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Botosani  Records

This section summarizes availability of important historical records for the Botosani area - both online and at various archives, libraries, etc. All researchers are invited to submit information on additional sources and offer any corrections. 

A significant source of Romanian historic information is the Romanian National Archives with over 40  branches. Much of the information is at the Botosani branch (BB), although due to the changing borders some towns and years could be elsewhere.  Soren Goldenberg has kindly found & translated the official new  2008 regulations regarding the number of documents that can be viewed per day.

  *new*  See Sample Archive Records for examples 

Botosani  Records Summary

Type Rec Dates Population Group Language note location/comments info src
Births 1865-1939 Botosani Municipality, civil records Romanian 1 BB  LG
Marriages 1865-1939 Botosani Municipality, civil records Romanian 2 BB LG
BMD 1865-1896 Botosani Municipality, civil records Romanian   BB, total of 429 registers BL
BMD 1857-64 Botosani Municipality, Jewish Registers Cyrillic/Romanian 6  BB  LG/BL
Burials 1906-1986 Botosani  Jewish cemetery Hebrew, Romanian, English   Register kept at cemetery and was transcribed. In 2007 these 13198 records were added to JOWBR BS
BMD 1860 Bucecea Cyrillic/Romanian   BB LG
BMD 1865-1895 Darabani & Frumusica Romanian   BB, abt 70 events per year LG
BMD 1865-1939 Hirlau, Frumusica Romanian 4 BB  JB 
Deaths 1880s-1960s Hirlau cemetery records (2500-3000 burials)  English 5 online PDF file - Hirlau_Cemetery_Records JB
BMD 1859-1865 Sulita Cyrillic/Romanian   BB  LG
Census 1803-1851 Moldavia? old Cyrillic 3 unclear where these are, called catagtafii LG
Census 1850, 1852, 1860 Moldavia census (Moldavia & Wallachia united after 1860) Cyrilliic   probably BB or Iasi  
Census 1865,1899 Romania census Romanian   probably BB  

Additions and corrections to the above are welcome. 

notes

BB=Botosani Branch of the State Archives

1 Alphabetic by given name but incomplete. letters D to J include only 1865-1885.
2 Alphabetic by given name but incomplete. includes only letters A to J 
3 Census registers called catagrafii included all Jews in Moldavian admin. units
4 Post 1907 transfer from Iasi to Botosani
5 Given name, father given, date of death, stone location, comments. Previously in Botosani County,  now in Iasi County just south of current border.
6 possibly to 1865.  Not clear if the records contain Hebrew.
 

sources: BL=Beth Long, BS=Bruno Segal, JB= Jack H. Bloom Phd, LG= Professor Ladislau Gyemant

Other key links:

JewishGen ShtetLinks Romania SIG

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Last Updated on February 22, 2008.