Transcript Belarus SIG Annual Meeting

Belarus SIG Annual Meeting
31th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy
August 18, 2011
Washington, DC
Belarus SIG team
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Your current Belarus SIG team
– Sharon Fingold (Co-Coordinator)
– David Feldman (Co-Coordinator)
– Ruth Silver (Research Coordinator)
– Paul Zoglin (Database coordinator)
– Taube Import (Newsletter editor)
– Kevin Hanit (Webmaster)
Belarus SIG team – Project Coordinators
Town
Volunteer
Town
Volunteer
Bobruisk
Marvin Lopatin
Mir
Hadassah Lipsius
Brest Uyezd
Jenni Buch
Motel
Debra J Wolraich
Cherven
Jeff Malka
Mstibova
Nancy Holden
Derechin
Steven Rosenberg
Nesvizh
Steven Stein
Dokshitsy
Joel Alpert
Novogrodok Uyezd
Gregory Oken
Gomel
Paul Zoglin
Pinsk Uyezd
Adam Davis
Grodno and
Volkovysk Uyezds
Jim Yarin
Pruzhany Uyezd
Jay Lenefsky
Izabelin
Joe Rosenshein
Skidel
Linda Hugel
Kaminka
Ze'ev Sharon
Slonim
Alan Tapper
Kletsk
Henry Neugass
Slutsk Uyezd
Bob Kosovsky
Kobrin Uyezd
Elise Friedman
Swislocz
Jennifer Mohr Morse
Kobrin Uyezd
Debra J Wolraich
Vilieka Uyezd
Stephen A. Cohen
Lepel Uyezd
Ara Morenberg
Vishnevo,Dolginuv
Eilat Gordin Levitan
Lida
Irene Newhouse
Vitebsk
Adam Katzeff
Lunna, Wola
Ruth Marcus
Vitebsk
Esther Rechtschafner
Lyakhovichi
Gary Palgon
Voklovysk
Jessica Schein
Minsk Gubernia
Michael Kaltman
Zelwa
Jerry Barrish
Database Coordinator Report - Records Uploaded
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Formatted 29 record files according to JewishGen specifications:
– 13,363 Birth records
– 4,773 Death records
– 1,168 Marriage and Divorce records
– 33,082 Revision List records
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Formatted 28 Belarus Static Index files according to JewishGen
specifications (Files already up only on Belarus SIG search):
– 1,461 Birth records
– 2,372 Death records
– 1,076 Marriage and Divorce records
– 5,668 Revision List records
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Created/Updated JewishGen Belarus Database info web pages
for birth, death, marriage, divorce and revision list records
Database Coordinator Report
Ongoing projects
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Inventory all genealogically useful Belarus records in the following
archives:
– NHAB Minsk
– NHAB Grodno
– LVIA Vilna
– CAHJP Jerusalem
– District archives in Belarus
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Inventory will contain the following fields:
Source Archive
Fond
Series
File
Town
Uyezd
Gubernia
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Type of Records
Description of Records
Years
Number of Records
Microfilm #
Item #
Beginning frame
Need help in developing inventory
Ending frame
Contains Jewish Records?
Translated?
Uploaded?
Source
Comments
Notes
Database Coordinator Report
Ongoing projects
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Inventory all records currently in the JewishGen Belarus database
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Format remaining Belarus Static Index files not in the JewishGen
Belarus database according to JewishGen specifications
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Review all Shtetlinks sites, Avotaynu articles and Belarus SIG
messages for references to translated records not currently in the
JewishGen Belarus database and references to new record sources
Current Projects: Bobruisk
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
Funds
$3,316
$2,158
$1,158
Surplus
Project Coordinator: Sharon Fingold/NEED VOLUNTEER
Current project: Have more files to translate, need new project
coordinator
Files completed: (Being loaded into the JewishGen Belarus
Database)
• 1894-1895, 1897-1900 Bobruisk Death Records (2,140)
• Bobruisk birth records 1877, 1886-1888 (1,192)
• Bobruisk marriage records 1879-1882 (581)
Current Projects: Borisov
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
Funds
$1,426
$0
1,426
Surplus
Project Coordinator: NEED VOLUNTEER
Current Projects: Old file with 6,073 birth and death records
1769-1928 – need source. There are funds available but no
current projects.
Files completed: (Being loaded into the JewishGen Belarus
Database)
• 1834, 1870-1873 & 1874 Borisov Revision Lists (725)
Current Projects: Brest
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
Funds
$5,303
$3,177
$2,126
Need
Project Coordinator: Jenni Buch
Current Projects: Starting 20,000 vital records project for Jews
for Brest for the beginning of 1900. Will need a lot of additional
funds to continue project
New files completed and need to be loaded in to JBD
(Waiting on template approval)
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List of 1920-1922 Brest List of returning residents
Files completed:
Current Projects: Gomel
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
Funds
$5,406
$4,107
$1,299
Need
Project Coordinators: Paul Zoglin
Current Projects: Transcribing and translating the birth
records from 1853-1918
Files completed: 1853-1918 Marriage records (4,969
records )
Current Projects: Grodno/Volkovysk
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
Funds
$23,184
$25,496
-$2,312
Need
Project Coordinators: Jim Yarin, Ruth Marcus, Ruth Silver
Current Projects: 1874 Grodno Conscripts (214) (need template approval), 1906 Voter
list (poor quality records, Jim is looking for other copies)
Files completed: Over 22,000 names have been added to "Grodno and Volkovysk
Uyezd Revision Lists." Primarily, the records are from
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1858 Revision Lists for Grodno Uyezd (district) towns Indura (Amdur), Kaminka,
Krynki, Lunna, Mosty, Ozery, Skidel, Volpa (Wolp), Vola (Wola) and Berestovitsa,
Izabelin, Jalowka, Lopenitsa, Lyskow, Mstibovo, Noryi Dvor, Peski, Porozovo, Ros,
Swisloch, Wolkovysk, Zelwa and over 8700 records from the city of Grodno itself
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1853 alphabetical conscription lists of males from Volkovysk Uyezd towns (Izabelin,
Jalowka (Yalovka) Poland, Lopenitsky, Lyskovo, Mstibava, Novy Dvor, Peski,
Porozovo, Ros, Svislach, Volkovysk and Zelva), which are based on 1850 revision
lists.
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1850 revision lists of the Galilee and Israel farming colonies; additional revision list
from the City of Grodno with 400 entries; and 1400 entries from the 1858 revision list
for the town of Volkovysk.
Current Projects: Kobrin
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
Funds
$2,794
$2,557
$237
Need
Project Coordinator: Elise Friedman, Debra J Wolraich
Current Projects:
• 1856, 1864 censuses of Yakovlevo Jewish Farmers
• 1851,1854,1885 Kobrin Supplemental Revision skazkas
(needs to be formatted)
Files completed: (Being loaded into the JewishGen Belarus
Database)
• 1840-1844 Kobrin Birth Records(498)
• 1853 Kobrin revision list (1,966)
Current Projects: Lida
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
Funds
$4,035
$3,730
$305
Need
Project Coordinators: Irene Newhouse, Ellen Sadove Renck
Current Projects: Contract issued for extraction and
indexing of 1889-1914 metric records. There are
approximately 12,000 records so additional funds will need
to be raised. Completed files shown below.
Files completed: (Being loaded into the JewishGen
Belarus Database)
•
1897 – 1914 Marriage records (925)
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1898 – 1914 Death records (1,846)
•
1896 – 1914 Birth records (3,425)
Current Projects: Minsk
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
$7,143
$2,874
$4,269
Funds
Project Coordinator: Michael Kaltman
Current Projects:
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Records of the Minsk Jewish Community Council (1825-1917) YIVO data (Dave Fox)
Minsk 1847 marriages
Lakhov Belarus marriages 1879-1915
Rubizhevich tax records 1839
Minsk Births 1905
Files completed: (Files in upload queue)
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BirthKarolin1860_1872
BirthPinsk1882
BirthStolin1911
Gorodok_death_1911_1917
Marriage_Zembin1905
Minsk 1840 divorces
Minsk births 1836-1840, 1847, 1852, 1861, 1866, 1869, 1880, 1882, 1895 & 1901
Minsk Marriages 1839 ,1857 & 1921
Minsk Zaslav Koidanov Deaths 1840, 1846, 1856, 1861, 1867
Death Rakov 1908
Current Projects: Mogilev
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
Funds
$4,625
$5,009
-$384
Need
Project Coordinator: VOLUNTEER NEEDED
Current Projects:
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Mogilev Death 1872, 1873, 1874
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Mogilev Birth 1872, 1873, 1874
Files completed:
Current Projects: Nesvizh
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
Funds
$3,946
$6,067
-$2,122
Need
Project Coordinator: Steve Stein
Current Projects: When more funds are raised, the 1816
Revision list will be translated
Files completed: (Being loaded into the JewishGen Belarus
Database)
• 1850 Nesvizh Revision List (2,711)
• 1834 Nesvizh Revision List (2,974)
• 1874 Nesvizh Revision List (1,873)
Current Projects: Novogrodok/Gorodische
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
Funds
$2,001
$2,419
-$418
Need
Project Coordinator: Gregory Oken
Current Projects:
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1806, 1811, 1816, 1818, 1827, 1828, 1834 Gorodische Revision Lists
Files completed:
(Being loaded into the JewishGen Belarus
Database)
•
1873-1880 Revision skazka of Jews shtetl Gorodische (786)
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Gorodische records Rev Skazka 1850-1869 (1,067)
Current Projects: Pinsk
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
Funds
$3,147
$607
$2,540
Surplus
Project Coordinator: Adam Davis
Current Projects: There are funds available but no current
projects.
Files completed:
Current Projects: Senno
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
Funds
$440
$0
$440
Surplus
Project Coordinator: VOLUNTEER NEEDED
Current Projects: There are funds available but no current
projects.
Files completed:
Current Projects: Slonim
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
Funds
$3,435
$2,705
$730
Need
Project Coordinator: Steve Rosenberg, Alan Tapper
Current Projects: Two projects delayed starting, 1850
Revision List of Agricultural Colonies and additional 1851 Revision
List of Agricultural Colonies as archives are undertaking
restoration.1853 List of male Jews of Slonim has been completed
and needs to be formatted and uploaded.
Files completed: (Being loaded into the JewishGen Belarus
Database)
• 1874 Derechin Revision List (800)
Current Projects: Slutsk
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
Funds
$4,337
$1,647
$2,690
Surplus
Project Coordinator: Bob Kosovsky
Current Projects: New project just started:1816 Slutsk
revision list.
Files completed: (Being loaded into the JewishGen Belarus
Database)
• 1811 Slutsk Revision List (1,265)
Current Projects: Vileika
Total
Donations
Total
Expenses
Net
Funds
$5,110
$4,474
$636
Surplus
Project Coordinator: Steve Cohen
Current Projects: There are funds available but no current
projects.
Files completed: (Being loaded into the JewishGen Belarus
Database)
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1834 Revision List for Towns of Vileika, Radoshikovich and Iliya and Doliginovo
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1850 Revision List for towns of Dunilovichi, Iliya, Molodechno, Myshlevichi vil.,
Poreviche vil., Rushitsi vil., Udranka vil., Vasiliev vil.(Folvark)
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Total records for 1834 and 1850 (5,119)
Overall Financial Highlights
(Through 6/30/11)
Donations
Expenses
Net
$105,926
$78,696
$27,229
Overall SIG
Yearly Donations:
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2006 - $4,456
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2007 - $4,722
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2008 - $8,412
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2009 - $12,284
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2010 - $16,266
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2011 (through June) - $3,518
Updated Website
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There has been interest in updating website
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Current website is confusing and not easy to find information
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Draft website
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Not an easy job, requires a lot of attention to detail
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A lot of legacy information
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Volunteers needed
How to organize your next
research project
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Discuss project with Ruth Silver [email protected] and then
complete a project proposal
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Complete the necessary JewishGen agreements
(http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/agree/Explanation.htm)
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Submit the project proposal to Ruth and send your forms to JewishGen.
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Leadership team and JewishGen approve project.
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Project gets listed on the JewishGen-erosity site.
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Project leader contacts members with roots in this shtetl and raises
funds (if needed) .Project begins.
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Follow guidelines for templates and transliteration
(http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/$Transcription.html)
How YOU Can Help
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Donate Funds to the Belarus SIG and to JewishGen
– Map of Belarus for $100 donation to project of your choice
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Contribute material to our website
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Register your family on the family finder
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Contribute material to our newsletter
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Develop a ShtetLinks page for your shtetl
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Organize a Yizkor book translation
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Promote the SIG at your local JGS meetings
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Actively participate on the SIG Discussion Group
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Donate data to the SIG
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Volunteer …
Volunteers Needed
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Project coordinators for current projects or known data
available – Bobruisk, Borisov, Mogilev, Senno, Orsha,
Rogachev and others
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Project coordinators for your town
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Mentor for new members who have basic questions
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Fundraisers. Are there other ways for us to reach out to
members?
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Discussion Group Moderator to share the work (minimal effort
needed)
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Web support (work on new site, work with Kevin Hanit to fix
broken links and other maintenance)
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Transliterators (Russian/Cyrillic, Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew,
others)
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Sending around form