Surnames in 19th century revision lists for Bessarabia Compiled from data extracted by the Bessarabia Special Interest Group for the JewishGen Romania & Moldova Database http://www.jewishgen.org/Bessarabia http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Romania How to use this document This list can be helpful in finding a surname that did not turn up in a search of the JewishGen database because the spelling differs significantly from what was entered in the search field, despite "sounds like," phonetic, fuzzy or other filters. The database contains more than 98,000 individual entries with nearly 6,100 separate surnames or spelling variations listed below. Data for this document came from town lists for various years between 1824 and 1875, processed as of August 2015. Use the alphabetical links to jump down.