[Cz-L] Re: Records in the Czernowitz archives

At 10:49 -0700 10/18/06, Mark Heckman wrote:

>-snip -
>the State Archives of the Chernovtsy Oblast, in Czernowitz, has BMD records
>for most of 1841-1930, census/lists of inhabitants for 1883-1896, voter lists
>for some of the years 1901-1908, Jewish community/Kahal records for 1780-1944
>(!), and many other kinds of records. The LDS Church is actively microfilming
>these records, I believe, after the completion of which project the records
>will be available at any LDS Family History Center, but that won't be done for
>years.

I have a bit of an update on the microfilming project that comes from
information gleaned from presentations at the Jewish Genealogy
meeting in New York City this past August. I'm reprinting this from
a post I sent to the list in late August '06:

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One more item of important news from New York: During a session
discussing the holdings of archives in the Ukraine, Khalile Mehr of
the Family History Library (LDS) in Salt Lake City, Utah, announced
that the Jewish records in Chernivtsi were currently being
microfilmed. As soon as these are received in Salt Lake City, they
will be indexed and placed in their online catalog from which they
will be accessible at Family History Libraries around the world.
Vital records for Czernowitz are fairly complete from the 1850s
through ca. 1940. Mr. Mehr could not say whether records for other
towns might be found among the Jewish holdings in the Chernivetskaya
Oblast. But whatever is there is being microfilmed.
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Bruce Reisch

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