Re: [Cz-L] The Ottawa Project of the Chernivtsy Cemetery

Hello Joel:

I've been coordinating the data transcription for the Jewish
Genealogical Society of Ottawa, which led the effort to photograph
all the tombstones and to obtain copies of burial registers.

In August 2007, information on 4,293 burials were sent to JGS Ottawa,
and subsequently posted in the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial
Registry along with corresponding tombstone photos. You can search
this dataset at:

http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/

In May 2008, data on 3,992 additional burials were sent to JGS Ottawa
but have not yet been forwarded to JOWBR.

Altogether, information on 11,376 burials has been transcribed,
including the two dataset above. There are over 28,000 tombstone
photos in the entire collection (some duplicates) so we still have
quite a bit of work ahead before this project is complete. Prior to
transcription of data from the tombstones, all the burial registers
prior to 1946 were transcribed into Excel spreadsheets.

Until all the data are available on JOWBR, I would be glad to provide
you with information on your family. Feel free to contact me
directly.

(Kudos go to the team of volunteers who have dedicated countless
hours transcribing data and trying to read barely decipherable
tombstones in multiple languages for this project!)

Bruce Reisch
Geneva, New York


>Could you please inform me of the present stage of the Project of
>the Ottawa Genealogical Society regarding the Chernivtsy Jewish
>Cemetery. Is it already possible to obtain pictures and information
>regarding individual graves, and if so, to whom should applications
>be sent, or is it posible to obtain the information through the
>Internet, and if so, how?
>Thanks for your trouble,
>Joel Aloni

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