Here is an example of high school no. 6 in Warsaw
https://szkolnictwo.pl/index.php?id=PB5853
https://www.misterwhat.pl/company/1036925-gimnazjum-nr-6-warszawa

I am not familiar with wearing school numbers (if that is what it is) on the caps, in particular for high schools. Caps like that I thought were associated with university students. After the war (my period), we wore school insignia on the upper arm, but that was for elementary schools and high schools. It was not an element of school pride but a means for ordinary citizens to identify a student and report him/her to the school in case of misbehavior in public.

What is the age of the people in the photo?

Frank Szmulowicz

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Rebecca Parmet
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Havertown, PA

Indeed, this is confusing. This book was published in 1945 whereas the book in JewishGen's database seems to have been published in 1946. Also, the page numbers are not the same.

Is this book an earlier version of the one on JewishGen?

Hopefully someone here can clarify.

Yossi Jalas
USA

The trajectories of Gabriel Lopes Pinheiro, Diogo de Aguilar and Fernando
Dias Fernandes

In February 1723, thirteen New Christian/Jewish merchants and businesses
signed the paperwork of a ship transporting gold to the merchant John
Goodall in England. At the time, most of the gold entering the English
market came from Brazil via Lisbon. These merchants were part of a group of
56 businessmen involved in Anglo-Portuguese commerce. Looking at the
thirteen names, we find the Pereira & Lima and the Joseph & Daniel Viana
partnerships, as well as a merchant named Miguel Viana. Behind these names
are Diogo Lopes Pereira, alias Diego de Aguilar (later, Baron d'Aguilar),
Gabriel Lopes Pinheiro, and Fernando Dias Fernandes, three Iberian merchants
that had arrived in London a few years before.

The Portuguese Inquisition had caused them to leave Portugal and rebuild
their lives and businesses in London (and, in the case of Diego d'Aguilar,
also in Vienna). They were part of an influx that impacted the Jewish
community of London in the early 18th Century. Their lives reveal the
motivations, dynamics, and consequences of this migration. Carla Vieira will
discuss their crisscrossed trajectories, which illustrate the impact of the
Inquisition on this group of Lisbon merchants and the pattern of the
Sephardic 18th Century migration to London.

Carla Vieira is a senior researcher at the CHAM – Center for the Humanities,
FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is also a researcher at the Cátedra
de Estudos Sefarditas Alberto Benveniste (School of Arts and Humanities,
Universidade de Lisboa) and editor of the journal Cadernos de Estudos
Sefarditas. Her research has focused on the history of conversos in Portugal
and the Western Sephardic diaspora in the Atlantic space. At the moment, she
is developing the post-doctoral project "Nation between Empires. Sephardic
Diaspora and the Anglo-Portuguese alliance (first half of the 18th
century)", sponsored by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
(SFRH/BPD/109606/2015). She is also the principal investigator of the
project Western Sephardic Diaspora Roadmap.

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I am seeking information on the town of Kandava, orcKandu in the Tukums region of Kurland, Latvia. Specifically the Moshe and Jenny Apflebaum family.
Janice Apple Malett

Chloe You can find records for Zychlin online in the Polish Archives. I do not know where you can find  records for the Book of Residents as I too found  family indexed online at the jri-pl site.
You may also be interested in the Zychlin Memorial Book. I received this notification-

 

 

I've posted two sides of a postcard written in German shorthand. It was sent by a woman in Berlin to her daughter in California shortly after the latter's immigration., and is dated June 1938. (The writer never made it out of Germany and was murdered in 1942 by the Nazis.)
Mother and daughter occasionally communicated in shorthand, sometimes inserting other characters or abbreviations that were part of their personal code. This particular card was among the daughter's paper's when she died in the U.S. at age 100+.
Both sides are available at
https://jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM97279    
and
https://jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM97280  respectively.
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.

Thank you very much,
Judith Lipmanson
Smyrna, Delaware, U.S.A.

 

If they recorded arrivals and departures, was there also a list of people who had not moved?  It would not be a census if it only recorded changes of abode.
Jeffrey Herrmann

Dear Tzipporah,

I don't have a directory for Slovakia from 1944.
The closest I can get are the following:

Peter

There is a book written by one of our past members, Sid Sorkin, on
most of the Chicago Landmanshaften.

Below you will find an extract from his book. If you write to me
privately I can help you find more information.

Mike Karsen
JGSI Help Desk
karsen.mike@...
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Page -207-


The Kishinover Relief Society was chartered April 9, 1951. The men
listed on that charter are Herman Isaacson, Maurice Isaacson, Ben
Rothberg, Paul Grosby and Morris Miller. The permits were issued by
Jacob Pitluk and the last correspondent with the State of Illinois was
David Jacobson. There is no date recorded for dissolution of the
Relief Society.age -207-

charter are Herman Isaacson, Maurice Isaacson, Ben Rothberg, Paul
Grosby and Morris Miller. The permits were issued by Jacob Pitluk and
the last correspondent with the State of Illinois was David Jacobson.
There is no date recorded for dissolution of the Relief Society.

Hi Rennie,
Jewishgen has a KehilaLinks website for Husi and an English translation for Husi chapter of Pinkas Kehilot Romania.
Valentin Lupu
ISRAEL

Hi Trudy,
People have forgotten how census records were researched before the Internet behemoths.

For ferreting out vague, ill-formed names on U.S. census records, nothing beats the Soundex system created by the WPA during the Great Depression. The Soundex name indices to U.S. census records held by NARA are far better, far more accurate, far more complete, and often far more fruitful than the everyname indices created for Ancestry (non-English-speaking foreign labor) and FamilySearch (Utah volunteers). Contact NARA or your local reference librarian to see how to access this microfilm collection.

Professional genealogy firms like Accelerated Indexing Systems (AIS) published volumes with indices to names in U.S. censuses. FamilySearch has an article in its Wiki. Again, speak to a reference librarian.

Check other online name indices to the U.S. census to see if their transcribers had better luck in reading names. Might provide a clue. One good feature of these online databases is the ease of searching by first names. Then look at records in other census years to identify a cluster containing the same or several of the first names you found.

Can you read the names of neighbors? Look them up in other census years. Chances are the families may still be neighbors and this time the handwritten names are legible.

Look at directories and other records of that era. City directories often enumerate all adults living at an address and usually offer a reverse street directory. Other sources you can cross-reference to the census include property records, voter rolls, school yearbooks, and state census records.

Don't forget, too, census records are frequently woefully inaccurate. It didn't matter if names were misspelled, relationships faulty, origins mis-identified, or that women lied about their ages. Didn't impact the legal purpose of the enumeration. Furthermore, records are sealed for 72 years.

So, in general, it's good practise to check whatever you find in a census record to other sources for confirmation.

- Pat Weinthal
Massachusetts, USA