ANNOUNCEMENTS
(updated September 2, 2024)
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International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS)
presents Miriam Weiner with Outstanding Resource Award at the annual
IAJGS conference held in Philadelphia, PA, on August 19, 2024.
The award was for her expanded and innovative website
www.rtrfoundation.org.
Also
click here and click here
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Note: Next 7 collections below are searchable by surname at
https://www.rtrfoundation.org/lnintro.shtml
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Kiev Birth Records - Surname Index (1878-1918),
including towns in Kiev Oblast.
Already online at RTRF website is Kiev Birth Index for 1920-1936.
Note: missing years: 1896; 1915-1917
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Repressed and Rehabilitated Jews in Ukraine - 1930s - 1950s:
The purpose of the project was to document the hundreds of thousands of
victims of (illegal) arrests and later "rehabilitated" records of those
same people who were residents of Ukraine; the books cover each Oblast
(province) and there are multiple geographic sections in each volume
of the series.
Data from these oblasts is searchable at this website.
Lutsk, Donetsk, Chernigov and Transcarpathia Oblast.
SAMPLE ENTRY:
"Kantor, Nus (Chaim) Nutavych, born in 1880, Lypovets, Jew, craftsman,
sausage maker, married, two children. Arrest. 04.08.1937 Accused. Under
Art. 54-10 of the Criminal Code of the Ukrainian SSR;
on 23.08.1937 according to the Resolution of the Troika of the NKVD
of Vinnytsia region he was shot on 29.08.1937; rehabilitated: 25.05.1989."
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Odessa, Ukraine - Birth Records - Surname Index / 1875-1920
(1891 is missing). There are approximately 150,000 Jewish names in this
collection.
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Odessa, Ukraine - Marriage Records - Surname Index - 1905-1918
(1908 missing); NOTE: there are 12,500 Entries and they include the year
of event, names of bride, groom, parents of each and some additional data.
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Belarus - new collections for these towns:
Starobin, Timkovichi, Lyady, Monastyrshchina, Nesvizh, Kletsk, Mstislavl,
Minsk & Minsk District (Archives), Minsk Records (YIVO), Rechitsa, Slutsk.
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Ukraine - new collections for these towns:
Rovno, Novaya Ushitsa, Dobromil, Izyaslav, Priluki, Drogobych, Derazhnya.
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Poland - new collections for these towns:
Warsaw, Nowy Zmigrod, Jaslo, Biecz, Nowy Korczyn, Debica, Gorlice.
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Publications - Jewish Roots in Poland; Jewish Roots in Ukraine & Moldova -
It is now possible to click on the "town name" for each of the books
and select the town of interest to view the town chapter from either book.
CLICK HERE for more information
about the foregoing collections
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Holocaust Maps
-- many maps from Sir Martin Gilbert's books with accompanying text
from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
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Holocaust Lists added to this website --
more than 900 name lists for more than 650 separate towns.
Some of these lists are searchable in the Surname Database on this website
and the other name lists are possible to search via an inquiry to the repository
that holds the documents.
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Soviet Town Plans (maps)
added to this website, in color and extremely detailed.
Note: Often there are multiple maps sections for the larger towns.
The maps included on this website are:
1. Belarus - 60 maps for 25 towns
2. Bessarabia/Moldova - 9 maps for 4 towns
3. Lativa - 4 maps for 1 town
4. Lithuania - 14 maps for 3 towns
5. Poland - 75 maps for 58 towns
6. Romania - 8 maps for 6 towns
7. Ukraine - 204 maps for 86 towns
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Joint Operations Graphic (JOG) Maps
added to this website, in color and extremely detailed.
The maps cover towns in Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, Moldova and parts of Romania.
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New Surname Databases
added to RTRF website and are now searchable here.
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National Genealogical society (NGS) presents Miriam Weiner with
Tourism Award at the annual NGS conference held this year in
Richmond, VA, on June 4, 2023.
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Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) presented Miriam Weiner with the Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Humanitarian Award at the annual FGS conference held this year virtually from Austin, TX on September 2, 2020.
Also click here
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National Genealogical Society (NGS) presents Miriam Weiner with President's Citation Award
at annual NGS conference held this year in St. Louis, on May 10 2019.
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Ukraine telephone books (1970-1994) are now searchable by name at Genealogy Indexer.
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New Partnership between Miriam Weiner & Routes to Roots Foundation (RTRF) and the Museum of Jewish Heritage & JewishGen, Inc.
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Maps Section -- new section linking to town/region maps in Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Lithuania
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Publications -- updated and expanded
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Interviews -- new section
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Genealogy Columns - new section
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Book Donations - new section
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Archive Database - updated and expanded
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New Licensing Agreement with JRI-Poland (Jewish Records Indexing)
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New Partnership with JewishGen/Belarus SIG Group
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New Partnership with JewishGen/Bessarabia SIG Group
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Remembering Board Member, Harvey Krueger, Z"L
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Center for Jewish History and Routes to Roots Foundation Expand Online Access to Family History Research
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Newly added: extensive updates to surviving Jewish birth, marriage, death and divorce documents throughout Ukraine.
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Newly added: extensive updates and new archive data from archives throughout Poland.
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Newly added: extensive archive data from the Romanian State Archives branch in Baia Mare
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Newly added: archive data for the city of Moscow, Russia
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Miriam Weiner receives Lifetime Achievement Award
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Fire at the Kamenets Podolskiy Archives in Ukraine!
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Availability of Publications
Jewish Roots in Poland | Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Moldova
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NEW IMAGE EXHIBITION ADDED TO THE WEBSITE
(updated October 24, 2020) |
| A collection of images consisting of both antique postcard views and current photographs of towns and cities throughout the following countries/regions. The images are in a database searchable by town name and this database is continually being expanded from the large collection of images in the Miriam Weiner archives. |
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Belarus |
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Bessarabia (former) |
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Bukovina (former) |
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Galicia (former Austro-Hungarian Empire) |
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Lithuania |
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Moldova (former Bessarabia) |
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Poland |
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Ukraine |
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| A unique collection of Judaic postcards (including synagogue images) have also been added to this database from the following countries: |
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Czechoslovakia (former) |
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France |
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Germany |
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Italy |
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Latvia |
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Romania |
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Yugoslavia |
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South Africa |
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NEW REPOSITORIES ADDED
TO THE DATABASE AND/OR WEBSITE |
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Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (Jerusalem) |
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Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.) / Ukraine telephone books |
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC) |
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YIVO Institute fo Jewish Research (New York) |
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NEWLY-ADDED ARCHIVE INVENTORY INFORMATION
TO THE DATABASE
(updated October 20, 2023) |
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Ukraine |
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Belarus
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Lithuania
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Poland
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Romania
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Russia
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NEW ARTICLES
(updated July 23, 2019) |
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General: "The Conscript" (A Jew is "invited" to join the Tsar's Army)
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Ukraine: Jewish Pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-1921: Documents of Kiev
District Commission for Relief to Victims of Pogroms
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Ukraine: Central State Historical Archives of Ukraine in Lviv |
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Ukraine: Jewish Emigration from Ukraine, 1895-1917
Holdings of the State Archive of Kiev Oblast |
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Ukraine: Jewish Records in the State Archives of Odessa Region:
Origin, Preservation and Access |
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Lithuania: The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum |
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Lithuania: The Shtetl Household |
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Belarus: Archive Acknowledgments |
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Belarus: National Historical Archives of Belarus in Minsk |
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Poland: Books of Residents in Poland |
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Poland: Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Archives
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Moldova: Archive Acknowledgments
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Jewish Identities in Synagogue Architecture of Galicia and Bukovina |
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Ukraine: Synagogues in Ukraine, VOLHYNIA, Volume 2 Shepetivka, pp. 637-651
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