News Archive

Jewish Cemeteries. New additions:
--Soroca New Cemetery - new index and photographing
--Sculeni Cemetery

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:
--Bessarabian Revision Lists progress for December 2015 update
--Podolia Revision List progress for a number of Moldavian towns
--Database 'Jews involved in public life in Bessarabia' update
--New database: 'List of Surnames in 19th century Revision Lists for Bessarabia'

Family Memoirs. New additions:
Kishinev Cousins, written by Shmuel Fisher

Additional Reading. New additions:
A series of articles from Euxeinnos(2014), entitled: 'Moldova: A Borderland's Fluid History'

New Section to the website: Wall Of Honor was added to celebrate and recognize our volunteers, to show what tremendous job they are doing for our community. I do not have enough words to show my appreciation to them! We have just started to put the names at the Wall of Honor. First twenty names you can find at Bessarabia SIG website / Wall of Honor section. If you know our volunteers, see them in your towns, or at the conferences, please thank them from all our Bessarabian community. Ala Gamulka is coordinating this project. Our thanks to Ariel Parkansky for technical support for the new section.

Jewish Cemeteries. New additions:
--Ismail Cemetery
--Chinisheutsi Cemetery

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:
Bessarabia Revision Lists (December 2015 Update)

General History, Governments, Maps. New additions:
Discussion about a confusion in territory names: Moldova, Moldavia and Bessarabia

Emigration from Bessarabia
'THE JOURNEY FROM EASTERN EUROPE TO NORTH AMERICA IN 1900 & 1904' by Janet I. Wasserman. Thanks go to Alan Levitt for obtaining this material

Jewish Cemeteries. New additions:
Rybnitsa New Jewish Cemetery Report. 825 records and 825 photos were sent to JOWBR.

Tiraspol Dalnee Cemetery Report with 77 unknown graves. 883 records with 844 photos were sent to JOWBR.

History of Jews in Bessarabia. New addition:
Goldie Steinberg, the oldest Jewish survivor of Kishinev Pogrom of 1903 died at 114 on August 16, 2015.

Towns, Shteitlakh / Tiraspol New addition:
Copy of a Birth Record of EYNIS Iosif Gersh, from Tiraspol, born in 1884 (Russian) and its translation.

Genealogical Conferences. Updates:
See photos from the conference in Jerusalem.

Bessarabian Databases. Additions:
Bessarabia SIG made an agreement with a researchers in Kherson, Ukraine to get copies of Revision Lists from Tiraspol Uezd.
Ukraine SIG received copies of Revision Lists from Olgopol uezd, Podolia gubernia, and our Bessarabia SIG started to translate records for towns of Rashkov and Kamenca.

Genealogical Conferences. Updates:
The section was updated with handouts and slides from the conference presentations.

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:
List of Jewish Cemeteries in Bessarabia and Moldova updated to July 2015.

Bessarabian Databases. Additions:
New database 'Jews involved in public life in Bessarabia'

Genealogical Conferences. Updates:
Luncheon presentation has been changed to 'Kishinev, my native town: Can we now visit Kishinev and find help in our genealogical research?' by Yefim Kogan.