This register records births, marriages, and deaths for Jews in villages near the town of Dej and in Dej itself. This book is an alphabetic index of names found in the birth record book for the town of Timioara, Fabric quarter, from 1875-1882. The Church in Bukovina was initially administered from Kiev. The headings and entries are in Hungarian. Some pages include slips of paper with notes in Yiddish. In addition to the birth date, place, and gender of the baby, parental information, midwife name, and data on the naming ceremony or bris is provided. The official German name of the province under Austrian rule (17751918), die Bukowina, was derived from the Polish form Bukowina, which in turn was derived from the common Slavic form of buk, meaning beech tree (compare Ukrainian [buk]; German Buche; Hungarian bkkfa). The pages have been repaired but they seem to be out of order or, possibly, extracts from multiple books. [29][30], In World War I, several battles were fought in Bukovina between the Austro-Hungarian, German, and Russian armies, which resulted in the Russian army invading Chernivtsi for three times (30 August to 21 October 1914, 26 November 1914 to 18 February 1915 and 18 June 1916 to 2 August 1917). [citation needed] In spite of Romanian-Slavic speaking frictions over the influence in the local church hierarchy, there was no Romanian-Ukrainian inter-ethnic tension, and both cultures developed in educational and public life. Bukovina suffered great losses during the war. 1775-1867, 1868-1918, Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Birth records, Transylvania, Turda, Tags: The Hebrew name of the child is often given. [41] The majority of those targeted were ethnic native Romanians, but there were (to a lesser degree) representatives of other ethnicities, as well.[42]. [13] As reported by Nistor, in 1781 the Austrian authorities had reported that Bukovina's rural population was composed mostly of immigrants, with only about 6,000 of the 23,000 recorded families being "truly Moldavian". Frequently mentioned villages are Ocna Dejului (Hung: Dsakna), Chiuieti (Hung: Pecstszeg), Mnstirea (Hung: Szentbenedek, Buneti (Hung: Szplak), Urior (Hung: Alr), Ccu (Hung: Kack, Katzko), Reteag (Hung: Retteg), Slica (Hung: Szeluske), but there are many others. Austria / sterreich / Autriche Country Codes Google Maps content is not displayed due to your current cookie settings. [13] The first periodical in the Ukrainian language, Bukovyna (published from 1885 until 1918) was published by the populists since the 1880s. The specific information found in each entry is noted below: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/index.php?title=Bukovina_Church_Records&oldid=2825577, Year, month, and day of birth and baptism, Name and social status or occupation of the father (often includes residence), Name, social status, and residence of godparents, Signature of the priest who performed the baptism, Signature of the priest conducting the burial. All that has been filmed has not yet been made available. As a reaction, partisan groups (composed of both Romanians and Ukrainians) began to operate against the Soviets in the woods around Chernivtsi, Crasna and Codrii Cosminului. These records are in the process of being cataloged. The headings are in Hungarian and German; the entries are in German until around 1880, after which they switch to Hungarian; Hebrew names are frequently included. Ukrainian Bukovinian farmer and activist, died of torture-related causes after attempting to ask for more rights for the Bukovinian Ukrainians to the Austrians. Later, Slavic culture spread, and by the 10th century the region was part of Turkic, Slavic and Romance people like Pechenegs, Cumans, Ruthinians and Vlachs. There is not much difference between the two. Bukovina's remaining Jews were spared from certain death when it was retaken by Soviet forces in February 1944. Bukovina Cemeteries, Archives and Oral History. Also part of Romania is the monastery of John the New[ro; uk], an Orthodox saint and martyr, who was killed by the Tatars in Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi. There is one piece of correspondence about a conversion in 1943. "[4][12][13] While there exist different views on the ethnic composition of the south, it is accepted[by whom?] [22], In 1843 the Ruthenian language was recognized, along with the Romanian language, as 'the language of the people and of the Church in Bukovina'.[55]. During the same event, it writes that Drago was one of the Romans . [32] Although local Ukrainians attempted to incorporate parts of Northern Bukovina into the short-lived West Ukrainian People's Republic, this attempt was defeated by Polish and Romanian troops. As part of the peasant armies, they formed their own regiment, which participated to the 1648 siege of Lviv. A rebel army composed of Moldavian peasants took the fortified towns of Sniatyn, Kolomyia, and Halych, killing many Polish noblemen and burghers, before being halted by the Polish Royal Army in alliance with a Galician leve en masse and Prussian mercenaries while marching to Lviv. 1868-1918, 1919-1945, 1946-present, Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Banat, Birth records, Interwar Romania, Tags: 1775-1867, Austrian Empire, Birth records, Dej, Transylvania, Tags: The most frequently mentioned villages are Urior (Hung: Alr), Rzbuneni (Hung: Szinye), Cuzdrioara (Hung: Kozrvr), Reteag (Hung: Retteg). The Axis invasion of Northern Bukovina was catastrophic for its Jewish population, as conquering Romanian soldiers immediately began massacring its Jewish residents. The Austrian Empire occupied Bukovina in October 1774. 1868-1918, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Banat, Birth records, Interwar Romania, Timioara, World War II, Tags: These are in Hungarian and from the 19th century with the exception of one in Romanian dated 1952 and one in Yiddish, undated. Both headings and entries are entirely in German; some entries have notes in Hungarian added at later points in time. Name; date; gender; parents; marital status of parents; parent residence; midwife name; circumcision or naming ceremony details and name of witnesses or godparents are provided. Please note that at the time of the present survey (2016), births dating later than 1914 were not legally accessible. Pravove stanovishche natsionalnyh menshyn v Ukraini (19172000), P. 259 (in Ukrainian). Entries are often incomplete and the scribe sometimes created his own headings, different from the printed ones. The first book in each section is in handwritten German (headings as well); the next two have headings printed in Hungarian and German and entries in German or Hungarian with subsequent notes and comments in Hungarian. . In the beginning, Bukovina joined the fledging West Ukrainian National Republic (November 1918), but it was occupied by the Romanian army immediately thereafter.[12]. After the war and the return of the Soviets, most of the Jewish survivors from Northern Bukovina fled to Romania (and later settled in Israel).[44]. The book is arranged by locality and it seems likely that the contents originally formed five separate books and the pages were combined into one book at a later point in time. This register records births for the Status Quo Ante Jewish community of Cluj. In the Moldo-Russian Chronicle, writes the events of year 1342, that the Hungarian king Vladislav (Ladislaus) asked the Old Romans and the New Romans to fight the Tatars, by that they will earn a sit in Maramure. The book is printed and recorded in German. The main transition occurred around 1875 when registration when Bukovina came under Romanian influence within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This register records births, marriages, and deaths for the Neologue Jewish community of Cluj. It was organized as part of the Bukovina Governorate. (in Romanian), 1855 Austrian ethnic-map showing 1851 census data in lower right corner, "The Ukrainians: Engaging the 'Eastern Diaspora'". The first list is not dated, but contains birthdates ranging from the late 18th century to the mid-19th century. [citation needed][neutrality is disputed] For example, according to the 2011 Romanian census, Ukrainians of Romania number 51,703 people, making up 0.3% of the total population. [12][13], Eventually, this state collapsed, and Bukovina passed to Hungary. Prince Grigore III Ghica of Moldavia protested and was prepared to take action to recover the territory, but was assassinated, and a Greek-Phanariot foreigner was put on the throne of Moldavia by the Ottomans. As a result, more rights were given to Ukrainians and Romanians, with five Ukrainians (including notably Lukian Kobylytsia), two Romanians and one German elected to represent the region. The region, which is made up of a portion of the northeastern Carpathian Mountains and the neighbouring plain, was settled by both Ruthenians and Vlachs. In the course of the 1941 attack on the Soviet Union by the Axis forces, the Romanian Third Army led by General Petre Dumitrescu (operating in the north), and the Fourth Romanian Army (operating in the south) regained Northern Bukovina, as well as Hertsa, and Bassarabia, during JuneJuly 1941. This register records births for Jews living in the villages surrounding Mociu (Hung: Mcs); there are a few entries for Jews living in Mociu itself. Birth Info, Death Info and Locationeven a guess will help. Only the year of birth, the name of the individual and a page number, apparently referring to the original birth book, are recorded. This register records births in the Jewish community of Dej and in many of the surrounding villages. Today, Bukovina's northern half is the Chernivtsi Oblast of Ukraine, while the southern part is Suceava County of Romania. Avotaynu. Addenda are in Hungarian and Romanian. The book is printed and recorded in Hungarian until around the interwar period when entries begin to be made in Romanian. The 1871 and 1904 jubilees held at Putna Monastery, near the tomb of tefan cel Mare, have constituted tremendous moments for Romanian national identity in Bukovina. Note that the page number corresponds with the original page number, not the subsequent one given by the National Archives. At the same time, Ukrainian enrollment at the Cernui University fell from 239 out of 1671, in 1914, to 155 out of 3,247, in 1933, while simultaneously Romanian enrollment there increased several times to 2,117 out of 3,247. For the folk metal band, see, Location of Bukovina within northern Romania and neighbouring Ukraine, Bukovina, now part of Romania and Ukraine. The first two Ukrainian settlers arrived in Canada in 1891 followed by tens of thousands until the start of the First World War. Romnii nord-bucovineni n exilul totalitarismului sovietic, Victor Brsan "Masacrul inocenilor", Bucureti, 1993, pp. Partea I. Bucureti: Editura Academiei Romne, 2001, ara fagilor: Almanah cultural-literar al romnilor nord-bucovineni. Please note there are a few documents from the interwar period attached to records verifying or contesting legal names. In 1940, Chernivtsi Oblast (.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}23 of which is Northern Bukovina) had a population of circa 805,000, out of which 47.5% were Ukrainians and 28.3% were Romanians, with Germans, Jews, Poles, Hungarians, and Russians comprising the rest. The register was kept quite thoroughly with all data completed clearly in most instances. The specific proposal was published in Aurel C. Popovici's book "Die Vereinigten Staaten von Gro-sterreich" [The United States of Greater Austria], Leipzig, 1906. The German population was repatriated to Germany. Have it mailed to you. After passing to Hungary in the 14th century, the Hungarian king appointed Drago as his deputy and facilitated the migration of Romanians from Maramure and Transylvania into Bukovina. The book is printed and recorded in Hungarian. The situation was not improved until the February Revolution of 1917. On 4 March 1849, Bukovina became a separate Austrian Kronland 'crown land' under a Landesprsident (not a Statthalter, as in other crown lands) and was declared the Herzogtum Bukowina (a nominal duchy, as part of the official full style of the Austrian Emperors). [citation needed]. Tags: Ukrainians are still a recognized minority in Romania, and have one seat reserved in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies. The name and date of birth are provided as well as names of parents, godparents, and midwife. The register was kept quite thoroughly with all data completed clearly in most instances. This register records births for Jews living in and around Turda. Death June 1932 - null. Beside Stotsky, other important Bukovinian leaders were Yerotei Pihuliak, Omelian Popovych, Mykola Vasylko, Orest Zybachynsky[uk], Denis Kvitkovsky [uk], Sylvester Nikorovych, Ivan and Petro Hryhorovych, and Lubomyr Husar. Data recorded is typical for record books of this time and includes the individual's name and birth details; parent details; place of residence; for births information on the circumcision; for marriages information on the ceremony; for deaths circumstances of death and details on the burial. Consequently, the culture of the Kievan Rus' spread in the region. www.lbi.org. [24][25][26], Under Austrian rule, Bukovina remained ethnically mixed: Romanians were predominant in the south, Ukrainians (commonly referred to as Ruthenians in the Empire) in the north, with small numbers of Hungarian Szkelys, Slovak, and Polish peasants, and Germans, Poles and Jews in the towns. Drago Tochi. In 1873, the Eastern Orthodox Bishop of Czernowitz (who was since 1783 under the spiritual jurisdiction of the Metropolitan of Karlovci) was elevated to the rank of Archbishop, when a new Metropolitanate of Bukovinian and Dalmatia was created. 'Familiar language spoken' was not recorded again until 1880. However, by 1914 Bukovina managed to get "the best Ukrainian schools and cultural-educational institutions of all the regions of Ukraine. As a result of the Mongol invasion, the Shypyntsi land, recognizing the suzerainty of the Mongols, arose in the region. bukovina birth records. [73] In Bukovina, the practice of Rumanization dates to much earlier than the 20th century. The same report indicated that Moldavians constituted the majority in the area of Suceava. In 1919, the historian Ion Nistor stated that the Romanians constituted an overwhelming majority in 1774, roughly 64,000 (85%) of the 75,000 total population. Unique is the index at the back of the book which includes a Hebrew alphabet index, according to first name of the father (Reb Benjamin, etc) and then a Latin alphabet index, according to the family name (Ausspitz, etc). The region had been under Polish nominal suzerainty from its foundation (1387) to the time of this battle (1497). Today, the historically Ukrainian northern part is the nucleus of the Ukrainian Chernivtsi Oblast, while the southern part is part of Romania, though there are minorities of Ukrainians and Romanians in Romanian Bukovina and Ukrainian Bukovina respectively. In contrast to most civil record books, this one begins with deaths, then has marriages, then births. [12][13], United by Prince Oleg in the 870s, Kievan Rus' was a loose federation of speakers of East Slavic and Uralic languages from the late 9th to the mid-13th century,[15][16] under the reign of the Rurik dynasty, founded by the Varangian prince Rurik. This book appears to be a register of families for the Jewish community of Dej. The people that have longest inhabited the region, whose language has survived to this day, are the Ruthenian-speakers. Note that the Status Quo Ante community became the Neologue community after several years. New York, U.S., Arriving Passenger and Crew Lists (including Castle Garden and Ellis Island), 1820-1957 . Both headings and entries are in Hungarian. Another birth record is for their daughter . That did not protect them, however, from being arrested and deported for being "anti-Soviet elements". The percentage of Romanians fell from 85.3% in 1774[22][23] to 34.1% in 1910. [51] In 2011, an anthropological analysis of the Russian census of the population of Moldavia in 1774 asserted a population of 68,700 people in 1774, out of which 40,920 (59.6%) Romanians, 22,810 Ruthenians and Hutsuls (33.2%), and 7.2% Jews, Roma, and Armenians. There are a few slips of paper added to the last page with various petitions for name confirmation or change. [5] The region was temporarily recovered by Romania as an ally of Nazi Germany after the latter invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, but retaken by the Soviet army in 1944. [9] The population of Bukovina increased steadily, primarily through immigration, which Austrian authorities encouraged in order to develop the economy. The Moldavian state was formed by the mid-14th century, eventually expanding its territory all the way to the Black Sea. However, it would appear that this rule has been relaxed because records are being acquired through 1945. [citation needed] The strong Ukrainian presence was the official motivation for the inclusion of the region into the Ukrainian SSR and not into the newly formed Moldavian SSR. 18401874-188518401874-18831883-18881890-1892, Entries in Old Cyrillic scriptEntries in Latin scriptHeadings in German Gothic and Old Cyrillic scriptHeadings in German Gothic and Romanian scriptGerman headings in Latin scriptHeadings in Romanian and Russian scripts. The book is arranged by year beginning with 1850 but the first birth recorded is in 1857. There is one page of marriages entered; no year is provided for the marriages (1870s?) Most Ukrainian immigrants of this period were identified on government records as Poles, Russians, Austrians, Bukovinians, Galicians and Ruthenians, arriving from provinces in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In Romanian, in literary or poetic contexts, the name ara Fagilor ('the land of beech trees') is sometimes used. It was first delineated as a separate district of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria in 1775, and was made a nominal duchy within the Austrian Empire in 1849. One of the Romanian mayors of Cernui, Traian Popovici, managed to temporarily exempt from deportation 20,000 Jews living in the city between the fall of 1941 and the spring of 1942. (ctrl- or cmd- click to select more than one), Turda (Hung: Torda), Israelites: births 1892-1930, [Region around] Turda (Hung: Torda), Israelites: birth index 1857-1885, Turda (Hung: Torda), Israelites: births 1885-1891, [Region around] Turda (Hung: Torda), Israelites: births 1835-1894, Turda (Hung: Torda), Israelites: births 1837-1885, Nadu (Hung: Kalotanadas) [Ndelu, Hung: Magyarndas], Israelites: births 1875-1888, Mociu (Hung: Mcs), Israelites: births 1861-1888, Gherla (Hung: Szamosjvr), Israelites: births 1831-1885, Dej (Hung: Ds, Des), Israelites: births 1894-1895, Dej (Hung: Ds, Des), Israelites: births 1886-1893, Dej (Hung: Ds, Des), Israelites: family registry, [District of] Dej (Hung: Ds, Des), Israelites: census lists, 1855, Dej (Hung: Ds, Des), Israelites: births 1876-1886; marriages 1876-1885; deaths 1876-1885, Urior (Hung: Alr) and Chiuieti (Hung: Pecstszeg), Israelites: births 1874-1885; marriages 1874-1884; deaths 1874-1884, [District of] Dej (Hung: Ds, Des), Israelites: births 1855-1875; marriages 1856-1875; deaths 1855-1875, [District of] Dej (Hung: Ds, Des), Israelites: births 1850-1862; marriages 1850-1873; deaths 1850-1870, Reteag (Hung: Retteg), Israelites: births 1855-1871(? Birth place and dates of the parents is seldom indicated but children data is almost always completed. The headings and entries are in Hungarian and often the Hebrew name and date is included. By the 4th century, the Goths appeared in the region. In some languages a definite article, sometimes optional, is used before the name: the Bukovina, increasingly an archaism in English[citation needed], which, however, is found in older literature. Unfortunately, within the archives of Timisoara, there is no birth record book beginning in 1830, so it is not clear to what original book was referred, though some of the later entries can be cross-referenced to the record book catalogued under Timioara-citadel (Timioara-cetate), nr. This register records births for the Jewish community of the village of Bdeti, or Bdok in Hungarian, the name it was known by at the time of recording. The committee took power in the Ukrainian part of Bukovina, including its biggest center Chernivtsi. Many rebels died in the Rohatyn Battle, with Mukha and the survivors fleeing back to Moldavia. Bukovina Genealogy Research - Bukovina Society Bukovina Genealogy Research Researching Bohemian-German Settlers in Bukovina List of Church Records in the National Archive of Romania in Suceava (Note: The records are NOT on-line.) The births section is a log of families rather than a chronological birth register. New York, NY 10011, U.S.A. This book was maintained by the Dej community at least until the interwar period (stamps in Romanian) and there is one certificate of nationality from the interwar period slipped into the births section. According to the data of the 2001 Ukrainian census,[65] the Ukrainians represent about 75% (689,100) of the population of Chernivtsi Oblast, which is the closest, although not an exact, approximation of the territory of the historic Northern Bukovina. By, Calculated from statistics for the counties of Tulcea and Constana from, Oleksandr Derhachov (editor), "Ukrainian Statehood in the Twentieth Century: Historical and Political Analysis", Chapter: "Ukraine in Romanian concepts of the foreign policy", 1996, Kiev, Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Metropolitanate of Bukovinian and Dalmatia, massacred Jewish soldiers and civilians in the town of Dorohoi, Ukrainians are still a recognized minority in Romania, Residence of Bukovinian and Dalmatian Metropolitans, Galicia, Central European historical region, The Creeping Codification of the New Lex Mercatoria, "The Bukovina-Germans During the Habsburg Period: Settlement, Ethnic Interaction, Contributions", "Looking Forwards through the Past: Bukovina's "Return to Europe" after 19891991", "Geography is destiny: Region, nation and empire in Habsburg Jewish Bukovina", "Painted monasteries of Southern Bucovina", "Bukovina (region, Europe) Britannica Online Encyclopedia", "Die Bevlkerung der Bukowina (von Besetzung im Jahr 1774 bis zur Revolution 1848)", "Bukovina Society of the Americas Home Page", "Cronologie Concordant I Antologie de Texte", "127. beyond distribution houston tx; bagwell style bowie; alex pietrangelo family; atlas 80v battery run time; has anyone died at alton towers; The vast majority of the entries from the first set are for residents of Urior (Hung: Alr), a few other nearby villages are also mentioned. The Red Army occupied Cernui and Storojine counties, as well as parts of Rdui and Dorohoi counties (the latter belonged to inutul Suceava, but not to Bukovina). This register records births, marriages, and deaths for Jews in the village of Reteag (Hung: Retteg) and several nearby villages. Notably, Ivan Pidkova, best known as the subject of Ukraine's bard Taras Shevchenko's Ivan Pidkova (1840), led military campaigns in the 1570s. The Bukovina Society of the Americas is a non-profit corporation registered in the State of Kansas. "[13] Beside Ukrainians, also Bukovina's Germans and Jews, as well as a number of Romanians and Hungarians, emigrated in 19th and 20th century. More than 240,000 records for Courland, Livland and Vitebsk gubernias, from a variety of sources, including: voter lists, tax records, census records, death records, newspaper articles, police and military records, Memorial Books, and Extraordinary Commission lists. The most frequently mentioned villages are Ileanda (Hung: Nagy-Illonda), Urior (Hung: Alr), Ccu (Hung: Kack, Katzko), Glod (Hungarian Sosmez), and Slica (Hung: Szeluske). 255258; Vasile Ilica. 4). The index is in Romanian, indicating it was created much later than the original record book to which it refers. waxcenter zenoti login; heide licorice buttons; recette saucisson sec sans boyau. The headings are in Hungarian and German; the entries are in Hungarian. On other hand in North Bukovina the Romanians used to be the biggest ethnic group in the city of Chernivtsi, as well as in the towns of Hlyboka and Storozhynets, and still are in Boiany and Krasnoilsk. In 1940-1941, tens of thousands of Romanian families from northern Bukovina were deported to Siberia. The very term "Ukrainians" was prohibited from the official usage and some Romanians of disputable Ukrainian ethnicity were rather called the "citizens of Romania who forgot their native language" and were forced to change their last names to Romanian-sounding ones. On September 11, 1997 the Society received a determination from the Internal Revenue Service that it is a tax exempt organization under section 501 (c) (3) of the Internal Revenue Code. [69] However, Ukrainian nationalists[citation needed] of the 1990s claimed the region had 110,000 Ukrainians. [13][55] Official censuses in the Austrian Empire (later Austria-Hungary) did not record ethnolinguistic data until 18501851. Please note that the book is catalogued as being from Nadu (Hungarian Kalotandas), but the contents make it apparent that this is an error. This book sporadically records births that took place, presumably, in the district of Timioara from 1878-1931. [4] Bukovina's population was historically ethnically diverse. Please note that at the time of the present survey (2016), births dating later than 1914 were not legally accessible. Later entries in particular are often not fully completed. This register records births, marriages, and deaths for the Jews of several communities near the town of Dej, including Ocna Dejului (Hung: Dsakna); Ccu (Hung: Kack); Maia (Hung: Mnya); Mnstirea (Hung: Szentbenedek); Reteag (Hung: Retteg) and other villages near the above settlements.