We are pleased to announce a major update to the JewishGen Belarus Collection, with the addition of 45,895 new records (see the bottom of this message for a detailed list). This new update was made possible by the hard work and dedication of many volunteers who translated, transcribed and validated the records. Specifically, we would […]
We are pleased to announce a major update to the Bessarabia Revision List project, with the addition of 10,088 new records from 2,791 families. In total, there are now more than 203,000 records from Reviska Skazka — 19th century Czarist tax censuses – for more than 100 towns and shtetl and colonies, including: Akkerman (Cetatea […]
The following is from Yefim Kogan and Inna Vayner, Directors of Bessarabia Research: (1) Jewish Cemeteries – Updates: Completed the photographing and indexing of Valea-lui-Vlad Jewish Cemetery (former Jewish Agricultural colony) and sent to JOWBR 44 burial records with 44 images. Most of the inscriptions are not readable. See information at the Bessarabia SIG website, […]
In 2013, we posted Andrew Lenard’s moving story, Romance in F Major: Searching for Rózsi, about his boyhood musical partner. He wrote: …At the very end of 1943—on the eve of the Hungarian holocaust—Rózsi and I began practicing another wonderful Beethoven piece, the Romance in F-major. … Preceding deportation, ten-thousand people were herded together in […]
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Note: We are pleased to introduce the new Musings of a Jewish Genealogist column by Ann Rabinowitz, who is well known to the JewishGen and broader Jewish genealogical community, for her many years of research, volunteer work, and for being a prolific and popular writer. In her columns, Ann will provide interesting articles, success stories […]
JewishGen has recently acquired five new Bessarabia Revision List microfilms, four of which include Jewish residents. To speed up the process of translation, more translators are needed who can read Russian handwriting and insert information into a table. A short list of the towns/years awaiting translation: Soroki, 1875 Ataki, 1874 Beltsy, 1874 Khotin, 1874 (Foreign […]
Yefim Kogan, Director of Bessarabia Research, reports on the progress of the Cemetery Projects in the Bessarabia/Moldova region: Kishinev Jewish Cemetery We have completed Sector 5 and sent 2,681 burial records with 2,441 photos to JOWBR (Jewish Online Worldwide Burial Registry). We have now a total of 5,539 burial records, with 4,977 images from three […]
Phyllis Gold Berenson, JewishGen’s Director of Ukraine Research, shares this report. At the JewishGen Ukraine Research Division meetings during the 2019 IAJGS Conference this summer, we discussed the following goals: Increase access to more genealogical records. Inventory and make available the subject, current location, and original source of all Jewish records for Ukraine, whether they […]
Gesher Galicia and JewishGen are separate organizations, in a strategic partnership to achieve shared goals. We are pleased to include their announcements in our Discussion Groups and Weekly Updates. Andrew Zalewski, Jewish Medical Students Project Coordinator for the Gesher Galicia SIG, recently announced the addition of new records to their open-access database: https://search.geshergalicia.org/ (JewishGen Members […]
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