November 2012
Dear Fellow Kremenetsers:
We have added a greatly expanded births spreadsheet for towns of the Kremenets
District to our Google KDRG Contributors website (https://sites.google.com/site/kdrgcontributors/).
This spreadsheet now includes records of births that occurred in Belozerka, Katerinovka, Oleksinets, Velikiye Berezhtsy,
and Vyshgorodok as well as Kremenets. In one case,
the new records take us to 1938, right at the eve of the Shoah. The birth
records spreadsheet now has almost 12,500 entries, each with multiple names.
I hope you are as fortunate as I was with these new records. My paternal
grandfather, Avraham Diokhter left Kremenets for the
US in 1900. I knew from earlier birth records that he had a half
brother, Yekusiel Pesach. The new records
produced two other half siblings. They also allowed me to trace the movements
of my gggrandfather and his children and
grandchildren from Oleksinets to Kremenets and on to Katerinovka and Bazaliya. And,
they display 7 different ways my ancestral surname was spelled in the records.
We also have added the most recent update of our Revision List translation
spreadsheet. A table at the top of the spreadsheet identifies the records that
are included as well as records that have been translated but are not yet in
the spreadsheet. The latter currently are being processed. Currently, the
Revision List translation spreadsheet has more than 60,000 entries. Translation
of our original revision list data is almost complete. We are in the process of
obtaining new data that will extend the revision list set from 1868 to 1880.
All of the new records are in the updated Concordance, which also is available
for downloading. The Concordance now has more than 160,000 entries. The next
update, in about 6 months, will bring the total to about 190,000 entries. The
Concordance is searchable using Steve Morse's One-Step search engine. The
search page is available free to everyone at:
http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/master-surnames.html
The KDRG Contributors website on Google is accessible
only to those who have contributed in some way to our work ... by making a
donation or providing documents or a service. One of our members, who wishes to be anonymous, has offered
to match your contributions dollar-for-dollar, up to $1,000. Please help us
take advantage of this very generous offer. We have a deadline of 1 December to
receive matching funds. Many of our members have
made generous donations to help us meet our goal by the deadline. However, we
still are a little short of the $1,000 we need to reach the matching total.
Will you please make a donation today to help us get over the top?
Make your donation to our Kremenets account at JRI-Poland.
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.
Please let me know if you make any great discoveries in the new data. I am
looking forward to hearing from you.
Ron
Ron Doctor
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