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 *Read the Wikipedia.org article ''History of the Jews in Moldova'', by clicking [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Moldova here].
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+== Find the Town ==
+In order to research your family in Moldova, it is essential that you have identified the place where they came from. It is not enough to know only 'Moldova' or 'Bessarabia;' you must know the town or shtetl that they came from. In addition to research in the records of the country the immigrated to, you may also want to examine the following sources to help you determine possible town locations.
+====JewishGen Family Finder====
+*The [https://www.jewishgen.org/jgff/ '''Family Finder'''] is a database of both ancestral hometowns and surnames that have been researched by their descendants world wide. The Family Finder allows you to connect with others who are researching similar ancestors and origins and collaborate your research. To add the surnames and locations you are researching, click on '''Modify (Edit your existing entries)''' or '''Enter (Add new entries)'''. Type in the surnames and/or locations of interest and hit '''Submit'''. To search the database and see if you can connect to family members and other researchers, choose '''Search (Search the database)''' from the Town Finder home page. You can search for a surname and/or a town. Search results will appear in a chart format giving you the surname, town, country, and researcher information (often includes contact information) and the date they last logged into JewishGen.
+====Miriam Weiner's Surname Database====
+aUsing the '''[https://www.rtrfoundation.org/newwebsite/lnintro.shtml Surname Database]''' on Miriam Weiner's Routes to Roots Foundation website can help narrow down a more specific location for where individuals lived who shared your ancestor's surname.
+*Use the [https://www.rtrfoundation.org/newwebsite/lnsearch.php Standard Surname Database] if you know your ancestor's given name, surname, or town name. This database is comprised of name lists from local historians and heads of Jewish communities, name lists from books, and name lists from various archives.
+*Use the [https://www.rtrfoundation.org/newwebsite/ocrsearch.php OCR Surname Database] (optical character recognition) to search for your ancestor's surname in either the Latin alphabet or in Cyrillic. This database is comprised of information from business directories, address calendars, telephone books, typed name lists, and name lists from books and from archives.
 ==Maps and Gazetteers==
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 The Spiski is a Russian langauge gazetteer that lists the populated places in Imperial Russia. The [http://elib.shpl.ru/ru/nodes/16030-vyp-3-bessarabskaya-guberniya-po-svedeniyam-1859-goda-1861#mode/grid/page/1/zoom/1 '''Bessarabia Gubernia (Province) Spiski'''] is available online. For help reading this gazetteer, see the [[Russia "How to" Guides|Spiski Gazetteer "How to" Guide]].
-====Maps====
+====Maps of your Ancestor's Town====
+* Miriam Weiner's website offers select '''[https://www.rtrfoundation.org/maps3.shtml historical maps of Moldova]''', as well as a variety of '''[https://www.rtrfoundation.org/imagesearch.php historical images]''' from towns in Moldova that may prove useful in your family history.
 *'''[https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/TPL_Base.asp?id=20 JewishGen Bessarabia SIG Military-Topographical Maps]''' explore the other map options under the Map tab on the Bessarabia SIG website.
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 *For a map showing the percentage of Jews in the Pale of Settlement and Congress Poland, c. 1905, click [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_showing_percentage_of_Jews_in_the_Pale_of_Settlement_and_Congress_Poland,_c._1905.png here].
 *To view an additional historical map showing the historical percentage of Jews in governments, click [http://books.google.com/books?id=sr85AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA531&lpg=PA531&dq=%22percentage+of+jews+in+governments%22+map&source=bl&ots=BK42kcedcz&sig=Eb1EvyRT9xaaOxNAlNit1-q2_yU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PcwMU5-xMcGBogTyqYKABg&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22percentage%20of%20jews%20in%20governments%22%20map&f=false here].
-==Genealogies==
-====JewishGen Family Finder====
-*The [https://www.jewishgen.org/jgff/ '''Family Finder'''] is a database of both ancestral hometowns and surnames that have been researched by their descendants world wide. The Family Finder allows you to connect with others who are researching similar ancestors and origins and collaborate your research. To add the surnames and locations you are researching, click on '''Modify (Edit your existing entries)''' or '''Enter (Add new entries)'''. Type in the surnames and/or locations of interest and hit '''Submit'''. To search the database and see if you can connect to family members and other researchers, choose '''Search (Search the database)''' from the Town Finder home page. You can search for a surname and/or a town. Search results will appear in a chart format giving you the surname, town, country, and researcher information (often includes contact information) and the date they last logged into JewishGen.
 ==Revision and Family Lists==
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 Yizkor books are memorial books commemorating a Jewish community that was destroyed during the Holocaust. Books are usually published by former residents and records the remembrance of homes, people and ways of life lost during World War II. Most books are written in Yiddish or Hebrew, but in recent years, many have been translated and made available online. You may wish to refer to the [https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/yizterms.html Glossary of Yizkor Book Terms] list to help you.
-* Take a look at the [https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ '''JewishGen Yizkor Book Project'''] to locate a translation or Yizkor book for your locality of interest.
+*Take a look at the [https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ '''JewishGen Yizkor Book Project'''] to locate a translation or Yizkor book for your locality of interest.
-* Also consider the '''[https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/RES_CollectionList.asp?dctid=8&listtype=P Bessarabia SIG Yizkor Book Translations Collection]''' to locate translations. To see the status of translations of Bessarabian Yizkor books, see the '''[https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/RES_ProjectList.asp?doctype=8&listtype=P Bessarabia SIG Yizkor Book Translations Project.]'''
+*Also consider the '''[https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/RES_CollectionList.asp?dctid=8&listtype=P Bessarabia SIG Yizkor Book Translations Collection]''' to locate translations. To see the status of translations of Bessarabian Yizkor books, see the '''[https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/RES_ProjectList.asp?doctype=8&listtype=P Bessarabia SIG Yizkor Book Translations Project.]'''
 *Use '''[https://genealogyindexer.org/ Genealogy Indexer]''' to find indexes to over 364 Yizkor books.
 *The '''[https://libguides.nypl.org/yizkorbooks New York Public Library]''' has a large collection of Yizkor books, and many have been digitized.
 *The Family History Library has copies of many Yizkor books. Check the '''[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog FamilySearch Catalog]''' for availability for your town.
+==Historical Photos==
+The [https://www.rtrfoundation.org/newwebsite/imagesearch.php '''Image Database'''] on Miriam Weiner's website contains photographs and postcard views of many towns and cities throughout Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Lithuania, Poland, and other select countries dating back to the early 1900s. These include pre-WWI and current town views, photos of synagogues, Jewish cemeteries, and Holocaust memorials. Even if you are unable to find a picture of your ancestor's town, it may still be interesting to see what other towns in the area looked like, which will allow you to a get a feel of what life may have been like for your ancestor.
 ==Additional Records - Finding Aids and Record Inventories==
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 '''[https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Romania/ The JewishGen Romania-Moldova Database]''' contains indexes of additional records including Soviet Repression records, business and commercial directories, WWI information, voter lists, and more!
-====Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation====
+==== Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation ====
-The [https://www.rtrfoundation.org/index.shtml '''Routes to Roots'''] site contains articles, essays, maps, archivist insights, and an archival inventory for Jewish research in Moldova and other Eastern European countries. The website also contains a database of record inventories that is searchable by town. The search for documents in Eastern European ancestral towns is complicated, partly because of the destruction of documents during the Holocaust and changing borders and names. Only the first few letters of the town needs to be known, as all towns beginning with those letters will appear in the list. Some towns will even be cross-referenced with spelling variations or name changes. However, to determine the current spelling of a town, consult the [https://www.jewishgen.org/communities/loctown.asp '''JewishGen Gazetteer'''] or ''Where Once We Walked'' by Mokotoff and Sack. The database will note the types of documents that has survived for that town, including army lists, Jewish vital records, family lists, census records, voter and tax lists, immigration documents, Holocaust material, school records, occupational lists, and more. The span of years covered by these documents and where to find them will also be provided. Records in the archives can be accessed on various websites or databases (such as [https://www.jewishgen.org/ '''JewishGen''']) in person at the archives, by writing to the archives directly, or by hiring a professional researcher to do the work.<ref>Weiner, Miriam. "Eastern European Archival Database Planned". ''AVOTAYNU'' XVII no. 3 (Fall 2001): 3-5.</ref>
+Use the '''[https://www.rtrfoundation.org/search.php Archive Database]''' to locate what records exist for your ancestor's town, and where to find them. Search for the name of your ancestor's locality, and the database will provide results for known surviving records from that location, and where the records are held. (Remember to adjust the search criteria for Soundex options or spelling variations).
+This database contains documents such as army/recruit lists, family lists and census records, Jewish vital records (birth, marriage, death, divorce), immigration documents, voter and tax lists, property and notary records, Holocaust documents, police files, and pogrom documents (school records, occupation lists, local government and hospital records).
-*See [http://www.rtrfoundation.org/ '''Routes to Roots Foundation'''] and '''hover over Moldova''' for a Genealogical and Family History guide to Jewish and civil records in Eastern Europe.
+*See [http://www.rtrfoundation.org/ '''Routes to Roots Foundation'''] and '''hover over Belarus''' for a Genealogical and Family History guide to Jewish and civil records in Eastern Europe
-*See also the book, ''Jewish roots in Ukraine and Moldova'' by Miriam Weiner (FamilySearch Catalog call no. 947.71 F2w 1999).
 ====Jewish Roots====