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Mamaliga Blues documentary in Utah
#general
Cassio Tolpolar
Dear friends,
The documentary about my family roots in Moldova, Mamaliga Blues, is finished, and it will be screened at the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Salt Lake City. Date is July 28th, at 4:45PM. I would love to attend it and meet some of you in person for the first time, but I am in Brazil and will not be able to make it. Mamaliga Blues was screened this year in 2 major events in North America: at the Doc Shop in Canada and at the South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles. It is also planned to play at the Miami Jewish Film Festival in 2015. We have been planning screenings in Brazil and New York, and looking for further opportunities to show the film around the world :) For more information on the film, check: www.mamaligablues.com I hope you're able to make it to the screening! Thanks! Cassio Tolpolar www.facebook.com/mamaligablues
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Mamaliga Blues documentary in Utah
#general
Cassio Tolpolar
Dear friends,
The documentary about my family roots in Moldova, Mamaliga Blues, is finished, and it will be screened at the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Salt Lake City. Date is July 28th, at 4:45PM. I would love to attend it and meet some of you in person for the first time, but I am in Brazil and will not be able to make it. Mamaliga Blues was screened this year in 2 major events in North America: at the Doc Shop in Canada and at the South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles. It is also planned to play at the Miami Jewish Film Festival in 2015. We have been planning screenings in Brazil and New York, and looking for further opportunities to show the film around the world :) For more information on the film, check: www.mamaligablues.com I hope you're able to make it to the screening! Thanks! Cassio Tolpolar www.facebook.com/mamaligablues
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listings by initials in the Social Security Death Index
#general
Renee Steinig
I thought my recent experience might be of interest...
I had reason to look up about 70 people in the Social Security Death Index, all born in 1945-1947. I almost missed seven of them because they were listed by their initials -- e.g. S. H. Bloom rather than Steven H. Bloom, W. S. Kaplan instead of William S. Kaplan, etc. If I hadn't already know their approximate birthdates, finding these common names would have been quite a challenge. (So far as I can tell, there's no way to do a wild card search for initials.) Renee Renee Stern Steinig Dix Hills, New York, USA
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Was this Lithuanian-Jewish SCHWEITZER family related to the famous Dr. Albert Schweitzer?
#lithuania
Stephen Weinstein
Father: ISAAC SCHWEITZER
Mother: JENNIE Children: ANNA SCHWEITZER, born 1895, Vilna (now Vilnus); married 12 Feb. 1916 to Nathan Ambutter, in New York. HARRY SCHWEITZER, married to Esther Nat Schweitzer, married to Elsie Hymie Schweitzer, married to Dora Dora, married to Morris Heckler Sara, married to Willie PODILLINSKY and Mike Aronson Stephen Weinstein stephenweinstein@... Camarillo, CA, USA MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately
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Check out the 60+ conference programs to be available over the Internet as LIVE!
#lithuania
Hal Bookbinder
If you have been waiting to see what Conference programming will be
available over the Internet through LIVE!, your wait is over. Check it out at the Conference website and subscribe to LIVE! now! Once you go to the conference website, www.iajgs2014.org, click on "Program and Schedule" (under the "PROGRAM" tab) and then enter "LIVE!" in the "Session Code" field and click "Search". Check out the more than 60 programs that will be available live and for three months after the Conference on the Internet. To register for the Conference or LIVE! go to registration.iajgs2014.org. See you at the Conference. But, if you cannot join us in Salt Lake City this summer, we certainly hope you take advantage of this very affordable way to enjoy much of what the Conference has to offer. Hal Bookbinder, Banai Feldstein, Ken Bravo, conference co-chairs 34th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Hilton Salt Lake City Center July 27 - August 1, 2014 bookbndr@...
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen listings by initials in the Social Security Death Index
#general
Renee Steinig
I thought my recent experience might be of interest...
I had reason to look up about 70 people in the Social Security Death Index, all born in 1945-1947. I almost missed seven of them because they were listed by their initials -- e.g. S. H. Bloom rather than Steven H. Bloom, W. S. Kaplan instead of William S. Kaplan, etc. If I hadn't already know their approximate birthdates, finding these common names would have been quite a challenge. (So far as I can tell, there's no way to do a wild card search for initials.) Renee Renee Stern Steinig Dix Hills, New York, USA
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Was this Lithuanian-Jewish SCHWEITZER family related to the famous Dr. Albert Schweitzer?
#lithuania
Stephen Weinstein
Father: ISAAC SCHWEITZER
Mother: JENNIE Children: ANNA SCHWEITZER, born 1895, Vilna (now Vilnus); married 12 Feb. 1916 to Nathan Ambutter, in New York. HARRY SCHWEITZER, married to Esther Nat Schweitzer, married to Elsie Hymie Schweitzer, married to Dora Dora, married to Morris Heckler Sara, married to Willie PODILLINSKY and Mike Aronson Stephen Weinstein stephenweinstein@... Camarillo, CA, USA MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Check out the 60+ conference programs to be available over the Internet as LIVE!
#lithuania
Hal Bookbinder
If you have been waiting to see what Conference programming will be
available over the Internet through LIVE!, your wait is over. Check it out at the Conference website and subscribe to LIVE! now! Once you go to the conference website, www.iajgs2014.org, click on "Program and Schedule" (under the "PROGRAM" tab) and then enter "LIVE!" in the "Session Code" field and click "Search". Check out the more than 60 programs that will be available live and for three months after the Conference on the Internet. To register for the Conference or LIVE! go to registration.iajgs2014.org. See you at the Conference. But, if you cannot join us in Salt Lake City this summer, we certainly hope you take advantage of this very affordable way to enjoy much of what the Conference has to offer. Hal Bookbinder, Banai Feldstein, Ken Bravo, conference co-chairs 34th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Hilton Salt Lake City Center July 27 - August 1, 2014 bookbndr@...
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Re: Offering Look Ups at NY Public Library
#general
Diane Jacobs
The NYPL also have groom and bride indexes up into the mid 1950s.
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Diane Jacobs Somerset, NJ
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From: Allan Jordan aejordan@... [mailto:jewishgen@...] Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2014 6:24 PM The types of things I can get are articles >from newspapers, city
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen RE: Offering Look Ups at NY Public Library
#general
Diane Jacobs
The NYPL also have groom and bride indexes up into the mid 1950s.
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Diane Jacobs Somerset, NJ
-----Original Message-----
From: Allan Jordan aejordan@... [mailto:jewishgen@...] Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2014 6:24 PM The types of things I can get are articles >from newspapers, city
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Check out the 60+ conference programs to be available over the Internet as LIVE!
#poland
Hal Bookbinder
If you have been waiting to see what Conference programming will be
available over the Internet through LIVE!, your wait is over. Check it out at the Conference website and subscribe to LIVE! now! Once you go to the conference website, www.iajgs2014.org, click on "Program and Schedule" (under the "PROGRAM" tab) and then enter "LIVE!" in the "Session Code" field and click "Search". Check out the more than 60 programs that will be available live and for three months after the Conference on the Internet. To register for the Conference or LIVE! go to registration.iajgs2014.org. See you at the Conference. But, if you cannot join us in Salt Lake City this summer, we certainly hope you take advantage of this very affordable way to enjoy much of what the Conference has to offer. Hal Bookbinder, Banai Feldstein, Ken Bravo, conference co-chairs 34th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Hilton Salt Lake City Center July 27 - August 1, 2014 bookbndr@...
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JRI Poland #Poland Check out the 60+ conference programs to be available over the Internet as LIVE!
#poland
Hal Bookbinder
If you have been waiting to see what Conference programming will be
available over the Internet through LIVE!, your wait is over. Check it out at the Conference website and subscribe to LIVE! now! Once you go to the conference website, www.iajgs2014.org, click on "Program and Schedule" (under the "PROGRAM" tab) and then enter "LIVE!" in the "Session Code" field and click "Search". Check out the more than 60 programs that will be available live and for three months after the Conference on the Internet. To register for the Conference or LIVE! go to registration.iajgs2014.org. See you at the Conference. But, if you cannot join us in Salt Lake City this summer, we certainly hope you take advantage of this very affordable way to enjoy much of what the Conference has to offer. Hal Bookbinder, Banai Feldstein, Ken Bravo, conference co-chairs 34th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Hilton Salt Lake City Center July 27 - August 1, 2014 bookbndr@...
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Check out the 60+ conference programs to be available over the Internet as LIVE!
#poland
Hal Bookbinder
If you have been waiting to see what Conference programming will be
available over the Internet through LIVE!, your wait is over. Check it out at the Conference website and subscribe to LIVE! now! Once you go to the conference website, www.iajgs2014.org, click on "Program and Schedule" (under the "PROGRAM" tab) and then enter "LIVE!" in the "Session Code" field and click "Search". Check out the more than 60 programs that will be available live and for three months after the Conference on the Internet. To register for the Conference or LIVE! go to registration.iajgs2014.org. See you at the Conference. But, if you cannot join us in Salt Lake City this summer, we certainly hope you take advantage of this very affordable way to enjoy much of what the Conference has to offer. Hal Bookbinder, Banai Feldstein, Ken Bravo, conference co-chairs 34th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Hilton Salt Lake City Center July 27 - August 1, 2014 bookbndr@...
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BialyGen: Bialystok Region #Bialystok #Poland Check out the 60+ conference programs to be available over the Internet as LIVE!
#poland
Hal Bookbinder
If you have been waiting to see what Conference programming will be
available over the Internet through LIVE!, your wait is over. Check it out at the Conference website and subscribe to LIVE! now! Once you go to the conference website, www.iajgs2014.org, click on "Program and Schedule" (under the "PROGRAM" tab) and then enter "LIVE!" in the "Session Code" field and click "Search". Check out the more than 60 programs that will be available live and for three months after the Conference on the Internet. To register for the Conference or LIVE! go to registration.iajgs2014.org. See you at the Conference. But, if you cannot join us in Salt Lake City this summer, we certainly hope you take advantage of this very affordable way to enjoy much of what the Conference has to offer. Hal Bookbinder, Banai Feldstein, Ken Bravo, conference co-chairs 34th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Hilton Salt Lake City Center July 27 - August 1, 2014 bookbndr@...
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bounce-2804243-772968@...
If you have been waiting to see what Conference programming will be
available over the Internet through LIVE!, your wait is over. Check it out at the Conference website and subscribe to LIVE! now! Once you go to the conference website, www.iajgs2014.org, click on "Program and Schedule" (under the "PROGRAM" tab) and then enter "LIVE!" in the "Session Code" field and click "Search". Check out the more than 60 programs that will be available live and for three months after the Conference on the Internet. To register for the Conference or LIVE! go to registration.iajgs2014.org. See you at the Conference. But, if you cannot join us in Salt Lake City this summer, we certainly hope you take advantage of this very affordable way to enjoy much of what the Conference has to offer. Hal Bookbinder, Banai Feldstein, Ken Bravo, conference co-chairs 34th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Hilton Salt Lake City Center July 27 - August 1, 2014 bookbndr@...
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bounce-2804243-772968@...
If you have been waiting to see what Conference programming will be
available over the Internet through LIVE!, your wait is over. Check it out at the Conference website and subscribe to LIVE! now! Once you go to the conference website, www.iajgs2014.org, click on "Program and Schedule" (under the "PROGRAM" tab) and then enter "LIVE!" in the "Session Code" field and click "Search". Check out the more than 60 programs that will be available live and for three months after the Conference on the Internet. To register for the Conference or LIVE! go to registration.iajgs2014.org. See you at the Conference. But, if you cannot join us in Salt Lake City this summer, we certainly hope you take advantage of this very affordable way to enjoy much of what the Conference has to offer. Hal Bookbinder, Banai Feldstein, Ken Bravo, conference co-chairs 34th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy Hilton Salt Lake City Center July 27 - August 1, 2014 bookbndr@...
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Namensgebung Amtsblatt Muenster 1846 Nummer 2 01 bis 204
#germany
Lin <lin2@...>
Hi GerSIG Friends,
Is there a way to get a copy of pages on the Official Naming Journal of Muenster? Also, no one has been able to trace my grandmother's (Elly HUMBERG HERZ) father's family farther back than my great great great grandfather. His name, depending on where you get your information was Moses Abraham HUMBERG or Abraham Moses HUMBERG (1769 - 1847). A distant cousin hired or worked in concert with a German genealogist Herbert Schuurman (umlauts on both "u"s.) and that's as far as they got. A website that deals mainly with another HUMBERG branch has our patriarch as Abraham Moses HUMBERG but Mr. Schuuman has his name as Moses Abraham. I am interested in finding out his actual name, and going back farther if there is a way. No one has been able to find where the name HUMBERG came >from or a naming list where the first family member took the name. Any suggestions? Thanks so much. Best, Lin Herz, Palm Bay, Florida <lin2@...>
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INTRO - researching HENRY from Germany
#germany
Tim Homewood
Hello GerSig,
I just joined the group. I have been doing genealogy research for 2 months. I consider myself to be a beginner in doing German Jewish Genealogy research. I live in London, UK. My native language is English. I consider myself expert in using a computer. My experience in using the Internet is extensive. I have identified the names and birth and death dates of my great great grandparents. My primary research goal is to find out the birthplaces of my 3x great grandfather, Solomon HENRY and his wife Jane (maiden name unknown). The information I have so far is: 1. 1820-1823: Michael HENRY, son of Solomon, was born in Whitechapel, London (source - various censuses) 2. about 1825: Leah HENRY (my great great grandmother) was born in Whitechapel London (sources - various censuses) 2. 1841: Solomon HENRY is the head of the household at Leman Street, Whitechapel, London in the 1841 census. He is 53, watch maker, born of "Foreign Parts". His wife, Jane HENRY is 52. His daughter Leah is 16. 3. 1850: Solomon HENRY, is the father of Leah HENRY on her marriage certificate for 28 February 1850 at the Great Synagogue in London. Solomon's profession is Dealer. 4. 1851: Solomon HENRY is the head of the household at 190 Ratcliff Highway, Tower Hamlets, London in the 1851 census. *** He is 64, watch maker, born in Germany. *** Jane HENRY is 72. Leah HENRY and her husband Lewis JACOBS are both in the household. 5. 1861: Jane HENRY is living with Lewis and Leah in Whitechapel and is described as a Widow, implying Solomon is now dead. I haven't found a marriage record for Solomon and Jane and I haven't found a death record for Solomon (Jane died in 1865). Jane is always described in the census as having been born in Middlesex however I can't find a birth record for her (about 1789 based on census ages). I would like to be able to trace back my family both through Solomon and Jane and feel there should be some records in the UK that can identify some more about Solomon's origins. So far my efforts have all been through online indexes but I'm living in London and keen to do some on the ground investigation. The official records seem to have very little about the family yet they seem to have clearly been in and around London at various times. Any help would be appreciated. Tim Homewood, London, UK, tim@... Moderator note: This message should be sent to the UK SIG list.
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German SIG #Germany Namensgebung Amtsblatt Muenster 1846 Nummer 2 01 bis 204
#germany
Lin <lin2@...>
Hi GerSIG Friends,
Is there a way to get a copy of pages on the Official Naming Journal of Muenster? Also, no one has been able to trace my grandmother's (Elly HUMBERG HERZ) father's family farther back than my great great great grandfather. His name, depending on where you get your information was Moses Abraham HUMBERG or Abraham Moses HUMBERG (1769 - 1847). A distant cousin hired or worked in concert with a German genealogist Herbert Schuurman (umlauts on both "u"s.) and that's as far as they got. A website that deals mainly with another HUMBERG branch has our patriarch as Abraham Moses HUMBERG but Mr. Schuuman has his name as Moses Abraham. I am interested in finding out his actual name, and going back farther if there is a way. No one has been able to find where the name HUMBERG came >from or a naming list where the first family member took the name. Any suggestions? Thanks so much. Best, Lin Herz, Palm Bay, Florida <lin2@...>
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German SIG #Germany INTRO - researching HENRY from Germany
#germany
Tim Homewood
Hello GerSig,
I just joined the group. I have been doing genealogy research for 2 months. I consider myself to be a beginner in doing German Jewish Genealogy research. I live in London, UK. My native language is English. I consider myself expert in using a computer. My experience in using the Internet is extensive. I have identified the names and birth and death dates of my great great grandparents. My primary research goal is to find out the birthplaces of my 3x great grandfather, Solomon HENRY and his wife Jane (maiden name unknown). The information I have so far is: 1. 1820-1823: Michael HENRY, son of Solomon, was born in Whitechapel, London (source - various censuses) 2. about 1825: Leah HENRY (my great great grandmother) was born in Whitechapel London (sources - various censuses) 2. 1841: Solomon HENRY is the head of the household at Leman Street, Whitechapel, London in the 1841 census. He is 53, watch maker, born of "Foreign Parts". His wife, Jane HENRY is 52. His daughter Leah is 16. 3. 1850: Solomon HENRY, is the father of Leah HENRY on her marriage certificate for 28 February 1850 at the Great Synagogue in London. Solomon's profession is Dealer. 4. 1851: Solomon HENRY is the head of the household at 190 Ratcliff Highway, Tower Hamlets, London in the 1851 census. *** He is 64, watch maker, born in Germany. *** Jane HENRY is 72. Leah HENRY and her husband Lewis JACOBS are both in the household. 5. 1861: Jane HENRY is living with Lewis and Leah in Whitechapel and is described as a Widow, implying Solomon is now dead. I haven't found a marriage record for Solomon and Jane and I haven't found a death record for Solomon (Jane died in 1865). Jane is always described in the census as having been born in Middlesex however I can't find a birth record for her (about 1789 based on census ages). I would like to be able to trace back my family both through Solomon and Jane and feel there should be some records in the UK that can identify some more about Solomon's origins. So far my efforts have all been through online indexes but I'm living in London and keen to do some on the ground investigation. The official records seem to have very little about the family yet they seem to have clearly been in and around London at various times. Any help would be appreciated. Tim Homewood, London, UK, tim@... Moderator note: This message should be sent to the UK SIG list.
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