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Jews in LOHRA
#germany
C. Eberstadt <cpa-eberstadt@...>
Dear fellow researchers
A well known auction site (Germany) offers a book about the Jews of LOHRA, containing chapters: Die Juden von Lohra in der doerflichen Gemeinschaft (Jews of Lohre in a Village Community) Zur Geschichte der jüdischen Gemeinde in Lohra (About the History of the Jewish Community of Lohra). Maybe, someone could be interested. Christof Eberstadt Germany <cpa-eberstadt@...>
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German SIG #Germany Jews in LOHRA
#germany
C. Eberstadt <cpa-eberstadt@...>
Dear fellow researchers
A well known auction site (Germany) offers a book about the Jews of LOHRA, containing chapters: Die Juden von Lohra in der doerflichen Gemeinschaft (Jews of Lohre in a Village Community) Zur Geschichte der jüdischen Gemeinde in Lohra (About the History of the Jewish Community of Lohra). Maybe, someone could be interested. Christof Eberstadt Germany <cpa-eberstadt@...>
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Re: MITSCHERLICH
#germany
Abuwasta Abuwasta
Since it is quite a rare surname I would suggest
to enter www.veromi.info and click this surname. Since the deceased parents died in NY and CT (according to SSDI) I looked whether there are any candidates in NY and CT. There are!!! Good luck Jacob Rosen Amman,Jordan <abuwasta@...>
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German SIG #Germany re: MITSCHERLICH
#germany
Abuwasta Abuwasta
Since it is quite a rare surname I would suggest
to enter www.veromi.info and click this surname. Since the deceased parents died in NY and CT (according to SSDI) I looked whether there are any candidates in NY and CT. There are!!! Good luck Jacob Rosen Amman,Jordan <abuwasta@...>
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San Diego Jewish Genealogical Society
#general
enalibof@...
Feb 26, 2007 Submitted by Ellen Naliboff enalibof@...
San Diego Jewish Genealogical Society Meeting: Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:00 P.M. Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center 2nd Floor Sr. Activity Room 4126 Executive Drive in La Jolla Opportunity for research in the San Diego Jewish Genealogical Society library. Non-members of SDJGS $3.00
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen San Diego Jewish Genealogical Society
#general
enalibof@...
Feb 26, 2007 Submitted by Ellen Naliboff enalibof@...
San Diego Jewish Genealogical Society Meeting: Sunday, March 11, 2007 1:00 P.M. Lawrence Family Jewish Community Center 2nd Floor Sr. Activity Room 4126 Executive Drive in La Jolla Opportunity for research in the San Diego Jewish Genealogical Society library. Non-members of SDJGS $3.00
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Fw: Re: Unknown man from Vienna? - Viewmate 9514
#austria-czech
arie meir
Dear Siggers;
I am now sending you a revised posting and a direct link to the view mate: http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=9514 I do hope you can help me identify this man. My mother Cilli MAYER (maiden name GLASER) was born in Vienna in 1914 and died on August 1983. She left many letters and photos. One of them is VM9514. from his age and the style of his suit he looks like a contemporary of mymother. Other members of her family were her brothers Harman GLASER & David GLASER. They both passed away), Her father Chaim GLASER ,who disappeared in Przemysl In1939 , and Dvora GLASER (his daughter >from his second wife). But this is not one of them. It could be a cousin or a friend >from her student days - perhaps someone killed in the holocaust? My mother married my father Max MAYER, who was born in Vienna in 1902 and passed away in Haifa in 1980 or one of their joint family friends. Anyway, I am now left with a mystery unless someone can recognize him! Many thanks Arieh Mayer Haifa Israel
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Austria-Czech SIG #Austria-Czech Fw: Re: Unknown man from Vienna? - Viewmate 9514
#austria-czech
arie meir
Dear Siggers;
I am now sending you a revised posting and a direct link to the view mate: http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=9514 I do hope you can help me identify this man. My mother Cilli MAYER (maiden name GLASER) was born in Vienna in 1914 and died on August 1983. She left many letters and photos. One of them is VM9514. from his age and the style of his suit he looks like a contemporary of mymother. Other members of her family were her brothers Harman GLASER & David GLASER. They both passed away), Her father Chaim GLASER ,who disappeared in Przemysl In1939 , and Dvora GLASER (his daughter >from his second wife). But this is not one of them. It could be a cousin or a friend >from her student days - perhaps someone killed in the holocaust? My mother married my father Max MAYER, who was born in Vienna in 1902 and passed away in Haifa in 1980 or one of their joint family friends. Anyway, I am now left with a mystery unless someone can recognize him! Many thanks Arieh Mayer Haifa Israel
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Re: Baden and Karl Kohn
#austria-czech
Peter Gieler <petergieler@...>
I am pleased that contact has been made with Thomas Schaerf and the Baden
Community. I met him a number of years ago when I was researching my family ancestors in Vienna and found him extremely helpful. I am very interested in Karl KOHN as my late Uncle Siegfried KOHN also left Vienna and travelled via Shanghai to Melbourne Australia. He too left all his papers which are vast and include major extracts >from his diaries to the Archives at the Jewish Museum in Melbourne. A great deal of his artefacts were used in the exhibition on Jewish Life in Shanghai during the 1940s. I would like to share my collection of information and exchanged details re my family Kohn who lived in Moedling and stemmed originally from Deutschkreuz and Mattersburg. Peter Gieler UK
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Austria-Czech SIG #Austria-Czech RE:Baden and Karl Kohn
#austria-czech
Peter Gieler <petergieler@...>
I am pleased that contact has been made with Thomas Schaerf and the Baden
Community. I met him a number of years ago when I was researching my family ancestors in Vienna and found him extremely helpful. I am very interested in Karl KOHN as my late Uncle Siegfried KOHN also left Vienna and travelled via Shanghai to Melbourne Australia. He too left all his papers which are vast and include major extracts >from his diaries to the Archives at the Jewish Museum in Melbourne. A great deal of his artefacts were used in the exhibition on Jewish Life in Shanghai during the 1940s. I would like to share my collection of information and exchanged details re my family Kohn who lived in Moedling and stemmed originally from Deutschkreuz and Mattersburg. Peter Gieler UK
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Brussels Belgium address
#france
bik <kooshb9341@...>
I'd appreciate lookup of street address for Yaacov Ighbi and/or
Sophie Lemel Ighbi in Brussels, Belgium. We have lost e-mail contact. Infobel search was negative. Please reply privately to... -- Bernard Kouchel kooshb9341@...
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French SIG #France Brussels Belgium address
#france
bik <kooshb9341@...>
I'd appreciate lookup of street address for Yaacov Ighbi and/or
Sophie Lemel Ighbi in Brussels, Belgium. We have lost e-mail contact. Infobel search was negative. Please reply privately to... -- Bernard Kouchel kooshb9341@...
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Avotanu does not contain graphics - thanks to all who responded
#general
Stuart LeVine <sblevine@...>
Thanks to all of you who were able to clarify the answer regarding graphics
included in the CD version of Avotanu. FOr all of the people who who asked to know the answer - Avotanu on CD does NOT include any of the graphics or maps or anything other than the text from the print version. Stuart LeVine
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Avotanu does not contain graphics - thanks to all who responded
#general
Stuart LeVine <sblevine@...>
Thanks to all of you who were able to clarify the answer regarding graphics
included in the CD version of Avotanu. FOr all of the people who who asked to know the answer - Avotanu on CD does NOT include any of the graphics or maps or anything other than the text from the print version. Stuart LeVine
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translate into Spanish
#general
Shelly Crane
Greetings,
I have about 4 or 5 Cyrillic as well as Polish documents >from Lomza Gubernia, Poland, which have been translated to English. Recently, I made contact with a relative who lives in Cuba and she is interested in getting copies of these documents. Is anyone able to translate them into Spanish? I can either send the actual documents or the English translations....whichever is easiest. Thank you! Shelly Crane USA crzprncess@... Other surnames I am researching: Anywhere in Lomza-Suwalki, Poland: CYPKOWSKI, DANOWSKI, DOMB,FAJNTUCH, FAJNSTEIN, FINKELSZTEJN (Rajgrod), FRAJND, FROMSON, GABELMAN, GUROWSKI, ILELSON, LANGANS, LANGUS, LIPOWICZ, LIPSZYC, MILEWICZ, MYSKOWSKY, PRESZMAN, TOCZYLOWSKI, WAJNSTEIN, WYTRIOL. Gabin, Poland: BOL, Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Poland: FLASZTERSZTEIN. Ukraine: BLAS/BLAZ, BLEKHMAN, GLASS, KWAIT,KVACHINSKIJ, LEFELMAN, LIPOVETSKY, SHIFFMAN MODERATOR NOTE: JewishGen participants seeking commentary or problem-solving advice from others are encouraged to use ViewMate for the posting of Jewish genealogyrelated graphics. Here you can post: Photos for identification of people, clothing, buildings, scenes, objects, artifacts, etc. and Letters, documents, book pages, maps, etc. for analysis or translation. Go to http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ for instructions on using Viewmate
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen translate into Spanish
#general
Shelly Crane
Greetings,
I have about 4 or 5 Cyrillic as well as Polish documents >from Lomza Gubernia, Poland, which have been translated to English. Recently, I made contact with a relative who lives in Cuba and she is interested in getting copies of these documents. Is anyone able to translate them into Spanish? I can either send the actual documents or the English translations....whichever is easiest. Thank you! Shelly Crane USA crzprncess@... Other surnames I am researching: Anywhere in Lomza-Suwalki, Poland: CYPKOWSKI, DANOWSKI, DOMB,FAJNTUCH, FAJNSTEIN, FINKELSZTEJN (Rajgrod), FRAJND, FROMSON, GABELMAN, GUROWSKI, ILELSON, LANGANS, LANGUS, LIPOWICZ, LIPSZYC, MILEWICZ, MYSKOWSKY, PRESZMAN, TOCZYLOWSKI, WAJNSTEIN, WYTRIOL. Gabin, Poland: BOL, Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Poland: FLASZTERSZTEIN. Ukraine: BLAS/BLAZ, BLEKHMAN, GLASS, KWAIT,KVACHINSKIJ, LEFELMAN, LIPOVETSKY, SHIFFMAN MODERATOR NOTE: JewishGen participants seeking commentary or problem-solving advice from others are encouraged to use ViewMate for the posting of Jewish genealogyrelated graphics. Here you can post: Photos for identification of people, clothing, buildings, scenes, objects, artifacts, etc. and Letters, documents, book pages, maps, etc. for analysis or translation. Go to http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ for instructions on using Viewmate
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Seek descendents of Ernestine KAHN b. Freudenthal 1884 m. ELLMAN b. Nuremberg
#germany
Helen Levy <carlhelen@...>
Dear Gersigers,
I am looking for descendents of ERNESTINE KAHN b. 1884 in Freudenthal and Mr. ELLMAN b. in Nuremberg. Ernestine had siblings, Fanny b. 1839, Fritz b. 1841, Joseph b. 1842, Augustine b.1844, and Julius b. 1848. Ernestine may have been a twin. Their parents were Jette (Ittel) LEVI and Meier KAHN. Ernestine and Mr. ELLMAN had 9 children: Max m. Caro WELFELDER, Truda m. Mr. ADLER. Gretchen m. Mr. HOFFMAN, Martin m Martha?, Nona m. Max SPINAT, Herta m. Mr. MARSE, Franz, Anna, and Heinrich. Any suggestions of how I can track them? Would there be records in Fruedenthal; marriage records, cemetary records, that I could access? Helen Levi Levy Kenilworth, IL Carlhelen@...
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German SIG #Germany Seek descendents of Ernestine KAHN b. Freudenthal 1884 m. ELLMAN b. Nuremberg
#germany
Helen Levy <carlhelen@...>
Dear Gersigers,
I am looking for descendents of ERNESTINE KAHN b. 1884 in Freudenthal and Mr. ELLMAN b. in Nuremberg. Ernestine had siblings, Fanny b. 1839, Fritz b. 1841, Joseph b. 1842, Augustine b.1844, and Julius b. 1848. Ernestine may have been a twin. Their parents were Jette (Ittel) LEVI and Meier KAHN. Ernestine and Mr. ELLMAN had 9 children: Max m. Caro WELFELDER, Truda m. Mr. ADLER. Gretchen m. Mr. HOFFMAN, Martin m Martha?, Nona m. Max SPINAT, Herta m. Mr. MARSE, Franz, Anna, and Heinrich. Any suggestions of how I can track them? Would there be records in Fruedenthal; marriage records, cemetary records, that I could access? Helen Levi Levy Kenilworth, IL Carlhelen@...
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Yizkor Book Report February 2007
#galicia
Joyce Field
The Yizkor Book Project uploaded eight new entries and 11 updates
during February 2007. All translations are accessible >from http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html, where flags identify new material. New entries: Pinkas HaKehillot Germany: -Assenheim: Germany, vol. III -Bad Kissngen, Germany, vol. I -Bonstadt: Germany, vol. III -Emershausen, Germany,vol. I -Oberaula, Germany, vol. III Bukowina: Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina -Dzhurin, Ukraine -Luchinets, Ukraine -Mogilev, Ukraine Updates: -Bedzin, Poland -Belz, Ukraine -Bukowina, Ukraine -Chelm, Poland -Czestochowa, Poland -Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine -Kalusz, Ukraine -Kamen Kashirskiy, Ukraine -Nowy Sacz, Poland -Sosnowiec, Poland -Zglembia, Poland Please remember the yizkor book projects at http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23 which need financial support. The additional translations of the Chelm and Ivano-Frankivsk yizkor books that went online in February were paid for by donations. Many thanks to the donors of material and money and to all the volunteers who assist the yizkor book project. Joyce Field JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Yizkor Book Report February 2007
#galicia
Joyce Field
The Yizkor Book Project uploaded eight new entries and 11 updates
during February 2007. All translations are accessible >from http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html, where flags identify new material. New entries: Pinkas HaKehillot Germany: -Assenheim: Germany, vol. III -Bad Kissngen, Germany, vol. I -Bonstadt: Germany, vol. III -Emershausen, Germany,vol. I -Oberaula, Germany, vol. III Bukowina: Geschichte der Juden in der Bukowina -Dzhurin, Ukraine -Luchinets, Ukraine -Mogilev, Ukraine Updates: -Bedzin, Poland -Belz, Ukraine -Bukowina, Ukraine -Chelm, Poland -Czestochowa, Poland -Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine -Kalusz, Ukraine -Kamen Kashirskiy, Ukraine -Nowy Sacz, Poland -Sosnowiec, Poland -Zglembia, Poland Please remember the yizkor book projects at http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23 which need financial support. The additional translations of the Chelm and Ivano-Frankivsk yizkor books that went online in February were paid for by donations. Many thanks to the donors of material and money and to all the volunteers who assist the yizkor book project. Joyce Field JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition
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