[Cz-L] Satu Mare (Satmar/Szatmar)Jewish records

This from the JewishGen Digest Tues. Aug. 03, 2010. I thought it may be
of interest to some.
jerome
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Subject: Satu Mare (Satmar/Szatmar)Jewish records - late 19th C vital
records from Romanian National Archives
From: Asparagirl <asparagirl_at_dca.net>
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:22:29 -0700
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One of the most difficult things about doing Jewish genealogical
research on towns
that are now located in Romania is that it is often not known *what* has
survived,
much less how to obtain it. Thankfully, those informational "black
holes" are now
starting to be resolved with Romania's new and more open archives access
law. The
following is a list of pre-1896 Jewish records (that is, vital records
maintained
by the local Jewish communities, rather than the post-1896 standardized
civil
records that were not separated out on the basis of religion) known to
have
survived for the formerly-Hungarian and currently-Romanian county of
Satmar /
Szatmar / Satu Mare.

This list was prepared by researcher Beth Long, who was at the IAJGS
conference in
Los Angeles last month and who lives in Budapest, Hungary. It is based
upon the
Satu Mare archives' own list of what religious records books they have
on file.
Please note that this list is probably incomplete, as my own research
into the
Maramaros /Maramures county record books (the country right next door to
Satu Mare)
has shown that many more towns were included in other books that were
not in the
index, and that sometimes extra years would turn up, too.

It is likely that the ten vital records books for the actual city of
Satu Mare hold
information and records for many of the little communities in the area,
too. Beth
has obtained digital photographs of all ten of those books (yes, this is
permitted
under the new Romanian archives rules!), but none of the other books
yet. If you
would like to speak to her about obtaining those records, please contact
me and I
will pass along her e-mail address to you. Hopefully, people will
consider
transcribing the information in those books for inclusion in the
Hungarian and/or
Romanian databases hosted at JewishGen, as is currently being done for
Maramaros/Maramures county.

I am posting this list so that at least the mailing list archives will
hold this
information indefinitely for people who may be researching these towns.
This list
has the modern Romanian names of the towns, not the old Hungarian or
Yiddish
versions of the town names. The location-based search engine on the
front page of
JewishGen.org may be helpful in finding out the Romanian names of the
towns you
seek, if you don't know it. Romanian accent/diacritical marks have also
been left
off the town names in this list, and it's also possible that a
misspelling or two
may have crept into the list. Finally, this list is for towns that are
currently
located in Satu-Mare county; however, a few of these towns used to be in
other
nearby counties (such as Maramaros/Maramures) before the borders were
redrawn in
the twentieth century.

* Pre-1896 Jewish vital records known to have survived for
Satmar/Szatmar/Satu Mare
county: *
Andrid: (unknown type of records) - 1868-85
Calinesti: B - 1879, 1893 / M - 1877, 1893
Caraseu: B - 1867-77, 1889 / M - 1899 / D - 1876-77, 1879
Cered: B - 1865, 1877
Craiderelt: B - 1876, 1878 / D - 1876
Culciu Mic: B - 1876, 1879
Dobra: B - 1890 / M - 1899
Demanesti: B - 1890 / M - 1899
Dindesti: B - 1874-85 / D - 1871-89
Krip (? or Hrip?): B - 1877-79 / M - 1878 / D - 1876
Horodu de Jos: B - 1879, 1887
Iojib: B - 1880-82
Irina: B - 1876
Istrau: B - 1881
Lazuri: D - 1874
Livada: B - 1860-62, 1874, 1876-77, 1887-88 / D - 1874-77
Livada Nou: B - 1859-85 / M - 1860-85 / D - 1860-85
Martinesti: B - 1877 / D - 1876
Medicsu-Aurit (includes Apa Potau, Iojib): unknown years and types of
records
Micula: B - 1862-63, 1977
Moftinu Mic (includes Berea, Berueni, Capleni, Ciumesti, Domanesti,
Mindesti, Irina, Piscolt Portitia, Tiream Vezendiu): B - 1871-85 / M
-1871-85 /
D - 1871-89
Negresti: B - 1865, 1871, 1877, 1880-82, 1884-85, 1895 / M - 1880,
1895 / D - 1872,
1880-82, 1892
Odoreu: B - 1877, 1891 / M - 1877, 1890 / D - 1860-1863
Peles: B - 1872-75
Petea: B - 1871
Piscari (includes Socono, Aroud, Maoaras, Beltiug, Hurezu-Mare,
Criocrelt): B -1879
Potau: B - 1875, 1877-78, 1891 / D - 1877
Ratesi: B - 1871, 1876-79, 1884 / D - 1876, 1877, 1879
Resighea: B - 1878-79, 1884
Saniscau: B - 1874-1886 / D - 1876-1882
Socond: B - 1852, 1877-79 / D - 1879
Soconzel: D - 1864
Tataresti: B - 1878
Satu Mare (the city, that is -- but this probably includes some records
from nearby
smaller communities too -- ten record books total, with overlapping sets
of years
and information): B - 1850-1913 / M - 1851-1921 / D - 1850-1900
Tiream: B - 1880-84 / D - 1878, 1880, 188? (date of the last year is
unclear)
Vama: B - 1880 / M - 1890
Vetis: B - 1876 / M - 1871 / D - 1860-64
Vezenoiu: B - 1876-78 / D - 1876, 1879, 1882

- Brooke Schreier Ganz
Los Angeles, California

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