--- For years I believed that there were hardly any Romanian time North Bukovina records (rather than Czernowitz) that survived. So I was very glad to find out recently that some (though not many) Kotsman (Kitsman) region Jewish records were published online by Family Search. I was hoping to find relevant records of my MUNSTER family from Nepolokivtsi, Ukraine (then Nepolocauti, Romania, previously Nepolokouts, Austria) Birth from 1916 to 1924 and Marriage 1915-1918, but was very disappointment to see that this years' group was not included. Family Search have published the following group records, not indexed and not digitised: Birth: 1902-1907, 1925-1927; Marriage: 1921-1929 They are in Romanian / German, names in most of them easy to decipher, and include valuable Genealogical information, even mother's maiden name. I almost gave up, but out of curiosity and thinking of the slightest chance that may be an earlier record from the Austrian era made its way to this group of later Romanian records, I decided to view the records, starting with 1924-1927 Birth and later the 1921-1924 marriage. It became a very surprising and emotional adventure: To start with, I found my mother's cousin Clara MUNSTER birth registration from Nepolokivtsi (then Nepolocauti). Clara (Dontzia) still lives in Israel and this will be my present to her in my next month trip to Israel. Then, while scrolling page by page on the marriage records, my hope fulfilled itself and earlier records appeared! To start with I found Clara's parents' marriage record twice: Menasche MUNSTER (later perished in Transniestria) and Feige LANDMAN were married probably about 1915, but there was a marriage registration in 1921, then a second one in 1928, both in Nepolocauti, one signed by Rabbi Schmiel SCHACHTER from Cotmani and the second by Rabbi David FRANKEL from Nepolocauti, later murdered with his family during the deportation to Transniestria. And in between I had my own emotional discovery moment, finding my grandparents Avraham Yitzhak MUNSTER and Sali (Sara) SCHERL marriage registration in 1923, though married about 6 years earlier in Wiznitz, then Austria! I had two more important discoveries in this registration - my grandfather year of birth and his mother's maiden name (IWANIER) which were both unknown even to his children. If you have family from this region I encourage you to scroll via the records, even if you do a few minutes each time. There are records from many communities, not only from known Jewish communities as: Kotzman, Czernowitz, Berhomet (both P/P and P/S), Nepolocauti, Wiznitz, Zastavna, Zablotow, , Davydivtsi, Banila etc. but also from small and some exotic named villages, unknown to have Jewish communities, e.g.: Borauti, Bahinesti, Piedecauti, Dulcauti, Lujeni, Ramancauti, Malatineli, Sipeniti, Sizcauti, Orzehlib, Ivancauti, Stanceni, Orshivtsi, Laschinca and many more. Here are the available records of Metrical Books 1902-1929, Jewish Congregation Kotzman Bukowina, which you can find in Family Search (need to login): https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1886767?availability=Family%20Hi story%20Library Volume 1245-1/941 Births 1902-1907 Film 2446437 Item 2,�7799360 Volume 1245-1/942 Marriages 1921-1924 Film 2446437 Item 3, 7799360 Volume 1245-1/943 Marriages 1924-1929 Film 2446437 Item 4,�7799360 Volume 1245-1/944 Births 1925-1927 Film 2446437 Item 5,7799360 Volume 1245-1/944 (cont.) Births 1927 Film 2446438 Item 1, 7327975 Yohanan Loeffler Melbourne Australia Researching MUNSTER, NAGEL from Wiznitz, Nepolokivtsi, Knyazhe, Kosow. SCHERL, PERLMUTTER, IWANIER, from Berhomet P/S, Kosow. --- Edgar Hauster ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This moderated discussion group is for information exchange on the subject of Czernowitz and Sadagora Jewish History and Genealogy. The opinions expressed in these posts are the opinions of the original poster only and not necessarily the opinions of the List Owner, the Webmaster or any other members or entities connected with this mailing list. The Czernowitz-L list has an associated web site at http://czernowitz.ehpes.com that includes a searchable archive of all messages posted to this list. As a result, Messages sent to the list are available to the general public within days of posting. To send mail to the list, address it to <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>. Please post in "Plain Text" (help available at: <http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/PlainText.html>). To remove your address from this e-list follow the directions at: <https://it.cornell.edu/lyris/leave-e-lists-lyris> To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to: <owner-Czernowitz-L_at_list.cornell.edu> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on 2018-08-01 07:05:03
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