Hello All
So , Do we know if anyone took notes on the Riga
Meeting? And if they did , are they willing to share ?
Larry De Witt
Allen , Texas , USA
#62685 Sherr, Sher, Scherr , Bauska , Riga , Latvia ,
NYC, Reading Pa. Allentown , PA

Hello All
So , Do we know if anyone took notes on the Riga
Meeting? And if they did , are they willing to share ?
Larry De Witt
Allen , Texas , USA
#62685 Sherr, Sher, Scherr , Bauska , Riga , Latvia ,
NYC, Reading Pa. Allentown , PA

Dear folks,

Census records and family lore indicate that my REST / RESHT family lived in
Courland, Riga and Libau. (Solomon was born in 1881, Courland). However,
the only reference to a REST family I find though the databases online is in
the All Lithuania Databasa which indicates that this family lived in Plunge
and Ukmerge shtetls in Kaunas guberniya in Lithuania (just south of Riga).
(Solomon shows up on the 1899 HaMelitz records as living in Kaunas,
Lithuania, others in Plunge and Ukmerge.)

I did find a reference (All Lithuania Database Revision Lists) in describing
the Revision Lists that referred to:

""Jews originally >from Kaunas Gubernya who were expelled >from Riga, Latvia"
and a host of other lists showing the mobility of our ancestors."

Might this refer to my relatives? Does anyone know of the explusion that
this refers to?

Does anyone have any other thoughts on why my supposedly Latvian relatives
turned up in Lithuania? I am pretty certain that this one family of RESTS
( the only one that I find ANYWHERE) is indeed my family since the first
names and dates correspond so closely. Also, apparently many Plungians ended
up going to South Africa, and there is a branch of RESTs that did go there.
(I have yet to find them...)

Thanks for any help!
Elaine Bush
Pleasant Hill, CA

Dear folks,

Census records and family lore indicate that my REST / RESHT family lived in
Courland, Riga and Libau. (Solomon was born in 1881, Courland). However,
the only reference to a REST family I find though the databases online is in
the All Lithuania Databasa which indicates that this family lived in Plunge
and Ukmerge shtetls in Kaunas guberniya in Lithuania (just south of Riga).
(Solomon shows up on the 1899 HaMelitz records as living in Kaunas,
Lithuania, others in Plunge and Ukmerge.)

I did find a reference (All Lithuania Database Revision Lists) in describing
the Revision Lists that referred to:

""Jews originally >from Kaunas Gubernya who were expelled >from Riga, Latvia"
and a host of other lists showing the mobility of our ancestors."

Might this refer to my relatives? Does anyone know of the explusion that
this refers to?

Does anyone have any other thoughts on why my supposedly Latvian relatives
turned up in Lithuania? I am pretty certain that this one family of RESTS
( the only one that I find ANYWHERE) is indeed my family since the first
names and dates correspond so closely. Also, apparently many Plungians ended
up going to South Africa, and there is a branch of RESTs that did go there.
(I have yet to find them...)

Thanks for any help!
Elaine Bush
Pleasant Hill, CA

Hi Everyone,

Can anyone provide me with names of experienced and reliable researchers,
preferably living in Belarus, to research family records.

Thanks,

Joe Kushner
e-mail: fkushne@worldnet.att.net

Hi
I'm trying to trace information on the family of Chaim KAHN a businessman

from Brest-Litovsk. He was active in the Mizrachi movement and donated money

to Jerusalem (Mekor Chaim is named after him). His son Bendet was the owner
of "Yalkut", a hebrew publishing house, and another son David was the
publisher of Haaretz. I'd like to trace information on his wife, children
and especially a connection to the Rabinowitz, Finkelstein, Rifkin and
Labris families in Brest-Litovsk.
Bernard Rosinsky

Hi Everyone,

Can anyone provide me with names of experienced and reliable researchers,
preferably living in Belarus, to research family records.

Thanks,

Joe Kushner
e-mail: fkushne@worldnet.att.net

Hi
I'm trying to trace information on the family of Chaim KAHN a businessman

from Brest-Litovsk. He was active in the Mizrachi movement and donated money

to Jerusalem (Mekor Chaim is named after him). His son Bendet was the owner
of "Yalkut", a hebrew publishing house, and another son David was the
publisher of Haaretz. I'd like to trace information on his wife, children
and especially a connection to the Rabinowitz, Finkelstein, Rifkin and
Labris families in Brest-Litovsk.
Bernard Rosinsky

Hi,

Thanks for the response. I have no data on Glaser or Gleser nor from
Suvainishok. The only approach I have found for the Yehuda/Yudel is to look
into the patronymics if I have enough data which is rarely the case. This
is one of the reasons I set about setting up my database. I have not
included Yudelson.. in my data because of the volume even though I know
some are probably related.

Stan

Hi,

Thanks for the response. I have no data on Glaser or Gleser nor from
Suvainishok. The only approach I have found for the Yehuda/Yudel is to look
into the patronymics if I have enough data which is rarely the case. This
is one of the reasons I set about setting up my database. I have not
included Yudelson.. in my data because of the volume even though I know
some are probably related.

Stan

While I was browsing through the Jewish Records in the FHL catalogue
on CD-ROM, I found these titles relevant to our SIG. Those of you who
have access to an FHL might want to check them out. Any of you who
both have access and are willing to database the relevant films so
that we could post the database on our website, please contact me so
that we can arrange a work schedule without overlaps. Help us to
help you - Volunteer!!!

Martha

TITLE Akten, 1926 - 1941
SUMMARY Records of the German Embassy in Riga, Latvia. Includes
registration lists of Germans in Latvia, draft candidates, Moravian
and Bohemian Jews living in Latvia, German Jews living in Latvia,
Jews who have withdrawn their German citizenship, visa denials,
citizenship cancellations, matters relating to specific individuals,
and Passport registers.
LANGUAGE German
LOCATION Germany - Latvia, Riga - Russia, Livonia, Riga -
Naturalization and citizenship - Public records
=46ILM 1865215 Item 14
Meldebl=E4tter von in Lettland lebenden deutschen Staatsangeh=F6rigen
1938-1940 A - Bielenstein
=46ILM 1865216
Birkenthal - Kroeger
=46ILM 1865217
Kroepsch - Schubert
=46ILM 1865218
Sch=FCler - Zoch Meldebl=E4tter von in Lettland lebenden wehrpflichtigen
Personen deutscher Staatsangeh=F6rigkeit, A - Z 1938-1939
=46ILM 1865219
Meldebl=E4tter von in Lettland lebenden Deutschen aus dem Sudetengau
und dem ehemaligen Protektorat B=F6hmen und M=E4hren A - Z 1938-1939 A -
Z 1939-1940 Meldebl=E4tter Juden aus B=F6hmen und M=E4hren A - Z 1938-1940
Meldebl=E4tter der deutschen Juden in Lettland A - Rubinstein 1939-1941
=46ILM 1865220
Ruschkewitz - Z, 1939-1941 Meldebl=E4tter von Juden, die verzogen sind
oder die deutsche Staatsangeh=F6rigkeit aufgegeben haben A - Z
1938-1939 Suchlisten, Verweigerungen von Sichtvermerken A - Raab,
Maria 1934-1939
=46ILM 1865221
Raab, Maria - Z, 1934-1939 Aberkennungen der d. Staatsangeh=F6rigkeit
1934-1939 Ausb=FCrgerungslisten (Nr. 136-206) 1939-1941 Antr=E4ge auf
Entlassung 1938-1940 Angelegenheiten einzelner Personen 1938-1940
Pa=DFb=FCcher 1926-1929
=46ILM 1865222 Item 1
Pa=DFb=FCcher 1929-1934
____________________________________________________________________________=
_
TITLE Baltische Schicksale : im Spiegel der Geschichte einer
kurl=E4ndische Familie, 1756 bis 1919
SUMMARY History of Kurland with specific reference to some of the
descendants of Heinrich Ernst Seraphim (1718-1797), a German Jew who
settled in Kurland in 1756. Kurland later became part of Latvia.
LANGUAGE German
LOCATION Russia, Courland - Jewish history
Latvia - Jewish history
BOOK 929.24743 Se65s
____________________________________________________________________________=
_
TITLE Evrei v Daugavpilse : istoricheskie ocherki
SUMMARY History of the Jews in Dvinsk (Dvinsk), Vitebsk, Russia; now
Daugavpils, Latvia.
LANGUAGE Russian
LOCATION Latvia, Daugavpils - Jewish history
Russia, Vitebsk, Dvinsk (Dvinsk) - Jewish history
BOOK 947.43/D1 F2e
____________________________________________________________________________=
_
TITLE Fragments of the Jewish history of Riga : a brief guide-
BOOK with a map for a walking tour
SUMMARY
LANGUAGE English
LOCATION Latvia, Riga - Church directories - Maps
BOOK 947.43/R1 F2f
____________________________________________________________________________=
_
TITLE Geschichte der Juden in Riga : bis zur Begr=FCndung der
Rigischen Hebr=E4ergemeinde im J. 1842
SUMMARY The history of the Jews in Riga until the establishment of a
Jewish congregation in 1842.
LANGUAGE German
LOCATION Russia, Livonia, Riga - Jewish history
Latvia, Riga - Jewish history
BOOK 947.43/R1 F2b
=46ILM 1183577 Item 6
____________________________________________________________________________=
_
TITLE Olschwanger journal
SUMMARY Periodical for the interchange of genealogical data and
history of the Olschwanger (and variant spellings) who descended >from
Rabbi Yehoshua Olschwanger >from the town of Alschwangen, in the
courland region of Latvia. Rabbi Yehoshua fled >from Latvia in one of
the expulsions of the Jews in the 18th century, and settled in
Kretinga (Lithuania), about 3 miles >from the German border. Some
descendants moved to Sunderland (England), and others to Russia.
=46ocus is on his great- grandson, Elias Olschwanger, who immigrated

from Hamburg (Germany) to New York ca. 1888, and then to Missouri

Came with: The Olschwanger family tree, vol. 3.
LANGUAGE English, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, German
BOOK 929.27305 OL8
____________________________________________________________________________=
__
TITLE These names accuse : Nominal list of Latvians deported to
Soviet Russia in 1940-1941
SUMMARY Material taken >from vital records showing lists of Latvian
nationals who were deported to camps in the Soviet Union at the time
Latvia became part of the Soviet Union during the Second World War.
LANGUAGE English
LOCATION Latvia - History- Holocaust
Latvia - Jewish history
World War, 1939-1945 - Deportations >from Latvia
=46ILM 1183655 Item 2
--
Martha Levinson Lev-Zion, PhD
President SIG Latvia

While I was browsing through the Jewish Records in the FHL catalogue
on CD-ROM, I found these titles relevant to our SIG. Those of you who
have access to an FHL might want to check them out. Any of you who
both have access and are willing to database the relevant films so
that we could post the database on our website, please contact me so
that we can arrange a work schedule without overlaps. Help us to
help you - Volunteer!!!

Martha

TITLE Akten, 1926 - 1941
SUMMARY Records of the German Embassy in Riga, Latvia. Includes
registration lists of Germans in Latvia, draft candidates, Moravian
and Bohemian Jews living in Latvia, German Jews living in Latvia,
Jews who have withdrawn their German citizenship, visa denials,
citizenship cancellations, matters relating to specific individuals,
and Passport registers.
LANGUAGE German
LOCATION Germany - Latvia, Riga - Russia, Livonia, Riga -
Naturalization and citizenship - Public records
=46ILM 1865215 Item 14
Meldebl=E4tter von in Lettland lebenden deutschen Staatsangeh=F6rigen
1938-1940 A - Bielenstein
=46ILM 1865216
Birkenthal - Kroeger
=46ILM 1865217
Kroepsch - Schubert
=46ILM 1865218
Sch=FCler - Zoch Meldebl=E4tter von in Lettland lebenden wehrpflichtigen
Personen deutscher Staatsangeh=F6rigkeit, A - Z 1938-1939
=46ILM 1865219
Meldebl=E4tter von in Lettland lebenden Deutschen aus dem Sudetengau
und dem ehemaligen Protektorat B=F6hmen und M=E4hren A - Z 1938-1939 A -
Z 1939-1940 Meldebl=E4tter Juden aus B=F6hmen und M=E4hren A - Z 1938-1940
Meldebl=E4tter der deutschen Juden in Lettland A - Rubinstein 1939-1941
=46ILM 1865220
Ruschkewitz - Z, 1939-1941 Meldebl=E4tter von Juden, die verzogen sind
oder die deutsche Staatsangeh=F6rigkeit aufgegeben haben A - Z
1938-1939 Suchlisten, Verweigerungen von Sichtvermerken A - Raab,
Maria 1934-1939
=46ILM 1865221
Raab, Maria - Z, 1934-1939 Aberkennungen der d. Staatsangeh=F6rigkeit
1934-1939 Ausb=FCrgerungslisten (Nr. 136-206) 1939-1941 Antr=E4ge auf
Entlassung 1938-1940 Angelegenheiten einzelner Personen 1938-1940
Pa=DFb=FCcher 1926-1929
=46ILM 1865222 Item 1
Pa=DFb=FCcher 1929-1934
____________________________________________________________________________=
_
TITLE Baltische Schicksale : im Spiegel der Geschichte einer
kurl=E4ndische Familie, 1756 bis 1919
SUMMARY History of Kurland with specific reference to some of the
descendants of Heinrich Ernst Seraphim (1718-1797), a German Jew who
settled in Kurland in 1756. Kurland later became part of Latvia.
LANGUAGE German
LOCATION Russia, Courland - Jewish history
Latvia - Jewish history
BOOK 929.24743 Se65s
____________________________________________________________________________=
_
TITLE Evrei v Daugavpilse : istoricheskie ocherki
SUMMARY History of the Jews in Dvinsk (Dvinsk), Vitebsk, Russia; now
Daugavpils, Latvia.
LANGUAGE Russian
LOCATION Latvia, Daugavpils - Jewish history
Russia, Vitebsk, Dvinsk (Dvinsk) - Jewish history
BOOK 947.43/D1 F2e
____________________________________________________________________________=
_
TITLE Fragments of the Jewish history of Riga : a brief guide-
BOOK with a map for a walking tour
SUMMARY
LANGUAGE English
LOCATION Latvia, Riga - Church directories - Maps
BOOK 947.43/R1 F2f
____________________________________________________________________________=
_
TITLE Geschichte der Juden in Riga : bis zur Begr=FCndung der
Rigischen Hebr=E4ergemeinde im J. 1842
SUMMARY The history of the Jews in Riga until the establishment of a
Jewish congregation in 1842.
LANGUAGE German
LOCATION Russia, Livonia, Riga - Jewish history
Latvia, Riga - Jewish history
BOOK 947.43/R1 F2b
=46ILM 1183577 Item 6
____________________________________________________________________________=
_
TITLE Olschwanger journal
SUMMARY Periodical for the interchange of genealogical data and
history of the Olschwanger (and variant spellings) who descended >from
Rabbi Yehoshua Olschwanger >from the town of Alschwangen, in the
courland region of Latvia. Rabbi Yehoshua fled >from Latvia in one of
the expulsions of the Jews in the 18th century, and settled in
Kretinga (Lithuania), about 3 miles >from the German border. Some
descendants moved to Sunderland (England), and others to Russia.
=46ocus is on his great- grandson, Elias Olschwanger, who immigrated

from Hamburg (Germany) to New York ca. 1888, and then to Missouri

Came with: The Olschwanger family tree, vol. 3.
LANGUAGE English, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, German
BOOK 929.27305 OL8
____________________________________________________________________________=
__
TITLE These names accuse : Nominal list of Latvians deported to
Soviet Russia in 1940-1941
SUMMARY Material taken >from vital records showing lists of Latvian
nationals who were deported to camps in the Soviet Union at the time
Latvia became part of the Soviet Union during the Second World War.
LANGUAGE English
LOCATION Latvia - History- Holocaust
Latvia - Jewish history
World War, 1939-1945 - Deportations >from Latvia
=46ILM 1183655 Item 2
--
Martha Levinson Lev-Zion, PhD
President SIG Latvia

My dad's DNA came back as Cohanim, and the markers match other names, not
known to us. One of them is LEESON >from Los Altos, who I met last week there.

As far as I am concerned, you have great yichis if you connect with
the LEESONs!

I have a Simon GLASER who had seven children:

1 M: Emanuel GLASER

2 M: Joshua GLASER

3 M: Jacob GLASER

4 M: Isaac GLASER

5 F: Hannah GLASS
Spouse: Abraham "Abe" SPRING

6 F: Beta GLASER

7 F: Esther GLASER

Needless to say, #5 intermarried with my family.

Martha

My dad's DNA came back as Cohanim, and the markers match other names, not
known to us. One of them is LEESON >from Los Altos, who I met last week there.

As far as I am concerned, you have great yichis if you connect with
the LEESONs!

I have a Simon GLASER who had seven children:

1 M: Emanuel GLASER

2 M: Joshua GLASER

3 M: Jacob GLASER

4 M: Isaac GLASER

5 F: Hannah GLASS
Spouse: Abraham "Abe" SPRING

6 F: Beta GLASER

7 F: Esther GLASER

Needless to say, #5 intermarried with my family.

Martha

I am addressing this query both to GerSig and to South
Africa Sig as many of the descendants of Nathan
GINSBERG(1814-1890) of Beuthen went to South Africa

from Germany.

I am seeking any information, however trivial it may
seem, on the following:

1.Oscar GINSBERG(b.1876) who married Anna
GINSBERG(1880-1850) and had two sons Paul and Hans.

2.Bertha GINSBERG(1869-1915) who married Leo
HANAUER(1872-1935) and had a daughter
Gretel(1905-1965)

3.Vally Margarethe GINSBERG(1875-1952) who married
Felix GATTEL (b.1874)

4.Leo GINSBERG(1845-1895) who married Louise
HOEXTER(1850-1906)
Amongst their children were: Anna (see 1, above), Otto
who married Helene ROSENSTEIN, Else, Fritz who married
Emma ROSENSTEIN.

5.Elfriede Natalie GINSBERG(1894- abt 1972)

6.Max Selmar GINSBERG(b.1897) who married Winnifred
KYLE(1903-1983)

7. Erich GINSBERG(died abt 1939) who married Klara
ZERNICK

If anyone can help me with any of the above, please
contact me, Adam Yamey, London
UK<adamandlopa@yahoo.co.uk>

I am addressing this query both to GerSig and to South
Africa Sig as many of the descendants of Nathan
GINSBERG(1814-1890) of Beuthen went to South Africa

from Germany.

I am seeking any information, however trivial it may
seem, on the following:

1.Oscar GINSBERG(b.1876) who married Anna
GINSBERG(1880-1850) and had two sons Paul and Hans.

2.Bertha GINSBERG(1869-1915) who married Leo
HANAUER(1872-1935) and had a daughter
Gretel(1905-1965)

3.Vally Margarethe GINSBERG(1875-1952) who married
Felix GATTEL (b.1874)

4.Leo GINSBERG(1845-1895) who married Louise
HOEXTER(1850-1906)
Amongst their children were: Anna (see 1, above), Otto
who married Helene ROSENSTEIN, Else, Fritz who married
Emma ROSENSTEIN.

5.Elfriede Natalie GINSBERG(1894- abt 1972)

6.Max Selmar GINSBERG(b.1897) who married Winnifred
KYLE(1903-1983)

7. Erich GINSBERG(died abt 1939) who married Klara
ZERNICK

If anyone can help me with any of the above, please
contact me, Adam Yamey, London
UK<adamandlopa@yahoo.co.uk>

I was at Yad Vashem last week checking the computerized holocaust records. I
took a record of the website address but cannot access it >from home. Is it
possible to gain access remotely or am I restricted to visits to Jerusalem?

David Kravitz
Bournemouth
England
BH1 2PG

I am hoping that someone will have some information as to where I can locate
records for Brody, Ukraine (Poland) for the years 1865-early 1900's. I have
searched high and low, hired a researcher and written to the archive in
L'viv as well as other archives in Poland, but have had no success. Does
anyone know if these records exist and where they might be found?

Joyce Eastman
Orange City, FL USA

Researching: WILDER, HONIG(HOENIG/CHENIG), HELFER, ZINKER/ZINKOWER - Brody,
Ukraine (Poland)

I was at Yad Vashem last week checking the computerized holocaust records. I
took a record of the website address but cannot access it >from home. Is it
possible to gain access remotely or am I restricted to visits to Jerusalem?

David Kravitz
Bournemouth
England
BH1 2PG

I am hoping that someone will have some information as to where I can locate
records for Brody, Ukraine (Poland) for the years 1865-early 1900's. I have
searched high and low, hired a researcher and written to the archive in
L'viv as well as other archives in Poland, but have had no success. Does
anyone know if these records exist and where they might be found?

Joyce Eastman
Orange City, FL USA

Researching: WILDER, HONIG(HOENIG/CHENIG), HELFER, ZINKER/ZINKOWER - Brody,
Ukraine (Poland)