[Cz-L] Status of Burial Register Project

<x-flowed>Greetings Czernowitzers!

What follows is a status report on our project to transcribe the
Czernowitz Jewish Cemetery Burial Registers into a database for
posting on JewishGen. (This is a cooperative project initiated by
JGS Ottawa; Czernowitz-L took on the task of entering all data from
Latin (not Cyrillic) letter entries.)

ALL burial register pages have been sent out, and NEARLY ALL have
been completed and returned! We're just about done with phase I -
data input. Without our committed team of volunteers, we couldn't
have completed this project. We entered more than 27,000 names in
under four months! This project will help us memorialize the Jewish
community of Czernowitz far into the future.

We'll be entering phase II shortly - to verify/double-check all data
submissions. Before that begins, I will be busy assembling all the
individual sheets into one master file. There were 228 individual
spreadsheet submissions! I must have sent out more than 700 emails
during the course of the project! We strained our eyes trying to
read from poor copies, understand and interpret old-style
handwriting, and trying to match street names written in tiny script
with actual street names from old-Czernowitz. But we persevered and
got the job done.

Hymie Reichstein (President of JGS Ottawa) and I discussed this
project earlier this week. Once our data is double-checked, Hymie
will combine it with the other file of more than 20,000 names from
the Cyrillic portion of the register. This file will then be
submitted to the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry for
public access. It will take quite a bit of additional time to link
each tombstone image to each name in the database, but while that
work is underway, we plan to make the burial database available
online without links to the tombstone images.

Warmest wishes,
Bruce

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We thank the following Tramscription Team Members for their very kind
donation of time and effort:

Richard Conoboy
Peter R. Elbau
Yossi Eshet
Marc Goldberger
Dr. Simon Kreindler
Edward Mitelsbach
Kurt Nachman
Fritz Neubauer
Shimon Neumann
Peter Reiniger
Jerome Schatten
Lancy Spalter
Miriam R. Taylor
Melita Fuhrmann Vickter
Dr. Jolie Weininger
Paula Zieselman
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Received on 2004-01-31 12:54:00