News Archive

Jewish Cemeteries. New additions:
Rybnitsa New Jewish Cemetery Report. 825 records and 825 photos were sent to JOWBR.

Tiraspol Dalnee Cemetery Report with 77 unknown graves. 883 records with 844 photos were sent to JOWBR.

History of Jews in Bessarabia. New addition:
Goldie Steinberg, the oldest Jewish survivor of Kishinev Pogrom of 1903 died at 114 on August 16, 2015.

Towns, Shteitlakh / Tiraspol New addition:
Copy of a Birth Record of EYNIS Iosif Gersh, from Tiraspol, born in 1884 (Russian) and its translation.

Genealogical Conferences. Updates:
See photos from the conference in Jerusalem.

Bessarabian Databases. Additions:
Bessarabia SIG made an agreement with a researchers in Kherson, Ukraine to get copies of Revision Lists from Tiraspol Uezd.
Ukraine SIG received copies of Revision Lists from Olgopol uezd, Podolia gubernia, and our Bessarabia SIG started to translate records for towns of Rashkov and Kamenca.

Genealogical Conferences. Updates:
The section was updated with handouts and slides from the conference presentations.

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:
List of Jewish Cemeteries in Bessarabia and Moldova updated to July 2015.

Bessarabian Databases. Additions:
New database 'Jews involved in public life in Bessarabia'

Genealogical Conferences. Updates:
Luncheon presentation has been changed to 'Kishinev, my native town: Can we now visit Kishinev and find help in our genealogical research?' by Yefim Kogan.

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:
Revisions for 2015 Summer Update, with table.

Genealogical Conferences. New additions:
Genealogical conference section updated with all Bessarabian session information for 2015.

Jewish Cemeteries. New additions:
Completed Kiliya Cemetery project with 314 records / 295 photographs and also 241 photos of Unknown graves.

Jewish Cemeteries. New additions:
Cahul Cemetery report and 112 unknown graves.

Bessarabian Databases. New additions:
Revisions for 2015 Summer Update, with table.

Genealogical Conferences:
Here is a first glimpse on of Bessarabia SIG participation at 35th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Jerusalem, 6-10 July, 2015:

• Wednesday, July 8, 11:15am - Bessarabia SIG Meeting, with presentation by Dr. Dan Korn, President of World Federation of Bessarabian Jews
• Wednesday, July 8, 12:30pm - Bessarabia Luncheon with presentation 'Kishinev, my native town: Can we now visit Kishinev and find help in our genealogical research?' by Yefim Kogan
• Wednesday, July 8, 2pm - From Bessarabia to North America -the Kogan-Tulchinsky Family Saga, Ala Gamulka, Yefim Kogan
• Thursday, July 9, 8:15am - Bessarabian Jewish Records. What our group have translated and what's new, Yefim Kogan
• Thursday, July 9, 11:15am - The Jewish Surnames in Bessarabia/Moldova: What makes our surnames unique, Yefim Kogan