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Re: Lviv House and Street Photo Project - Sloneczna
#galicia
Eli Brauner
Hello Josef and Stella,
One of the ancestral houses of the Schrenzel family In Lwow was at Sloneczna St. today Kluisha. I still don't know the house number. Probably 20-22. Another house was probably No. 14. Are you familiar with the name? Do you know if the house numbers were changed? Maybe when the street name changed? Have you tried to locate in Lviv documents regarding assets? Every house there has a file. Do you know someone that can go there and take a look? Eli Brauner Israel
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Re: Lviv House and Street Photo Project - Sloneczna
#galicia
Eli Brauner
Hello Josef and Stella,
One of the ancestral houses of the Schrenzel family In Lwow was at Sloneczna St. today Kluisha. I still don't know the house number. Probably 20-22. Another house was probably No. 14. Are you familiar with the name? Do you know if the house numbers were changed? Maybe when the street name changed? Have you tried to locate in Lviv documents regarding assets? Every house there has a file. Do you know someone that can go there and take a look? Eli Brauner Israel
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Austro-Hungarian newspapers in digital form
#galicia
Grzegorz Gembala <ggembala@...>
The Austrian National Library started a project called ANNO - they
provide scans of various daily newspapers issued in the times of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. It includes also two Galician newspapers: Dziennik Krakowski (Krakow Daily) for the years 1896 and 1897 and Kuryer Lwowski (Lemberger Courier) 1885-1918 (both in Polish). For more details and the list of other available newspapers and magazines, visit http://anno.onb.ac.at/anno.htm Grzegorz Gembala Krakow, Poland
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Austro-Hungarian newspapers in digital form
#galicia
Grzegorz Gembala <ggembala@...>
The Austrian National Library started a project called ANNO - they
provide scans of various daily newspapers issued in the times of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. It includes also two Galician newspapers: Dziennik Krakowski (Krakow Daily) for the years 1896 and 1897 and Kuryer Lwowski (Lemberger Courier) 1885-1918 (both in Polish). For more details and the list of other available newspapers and magazines, visit http://anno.onb.ac.at/anno.htm Grzegorz Gembala Krakow, Poland
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342 000 records from the Jewish Community in Vienna
#galicia
Traude Triebel
On http://www.genteam at you'll find 550,000 new records including
- 342,000 records >from the Jewish Community Vienna - about 18,000 records, resignation of the Jewish Community - more than 52,000 obits >from the Neue Freie Presse, appeared between 1864 and 1938, concerning people, not only died in Vienna, also >from the Crown Lands - 5,000 entries >from Protestant marriages between 1763 and 1860 and many other interesting indexes. The databases are without fee! Good luck. Traude Traude Triebel A-2700 Wr. Neustadt Email: traude.triebel@... Web: http://www.grave-pictures.at Web: http://www.family-gruenwald.at
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia 342 000 records from the Jewish Community in Vienna
#galicia
Traude Triebel
On http://www.genteam at you'll find 550,000 new records including
- 342,000 records >from the Jewish Community Vienna - about 18,000 records, resignation of the Jewish Community - more than 52,000 obits >from the Neue Freie Presse, appeared between 1864 and 1938, concerning people, not only died in Vienna, also >from the Crown Lands - 5,000 entries >from Protestant marriages between 1763 and 1860 and many other interesting indexes. The databases are without fee! Good luck. Traude Traude Triebel A-2700 Wr. Neustadt Email: traude.triebel@... Web: http://www.grave-pictures.at Web: http://www.family-gruenwald.at
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Given name 'Paul': Lithuania - South Africa
#general
Adrian Freedman
Dear colleagues:
a great uncle living in South Africa was known as Paul He came >from Lithuania Please may I have suggestions as to what his name would have been in Lithuania He was said to have come >from "Wekvirsan" Please suggestions as to correct place name. Could it be Vieksniai? Appreciate all help Best wishes Adrian Freedman
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Given name 'Paul': Lithuania - South Africa
#general
Adrian Freedman
Dear colleagues:
a great uncle living in South Africa was known as Paul He came >from Lithuania Please may I have suggestions as to what his name would have been in Lithuania He was said to have come >from "Wekvirsan" Please suggestions as to correct place name. Could it be Vieksniai? Appreciate all help Best wishes Adrian Freedman
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Barnett family tree
#general
Martine Laize <martine.laize@...>
I want to thank all of you who proposed to help me.
It made me possible to have a contact with the ancestry.com member about Nathan Lubanitsky Thank you very much Martine Laize (France)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Barnett family tree
#general
Martine Laize <martine.laize@...>
I want to thank all of you who proposed to help me.
It made me possible to have a contact with the ancestry.com member about Nathan Lubanitsky Thank you very much Martine Laize (France)
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Re: Different surnames for same person
#general
atefreebox-jgen@...
Tsarist Russia accumulated an enormous mass of constantly changing
legislation discriminating against Jews and to live under those laws was a nightmare. If I'm not mistaken, in an effort to curb Jewish birth rate the Russians did indeed prevent Jews of one Guberniya in the Pale of Settlement >from marrying Jews >from other Guberniyas, and established a civil marriages quota for Jews in the Guberniya where they resided. For people who fell outside this civil marriage quota religious marriage was an option (that they would have taken anyway), and the offspring of that religious marriage bore the mother's maiden surname as its official surname. In the eyes of nasty antisemitic Russian officials they were the bastard offspring of an unmarried Jewish mother but, according to Jewish law, that offspring was as legal as can be. Ite Toybe Belgium ...I don't know whether or not civil marriages of Jews were prevented outside of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but it may be a variant of the story being changed to "In Europe the authorities often didn't let the Jews marry..."
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Different surnames for same person
#general
atefreebox-jgen@...
Tsarist Russia accumulated an enormous mass of constantly changing
legislation discriminating against Jews and to live under those laws was a nightmare. If I'm not mistaken, in an effort to curb Jewish birth rate the Russians did indeed prevent Jews of one Guberniya in the Pale of Settlement >from marrying Jews >from other Guberniyas, and established a civil marriages quota for Jews in the Guberniya where they resided. For people who fell outside this civil marriage quota religious marriage was an option (that they would have taken anyway), and the offspring of that religious marriage bore the mother's maiden surname as its official surname. In the eyes of nasty antisemitic Russian officials they were the bastard offspring of an unmarried Jewish mother but, according to Jewish law, that offspring was as legal as can be. Ite Toybe Belgium ...I don't know whether or not civil marriages of Jews were prevented outside of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but it may be a variant of the story being changed to "In Europe the authorities often didn't let the Jews marry..."
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Seeking publications regarding obituaries and biographies in New York
#general
Judith Elam
Does anyone have a copy of these publications?
1. Obituaries on File. Two volumes. Compiled by Felice Levy. New York: Facts on File, 1979. (ObitOF) 2. .Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 4: September, 1955-August, 1958. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1960. (BioIn 4) If so, please could you contact me at elamj@.... Thank you! Judith Elam Kihei, Hawaii
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Seeking publications regarding obituaries and biographies in New York
#general
Judith Elam
Does anyone have a copy of these publications?
1. Obituaries on File. Two volumes. Compiled by Felice Levy. New York: Facts on File, 1979. (ObitOF) 2. .Biography Index. A cumulative index to biographical material in books and magazines. Volume 4: September, 1955-August, 1958. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1960. (BioIn 4) If so, please could you contact me at elamj@.... Thank you! Judith Elam Kihei, Hawaii
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Ciechanow Museum (with the link this time)
#ciechanow
#poland
Stan Zeidenberg
Dear Group,
Some of you may be interested in this link. It's to the (small) Jewish collection within the Ciechanow Museum. You will see that there is a torah scroll. I will be getting a better photo of the gravestone in early January. http://www.muzeumciechanow.pl/?show=imprezy&id=2&sid=4 Stan Zeidenberg (stan@...) Coordinator Ciechanow Research Group
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#Ciechanow #Poland Ciechanow Museum (with the link this time)
#ciechanow
#poland
Stan Zeidenberg
Dear Group,
Some of you may be interested in this link. It's to the (small) Jewish collection within the Ciechanow Museum. You will see that there is a torah scroll. I will be getting a better photo of the gravestone in early January. http://www.muzeumciechanow.pl/?show=imprezy&id=2&sid=4 Stan Zeidenberg (stan@...) Coordinator Ciechanow Research Group
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Ciechanow Museum
#ciechanow
#poland
Stan Zeidenberg
Dear Group,
Some of you may be interested in this link. It's to the (small) Jewish collection within the Ciechanow Museum. You will see that there is a torah scroll. I will be getting a better photo of the gravestone in early January. Stan Zeidenberg (stan@...) Coordinator Ciechanow Research Group
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#Ciechanow #Poland Ciechanow Museum
#ciechanow
#poland
Stan Zeidenberg
Dear Group,
Some of you may be interested in this link. It's to the (small) Jewish collection within the Ciechanow Museum. You will see that there is a torah scroll. I will be getting a better photo of the gravestone in early January. Stan Zeidenberg (stan@...) Coordinator Ciechanow Research Group
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Reduced price for Family Tree DNA test
#germany
jplowens@...
GerSIG veteran Janet Billstein Akaha asked that we alert our SIG
members of a special DNA testing opportunity. A reduced price for the "37 marker Y DNA test is available until December 31st. This and other Y DNA tests are for men only and provide information only about their male ancestral line. Janet adds "Y DNA testing may reveal that you have markers that suggest either a Kohanim or Levite lineage. Also, Y DNA testing is a valuable tool for genealogists because it helps identify unknown branches of our family tree that may or may not share the same surname." The special price is offered by Family Tree DNA (FTDNA). FTDNA is the only DNA testing company endorsed by JewishGen. JewishGen receives a donation >from the company for all DNA testing ordered through JewishGen using the link described below. (The December reduced price offer applies to the 37 marker Y DNA test only.) Janet Akaha is Co-Administer of the "German-Jewish SIG DNA Project" hosted by Family Tree DNA. She will soon post more detailed information about Y DNA and other genetic testing useful in genealogy research. Janet will answer questions about the German-Jewish SIG DNA project on request to her at <akaha@...>. To take advantage of the limited time reduced price for the 37 marker Y DNA test and generate a donation to JewishGen the test must be ordered this way: At the JewishGen home page www.jewishgen.org Click on the "Family Tree DNA" box with the red logo on the right side of the page. This takes you to the "JewishGen-ealogy by Genetics" page. Move down this page to the "FTDNA Surname Projects & More" section. Below "Special Interest Group (SIG) Geographical DNA Projects" find and click on "German Jewish SIG" in the table of projects. Move down this page to "Male Line Testing for Genealogy and Anthropology" to find "DNA 37" To order this test at the special price click on "order now". Along this route you'll find much information about DNA testing and how it can help your genealogy research. Further information will be posted here soon. German-Jewish SIG DNA Project Administrator Janet Akaha will try to provide additional help on request to: <akaha@...> GerSIG Moderator
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German SIG #Germany Reduced price for Family Tree DNA test
#germany
jplowens@...
GerSIG veteran Janet Billstein Akaha asked that we alert our SIG
members of a special DNA testing opportunity. A reduced price for the "37 marker Y DNA test is available until December 31st. This and other Y DNA tests are for men only and provide information only about their male ancestral line. Janet adds "Y DNA testing may reveal that you have markers that suggest either a Kohanim or Levite lineage. Also, Y DNA testing is a valuable tool for genealogists because it helps identify unknown branches of our family tree that may or may not share the same surname." The special price is offered by Family Tree DNA (FTDNA). FTDNA is the only DNA testing company endorsed by JewishGen. JewishGen receives a donation >from the company for all DNA testing ordered through JewishGen using the link described below. (The December reduced price offer applies to the 37 marker Y DNA test only.) Janet Akaha is Co-Administer of the "German-Jewish SIG DNA Project" hosted by Family Tree DNA. She will soon post more detailed information about Y DNA and other genetic testing useful in genealogy research. Janet will answer questions about the German-Jewish SIG DNA project on request to her at <akaha@...>. To take advantage of the limited time reduced price for the 37 marker Y DNA test and generate a donation to JewishGen the test must be ordered this way: At the JewishGen home page www.jewishgen.org Click on the "Family Tree DNA" box with the red logo on the right side of the page. This takes you to the "JewishGen-ealogy by Genetics" page. Move down this page to the "FTDNA Surname Projects & More" section. Below "Special Interest Group (SIG) Geographical DNA Projects" find and click on "German Jewish SIG" in the table of projects. Move down this page to "Male Line Testing for Genealogy and Anthropology" to find "DNA 37" To order this test at the special price click on "order now". Along this route you'll find much information about DNA testing and how it can help your genealogy research. Further information will be posted here soon. German-Jewish SIG DNA Project Administrator Janet Akaha will try to provide additional help on request to: <akaha@...> GerSIG Moderator
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