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Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2024. 10,086 records are completed. We are working with records from following towns: Bendery, Kiliya, Soroki, Faleshty, villages-colonies in Soroki uezd and others. See the progress.
  The Project leaders are Elena Shulman and Yefim Kogan.


• Vital Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2024. 4,753 records are completed. We are working with Birth, Marriage and Death records for Kishinev, Beltsy, Bendery, Khotin, and more. See the progress.
  The project leader is Emilia Alexeeva.


• Deportation Records
  As the first step of the project for the records from the JewishGen existing Database “Moldovan victims of Soviet Oppression 1941-1951” all proper names (First names, Surnames, Names of population centers, etc.) were transliterated from Romanian into English. This step will enable access to all of Database records via the JewishGen search engine.
  
  For the second step sources from National Archive of Republic Moldova containing lists of Families deported from Moldavia by each Special train (echelon) were utilized to update existing records with Father’s names, addresses, train’s numbers and destinations. Also new records missing in the original database were added.
  
  First two steps of the project have been completed. For the step 3 another source from National Archive of Republic Moldova “Set of documents related to persons deported from Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1930-1951” is utilized to update records from the JewishGen existing Database “Moldovan victims of Soviet Oppression 1941-1951”. Existing records are updated with Father’s name, Birth place, and years of exile. Also new records missing in the original database were added. This step is about 50% completed.
  As of today 978 records have been updated and 225 new records have been added.
  The Project leader is Yuriy Daylis.
  


• Court Documents
  It includes description of court cases of various jurisdictions and notarial records of Bessarabia of the 19th-20th centuries, based on the inventories of the State Archive of Moldova. More than 3000 surnames are recorded in the tables of the Kishinev Congress of Magistrates Courts.
  The inventories of the notary offices of Bessarabia, the Kishinev Court of Appeal and the Kishinev District Court are being worked on.
  The project leader is Vladimir Boxer.
  If you would like to help translate such records, please write to vbokser@jewishgen.org.
  

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2024. 3,380 records are completed. We are working with records from following towns: Bendery, Kiliya, Soroki, Faleshty, villages-colonies in Soroki uezd and others. See the progress.


• Vital Records, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2024. We are working with Vital records Births, Marriages and Deaths for Kishinev, Beltsy, Bendery, and more. See the progress.


• Deportation Records
  As the first step of the project for the records from the JewishGen existing Database “Moldovan victims of Soviet Oppression 1941-1951” all proper names (First names, Surnames, Names of population centers, etc.) were transliterated from Romanian into English. This step will enable access to all of Database records via JewishGen search engine.
  
  For the second step sources from National Archive of Republic Moldova (R-3397-Inv.-4-Dos.-80 ~ R-3397-Inv.-4-Dos.-198) containing lists of Families deported from Moldavia by each Special train (echelon) were utilized to update existing records with Father’s names, addresses, train’s numbers and destinations. Also new records missing in the original database were added.


• Court Documents
  Project continues and next time will be a detailed update.


• Two more project started:
  Bessarabia Out-of-town Jews. This project is about Jews who were Registered in Bessarabia, but lived in other gubernias: Kherson, Podolia, Grodno, Vilna and others.
  
  Educational records. This project will include information about Jewish schools, cheders, teachers, students, and more.

• 44th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy, PHILADELPHIA, August 18-22
  -Bessarabia SIG RD Meeting;
  -Bessarabia/Moldova Jewish Cemeteries Project;
  -Translating Russian Documents for the non-Russian speaker;
  -Russian Language Internet Resources for Jewish Genealogy.
  
  Slides for these sessions are available here.

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