Family Name Search

Harvey Kabaker of Silver Springs (MD) has extracted a list of Baltsi residents family names from Bessarabia SIG's database of Russian revision lists from various years between 1848 and 1875.  The .pdf of the family names can be found here

Vital Records for Moldova

Records are available from two archives - the Moldova National Archives and the Archives of Ancient Acts. Arhiva Nationala a Republicii Moldovei (Moldova National Archives) str. Gheorghe Asachi, Nr. 67-B Chisinau 277028 Republica Moldova Tel.: 00373-22-73-58-27 Tel.: 00373-22-72-97-93 Fax: 00373-22-73-58-36 Open 08:00 - 12:30, 13:30 - 17:00. Closed Sat, Sun. The archive is unable to undertake research requests by mail. Visit, or hire a private researcher. Arhiva Actelor Starii Civile (Archives of Ancient Acts (civil registrations) 31 August Street, Nr. 82 Chisinau 277019 Republica Moldova Tel/Fax: 373/0422/23-70-50

Bălți Vital Records

The following Bălți  records are available: Birth records are available for the following years in the Moldova National Archives - 1845; 1854-1861; 1863; 1865; 1867-1879; 1882-1883; 1889; 1891; 1893-1901 Birth records are available for the following years in the Archives of Ancient Acts - 1892 - 1929 Death records are available for the following years in the Moldova National Archives - 1858; 1860; 1867; 1877; 1887-1892; 1893; 1901; 1905; 1908 Death records are available for the following years in the Archives of Ancient Acts - 1913-1914; 1917; 1919-1922; 1924-1929 Marriage records are available for the following years in the Moldova National Archives - 1845; 1854-1881; 1885; 1887-1888; 1890 (ALPHA INDEX 1855- 1869); 1894-1896; 1903-1905; 1908 Marriage records are available for the following years in the Archives of Ancient Acts - 1909-1912; 1914-1929 Divorce records are available in the Moldova National Archives for 1879

Routes to Roots Foundation

Miriam Weiner (president of the Routes to Roots Foundation) made a number of journeys to Moldova and to Bălți. The Foundation website enables a user to search the ARCHIVE DATABASE (by town name) to see a list of surviving Jewish and civil records in the archives of Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Lithuania. Data includes document type, years available, name and location of repository with the material and archive file numbers. Country Region Repository City Document Type Archive Type MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV ARMY/RECRUITS ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV BIRTH ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV BIRTH ZAGS OFFICE MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV CENSUS ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV DEATH ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV DEATH ZAGS OFFICE MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV HOLOCAUST ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV KAHAL/JEWISH COMM. ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV PROPERTY OWNERS ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV MARRIAGE ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV MARRIAGE ZAGS OFFICE MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV POLICE/KGB FILES ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV OCCUPATION LISTS ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV LOCAL GOVERNMENT ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV SCHOOL RECORDS ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV TAX LIST ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV DIVORCE ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV IMMIGRATION ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY KISHINEV VOTER LISTS ARCHIVES MOLDOVA BELTSY WASHINGTON DC HOLOCAUST ARCHIVES The Bălți Cemetery database was created by Miriam Weiner (for the Routes to Roots Foundation) and the source of the database is a 120-page listing of burials in the Bălți Jewish cemetery. The list (created in 1990) is in Russian and was translated by Miriam Weiner. Further material can be found at the Bessarabia Special Interest Group (SIG) at http://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia/files/fromMiriamWeiner/TownEntries/Beltsy.pdf

JewishGen - Bessarabia Special Interest Group

The Bessarabia SIG has a range of very useful research material on its pages. This includes the full database of the Bessarabia Business Directory of 1924- 25; access to the Jewish Gen transcribed Bessarabia Duma Voters List Database and much other material. There is also information about the Bălți cemetery project - photographing and indexing graves. Project Coordinators - Arcadiy Verzub, Cleveland, OH (ark.verzub@gmail.com), Yefim Kogan, Boston (yefimk@verizon.net). To see the project proposal click here: Full Project Proposal. The project information is being uploaded to the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR) and the first 422 have been uploaded.

International Jewish Cemetery Project 

Excerpts from IJCP entry: The cemetery is “...located on flat land and surrounded by a broken wall with a gate that locks, the 800.000 square metres.  Site has 25.000 gravestones. The oldest gravestone dates from the 19th century. Vandalism occurred between 1990 and 2004. Many tombstones are broken or fallen. Some graves were opened”. There is a Holocaust memorial by Sergey Panchenko to commemorate the local Jewish martyrs. “Before WWII, almost 20,000 Jews lived in Balti. More than 15,000 died either in the extermination camps or by the harshness. In 1945, 5,000 survived, 3,000 had evacuated to Russia and 2,000 were alive in Transnistria.”