Re: [Cz-L] Information about Zastavna documents

 From my experience in the northern Bukovina,
Czernowitz and surrounding smaller towns and villages
the easiest way to obtain copies of documents,
is to pay someone in Czernowitz to obtain copies
from the archives.

Mimi

Quoting Asher Turtel <ashtur_at_gmail.com>:

> 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.
>
[Asher Turtel]
>
>
> 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.

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