In the decade following 1928, as Romania tried to improve its relations with the Soviet Union, Ukrainian culture was given some limited means to redevelop, though these gains were sharply reversed in 1938. with historical outline of Berezhany & Berezhany district. [1][2][3] The region is located on the northern slopes of the central Eastern Carpathians and the adjoining plains, today divided between Romania and Ukraine. 1868-1918, 1919-1945, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Birth records, Interwar Romania, Transylvania, Turda, Tags: 1868-1918, 1919-1945, 1946-present, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Banat, Birth records, Interwar Romania, Timioara, World War II, Project Director All Jewish registers held at the Cluj archives are described in detail below; please click on a title for more information. Note that the page number corresponds with the original page number, not the subsequent one given by the National Archives. It was then settled by now extinct tribes (Dacians/Getae, Thracian/Scythian tribes). 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. This register records births, marriages, and deaths for the Jewish community of the village of Aghireu, or Egeres in Hungarian, the name it was known by at the time of recording. 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. 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. [citation needed]. 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. The Hebrew name is sometimes noted. The headings and entries are in Hungarian. Sometimes this information is included and sometimes not. [12][13] In the 1930s an underground nationalist movement, which was led by Orest Zybachynsky and Denys Kvitkovsky, emerged in the region. 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. While during the war the Soviet government killed or forced in exile a considerable number of Ukrainians,[13] after the war the same government deported or killed about 41,000 Romanians. Only the year of birth, the name of the individual and a page number, apparently referring to the original birth book, are recorded. The register was kept quite thoroughly with all data completed clearly in most instances but was severely damaged over time. Lithuania: The JewishGen Lithuania Database That index, however, begins with births in 1857 and goes only until 1885. The index is in Romanian, indicating it was created much later than the original record book to which it refers. Please note the continuation of this book may be found under call number 92/62. The territory of what became known as Bukovina was, from 1775 to 1918, an administrative division of the Habsburg monarchy, the Austrian Empire, and Austria-Hungary. A Yerusha Project, with the support of theRothschild Foundation (Hanadiv) Europe. Still, the information was, in general, entered chronologically, with a few exceptions (births from 1837 and later entered in the last pages). 1868-1918, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Banat, Birth records, Sephardic communities, Timioara, Tags: It is the regional branch of the WorldGenWeb Project. At the same time, Cernui, the third most populous town in Romania (after Bucharest and Chiinu), which had been a mere county seat for the last 20 years, became again a (regional) capital. By the 4th century, the Goths appeared in the region. The register is very short, containing essentially only one page of entries, and may represent a fragment of the original. Cernui-Trgu-Mure, 1994, p. 160. Edit your search or learn more. In general the entries were not comprehensively completed: they frequently only give name; date; gender; parent names and marital status; birth place; whereas normally such a book includes midwife name; circumcision or naming ceremony details and name of witnesses or godparents. Bukovina was formally annexed in January 1775. The book is printed in Hungarian and German and recorded in German. In southern Bucovina, the successive waves of emigration beginning in the Communist era diminished the Jewish population to approximately 150-200 in the early twenty-first century; in northern Bucovina, where several tens of thousands of Jews were still living in the 1980s, large-scale emigration to Israel and the United States began after 1990, The parish registers and transcripts are being microfilmed in the Central Historical Archive of Chernivtsi (formerly Czernowitz). Because of the mix the inclusive dates of some volumes overlap and both the transcript and original entry are available. The headings and entries are in Hungarian. Bukovina's autonomy was undone during Romanian occupation, the region being reduced to an ordinary Romanian province. [4] Bukovina is sometimes known as the 'Switzerland of the East', given its diverse ethnic mosaic and deep forested mountainous landscapes. The entries have significant gaps (ie. The earliest birth entered took place in 1835 and the latest in 1894. This resulted in dead and wounded among the villagers, who had no firearms. For the folk metal band, see, Location of Bukovina within northern Romania and neighbouring Ukraine, Bukovina, now part of Romania and Ukraine. The register is in Hungarian and unlike most Jewish registers, which were created specifically for Jewish communities, this appears to have been created for a Christian community ("christening" vocabulary is used). 4 (1886-1942). The major nearby communities were Storojinet in the southwest, and Sahdhora to the north, and several smaller Jewish communities were also nearby. Note that the Status Quo Ante community became the Neologue community after several years. It was absorbed by Romania between the world wars. [54] According to Alecu Hurmuzaki, by 1848, 55% of the population was Romanian. [52] Indeed, the migrants entering the region came from Romanian Transylvania and Moldavia, as well as from Ukrainian Galicia. The 1910 census counted 800,198 people, of which: Ruthenians 38.88%, Romanians 34.38%, Germans 21.24% (Jews 12.86% included), Polish people 4.55%, Hungarian people 1.31%, Slovaks 0.08%, Slovenes 0.02%, Italian people 0.02%, and a few Croats, Romani people, Serbs and Turkish people. [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. 1868-1918, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Banat, Birth records, Timioara, Tags: Bukovina was part of the Austrian Empire 1775-1918. Frequently mentioned villages are Ocna Dejului (Hung: Dsakna), Chiuieti (Hung: Pecstszeg), Mnstirea (Hung: Szentbenedek), Buneti (Hung: Szplak), Urior (Hung: Alr), Ccu (Hung: Kack, Katzko), and Slica (Hung: Szeluske), but there are many others. Alexianu was replaced by Gheorghe Flondor on 1 February 1939. Later records are in Latin script. Entries should record the names of the child and parents and parents' birth place; the birth date and place of the child; gender; whether the birth was legitimate; information on circumcisions; midwives; and names of witnesses (to the circumcision or name-giving) or godparents. Consequently, the culture of the Kievan Rus' spread in the region. [72] Rumanization, with the closure of schools and suppression of the language, happened in all areas in present-day Romania where the Ukrainians live or lived. Following the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the Austrians claimed that they needed it for a road between Galicia and Transylvania. There is not much difference between the two. Genealogy Austria offer genealogical research services in order to help you find your ancestors in Austria and the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire. Addenda are in Hungarian and Romanian. The Romanian minority of Ukraine also claims to represent a 500,000-strong community. From 1490 to 1492, the Mukha rebellion, led by the Ukrainian hero Petro Mukha, took place in Galicia. However, the Romanian conservatives, led by Iancu Flondor, rejected the idea. To download this article in the pdf format click here. The Austrian Empire occupied Bukovina in October 1774. A significant part of Ukrainian intelligentsia fled to Romania and Germany in the beginning of the occupation. Ukrainian Hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky himself led a campaign in Moldavia, whose result was an alliance between Khmelnytsky and its hospodar Vasile Lupu. 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. Entries record the names of the child and parents, often including mother's maiden name; the birth date and place; gender; whether the birth was legitimate; information on circumcisions; midwives; and names of witnesses (to the circumcision or name-giving) or godparents. 1868-1918, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Birth records, Cluj, Neologue communities, Transylvania, Tags: 1868-1918, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Birth records, Transylvania, Tags: This register records births, marriages, and deaths for the Neologue Jewish community of Cluj. [9] The population of Bukovina increased steadily, primarily through immigration, which Austrian authorities encouraged in order to develop the economy. Vlachs in the land of Pechenegs. The fact that Romanians and Moldovans, a self-declared majority in some regions, were presented as separate categories in the census results, has been criticized in Romania, where there are complains that this artificial Soviet-era practice results in the Romanian population being undercounted, as being divided between Romanians and Moldovans. The transcription of the birth record states "mother from Zebie Galizia". This book was maintained by the Dej community at least until the interwar period (stamps in Romanian). The Northern portion was incorporated into Ukraine afterwards. FEEFHS: Ukraine. Other than the 25 families listed as residing in Dej, no other villages record having more than five familes, most have only one or two. This book sporadically records births that took place, presumably, in the district of Timioara from 1878-1931. Please note entries are sparse and frequently incomplete. 4). This register is noted to be a "double" on the cover. The headings and entries are in Hungarian and the information was, in general, entered chronologically, beginning in 1887 and ending in 1888, with one entry from 1875 made after the fact. U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010. "[4] In the 1880 census, there were 239,690 Ruthenians and Hutzuls, or roughly 41.5% of the population of the region, while Romanians were second with 190,005 people or 33%, a ratio that remained more or less the same until World War I. There are a few slips of paper added to the last page with various petitions for name confirmation or change. Very few births recorded took place in Turda itself. [13], Almost the entire German population of Northern Bukovina was coerced to resettle in 19401941 to the parts of Poland then occupied by Nazi Germany, during 15 September 1940 15 November 1940, after this area was occupied by the Soviet Union. Both headings and entries are in Hungarian. 1775-1867, 1868-1918, Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Birth records, Dej, Marriage records, Transylvania, Tags: Likewise, nationalist sentiment spread among the Romanians. Death June 1932 - null. Bukovina was a closed military district (17751786), then the largest district, Bukovina District (first known as the Czernowitz District), of the Austrian constituent Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (17871849). 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. Peasant revolts broke out in Hutsul in the 1840s, with the peasants demanding more rights, socially and politically. Record sets on All Galicia Database Austrian Ministry of Interior - Certification of Vital Records (1900-1909, 1917-1918) (122) Austrian Ministry of Interior - Certification of Vital Records (1903-1918) (239) Austrian Ministry of Interior - Changes of Names (1900-1918) (879) [12] The area was first settled by Trypillian culture tribes, in the Neolithic. The headings and entries are in Hungarian. 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. 255258; Vasile Ilica. This book records births that took place in the town of Timioara from 1887 to 1942, primarily, though not exclusively, in the Iosefin/Josefstadt/Jzsefvros quarter. All that has been filmed has not yet been made available. In the beginning, Bukovina joined the fledging West Ukrainian National Republic (November 1918), but it was occupied by the Romanian army immediately thereafter.[12]. Very few births recorded took place in Turda itself. The book is arranged by year beginning with 1850 but the first birth recorded is in 1857. 168/2). For some of the Romanian villages, no prior German name could be found. [citation needed] In spite of this, the north of Bukovina managed to remain "solidly Ukrainian. All results for bukovina. In 1992, their descendants numbered four thousand people according to official Romanian statistics. Suceava, 1999. In the early 20th century, a group of scholars surrounding the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand created a plan (that never came to pass) of United States of Greater Austria. bukovina birth records. [13], The Congress elected the Romanian Bukovinian politician Iancu Flondor as chairman, and voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania, with the support of the Romanian, German, and Polish representatives; the Ukrainians did not support this. This register records births, marriages, and deaths for Jews in villages near the town of Dej and in Dej itself. After 1944, the human and economic connections between the northern (Soviet) and southern (Romanian) parts of Bukovina were severed. 1868-1918, 1919-1945, 1946-present, Austrian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Banat, Birth records, Interwar Romania, Tags: Research genealogy for Edwrd Bukovina, as well as other members of the Bukovina family, on Ancestry. After 1908 births are recorded only sporadically. Historically the population consisted of Moldovans (Romanians) and Ukrainians (Ruthenians and Hutzuls). 2). The book is printed and recorded in German. Please note that at the time of the present survey (2016), births dating later than 1914 were not legally accessible. Bukovina's remaining Jews were spared from certain death when it was retaken by Soviet forces in February 1944. Entries are entered across two pages. Russians are the next largest ethnic group with 4.1%, while Poles, Belarusians, and Jews comprise the rest 1.2%. In all, about half of Bukovina's entire Jewish population had perished. 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. During its first months of existence, inutul Suceava suffered far right (Iron Guard) uproars, to which the regional governor Gheorghe Alexianu (the future governor of the Transnistria Governorate) reacted with nationalist and anti-Semitic measures. 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. 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. Birth place and dates of the parents is seldom indicated but children data is almost always completed. "[13] Beside Ukrainians, also Bukovina's Germans and Jews, as well as a number of Romanians and Hungarians, emigrated in 19th and 20th century. Pravove stanovishche natsionalnyh menshyn v Ukraini (19172000), P. 259 (in Ukrainian). The German population was repatriated to Germany. [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. [13] When the conflict between the Soviets and Nazi Germany broke out, and the Soviet troops began moving out of Bukovina, the Ukrainian locals attempted to established their own government, but they were not able to stop the advancing Romanian army. [17], In May 1600 Mihai Viteazul (Michael the Brave), became the ruler the two Danubian principalities and Transylvania. [18], In the 16th and 17th centuries, Ukrainian warriors (Cossacks) were involved in many conflicts against the Turkish and Tatar invaders of the Moldavian territory. Upon its foundation, the Moldovan state recognized the supremacy of Poland, keeping on recognizing it from 1387 to 1497. The register itself is in German. 2 [Timioara-Fabric, nr. Initially, the USSR wanted the whole of Bukovina.