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Unpublished phone number
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mhlcswc2@...
If this problem occurred in Baltimore, my home town, I would recommend
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putting an advertisement in the Detroit Jewish weekly, or whatever their publication is called and simultaneously contacting a Jewish funeral parlor to see if an organization exists such as one does in Baltimore for former German immigrants or Holocaust survivors. Doing that would probably give them access to your request and they would be free to act upon it if they were desirous of doing so. Good luck in your research. Marcia Hoffman
In a message dated 8/24/2005 2:49:57 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jewishgen@lyris.jewishgen.org writes: The search for the identity of a 'Hidden Child of the Holocaust' has led to a BINDER family of Detroit, Michigan that has an unpublished phone number.
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Posting Courtesy on JewishGen
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Ann Rabinowitz <annrab@...>
When you are responding to a posting on the JewishGen or other digests,
please do not copy everyone who has also responded to this posting. They can easily read the followup responses on the digest themselves if they are interested. It is courteous to copy the original poster to ensure that he/she reads your response. Thank you, Ann Rabinowitz annrab@bellsouth.net
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Unpublished phone number
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mhlcswc2@...
If this problem occurred in Baltimore, my home town, I would recommend
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
putting an advertisement in the Detroit Jewish weekly, or whatever their publication is called and simultaneously contacting a Jewish funeral parlor to see if an organization exists such as one does in Baltimore for former German immigrants or Holocaust survivors. Doing that would probably give them access to your request and they would be free to act upon it if they were desirous of doing so. Good luck in your research. Marcia Hoffman
In a message dated 8/24/2005 2:49:57 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jewishgen@lyris.jewishgen.org writes: The search for the identity of a 'Hidden Child of the Holocaust' has led to a BINDER family of Detroit, Michigan that has an unpublished phone number.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Posting Courtesy on JewishGen
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Ann Rabinowitz <annrab@...>
When you are responding to a posting on the JewishGen or other digests,
please do not copy everyone who has also responded to this posting. They can easily read the followup responses on the digest themselves if they are interested. It is courteous to copy the original poster to ensure that he/she reads your response. Thank you, Ann Rabinowitz annrab@bellsouth.net
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Looking for "Jacobs Family" Brookline Massachusetts
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stephen field
My name is Stephen Field. My E mail address is:
stemarfie@yahooo.com I am looking for the Jacobs Family that lived at 199 Babcock Street in Broolkine Massachusetts. The mothers name, Ann, the father, Samuel. They had three children, 2 daughters and a son. Samuel had a Brother in law Keevie Goodman married to his sister, Mary. They lived on Beals Street. Betty (Jacobs) Citron that lived on Thorndike Street. She had a daughter, Gayle, and a son Phillip. All lived in Brookine Massachusetts. Betty Worked at Temple Kehillath Israel on Harvard Street, Brookline, Massachusetts. Please send information to my E mail address: stemarfie@yahoo.com Thank you. Stephen Field
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Looking for "Jacobs Family" Brookline Massachusetts
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stephen field
My name is Stephen Field. My E mail address is:
stemarfie@yahooo.com I am looking for the Jacobs Family that lived at 199 Babcock Street in Broolkine Massachusetts. The mothers name, Ann, the father, Samuel. They had three children, 2 daughters and a son. Samuel had a Brother in law Keevie Goodman married to his sister, Mary. They lived on Beals Street. Betty (Jacobs) Citron that lived on Thorndike Street. She had a daughter, Gayle, and a son Phillip. All lived in Brookine Massachusetts. Betty Worked at Temple Kehillath Israel on Harvard Street, Brookline, Massachusetts. Please send information to my E mail address: stemarfie@yahoo.com Thank you. Stephen Field
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Re: Ellis Island Manifest question
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Ira Leviton
Dear Cousins,
Howie Axelrod asked: Can anyone tell me what the term "do" in the family name column of the EI manifest means. It appears to indicate a reference to the name above it.>>> I answer: It's short for "ditto" (meaning the same). Ira Ira Leviton New York, N.Y. searching for... LEWITAN (Rypin, Myszyniec, and Goworow, Pol.), SAPIRA (Gac, Pol.), ELIAS/ELJASZ (Rypin, Pol.), NIEDOBITEK (Rypin, Pol.), MIRELMAN (Rypin, Pol.), BLANK (Niedzwiada, Mala, Debica, and Ropczyce, Pol.), REBHUN/REPHAN/RAPHAN/REPHEN (Rzemien, Mala, Debica, and Ropczyce, Pol.), STRICK (Mielec and Ropczyce, Pol.), KORN (Gorlice and Ropczyce, Pol.), and ATLAS/ATLASS (Frankfort, Ger. and Wien/Vienna, Austria), HERZOG
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Temples & Synagogues On Long Island New York
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stephen field
My name is Stephen Field. My E mail address is:
stemarfie@yahoo.com I am looking for names, addresses and telephone numbers of Temples and Synagogues on Long Island, New York. I am looking for my cousin Sharon (Maiden Name) Gruzen, that may be a member of one of the Temples or Synagogues. Please send the information to my E mail address: stemarfie@yahoo.com Thank you. Stephen Field stemarfie@yahoo.com
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Ellis Island Manifest question
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Ira Leviton
Dear Cousins,
Howie Axelrod asked: Can anyone tell me what the term "do" in the family name column of the EI manifest means. It appears to indicate a reference to the name above it.>>> I answer: It's short for "ditto" (meaning the same). Ira Ira Leviton New York, N.Y. searching for... LEWITAN (Rypin, Myszyniec, and Goworow, Pol.), SAPIRA (Gac, Pol.), ELIAS/ELJASZ (Rypin, Pol.), NIEDOBITEK (Rypin, Pol.), MIRELMAN (Rypin, Pol.), BLANK (Niedzwiada, Mala, Debica, and Ropczyce, Pol.), REBHUN/REPHAN/RAPHAN/REPHEN (Rzemien, Mala, Debica, and Ropczyce, Pol.), STRICK (Mielec and Ropczyce, Pol.), KORN (Gorlice and Ropczyce, Pol.), and ATLAS/ATLASS (Frankfort, Ger. and Wien/Vienna, Austria), HERZOG
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Temples & Synagogues On Long Island New York
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stephen field
My name is Stephen Field. My E mail address is:
stemarfie@yahoo.com I am looking for names, addresses and telephone numbers of Temples and Synagogues on Long Island, New York. I am looking for my cousin Sharon (Maiden Name) Gruzen, that may be a member of one of the Temples or Synagogues. Please send the information to my E mail address: stemarfie@yahoo.com Thank you. Stephen Field stemarfie@yahoo.com
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Re: Berlin Marriage and Birth records?
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Nick <tulse04-news@...>
"Michael Salzbank" <msalzbank@gmail.com> wrote
I thank all of you who have responded with leads to find deathI believe that you go to the relevant Standesamt (registration office) for the area where the person lived and request the certificate. -- Nick Landau London, UK
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Re: Ellis Island Manifest question
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Stan Goodman <SPAM_FOILER@...>
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:16:39 UTC, highwind1@comcast.net (Howie
Axelrod) opined: Can anyone tell me what the term "do" in the family name column of the EIJust my wild guess, of course, but I would suppose that "do", in the context that you describe, means "ditto", as it does in similar lists, even the most ungenealogical. -- Stan Goodman, Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel Searching: NEACHOWICZ/NOACHOWICZ, NEJMAN/NAJMAN, SURALSKI: >from Lomza Gubernia ISMACH: >from Lomza Gubernia, Galicia, and Ukraina HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: >from Dorohoi District, Romania GRISARU, VATARU: >from Iasi, Dorohoi, and Mileanca, Romania See my interactive family tree (requires Java 1.1.6 or better). the URL is: http://www.hashkedim.com For reasons connected with anti-spam/junk security, the return address is not valid. To communicate with me, please visit my website (see the URL above -- no Java required for this purpose) and fill in the email form there.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Berlin Marriage and Birth records?
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Nick <tulse04-news@...>
"Michael Salzbank" <msalzbank@gmail.com> wrote
I thank all of you who have responded with leads to find deathI believe that you go to the relevant Standesamt (registration office) for the area where the person lived and request the certificate. -- Nick Landau London, UK
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Ellis Island Manifest question
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Stan Goodman <SPAM_FOILER@...>
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 01:16:39 UTC, highwind1@comcast.net (Howie
Axelrod) opined: Can anyone tell me what the term "do" in the family name column of the EIJust my wild guess, of course, but I would suppose that "do", in the context that you describe, means "ditto", as it does in similar lists, even the most ungenealogical. -- Stan Goodman, Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel Searching: NEACHOWICZ/NOACHOWICZ, NEJMAN/NAJMAN, SURALSKI: >from Lomza Gubernia ISMACH: >from Lomza Gubernia, Galicia, and Ukraina HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: >from Dorohoi District, Romania GRISARU, VATARU: >from Iasi, Dorohoi, and Mileanca, Romania See my interactive family tree (requires Java 1.1.6 or better). the URL is: http://www.hashkedim.com For reasons connected with anti-spam/junk security, the return address is not valid. To communicate with me, please visit my website (see the URL above -- no Java required for this purpose) and fill in the email form there.
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Re: Sephardic roots?
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Stan Goodman <SPAM_FOILER@...>
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:20:26 UTC, armagnac@utep.edu (Armagnac, Ana M.)
opined: Just very recently through a DNA test my brother had done on himself weThe late premier of France, Pierre Mendez-France comes to mind immediately. Out of curiosity, I just googled the compound surname, and found a fair number of others who bore it. It seems to me that I have read in the past that the name Mendez has a Jewish background (which would be low-tech confirmation of the DNA results). I have also been told that, since the inquisition, the genes of those Jews who submitted to the requirement to convert to Catholicism in order to remain in Spain have been so widely distributed that most Spaniards carry them. In other words, if this is true, if you have Spanish ancestors, you are genetically Jewish to some degree. -- Stan Goodman, Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel Searching: NEACHOWICZ/NOACHOWICZ, NEJMAN/NAJMAN, SURALSKI: >from Lomza Gubernia ISMACH: >from Lomza Gubernia, Galicia, and Ukraina HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: >from Dorohoi District, Romania GRISARU, VATARU: >from Iasi, Dorohoi, and Mileanca, Romania See my interactive family tree (requires Java 1.1.6 or better). the URL is: http://www.hashkedim.com For reasons connected with anti-spam/junk security, the return address is not valid. To communicate with me, please visit my website (see the URL above -- no Java required for this purpose) and fill in the email form there.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Sephardic roots?
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Stan Goodman <SPAM_FOILER@...>
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 02:20:26 UTC, armagnac@utep.edu (Armagnac, Ana M.)
opined: Just very recently through a DNA test my brother had done on himself weThe late premier of France, Pierre Mendez-France comes to mind immediately. Out of curiosity, I just googled the compound surname, and found a fair number of others who bore it. It seems to me that I have read in the past that the name Mendez has a Jewish background (which would be low-tech confirmation of the DNA results). I have also been told that, since the inquisition, the genes of those Jews who submitted to the requirement to convert to Catholicism in order to remain in Spain have been so widely distributed that most Spaniards carry them. In other words, if this is true, if you have Spanish ancestors, you are genetically Jewish to some degree. -- Stan Goodman, Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel Searching: NEACHOWICZ/NOACHOWICZ, NEJMAN/NAJMAN, SURALSKI: >from Lomza Gubernia ISMACH: >from Lomza Gubernia, Galicia, and Ukraina HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: >from Dorohoi District, Romania GRISARU, VATARU: >from Iasi, Dorohoi, and Mileanca, Romania See my interactive family tree (requires Java 1.1.6 or better). the URL is: http://www.hashkedim.com For reasons connected with anti-spam/junk security, the return address is not valid. To communicate with me, please visit my website (see the URL above -- no Java required for this purpose) and fill in the email form there.
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Re: Sephardic roots?
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Nick <tulse04-news@...>
"Armagnac, Ana M." <armagnac@utep.edu> wrote
Just very recently through a DNA test my brother had done on himself weI might be wrong but I would have thought that the test would have thrown up this possibility without expressing a certainty. See http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/abstracts-jews.html -- Nick Landau London, UK
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Sephardic roots?
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Nick <tulse04-news@...>
"Armagnac, Ana M." <armagnac@utep.edu> wrote
Just very recently through a DNA test my brother had done on himself weI might be wrong but I would have thought that the test would have thrown up this possibility without expressing a certainty. See http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/abstracts-jews.html -- Nick Landau London, UK
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Re: 176 Clinton
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Lisa Lepore <llepore@...>
The Montefiore Home was established in New York city,
in 1884 to provide care primarily for tuberculosis patients. It still exists, but it is now called Montefiore Medical Center, and is located in the Bronx. It has a web site here- http://www.montefiore.org/ If you search for "Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids" in any web search engine, you will find many other sites that mention it. I don't know about the records location, but at least this is a place to start. Lisa
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: 176 Clinton
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Lisa Lepore <llepore@...>
The Montefiore Home was established in New York city,
in 1884 to provide care primarily for tuberculosis patients. It still exists, but it is now called Montefiore Medical Center, and is located in the Bronx. It has a web site here- http://www.montefiore.org/ If you search for "Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids" in any web search engine, you will find many other sites that mention it. I don't know about the records location, but at least this is a place to start. Lisa
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