November 2010 (2)
Dear Kremenets District Friends,
Thanks to your generous contributions, we have been able to keep our
translators working on the Revision Lists for Kremenets District towns. For the
past 6 months, I have been doing initial processing of their translations. We
have added thousands of entries to the Concordance for the towns of Vishnevets, Radyvyliv (Chervonoarmeysk, Radzivilov), Katerinovka (Katerburg), Yampol, Shumskoye, Velikiye Berezhtsy (Berezhets, Brezits), Vyshgorodok, Oleksinets, Lanovtsy, Belozerka, and Pochayev.
Revision List records contain entries for whole families. In many cases, these
are extended families (uncles, aunts, grandparents, children and their wives
and children, nephews, nieces). Sometimes the residents of these households are
related but have different surnames. So, this is a great way to figure out
relations among the families of our towns. We have translated 5,717 pages for
more than 3,096 households so far. The translation spreadsheet contains 41,273
rows. These revision list translations have produced 53,879 new entries in our
Concordance. And, this is only the 'tip of the iceberg'. We still have about
15,000 pages to translate.
In the meantime, the 390 revision list
pages that have been translated and proofread are now available on JRI-Poland's searchable database. These pages yielded
almost 3,000 name entries in the Concordance. As we proofread additional pages
they will be submitted to JRI-Poland for inclusion in
their database.
In addition, KDRG
Board Member Ellen Garshick has finished editing, proofreading, and
formatting our translation of all of the Hebrew chapters of Pinkas
Kremenets, the 1954 Yizkor Book published in Tel Aviv. The entire Hebrew section,
along with selected translations of Yiddish sections, now is available on the JewishGen Yizkor Book Translations website (http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/kremenets/Kremenets.html#TOC). She has added a personal names
index, a town locator for all towns mentioned in the book, a Bibliography of
Yizkor Books for Kremenets District town and three special Supplements (an
eyewitness article titled "The Holocaust of the Jews from Krzemieniec in 1942" by Jerzy Strumiński,
copies of the incorporation documents for the New York Kremenetser
Association, and the death notice for Galina Sorochinski,
a Polish woman who saved several Kremenets Jews during the Shoah). We owe
deep thanks to Ellen for successfully completing this project.
Thanks to KDRG
Board Member Susan Sobel and to Hadassah Assouline,
Director of the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People, for
obtaining vital records for the Vyshgorodok, a
town in the Kremenets District. We now have digitized copies of almost 900
pages of these vital records for the years 1878-1889 and 1895-1900. In
addition, we soon will receive additional vital records for Kremenets
(1910 and 1922) and Velikiye Berezhtsy (1892-1913).
We need to raise funds to pay for digital copies of these and to translate
them.
An exciting new project soon will be ready for primetime! Susan Sobel Kishon
and Mark Baich have been extracting records
for Kremenets District towns from the Ellis Island Database. Because the EIDB contains some extraordinary errors this work is a lot
more difficult, and a lot more useful, than it first appears. So far, we have
extracted more than 1,000 records for immigrants from Vishnevets
and Shumskoye. As part of this project, Susan
has been indexing the two un-indexed fields: person and address at the
immigrant's origin and person and address at the immigrant's destination. Data
from these un-indexed can be used to identify relationships between families
that have different surnames. We expect the first installment of this work to
be ready before the end of the year. Keep tuned for an announcement of
availability.
A Special Chanuka Gift for Contributors
Now, I'm pleased to announce a special Chanuka gift for those of you who have contributed in some
way to our work. If you have donated money, time, documents, or any kind of
service to further our work, you are one of our 188 Contributors (out of 425 on
our e-mail list). Contributors now can download our translation spreadsheets
and key translated documents. If you are a Contributor you will receive a
message following this one. It will tell you how to access the revision list
translation spreadsheets, vital records (birth, marriage, divorce, and deaths)
translation spreadsheets, and the full translation of the Hebrew section of Pinkas Kremenets (including photos). If you do not
receive a message with the subject line: "Kremenets: For Contributors
Only" then we do not have you listed as a Contributor. Write to me at rddpdx@gmail.com to let me
know if we have erred on this.
If you are not yet a Contributor but would like to have access to the full sets
of translations, all you have to do is make a contribution of any size or any
kind to further our work. Monetary contributions can be made to "Jewish
Records Indexing - Poland". They may be made by check, bank draft, money
order, or credit card. Be sure to specify that your contribution is for the
Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP. Send your donation or credit card information to:
Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, Inc.
c/o Sheila Salo, Treasurer
5607 Greenleaf Road
Cheverly, MD 20785 USA
Telephone: (301) 341-1261
Fax: 1-810-592-1768 (24 hours)
E-Mail: ssalo@capaccess.org
When you send your donation, please
send me an e-mail message to let me know the amount you contribute and the date
of mailing so that we can be sure the donation gets applied properly. If your
employer has a matching gift program, please think about matching your donation
through that program.
The Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP is affiliated with Jewish Records Indexing - Poland,
Inc. (JRI-Poland), which is a non-profit (501(c)(3)
organization. Your contributions are tax-deductible in the U.S. and Canada to
the extent permitted by law.
Ron Doctor
Co-Coordinator, Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP / JRI-Poland
an activity of the Kremenets District Research Group
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/index.html
Researching DOCTOR (DIOKHTER),
VARER, AVERBAKH, KORENFELD ... all from Kremenets, Oleksinets,
Yampol, Vishnevets
and KAZDOY (KOSODOY), DUBINSKI, DUBOWSKY ... all from
Kiev, Uman, Odessa