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KremenetsThe Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP translates vital records (1870-1907), Yizkor Books, Cemetery gravestones, and many, many more documents. When a translation is completed, we add all personal names, town names, and source document information to our "Indexed Concordance of Personal Names and Town Names" (http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/master-surnames.html). Start your search in this document. To get the most benefit from your search, please be sure to read the "Introduction and Guide to the Concordance" and the instruction page, "How to Use the Indexed Concordance". It tells you how to use the Concordance, identifies the source document abbreviations, and tells you how to access the source document. Each document is available for downloading as an Excel spreadsheet and also as a pdf file (for those of you who do not use Excel). If you ever have wondered how your family surnames were written in the old country, take a look at our newly updated "Surnames:Hebrew and Russian Images and their Transliterations" document. This document contains image of both Hebrew and Russian surnames extracted from the 19th century vital records. Currently we have extracted more than 1,100 different surnames, many with multiple spelling variations. The Surname image document is at http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/images-from-VR.html . Similar documents on this web page contain image extracts showing given names (male and female), town names that appear in the Kremenets records, plus causes of death and keywords (with their English translations). All of these research tools were created as part of the work of the Kremenets-District Research Group (Kremenets was in Volhynnia Guberniya) under the direction of Dr. Ronald D. Doctor and Sheree Roth. By creating a pictorial dictionary of Russian and Hebrew words, abbreviations, and idioms used in these records, they have created a set of tools that researchers can apply to every former Russian town. Images of Russian and Hebrew/Yiddish handwriting as used in official documents, pictures of particular instances of Hebrew abbreviations and expressions, are tied to the translations and transliterations. These are the tools that will help you decipher official documents of the Russian jurisdictions of town, district and gubernia as well as the vital registers of Jewish community organizations. The organization which managed this project is the Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP. which is part of JRI-Poland and of the Kremenets-District Research Goup. The Co-Coordinators are Dr. Ronald Doctor and Sheree Roth. Clearly their efforts depend on a diligent group of people. For information on their other projects, visit the Group's Shtetlinks home page (http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/index.html ). You are invited in each of these documents to contact Ron Doctor to make additions, comments, and to ask questions. These documents will be augmented and updated as new materials become available, so continue to look for updates and new information about them on this page. To learn more about Kremenets:(Note: each of these will open in a new window.)
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