News Archive

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June-July of 2025. 3,669 records are completed. We are working with records from following towns: Kiliya, Soroki, Tuchkov(Izmail), villages-colonies in Soroki uezd and others. See the progress.
  Project leaders are Elena Shulman and Yefim Kogan.


• Vital Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June-July of 2025. 4,870 records are completed. We are working with Birth, Marriage and Death records for Kishinev, Beltsy, Bendery, Bendery, Khotin, and more. See the progress.
  The Project leader is Emilia Alexeeva.


• Out-of-Town Jews, plan to upload to JewishGen in June-July of 2025. 2,293 records are completed. We are working with Jews registered in Bessarabia and lived in Kherson and Podolia gubernias See the progress.
  The Project leader is Emilia Alexeeva.


• Court Documents, plan to upload to JewishGen in June-July of 2025. 1,944 records now in process. We are working with Court documents from Bendery uezd, Beltsy uezd and more
  The Project leader is Vladimir Bokser.

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2025. We are working with records from following towns: Kiliya, Soroki, Tuchkov(Izmail), villages-colonies in Soroki uezd and others. See the progress.
  Project leaders are Elena Shulman and Yefim Kogan.


• Vital Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2025. 1,698 records are completed. We are working with Birth, Marriage and Death records for Kishinev, Beltsy, Bendery, Bendery, Khotin, and more. See the progress.
  The Project leader is Emilia Alexeeva.


• Deportation Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2025. 457 records are completed. Here are the details:
  For “Moldavian Jewish Victims of Soviet Oppression” project current steps, first data from the National Archive “The Collection of documents of persons convicted by military courts, local judges, 1920-1990” was utilized to update the JewishGen database. This update added fathers' names, birthplaces, years of exile, and links to the corresponding case files in the National Archive. New records that were absent from the original database were also included. As a result, 29 records were updated, and 273 new records were added.
  The Project leader is Yuriy Daylis.
  


• Court Documents, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2025. 1240 records are completed. We are working on Tighina (Bendery) district prefecture, Beltsy County Prefecture, Bessarabian Customs District, Ungheni Customs, Chisinau Central Prison, Soroca County Tribunal, Tighina City Court.
  The project leader is Vladimir Boxer.
  If you would like to help translate such records, please write to vbokser@jewishgen.org.
  

We need translators for other projects too, including Bessarabia Out-of-town Jews. Please email to Yefim Kogan at yefimkogan999@gmail.com.

Bessarabian Databases. Updates ready for everybody at JewishGen. Records are available already.

Below is a list of updates sent to JewishGen. Thank you very much to all volunteers who worked on these Bessarabian projects.


• Bessarabia Vital Records. 5,812 records including Births, Marriages and Deaths for Kishinev, Beltsy, Bendery, Soroki and more.
  See the list of towns, shteitle added. Total # in Bessarabia Vital records - 195,800.
  
  Project Leader Emilia Alexeeva, translators Avi Shteinberg, Valentin Lupu, David Zelikovskiy, Alla Rabinovich, Anna Muslin and Emilia Alexeeva.


• Bessarabia Revision Lists. 12,114 records completed for 2,334 families. Revisions added for different towns and years, including Kishinev, Bendery, Faleshty, Kiliya, several villages-agricultural colonies, and more.
  See the list of towns, shteitle added.
  
  Project Leaders Elena Shulman and Yefim Kogan, translators Alan Levine, Alex Matlin, Elizabeth Fortun, Michael Richman, Sammy Lerner, Vladimir Bokser, Julia Maksimova, Alex Russakovsky, and Yefim Kogan.


• Bessarabia Court Records. 5,952 records including records for different courts of Kishinev, Beltsy, Brichany, Kagul, Leovo and Tiraspol added.
  
  Project Leader Vladimir Bokser, translators Elena Leyderman, Genny Imas, Margarita Samoylova, and Vladimir Bokser.


• Moldavian Jews Victims of Soviet Oppression. At this phase the source from National Archive of Republic Moldova “The collection of documents of people expelled and deported from the territory of RASSM and RSSM” has been utilized to update records from the JewishGen existing Database “Moldovan victims of Soviet Oppression 1941-1951”. Existing records are updated with Father’s name, Birthplace, years of exile and a link to the case file in the National Archive of Moldova. Also new records missing in the original database were added. 1040 original records have been updated and 291 new records have been added.
  
  Project Leader Yuriy Daylis. If you would like to help translating such records, please email to daylisy@gmail.com.


• Bessarabia Out-of-town Jews. We are starting this project. It has a lot of families who were registered in Bessarabia, but lived in Podolia, Kherson or other gubernias of Russian Empire.
  
  Project Leader Emilia Alexeeva. We need translators for the project. Please email to emilia1.alexeeva@gmail.com.


• Jewish Cemeteries. Completed indexing of Kaushany Old Jewish Cemetery and Kaushany New Jewish cemetery. Both cemeteries were destroyed in 1920-30s and 1970-80s. See cemetery Report for Kaushany Old Jewish cemetery.
  See cemetery Report for Kaushany New Jewish cemetery.
  
  Also two cemeteries in Teleneshty (Old and New) were updated, and here are the reports See cemetery Report for Teleneshty Old Jewish cemetery. and See cemetery Report for Teleneshty New Jewish cemetery.
  

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2024. 10,086 records are completed. We are working with records from following towns: Bendery, Kiliya, Soroki, Faleshty, villages-colonies in Soroki uezd and others. See the progress.
  The Project leaders are Elena Shulman and Yefim Kogan.


• Vital Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2024. 4,753 records are completed. We are working with Birth, Marriage and Death records for Kishinev, Beltsy, Bendery, Khotin, and more. See the progress.
  The project leader is Emilia Alexeeva.


• Deportation Records
  As the first step of the project for the records from the JewishGen existing Database “Moldovan victims of Soviet Oppression 1941-1951” all proper names (First names, Surnames, Names of population centers, etc.) were transliterated from Romanian into English. This step will enable access to all of Database records via the JewishGen search engine.
  
  For the second step sources from National Archive of Republic Moldova containing lists of Families deported from Moldavia by each Special train (echelon) were utilized to update existing records with Father’s names, addresses, train’s numbers and destinations. Also new records missing in the original database were added.
  
  First two steps of the project have been completed. For the step 3 another source from National Archive of Republic Moldova “Set of documents related to persons deported from Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1930-1951” is utilized to update records from the JewishGen existing Database “Moldovan victims of Soviet Oppression 1941-1951”. Existing records are updated with Father’s name, Birth place, and years of exile. Also new records missing in the original database were added. This step is about 50% completed.
  As of today 978 records have been updated and 225 new records have been added.
  The Project leader is Yuriy Daylis.
  


• Court Documents
  It includes description of court cases of various jurisdictions and notarial records of Bessarabia of the 19th-20th centuries, based on the inventories of the State Archive of Moldova. More than 3000 surnames are recorded in the tables of the Kishinev Congress of Magistrates Courts.
  The inventories of the notary offices of Bessarabia, the Kishinev Court of Appeal and the Kishinev District Court are being worked on.
  The project leader is Vladimir Boxer.
  If you would like to help translate such records, please write to vbokser@jewishgen.org.
  

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2024. 3,380 records are completed. We are working with records from following towns: Bendery, Kiliya, Soroki, Faleshty, villages-colonies in Soroki uezd and others. See the progress.


• Vital Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2024. We are working with Vital records Births, Marriages and Deaths for Kishinev, Beltsy, Bendery, and more. See the progress.


• Deportation Records
  As the first step of the project for the records from the JewishGen existing Database “Moldovan victims of Soviet Oppression 1941-1951” all proper names (First names, Surnames, Names of population centers, etc.) were transliterated from Romanian into English. This step will enable access to all of Database records via JewishGen search engine.
  
  For the second step sources from National Archive of Republic Moldova (R-3397-Inv.-4-Dos.-80 ~ R-3397-Inv.-4-Dos.-198) containing lists of Families deported from Moldavia by each Special train (echelon) were utilized to update existing records with Father’s names, addresses, train’s numbers and destinations. Also new records missing in the original database were added.


• Court Documents
  Project continues and next time will be a detailed update.


• Two more project started:
  Bessarabia Out-of-town Jews. This project is about Jews who were Registered in Bessarabia, but lived in other gubernias: Kherson, Podolia, Grodno, Vilna and others.
  
  Educational records. This project will include information about Jewish schools, cheders, teachers, students, and more.

• 44th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, PHILADELPHIA, August 18-22
  -Bessarabia SIG RD Meeting;
  -Bessarabia/Moldova Jewish Cemeteries Project;
  -Translating Russian Documents for the non-Russian speaker;
  -Russian Language Internet Resources for Jewish Genealogy.
  
  Slides for these sessions are available here.