Bessarabian Databases. New additions: =Bessarabia Revision List Records: new 12495 records added to the database from towns of Bendery, Kishinev, Novoselitsa, Lipkany, Lomachenets, Khotin, Beltsy, Skulyany, Faleshty, Rezina, Teleneshty, many village in Soroki district, Kalarash, Rashkov and Soroki. Go to Bessarania Database section and see details of all the sets of uploaded records.
Family Memoirs, Stories My family from Khotin, Bessarabia. Presented by Fran Schreiber, June, 2013.
Two stories written by Irving Schreiber, Fran's father: Some Genealogy and Bubba Feyga from Khotin.
Landsmanshaften Photo from Banquet of the Chotiner Branch #271/WC. Park Palace, Oct.25, 1924. Presented by Fran Schreiber, June, 2013.
Genealogical Conferences Read abstracts of presentations related to Bessarabia at the International Jewish Genealogical Conference in August 4-9th, 2013 in Boston.
See you at the conference in Boston!
05/25/2013 April, May 2013
Research Projects 6. Four town translation/transliteration of Cemetery lists. Beltsy, 1992-1995, completed by Terry Lasky.
23. Translation/transcription of the Bendery cemetery records. 24. Photographing the gravestones at the Bendery Cemetery. Two projects completed. See the Final Bendery Cemetery Report (at Jewish Cemeteries section).
30. Bessarabia Annual books, 1862-1914. The List compiled of Jews involved in Public Life of Bessarabia, 1893. Some of Jews held government positions. 1862 year book was researched and completed. In addition to the list of people see Statistical information from 1862: Jewish Population, Newborn, Deceased, Marriages and Synagogues, Yeshivas. See at Research Projects section.
Family Memoirs, Stories Read at JewishGen Success Stories section: THE BLECHER BOYS OF BESSARABIA BECOME BARBERS: From Soroki to Chicago 1909-1914 or at our Family Memoirs/Stories section. Many thanks to Marla Raucher Osborn, Paris, France.
03/25/2013 February, March 2013
Additional Reading: books, articles Comparative Symbolic Violence: The Chisinau and Tiraspol National Historical Museums. Adi Schnytzer, Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University, Israel and Alina Zubkovych, School of Advanced Social Studies, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, March, 2013.
Landsmanshaften First Kishinever Progressive Society of New York: = Program for 40th Anniversary Banquet, held on November 22, 1947
= The Jubilee Journal booklet commemorating the society's 40th Anniversary
= Article written by Robin Leidner, whose great-grandfather, Leon Weinshank, was an officer of the society.
02/25/2013 January 2013
Travel to Bessarabia Searching For Our Jewish Roots in Vienna, Moldova, and Odessa by Michael and Andrea Burke.
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.
=16. Translate section of Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Romania, vol.2. See large book translated about Kishinev Jewish community (Yizkor Book, at JewishGen).
=30. Bessarabia Annual books, 1862-1914. The List compiled of Jews involved in Public Life of Bessarabia, 1893. Some of Jews held government positions. See at Research Projects section.
12/25/2012 December 2012
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.
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