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Hello everybody,

The Odessa Kehilalinks has new functionalities.Some will be visible for you, other will be transparent:

- What's new section: the home page has been redesigned to provide you with the latest news on Odessa site and projects. In addition, a news archive is available under the section "about" of the main menu.

- Accessibility: some people with limited access for different reasons had problems to work with the dropdown menu (which works on javascript). The site detects now if the browser has javascript capability and deactivates the menu if it's the case. A site index has been added to help all users to understand the site structure and to help the users with javascript problems to navigate through the site. A link to the site index is situated on the footer of the page.

Other news :

- The project of indexation of vital records is very active with 7 volunteers working on the translations.
- We have also 3 volunteers working on the correction and formatting of the 1902-3 real estate index for its integration into the Ukraine database.
- New books will be soon published on the site.

Ariel PARKANSKY
Jewishgen's Odessa Town Leader and Ukraine SIG Web Manager

Hi everybody,

As promised, the All Odessa Directories of 1899 and 1914 are already on line on the Odessa KehilaLinks site.
There are also some new articles available on the "Life in Odessa" section.

In addition, some news about the on going projects:
1) The Odessa database is being incremented almost every day with new translations
2) The Real Estate Directory index is being corrected for its integration into the All Ukraine database
3) Some new articles are being written for the Odessa Kehilalink
4) We are in the conception phase for the redesign of the Ukraine SIG website. The goal is to have the new site live by mid-January.

Ariel PARKANSKY
Jewishgen, Odessa Town Leader

Hi everybody,

As promised, the full Odessa Real Estate Directory of 1901 is already on line on the KehilaLinks site.

Ariel PARKANSKY
Jewishgen, Odessa Town Leader

Hi everybody,

Few days ago I've told you about the publishing of the Odessa Real Estate directory index with its transliteration.
However, the Full directory was not available due to its file size (it was a PDF).
I've got a very positive feedback and plenty of page requests from some of you, which motivated me to find a better solution for the full directory.

After some research, I've found a way to convert the pdf to images in an easy way and the full directory is now accessible on the site.
There's a thematic index and you can navigate page by page.

Now I've found that easy way, other directories will follow soon (1899, 1901 and 1914).

Yesterday, Miriam Weiner reminded me about the searchable database of Odessa Business Owners she has compiled. I've added also a direct link to that database on the resources page. She has other resources for Ukraine you can try on her site.

Be aware that there are some changes going on the server and sometimes you've got an error message when accessing some pages of the site. In those cases, try to reload the page or retry a little later.

Regards,

Ariel PARKANSKY
Jewishgen, Odessa Town Leader

Hello everybody,

I've got some news about the Odessa Kehilalink site.

I've just added the Alphabetical index to the Odessa Real Estate Directory of 1902-1903. You'll find it inside the resources page on the research section.

There are about 7000 names of families owning real estate in the Odessa Municipal District.
Each entry gives the page/s where full information can be found (the full directory it is not included because of its size but I can send a specific page on request) but also indicates the part of the district where the real estate is located (see the notes on the first page of the index).


The index have been treated with optical reading and automatic transliteration so there are errors on the base but most family names are correct.
You'll find for each page side by side the original image, the transliteration and the optical conversion so you'll be able to check on any possible error against the original. I've also added a transliteration tool in the tools section.

There's also a new article on the antisemitism and pogroms in Odessa that I've compiled from different sources in order to give a global view of the violence against Jews from the Russian Empire to WWII.

Any feedback will be welcomed.

Regards,

Ariel PARKANSKY
Jewishgen, Odessa Town Leader