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Harry (Chiam) DORF
#galicia
AJS1PRES@...
Fellow Jewishgenners
My grandfather Harry (Chiam) DORF was born somewhere in Galicia in July 1882. His father's name was Benjamin (?) and that's about all I know. He was in the Army in the early 1900's. Moved to Czernowitz. Any guidance would be appreciated. Bruce Wexler [MODERATOR: Your town, state?]
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Harry (Chiam) DORF
#galicia
AJS1PRES@...
Fellow Jewishgenners
My grandfather Harry (Chiam) DORF was born somewhere in Galicia in July 1882. His father's name was Benjamin (?) and that's about all I know. He was in the Army in the early 1900's. Moved to Czernowitz. Any guidance would be appreciated. Bruce Wexler [MODERATOR: Your town, state?]
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LANGINGER, BAUMOEL, DISTENFELD from Sambor, Lvov, Buczach
#galicia
Ballabon, Jeff <JBallabon@...>
I am searching for any info about Chaim LANGINGER, his oldest daughter,
Miriam and her husband - Yehoshua BAUMOEL. All killed in the Holocaust. Also searching for information on the DISTENFELD family >from Sambor, Lvov, Buczach. Can anyone help? Jeff Ballabon [MODERATOR: Remember to add your city, state]
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia LANGINGER, BAUMOEL, DISTENFELD from Sambor, Lvov, Buczach
#galicia
Ballabon, Jeff <JBallabon@...>
I am searching for any info about Chaim LANGINGER, his oldest daughter,
Miriam and her husband - Yehoshua BAUMOEL. All killed in the Holocaust. Also searching for information on the DISTENFELD family >from Sambor, Lvov, Buczach. Can anyone help? Jeff Ballabon [MODERATOR: Remember to add your city, state]
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Looking for SCHNEIDER in Rybotycze
#galicia
R & A GORDON <granny@...>
Is there any information about town of Rybotycze ?
Am looking for information about SCHNEIDER family. Rhoda Kelman Gordon granny@eticomm.net
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Looking for SCHNEIDER in Rybotycze
#galicia
R & A GORDON <granny@...>
Is there any information about town of Rybotycze ?
Am looking for information about SCHNEIDER family. Rhoda Kelman Gordon granny@eticomm.net
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Jews in Eastern Galicia before the outbreak of WWII - review of stastistical data
#galicia
IsraelP <zach4v6@...>
Alexander Sharon's fine analysis should be put on the Gesher Galicia
web site. Israel Pickholtz
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Places named "SOLEC" in Poland,and Polands partitions
#poland
Mendelssohn <mendelssohn@...>
Dear genners,
Looking for a place named "Solec", in Poland in a good road-atlas, I found many places named Solec (9 !!!) and I also learned that IN Warszawa, there is not only a "Solec Street", along the Wisla, but also a part of the city which is named "Solec" (south of Jerozolimskie street,sud-east of the city): it was the cyrkuli VII in 1870 (?) and I am not surprised that my gggrandfather, who was corntraider and shipowner had lived..near the Wisla and the harbour. I would like to get answers to the following questions: 1.Do you know if the word "Solec" has any meaning in Polish? (is it related with trade or market ?) 2.Do you know what was the number of the "cyrkuli" (district) corresponding to tis part of Warszawa before 1870?(around 1853-55) 2.Do you know a burg or a city named Solec, in Poland ,which would have had a jewish population and which would have been divided through a Polands partition (1772,1793,1795, or 1815) between Prussia and (russian)Poland ? I heard in my family that many Mendelssohns lived in a town named Solec and that some of them became "prussian" and the others "polish": I don't know if it is true but a precise map of different patitions of Poland would help me a lot! Is it possible to find such maps on the Web? Thanks in advance for any help. Kind regards, Florence Mendelssohn, Paris (France)
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Jews in Eastern Galicia before the outbreak of WWII - review of stastistical data
#galicia
IsraelP <zach4v6@...>
Alexander Sharon's fine analysis should be put on the Gesher Galicia
web site. Israel Pickholtz
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JRI Poland #Poland Places named "SOLEC" in Poland,and Polands partitions
#poland
Mendelssohn <mendelssohn@...>
Dear genners,
Looking for a place named "Solec", in Poland in a good road-atlas, I found many places named Solec (9 !!!) and I also learned that IN Warszawa, there is not only a "Solec Street", along the Wisla, but also a part of the city which is named "Solec" (south of Jerozolimskie street,sud-east of the city): it was the cyrkuli VII in 1870 (?) and I am not surprised that my gggrandfather, who was corntraider and shipowner had lived..near the Wisla and the harbour. I would like to get answers to the following questions: 1.Do you know if the word "Solec" has any meaning in Polish? (is it related with trade or market ?) 2.Do you know what was the number of the "cyrkuli" (district) corresponding to tis part of Warszawa before 1870?(around 1853-55) 2.Do you know a burg or a city named Solec, in Poland ,which would have had a jewish population and which would have been divided through a Polands partition (1772,1793,1795, or 1815) between Prussia and (russian)Poland ? I heard in my family that many Mendelssohns lived in a town named Solec and that some of them became "prussian" and the others "polish": I don't know if it is true but a precise map of different patitions of Poland would help me a lot! Is it possible to find such maps on the Web? Thanks in advance for any help. Kind regards, Florence Mendelssohn, Paris (France)
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Family photo on ViewMate 273
#galicia
Lancy
Dear Genners,
Some of the people that can be viewed at VM 273 have very dominant genes. Their facial traits pass on >from generation to generation. One of them is our grandmother. The others may be her own kin or her in-laws. Please see if you can identify any of them. The photo must have been taken some time between 1930-1937, most probably in Polish Galicia. [MODERATOR: ViewMate is a web page on JewishGen where researchers post photos, documents, and other graphics in search of help in identifying or translating them: <http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/> VM 273 is the ID number assigned to the photo to which Lancy refers.] Thank you in advance! Lancy Spalter Kfar Tavor, Israel Searching: PRESSER & ZIMMERMAN - Galicia, Ukraine SPALTER & GRUNHUT - Galicia, Poland GUTMAN - Opatow, Poland KANAREK - Sandomierz, Poland GULIAK/RAVITZKY - Dubossary, Moldova
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Family photo on ViewMate 273
#galicia
Lancy
Dear Genners,
Some of the people that can be viewed at VM 273 have very dominant genes. Their facial traits pass on >from generation to generation. One of them is our grandmother. The others may be her own kin or her in-laws. Please see if you can identify any of them. The photo must have been taken some time between 1930-1937, most probably in Polish Galicia. [MODERATOR: ViewMate is a web page on JewishGen where researchers post photos, documents, and other graphics in search of help in identifying or translating them: <http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/> VM 273 is the ID number assigned to the photo to which Lancy refers.] Thank you in advance! Lancy Spalter Kfar Tavor, Israel Searching: PRESSER & ZIMMERMAN - Galicia, Ukraine SPALTER & GRUNHUT - Galicia, Poland GUTMAN - Opatow, Poland KANAREK - Sandomierz, Poland GULIAK/RAVITZKY - Dubossary, Moldova
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Re: Berea Shul
#southafrica
lilith <lilith@...>
Does anyone know more about
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
this angel on the sides of the aron hakodesh? THanks, Debbi Grenn-Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Louis Zetler [mailto:zetler@kinneret.co.il] Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 1:52 PM To: South Africa SIG Subject: Berea Shul The striking feature of the Berea shul was the huge angle's wings on the sides of the aron hakodesh.
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South Africa SIG #SouthAfrica RE: Berea Shul
#southafrica
lilith <lilith@...>
Does anyone know more about
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
this angel on the sides of the aron hakodesh? THanks, Debbi Grenn-Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Louis Zetler [mailto:zetler@kinneret.co.il] Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 1:52 PM To: South Africa SIG Subject: Berea Shul The striking feature of the Berea shul was the huge angle's wings on the sides of the aron hakodesh.
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Martha Lev-Zion <martha@...>
It is hard for me to believe that only four of you are willing to do the
grunt work on locating and copying Kurlander burial sites in the world. That is not enough to get the project off the ground. Are the rest of you waiting for someone else to do the work and post it so that you can reap the benefits? Everyone wants to find his family's information up on the internet, but how do you think those details get there? Some of us have sacrificed countless hours and enormous amounts of money to make our Courland/Latvia website excellent and informative. Do the rest of you think that happens by magic? And if the few of us who are doing all the work burn out, where will that leave the rest of you? Will you grumble then about having so little on the website? Or about the website not having been updated in so long? It galls me to see how willing most of you are to sit back and let someone else do the work or donate their hard earned dollars/pounds/shekels to our projects when you do nothing to enjoin us and use the information for your own genealogy without somehow pitching in. All the energy that we dedicate to the general good of Courlanders and Latvians we have to steal >from our own personal genealogy research and our families. Wouldn't you think that more of you would be grateful and dedicate a little of your energies and money to help us? I would like to know why you aren't knocking down our doors in an effort to share the burden... Your comments, donations and offers of help are always welcome! Martha Levinson Lev-Zion, in Omer, Israel
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Arlene Beare <arl@...>
There are some very nice family lists of Jacobstadt merchants 1837 which I
have just added to my Jekabpils page.There are not many families but enough for you to find interesting if you have family who came >from there. http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/jekabpils/jekabpils.htm Hope you are lucky and find some of your family in the list. Arlene Beare President Latvia SIG
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Martha Lev-Zion <martha@...>
It is hard for me to believe that only four of you are willing to do the
grunt work on locating and copying Kurlander burial sites in the world. That is not enough to get the project off the ground. Are the rest of you waiting for someone else to do the work and post it so that you can reap the benefits? Everyone wants to find his family's information up on the internet, but how do you think those details get there? Some of us have sacrificed countless hours and enormous amounts of money to make our Courland/Latvia website excellent and informative. Do the rest of you think that happens by magic? And if the few of us who are doing all the work burn out, where will that leave the rest of you? Will you grumble then about having so little on the website? Or about the website not having been updated in so long? It galls me to see how willing most of you are to sit back and let someone else do the work or donate their hard earned dollars/pounds/shekels to our projects when you do nothing to enjoin us and use the information for your own genealogy without somehow pitching in. All the energy that we dedicate to the general good of Courlanders and Latvians we have to steal >from our own personal genealogy research and our families. Wouldn't you think that more of you would be grateful and dedicate a little of your energies and money to help us? I would like to know why you aren't knocking down our doors in an effort to share the burden... Your comments, donations and offers of help are always welcome! Martha Levinson Lev-Zion, in Omer, Israel
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Arlene Beare <arl@...>
There are some very nice family lists of Jacobstadt merchants 1837 which I
have just added to my Jekabpils page.There are not many families but enough for you to find interesting if you have family who came >from there. http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/jekabpils/jekabpils.htm Hope you are lucky and find some of your family in the list. Arlene Beare President Latvia SIG
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LDS Birth Records
#poland
Philip Freidenreich
I have found LDS birth records of interest to me on
the database. However, few list parents. Why are the names of parents not being entered onto the database? Phil Freidenreich mailto:pfreidenreich@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
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JRI Poland #Poland LDS Birth Records
#poland
Philip Freidenreich
I have found LDS birth records of interest to me on
the database. However, few list parents. Why are the names of parents not being entered onto the database? Phil Freidenreich mailto:pfreidenreich@yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
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