Projects and support

Jewishgen and the Ukraine SIG have a number of projects on going concerning Odessa:

* Improving the Odessa KehilaLinks
* Enlarging of the Odessa records collection (Ukraine Database)
- Identifiying available "fonds"
- Acquiring, indexing and translating new "fonds"

The Odessa team, as well as the rest of JewishGen is mainly supported by volunteers and donations.
In order to succeed in this ambitious project, we need your help that can be on several forms:
* Improving the Odessa KehilaLinks
     - If you have information, documents or pictures related to Odessa
     - If you can write an article about a subject related to Odessa
     - If you want to share a family story or anecdote
* Enlarging the Odessa Database
     - If you have documents or data related to Odessa people (vital records, census, other historic documents)
     - If you can work on the classifiying of the data available on the internet
You can contact us.

You can also make a donation to the Odessa Program on the JewishGen-erosity (the main target is the acquisition and translation of new "fonds")

Thanks in advance for your support.

Ariel Parkansky
Odessa Town Leader
Ukraine SIG - Jewishgen.org

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Ongoing Projects for Odessa

Odessa Vital records project: translation of full vital records provided by researchers - currently more than 4300 records already indexed
Odessa Vital records Indexes project: translation of the indexes of the Odessa vital records from 1875-1920 - currently about 60000 records already indexed
Odessa 1897 Census project: translation of the Odessa 1897 Census Jewish records - currently more than 2500 records already indexed

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Completed Projects for Odessa

Remaking of the Odessa KehilaLinks
Tombstone Inscriptions in Odessa Cemeteries: Translation and indexing of the book Tombstone Inscriptions in Odessa Cemeteries. 119 records
All Odessa Address Directory Index 1902-1903: Translation and indexing of the All Odessa Address Directory Index 1902-1903. 6959 records
Ellis Island passenger lists: Compilation and indexing of the Odessa related Ellis Island passenger lists. 28226 records
Tashkent refugees lists: Compilation and indexing of the Odessa related Tashkent refugees lists. 14747 records
Index of family names on Odessa 1858 Census: Compilation, translation and indexing of the Jewish family names on Odessa 1858 census. 279 records

The results of the projects are available at the All Odessa Database on this Kehilalinks, and are submitted to the JG Ukraine Database

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Acknowledgement

None of these projects could have been done without the collaboration of tenths of genealogists who donated their personal records or money for acquisition and translation. A big thank you to all of them.

Even most important was the work of a lot of volunteers who donated their time and skills to translate and index all those records all over the years.
I want to thank them by name:
Ruth Bridgens, Shalom Bronstein, Lara Diamond, Eric Fenstein, Slavik Greenblat, Yoni Kupchik, Isabelle Nemirovski, Nick Perper, Dmitry Pruss, Jane Rollins, Anna Royzner, Vlad Salita, Tana
And specially to Anita Citron Z"L, Julia Lombardo and Laura Breitberg who translated more than half of the records.
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