Status Update from JewishGen

Post date: Sep 11, 2015 5:52:46 PM

Wow! Jewishigen has been hard at work adding new records to their system!

According to information received from JewishGen, here is a list of their recent accomplishments:

Belarus (since January):

• Added approximately 12,000 new birth records from Brest and Gomel regions;
• Added 13,000 revision list records from Bobruysk and Novogrudok regions; and,
• Translated approximately 30,000 records from Bobruysk, Gomel, Grodno, Mogilev, Nesvizh, Novogrudok and Slonim regions. These records are currently being reviewed and will eventually be added.

Hungary/Romania/Ukraine/Czech Republic (past 12 months):

• Volunteers are currently indexing additional records from 55 registers from Bihar/Bhor and 7 from Szilagy/Salaj that were photographed in Romanian archives and 1120 death records for years 1915 to 1938 from Kosice, Slovakia (Kassa, Hungary);
• Added nearly 38,000 records from areas of pre-Trianon Hungary that are now in Romania and Ukraine, bringing the total to more than 54,000 in this database;
• Transcribed more than 800 names of Jewish residents of the Michalovce district from the 1930 Census of Czechoslovakia;
• Acquired additional tax and census records for formerly Hungarian areas of Romania including 1869 Jewish Census lists and tax records for 1773 to 1850 from Maramaros and about 2500 names from Dees, Szolnok-Doboka, now Dej;
• Acquired and indexed close to 6,000 burial records and headstone inscriptions from Oradea, Romania, formerly Nagyvarad, Hungary; and,
• Much more.

Danzig/Gdansk (released a new database to be made available shortly that include the following):

• Births 1832-1847, 1931-1939;
• Marriages 1832-1847;
• Deaths 1832-1846;
• Memorbuch 1821-1878;
• Community membership lists 1817-1881;
• Protected Jews from 1773 (pre-surname);
• 1814 surname adoption list linked to police registration card scans; and,
• Danzig Citizens Committee in the USA members, 1941-1942.

Romania (working on the following records, to be released in the coming year):

• Iasi death records;
• Bucharest birth records;
• Suceava birth records;
• Radauti marriages;
• Czernowitz (more than 123,000 records have already been completed);
• Herta records (transcribing from microfilm);
• Dorohoi burial records (transcribing from a handwritten caretaker list); and,
• Raducaneni civil records.

Ukraine (past few months):

• Added 5,872 records of people who emigrated from Courland to the Kherson agricultural settlements in 1837 and 1840;
• Added 18,859 records from Pirulki, Zaslavi, Mogilev-Podolsk, Nikolayev, Smiela, Belaya-Tserkov, Ignatovka, Zinkov, Byshev and Makarov; and,
• 53,375 birth records from Odessa: 1878-1881, 1883-1889, 1891, 1894, 1896-1897, 1900.

JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR):

• Added more than 70,000 burial records and 21,000 photographs from 466 cemeteries in places including Algeria, Brazil, Canada, China, Cuba, England, France, Israel, Iraq, Japan, Poland, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States.

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