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Sarata (Town)Town Maps TranslatedRoberta JafferPartially submitted
Leipzig (Town)Town Maps TranslatedRoberta JafferPartially submitted
Tarutino (Town)Town Maps TranslatedRoberta JafferPartially submitted
Kapreshty (Town)Town Maps TranslatedRoberta JafferPartially submitted
Brichany (Town)Town Maps TranslatedRoberta JafferPartially submitted
Akkerman (Town)Town Maps TranslatedRoberta JafferPartially submitted

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GeneralBessarabian Newspapers1850s to 1940Bessarabian DatabasesBessarabia SIG Website
New Project (November, 2015). This is the initial set of information taken from one newspaper Bessarabskaya Zhizn (Bessarabian Life) from one day of 25-Feb-1907. You will find 17 records with Obituaries, Advertisements, Article. Every records has a short summary, person and town assiciated with the record. Also you can click on Image link and see the "original" Russian article. [HTML] [Excel]
GeneralBessarabia Vital Records19 and 20 centuriesBessarabian DatabasesJG
More than 144,000 Jewish birth, marriage, divorce and death records for Bessarabia primarily for Kishinev (now Chisinau, Moldova).
GeneralJewish Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire, 1853-18541853-1854Bessarabian DatabasesJG
281 Jewish religious personnel in Bessarabia Gubernia.
GeneralVsia Rossiia 1895 Business Directory1895Bessarabian DatabasesJG
1,500 Jewish businesses in Bessarabia, from this 1895 Russian business directory.
GeneralDuma Voters Lists, Bessarabia1906-07Bessarabian DatabasesJG
128,000 voters in Bessarabia, who were eligible to vote in the Russian Duma elections in 1906 and 1907
GeneralList of Surnames in 19th century Revision Lists for Bessarabia19 centuryBessarabian DatabasesBessarabia SIG Website
A new database created: List of Surnames in 19th century Revision Lists for Bessarabia. The surnames derived from 98000 Revision List records with about 6100 separate surnames. See the whole list for Bessarabia. Also see the list for surnames by towns in Bessarabia. Thanks Harvey Kabaker and Ariel Parkansky for great job.
GeneralBessarabian Business Directories19 and 20 centuriesBessarabian DatabasesBessarabia SIG Website
All about Bessarabian Business Directories
GeneralJews involved in public life in Bessarabia19 and 20 centuriesBessarabian DatabasesJG
Updates in the database "Jews involved in public life in Bessarabia" (updated September, 2018) Now there are 1,874 records in the database. At the "Jews involved in public life in Bessarabia" you can find people who held government position or was part of large Jewish organizations, like Jewish hospitals, Jewish schools. It will also include crown rabbis at the synagogues for many Bessarabian towns. Introduction to the database "Jews involved in public life in Bessarabia" The data [Excel] [HTML]
GeneralBessarabia Revision Lists19 and 20 centuriesBessarabian DatabasesJG
Bessarabia Revision Lists, records submitted to JewishGen twice a year.. Project Leader - Yefim Kogan ...See more about Bessarabian Revision Lists.
GeneralJewishGen Yizkor Book Translation Project19 and 20 centuriesYizkor Book TranslationsJG
Individual Yizkor books, translated into English. These are ongoing projects, and the list continues to grow. Bessarabia SIG is working on books from Bessarabia province as well as Transnistria region of Podolia and Kherson provinces.
GeneralMiriam Weiner Archival Database19 and 20 centuriesGeneral CollectionsBessarabia SIG Website
The Bessarabia SIG is very pleased to announce a new partnership with Miriam Weiner and The Routes to Roots Foundation. As a result of this agreement, our SIG has received a large amount of material collected by Miriam during her 25+ years of working in the archives of Ukraine and Moldova. The material includes archive inventories (from Moldova, Ukraine and selected data from the archives in St. Petersburg); cemetery/tombstone lists; numerous copies of archive documents (with thousands of personal names), telephone books from the 1970s from many towns in Moldova, and links to/or excerpts from Miriam’s award-winning book, Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova.
GeneralJewish Soldiers killed and wounded in WWI1914-1918Bessarabian DatabasesBessarabia SIG Website
Jewish Soldiers killed and wounded in WWI (updated Dec 2014) 1559 records of Jews from Bessarabia were found among thousands of records of killed and wounded in WWI. Translation, transcription was done by Terry Lasky, Centennial, Colorado, USA. List of Soldiers. [HTML] [Excel]
Akkerman (Town)Akkerman and the Towns of its District; Memorial BookYizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Translation is in progress, partly done (November, 2017). There is a project where you can donate in order to speed up the translation.
Akkerman (Town)“Cetatea Alba”, Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Aleksandreny (Town)Alexandreny - Pinkas Hakehillot Romania Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Artsiz (Town)“Artsyz” -Akkerman ve-ayarot ha-mehoz; sefer edut ve-zikaronYizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Artsiz (Town)“Artsiz” - Pinkas Hakehillot RomaniaYizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Ataki (Town)Memorial for Ataky: A Memorial Book for a Jewish Community in Bessarabia Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Beltsy (Town)“Balti” - Pinkas Hakehillot RomaniaYizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Beltsy (Town)Sefer Beltsi Bessarabia: yad ve-zekher le-yahadut BeltsiYizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Ismail (District)Ismail district Photo GalleryPhotos, GeneralJG
Brichany (Town)Memorial Book: Brichany: Its Jewry in the first half of our centuryYizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Brichany (Town)“Bricheni” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Brichevo (Town)Memorial Book of BrichevoYizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Brichevo (Town)“Bricheva” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Chimishliya (Town)“Chimishlia” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Dombroveny (Town)“Dumbraveni” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Dombroveny (Town)Dombroven Book; Memorial to the first Jewish Agricultural Colony in Bessarabia Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Dombroveny (Town)There Once was a Town A descriptive Monograph of the Town of Dombroven Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Dubossary (Town)“Dubassar” - Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 1Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Dubossary (Town)Dubossary Memorial Book Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Bendery (District)Bendery district Photo GalleryPhotos, GeneralJG
Edintsy (Town)“Edinets” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Faleshty (Town)“Falesht” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Cahul (District)Kagul district Photo GalleryPhotos, GeneralJG
Izmail (Town)“Ismail” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2 Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Lapushna (District)Lapushna district Photo GalleryPhotos, GeneralJG
Kapreshty (Town)“Capresht” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Kapreshty (Town)Collection of Criticism and Reviews of the Book “Our Village Kapresht”Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Kaushany (Town)“Kaushany-Noyu” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Khotin (Town)“Khotin” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Khotin (Town)The Book of the Community of Khotin (Bessarabia) Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Kiliya (Town)Kiliya: Book of Testimony and Memory Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Hotin (District)Hotin district Photo GalleryPhotos, GeneralJG
Kishinev (Town)Kishinev Photo GalleryPhotos, GeneralBessarabia SIG Website
Bessarabia SIG photo collection. Most of the photos are the contribution of fellow genealogists.
Bessarabia (Province)Bessarabia Jewish Cemeteries18 and 21 centuriesCemeteriesBessarabia SIG Website
Collection of photographs of gravestones on Bessarabian Jewish Cemeteries (see sub-collections) and index of all burials
Kishinev (Town)Yizkor book translation: The Jews of KishinevYizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Translation of the book started several years ago and was done by Dalya Danish and Sheli Fain, and Sheli is working on the last chapter (November, 2017).
Lambrovka (Town)The Village of Ungrovka (Lambrivka, Ukraine)Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Leovo (Town)“Leova” - Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2 Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Leovo (Town)A Town in Eastern Europe: Leova (Bessarabia) Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Leovo (Town)Our House in Leova (Moldova)Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Lipkany (Town)“Lipkany” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Lipkany (Town)Survive To Tell (in Russian)Yizkor Books, Original LanguageJG YB Translations
Lipkany (Town)Überleben und Berichten (Survive To Tell) in GermanYizkor Books, Original LanguageJG YB Translations
Lipkany (Town)Lipcan of Old Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Lyublin (Town)Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Markuleshty (Town)“Markuleshty Colony” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Novoselitsa (Town)Novoselitsa Jewish CemeteryCemeteriesJOWBR
Photographed, and now a Bessarabia SIG is working on indexing
Novoselitsa (Town)“Novoselitsa” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Orgeev (Town)“Orgeyev” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Orgeev (Town)Orheyev Alive and Destroyed Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Pyrlitsa (Town)“Parlita” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Transnistria (Tiraspol, Olgopol, Balta) (District)Revision Lists from Olgopol uezd19 and 20 centuriesBessarabian DatabasesBessarabia SIG Website
Project under Ukraine SIG: translation of Revision Lists from Olgopol uezd, Podolia gubernia. (updated October, 2015) Bessarabia SIG translators completed records for towns, which are now in Moldova: Rashkov - 181 records; Camenca - 719 records; Zagnitovka - 29; - not in Republic of Moldova, but many Jews registered in that town lived in other places in Moldova different shteitlakh - 104. Total of 1033 records All the best to our translators Ira Tulchinsky and Svetlana Kononov See all records at [HTML] [Excel]. It may soon be available at JewishGen too.
Transnistria (Tiraspol, Olgopol, Balta) (District)Transnistria - Five Short Stories1941-1944Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Transnistria (Tiraspol, Olgopol, Balta) (District)Surviving Transnistria – A Memoir1941-1944Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
stories
Transnistria (Tiraspol, Olgopol, Balta) (District)Reminiscences of Transnistria1941 - 1944Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Translation of the book into English
Akkerman (District)Akkerman district Photo GalleryPhotos, GeneralJG
Rybnitsy (Town)“Rabnitza” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 1Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Orhei (District)Orhei district Photo GalleryPhotos, GeneralJG
San Paulo (Town)Vila Mariana cemeteryCemeteriesJOWBR
Sekuryany (Town)Sekiryani, Bessarabia - alive and destroyed Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Sekuryany (Town)“Secureni” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Balti (District)Beltsy district Photo GalleryPhotos, GeneralJG
Soroki (Town)“Soroka” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Tarutino (Town)“Tarutino” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2 Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Tarutino (Town)TarutinoYizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Teleneshty (Town)Teleneshty Old Jewish CemeteryCemeteriesJOWBR
Photographing and indexing done
Tiraspol (Town)Tiraspol Uezd Revisions19 and 20 centuriesBessarabian DatabasesJG
Tiraspol Uezd Revisions sent to JewishGen, December 2016. 7801 records from 1253 familes were completed for towns of Tiraspol, Dubossary, Grigoriopol, colonies Voynova, Buzinova, Balashova and Kisilevka. Project Leader - Inna Vayner.
Soroca (District)Soroca district Photo GalleryPhotos, GeneralJG
Tiraspol (Town)“Tiraspol” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 1Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Tiraspol (Town)Tiraspol Zionists1922Name Lists, List of ZionistsBessarabia SIG Website
Translation of documents about an Investigative Case on Tiraspol Zionists from 1922. (Completed in November, 2013) Several documents were already translated: Title page, Order of search and arrest of one of the members, Profile of another member, Photo and list of members of the group. [PDF]. Translated by Yefim Kogan, Newton, MA Part 2: Profiles of arrested, detained, reports, documents [PDF]. Translated by Janet Furba, Germany.
Tuzora (Town)“Kalarash” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Tuzora (Town)The Book of Kalarash Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Vad-Rashkov (Town)“Vadu-Rashcu” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Valya-luy-Vlad (Town)“Valea Lui-Vlad” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations
Zguritsa (Town)“Zguritza” Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, Volume 2Yizkor Book TranslationsJG YB Translations

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