Dear JewishGen Community. As the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th Anniversary since Auschwitz was liberated, JewishGen remains steadfast in our commitment to ensure that our Jewish family history and heritage will never be forgotten. On this day of remembrance, here are some JewishGen resources that we encourage you to search and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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