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

WHEN WE TALK ABOUT KUDOSES PLEASE LET'S NOT FORGET YOU - DEAR BRUCE - FOR
ALL YOU DID AND ARE STILL DOING ON THIS PROJECT AND THE LIST IN GENERAL.
  THANK YOU AND AS WE SAY HERE - "KO LEKHAY!!!"
 YOSEF ESHET, RAANANA, ISRAEL





----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Reisch" <bir1_at_nysaes.cornell.edu>
To: <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 5:36 PM
Subject: 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
>
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