Dear Kremenets District Friends,
Happy Chanuka! Here is a special Chanuka
gift for you ... one that you'll keep returning to for more than the 8 days of Chanuka.
After 12 years of work, we are making freely available to all of our Kremenets District
friends our translation spreadsheets for births in Kremenets District towns
plus Kremenets town marriages, divorces, and deaths.
The Births spreadsheet includes translations of 10,924 birth records for
Kremenets District towns for the period 1870-1938. The Kremenets town records
are on microfilm at the Mormon Family History Library. We obtained records for
other towns from the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People
(Hebrew University, Jerusalem).
You can download the Births spreadsheet
from the Kremenets Town Page on the Ukraine SIG Website:
http://www.jewishgen.org/ukraine/RES_collection.asp?id=741
The spreadsheet is in Excel 2007-2010
format (xlsx extension). If you have an earlier version of Excel you will
need the free compatibility pack that Microsoft makes available on their
website (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3).
The Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths spreadsheet will be available later this
week. I'll send you another message as soon as they are posted.
That comes to almost 17,000 vital
records translated and posted. We have sent all of these records to JRI-Poland where they will be available in a searchable
database within the next day or two. I'll let you know when JRI-Poland
has them online. And, don't forget to search our One-Step Concordance. It is a
master index to all the records we have translated to date.
And, there is much more to come. We have received another 11,000 pages of
records (both vital records and revision lists on DVDs from the Central
Archives. These contain another 25,000 to 35,000 records. They are in the
translation queue. In a message later this week I'll
describe these new records. Keep tuned.
Of course, all this comes with a price tag attached. We had to purchase the new
records from the Central Archives. Although the price was right, we now need to
raise more money so that we can pay our translators for the new work. So, if
you can make a tax-deductible donation to our account at JRI-Poland
(a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, please make your end-of-year
donation today. All donations are tax-deductible in the US and Canada to the
extent allowed by law. Here is the information you will need to make a
donation:
Contributions to "Jewish Records Indexing - Poland" may be 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
Donations Webpage: http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-Pl/creditcard_online_form.htm
Be sure to specify
that your contribution is for the Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP. 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.
Happy Chanuka
to all,
Ron
Ron Doctor (rddpdx@gmail.com)
Co-Coordinator, Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP/Jewish Records Indexing-Poland
An activity of the Kremenets District Research Group
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/index.html
Portland, Oregon USA
Researching DOCTOR (DIOKHTER), VARER,
AVERBAKH, KORENFELD ... all
from Kremenets, Oleksinets, Yampol,
Vishnevets
and KAZDOY (KOSODOY), DUBINSKI, DUBOWSKY ... all from
Kiev, Uman, Odessa