Here is an update for the Bessarabia Division projects for the month of September 2021. 

See also at What's New at Bessarabia website.

Bessarabian Databases. Updates:

• Revision Lists, plan to upload to JewishGen in December of 2021. We have records from following towns: Kishinev, Tuzora, Teleneshty, Ataki, Khotin, Soroki, Faleshty and others. There are already 2,927 records completed. see the progress.

• Vital Records - Births, Marriages, Deaths. We are working now on vitals for Beltsy, Bendery, Kishinev, and more.  Records are going to be uploaded in December of 2021.

• We have updated the Inventory of Vital records, added towns we uploaded last time. Here is updated Inventory list. You are going to find four tables on these pages, Births, Marriages, Divorces and Deaths.

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:

• Completed photographing and indexing of Jewish cemetery of Zguritsa. 574 burial records and 572 grave images were sent to JOWBR at JewishGen. The records will be available at the beginning of new year, but you can see now at Bessarabia website the Cemetery report with maps, some photos, and also the Unknown Graves at the cemetery. See cemetery Report for Zguritsa.

In Russian:

Посад Чижев

#90

Состоялось в посаде Чижев 18-го августа 1893 года в 9 часов утра.  Явились Иосиф Шепс, кассир должестной кассы  и Абрам Тангетер, учитель, оба 37-и лет от роду, жители посада Чижев и объявили, что вчера, в 11 часов ночи умер от холеры Юдка-Лейба Мигдаль , 3-х лет, родившийся и живший в посаде Чижев, сын Янкеля и Ривки-Рейзы, урожденной Крживонога (возможно), рабочие, живущие в посаде Чижев.  Настоящим удостоверяю о кончине Юдки-Лейба Мигдаль.  Акт сей по прочтении нами и Иосифом Шепсом подписан. Абрам Тангетер заявил, что писать не умеет.

Иосиф Шепс

Содержащий акты гражданского состояния, Войт сообщества       Подпись

Translate into English:

Posad Chizhev

# 90

It took place in Posad Chizhev on August 18, 1893 at 9 o'clock in the morning. Iosif Sheps, the cashier of the long-term cash register, and Abram Tangeter, a teacher, both 37 years old, residents of the Chizhev posad, appeared and announced that yesterday, at 11 o'clock in the morning, Yudka-Leiba Migdal, 3 years old, who was born and lived in the posad Chizhev, had died from cholera, the son of Yankel and Rivka-Reiza, née Křivonoga (possibly), workers, living in the Chizhev posad. I hereby certify the death of Yudka-Leib Migdal. After reading this act, we and Joseph Sheps signed. Abram Tangeter said that he could not write.

Joseph Sheps

Civil Registry, Voight Community Signature

In Russian:

Посад Чижев

#91

Состоялось в посаде Чижев 18-го августа 1893 года в 9 часов утра.  Явились Иосиф Шепс, кассир должестной кассы  и Абрам Тангетер, учитель, оба 37-и лет от роду, жители посада Чижев и объявили, что вчера, в 11 часов ночи умер от холеры Меер Дубанек , 50-и лет, родившийся и живший в посаде Чижев, оставивший после себя овдовевшую жену Хайку-Суру, урожденную Котлярек, сын Вигдора и Иты.  Настоящим удостоверяю о кончине Меера Дубанека.  Акт сей по прочтении нами и Иосифом Шепсом подписан. Абрам Тангетер заявил, что писать не умеет.

Иосиф Шепс

Содержащий акты гражданского состояния, Войт сообщества       Подпись

Translated into English:

Posad Chizhev

# 91

It took place in Posad Chizhev on August 18, 1893 at 9 o'clock in the morning. Joseph Sheps, the cashier of the cash desk, and Abram Tangeter, a teacher, both 37 years old, residents of the Chizhev posad, appeared and announced that yesterday, at 11 o'clock in the morning, Meer Dubanek, 50 years old, had died of cholera, who was born and lived in the posad Chizhev, who left behind his widowed wife Haika-Sura, nee Kotlyarek, the son of Vigdor and Ita. I hereby certify the death of Meer Dubanek. After reading this act, we and Joseph Sheps signed. Abram Tangeter said that he could not write.

Joseph Sheps

Civil Registry, Voight Community Signature

Translated by Michael Ryabinky
Boynton Beach, FL

                                    5 June 1923  Arrived Kiev

                                  11 June 1923  Departed Kiev

                                  13 June 1923  Arrived Moscow

                                  20 June 1923  Departed Moscow

                                  21 June 1923  Arrived Rezekne, Latvia

                                  22 June 1923  Departed Rezekne, Latvia

                                  23 June 1923  Arrived Riga, Latvia

                                                         (This is where they got the passports)

                                  25 June 1923  Departed Riga, Latvia

                                  26 June 1923  Arrived Libau, Latvia

                                  16 July  1923  Departed Libau, Latvia on board ship.

                                  29 July  1923  Arrived Halifax, Nova Scotia
Norm Katz

Regards,

Arthur Sissman

Jewish Genealogy SIG of Collier/Lee Co FL

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Researching: ZISMAN/ZYSMAN/ZUSMAN (Belarus); TELESHEVSKY (Belarus); CHANUTIN, (W. Russia), BRODY, (Hungary); FRIEDMAN, (Hungary); GRAUBARD, (Romania/Ukraine)

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The 1816 Revision List has three separate entries for the same household (#155 – the home of Vol Eliovich NIZNIK) are at:

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM95377

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM95378

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM95379

I am particularly interested in the translation and any insights into the relationships between Vol Eliovich Niznik and several people in his household who bear different surnames: Khaz[?], Uchinik, Reznik, Dibrafka, Furman, Lapman, and Spektor. The  Russian word describing their relationship is семья. One person told me that means “family” and that the people in the household were a taxable unit but, perhaps, not actually related. Another person told me that the word indicates the people were neighbors.

The 1834 Revision has members of these same families in separate households.

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM95380

Household 345 featured Vol[f] Eliovich’s sons Kelman and Leib Niznik and their families.

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM95381

Household 347 is the home of the descendants of Mikhel Yankelovich Khaz[?], whose surname I could not decipher in 1816 (VM #95378) either.

Thank you for any help you may be able to provide.

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page, or, if you wish via email directly to me at emilyhgarber@... .

These images were located within collections uploaded by Alex Krakovsky to his Wikimedia page. I am indebted to him for his amazing work. I can provide URLs via email, if needed.

Thank you very much.

Emily Garber

Phoenix, AZ

Yonat Klein
Syracuse NY

Moving Your Family Memories from Nostalgia to History

by Dr. Samuel D. Gruber

Once we have populated our family tree, filled in the names and dates, what have we learned? What does it mean to know an ancestor’s name but not much more? What makes genealogy different from lepidoptery or philately (collecting butterflies or stamps)?

Genealogy is only a doorway to begin an investigation of the past. We can do this by collecting and circulating legends, hearsay, stereotypes, and biases, OR we can combine these and other tools to dig deeper to make useful history.  We can frame questions and use our genealogical research as the beginning of larger explorations about Jews and Judaism, immigration and America, economic and social castes and hierarchies, and about a wide range of cultural and social expression.

In this talk – and discussion – Dr. Gruber will review ways Jewish genealogy and family history can be expanded beyond the strictly personal.  He’ll draw on his own experience helping American Jews reconnect with places of their family origin and discuss his own ongoing research using family history sources – memoirs, letter, scrapbooks, photos, etc. – to better understand his own family histories, and how these fit in the broader immigrant and American experience. He’ll discuss how personal stories can be used to recast older narratives to have relevancy today.

Sam Gruber is an art and architectural historian who since the 1980s has been actively engaged in the documentation, protection, and preservation of Jewish historic, cultural, and religious sites around the world.  He was the founding director of the Jewish Heritage Program of the World Monuments Fund (1988-1996), Research Director of the US Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad (1998-2006) and has been President of the International Survey of Jewish Monuments since 1997.  Sam has lived in Syracuse since 1993 and is a long-time member of Temple Concord, for which he co-chaired it building centennial celebration in 2010-11. He writes frequently about Syracuse Jewish sites and history on his blog “My Central New York.”

Hello all! The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island is delighted to invite you to our bonus monthly meeting with guest speaker Michael Morgenstern.

JGSLI is extending the invitation to the broader genealogy community. We ask that you register in advance (see below). Please share with your friends!

Wednesday, October 13th, 7:00 PM, via Zoom

Speaker: Michael Morgenstern
Topic: Using the ‘Forverts’ for Family History

Founded in 1897, the “Forverts” (Jewish Daily Forward) was a leading Yiddish language newspaper in the United States throughout the 20th century. Most of this newspaper is available to browse digitally for free through the online Historical Jewish Press database. This lecture will examine hidden genealogical gems within this newspaper, some of which can be found with minimal or no Yiddish skills. Among these gems are personal inquiries submitted by readers seeking information on their relatives, letters to the editor, and the “Gallery of Vanished Husbands.” This lecture will also cover the historical and cultural context of the newspaper, which will help evaluate its relevance to a researcher’s individual family history. The speaker is currently translating genealogically significant segments of the “Forverts.”

There are two ways to join our meeting:

Register for our Zoom meeting: This will allow you to join in so you can chat with others before and after the meeting (this will be limited to the first 100 people to join).

When: October 13, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAufuGsrzosGNfyhf8Wk_JZXZIoqW2Ag5e4

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

OR

Our meeting will be livestreamed on our YouTube channel. Please visit http://bit.ly/JGSLIYT at the meeting start time and the meeting's video should be listed. No YouTube or other login is required, but if you are signed in you can ask questions in writing via the comment section under the video.

This webinar is free and open to the public.

I look forward to "seeing" you all then!

Bonnie Birns

president@...

My grandfather , original name Hirsch Chrzan, married Esther Silberstein.   He came to America under his own name, always spelled differently.   At some point after arriving he was asked to spell his name which he could not, so he gave his wife's maiden name, easier to understand.   So he became Harris Silberstein, and later anglicized that to Harris Silverstone.    Thus he changed his name twice, and at first I was looking for him in all the wrong places.

Paul Silverstone