News Archive

General History, Goverments, Maps
Six detailed maps of 1930 were added to the Bessarabia SIG map collection. It included regions of Kishinev, Bendery, Soroki, Bolgrad, Tatarbunar and Khotin with many surrounded towns and shtetlakh.

Research Projects:
=3. Towns and Shtetlakh where Jews lived in Bessarabia (Geographical Dictionary). New version of the dictionary was uploaded to the Bessarabia SIG website. See at Research Projects section.
=9. New KehilaLinks website:
--Khotin website needs a Webmaster and Town Leader!
***Town Leader is a person who is going to coordinate new projects for the town, possible find new projects, resources for the town, organize translation groups for town projects, bring new updates for the Kehila Links website to webmaster to upload.
--Brichany website Town Leader for Brichany is Mitchell C. Sklar (mcsklar@gmail.com). Please send Mitchell information if you want it to be at the Brichany Kehila Links website.
--Brichany website needs a Webmaster!

Jewish Cemeries:
--Bendery, photos of Mass Graves. Courtesy of Serghey Daniliuk, Moldova
--Bendery Cemetery project. About 50% of records are done: 2654 records completed and together with 2364 photographs of gravestones uploaded to JewishGen. They soon will be part of JOWBR at JewishGen.

Photo Gallery. New additions for towns of:
--Kishinev, old photos, courtesy of Boris Feldblyum.

Family Memoirs, Stories
The Blecher Boys Of Bessarabia Become Barbers. From Soroki to Chicago 1909-1914. Presented by Marla Raucher Osborn, Paris, France.

Towns, Shteitlakh section was updated.

Research Projects:
=3. Towns and Shtetlakh where Jews lived in Bessarabia (Geographical Dictionary). Updated version of the dictionary was uploaded to the Bessarabia SIG website. See at Research Projects section.
=9. New KehilaLinks website implemented:
----Camenca, Moldova, Transnistria;
----Dombroveny, Moldova;
----Bendery, Moldova site was updated.
**Brichany and Khotin websites need webmasters!>

=23-24. Bendery Cemetery records translating and photographing the tombstones. More than 50% of records are transcribed and 75% of the photographs are taken. Thanks to the group of dedicated people: Claire Suart, Ala Gamulka, Janet Furba, Carol Shkolnik, Paola Khalili, Sasha Berkovich.
Please donate to the project, that we could pay for the photographs of gravestones.

=30. Bessarabia Annual books, 1862-1914. Project was started. Project Leader: Yuriy Daylis. If anyone want to help in translating the books, please let me know.

Jewish Cemeries:
--Brichany project started. Translator Claire Stuart.

Jewish Cemeries, Photo collection. New additions for towns of:
Bendery. Two photos of Mass graves.

Photo Gallery. New additions for towns of:
Bendery
Khotin

Music, Theatre, Literature
=Nine more biographies were added from 'Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre'. Biographies translated by Steven Lasky, Museum of Family history.

Research Projects:
= Completed project #19: Translate a list of Jewish Graduates from Kishinev ProGymnasium 1872-1882.

=Several new project started:
==23. Translation/transcription of the Bendery cemetery records.
==24. Photographing the gravestones at the Bendery Cemetery.
==25. Compose a list of Jewish Cemeteries in Bessarabia.
==26. Russian Jewish Fallen Soldiers of WW1 (from Bessarabia).
==30. Bessarabia Annual books, 1862-1914.

Bessarabian Databases. New additions:
=Business directory project - 88 were added from 2 communities in Beltsy district: Valea lui Vlad and Varatec.

Landsmanshaften. New additions:
=Akkerman Benevolent Association: Golden Anniversary, 1905-1955. Book published in 1955.
=Updated Table of Bessarabian Landsmanshaften Groups .

Research Projects:
=See Bessarabia SIG Progress report at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/files/conferences/BessarabiaSIGMeeting.pdf

Jewish Cemeteries:
=Beltsy cemetery project - photographing and indexing graves.
The phase 1 of the project was compelted and 422 records with photographs were sent to JewishGen/JOWBR.

Genealogical Conferences:
=32nd IAJGS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JEWISH GENEALOGY JULY 15 - 18, 2012.
Texts of four presentations, and photos from the conference in Paris.

Additional Reading: books, articles:
=Jewish Life in Bessarabia Through the Lens of the Shtetl Kaushany
Yefim Kogan, final paper of Masters of Jewish Liberal Studies degree at Hebrew College, Boston, June, 2012.