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Translation of Rozhnyatov Yizkor Book
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Thomas F. Weiss
To all those interested in Rozhnyatov --
I hope you have all enjoyed the translation of the Yizkor Book that is now available on line at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Rozniatow/Rozhnyatov.html As I am sure you know, it is quite expensive to translate the book. Our excellent Hebrew translator, Jerrold Landau, works on several projects at once. We are in the queue and I feel that our turn will soon be coming up again. But, we need money to support the work. With just a small contribution >from the JewishGen community, we could go ahead and translate another segment of the book. Won't you please consider making a contribution now so that this important project can go ahead. If you wish to contribute to the book's translation over the web, please click on JewishGen's secure fund raiser page and be sure to select Rozhnyatov. http://www.JewishGen.org/JewishGen-erosity/YizkorTrans.html You may also wish to consider contributing an additional amount at the same time to JewishGen, which provides, at no charge, all of the expensive infrastructure for this project and all the many others that we all enjoy. For those who feel uncomfortable using credit cards on the web, you can always simply mail a check (or send a fax with credit card info) payable to JewishGen, Inc. (with a note earmarking the funds for the Rozhnyatov Yizkor Book Project) to: JewishGen, Inc. 12 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1100 Houston, TX 77046 U.S./Canada Fax # (toll free): 888-539-4362 International Fax #: 1-281-535-0036 Please note that JewishGen, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization; therefore, you may be able to claim an income tax deduction for any donations, depending on your personal tax situation. Many thanks for you indulgence and I apologize if you receive multiple copies of this fund raising email. Best regards, Tom Weiss Thomas F. Weiss Newton, MA USA email: tfweiss@mit.edu
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Searching for Schreinman
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Abbey Delray <abbeyd1@...>
Looking for any relatives of a former judge in probably the Los Angeles
area of California. A friend is/was related to him and would like to find any of his relatives. His name may be spelled incorrectly. Any help would be appreciated. MODERATOR NOTE: Third-party e-mail deleted. Please reply privately.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Translation of Rozhnyatov Yizkor Book
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Thomas F. Weiss
To all those interested in Rozhnyatov --
I hope you have all enjoyed the translation of the Yizkor Book that is now available on line at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Rozniatow/Rozhnyatov.html As I am sure you know, it is quite expensive to translate the book. Our excellent Hebrew translator, Jerrold Landau, works on several projects at once. We are in the queue and I feel that our turn will soon be coming up again. But, we need money to support the work. With just a small contribution >from the JewishGen community, we could go ahead and translate another segment of the book. Won't you please consider making a contribution now so that this important project can go ahead. If you wish to contribute to the book's translation over the web, please click on JewishGen's secure fund raiser page and be sure to select Rozhnyatov. http://www.JewishGen.org/JewishGen-erosity/YizkorTrans.html You may also wish to consider contributing an additional amount at the same time to JewishGen, which provides, at no charge, all of the expensive infrastructure for this project and all the many others that we all enjoy. For those who feel uncomfortable using credit cards on the web, you can always simply mail a check (or send a fax with credit card info) payable to JewishGen, Inc. (with a note earmarking the funds for the Rozhnyatov Yizkor Book Project) to: JewishGen, Inc. 12 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1100 Houston, TX 77046 U.S./Canada Fax # (toll free): 888-539-4362 International Fax #: 1-281-535-0036 Please note that JewishGen, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization; therefore, you may be able to claim an income tax deduction for any donations, depending on your personal tax situation. Many thanks for you indulgence and I apologize if you receive multiple copies of this fund raising email. Best regards, Tom Weiss Thomas F. Weiss Newton, MA USA email: tfweiss@mit.edu
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching for Schreinman
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Abbey Delray <abbeyd1@...>
Looking for any relatives of a former judge in probably the Los Angeles
area of California. A friend is/was related to him and would like to find any of his relatives. His name may be spelled incorrectly. Any help would be appreciated. MODERATOR NOTE: Third-party e-mail deleted. Please reply privately.
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BLUMENTHAL (Khrapun)
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Dear Genners,
I am trying to locate information on 3 members of the Blumenthal (Khrapun) family. One was Abraham Blumenthal. Another was Kalman Blumenthal. Both were truckers in Washington market. I am also seeking a Kalman Blumenthal who had a trucking business in Passic, NJ. If any of these sound familiar please respond privately. TIA. Carol Blumenthal Cohen.
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SCHLESSINGER
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Dear Genners,
I am trying to locate information on Sura Laya Schlessinger. Her husband's name was Max. They had a daugher, Judy, and 2 sons. Judy was a guard at the Jefferson Market jail in Manhatten. Sura Laya may have been related to the Geffen or Veis family of Vilkomir. If this sounds familiar please contact privately. TIA. Carol Blumenthal Cohen
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Re: unreadable passenger list
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David Cooper <dcooper@...>
from a 1906 Passenger manifest that I have:1 Number on List 2 Name in Full 3 Age (yrs, months) 4 Sex 5 Whether married or single 6 Calling or Occupation 7 Able to Read / Write 8 Nationality (Country which citizen or subject) 9 Race or People 10 Last Permanent Residence (Country, City) 11 Final Destination (State, City, or Town) 12 Whether having a ticket to the final destination 13 By whom was passage paid 14 Whether in possession of $90, or if less, how much 15 Whether ever before in the United States and if so, where and when 16 Whether going to join a relative or friend; and if so what relative or friend, and his name and complete address 17 (can not read on my copy) 18 Whether a Plygamist 19 Whether a an Anarchist 20 (can not read on my copy) 21 Condition of Health, Mental and Physical 22 Deformed or Crippled, Nature, length of time, and cause ...happy hunting...david Researching: ALLEN,BERZONER,COHEN,COOPER,KUPFERZMIDT, POSNER (POIZNER), PRITIKIN, STARKMAN Dachau Camp Entry List, Genealogy Utilities http://pages.prodigy.net/dcooper000/index.htm Hello all,
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen BLUMENTHAL (Khrapun)
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Dear Genners,
I am trying to locate information on 3 members of the Blumenthal (Khrapun) family. One was Abraham Blumenthal. Another was Kalman Blumenthal. Both were truckers in Washington market. I am also seeking a Kalman Blumenthal who had a trucking business in Passic, NJ. If any of these sound familiar please respond privately. TIA. Carol Blumenthal Cohen.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen SCHLESSINGER
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Dear Genners,
I am trying to locate information on Sura Laya Schlessinger. Her husband's name was Max. They had a daugher, Judy, and 2 sons. Judy was a guard at the Jefferson Market jail in Manhatten. Sura Laya may have been related to the Geffen or Veis family of Vilkomir. If this sounds familiar please contact privately. TIA. Carol Blumenthal Cohen
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: unreadable passenger list
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David Cooper <dcooper@...>
from a 1906 Passenger manifest that I have:1 Number on List 2 Name in Full 3 Age (yrs, months) 4 Sex 5 Whether married or single 6 Calling or Occupation 7 Able to Read / Write 8 Nationality (Country which citizen or subject) 9 Race or People 10 Last Permanent Residence (Country, City) 11 Final Destination (State, City, or Town) 12 Whether having a ticket to the final destination 13 By whom was passage paid 14 Whether in possession of $90, or if less, how much 15 Whether ever before in the United States and if so, where and when 16 Whether going to join a relative or friend; and if so what relative or friend, and his name and complete address 17 (can not read on my copy) 18 Whether a Plygamist 19 Whether a an Anarchist 20 (can not read on my copy) 21 Condition of Health, Mental and Physical 22 Deformed or Crippled, Nature, length of time, and cause ...happy hunting...david Researching: ALLEN,BERZONER,COHEN,COOPER,KUPFERZMIDT, POSNER (POIZNER), PRITIKIN, STARKMAN Dachau Camp Entry List, Genealogy Utilities http://pages.prodigy.net/dcooper000/index.htm Hello all,
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Re: Mutilation to avoid Conscription
#belarus
VOOSH19@...
When I read a part of Joseph Simpson's email to my husband, he
remembered that his father, who recently passed away, had told stories of a man in his stetl in Poland who was known as the "kila" (Yiddish for hernia) who was skilled at grabbing someone in just the right place to cause a hernia. When conscripts to the Polish army needed a way out of service, they went to him. The town was Rafalofka. Note that this is 20th century, beginnings of WWII. I am sure that such practices were not limited to that time and place but part of an overall Jewish tradition in the Pale to avoid conscription when it meant an almost certain death sentence. Bonnie Lesnik North Hollywood, CA
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Belarus SIG #Belarus Re: Mutilation to avoid Conscription
#belarus
VOOSH19@...
When I read a part of Joseph Simpson's email to my husband, he
remembered that his father, who recently passed away, had told stories of a man in his stetl in Poland who was known as the "kila" (Yiddish for hernia) who was skilled at grabbing someone in just the right place to cause a hernia. When conscripts to the Polish army needed a way out of service, they went to him. The town was Rafalofka. Note that this is 20th century, beginnings of WWII. I am sure that such practices were not limited to that time and place but part of an overall Jewish tradition in the Pale to avoid conscription when it meant an almost certain death sentence. Bonnie Lesnik North Hollywood, CA
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Vilna 1858 Revision List Records -Sets 4 and 5
#lithuania
Joelrat@...
The Vilna District Research Group is proud to announce the translation of
sets 4 and 5 of the Vilna City Revision List for 1858. This brings the total number of family records translated to 919 represented by 5239 individuals. The data sets require proofing and will be available to $100 contributors after the proofing is complete. The records translated amount to approximately 20% of the total Vilna City Jewish population in 1858. If you need information regarding how to contribute -- thereby allowing you to receive these record translations -- please let me know. Joel Ratner Coordinator, Vilna District Research Group
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Vilna 1858 Revision List Records -Sets 4 and 5
#lithuania
Joelrat@...
The Vilna District Research Group is proud to announce the translation of
sets 4 and 5 of the Vilna City Revision List for 1858. This brings the total number of family records translated to 919 represented by 5239 individuals. The data sets require proofing and will be available to $100 contributors after the proofing is complete. The records translated amount to approximately 20% of the total Vilna City Jewish population in 1858. If you need information regarding how to contribute -- thereby allowing you to receive these record translations -- please let me know. Joel Ratner Coordinator, Vilna District Research Group
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Re: Juta
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Perets Mett <p.mett@...>
The name Jutte (usually spelt Juta in Polish, and pronounced Yi-te) was (and maybe still is) a commonly used Jewish female name. There are hundreds of instances in the Polish records, and in Jewish books recording Polish Jews. Perets Mett
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Re: Interesting book
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@...>
On 01/25/2001 jrw@Brown.edu (Judith Romney Wegner) said:
This presents for the layperson (i.e. non-specialist in BibleThe term "scholarship" is misleaeding. The "higher criticism" is based mostly on texutual analysis. Some of the claims made by this "modern scholarship" have already been demolished by archaologists. Alter makes a compelling case against some other claims. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT I mangled my E-mail address to foil automated spammers; reply to domain acm dot org user shmuel to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org MODERATOR NOTE: Further responses must relate directly to genealogy. Discussion of scriptural scholarship, or lack thereof, must take place privately.
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Re: unreadable passenger list
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MsRachelR <msrachelr@...>
Hi Myra -
The forms used were periodically changed - so you'll need to find someone who either knows exactly when the forms changed, or someone with a page >from the same month and year, to know what the format was. I would also suggest checking out the NARA website - perhaps they have a description of the forms used in 1906. The ones I have are >from 1904 and 1921 and the column headings are somewhat different. Rachel Reisman
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Juta
#general
Perets Mett <p.mett@...>
The name Jutte (usually spelt Juta in Polish, and pronounced Yi-te) was (and maybe still is) a commonly used Jewish female name. There are hundreds of instances in the Polish records, and in Jewish books recording Polish Jews. Perets Mett
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Interesting book
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamtrap@...>
On 01/25/2001 jrw@Brown.edu (Judith Romney Wegner) said:
This presents for the layperson (i.e. non-specialist in BibleThe term "scholarship" is misleaeding. The "higher criticism" is based mostly on texutual analysis. Some of the claims made by this "modern scholarship" have already been demolished by archaologists. Alter makes a compelling case against some other claims. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT I mangled my E-mail address to foil automated spammers; reply to domain acm dot org user shmuel to contact me. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org MODERATOR NOTE: Further responses must relate directly to genealogy. Discussion of scriptural scholarship, or lack thereof, must take place privately.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: unreadable passenger list
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MsRachelR <msrachelr@...>
Hi Myra -
The forms used were periodically changed - so you'll need to find someone who either knows exactly when the forms changed, or someone with a page >from the same month and year, to know what the format was. I would also suggest checking out the NARA website - perhaps they have a description of the forms used in 1906. The ones I have are >from 1904 and 1921 and the column headings are somewhat different. Rachel Reisman
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