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Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Vital Records, upload in December of 2022. There are records from Soroki uezd birth records for several years, Kishinev Death records for several years. See the progress.

• History, Genealogy, Culture. 13-15 December 2022. The Bessarabia Special Interest Group and JewishGen invite you to participate in a Virtual Winter Symposium, a series of live, online presentations to run from December 13 through 15, 2022.
  Sessions will explore historical experiences of our ancestors in Bessarabia, assist your family research, and expand your understanding and appreciation of their culture.
  
  You will meet presenters from Canada, Germany, France, Brazil, Moldova, Ukraine, the United States, and perhaps others. Presentations will delve into ideas and issues that are relevant not only to Bessarabia but also to other regions.
  
  Here is full schedule of the Bessarabia Winter Symposium.
  
  Registration is free for the Symposium. Click here to register now!
  

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2022. We have records from following towns: Kishinev, Khotin, Brichany, Lipkany, Skulyany, Ataki, Akkerman, Kiliya, and others. See the progress.


• Vital Records, upload in December of 2022. There are records from Soroki uezd birth records for several years, Kishinev Death records for several years. See the progress.

• History, Genealogy, Culture. 13-15 December 2022. The Bessarabia Special Interest Group and JewishGen invite you to participate in a Virtual Winter Symposium, a series of live, online presentations to run from December 13 through 15, 2022.
  Sessions will explore historical experiences of our ancestors in Bessarabia, assist your family research, and expand your understanding and appreciation of their culture.
  
  You will meet presenters from Canada, Germany, France, Brazil, Moldova, Ukraine, the United States, and perhaps others. Presentations will delve into ideas and issues that are relevant not only to Bessarabia but also to other regions.
  
  The detailed schedule will be published after High Holidays.
  

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2022. We have records from following towns: Kishinev, Khotin, Brichany, Lipkany, Skulyany, Ataki, Akkerman, Kiliya, and others. See the progress.


• Vital Records, upload in December of 2022. There are records from Soroki uezd birth records for several years, Kishinev Death records for several years. See the progress.

• History, Genealogy, Culture. 13-15 December 2022. The Bessarabia Special Interest Group (Bessarabia SIG) and JewishGen invite you to participate in a Virtual Winter Symposium, a series of live, online presentations to run from December 13 through 15, 2022.
  Sessions will explore historical experiences of our ancestors in Bessarabia, assist your family research, and expand your understanding and appreciation of their culture.
  
  You will meet presenters from Canada, Germany, France, Brazil, Moldova, Ukraine, the United States, and perhaps others. Presentations will delve into ideas and issues that are relevant not only to Bessarabia but also to other regions.
  
  The detailed schedule is going to be added in the end of September.
  

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2022. We have records from following towns: Kishinev, Khotin, Brichany, Lipkany, Skulyany, Ataki, Akkerman, Kiliya, and others. See the progress.


• Vital Records, upload in December of 2022. There are records from Soroki uezd birth records for several years, Kishinev Death records for several years.

• History, Genealogy, Culture. 13-15 December 2022. The Bessarabia Special Interest Group (Bessarabia SIG) and JewishGen invite you to participate in a Virtual Winter Symposium, a series of live, online presentations to run from December 13 through 15, 2022.
  Sessions will explore historical experiences of our ancestors in Bessarabia, assist your family research, and expand your understanding and appreciation of their culture.
  
  You will meet presenters from Canada, Germany, France, Brazil, Moldova, Ukraine, the United States, and perhaps others. Presentations will delve into ideas and issues that are relevant not only to Bessarabia but also to other regions.
  
  If you would like to present a talk during the Symposium, please submit a proposal no later than September 1, 2022, to Yefim Kogan at yefimk@verizon.net
  
  The detailed schedule is going to be added in the end of September.
  

Bessarabian Databases. Updates sent to JewishGen in June of 2022:

Below is a list of updates sent to JewishGen. This year a new Upload system was created at JewishGen, and because of it all additions are already available to everybody! JewishGen - Thanks a lot! Thank you very much to all volunteers who worked on these Bessarabian projects.


• Vital Records. Bendery and uezd Birth and Death records; Beltsy Birth, Marriage and Death records; Kishinev Marriage records for years from 1861 -1918. Total of 4,036 records.
  Project Leaders Ariel Parkansky and Yefim Kogan, translators Stas Shvartsman, Emilia Alexeeva, Michael Richman, Julia Maximova, Genny Imas, Yuriy Daylis, Mike Glazer, Yefim Kogan. See the list of towns, shteitle


• Revision Lists. 6,030 records completed for 1,612 families. See the list of towns, shteitle
  Project Leader - Yefim Kogan and translators Alan Levine, Claire Stuart, Alex Matlin, Elizabeth Fortun, Emilia Alexeeva, Julia Maximova and Yefim Kogan.