News Archive

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2024. 2,538 records are completed. We are working with records from following towns: Kishinev, Bendery, Vale-lui-Vlad, Aleksandreny, and more. See the progress.
  
  We are looking for a Project Leader for the Bessarabia Revision lists. There are about 50,000-100,000 records more to work with. I am leaving this project. June 2024 is going to be the last upload unless we find a new Project Leader.


• Vital Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2024. 3,856 records are completed. We are working with Vital records from Kishinev, Soroki, Beltsy, Bendery and more. See the progress.


• Jewish Cemeteries. Updates: Completed photographing and indexing of Klishkivtsi New Jewish cemetery. 261 burial records and 257 grave images were sent to JOWBR at JewishGen. The records will be available in June of this year, but you can see now at Bessarabia website the Cemetery report with maps, some photos, and also the Unknown Graves at the cemetery (86). See cemetery Report for Klishkivtsi New Cemetery
  

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2024. We are working with records from following towns: Kishinev, Bendery, Vale-lui-Vlad, Aleksandreny, and more. See the progress.


• Vital Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2024. We are working with Vital records from Kishinev, Soroki, Beltsy, Valea-lui-Vlad, Aleksandreny. See the progress.


• Bessarabia Court Records. We are planning to start a new project with archival information from Courts in Bessarabia in 19th and 20th centuries. There are different kinds of cases of criminal and civil law.
  
  We need a Project Leader for this new work with Russian skills and several translators.

Bessarabian Databases. Updates ready for everybody at JewishGen. Records are available already.

Below is a list of updates sent to JewishGen. Thank you very much to all volunteers who worked on these Bessarabian projects.


• Vital Records. 2,471 records completed: Birth records for Soroki and 17 shtetlekh/villages, Beltsy and Valea-lui-Vlad and Kishinev Death records.
  See the list of towns, shteitle added. Total # in Bessarabia Vital records - 187,435.
  
  Project Leader Emilia Alexeeva, translators Emilia Alexeeva, Michael Richman, Genny Imas, Yoni Kupchik, Talia Kogan, Valentin Lupu, David Zelikovskiy, Avi Shteinberg, Yuriy Daylis, Rita Rusu, and Yefim Kogan.


• Revision Lists. 9,291 records completed for 1,709 families. Revisions added for different towns and years, including Akkerman, Aleksandreni, Kalarash (Tuzora), Kishinev, Kriulyany, Leovo, Rezina, Skulyany, and Vadu-lui-Vlad.
  See the list of towns, shteitle added. Total # in Bessarabia Revision List records 272,835.
  
  Project Leader Yefim Kogan, translators Alan Levine, Alex Matlin, Elizabeth Fortun, Yuliana Murray, Svetlana Margolin and Yefim Kogan.

Hi everybody,

I'm happy to announce that we have upgraded the Bessarabia SIG website to support mobile navigation.

The new version will display the old desktop design when you come from a PC computer and will show a new mobile adapted design when you browse from your smartphone or tablet.

We hope you'll enjoy using the new site - let us know what you think, by contacting our leadership.

Ariel Parkansky
Bessarabia SIG
Information Systems Director

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2023. We are working with records from following towns: Kishinev, Bendery, Akkerman, Skulyany, Kalarash, and more. See the progress.


• Vital Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2023. We are working with Birth records from Kishinev, Soroki, Beltsy, Valea-lui-Vlad, Aleksandreny; Marriage records from Kishinev, Beltsy, Valea-lui-Vlad, Aleksandreny; Death records from Kishinev. See the progress.


• Cemetery Projects Completed photographing and indexing of Phase 8 of Beltsy Jewish Cemetery and sent to JOWBR 331 burial records with 325 images. See information at the Beltsy Jewish Cemetery Report at Bessarabia SIG website at Beltsy Jewish Cemetery Report.
  We have now 5,856 burial records for Beltsy Jewish Cemetery, and more will come in the next phase.


• New acquisition in summer of 2023. We will start a new project - Jews lived in different gubernias of Russian Empire, and registered in Bessarabia. We received new records for Jews reside in Podolia, Kherson, Kiev, Grodno, Vilno gubernias in different towns, shtetlekh, but all registered in Bessarabia.
  We need a Project Leader for this new work with handwritten Russian skills and probably several translators. there are total of about 1,000 images for it.

• 43rd IAJGS International Conference, London, July 30 to August 3, 2023 Bessarabia SIG participated in many events:
  
  -Share Fair;
  -Bessarabia SIG Meeting;
  -Computer Lab-Genealogical Research for Bessarabia/Moldova genealogists.
  
  All abstracts and slides for these sessions are available here.
  In the same website you may read full presentation for a session not only for Bessarabia researchers, but for all Eastern European researchers: Laws for Jews in Russian Empire.