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madeleine
The vital records of Warta for the years 1823-1855 and 1858 have now been
added to the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland database. For those of you who are not familiar with this town it is located about 35 miles West of Lodz and about 10 miles North of Sieradz on the Warta River. The earlier records starting in 1808 do not have surnames, only patronymics, and will be added at a later time. Madeleine Okladek Shtetl-CO-OP Leader
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madeleine
The vital records of Warta for the years 1823-1855 and 1858 have now been
added to the Jewish Records Indexing - Poland database. For those of you who are not familiar with this town it is located about 35 miles West of Lodz and about 10 miles North of Sieradz on the Warta River. The earlier records starting in 1808 do not have surnames, only patronymics, and will be added at a later time. Madeleine Okladek Shtetl-CO-OP Leader
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Re: Pohrebyszcze, Ukraine
#general
Alan Shuchat <ashuchat@...>
In article Ada Holtzman <ada01@...> wrote:
Please anyone can advise me what is the current name of this townIt is Pogrebishche, Ukraine. Shtetl Finder gives its coordinates 4929 2916 and says it's 85.9 miles SW of Kiev. I believe it was also known as Pogrebintsy. My relatives lived there at one point. Alan Shuchat ashuchat@... Newton Mass. Researching: SHUCHAT (Talnoye, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Odessa, Balta (Abazovka), Tavrig) VINOKUR (Talnoye) KURIS (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki, Berdichev) SILVERMAN (Soroki, Kremenets) BIRNBAUM (Kamenets-Podolski) KITAIGORODSKI (Zvenigorodka)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Pohrebyszcze, Ukraine
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Alan Shuchat <ashuchat@...>
In article Ada Holtzman <ada01@...> wrote:
Please anyone can advise me what is the current name of this townIt is Pogrebishche, Ukraine. Shtetl Finder gives its coordinates 4929 2916 and says it's 85.9 miles SW of Kiev. I believe it was also known as Pogrebintsy. My relatives lived there at one point. Alan Shuchat ashuchat@... Newton Mass. Researching: SHUCHAT (Talnoye, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Odessa, Balta (Abazovka), Tavrig) VINOKUR (Talnoye) KURIS (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki, Berdichev) SILVERMAN (Soroki, Kremenets) BIRNBAUM (Kamenets-Podolski) KITAIGORODSKI (Zvenigorodka)
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Re: Eighth Avenue Temple, Brooklyn
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Alan Shuchat <ashuchat@...>
In article "Phyllis Dahl" <pda@...> wrote:
Going through family papers I came across a reference to:The temple exists and is thriving. It is Congregation Beth Elohim. Rabbi Lyons was probably your mother's teacher. If I remember correctly, he was followed by Rabbi Landman and then Rabbi Sack (when I became a Bar Mitzvah). The current rabbi is Gerald Wieder. For an email link to the Temple, go to http://uahc.org/congs/ny/ny019/ Alan Shuchat ashuchat@... Newton Mass. Researching: SHUCHAT (Talnoye, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Odessa, Balta (Abazovka), Tavrig) VINOKUR (Talnoye) KURIS (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki, Berdichev) SILVERMAN (Soroki, Kremenets) BIRNBAUM (Kamenets-Podolski) KITAIGORODSKI (Zvenigorodka)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Eighth Avenue Temple, Brooklyn
#general
Alan Shuchat <ashuchat@...>
In article "Phyllis Dahl" <pda@...> wrote:
Going through family papers I came across a reference to:The temple exists and is thriving. It is Congregation Beth Elohim. Rabbi Lyons was probably your mother's teacher. If I remember correctly, he was followed by Rabbi Landman and then Rabbi Sack (when I became a Bar Mitzvah). The current rabbi is Gerald Wieder. For an email link to the Temple, go to http://uahc.org/congs/ny/ny019/ Alan Shuchat ashuchat@... Newton Mass. Researching: SHUCHAT (Talnoye, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Odessa, Balta (Abazovka), Tavrig) VINOKUR (Talnoye) KURIS (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki, Berdichev) SILVERMAN (Soroki, Kremenets) BIRNBAUM (Kamenets-Podolski) KITAIGORODSKI (Zvenigorodka)
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Annotation on Passenger List
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Roy Ogus <ogus@...>
Can anyone help me interpret an annotation on the passenger list for a boat
that docked in New York City on June 9, 1903? The ship was the Rotterdam, of the Holland-American lines. Near to the passenger's name was the following annotation: 2x - 78306 505 (C.O. 205 - 2/25/39) 1/18/39 I understand that these annotations were usually made when the passenger list was checked at the time of the naturalization of the person involved. The above naturalization appeared to have taken place in 1939. Can anyone interpret the above numbers? Can these help me to find the naturalization documents of this person (who was a woman)? Thanks. Roy Ogus Palo Alto, California, USA ogus@...
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Annotation on Passenger List
#general
Roy Ogus <ogus@...>
Can anyone help me interpret an annotation on the passenger list for a boat
that docked in New York City on June 9, 1903? The ship was the Rotterdam, of the Holland-American lines. Near to the passenger's name was the following annotation: 2x - 78306 505 (C.O. 205 - 2/25/39) 1/18/39 I understand that these annotations were usually made when the passenger list was checked at the time of the naturalization of the person involved. The above naturalization appeared to have taken place in 1939. Can anyone interpret the above numbers? Can these help me to find the naturalization documents of this person (who was a woman)? Thanks. Roy Ogus Palo Alto, California, USA ogus@...
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Wurzburg Archives
#general
Would any one have an address for the Stadt Archives of Wurzburg
in Germany. Many thanks Ron Wallace Mendham, NJ
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Wurzburg Archives
#general
Would any one have an address for the Stadt Archives of Wurzburg
in Germany. Many thanks Ron Wallace Mendham, NJ
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Englanders--Poland to Chicago to Brooklyn, NY
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Daniel Kazez <dkazez@...>
After a year-long search, I find myself unable to find any
trace of a large branch of my family tree. It's an especially important branch to me, because the couple at the top were the first members of my extended family to arrive in the New World. Perhaps a few of you could suggest how I can search? The brief story is this: Solomon and Mary Englander arrived in the USA around 1886, and had nine children. They appear in the Chicago census and city directories >from 1894 to 1915. After this, there is no race of the children. The parents appear in Patchogue, NY (1920 NY Census) and Brooklyn, NY (1934 City Directory), but not in the New York borough death indices, 1933 to 1960. None of the family appears in SSDI. I have prepared easy-to-read details here: http://userpages.wittenberg.edu/dkazez/h2/EngHelp2.html Or I can send you an e-mail message with a simple version of the family details. Please, can anyone help? Dan Daniel Kazez / dkazez@... Springfield, Ohio USA Poland: TALMAN (Plawno), ENGLANDER (Mstow and nearby), JURKIEWICZ Ukraine: OBERMAN (Zaslav), LISS Turkey: KAZEZ, FRESKO, ALHADEF
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Englanders--Poland to Chicago to Brooklyn, NY
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Daniel Kazez <dkazez@...>
After a year-long search, I find myself unable to find any
trace of a large branch of my family tree. It's an especially important branch to me, because the couple at the top were the first members of my extended family to arrive in the New World. Perhaps a few of you could suggest how I can search? The brief story is this: Solomon and Mary Englander arrived in the USA around 1886, and had nine children. They appear in the Chicago census and city directories >from 1894 to 1915. After this, there is no race of the children. The parents appear in Patchogue, NY (1920 NY Census) and Brooklyn, NY (1934 City Directory), but not in the New York borough death indices, 1933 to 1960. None of the family appears in SSDI. I have prepared easy-to-read details here: http://userpages.wittenberg.edu/dkazez/h2/EngHelp2.html Or I can send you an e-mail message with a simple version of the family details. Please, can anyone help? Dan Daniel Kazez / dkazez@... Springfield, Ohio USA Poland: TALMAN (Plawno), ENGLANDER (Mstow and nearby), JURKIEWICZ Ukraine: OBERMAN (Zaslav), LISS Turkey: KAZEZ, FRESKO, ALHADEF
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Deckelbaum Immigration Website
#general
Carol Deckelbaum <caroldeckelbaum@...>
I am pleased to announce the completion of my new website about the
immigration of Deckelbaums to the USA. In the mid-1990s I spent an entire year researching every available passenger record as well as census records, naturalization records and vital records. I was trying to tie other Deckelbaum families to my own, and although I was not successful, I did uncover a tremendous amount of information and make a few new friends along the way. I decided the data I collected was not doing anyone any good in the back of my closet, so I have assembled it and published it on the internet to make it widely available to anyone who it may interest. The website contains: (1) Passenger manifest details of all Deckelbaums appearing in index records for eastern seaports (2) Breakdown of the various Deckelbaum Families who had family members that immigrated to America (3) Rafalovka Web: a brief history and geography of the shtetl called Rafalovka (where the majority of Deckelbaums emigrated from.) (4) Memoirs: memoirs of Rafalovka >from various members of my Deckelbaum family. (5) Surnames: a list of surnames found in all of the various Deckelbaum families (6) Shtetls: the names of towns given as birthplace or last residence on the passenger records. The website is at http://www.shadow.net/~yettamoe/. Please let me know what you think - offer up any corrections or suggestions or additions. Most Sincerely, Carol Deckelbaum caroldeckelbaum@...
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Deckelbaum Immigration Website
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Carol Deckelbaum <caroldeckelbaum@...>
I am pleased to announce the completion of my new website about the
immigration of Deckelbaums to the USA. In the mid-1990s I spent an entire year researching every available passenger record as well as census records, naturalization records and vital records. I was trying to tie other Deckelbaum families to my own, and although I was not successful, I did uncover a tremendous amount of information and make a few new friends along the way. I decided the data I collected was not doing anyone any good in the back of my closet, so I have assembled it and published it on the internet to make it widely available to anyone who it may interest. The website contains: (1) Passenger manifest details of all Deckelbaums appearing in index records for eastern seaports (2) Breakdown of the various Deckelbaum Families who had family members that immigrated to America (3) Rafalovka Web: a brief history and geography of the shtetl called Rafalovka (where the majority of Deckelbaums emigrated from.) (4) Memoirs: memoirs of Rafalovka >from various members of my Deckelbaum family. (5) Surnames: a list of surnames found in all of the various Deckelbaum families (6) Shtetls: the names of towns given as birthplace or last residence on the passenger records. The website is at http://www.shadow.net/~yettamoe/. Please let me know what you think - offer up any corrections or suggestions or additions. Most Sincerely, Carol Deckelbaum caroldeckelbaum@...
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Yiskor Books
#belarus
David Frey <dfrey@...>
Dear Genners
Sorry about that last message, but all these pain chemicals are turning my brain to mush. Below is the store I was refering to - Sorry http://www.idealbooks.com/catalog_769/yizkor2.htm YIZKOR BOOKS. CATALOG # 769 ------------------------------------------------------------------- and this is the book: Chmielnik Pinkas. Yiskor book in memory of the annihilated Jewish Community. T-A, 1960. 1303 p. in Yiddish, photos. Large format. $125.00 If someone can look at the volumne and advise me I would be most grateful. David Frey dfrey@...
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Belarus State Archives
#belarus
Frances Sacker <frances@...>
I would like to request a search in the Central State Historical
Archives in Belarus. How much should I send to cover the cost? I am requesting a search on three names, my grandmother, her father and her uncle - all the same name KATZOWITCH. Do they answer in English? The town is Krivichi. Does anybody know of other archives which might hold information on this town? Sorry if some of this information is already available, but I have not been able to find it. Frances Sacker London, England Searching: KATZOWITCH, SPANGELET, MAISTER, MEISTER, YOSSOVITCH, CORB, TZECHER
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Belarus SIG #Belarus Yiskor Books
#belarus
David Frey <dfrey@...>
Dear Genners
Sorry about that last message, but all these pain chemicals are turning my brain to mush. Below is the store I was refering to - Sorry http://www.idealbooks.com/catalog_769/yizkor2.htm YIZKOR BOOKS. CATALOG # 769 ------------------------------------------------------------------- and this is the book: Chmielnik Pinkas. Yiskor book in memory of the annihilated Jewish Community. T-A, 1960. 1303 p. in Yiddish, photos. Large format. $125.00 If someone can look at the volumne and advise me I would be most grateful. David Frey dfrey@...
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Belarus SIG #Belarus Belarus State Archives
#belarus
Frances Sacker <frances@...>
I would like to request a search in the Central State Historical
Archives in Belarus. How much should I send to cover the cost? I am requesting a search on three names, my grandmother, her father and her uncle - all the same name KATZOWITCH. Do they answer in English? The town is Krivichi. Does anybody know of other archives which might hold information on this town? Sorry if some of this information is already available, but I have not been able to find it. Frances Sacker London, England Searching: KATZOWITCH, SPANGELET, MAISTER, MEISTER, YOSSOVITCH, CORB, TZECHER
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New book-Jewish stories
#yizkorbooks
Andreas Inhofner <a.inhof@...>
By my private research, I found a very nice and interesting book -- however
in German language only, until now: Austrian-Jewish Life Stories >from the Habsburg Monarchy (Oral History): "Als haetten wir dazugehoert" (as much as: 'as if we were a part of them, of it') is the German original title of a book, issued by Boehlau in German language (Vienna-Cologne-Weimar) in late 1999, in cooperation with Leo Baeck Institute, New York, and the Institute for History of the Jews in Austria. One of the stories is translated to English on http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/brody/a_day_in_the_house.htm Part 1 (Introduction): History, social and economical situation, Antisemitism. Part 2: Oral History, personal stories >from Galicia, Moravia, Bukovina, Bohemia and Vienna. A collection of life stories of the Jews of the former Austrian Monarchy, between 1848 and 1918. A large number of authors, with mainly private family stories about everyday's manifold life and culture. The editor, Albert Lichtblau, is professor in Salzburg and visiting professor of the University of Chicago, with connections to the Shoa foundation. Boehlau homepage http://www.boehlau.at/ Andreas Inhofner, a.inhof@... or inhofner@... , Vienna Searching for: NUSSBAUM, GUTTMANN, CZECHER, METANOMSKI >from Brody, Galicia, now Ukraina; CZECHER >from Debica, Galicia, now Poland; METANOMSKI from Boryslaw, Galicia, now Ukraina. Same names and KULKA, KORNFELD >from Vienna, Austria, Switzerland, New York and White Plains, NY. HIRSCHHORN >from Sambor, Galicia, now Ukraine, later Vienna and New York.
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Yizkor Books #YizkorBooks New book-Jewish stories
#yizkorbooks
Andreas Inhofner <a.inhof@...>
By my private research, I found a very nice and interesting book -- however
in German language only, until now: Austrian-Jewish Life Stories >from the Habsburg Monarchy (Oral History): "Als haetten wir dazugehoert" (as much as: 'as if we were a part of them, of it') is the German original title of a book, issued by Boehlau in German language (Vienna-Cologne-Weimar) in late 1999, in cooperation with Leo Baeck Institute, New York, and the Institute for History of the Jews in Austria. One of the stories is translated to English on http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/brody/a_day_in_the_house.htm Part 1 (Introduction): History, social and economical situation, Antisemitism. Part 2: Oral History, personal stories >from Galicia, Moravia, Bukovina, Bohemia and Vienna. A collection of life stories of the Jews of the former Austrian Monarchy, between 1848 and 1918. A large number of authors, with mainly private family stories about everyday's manifold life and culture. The editor, Albert Lichtblau, is professor in Salzburg and visiting professor of the University of Chicago, with connections to the Shoa foundation. Boehlau homepage http://www.boehlau.at/ Andreas Inhofner, a.inhof@... or inhofner@... , Vienna Searching for: NUSSBAUM, GUTTMANN, CZECHER, METANOMSKI >from Brody, Galicia, now Ukraina; CZECHER >from Debica, Galicia, now Poland; METANOMSKI from Boryslaw, Galicia, now Ukraina. Same names and KULKA, KORNFELD >from Vienna, Austria, Switzerland, New York and White Plains, NY. HIRSCHHORN >from Sambor, Galicia, now Ukraine, later Vienna and New York.
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