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 […]
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 […]
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