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Re: how to send money to Latvia archives
#general
Inna Strakovsky <inna.strakovsky@...>
Besides my bank, I've also used Western Union and RIA Money Transfer. Both have
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worked but both have caveats. RIA only works with certain banks, so if the bank you need isn't there, you're out of luck (unless you're transferring money for a person to pick up, then you're fine). Western Union doesn't have bank to bank transfer in some countries (only person pick up). That said, both times I've used their services, it all worked very well and quickly. Inna Strakovsky Phila, PA Joan Galfund wrote:
I am trying to send euros requested by Latvia Archive to do further research for
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: how to send money to Latvia archives
#general
Inna Strakovsky <inna.strakovsky@...>
Besides my bank, I've also used Western Union and RIA Money Transfer. Both have
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worked but both have caveats. RIA only works with certain banks, so if the bank you need isn't there, you're out of luck (unless you're transferring money for a person to pick up, then you're fine). Western Union doesn't have bank to bank transfer in some countries (only person pick up). That said, both times I've used their services, it all worked very well and quickly. Inna Strakovsky Phila, PA Joan Galfund wrote:
I am trying to send euros requested by Latvia Archive to do further research for
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ViewMate Translations - Russian and German
#ciechanow
#poland
Eden Joachim <esjoachim@...>
Your help in translating vital records >from Ciechanow, Przasnysz and
Chernivtsi is appreciated. The direct links are below. Russian: Birth 1877, Simche Hillel DUCZYMINER, Ciechanow http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM31476 Marriage 1898, Simche Hillel DUCZYMINER and CHOROSZ, Ciechanow http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM31478 Death 1890, Abram DUCZYMINER, Przasnysz http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM31483 German: Death1890, Chana JACHIMOWICZ, Chernivtsi (Czernowicz) http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM32007 Birth 1888, Anna JACHIMOWICZ, Chernivtsi (Czernowicz) http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM32008 Please respond through ViewMate or directly to my email esjoachim@optonline.net. Thank you, Eden Joachim --- This email is free >from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
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Secure on-line Conference Family Finder
#ciechanow
#poland
Hal Bookbinder
One of the exciting advances for this summer's IAJGS Conference will
be an on-line Conference Family Finder. The Family Finder will provide a wide range of search options as well as offering the ability to browse, page-by-page. It will protect privacy of those who submit their input. Additionally, it will be available well before the conference so that registrants can make contact and arrange to get together at the conference. For more information, please click on the following link: http://conference.iajgs.org/2014/faq.cfm/#Conf0. Hal Bookbinder, lead co-Chair 34th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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#Ciechanow #Poland ViewMate Translations - Russian and German
#ciechanow
#poland
Eden Joachim <esjoachim@...>
Your help in translating vital records >from Ciechanow, Przasnysz and
Chernivtsi is appreciated. The direct links are below. Russian: Birth 1877, Simche Hillel DUCZYMINER, Ciechanow http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM31476 Marriage 1898, Simche Hillel DUCZYMINER and CHOROSZ, Ciechanow http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM31478 Death 1890, Abram DUCZYMINER, Przasnysz http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM31483 German: Death1890, Chana JACHIMOWICZ, Chernivtsi (Czernowicz) http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM32007 Birth 1888, Anna JACHIMOWICZ, Chernivtsi (Czernowicz) http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM32008 Please respond through ViewMate or directly to my email esjoachim@optonline.net. Thank you, Eden Joachim --- This email is free >from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
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#Ciechanow #Poland Secure on-line Conference Family Finder
#ciechanow
#poland
Hal Bookbinder
One of the exciting advances for this summer's IAJGS Conference will
be an on-line Conference Family Finder. The Family Finder will provide a wide range of search options as well as offering the ability to browse, page-by-page. It will protect privacy of those who submit their input. Additionally, it will be available well before the conference so that registrants can make contact and arrange to get together at the conference. For more information, please click on the following link: http://conference.iajgs.org/2014/faq.cfm/#Conf0. Hal Bookbinder, lead co-Chair 34th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
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question about personnal researsh
#general
Olivier Neuman
Hi,
Thanks to JewishGen, 18 months ago, I found a cousin (her father and my grandfather were first cousin). She is 90 years old and she told me her story and her escape with her little brother >from Vienna by kindertransport in 1939 just before the war. Her parents and her second brother (too old for kindertransport) found also a way to escape. Before that, during Kristallnacht, her father was put in jail in Dachau. In January 1939, she was 15 yaers old and without telling nothing to nobody she went alone to the Gestapo on Morzinplatz, managed to enter and found an office where a german officer was sitting. She felt on her knees and asked the man to do something for her father Aron Nachtigall and Maybe G. put something like pity in the heart of this man and he phoned Berlin to ask for the release of her father in exchange that her family found a ticket for him to Shanghai. He was released on January 21st 1939 >from Dachau. Then, few months later he managed to escape with the family to Scotland before immigrated to USA in 1940 thanks to Affidavits sent by a cousin they never heard about before ( another miracle!) I would like to know how we could find something about my grandfather's cousin put in Dachau : for example who was this officer who obtained his release? Do you think it's possible to find something? I contacted Dachau, they have only the dates of arrival and release. I contacted in Vienna office@doew.at and they answered me they have no information concerning him but only about her mother's death in Theresienstadt during the Shoah. I don't know what to do. If someone could help... thanks Olivier Neuman id :458743
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen question about personnal researsh
#general
Olivier Neuman
Hi,
Thanks to JewishGen, 18 months ago, I found a cousin (her father and my grandfather were first cousin). She is 90 years old and she told me her story and her escape with her little brother >from Vienna by kindertransport in 1939 just before the war. Her parents and her second brother (too old for kindertransport) found also a way to escape. Before that, during Kristallnacht, her father was put in jail in Dachau. In January 1939, she was 15 yaers old and without telling nothing to nobody she went alone to the Gestapo on Morzinplatz, managed to enter and found an office where a german officer was sitting. She felt on her knees and asked the man to do something for her father Aron Nachtigall and Maybe G. put something like pity in the heart of this man and he phoned Berlin to ask for the release of her father in exchange that her family found a ticket for him to Shanghai. He was released on January 21st 1939 >from Dachau. Then, few months later he managed to escape with the family to Scotland before immigrated to USA in 1940 thanks to Affidavits sent by a cousin they never heard about before ( another miracle!) I would like to know how we could find something about my grandfather's cousin put in Dachau : for example who was this officer who obtained his release? Do you think it's possible to find something? I contacted Dachau, they have only the dates of arrival and release. I contacted in Vienna office@doew.at and they answered me they have no information concerning him but only about her mother's death in Theresienstadt during the Shoah. I don't know what to do. If someone could help... thanks Olivier Neuman id :458743
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Cemetery Records in Rio de Janeiro
#general
Jerry Gotel <jerry.gotel@...>
I am an absolute beginner and would appreciate any help. I am searching for the
family of Zosia and Faivel Stryck whom emigrated >from Poland to Buenos Aires in the late 1940's. Her maiden name was GOTHELF. I am also looking for the descendants of A Leon GOTHELF who emigrated to Rio De Janeiro in the 1920's >from Praga, Warsaw and was still alive in in the 1960's. He lived at Rua Amoroso Lima. Is there a central Jewish organisation in either city that keeps burial records. Jerry GOTEL,London UK
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Cemetery Records in Rio de Janeiro
#general
Jerry Gotel <jerry.gotel@...>
I am an absolute beginner and would appreciate any help. I am searching for the
family of Zosia and Faivel Stryck whom emigrated >from Poland to Buenos Aires in the late 1940's. Her maiden name was GOTHELF. I am also looking for the descendants of A Leon GOTHELF who emigrated to Rio De Janeiro in the 1920's >from Praga, Warsaw and was still alive in in the 1960's. He lived at Rua Amoroso Lima. Is there a central Jewish organisation in either city that keeps burial records. Jerry GOTEL,London UK
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problem with Nuernberg archive addresses and.. do you know Leibl Rosenberg?
#germany
Lin <lin2@...>
Dear Gersig Friends,
First, I'd like to thank all of you who helped with my mystery photos yesterday. I uploaded them to viewmate today. Now today's dilemma. I was deleting emails in my "junk" mail folder and found I had received an email last year >from a Gersig member, Leibl Rosenberg. Ms. Rosenberg saw my Gersig post and worked (works?) in the Nuremberg (Nuernberg) state archive. She graciously looked something up for me, but I didn't see it until today. When I wrote her back, thanking her, etc. the email bounced. Then, I went to the archive's website as listed on her post, and clicked on "impressum." When I sent an email to them, that bounced too. Their email (I just clicked on "Impressum" was infor@bz.nuernberg.de, hers was Leibl.Rosenberg@stadt.nuernberg.de. I hope someone can help me. I feel badly that I didn't find it sooner. Also it is so nice to have what my grandfather called a "landsman" at the archive. Thank so much, Lin Herz, Palm Bay, Florida
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German SIG #Germany problem with Nuernberg archive addresses and.. do you know Leibl Rosenberg?
#germany
Lin <lin2@...>
Dear Gersig Friends,
First, I'd like to thank all of you who helped with my mystery photos yesterday. I uploaded them to viewmate today. Now today's dilemma. I was deleting emails in my "junk" mail folder and found I had received an email last year >from a Gersig member, Leibl Rosenberg. Ms. Rosenberg saw my Gersig post and worked (works?) in the Nuremberg (Nuernberg) state archive. She graciously looked something up for me, but I didn't see it until today. When I wrote her back, thanking her, etc. the email bounced. Then, I went to the archive's website as listed on her post, and clicked on "impressum." When I sent an email to them, that bounced too. Their email (I just clicked on "Impressum" was infor@bz.nuernberg.de, hers was Leibl.Rosenberg@stadt.nuernberg.de. I hope someone can help me. I feel badly that I didn't find it sooner. Also it is so nice to have what my grandfather called a "landsman" at the archive. Thank so much, Lin Herz, Palm Bay, Florida
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Re: problem with 1905 New York census
#germany
Renee Steinig
Sandy Rothschild <sbr19@verizon.net> wrote that Bertha NUSSBAUM was
found listed in the 1905 NY State census in Brooklyn as a sister-in-law, with no relative listed above her name. Below Bertha's name are the words "Here ends the enumeration of Block D". This appears to be a follow-up entry -- of names the census taker missed when s/he first went through the enumeration district. The first entries for the address -- 4318 3rd Ave. -- can be found by going back some pages in the enumeration. Renee Stern Steinig, Dix Hills, New York, USA genmaven@gmail.com
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German SIG #Germany Re: problem with 1905 New York census
#germany
Renee Steinig
Sandy Rothschild <sbr19@verizon.net> wrote that Bertha NUSSBAUM was
found listed in the 1905 NY State census in Brooklyn as a sister-in-law, with no relative listed above her name. Below Bertha's name are the words "Here ends the enumeration of Block D". This appears to be a follow-up entry -- of names the census taker missed when s/he first went through the enumeration district. The first entries for the address -- 4318 3rd Ave. -- can be found by going back some pages in the enumeration. Renee Stern Steinig, Dix Hills, New York, USA genmaven@gmail.com
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Romanian records in your possession.
#romania
Marcel Glaskie <marcelg@...>
Romanian records in your possession.
Many of you have sent me copies of Romanian material which you have saved or acquired for your Romanian family roots. I thank you very much for contacting me, because the data sent to me has opened up a new wide scope, for uncovering unknown record sources in Romania. Please continue to send me scanned copies of any type of Romanian material that you have, I will acknowledge it, and it is my intention to compile a new listing for Rom-Sig with new ways to continue your research in Romania. Please contact: Marcel Glaskie marcelg@netvision.net.il Ra'anana, Israel. Mod Note- It is wonderful to know that we are all working together across the globe! Kudos to Marcel and the amazing Rom-Sig team!
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Romania SIG #Romania Romanian records in your possession.
#romania
Marcel Glaskie <marcelg@...>
Romanian records in your possession.
Many of you have sent me copies of Romanian material which you have saved or acquired for your Romanian family roots. I thank you very much for contacting me, because the data sent to me has opened up a new wide scope, for uncovering unknown record sources in Romania. Please continue to send me scanned copies of any type of Romanian material that you have, I will acknowledge it, and it is my intention to compile a new listing for Rom-Sig with new ways to continue your research in Romania. Please contact: Marcel Glaskie marcelg@netvision.net.il Ra'anana, Israel. Mod Note- It is wonderful to know that we are all working together across the globe! Kudos to Marcel and the amazing Rom-Sig team!
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Global Village - Romanian Research
#romania
Marcel Glaskie <marcelg@...>
Global Village - Romanian Research
I appeal to all readers of Rom-Sig, who do not live in either the USA, Canada or Israel, to contact me. The reason is that I feel that via you, it may be possible to trace untapped Romanian Records. I appeal in particular but not entirely to people living in Spanish, Portugeuse and French speaking communities, where other Romanian researchers besides yourselves may not have a command of English, and are missing out on the notifications on Rom-Sig, which unfortunately is only in English. Thank you. Please contact: Marcel Glaskie marcelg@netvision.net.il Ra'anana, Israel.
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Romania SIG #Romania Global Village - Romanian Research
#romania
Marcel Glaskie <marcelg@...>
Global Village - Romanian Research
I appeal to all readers of Rom-Sig, who do not live in either the USA, Canada or Israel, to contact me. The reason is that I feel that via you, it may be possible to trace untapped Romanian Records. I appeal in particular but not entirely to people living in Spanish, Portugeuse and French speaking communities, where other Romanian researchers besides yourselves may not have a command of English, and are missing out on the notifications on Rom-Sig, which unfortunately is only in English. Thank you. Please contact: Marcel Glaskie marcelg@netvision.net.il Ra'anana, Israel.
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Travel Routes from Romania
#romania
kdspiro@...
My grandmother (aged 18) and g grandmother left Darabani for Halifax,
Canada in 1906 to join my g grandfather who had been living there for some years. I haven't been able to find any travel or other records for them prior to immigrating and am wondering about how they might have traveled and what would have been a likely port they may have left from. The family story is that they were smuggled across the Prut River & border at night to save exit fees but have not other information. It's possible that is just a story as well. Does anyone know about usual or likely travel routes and modes of travel >from that area? Thanks for any help. Kathy Spiro Smithers, BC Canada HECHT, EISNER, MOSCOVITCH Darabani, Dorohoi and possibly Botosani Mod Note- Have you also connected with Genners in the family Database searching the same towns?
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Romania SIG #Romania Travel Routes from Romania
#romania
kdspiro@...
My grandmother (aged 18) and g grandmother left Darabani for Halifax,
Canada in 1906 to join my g grandfather who had been living there for some years. I haven't been able to find any travel or other records for them prior to immigrating and am wondering about how they might have traveled and what would have been a likely port they may have left from. The family story is that they were smuggled across the Prut River & border at night to save exit fees but have not other information. It's possible that is just a story as well. Does anyone know about usual or likely travel routes and modes of travel >from that area? Thanks for any help. Kathy Spiro Smithers, BC Canada HECHT, EISNER, MOSCOVITCH Darabani, Dorohoi and possibly Botosani Mod Note- Have you also connected with Genners in the family Database searching the same towns?
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