Dear Bruce, dear all,
We are indeed grateful for any tips or experience list members may
have as there are often many "hidden" collections that are best
accessed through personal contacts. Particularly if any of you have
done research in the smaller towns - Camp. Mold, Vatra Dornei,
Radauti, Gura Humor., Siret - and found documents there, we would be
delighted to know about this. In theory all documents older than 70
years were brought to the Suceava State Archives, but this rule seems
not necessarily to have always been followed.
It is difficult to describe succinctly the way the archives are
organized here. Basically the list that is online of the "holdings" is
a list of umbrella collections and their inventories. These
inventories (for the most part only available as hard copies, though
some are online like the Primarias) then contain more lists of
individual documents or smaller collections. For example, the
Collection of Documents has two inventory lists, which together
contain thousands of documents --- in order to know whether any of
those documents are applicable to Jewish history, you must read
through the hard copy of those inventories (hundreds of pages) and
only THEN are you at the stage of actually requesting a document to
see if, in fact, it is applicable. That is just one example and
admittedly one of the "worst" in terms of time consumption. The final
website for the project will allow users to search via place or other
key word and immediately receive a description of documents and call
number, etc - circumventing the hours of reading through inventory
lists!
Best wishes,
Julie
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:09 AM, Bruce Reisch <bruce.reisch_at_cornell.edu> wrote:
> One more thing - inventories for town archives in Radauti, Fratautii Noi,
> Dornesti, Putna and more are ALSO posted within the Suceava archives site:
> http://www.arhivelenationale.ro/index.php?lan=0&jud=111
> Scroll down to about mid-page, middle column. The pdf showing holdings
> for Primaria Orasului Radauti (1871-1950) yields 10 hits for the word
> Evrei (Hebrew). Romanian speakers - what do we have?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Bruce
>
> On 3/11/13 15:13, "Julie Dawson" <jgd2127_at_columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>>Dear Czernowitzers,
>>
>>The Leo Baeck Institute together with the Rothschild Foundation is
>>sponsoring an archival survey of documents related to the Jewish
>>history of southern Bukovina and southern Transylvania. The website
>>for the project will not be unveiled until the coming autumn, but you
>>may be interested in following the work of the archivists (one of
>>which is myself!) as we explore and document the archival holdings in
>>these regions. We will be making daily postings (during the week) of
>>our progress here:
>>
>>http://jewish-transylvania-bukovina.tumblr.com/
>>
>>We are based in Suceava and working on Bukovina until the start of
>>May, after which we will be working in southern Transylvania until
>>late July.
>>
>>We look forward to your feedback and hope and anticipate that the
>>final product of this project will be useful to genealogists,
>>researchers, and local historians.
>>
>>Please contact me at jdawson_at_lbi.cjh.org if you have questions or
>>comments. My Columbia email address is due to expire shortly. Also
>>please understand that unfortunately we are quite overwhelmed with the
>>amount of work and are not able to undertake personal research
>>requests at this time. One of the aims of this project is to make such
>>research possible for larger groups of people.
>>
>>Best wishes and greetings,
>>
>>Julie
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