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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.


• Bessarabia Vital Records. 5,630 records including Births, Marriages and Deaths for Kishinev, Beltsy, Bendery, Soroki and more.
  See the list of towns, shteitle added. Total # in Bessarabia Vital records - 190,065.
  
  Project Leader Emilia Alexeeva, translators Avi Shteinberg, Valentin Lupu, Alex Russakovsky, David Zelikovskiy, Yoni Kupchik, Yuri Daylis, Alla Rabinovich, Michael Richman, Genny Imas, David Price, Rita Russu, Valentin Marcos, Yefim Kogan and Emilia Alexeeva.


• Bessarabia Revision Lists. 12,137 records completed for 2,848 families. Revisions added for different towns and years, including Akkerman, Aleksandreni, Kishinev, Bendery, villages-colonies in Yassy uezd, and more.
  See the list of towns, shteitle added.
  
  Project Leader Yefim Kogan, translators Alan Levine, Alex Matlin, Elizabeth Fortun, Yuliana Murray, Svetlana Margolin, Julia Maksimova, Micahel Richman, Sammy Lerner, Vladimir Bokser, Yakov Berkun and Yefim Kogan.


• Jewish Cemeteries. Completed indexing of Kaushany Old Jewish Cemetery. Cemetery was destroyed in 1920-30s, but we put 31 burial records at JOWBR. See cemetery Report for Kaushany Old Jewish cemetery.


• Bessarabia Court Records . We started working on new project - a description of the cases of courts of different jurisdictions and notarial records of Bessarabia from the 19th-20th century, based on the inventories of the State Archive of Moldova.
  
  Project Leader Vladimir Bokser. If you would like to help translating such records, please email
  vbokser@jewishgen.org.


• Bessarabia Deportation Records . We started working on this project - list of Jews who were deported from Bessarabia to Siberia in 1940, 1949 and most of them died. USSR deported from Bessarabia rich Jews, or Zionists.
  
  Project Leader Yuriy Daylis. If you would like to help translating such records, please email to daylisy@gmail.com.

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in June of 2024. 11,182 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. 5,095 records are completed. We are working with Vital records from Kishinev, Beltsy, Bendery, Soroki and more. See the progress.

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.