Dear list members, A week ago I wrote that I was reading the census books of 1869, 1880 and 1890 and would tell you when the index opened. It is open, free and without registration:
https://zeydele.com/censuses/?utm_source=czernowitz-l&utm_medium=email What it is. The house-by-house books of the three Austrian censuses of Czernowitz (State Archive of Chernivtsi Oblast, fond 39, opys 3; microfilm on FamilySearch): 101 books, 114,918 names. For each person the index gives the name, relationship, year and place of birth, religion, marital status and occupation, the house and the street, and a link to the sheet on FamilySearch. Viewing the sheet needs a free FamilySearch account. How far to trust it. The books were read by machine, and every sheet carries one of two labels. "Checked" means the sheet was re-read from a higher-resolution image. In my sample checks about 9 surnames in 10 are right, and birth years 97%. All the households recorded as Jewish, about 33,900 people, are at this level. "May contain errors" is the first reading from a low-resolution image: about 3 surnames in 4 are right. This is the rest of the city. I am re-reading it sheet by sheet, and the label changes as each sheet is done. So please use it as a finding aid, not as a transcription. If the exact spelling finds nothing, try "Sounds like" or "Starts with", and always open the original sheet. Many sheets were filmed twice, with and without a pasted-in note; such a person is listed once, with both frames linked. Also new since my first message: 1. Wiznitz and Waschkoutz, 1918–1930: births, marriages and deaths of the two towns and their villages, 20,897 names, each entry linked to its page on FamilySearch. https://zeydele.com/wiznitz-registers/?utm_source=czernowitz-l&utm_medium=email 2. Waschkoutz, 1941: police lists of the Jews of the town and nearby villages, 1,645 names, indexed from photographs that Julie Dawson took in the Chernivtsi archive. https://zeydele.com/waschkoutz-1941/?utm_source=czernowitz-l&utm_medium=email 3. One search across all four collections, 282,077 names. It now also takes a town, the surname of a parent or spouse, and wildcards. https://zeydele.com/names?utm_source=czernowitz-l&utm_medium=email 4. Czernowitz 1941–1944 (USHMM RG-31.006M): a page from a list now shows the heading of that list, as written on its first sheet, with a link to where the list begins, and far more frames name their archive file. This was suggested by a member of this list, and it makes the lists much easier to interpret. 5. The guide to Czernowitz sources has a new section on the government and police fonds of the archive: citizenship, name changes, passports and marriage permits. https://zeydele.com/guides/czernowitz-sources-guide?utm_source=czernowitz-l&utm_medium=email 6. Towns: the catalogue of surviving registers has grown to about 854,000 books and files in 48 countries. https://zeydele.com/towns/?utm_source=czernowitz-l&utm_medium=email Thank you to everyone who has sent corrections in the past week; each one was checked against the original frame. Every page has a "Report an error" link that comes straight to me, and I would be grateful for more. With 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]
