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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
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.
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.
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.
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]
GeneralBessarabian Business Directories19 and 20 centuriesBessarabian DatabasesBessarabia SIG Website
All about Bessarabian Business Directories
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]
GeneralBessarabian Jewish Cemeteries Photo Gallery19 and 20 centuriesCemeteriesBessarabia SIG Website
Compilation of photographs of Bessarabian Jewish Cemeteries.
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]
GeneralBessarabia Divorce RecordsVital Records: DivorcesJG
GeneralVsia Rossiia 1895 Business Directory1895Bessarabian DatabasesJG
1,500 Jewish businesses in Bessarabia, from this 1895 Russian business directory.
GeneralJewish Religious Personnel in the Russian Empire, 1853-18541853-1854Bessarabian DatabasesJG
281 Jewish religious personnel in Bessarabia Gubernia.
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).
GeneralBessarabia Birth RecordsVital Records: BirthsJG
This is a collection, part of Bessarabia Vital Records.
Birth records are from towns of Beltsy, Bendery, Chimishlia, Gancheshty, Izmail, Kaushany, Kishinev, Manzur, Petrovka, Romanovka, Novoselitsa (as of December, 2017).
GeneralBessarabia Death RecordsVital Records: DeathsJG
GeneralBessarabia Marriage RecordsVital Records: MarriagesJG
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.

Total: 17 records

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