RE: [Cz-L] Information about Zastavna documents

Last summer I attended the International Association of Jewish Genealogical
Societies (IAJGS) conference in Paris, including a presentation entitled
"Resources for Jewish Genealogy in Romania," by Dan Jumara. He discussed
availability of birth, marriage or death records in the archives of towns in
Romania. I don't know whether what he said is true for Zastavna because it
is in Ukraine now, but possibly of general interest to list members, here
are the few notes I took on his presentation:

- Former Austro-Hungarian records are organized under the Suceava district.
They are in German with Gothic characters. You must know the exact spelling
of the family and the town.
- You may apply for copies of records through a Romanian Consulate. It will
cost about fifty dollars and you will have to wait several months for the
records. The alternative is to go there [I think he meant Suceava], apply
in writing, the documents will be delivered the next day and you may
photograph them.
- Records after 1910 are in town hall archives.
- All of the foregoing relates to birth, marriage and death records. There
are other data as well.
- The Romanian National Archives contain only pre-1910 records.

I asked Mr. Jumara whether it was possible to get records of Romanian
passport applications made from Bucovina in 1921 and he replied that it was
not.

Dale Prince
Paris
My Czernowitz and Sadagora families: Burger, Edelstein, From, and Focke.

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Subject: [Cz-L] Information about Zastavna documents

A few days ago, I received from Alex Denisenko, information regarding
documents issued to people who lived in Zastavna:

Here excerpts from what Alex wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, there are no personal documents (birth,
marriage and death records), which are kept in the archives of any town.

In the Cz. archives (F 18, description 1) there are several dozens, if
nothundreds, of files about granting Romanian passports to residents of the
Zastavna community, which they could use to travel abroad.
Also, hundreds of cases of personality identifying documents, which indicate
that during WW1 many people from this area had lost all of their documents
as well as all their property and possessions.
For several years Zastavna was on the main front-line of WW1, known as the
"Okna operation".
Some events of this military operation are described in the memoirs of the
chief of staff of the Russian army Jury Danilov.

Mimi

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