News Archive

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in July of 2021.  A number of Revision List sets are going to be completed for towns of Kishinev, Khotin, Beltsy, Akkerman, Skulyany, see the progress.

Bessarabian Databases. December of 2020:

Below is a list of updates sent to JewishGen. Soon they will be available to all JewishGen community. Thank you very much to all volunteers who worked on these projects.


• Vital Records. Bendery and 21 shteitle in uezd - 3012 birth records for some years from 1874 to 1899.
  Project Leader Ariel Parkanskiy, translators Alla Pinsky, Genny Imas, Yoni Kupchik, Mike Glazer.
  
  Soroki uezd for 11 shteitle - 395 birth records for 1909 and 1910; Beltsy and 12 shteitle in uezd - 770 records for 1911 and 1913.
  Project Leader and translator Yefim Kogan, translator Eti Ganin.
  See the list of towns, shteitle


• Jews in Public Life in Bessarabia. New addition is for 1916 and it includes 74 records for town of Kishinev.
  Project Leader and translator Yuriy Daylis.


• Business Directory, 1897. Includes 1423 records from all Bessarabia.
  Project Leader Jeff Wexler. Translators: Genny Imas, Alan Levine, Yuliana Murray, Jane Rollins, Fanny Rozenblat, Tsvika Rozenblat, and Bena Shklyanoy.


• All Kishinev, Business, 1916. Includes 608 records of business, small and large for Kishinev.
  Project Leader and translator Yuriy Daylis.


• Revision Lists. 12306 records completed from 4219 families. See the list of towns, shteitle
  Project Leader and translator Yefim Kogan, Translators: Alan Levine, Jeff Brickman, Efim Goldshmit, Deborah Glassman, Evgeniy, Claire Stuart.
  

Bessarabian Databases. Updates in December of 2020:

Our Bessarabia group is preparing a load of records to JewishGen. It will include following:


• Vital Records. Bendery and 21 shteitle in uezd - 3012 birth records for some years from 1874 to 1899; Soroki uezd for 11 shteitle - 395 birth records for 1909 and 1910; Beltsy and 12 shteitle in uezd - 770 records for 1911 and 1913. See the list of towns, shteitle


• Jews in Public Life in Bessarabia. New addition is for 1916 and it includes 74 records for town of Kishinev.


• Business Directory, 1897. Includes 1423 records from all Bessarabia.


• All Kishinev, Business, 1916. Includes 608 records of business, small and large for Kishinev.
  


• Revision Lists. There are already 10306 records completed. See progress...
  

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2020. A number of Revision List sets are going to be completed for towns of Kishinev, Khotin, Bendery, Beltsy, etc, see the progress.

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

• Completed photographing and indexing of Sector 1 of Kishinev Jewish Cemetery and sent to JOWBR 3,266 burial records with 2,910 images. See information at the Kishinev Jewish Cemetery Report at Bessarabia SIG website at Kishinev Jewish Cemetery Report. We have now total of 8,851 burial records with 7,889 images for Kishinev Jewish Cemetery, and more will come.

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2020. A number of Revision List sets are going to be completed for towns of Kishinev, Khotin, Bendery, Beltsy, etc, see the progress.

• 40th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, Virtual, 10-13 August, 2020.
  Please go to the Bessarabia group / Conferences / 40th conference site and
  read our presentations (Bessarabia connections).
  
  One session was Bessarabia group meeting, talking about what we did this year, since summer of 2019 and our plans for next years.
  
  In the Second session we explore Jewish Kishinev... As always you could ask questions, posting for everybody at our JewishGen Discussion group with hashtag #bessarabia or you can also email Yefim Kogan or Inna Vayner.