Re: Bracha #ukraine
Sylvia Furshman Nusinov
Sorry - but your premise is in error!
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When passengers left their home port , they were given ID tags which they wore around their necks. Upon arrival, their names were copied >from these tags by Immigration officials. Most errors were made later, in transliteration of Immigration Arrival and Passenger documents by volunteers. My Grandmother's name was actually Soulia, so your Sara may have, in fact, been Sure. "The if, when, and how of immigrant name-changing on ship passenger lists is a matter of unending controversy. But there were simple rules." [as noted in various info-files in JewishGen] Sylvia Sylvia Furshman Nusinov President Emerita JGSPBCI, FL USA Searching: ABELMAN, ARONSON, DOROGOI, FRUCHT/FURSHMAN, FURSTMAN, GORDON, MELC, SHEINKEROVICH, SHIMENOVITZ, Kaunas,Vilnius, Moletai,Ukmerge, Lithuania AVNER, AWNER,WECHSLER, EHRENPREIS,FRIEDHOFFER, Ukraine NOUSSINOFF/NUSINOV, LENTOTCHNIK/LENT, Ukraine ----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Laden" <jladen@...> To: "Ukraine SIG" <ukraine@...> Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2007 11:18 AM Subject: Re:[ukraine] Bracha Ship's manifests are notoriously incorrect in terms of |
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