Thank you for this, as it has provided me with documentation that we had not seen before for my father, his three brothers and my grandfather’s younger brother.
We never searched the 1918-1928 register because we knew the brothers were born before those dates. But you uncovered for us in that register delayed reports of birth in 1923 and 1925 for all 4 Wiznitzer brothers. They are classified as illegitimate children of Ruchel Wiznitzer, although that was in fact their mother’s married name, and the report was made long after her death in 1914. It is unclear why the births were reported in this manner or why they appear so late. We can only assume they needed a record of birth for some official registration, for school, military service, or to obtain an ID or passport. There is also an entry for a Schmiel, the name of my father’s uncle, born in 1894, but with a different last name spelling, and this entry also has Ruchel listed as his mother, which would be incorrect. Three brothers emigrated in 1927, settling in Curaçao and Panama. Moses joined two of his two brothers in Curaçao in 1934, and Onkel Shmiel also arrived there sometime before the war. Your work on this is much appreciated, as it addresses our desire for documentation, although the nature of the entries and their timing leave us with new mysteries to ponder. Schloime Wiznitzer https://zeydele.com/wiznitz-registers/record-140401 Moses Wiznitzer https://zeydele.com/wiznitz-registers/record-140402 Abraham Wiznitzer https://zeydele.com/wiznitz-registers/record-119701 Schaye Wiznitzer https://zeydele.com/wiznitz-registers/record-140302 Schmiel Wijnitzer https://zeydele.com/wiznitz-registers/record-130801 On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 5:59 PM Leonid Kats <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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