December 2015

Dear Kremenets District Friends,

On behalf of the Kremenets District Research Group Board, I wish you and your loved ones a very Happy Chanuka, Chag Sameach!

Our Concordance (Master Name Index) now has 261,026 entries, 35% more than the version we posted 6 months ago. As a special holiday gift, you can search and/or download the Concordance on our KehilaLinks website:

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/master-surnames.html

Concordance entries now include all of the 31,151 vital records that we have received from the LDS Family History Library plus records that the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) obtained for us from archives in Ukraine. These include 21,559 births, 2,471 marriages, 52 divorces, and 7,824 deaths. Here's the breakdown by Kremenets district town:

Belozirka

Births: 1879-1889, 1894, 1896-1899, 1902-1905, 1906-1916, 1918-1922

Marriages: 1878-1898, 1900-1914, 1918-1925

Berezhtsy (Velikiye Berezhtsy)

Births: 1878-1887,1889-1895, 1900-1901, 1904-1905, 1907-1908, 1912-1913

Deaths: 1879-1891, 1893-1897, 1899-1903, 1905-1913

Katerburg (Katerinovka)

Births: 1885, 1887-1895, 1900-1904, 1907-1911, 1913-1916, 1920, 1922-1931, 1937-1938

Kremenets

Births: 1870-1886, 1888-1906, 1908-1915, 1917-1919, 1922, 1924-1925, 1929-1932

Marriages: 1870-1874, 1876-1883, 1886-1888, 1891-1904, 1906-1907, 1914-1915, 1917-1919, 1921-1922
Divorces: 1887, 1891, 1894, 1903-1904, 1917
Deaths: 1870-1898, 1900-1902, 1904-1907, 1909-1911, 1913-1919, 1921, 1924-1926, 1929

Lanovtsy (Lanovets)

Births: 1878-1894

Oleksinets (Aleksinets, Novy/Staryy Oleksinets)

Births: 1878-1883, 1892, 1896-1898, 1900-1901, 1903-1904, 1906, 1910, 1913

Marriages: 1878-1913

Deaths: 1881-1882, 1884-1888, 1890-1895, 1908, 1910-1914

Shumsk

Births: 1879, 1881-1883, 1885-1886,1888, 1890-1894, 1896

Vishnevets

Births: 1878-1879, 1881-1897, 1900-1906, 1910-1922

Vyshgorodok

Births: 1878-1889, 1895-1904

Note that some of these records take us right up to the eve of the Shoah. Many thanks to Judith Springer and Dena Whitman for translating the vital records, to Ellen Garshick for processing the translations and preparing them for the Concordance, and to Adam Bronstein for making the records searchable on our website using Steve Morse's One-Step search system.

All of the pre-release, unedited translation spreadsheets and translated documents as well as the vital records master spreadsheets are available to our donors on our KDRG Contributors website:

https://sites.google.com/site/kdrgcontributors/documents

Please contact me (rddpdx@gmail.com) if you need information about how to access the KDRG Contributors website.

If you want to see a list of all the records we have completed, are working on, and are acquiring, download our "Document Acquisitions and Status" spreadsheet from the Kremenets KehilaLinks website. It is the first item at:

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/research-projects.html

In addition to vital records, Susan Sobel and Ellen Garshick have extracted and processed all Kremenets-related passenger manifests contained in the Ellis Island database (EIDB). The newly extracted records include name and address of the closest relative in the old country as well as name and address of the person at the immigrant's destination. ALL of the names in every record have been indexed and are in the new Concordance. As a special Chanuka gift, you can download from our Kehilalinks website the full EIDB spreadsheet containing extractions for Kremenets (1,392 records, 2,177 names), Shumsk (357 records, 589 names), and Vishnevets (684 records, 1,127 names). Go to:

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/eidb.html

Many thanks to Sandy Crystall, our webmaster, for posting the spreadsheet on our website.

In cooperation with the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) we are continuing our search for additional vital records. In a few days, I'll send you a list of records we currently are translating and records we are ordering from the Central Archives. We need your help to acquire and translate these records.

Donations to our Kremenets account at JRI-Poland may be made to "Jewish Records Indexing - Poland" 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: _sheila.salo@gmail.com_ <mailto:ssalo@capaccess.org>
Donations Webpage: http://jri-poland.org/support.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 in the U.S. Your contributions are tax-deductible in the U.S. to the extent permitted by law.

Those of you who have contributed to our work within the past 2 years have exclusive access to our KDRG Contributors website on Google.

https://sites.google.com/site/kdrgcontributors/home

This website contains pre-release (and downloadable) copies of _all_ of our record translations and documents, even those that have not yet been edited. These translations will not be publicly available until they are proofread and edited, so it may be a year or more before you can access them ... unless you contribute to our work. Early access to these translations is a major benefit for our donors.

We need your donations to help us keep this work going. All donations are used exclusively to acquire and translate records and documents.

I'm looking forward to hearing from you.

Best wishes,

Ron

Ron Doctor

Co-Coordinator, Kremenets Shtetl CO-OP/Jewish Records Indexing-Poland
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Kremenets/web-pages/index.html
Portland, Oregon USA
and
Board Member and Past Coordinator, JewishGen Ukraine Special Interest Group

Researching DOCTOR (DIOKHTER), VARER, AVERBAKH, KORENFELD ... all from Kremenets, Oleksinets, Yampol, Vishnevets
and KAZDOY (KOSODOY), DUBINSKI, DUBOWSKY ... all from Kiev, Uman, Odessa

Ron

Ron Doctor

Researching DOCTOR (DIOKHTER), VARER, AVERBAKH, KORENFELD ... all from Kremenets, Oleksinets, Yampol, Vishnevets
and KAZDOY (KOSODOY), DUBINSKI, DUBOWSKY ... all from Kiev, Uman, Odessa