Bessarabia SIG Updates for the month of April, 2016

[Yefim A Kogan yefimk@verizon.net]

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Dear researchers,

Here is an update for the month of April 2016 for Bessarabia SIG.
It was a great month for new additions, projects.
See the details at the "What's New" section of our web site.

== A new section was added to our website: Miriam Weiner Archives and
Publications.
You can see and read chapters from her book "Jewish Roots in Ukraine and
Moldova" on Jewish History in Moldova, Moldavian Archives and town chapters.

== Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:
-- Update the list of Jewish Cemeteries in Bessarabia and Moldova. We have
now 36 cemeteries indexed and/or photographed with total of 40,616 records.
See all the details, with links to Cemetery reports, and lists of Unknown
Graves.

-- "A vanished world" - documentary about Jewish cemeteries in Moldova.
Radio Europa Libera.

-- Hincesti (Gancheshti, Kotovsk) Jewish Cemetery. 222 records with 160
photographs are sent to JewishGen /JOWBR. Also there are 12 photos of
unknown graves.. Please see the overview, maps, photos, access to 12 photos
of Unknown graves and more at Hincesti Cemetery Report.

-- Besarabeasca (Romanovka, Romanenko, Bessarabka) Jewish Cemetery (New
Section). 308 records with 257 photographs are sent to JewishGen /JOWBR.
Also there are 61 photos of unknown graves.. Please see the overview, maps,
photos, access to 61 photos of Unknown graves and more at Basarabeasca
Cemetery (New Section) Report.

If someone would like to get a whole set of records for a town, for the
donation of $100 to Bessarabia/Moldova Cemetery project you will get the
spreadsheet in advance and also if you find your ancestors, I am going to
send you photos of the tombstone if available.

== Bessarabia Databases. Updates:
Revision List Project update: our Revision Team have finished a number of
large sets of records, and they will be available at the JewishGen Upload
sometime in June of this year. The two largest sets are completed for
Kishinev 1859 and Ataki (more than 11,000 records!)

If anyone wants to get a full set of a records for a town, that is possible
with a donation of $100 to Bessarabia SIG General fund. There are new sets
of records found among revision records: petitions, certificates, guarantor
letters, etc. I will write a special message about it.

== History of Jews in Bessarabia. New addition:
Irina Shikhova published on our website her book: "We Will Survive. Jewish
History of Moldova in images, maps and pictures". Chisinau, 2015.

Send your comments, suggestions, critique, new ideas, proposals of how to
make our Bessarabia group better.

Thank you all,
Yefim Kogan
Bessarabia SIG Coordinator
Researching KOGAN, SPIVAK, KHAYMOVICH, SRULEVICH, LEVIT in Kaushany,
Bendery, Tarutino, Akkerman, Kiliya - all in Bessarabia, KHAIMOVICH in
Galatz, Romania, KOGAN in Dubossary, Moldova, SRULEVICH in Shanghai, China

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