News Archive

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

• Completed 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 Valea-lui-Vlad Cemetery Report at Bessarabia SIG website at Valea-lui-Vlad Cemetery Report.
• See 2 minutes of Aerial view on Kishinev Jewish Cemetery, mostly Sector 6 at Aerial view, October 2019

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2019. A number of Revision List sets are going to be completed for towns of Kishinev, Khotin, Faleshty, Brichany, Beltsy, etc, see the progress. There are already 2126 records already completed.

Genealogical Articles. Updates:

• Added an article/link about The Open Databases project at the Museum of Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot. It is a great resource to find out more about our families in Bessarabia/Moldova.  You can get all family trees, photos for a particular town, or a family.  For example for town of Brichany I got 26 articles, Beltsy - 36 and Bendery - 75 even for Valea-lui-Vlad, an agricultural colony I saw 2 articles.   Here is a link to Museum of Jewish People site.

Culture, Recipes. Updates:

• Roza Makes Kasha Varnishkes.  Here is how Roza present herself: Ich bin a Khotiner, Bessarabie, labn Chernovitz  (I am from Khotyn, Bessarabia,  near Chernovitz).  The video is in Yiddish with English subtitles.  I should tell that I enjoed it so much, that I want you to watch it too.  Ich givein azoy tsifridn tsu zein dos...  - I was so glad to see this:  http://pakvim.net/watch/kEMiMBSOE94

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

• Upgraded the inventory of all cemeteries in Bessarabia/Moldova. See the list from the cemetery section at the website or directly here.


• Completed photographing and indexing sector 5 in Kishinev Jewish Cemetery and sent to JOWBR 2,681 burial records with 2,441 photos. From that 339 are Unknown graves can be viewed at Bessarabia SIG website at Kishinev Jewish Cemetery Report. or directly at Kishinev Jewish Cemetery Unknown graves.

• Some Problems in Researching Eastern European Records, written by Boris Feldblyum and Yakov Shadevich. Published with the permission of the author.
  
• Please see other very important articles written by Boris Feldblyum.

Genealogical Conferences. Updates:

• Added information about presentations and other activities at Jewish Genealogical conference in Cleveland in July-August of 2019.
  


• Impressions about the conference from our members:
  -- Adrienne Escoe
  -- Yefim Kogan

• A new set of Revision lists, Family lists, Recruit lists was started for towns of Kishinev, Beltsy, Khotin and others. See progress.

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision List set of records were sent to JewishGen in June of 2019. 10,088 records from 2,791 families were transcribed and translated from following towns: Ataki, Bendery, Faleshty, Ismail, Kishinev, Khotin, Rashkov, Romanenko colony, Soroki. See the list. We have an excelent group of translators for the Bessarabia Revision Lists. The total records we completed as of June 2019 is more then 203,000! Many thanks to our members who participated in this set translation: Alan Levine, Milla Donet, Claire Stuart, Evgeniy, Michael Richman, Ilana Voloshin, Lenya Fruman and Yefim Kogan.


• An article about a latest set from 1910 Revision List, written by Alan Levine. Here is a direct link to the article:
  The 1910 Family List for Kishinev.
  

• Completed Phase 2 - clearing paths, photographing and indexing Brichany Jewish Cemetery (graves could not be accessed before). Sent to JOWBR 1,439 burial records with 1,430 images and additional 237 images of Unknown graves can be viewed at Bessarabia SIG website at Briceni Cemetery Report (after Phase 2).

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Miriam Weiner Archival Database. New 2123 records from 710 families/groups with 308 images were added to the database. You can see now more records of Jews from towns of Yedinets, Orgeev, Soroki, a number of agricultural colonies and more
  Click to get directly to the Miriam Weiner's collection. The highlights of the this load are 380 Births records from Soroki and Soroki district plus records of parents and towns where parents were registered and also a full set of records from town of Balta, Podolia for Jews registered in Bessarabian towns, but lived in Balta (51 families with 174 records).


• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2019.
  See the progress.