A Sunken Treasure of Czernowitz

Czernowitzers... On September 1st of last year I got an outstanding birthday present, i. e. a mail from my friend Dragos Olaru, an outstanding researcher and archivist from Czernowitz: "Nearly all primary data to the censuses effected for the CITY OF CZERNOWITZ during the Austrian period for the years 1869/70, 1880/81, 1890/91 and some of them for the year 1900 are deposited in our archives. I knew before about their existence, but thanks to Eli [Eliezer Schaffer] I examined several files and realized that these primary data are hiding a real treasure: the names of all persons registered house by house including the dates of birth, the localities where they came from coming to Czernowitz, their professions, the degree of relationship among themselves, etc. The first censuses were effected by house numbers, the last ones by streets [and house numbers...]." Just a short seemingly trivial notice, but in fact A GENEALOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH, made possible by the priceless persistence of Eliezer Schaffer from Haifa and by the thoughtful cooperativeness of Dragos Olaru. Just imagine, at the end of the day you will be able • to track the migration movement of your family, • to interchange house numbers with streets [+ house numbers] and much, much more. We spent months to crosscheck this find, but now, in order to give an insight into these data to all of you, I'm publishing one of "my" census-return forms both on my Blog and in parallel on our ehpes.com Blog: http://hauster.blogspot.de/2013/04/a-sunken-treasure-of-czernowitz.html http://ehpes.com/blog1/2013/04/09/a-sunken-treasure-of-czernowitz/ The document is dated January 3rd, 1891, displaying my great-grandparents Isak Hauster and Chane Jente Silber as well as four of their children, among them my grandfather Elias Hauster. Well, dear friends, we have located A SUNKEN TREASURE OF CZERNOWITZ, but how to recover it, individually or collectively? I don't know yet, but stand on me, I'm working on this subject! Enjoy the discovery and the possible future effects on your genealogical researches! Edgar Hauster • MacBook Lent • The Netherlands
Received on 2013-04-09 11:51:05