Latin America #LatinAmerica Document Acquisition Project for Jewish settlements in Kherson and their Latvian roots #latinamerica
Charles WALOWITZ
=20of the Jewish People and we are in the process of translating them (See = project details below). Archives. They informed us that the archives keep lists of persons >from =Continuing with the search of our roots, we contacted the Latvian = different towns of Courland who left in 1837-1841 to Kherson province. funds. Please read below how to donate.To be able to acquire these records, we need to collect additional = Malaya Seydeminukha, and Romanovka)=20=20 Archives for the History of the Jewish People (at the Hebrew University ==20 in Jerusalem) has collected documents relating to selected towns in = Ukraine and their Jewish populations. We have identified various = documents relating to Novopoltavka and nearby Jewish settlements in = Kherson province: Seydeminukha, and RomanovkaNovopoltavka, Beryslav/Bereslav, Dobre/Dobroye, Lvove/Lvovo, Malaya = in Kherson, Lists of Jewish settlers, life in the colonies, etc =Some of these records are: (1843-1849) regarding the situation of the Russian Jews.o Industrial Department, Police (1881-1904) =93Jewish matters=94 = and Novopoltavka; verification of the establishment of educational =o In the process - the account of the Jewish colonies in Dobraye = agricultural farm and professional institution in Odessa; colonial organization, about opening local immigrant committees, about =o correspondence of activities in Russia with England Jewish = immigration, relocation, etc.1891-1902 translate these documents >from Russian to English. We have created a =o List of ships and immigrants to Argentina. JewishGen Ukraine SIG Fundraising Project to acquire the documents and = to pay for professional translators = (http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/projectdesc/DB_Novopoltavka.ht= ml). We also need volunteers to translate these records. To volunteer = please contact Project Manager Sylvia Walowitz at ruthw95@... and = help us to help you! copies of these documents and others for associated towns; to translate =Funds raised for this project will be used to acquire digitized = the acquired records; and to prepare the datasets for posting to the = JewishGen Ukraine Database and the Ukraine SIG Master Name Index. Full = translations will be posted on the appropriate KehilaLinks websites. A = JewishGen spreadsheet template will be available to contributors well = before posting on the JewishGen Ukraine Database in or near these towns, including many whose ancestors emigrated >from =The key audience for this project is people whose ancestors lived = these towns to Argentina. Hebrew University in Jerusalem is a rich source of archival documents. =Project Importance Acquiring, translating, and making available documents and datasets = relating to Jews >from these towns will benefit genealogical researchers = and will help provide context for the lives of our ancestors. The data = also will help us understand patterns of Jewish population growth and = migration. to help yourself, as well as many others, now and in the future!If you have roots in any of these places, this is your opportunity = support we will be unable to pursue this project. If you are researching =We need to raise money to acquire these documents. Without your = family >from any of these towns please join in and help! webpage for Ukraine SIG Projects:=20How to Donate http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=3D== 22 Follow the directions on the page that pops up. When you click =93Checkout=Scroll down the page to the project: via our secure server=94, you will be offered several choices for = payment. financial report and we want to get the documents as soon as possible, =Because there is up to a two month delay before we get the = please write to Sylvia Walowitz at ruthw95@... and tell us how = much you have donated. We will send regular progress reports to all = donors. Minond, Liponetzky (Novopoltavka); Kozodoy/Cozodoy (Pokatilovo); ==20 Elimelech/Elimelah, Shurkin/Schurjin (Dnipropetrovsk). And all of the = above >from Argentina. =20=20=20=20 |
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