Thursday, September 26, 2019

Top Online Genealogy Resources for Bukovina, Austro-Hungary

Following up on my post on Galicia online resources, I have selected a list of useful links for researching another region of Austro-Hungary, Bukovina.

In 1775 – 1849 Bukovina (German: Bukowina/Buchenland, Ukrainian: Буковина, Romanian: Bucovina) was an integral part of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria within the Habsburg empire. Since 1849 it was a separate administrative unit, the Dutchy of Bukovina. In the interwar period Bukovina was under Romanian jurisdiction. After WWII Northern Bukovina was part of Soviet Union, and after 1991 - Ukraine, while Southern Bukovina is in Romania.

Bukovina divided between Ukraine and Romania

Here is my selection of online resources I recommend for Bukovina family research. (I will be updating this post with new links, as new websites and online research tools constantly keep popping up).

Primers

FamilySearch Wiki page on Bukovina 
Foundation for East European Family History Studies page on Bukovina 
Himka, John-Paul. Galicia and Bukovina: a research handbook about Western Ukraine, late 19th and 20th centuries, 1949-, Alberta.

Online Maps

On Mapire:
Bukowina (1773–1775) - First Military Survey
Distrikt Bukowina (1773–1776) - First Military Survey
Galicia and Bucovina (1861–1864) - Second military survey of the Habsburg Empire
Habsburg Empire (1869-1887) - Third Military Survey (1:75000)
Note: cadastral maps on Mapire do not include Bukovina!

Bukowina map from the Austro-Hungary First Military Survey

Maps of Czernowitz, Bukovina and Surrounding Areas on Ehpes
Bukovina Religions Map ca. 1900 on Gesher Galicia
Maps of Bukovina and region on JewishGen 
Maps on Jewish Galicia and Bukovina 
Old maps of Bukovina on Wikimedia
G. Freytags Karte der Bukowina (1915)
 
Gazetteers, Town Locators

Gemeindelexikon der im Reichsrate vertretenen Königreiche und Länder, Vol. 13 Bukovina
Bukovina villages, towns, cities, and their Germans
JewishGen Gazetteer

Austrian Gazetteer of Bukovina, 1907.
Databases Online 

FamilySearch Catalog for Bukovina. Also search for your specific town (Tips on how to do it on A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Digital Images in the FamilySearch Catalog
Ehpes - Czernowitz/Bukovina Databases
Searchable databases for Czernowitz and Bukovina on GeneaSearch 
Bucovina Vital Records Database by JewishGen 

Databases on Geneasearch


Dedicated Websites

Jewish Galicia and Bukovina
Jewish Bukovina: Sources for Genealogical and Family History Research 
Ehpes website on Jewish heritage of Czernowitz/Sadagora 
Research Project on Galician and Bukovinian Jewry 
Jewish Bukovina and Transylvania
Czernowitz.de website dedicated to German heritage of Bukovina
Hungarian Bukovina project

Czernowitz Street Names

Plan of Czernowitz with the new street name, house numbers and elevation 
Nomenclature of Czernowitz street names (Austrian, Romanianm Soviet)
The Czernowitz Street Name Translator
Czernowitz & Suburbs City Directories

Plan of Czernowitz, with the street names and house numbers

Vital Records at Archives

Catalog of metric records at State Archives of Chernivtsi Region, Ukraine (In Ukrainian) 
Catalog of metric records at Suceava Archives, Romania (In Romanian)

Blogs

Czernowitz blog
The Ehpes Blog

The Ehpes blog

Facebook Groups, Societies

Bukovina Interest Group on Facebook
Bukovina Societies of the Americas
East European Genealogical Society













2 comments:

  1. Hi Valentina. My expertise is with the records of the five Hungarian (Székely) villages of Bukovina

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  2. Hi Beth! Interesting! Do you have any recommendations for online resources on Bukovinian Székely villages? Thank you!

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