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GedCom-> HTML program!
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Elsebeth Paikin
A fast program generating GedCom-files to HTML-files
is The Dynamic Family Tree compiler You can find it, see an example and download it from: http://www.linktop.demon.co.uk/dftcom2 Best regards Elsebeth Paikin, Copenhagen, Denmark Coordinator & Webmaster of JewishGen Denmark SIG http://www.jewishgen.org/denmark mailto:elsebeth@paikin.dk
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Thank you for translation -- ViewMate
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Eric and Jim Freiman-Polli <jfreiman@...>
To all who helped me with translating VM0034 on Viewmate, Thankyou! It
is great how everyone is so eager to help one another. I appreciate it. Eric Freiman-Polli Boston, MA jfreiman@ma.ultranet.com Researching: FREIMAN, KRONZ (Vladimir Volynskiy, Ukraine); GITERMAN, FLEISHMAN,CHITE (Tuchin, Ukraine); GOLDBERG,COHEN (Vladivostok, Russia); BERS, KARK,REBE(Kovno Gubernia, Lithuania)
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ViewMate Headstone Translation
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PJR313@...
Can anyone translate these two headstones for me?
They can be viewed through ViewMate, image VM036. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ Thank you, Elaine Raymo Michigan PJR313@aol.com
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen GedCom-> HTML program!
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Elsebeth Paikin
A fast program generating GedCom-files to HTML-files
is The Dynamic Family Tree compiler You can find it, see an example and download it from: http://www.linktop.demon.co.uk/dftcom2 Best regards Elsebeth Paikin, Copenhagen, Denmark Coordinator & Webmaster of JewishGen Denmark SIG http://www.jewishgen.org/denmark mailto:elsebeth@paikin.dk
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Thank you for translation -- ViewMate
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Eric and Jim Freiman-Polli <jfreiman@...>
To all who helped me with translating VM0034 on Viewmate, Thankyou! It
is great how everyone is so eager to help one another. I appreciate it. Eric Freiman-Polli Boston, MA jfreiman@ma.ultranet.com Researching: FREIMAN, KRONZ (Vladimir Volynskiy, Ukraine); GITERMAN, FLEISHMAN,CHITE (Tuchin, Ukraine); GOLDBERG,COHEN (Vladivostok, Russia); BERS, KARK,REBE(Kovno Gubernia, Lithuania)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ViewMate Headstone Translation
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PJR313@...
Can anyone translate these two headstones for me?
They can be viewed through ViewMate, image VM036. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ Thank you, Elaine Raymo Michigan PJR313@aol.com
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Henry CERF, birth in Berlin ca. 1758
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monsanto <monsanto@...>
Dear list,
On the West-Indies list there is a never ending thread about Henry Cerf, presumably of Jewish descend, but later married in England in a Presp. church., born in Berlin, Spandau or Potsdam. Question: is there for Berlin a similar source like the Bevis Mark Records for London. I have looked on the Jewishgen site and found information on 1812 for that area (but by then he had already moved away), but would appreciate some help with this: i.e. original sources, where available, books published etc. Thanks for any help From: Christel Monsanto, Curaçao, monsanto@interneeds.net
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Re: "Myaskofka, Russia"
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NFatouros@...
In his message of 11-6-00, David Goldenberg asked for help in locating
"Myaskofka, Russia." In his "Shtetl Finder Gazetteer" Chester G. Cohen has an entry for Miaskifka or Mjaskowka. He says it is southwest of Kiev and southeast of Mohilev Podolsk. A Rabbi appointed here was Efraim Stanislavski, born in 1855. Tobias David Zukerman, born here in 1891,later became a financial analyst in New York. No matter how I tried spelling it, I couldn't find an entry for Mjaskowka (or Miaskifka) in my Columba Lippincott Gazetteer. Naomi Fatouros (nee FELDMAN) Bloomington, Indiana NFatouros@aol.com Researching: BELKOWSKY, Odessa, Berdichev; FELDMAN, Pinsk; SHUTZ, SCHUTZ, Shcherets; LEVY, Mulhouse.
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Re: Lithuanian translation
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LenLW <lenlw@...>
have a few pages of text form a PlayBill in Lithuanian to translate.If you could send it to me, via e-mail, perhaps I can help. I have friends in Lithuania. Leonard Nadler Silver Spring, MD Len
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Re: How to lcate birth mother
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ifidont@...
There are links to some good search information at
http://www.plumsite.com/resource.htm . I also recommend the International Soundex Reunion Registry. It is a free, *completely* confidential, mutual consent registry. It is at: ISRR P.O. Box 2312 Carson City, NV 89702-2312 (702) 882-7755 http://www.isrr.net/ Barbara Niederhoff Centennial CO
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Re: Alytus Lithuania
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LenLW <lenlw@...>
From: ccb3pcv@yahoo.comI have a good friend in Lithuania today. He is not in that city, and he is not Jewish, but he has helped me in getting information. If you wish, I could send you his e-mail and I think he is in Vilnuis. Leonard Nadler Silver Spring, MD Len
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Re: Great Address, perhaps
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sjkmb4@...
Just to keep you all up to date with the "great address" I had that was to
provide me with information on my great grandparents >from Kirovoghad (ROSENFIELD and WEITZMAN), I got a certified letter today. It only took 2 months and I rewrote to them stating that I had not heard >from them, enclosing a copy of my Western Union bill and their sheet. The two archives I received were letters in Polish stating that "research has not identified the persons stated in my inquiry. Two reasons why are that sweeping occupation of Ukraine by Nazi within the years of the was resulted in documents destroyed and in the course of changes (emigration, moves, etc) in life the modern spellings of surnames does not comply with the archives in the Ukraine. I can understand them billing me for the 39 hours that they researched, however, I am annoyed that they charged me $14.00 twice, to translate this standard report that they sent under 2 names. My mother treated me since it was her grandparents, but I'm furious. A standard form to me is not an archive and we should not be charged for translating it. The charge for this entire fiasco was $130. If anyone wants the address again they crossed out the zip code and changed it: Ukraine kiyv, 03146, 22 Zhmerinskya Str. Off 86. Hope you are more successful than I. Sherry Kamens Wayne, NJ
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Henry CERF, birth in Berlin ca. 1758
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monsanto <monsanto@...>
Dear list,
On the West-Indies list there is a never ending thread about Henry Cerf, presumably of Jewish descend, but later married in England in a Presp. church., born in Berlin, Spandau or Potsdam. Question: is there for Berlin a similar source like the Bevis Mark Records for London. I have looked on the Jewishgen site and found information on 1812 for that area (but by then he had already moved away), but would appreciate some help with this: i.e. original sources, where available, books published etc. Thanks for any help From: Christel Monsanto, Curaçao, monsanto@interneeds.net
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: "Myaskofka, Russia"
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NFatouros@...
In his message of 11-6-00, David Goldenberg asked for help in locating
"Myaskofka, Russia." In his "Shtetl Finder Gazetteer" Chester G. Cohen has an entry for Miaskifka or Mjaskowka. He says it is southwest of Kiev and southeast of Mohilev Podolsk. A Rabbi appointed here was Efraim Stanislavski, born in 1855. Tobias David Zukerman, born here in 1891,later became a financial analyst in New York. No matter how I tried spelling it, I couldn't find an entry for Mjaskowka (or Miaskifka) in my Columba Lippincott Gazetteer. Naomi Fatouros (nee FELDMAN) Bloomington, Indiana NFatouros@aol.com Researching: BELKOWSKY, Odessa, Berdichev; FELDMAN, Pinsk; SHUTZ, SCHUTZ, Shcherets; LEVY, Mulhouse.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Lithuanian translation
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LenLW <lenlw@...>
have a few pages of text form a PlayBill in Lithuanian to translate.If you could send it to me, via e-mail, perhaps I can help. I have friends in Lithuania. Leonard Nadler Silver Spring, MD Len
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: How to lcate birth mother
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ifidont@...
There are links to some good search information at
http://www.plumsite.com/resource.htm . I also recommend the International Soundex Reunion Registry. It is a free, *completely* confidential, mutual consent registry. It is at: ISRR P.O. Box 2312 Carson City, NV 89702-2312 (702) 882-7755 http://www.isrr.net/ Barbara Niederhoff Centennial CO
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Alytus Lithuania
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LenLW <lenlw@...>
From: ccb3pcv@yahoo.comI have a good friend in Lithuania today. He is not in that city, and he is not Jewish, but he has helped me in getting information. If you wish, I could send you his e-mail and I think he is in Vilnuis. Leonard Nadler Silver Spring, MD Len
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Great Address, perhaps
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sjkmb4@...
Just to keep you all up to date with the "great address" I had that was to
provide me with information on my great grandparents >from Kirovoghad (ROSENFIELD and WEITZMAN), I got a certified letter today. It only took 2 months and I rewrote to them stating that I had not heard >from them, enclosing a copy of my Western Union bill and their sheet. The two archives I received were letters in Polish stating that "research has not identified the persons stated in my inquiry. Two reasons why are that sweeping occupation of Ukraine by Nazi within the years of the was resulted in documents destroyed and in the course of changes (emigration, moves, etc) in life the modern spellings of surnames does not comply with the archives in the Ukraine. I can understand them billing me for the 39 hours that they researched, however, I am annoyed that they charged me $14.00 twice, to translate this standard report that they sent under 2 names. My mother treated me since it was her grandparents, but I'm furious. A standard form to me is not an archive and we should not be charged for translating it. The charge for this entire fiasco was $130. If anyone wants the address again they crossed out the zip code and changed it: Ukraine kiyv, 03146, 22 Zhmerinskya Str. Off 86. Hope you are more successful than I. Sherry Kamens Wayne, NJ
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Re: The name Bashe or Basha
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Ury Link <uryl@...>
Dear Genners,
Amoz Chernoff asked: name? The individual bearing this name came >from Belarus in the earlyWould anyone know whether the name Basha or Bashe was generally a man's 1900's.>>>> My answer is: According my knowledge the male name Basha ( Beit - Ayin - Shin - Alef ) is a nickname to the Hebrew name Dov. Dov mean in English a bear. This name Dov is not a Biblical name but a name that come in use in the Middle ages (10 or 11 century) the word Dov is wel mention in the Bible as a bear but not as a name. I think that the name Basha come out >from the nickname Bar ( Beit - Ayin - Reish) and >from Ber to Barish (Beit - Ayin - Reish - Yud - Shin ). This names are nicknames to Yissaschar and Dov. It is a discusion if Dov is a name on itself or a nickname to Yissaschar ,like Jehuda Arie or Binjamin Zeev. I think that all this names are independent names. Conclusion: Dov = Ber = Barish = Barsh = Bash = Basha or Bashe. The are more nicknames that ending with a Sh ,I give few sample: Mordechai = Mordush Abraham = Abrush = Avrus = Abush Binjamin = Binush Jehuda = Leib = Leibush Menachem = Manish Uri = Feibish Please remember all this names are male names . We find the name Basha also as a female name as a nickname to the Hebrew Biblical name Bat-Sheva. Best regards Ury Link Amsterdam Holland
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KARPELES as a surname or forename
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Leslie Reich <countrywide@...>
KARPELES as as suranme or forename
Can any of our readers throw any light on the origin of this name and its meaning if it has one ? L Reich Manchester
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