU416.
Odessa (Town)Religious Lectures, Odessa, 1898, 1908, after 1906, 1917Not Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
1) Kashrut sanction given by Rabbi Polinkovky; 2) Ad about the lecture of Moshe Likvorn: Judaism, Shabbat, and our revival; 3) Ketubah (form); 4) Manifest (in russian) on observance of Shabbat; 5) Manifest (in Russian and Hebrew) on observance of Shabbat; 6-7) Two forms of the warning about opening shops in Sunday instead of Saturday, 1898, 1908, after 1906, 1917, CAHJP RU41.
Odessa (Town)Seven letters from Levi Yerakhmiel KLACHKO, a teacher in a Talmud Torah in Odessa, toNot Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Seven letters from Levi Yerakhmiel KLACHKO, a teacher in a Talmud Torah in Odessa, to the Baron Gintsburg, about textbooks he wrote, 1895-1903; CAHJP RU1330.
Odessa (Town)Two inscriptions, one from Odessa and one from Nikolayev (1895)Not Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Two inscriptions, one from Odessa and one from Nikolayev (1895); CAHJP RU/1429.
Odessa (Town)An ad about the beginning of the publication of 'HaMelitz', 1860Not Yet Started
Coordinator:  Not assigned
An ad about the beginning of the publication of "HaMelitz", 1860, Hebrew, CAHJP RU 64.
Odessa (Town)Rabbinate records, Archives catalog translation, Odessa Archives (Fond 39)Not Yet Started
Coordinator:   To be defined
Fond 39 (Opis 1 to 6) contains Odessa Rabbinate Records.
A catalog with it"s detailed contents is available in Russian.
This project aims to translate it to English.
Odessa (Town)Ship Manifests: Re-index Ellis Island Database (EIDB), OdessaFinished
Coordinator: Ariel Parkansky
Extract data for Odessa. 28,226 records extracted, but without the unindexed fields. Additional extraction needed.
Odessa (Town)Cemeteries: Documentation for JOWBR, Odessa, Book of gravestone inscriptionsFinished
Coordinator: Ariel Parkansky
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
Odessa (Town)Directory, property & business owners, Odessa 1902-1903 Finished
Coordinator: Ariel Parkansky
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.
Odessa (Town)Head of Household Index, Odessa, 1893-1916Finished
Coordinator: Bena Shklyanoy
Prepare the head of household index for posting on the Odessa KehilaLinks website, JewishGen Ukraine Database and the Ukraine SIG MNI.
Odessa (Town)Name List: Jewish Small Business Registration, OdessaFinished
Coordinator: Bena Shklyanoy
Translation of Fond 359 of the Odessa State Archives corresponding to the Jewish Section of the Odessa Small Business Registration
Odessa (Town)Odessa Lists of recruits, borned 1873-4 1895-1895Pending
Coordinator:  Not assigned
Odessa Lists of recruits, borned 1873-4 1895-1895 from CAHJP.Inv/9985, CD 856GAKhO, Khmelnitskii, 227/5d/346

Total: 46 records

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