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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.

Landsmanshaften. New additions:
=Kishinev Sick Benevolent Society, material presented with permission of Basil McVey, coordinator/webmaster of the Original Johnson County Tennessee Genealogy Page.

Bessarabian Databases. New additions:
=Bessarabia Business Directory, 1924-25. Project was completed in June of 2012!
New records are loaded for the capital Chisinau (Kishnev). There are total of 13,056 records from 705 localities. All records are posted at Bessarabina Databases Section at Bessarabia SIG website.
Project Manager - Harvey Kabaker.

Music, Theatre, Literature
Our Section 'Bessarabian Music' at Bessarabia SIG website is renamed to 'Music, Theatre, Literature'.
Added 'Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre'. Biographies translated by Steven Lasky, Museum of Family history with help from Bessarabia SIG.
Among the more than 1,700 current translations, seventy-nine of the people whose biographies appear within the Lexicon were born and lived in Bessarabia. Fifty-four of these have already been translated. Please find at ' Music, Theatre, Literature' section list/table of all people from Bessarabia with towns they were from and direct links to the translated biographies.

History of Jews in Bessarabia. New addition:
Film 'Seven Songs about 100 Years' created by Arnold Brodichansky in 2003.

Holocaust in Bessarabia. New additions:
=Dubossary, Moldova/Transnistria Mass Graves, Memorial
---List of the Jews killed in the autumn of 1941 and buried in the Mass Graves. Prepared by Ozias Ukshteyn, Director of Dubossary Jewish Community. Translated by Janet Furba.

=Orgeev, Moldova Mass Graves, Memorials
---Mass Grave of residents of village Isakova murdered by fascists in 1941;
---Mass Grave of residents of village Isakova murdered by fascists during the war 1941-43. From relatives Rabin, Gertsovskiy, Pikker;
---Memorial for the Jews killed from Kipirchen and Biesht;
---Family Memorial;
---Wall Memorials.

Jewish Cemeteries Photograph Collections. New additions:
Dubossary.

Bessarabian Databases. New additions:
=Bessarabia Business Directory, 1924-25.
New records are loaded for districts pf Chisinau, not including the capital Chisinau (Kishnev). There are total of 11,385 records available at this time.
Project Manager - Harvey Kabaker.

KehilaLinks
A new website was started and now in progress for the town of Dumbraveni, Moldova by Peter Seltser.

Genealogical Conferences
A new section was added with lectures/sessions at the Paris Genealogical conferences in July of 2012 related to Bessarabia.