Dear Leonid, What a labor of love . . .I am looking forward to looking at all you have indexed, for this group/yourself/and many others in the future, as well. It really is a wonderful thing you have done for all of us, and I just want to say, "Thank you SOOOOOO much." Sincerely, Leah Snider
On Monday, October 5, 2026 at 08:01:37 AM PDT, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: Dear list members, Thank you to everyone who answered my question last week about the census books of 1869, 1880 and 1890, on the list and off it. As far as I could learn, they are not indexed anywhere, so I am going ahead. I have put what I have so far on a small website. It is free, non-commercial, has no ads and needs no registration: https://zeydele.com What is there now: 1. Czernowitz 1941–1944 (USHMM RG-31.006M, copied from the State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast, fond R-307). A frame-by-frame reading of all 37 reels: about 144,600 name entries, including about 3,700 family declarations of August 1942, plus lists, petitions and correspondence. You can search by surname with "sounds like" matching, so Katz also finds Kac and Kats. Every entry shows the archive file and links to the original frame at USHMM. People born in 1926 or later are shown by surname only. https://zeydele.com/czernowitz-1942/ 2. The census books of 1869, 1880 and 1890 (fond 39, opys 3). I am reading them page by page; about two thirds is done, roughly 109,000 people. The names are not published yet. The page shows the progress and has a waitlist, and I will write here when the index opens. https://zeydele.com/censuses/ 3. Towns. Type a town in any spelling (Waschkoutz, Vășcăuți, Вашківці) and see which registers of births, marriages and deaths are listed for it in archive catalogues: the archive, the shelfmark, the years, and a link to the images where they are online. It covers Bukovina, Galicia and well beyond: about 696,000 books and series for some 24,000 places, compiled from published archive inventories and volunteer projects such as Duck Inspector. This part is still being collected and the coverage is uneven; the sources page lists what is in and what is not yet. https://zeydele.com/towns/ 4. A short guide to the Czernowitz sources: what survives, where it is kept, and what you can see free from home. https://zeydele.com/guides/czernowitz-sources-guide Two things you should know before you rely on it. The reading is machine-assisted, and I check it selectively. In a spot check of about 500 surnames on random frames, 91% were read exactly and another 4% differed by one letter. Typed pages are almost error-free; German and Romanian cursive is where it slips. So please treat it as a first draft and always open the original frame. Every frame page has a "report an error" link that comes straight to me. One list member has already compared his own transcription of the 1942 declarations with mine, and the site is better for it. If you look up the families you know and something is wrong, I would be grateful to hear it. If you represent an archive or a project whose inventory is listed and you want something changed or removed, please write to [email protected]. With thanks, and warm regards, Leonid Katz 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. Beginning in 2021, archived messages can be found at: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To send mail to the list, address it to <[email protected]>. To remove your address from this e-list follow these directions. https://it.cornell.edu/simplelists/manage-subscriptions To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to: [email protected] 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. Beginning in 2021, archived messages can be found at: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To send mail to the list, address it to <[email protected]>. To remove your address from this e-list follow these directions. https://it.cornell.edu/simplelists/manage-subscriptions To receive assistance for this e-list send an e-mail message to: [email protected]
