News Archive

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Miriam Weiner Archival Database. New 2123 records from 710 families/groups with 308 images were added to the database. You can see now more records of Jews from towns of Yedinets, Orgeev, Soroki, a number of agricultural colonies and more
  Click to get directly to the Miriam Weiner's collection. The highlights of the this load are 380 Births records from Soroki and Soroki district plus records of parents and towns where parents were registered and also a full set of records from town of Balta, Podolia for Jews registered in Bessarabian towns, but lived in Balta (51 families with 174 records).


• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2019.
  See the progress.
  

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

• Upgraded the inventory of all cemeteries in Bessarabia/Moldova. See the list from the cemetery section at the website or directly here.


• Completed photographing and indexing of Volontirovka Jewish Cemetery and sent to JOWBR 4 burial records with 4 images. See more information at the Volontirovka Cemetery Report at Bessarabia SIG website at Volontirovka Cemetery Report.

• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2019. A number of Revision List sets are going to be completed for town of Kishinev, Ataki, Faleshty, Ismail, Bendery, Romanenko see the progress. There are already 2327 records already completed.
  

• Added information for presentations at Jewish Genealogical conference in Cleveland in July-August of 2019.
  

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

• Completed photographing and indexing sector 4 in Kishinev Jewish Cemetery and sent to JOWBR 1517 burial records with 1371 images and 33 images of Unknown graves can be viewed at Bessarabia SIG website at Kishinev Jewish Cemetery Report. or directly at Kishinev Jewish Cemetery Unknown graves.


• Kishinev Jewish Cemetery events report (end of 2018 – February 2019).


• Aerial view of Kishinev Jewish Cemetery after major cleaning in December of 2018.


• Damaged tombstones after major cleaning in December of 2018

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2019. A number of Revision List sets are going to be completed for town of Kishinev, Ataki, Faleshty, Ismail, Bendery, Romanenko, Khotin see the progress.
  

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

• Upgraded the inventory of all cemeteries in Bessarabia/Moldova. See the list from the cemetery section at the website or directly here.


• Completed photographing and indexing Reni Jewish Cemetery and sent to JOWBR 263 burial records with 263 images and 241 images of Unknown graves can be viewed at Bessarabia SIG website at Reni Cemetery Report.

• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2019. A number of Revision List sets are going to be completed for town of Kishinev, Ataki, Faleshty, Ismail, Bendery, Romanenko see the progress.
  

• Serghei Daniliuk presentation at the International Conference in Moscow, 2018. Serghei Danilijuk is a local historian, researcher and photographer who worked on numerous cemetery projects for JewishGen Bessarabia SIG. Serghei was a guest for Bessarabia SIG at the 38th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Warsaw, August 2018, where he made two presentations.
  Presentation. ---- The audio recording from the conference. Serghei's topic is from 2 hour 39min of the recording.