Re: [Cz-L] Information about Zastavna documents

[Plain test please]

I tried to receive a birth certificate {from Cz} through the
Romanian embassy in Tel-Aviv. It cost me a lot of money and they sent me to
the Ukrainian embassy.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Dale Prince <daleprince_at_hotmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-75438991-3499338_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-75438991-3499338_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Miriam
> Taylor
> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:37 PM
> To: CZERNOWITZ-L
> 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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