Botosani Romania

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

Botosani Records Summary