Bessarabia Out-Of-Town Jews

Background

In 1874-1875, a census of the male Jewish population of the Russian Empire (“Jewish Military Census”) was conducted. This database contains the census information about Jews registered in Bessarabia, but who actually lived in other gubernias/provinces of the Russian Empire: Kherson gubernia, Podolia gubernia, Volyn gubernia, Grodno gubernia, Chernigov gubernia, Tavricheskaya gubernia, etc.

Record Information:

The Jewish Military census records may contain following information:

• Page # — Usually there is a page number of an image.
• Registration # —number in order for each person in a particular town's registry.
• Surname — Last name.
• Given Name — First name(s).
• Father — Father's given name (derived from the patronymic).
• Relationship to Head of Household
• Sex — “M” for male, “F” for female, here only males
• Age
• Comments — includes the status of a family: Merchant, Middle class, Farmer, from military, etc.
  It also may specify when the family registered for the town, and occasionally information where they came from.
• Former Registration # — Registration Number in the previous Revision.
  In some cases, there are two former registration numbers, presented as “1835 - #100, 1848 - #120”.
• Day, month, and year of registration — according to the Julian calendar.
  (The Julian calendar was used throughout the Russian Empire until 1918.  For the Gregorian (modern) calendar date, add 12 days for dates between March 1800 to February 1900).
• Uyezd — district; one of the eight districts of Bessarabia: Akkerman, Beltsy, Bendery, Izmail, Khotin, Kishinev, Orgeev, or Soroki.
• Gubernia — “Bessarabia”.
• Place of Residence: Town, Uezd, and Guberniya of residence.
• Place of Registration: Town, Uezd, and Guberniya of registration.
• Type of Record — Out-of-Town Jews”
• Archive / Fond / Inventory / File — the archival source citation, at the National Archive’s Agency
• Comments: different types of additional information

Acknowledgements:

• This project was made possible by the contributions of volunteer researchers Inna Vayner, Avi Shteinberg, Irina Tulchinskaya, Alla Light. A special thanks goes to Simkha Tarandash, who helped to significantly improve the quality of the images.

The project leader is Emilia Alexeeva-Volokh - ealexeeva@jewishgen.org.

Sample Illustrations

Here are some sample illustrations of the Jewish Military census of 1874-1875.

Searching the Database

This database is searchable via the JewishGen Unified Search and the JewishGen Romania Collection