[Cz-L] JOWBR update

From: Joyce Field <jfield_at_nlci.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:59:37 -0500
To: czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
Reply-to: Joyce Field <jfield_at_nlci.com>

JewishGen is pleased to announce a recent update to JewishGen's
Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), bringing the total number
of burial records in this searchable database to over 980,000.
Although we had hoped that this update of close to 186,000 records
would bring us to over a million records, that milestone will have to
wait until the next update.

JOWBR has added more than 148,000 Austrian records, over 4,400
Canadian records (Beth Tzedec, Toronto), 1,328 records from India,
4,830 records from Romania, and the first batch of records and
photographs--4,375-- from Chernivtsi (Czernowitz), Ukraine. The
Ashkenazi Cemetery at Guanabacoa, Cuba has been updated and
photographs of more than one-third of all the tombstones have been
added.

JewishGen wishes to thank all the donors who have submitted data to
JOWBR and to encourage individuals and organizations to "adopt" a
cemetery and submit the data and photographs of the tombstones to
JOWBR. Hardly a day goes by that a researcher does not post a
message on a JewishGen digest asking for someone to take a photograph
at a cemetery or get information for them on a deceased relative from
an inscription on a tombstone. Such requests could significantly
decrease if more cemeteries were indexed and the data added to JOWBR.
Thus far there are 1,856 cemeteries and landsmanschaft plots in
JOWBR. Because so many of us live far from the areas we are
researching, online databases such as JOWBR become vital to genealogy.

Search the database at
<http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/>.
Check the cemeteries in the database at
<http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm >.
Information on how to submit data to JOWBR is at
<http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Submit.htm >.
Also see
<http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/JOWBR_FAQ.htm > for the
new section on Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).

Joyce Field
JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition
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