Where are the original vital records for the Jewish community of Kishinev located today?
All vital records for Kishinev are in the Moldova National Archives in Kishinev, but we are very fortunate to have inventories of those holdings available to us online now (see below). There are currently over 600 microfilm rolls of these vital records available for you to borrow from an LDS Family History Center. The most up-to-date inventories of the holdings of these repositories for doing Jewish genealogy were developed and are being maintained by Miriam Weiner who has visited the archives in Kishinev many times. In 1999, she published her inventories in a book called Jewish roots in Ukraine and Moldova (hereafter referred to sometimes as just “JRUM”) and on her Web site, http://www.rtrfoundation.org/. Her inventories are thorough, but, by her own admission, they are not comprehensive. She notes in JRUM that “the reader should also be aware that there is material of interest to Jewish researches in virtually all of the archives in Ukraine and Moldova (see Chapters 4 and 9 [of JURM]
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- Where are the original vital records for the Jewish community of Kishinev located today?
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