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Holland American line - marvelous website
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Hilary Henkin <propper@...>
Dear Group,
I recently surfed to a new site, and thought some of you might enjoy it. It bills itself as The Unofficial Holland America Website, and has lots of history, information, and photos - some old, and some newer. The URL is http://www.cupcaked.com/hal/ At the very bottom of the home page is a link to the official Holland America website. Hilary Henkin Atlanta, Georgia Researching: Mogilev - BERLIN, HENKIN-GENKIN; MESCENOKOV Ekaterinoslav - KATZ; LAPIDUS; LAVROTIN-LAVRUTIN; PESACHINSKY; SHIMERNITSKY; STEINHART Roumania: DONNENFIELD; RINCOVER-HARINCOVER; DOLLINGER Harbin, China: SREBERK-SCHRIEBER, LEVITT, SCHON--
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Holland American line - marvelous website
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Hilary Henkin <propper@...>
Dear Group,
I recently surfed to a new site, and thought some of you might enjoy it. It bills itself as The Unofficial Holland America Website, and has lots of history, information, and photos - some old, and some newer. The URL is http://www.cupcaked.com/hal/ At the very bottom of the home page is a link to the official Holland America website. Hilary Henkin Atlanta, Georgia Researching: Mogilev - BERLIN, HENKIN-GENKIN; MESCENOKOV Ekaterinoslav - KATZ; LAPIDUS; LAVROTIN-LAVRUTIN; PESACHINSKY; SHIMERNITSKY; STEINHART Roumania: DONNENFIELD; RINCOVER-HARINCOVER; DOLLINGER Harbin, China: SREBERK-SCHRIEBER, LEVITT, SCHON--
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Grimsby Records URL Update
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Mr J M Berman <Zah@...>
Hi
Further to my update I believe I may have given a confusing URL The URL is: http://www.zah.ndirect.co.uk/ Once at the site go to Grimsby and then Resources Regards John Berman Zah@Ndirect.co.uk
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Grimsby Records URL Update
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Mr J M Berman <Zah@...>
Hi
Further to my update I believe I may have given a confusing URL The URL is: http://www.zah.ndirect.co.uk/ Once at the site go to Grimsby and then Resources Regards John Berman Zah@Ndirect.co.uk
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Re: Different names for same town?
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Alexander Sharon <a.sharon@...>
Hi Kirsten,
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Wladyslawo'w 52o06' 18o29', prior to 1996 was known as Wladyslawow *and* Russocice. If you enter into ShtetlSeeker town Wladyslawow and again, enter separately Russocice, same coodinates 52o06' 18o29' will show up. On December 14, 1996 place has officially changed its name to parish Russocice (Russocice - Wies'). [Reference: Monitor Polski, Dziennik Urzedowy Rzeczypospolitej Polski, Warszawa, dnia 14 grudnia 1996 r. Nr 79, Poz. 713, Zarzadzenie Ministra-Szefa Uzredu Rady Ministrow z dnia 11 grudnia 1996 r.w sprawie ustalenia i zmiany nazw niektórych miejscowosci, pozycja No.231]. Your Poland Euro Atlas shows only current nameplaces, this is probably why Wladyslawow is not listed, as being already replaced with Russocice. BTW, Russocice is located some 180 miles WNW of Lublin. Alexander Sharon mailto: a.sharon@home.com "Kirsten Gradel" < kmgradel@dadlnet.dk > wrote in message news:200010211047.e9LAlrY00704@hertz.uni2.dk...
Summer 1999, before going to Poland for 2 weeks, we got a good road map
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Different names for same town?
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Alexander Sharon <a.sharon@...>
Hi Kirsten,
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Wladyslawo'w 52o06' 18o29', prior to 1996 was known as Wladyslawow *and* Russocice. If you enter into ShtetlSeeker town Wladyslawow and again, enter separately Russocice, same coodinates 52o06' 18o29' will show up. On December 14, 1996 place has officially changed its name to parish Russocice (Russocice - Wies'). [Reference: Monitor Polski, Dziennik Urzedowy Rzeczypospolitej Polski, Warszawa, dnia 14 grudnia 1996 r. Nr 79, Poz. 713, Zarzadzenie Ministra-Szefa Uzredu Rady Ministrow z dnia 11 grudnia 1996 r.w sprawie ustalenia i zmiany nazw niektórych miejscowosci, pozycja No.231]. Your Poland Euro Atlas shows only current nameplaces, this is probably why Wladyslawow is not listed, as being already replaced with Russocice. BTW, Russocice is located some 180 miles WNW of Lublin. Alexander Sharon mailto: a.sharon@home.com "Kirsten Gradel" < kmgradel@dadlnet.dk > wrote in message news:200010211047.e9LAlrY00704@hertz.uni2.dk...
Summer 1999, before going to Poland for 2 weeks, we got a good road map
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David Rundo <djar5@...>
If you are trying to reach folks that have not updated their email
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address, isn't this being bounced also? just a thought!
From: skydell@vineyard.net (Carol Skydell)
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David Rundo <djar5@...>
If you are trying to reach folks that have not updated their email
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address, isn't this being bounced also? just a thought!
From: skydell@vineyard.net (Carol Skydell)
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Re: Looking for DA ASCOLI and AZIZ (Ancona, Italy)
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Stephen G. Esrati <stevsta@...>
Max Ascoli was the publisher and editor of The Reporter, a monthly magazine
of ideas in the U.S. after World War II. He was married to the daughter of Lessing J. Rosenwald, the founder of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and head of the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism. Ascoli was a known anti-Fascist who had fled Italy under Mussolini and apparently was >from Gorizia, a town totally destroyed by the Austrians in the first World War. The synagogue in Gorizia (which I last saw in 1979) is now abandoned, but right after the war, it was in use by the U.S. Army. The Germans used it as a storehouse and destroyed the inside. Ascoli had funded its reconstruction after 1918. Daniel Teichman wrote: According to their K'tubah, the marriage between Schabtai Schmuel, son ofStephen G. Esrati Shaker Heights, OH
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Looking for DA ASCOLI and AZIZ (Ancona, Italy)
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Stephen G. Esrati <stevsta@...>
Max Ascoli was the publisher and editor of The Reporter, a monthly magazine
of ideas in the U.S. after World War II. He was married to the daughter of Lessing J. Rosenwald, the founder of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and head of the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism. Ascoli was a known anti-Fascist who had fled Italy under Mussolini and apparently was >from Gorizia, a town totally destroyed by the Austrians in the first World War. The synagogue in Gorizia (which I last saw in 1979) is now abandoned, but right after the war, it was in use by the U.S. Army. The Germans used it as a storehouse and destroyed the inside. Ascoli had funded its reconstruction after 1918. Daniel Teichman wrote: According to their K'tubah, the marriage between Schabtai Schmuel, son ofStephen G. Esrati Shaker Heights, OH
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Grandmother in a London cemetary
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Mike Ross <nister@...>
Help Please !!!!!
I need help >from someone who lives in London & who goes to some of the old cemetaries and would not mind helping someone >from Australia. I need to know the hebrew names and dates of my late great-grandmother, as well as the name of her father. I have finally found information about the village where this part of my family come >from (Anyksciai Lithuania) and those that lived there between 1800 and 1858 but I need to know what is on her grave in order to connect her to one of the families I have come across. My major problem is that I do not know which cemetary she is buried in. Her name was Esther GREENBERG nee TABACHOVICH. She died according to my father around 1945. Her husband was Louis GREENBERG. Her children were Millie (my grandmother), Debbie, Harry & Diane. If anyone is able to help I would appreciate. All I want to know is her hebrew name and that of her father. If by the by you also come across any information abiut her husband I would appreciate as well. Mike Ross
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Grandmother in a London cemetary
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Mike Ross <nister@...>
Help Please !!!!!
I need help >from someone who lives in London & who goes to some of the old cemetaries and would not mind helping someone >from Australia. I need to know the hebrew names and dates of my late great-grandmother, as well as the name of her father. I have finally found information about the village where this part of my family come >from (Anyksciai Lithuania) and those that lived there between 1800 and 1858 but I need to know what is on her grave in order to connect her to one of the families I have come across. My major problem is that I do not know which cemetary she is buried in. Her name was Esther GREENBERG nee TABACHOVICH. She died according to my father around 1945. Her husband was Louis GREENBERG. Her children were Millie (my grandmother), Debbie, Harry & Diane. If anyone is able to help I would appreciate. All I want to know is her hebrew name and that of her father. If by the by you also come across any information abiut her husband I would appreciate as well. Mike Ross
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Re: Rovna Poland or Russia
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Alexander Sharon <a.sharon@...>
Bernice,
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Town Rovne in Russian Empire's Volhynia Gubernia became a part of the independent Poland's Wojewodstwo (Province) Wolynskie >from 1918 till 1939, when Soviets invaders took it over. Under Poland's administration town name was known as Ro'wne (ruh vneh). Currently town is renamed as Rivne in Ukrainian. In all three languages town name is translates as "straight". Alexander Sharon Calgary, Alberta "George Heister" <heister@eticomm.net> wrote in message news:39EE6BCB.C9D5D027@eticomm.net...
My friend's father (Abraham Segal--originally Cygielnik) came to the
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Rovna Poland or Russia
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Alexander Sharon <a.sharon@...>
Bernice,
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Town Rovne in Russian Empire's Volhynia Gubernia became a part of the independent Poland's Wojewodstwo (Province) Wolynskie >from 1918 till 1939, when Soviets invaders took it over. Under Poland's administration town name was known as Ro'wne (ruh vneh). Currently town is renamed as Rivne in Ukrainian. In all three languages town name is translates as "straight". Alexander Sharon Calgary, Alberta "George Heister" <heister@eticomm.net> wrote in message news:39EE6BCB.C9D5D027@eticomm.net...
My friend's father (Abraham Segal--originally Cygielnik) came to the
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GOLDBERG
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esther ge <estherg123@...>
Hi Genners
I was lucky enough to go to Israel recently and meet my new found ZAWADZKI family. One of them Nathan ZAWADZKI asked me to try and find the BM or D certificates so that he will be able to claim monies and lands in Switzerland and Poland. The names are Moshe ZAWADZKI >from Crepitz Poland about 1890s Rochel Baylo GOLDBERG near Katowitz Genendla GOLDBERG and Berish GOLDBERG Bendin Poland This town is about 30 K south of Czeztochowa all near Katowice Poland. I have tried looking up the usual places on Jewishgen. I have lots of trouble with the Goldberg name. It tells me to be more specific because there is 4000 Goldberg listings. Can I some how get into these listings and how do I do that? Thank you all for your help esther goldberg
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen GOLDBERG
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esther ge <estherg123@...>
Hi Genners
I was lucky enough to go to Israel recently and meet my new found ZAWADZKI family. One of them Nathan ZAWADZKI asked me to try and find the BM or D certificates so that he will be able to claim monies and lands in Switzerland and Poland. The names are Moshe ZAWADZKI >from Crepitz Poland about 1890s Rochel Baylo GOLDBERG near Katowitz Genendla GOLDBERG and Berish GOLDBERG Bendin Poland This town is about 30 K south of Czeztochowa all near Katowice Poland. I have tried looking up the usual places on Jewishgen. I have lots of trouble with the Goldberg name. It tells me to be more specific because there is 4000 Goldberg listings. Can I some how get into these listings and how do I do that? Thank you all for your help esther goldberg
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Re: A Problem with Dates
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ROBERT WEISS
In a message dated 10/20/00 10:12:47 PM, Judith Romney Wagner writes:
<< Come to think of it, how do I even KNOW I was born on March 8, 1933? >> Good point. Our daughter has two birth records with birth dates differing by 1 year. She was born in 1970, but the certifying doctor erroneously wrote 1969 on the record that was filed with the County Health Department, and sent on to the State capitol in Sacramento. When I discovered the error I had the County record corrected to read 1970, but there is no mechanism for the County to have the State record changed. Only I can do that, and I must pay for the change. And I won't pay to correct the error made by the State. So my daughter can chose where she gets her certified birth record, and thereby when she was born. Bob Weiss in Northridge, CA RWeissJGS@aol.com
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: A Problem with Dates
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ROBERT WEISS
In a message dated 10/20/00 10:12:47 PM, Judith Romney Wagner writes:
<< Come to think of it, how do I even KNOW I was born on March 8, 1933? >> Good point. Our daughter has two birth records with birth dates differing by 1 year. She was born in 1970, but the certifying doctor erroneously wrote 1969 on the record that was filed with the County Health Department, and sent on to the State capitol in Sacramento. When I discovered the error I had the County record corrected to read 1970, but there is no mechanism for the County to have the State record changed. Only I can do that, and I must pay for the change. And I won't pay to correct the error made by the State. So my daughter can chose where she gets her certified birth record, and thereby when she was born. Bob Weiss in Northridge, CA RWeissJGS@aol.com
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Re: converting this date
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Howard Zakai
the year 5668 should be the equivalent of 1907/8, considering the year 2000/1
is 5761. No matter what one's name is in any other language, all Jews can be assured that they have only one Hebrew name: the standard form is "first name son/daughter of father's first name." Until the 19th century, when Jews in Eastern Europe had to take on surnames, it was by this way that one was known. It is standard custom to put both the Jewish date of death and the Hebrew name of the deceased. Howard Zakai Staten Island, NY
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: converting this date
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Howard Zakai
the year 5668 should be the equivalent of 1907/8, considering the year 2000/1
is 5761. No matter what one's name is in any other language, all Jews can be assured that they have only one Hebrew name: the standard form is "first name son/daughter of father's first name." Until the 19th century, when Jews in Eastern Europe had to take on surnames, it was by this way that one was known. It is standard custom to put both the Jewish date of death and the Hebrew name of the deceased. Howard Zakai Staten Island, NY
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