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Deaths records. Rezekne 1902
#latvia
usdine@...
Subject: Deaths records. Rezekne 1902
From: Christine Usdin usdine@... Dear Genners, The translation of the Rezekne deaths records for 1902 is done: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/vishki/rigavitalrecords.html All the Rezekne records have been translated. Now I'll start to translate the Ludza vital records, which are not many as you can see on the Riga Vital Records page. Regards Christine Usdin usdine@...
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Births records. Ludza. 1867
#latvia
usdine@...
Subject: Births records. Ludza. 1867
From: Christine Usdin usdine@... http://pagesperso-orange.fr/vishki/birthsludzasixtyseven.html Christine Usdin usdine@...
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Latvia SIG #Latvia Deaths records. Rezekne 1902
#latvia
usdine@...
Subject: Deaths records. Rezekne 1902
From: Christine Usdin usdine@... Dear Genners, The translation of the Rezekne deaths records for 1902 is done: http://pagesperso-orange.fr/vishki/rigavitalrecords.html All the Rezekne records have been translated. Now I'll start to translate the Ludza vital records, which are not many as you can see on the Riga Vital Records page. Regards Christine Usdin usdine@...
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Latvia SIG #Latvia Births records. Ludza. 1867
#latvia
usdine@...
Subject: Births records. Ludza. 1867
From: Christine Usdin usdine@... http://pagesperso-orange.fr/vishki/birthsludzasixtyseven.html Christine Usdin usdine@...
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Seeking contact info for KIRSCHEN
#ukraine
osborn@...
Good morning.
I am hoping someone out there can help me locate contact info for Fischel KIRSCHEN or his descendants. When I last spoke with Fischel (exchanging information about the marriage connection between our Rohatyn families), it was about 10 years ago, and he was then living in Israel. Fischel was born in Rohatyn, the son of Mina KIRSCHEN (nee LIEBLING) and Abraham KIRSCHEN. Fischel left Yad Vashem testimony for his parents and many others who perished in the Rohatyn ghetto or, like his father, in Belzec. Any and all leads would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and kind regards, Marla Raucher Osborn Palo Alto, CA osborn@... Researching surnames HORN, FRUCHTER and LIEBLING (all spelling variations >from Rohatyn (formerly, Galicia) MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately.
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Seeking contact info for KIRSCHEN
#ukraine
osborn@...
Good morning.
I am hoping someone out there can help me locate contact info for Fischel KIRSCHEN or his descendants. When I last spoke with Fischel (exchanging information about the marriage connection between our Rohatyn families), it was about 10 years ago, and he was then living in Israel. Fischel was born in Rohatyn, the son of Mina KIRSCHEN (nee LIEBLING) and Abraham KIRSCHEN. Fischel left Yad Vashem testimony for his parents and many others who perished in the Rohatyn ghetto or, like his father, in Belzec. Any and all leads would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and kind regards, Marla Raucher Osborn Palo Alto, CA osborn@... Researching surnames HORN, FRUCHTER and LIEBLING (all spelling variations >from Rohatyn (formerly, Galicia) MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately.
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NYPL death index (NYC) lookup
#general
I'm hoping someone in NYC will be willing to look up a single NYC death in the
indexes at the NYPL. I need to locate the exact date and borough of death for the following woman, whose death was located in the SSDI. Louisa FRANK d. Mar 1976 b. 2 Nov 1904 last resided Flushing, Queens If there is anyone who is going to the NYPL and is willing to check on this, please let me know (before you do the lookup, in case someone else has already done it). I'd be happy to return a favor here in Los Angeles, if possible. Thanks. Ted Gostin tedgostin@...
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen NYPL death index (NYC) lookup
#general
I'm hoping someone in NYC will be willing to look up a single NYC death in the
indexes at the NYPL. I need to locate the exact date and borough of death for the following woman, whose death was located in the SSDI. Louisa FRANK d. Mar 1976 b. 2 Nov 1904 last resided Flushing, Queens If there is anyone who is going to the NYPL and is willing to check on this, please let me know (before you do the lookup, in case someone else has already done it). I'd be happy to return a favor here in Los Angeles, if possible. Thanks. Ted Gostin tedgostin@...
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Jacob Dinenson
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Saul Issroff <saul65@...>
Jacob Dinenso(h)n was b. . 1856, New Zagare (Lithuania) d. 1919 Warsaw. A popular
Yiddish romantic novelist, a friend of I. L. Peretz and Izak Meyer Dick. He d. 1933 and is buried in the Jewish cemetery of Gesia, Warsaw. He does not appear to have married. His sister, according to various obituaries, was Sarah Bella Eva Abrahams, the daughter of Elias Abrahams and ?, was born in Zagare in Lithuania circa 1867. She arrived in South Africa in the early 1880s with her husband Marcus Glueck who was born in Kletzkow, Germany in 1867. They were married in the States and had 2 children, Frieda Hannah who was born in 1889 in Charleston, South Carolina and Percival Joseph who was born circa 1891 in Birmingham, Alabama. she was noted as a heroine of the Anglo-Boer War. I am trying to establish how they were related, and who their mother was. Saul Issroff
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Jacob Dinenson
#general
Saul Issroff <saul65@...>
Jacob Dinenso(h)n was b. . 1856, New Zagare (Lithuania) d. 1919 Warsaw. A popular
Yiddish romantic novelist, a friend of I. L. Peretz and Izak Meyer Dick. He d. 1933 and is buried in the Jewish cemetery of Gesia, Warsaw. He does not appear to have married. His sister, according to various obituaries, was Sarah Bella Eva Abrahams, the daughter of Elias Abrahams and ?, was born in Zagare in Lithuania circa 1867. She arrived in South Africa in the early 1880s with her husband Marcus Glueck who was born in Kletzkow, Germany in 1867. They were married in the States and had 2 children, Frieda Hannah who was born in 1889 in Charleston, South Carolina and Percival Joseph who was born circa 1891 in Birmingham, Alabama. she was noted as a heroine of the Anglo-Boer War. I am trying to establish how they were related, and who their mother was. Saul Issroff
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Rabbi Silver - Welkom
#southafrica
Saul Issroff <saul65@...>
Elona Steinfeld of the country communities project is trying to
establish when Rabbi and Mrs Silver were in Welkom. Please contact me privately with details. -- Regards Saul Issroff
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South Africa SIG #SouthAfrica Rabbi Silver - Welkom
#southafrica
Saul Issroff <saul65@...>
Elona Steinfeld of the country communities project is trying to
establish when Rabbi and Mrs Silver were in Welkom. Please contact me privately with details. -- Regards Saul Issroff
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Re: Looking for family of Samuel Srulowitz
#general
David Rubin
davinci4955@... writes:
Samuel arrived in NYC in 1906 on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria >from Hamburg. HeIn the Ellis Island database there is a Stoine Stulowicz that arrived >from Hamburg on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria on May 20, 1906. I noticed on his petition that he wrote May 25, 1906. If you look at the manifest this is clearly SRULOWICZ. The first names appears to look like Shime not Stoine. You can compare the -h- with the -h- in Chicago which is written several times on the manifest. There is also a crossed -t- in Detroit. David Rubin
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Looking for family of Samuel Srulowitz
#general
David Rubin
davinci4955@... writes:
Samuel arrived in NYC in 1906 on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria >from Hamburg. HeIn the Ellis Island database there is a Stoine Stulowicz that arrived >from Hamburg on the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria on May 20, 1906. I noticed on his petition that he wrote May 25, 1906. If you look at the manifest this is clearly SRULOWICZ. The first names appears to look like Shime not Stoine. You can compare the -h- with the -h- in Chicago which is written several times on the manifest. There is also a crossed -t- in Detroit. David Rubin
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Seeking contact information for KIRSCHEN
#galicia
Marla Raucher Osborn <osborn@...>
Good morning.
I am hoping someone out there can help me locate contact info for Fischel KIRSCHEN or his descendants. When I last spoke with Fischel (exchanging information about the marriage connection between our Rohatyn families), was about 10 years ago, and he was then living in Israel. Fischel was born in Rohatyn, the son of Mina KIRSCHEN (nee LIEBLING) and Abraham KIRSCHEN. Fischel left Yad Vashem testimony for his parents and many others who perished in the Rohatyn ghetto or, like his father, in Belzec. Any and all leads would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and kind regards, Marla Raucher Osborn Palo Alto, CA osborn@... Researching surnames HORN, FRUCHTER and LIEBLING (all spelling variations >from Rohatyn (formerly, Galicia)
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Seeking contact information for KIRSCHEN
#galicia
Marla Raucher Osborn <osborn@...>
Good morning.
I am hoping someone out there can help me locate contact info for Fischel KIRSCHEN or his descendants. When I last spoke with Fischel (exchanging information about the marriage connection between our Rohatyn families), was about 10 years ago, and he was then living in Israel. Fischel was born in Rohatyn, the son of Mina KIRSCHEN (nee LIEBLING) and Abraham KIRSCHEN. Fischel left Yad Vashem testimony for his parents and many others who perished in the Rohatyn ghetto or, like his father, in Belzec. Any and all leads would be greatly appreciated. Thanks and kind regards, Marla Raucher Osborn Palo Alto, CA osborn@... Researching surnames HORN, FRUCHTER and LIEBLING (all spelling variations >from Rohatyn (formerly, Galicia)
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sue kriloff
i am a jewishgenner in the usa. i wonder if you can help me. i am searching=
for my uncle, a polish holocaust survivor. his name is jacob weinberg born= warsaw, poland, jan 5, 1919. he was last seen in in a refugee center in br= ussels, belgium in 1948. belgium said they sent him back to poland and its = said he went to germany in 1948. its and all three countries have no furthe= r info on him. i am told that the paris archives would have info on where h= e went because he was in a refugee camp in belgium. i emailed the archives = director twice and received no reply. can someone who lives in paris do a l= ook up at the paris archives on Jacob Weinberg? merci, sue moderator: ask also this question on frenchsig list.
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sue kriloff
i am a jewishgenner in the usa. i wonder if you can help me. i am searching=
for my uncle, a polish holocaust survivor. his name is jacob weinberg born= warsaw, poland, jan 5, 1919. he was last seen in in a refugee center in br= ussels, belgium in 1948. belgium said they sent him back to poland and its = said he went to germany in 1948. its and all three countries have no furthe= r info on him. i am told that the paris archives would have info on where h= e went because he was in a refugee camp in belgium. i emailed the archives = director twice and received no reply. can someone who lives in paris do a l= ook up at the paris archives on Jacob Weinberg? merci, sue moderator: ask also this question on frenchsig list.
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Jewish Archive Found In Iraq, Brought to US Being Reclaimed
#general
Jan Meisels Allen <janmallen@...>
Jewish Archive found in Iraq and brought to the United States in 2003 is now
reclaimed by the Iraqi's. Included in the artifacts are: photos, parchments and cases to hold Torah scrolls; a Jewish religious book published in 1568; 50 copies of a children's primer in Hebrew and Arabic; books in Arabic and English, books printed in Baghdad, Warsaw and Venice - the lost heritage of what was once one of the largest Jewish communities in the Middle East, dating to the 6th century B.C. See article: http://tinyurl.com/ybu9mz3 Jan Meisels Allen IAJGS, Director-at-large and Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Jewish Archive Found In Iraq, Brought to US Being Reclaimed
#general
Jan Meisels Allen <janmallen@...>
Jewish Archive found in Iraq and brought to the United States in 2003 is now
reclaimed by the Iraqi's. Included in the artifacts are: photos, parchments and cases to hold Torah scrolls; a Jewish religious book published in 1568; 50 copies of a children's primer in Hebrew and Arabic; books in Arabic and English, books printed in Baghdad, Warsaw and Venice - the lost heritage of what was once one of the largest Jewish communities in the Middle East, dating to the 6th century B.C. See article: http://tinyurl.com/ybu9mz3 Jan Meisels Allen IAJGS, Director-at-large and Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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