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 10/30/2021  October 2021

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

  • Completed photographing and indexing of sector 6 at Jewish cemetery of Kishinev. 3,214 burial records and 2,685 grave images were sent to JOWBR at JewishGen. The records will be available at the beginning of new year, but you can see now at Bessarabia website the Cemetery report with maps, some photos, and also the Unknown Graves at the cemetery. See cemetery Report for Kishinev.
Bessarabian Databases. Updates:
  • Vital records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2021. We have records from following towns: Bendery and shteitl, births 1912, 1915; Beltsy, births for 1914, 1915; Beltsy, marriages for 1911; Soroki, births for 1912.

 09/30/2021  September 2021

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

  • Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2021. We have records from following towns: Kishinev, Tuzora, Teleneshty, Ataki, Khotin, Soroki, Faleshty and others. There are already 2,927 records completed. see the progress.

  • Vital Records - Births, Marriages, Deaths. We are working now on vitals for Beltsy, Bendery, Kishinev, and more.

  • We have updated the Inventory of Vital records, added towns we uploaded last time. Here is updated Inventory list. You find four tables on these pages, Births, Marriages, Divorces and Deaths.

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:
  • Completed photographing and indexing of Jewish cemetery of Zguritsa. 574 burial records and 572 grave images were sent to JOWBR at JewishGen. The records will be available at the beginning of new year, but you can see now at Bessarabia website the Cemetery report with maps, some photos, and also the Unknown Graves at the cemetery. See cemetery Report for Zguritsa.


 08/30/2021  August 2021

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

  • Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2021.  Our volunteers started to work on a new set of records from towns of Kishinev, Tuzora, Teleneshty, Ataki, Khotin and others see the progress.
Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:
  • Completed photographing and indexing of almost destroyed Jewish cemetery of Baimaclia, existing graves are broken and do not have inscriptions. But, our members provided FIVE names of their ancestors who were buried at that cemetery. See cemetery Report for Baimaclia.
Genealogical Conferences. Updates:
  • 41th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Virtual, 1-5 August, 2021. 45 members came to the Bessarabia Group meeting. Now you can hear and watch the recording for the Bessarabia Group meeting and also from another session How do you make sense of genealogical information you found? Here is link to updated conference page


 07/29/2021  July 2021

Bessarabian Databases. Updates sent July 2021:

    Below is a list of updates sent to JewishGen. Soon they will be available to all JewishGen community. Thank you very much to all volunteers who worked on these projects.

  • Vital Records. Bendery Birth and Marriage records; Beltsy Birth records; Kishinev Marriage and Divorce records for years from 1913 -1915. Total of 1,214 records.
    Project Leader ... (open position), translators Genny Imas, Yoni Kupchik, Eti Ganin, Valentin Lupu, Gabor Adam, Irina Shikhova, Julia Maximova, Emilia Alexeeva, Yuriy Daylis, Yefim Kogan. See the list of towns, shteitle

  • Revision Lists. 9,547 records completed for 2,474 families. See the list of towns, shteitle
    Project Leader - Yefim Kogan and translators Alan Levine, Jeff Brickman, Efim Goldshmit, Deborah Glassman, Evgeniy, Claire Stuart, Yoni Kupchik, Alex Matlin, Ilana Voloshin, Irina Tulchinska, Michael Richman.

Genealogical Conferences. Addition
  • 41th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Virtual, 1-5 August, 2021.
    Please go to the Bessarabia group / Conferences / 41th conference site and
    read about our presentations, (Bessarabia connections).

    One session is going to be Bessarabia group meeting, talking about what we did this year, since summer of 2020 and our plans for next years. Please come to this meeting on Monday, August 2 at 11.15am. You can ask questions, propose a project, etc.

    The Second session named How do you make sense of genealogical information you found?
    We explore the archival material we are working with with many types of records in our databases and also how we are doing translations. You can listen to this recording, and please ask me questions directly.

 06/01/2021  May 2021

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

  • Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in July of 2021.  We completed already 4,888 records and more records are going to be completed for towns of Kishinev, Khotin, Beltsy, Akkerman, Skulyany, see the progress.

  • List of Microfilms from FamilySearch with Revisions and other lists of Bessarabia records was updated. See it in Introductory to Revision Lists pages.

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:
  • Continue work on Kishinev Jewish Cemetery, and another sector will be completed in summer/fall of this year.
  • New Cleaning paths projects started for Tiraspol Jewish Cemetery.


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