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Daniel LEVY of Guernsey, Channel Islands #general

Sue Levy
 

This is a very long shot.

Daniel LEVY was the youngest son of Mark LEVY (b. Plymouth, England 1800, d.
Guernsey 1848) and his wife Mary (nee LAMBERT, b. Christchurch, Dorset 1804,
d. Guernsey 1839), born in the Channel Islands about 1837.

Daniel's last address that we can find was in Devon, England in the 1851
census, when he was living with a MARKS family, presumably his stepmother's
brother and family. After that he could have gone anywhere - America
perhaps. Who knows?

Daniel's siblings all made their way to Australia and New Zealand in the
1850-60s and we have masses of detail about their descendants and their
lives.

The picture would be complete if we could track down a family tree with him
near the head, or find evidence of his death.

Any help would be appreciated. More information available to anyone who
recognizes him.

Sue Levy
Perth, Australia
slevy@...

Researching LEVY (Devon, Channel Islands, Australia, NZ); MORDECAI LEVI
(Devon, NZ, Australia)
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Daniel LEVY of Guernsey, Channel Islands #general

Sue Levy
 

This is a very long shot.

Daniel LEVY was the youngest son of Mark LEVY (b. Plymouth, England 1800, d.
Guernsey 1848) and his wife Mary (nee LAMBERT, b. Christchurch, Dorset 1804,
d. Guernsey 1839), born in the Channel Islands about 1837.

Daniel's last address that we can find was in Devon, England in the 1851
census, when he was living with a MARKS family, presumably his stepmother's
brother and family. After that he could have gone anywhere - America
perhaps. Who knows?

Daniel's siblings all made their way to Australia and New Zealand in the
1850-60s and we have masses of detail about their descendants and their
lives.

The picture would be complete if we could track down a family tree with him
near the head, or find evidence of his death.

Any help would be appreciated. More information available to anyone who
recognizes him.

Sue Levy
Perth, Australia
slevy@...

Researching LEVY (Devon, Channel Islands, Australia, NZ); MORDECAI LEVI
(Devon, NZ, Australia)
Help with access to free Census records #general

Jan Meisels Allen
 

Lois,

As I posted to this discussion group on June 10 this should help you:

Findmypast is offering free access to all US censuses 1790-1940. Registration
is required with your name, email address and password. No credit card
information is required. No cut-off date was mentioned on the site. This was
announced on the Findmypast blog

Go to:
http://www.findmypast.com/index/census-records?_ga=1.76589341.922071994.1458759583

In addition, FamilySearch has the following years of the US Federal Census
digitized 1850-1940 (they are a partner with the National Archives) and
those that are digitized may be found at:
https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/United_States_Federal_Census
Scroll down to availability.

Both mentioned above are free sites. You can of course go to a public
library or Family History Center to access subscription sites at no cost
such as Ancestry.com and MyHeritage.com, both of which include the US
Federal Census records.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

From: Bubylu@...
I would truly appreciate your help. I would like to find a Free site in
order to do some Census look-ups.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Help with access to free Census records #general

Jan Meisels Allen
 

Lois,

As I posted to this discussion group on June 10 this should help you:

Findmypast is offering free access to all US censuses 1790-1940. Registration
is required with your name, email address and password. No credit card
information is required. No cut-off date was mentioned on the site. This was
announced on the Findmypast blog

Go to:
http://www.findmypast.com/index/census-records?_ga=1.76589341.922071994.1458759583

In addition, FamilySearch has the following years of the US Federal Census
digitized 1850-1940 (they are a partner with the National Archives) and
those that are digitized may be found at:
https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/United_States_Federal_Census
Scroll down to availability.

Both mentioned above are free sites. You can of course go to a public
library or Family History Center to access subscription sites at no cost
such as Ancestry.com and MyHeritage.com, both of which include the US
Federal Census records.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

From: Bubylu@...
I would truly appreciate your help. I would like to find a Free site in
order to do some Census look-ups.
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Photo request for two headstones, Har Jehuda Cemetery, Philadelphia area #general

jeremy frankel
 

Dear Genners,

I have a request for two headstone photographs in the Har Jehuda Cemetery in
the Upper Darby/Havertown area of Philadelphia. I have the exact burial locations.

Please contact me off list if you think you can oblige.

Thanks in advance

Jeremy G Frankel
ex-Edgware, Middlesex, England
now Folsom, California, USA

Searching for:
FRANKEL/FRENKEL/FRENKIEL: Gombin, Plock, Poland; London, England
GOLDRATH/GOLD: Praszka, Poland; London, England
KOENIGSBERG: Vilkaviskis, Lithuania; London, England; NY, USA
LEVY (later LEADER): Kalisz, Poland; London, England
PINKUS, Poland; London, England
PRINCZ/PRINCE: Krakow, Poland; London, England; NY, USA
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Photo request for two headstones, Har Jehuda Cemetery, Philadelphia area #general

jeremy frankel
 

Dear Genners,

I have a request for two headstone photographs in the Har Jehuda Cemetery in
the Upper Darby/Havertown area of Philadelphia. I have the exact burial locations.

Please contact me off list if you think you can oblige.

Thanks in advance

Jeremy G Frankel
ex-Edgware, Middlesex, England
now Folsom, California, USA

Searching for:
FRANKEL/FRENKEL/FRENKIEL: Gombin, Plock, Poland; London, England
GOLDRATH/GOLD: Praszka, Poland; London, England
KOENIGSBERG: Vilkaviskis, Lithuania; London, England; NY, USA
LEVY (later LEADER): Kalisz, Poland; London, England
PINKUS, Poland; London, England
PRINCZ/PRINCE: Krakow, Poland; London, England; NY, USA
Looking for Jackye Sullins #general

RuthNW <ruthnw@...>
 

Am trying to reach Jackye Sullins, who lives in the Los Angeles area, but
don't have her current email address. If anyone knows how to contact her,
please let me know. I want to forward to her a historic document I recently
received >from a cousin of mine in Liverpool, England, which includes
insights into the foreign policies of prominent English Jews during the
years leading up to WWII.

Naidia Woolf
San Francisco, CA USA
Formerly of Birmingham, England

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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Looking for Jackye Sullins #general

RuthNW <ruthnw@...>
 

Am trying to reach Jackye Sullins, who lives in the Los Angeles area, but
don't have her current email address. If anyone knows how to contact her,
please let me know. I want to forward to her a historic document I recently
received >from a cousin of mine in Liverpool, England, which includes
insights into the foreign policies of prominent English Jews during the
years leading up to WWII.

Naidia Woolf
San Francisco, CA USA
Formerly of Birmingham, England

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go to the message archives and search on the person's name. Starting >from the
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ViewMate request - Poland - Galicia #galicia

Rose Katz <rjtalents@...>
 

Hello !

I've posted two pictures on the Jewishgen site, which I found among
the papers my father had kept. He left Poland just before WWII, and lost
all his family there. They were living in Kobylnica Ruska, near Wylkie
Oczy.

I think the pictures are >from his brother, or cousin, but I would like to
know what their uniforms mean, to which army they belonged, at what
approximate date they might have been taken, and every information you
could give me.

Thanks a lot in advance.

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM48008
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM48009

Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much.

Rose Katz
Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia ViewMate request - Poland - Galicia #galicia

Rose Katz <rjtalents@...>
 

Hello !

I've posted two pictures on the Jewishgen site, which I found among
the papers my father had kept. He left Poland just before WWII, and lost
all his family there. They were living in Kobylnica Ruska, near Wylkie
Oczy.

I think the pictures are >from his brother, or cousin, but I would like to
know what their uniforms mean, to which army they belonged, at what
approximate date they might have been taken, and every information you
could give me.

Thanks a lot in advance.

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM48008
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM48009

Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much.

Rose Katz
Family Numbers (again) #galicia

Henryk Gruder <henrygruder@...>
 

The mystery of "Family Numbers" remains unsolved.

My ancestor Joseph GRUDER (ca. 1795 - 1846) is showed in the Family
Evidence, for the tax purposes as sharing / inheriting ? Family Number 1942
with Mund family, however Joseph has assigned number 505. Since 505
was a number of another (older) branch of the GRUDER family, I assumed
he was a son of the family. Number 1942 included (I assume) a whole family
of Joseph, including his wife Rachel LICHTENHEIM and their children.

In another document, recording marriages in Lvov, Joseph Gruder, who
married Rachel LICHTENHEIM in Lvov, 1809 has a number 5818. This way
Joseph has three different family numbers! 505, 1942, and 5818.

Can anybody make sense of it? Untangling this knot is important, since it
can shed light on relations between different persons.

Any help is welcomed,

Henryk Gruder
Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Family Numbers (again) #galicia

Henryk Gruder <henrygruder@...>
 

The mystery of "Family Numbers" remains unsolved.

My ancestor Joseph GRUDER (ca. 1795 - 1846) is showed in the Family
Evidence, for the tax purposes as sharing / inheriting ? Family Number 1942
with Mund family, however Joseph has assigned number 505. Since 505
was a number of another (older) branch of the GRUDER family, I assumed
he was a son of the family. Number 1942 included (I assume) a whole family
of Joseph, including his wife Rachel LICHTENHEIM and their children.

In another document, recording marriages in Lvov, Joseph Gruder, who
married Rachel LICHTENHEIM in Lvov, 1809 has a number 5818. This way
Joseph has three different family numbers! 505, 1942, and 5818.

Can anybody make sense of it? Untangling this knot is important, since it
can shed light on relations between different persons.

Any help is welcomed,

Henryk Gruder
More detail on Vilnius death and cemetery records #lithuania

Peggy Freedman <peggyf@...>
 

I have received a great deal of interest in reposting David Shapiro's
remarks about the cemeteries in Vilnius.

Some clarification:

ALL the existing death records for the City of Vilnius >from 1837 to
1940 have been translated and indexed by LitvakSIG. You can see ALL of
these records NOW by donating $100 to the Vilnius District Research
Group of LitvakSIG on our secure website at:
https://www.litvaksig.org/join-and-contribute/
Some of these records are in the All Lithuania Database and some will
not be added for two more years.

LitvakSIG gathered these records >from several archives and found them in
different formats and languages. We expected more financial support
from the community than we have received. There are many other kinds of
records >from Vilnius, and if you would like them translated, please
support the project financially so that we can continue to translate
records.

The original message was about cemetery records. These are not the same
as death records kept by the government, but are catalogs of burials in
a particular cemetery.

To share the information that has been sent to me:
. . . . .The first Jewish cemetery was established in Snipishok. It was
established in the end of 15th century and was closed for burials in
the beginning of the 19th century when the second cemetery was opened.
. . . . .The Jewish cemetery in Zarechye (Uzupis; on the Olandu Street)
was established in 1829. The Jews were buried in this cemetery until
1946. It was destroyed in 1959 when the Soviets built a building there.
. . . . .The third cemetery still exists, this is where the Vilna Gaon's
tomb was moved in 1959. There are still burials in this cemetery. The
inventory for this cemetery was donated to the JewishGen JOWWB project
several years ago.

I have not seen catalogs of the two older cemeteries, we are still
looking for them.

Peggy Mosinger Freedman
Coordinator, Vilnius District Research Group of LitvakSIG
Lithuania SIG #Lithuania More detail on Vilnius death and cemetery records #lithuania

Peggy Freedman <peggyf@...>
 

I have received a great deal of interest in reposting David Shapiro's
remarks about the cemeteries in Vilnius.

Some clarification:

ALL the existing death records for the City of Vilnius >from 1837 to
1940 have been translated and indexed by LitvakSIG. You can see ALL of
these records NOW by donating $100 to the Vilnius District Research
Group of LitvakSIG on our secure website at:
https://www.litvaksig.org/join-and-contribute/
Some of these records are in the All Lithuania Database and some will
not be added for two more years.

LitvakSIG gathered these records >from several archives and found them in
different formats and languages. We expected more financial support
from the community than we have received. There are many other kinds of
records >from Vilnius, and if you would like them translated, please
support the project financially so that we can continue to translate
records.

The original message was about cemetery records. These are not the same
as death records kept by the government, but are catalogs of burials in
a particular cemetery.

To share the information that has been sent to me:
. . . . .The first Jewish cemetery was established in Snipishok. It was
established in the end of 15th century and was closed for burials in
the beginning of the 19th century when the second cemetery was opened.
. . . . .The Jewish cemetery in Zarechye (Uzupis; on the Olandu Street)
was established in 1829. The Jews were buried in this cemetery until
1946. It was destroyed in 1959 when the Soviets built a building there.
. . . . .The third cemetery still exists, this is where the Vilna Gaon's
tomb was moved in 1959. There are still burials in this cemetery. The
inventory for this cemetery was donated to the JewishGen JOWWB project
several years ago.

I have not seen catalogs of the two older cemeteries, we are still
looking for them.

Peggy Mosinger Freedman
Coordinator, Vilnius District Research Group of LitvakSIG
Re: ViewMate translation request - Napoleonic French used in Germany #germany

Barbara Algaze
 

Dear Bob:

I'm not able to translate your vital records, but I can give you a
suggestion. The website of Steven Morse (www.StevenMorse.org) has a list of
various calendar conversions that might include one for the Napoleonic
Calendar. I hope this is helpful.

Barbara Algaze, Los Angeles, California Algaze3@...

RsH wrote:
The date used, which I cannot read, is that used by France under Napoleon,
and I need that converted to a standard date as well... The individual is my
2nd Great Grandfather and he was born in 1801 [as far as I know].
German SIG #Germany Re: ViewMate translation request - Napoleonic French used in Germany #germany

Barbara Algaze
 

Dear Bob:

I'm not able to translate your vital records, but I can give you a
suggestion. The website of Steven Morse (www.StevenMorse.org) has a list of
various calendar conversions that might include one for the Napoleonic
Calendar. I hope this is helpful.

Barbara Algaze, Los Angeles, California Algaze3@...

RsH wrote:
The date used, which I cannot read, is that used by France under Napoleon,
and I need that converted to a standard date as well... The individual is my
2nd Great Grandfather and he was born in 1801 [as far as I know].
New Synagogue Berlin , Oranienburgerstr. celebrates 150th anniversary #germany

Yvonne Stern
 

The Jewish Community of Berlin will celebrate a milestone in September,
the 150th anniversary of the consecration of the New Synagogue,
The celebrations will take place on Sunday, 11th September at
Oranienburgerstrasse.
The New Synagogue has not held an anniversary celebration of this
size and importance since it was destroyed in the Reichsprogromnacht,
November 1938.

The Centrum Judaicum has organized a program for the occasion that
will reflectthe rich history of the Synagogue and it's role (past and
present) in the context of the Jewish community of Berlin.

http://www.centrumjudaicum.de/cjudaicum_wp/en/

Yvonne Stern, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil yvonne.stern17@...
German SIG #Germany New Synagogue Berlin , Oranienburgerstr. celebrates 150th anniversary #germany

Yvonne Stern
 

The Jewish Community of Berlin will celebrate a milestone in September,
the 150th anniversary of the consecration of the New Synagogue,
The celebrations will take place on Sunday, 11th September at
Oranienburgerstrasse.
The New Synagogue has not held an anniversary celebration of this
size and importance since it was destroyed in the Reichsprogromnacht,
November 1938.

The Centrum Judaicum has organized a program for the occasion that
will reflectthe rich history of the Synagogue and it's role (past and
present) in the context of the Jewish community of Berlin.

http://www.centrumjudaicum.de/cjudaicum_wp/en/

Yvonne Stern, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil yvonne.stern17@...
CHANNENSOHN/MENDELSOHN in Bauska/Schoenberg #latvia

Jennifer Mendelsohn <jennifer@...>
 

Thanks to all who replied to my earlier query.

With the help of Seth Nasatir, I suspect that my great-great
grandmother's maiden name was something like
"Chanensohn/Hannenson/Khanenson."

The family lived in Bauska and in Schoenberg, where my great-grandfather
was born in 1862. Sarah Hoda Chanensohn would have married Mendel
Mendelsohn circa 1853. Their children were

1.1. son Schmul (Chaim-Schmul, Chaim-Schmuel) Mendelsohn, born on
January 22 of 1854 in Schoenberg
1.2. daughter Chana-Bascha Mendelsohn, born on February 27 of 1856 in
Schoenberg, died on October 12 of 1857 in Bauska, burried at the Jewish
cemetery in Birsen (Birzhai),
1.3. son Mowscha-Behr Mendelsohn, born on August 17 of 1858 in
Schoenberg
1.4. daughter Dweira-Dobra Mendelsohn, born on April 3 of 1860 in
Schoenberg,
1.5. son Itzig (Itzka) Mendelsohn, born on January 22 of 1862 in
Schoenberg
1.6. son Aron-Marcus Mendelsohn, born in about 1866
1.7. daughter Chane-Ette Mendelsohn, born in about 1866
1.8. son Wulf Mendelsohn, born in about 1871
1.9. daughter Chinendel (Sheindel?) Mendelsohn, born on July 3 of 1874
in Schoenberg.

If anyone, by any chance, has connections to the Mendelsohns or the
Chanensohn family, please let me know.
Thanks.
Jennifer Mendelsohn
Baltimore, MD
Latvia SIG #Latvia CHANNENSOHN/MENDELSOHN in Bauska/Schoenberg #latvia

Jennifer Mendelsohn <jennifer@...>
 

Thanks to all who replied to my earlier query.

With the help of Seth Nasatir, I suspect that my great-great
grandmother's maiden name was something like
"Chanensohn/Hannenson/Khanenson."

The family lived in Bauska and in Schoenberg, where my great-grandfather
was born in 1862. Sarah Hoda Chanensohn would have married Mendel
Mendelsohn circa 1853. Their children were

1.1. son Schmul (Chaim-Schmul, Chaim-Schmuel) Mendelsohn, born on
January 22 of 1854 in Schoenberg
1.2. daughter Chana-Bascha Mendelsohn, born on February 27 of 1856 in
Schoenberg, died on October 12 of 1857 in Bauska, burried at the Jewish
cemetery in Birsen (Birzhai),
1.3. son Mowscha-Behr Mendelsohn, born on August 17 of 1858 in
Schoenberg
1.4. daughter Dweira-Dobra Mendelsohn, born on April 3 of 1860 in
Schoenberg,
1.5. son Itzig (Itzka) Mendelsohn, born on January 22 of 1862 in
Schoenberg
1.6. son Aron-Marcus Mendelsohn, born in about 1866
1.7. daughter Chane-Ette Mendelsohn, born in about 1866
1.8. son Wulf Mendelsohn, born in about 1871
1.9. daughter Chinendel (Sheindel?) Mendelsohn, born on July 3 of 1874
in Schoenberg.

If anyone, by any chance, has connections to the Mendelsohns or the
Chanensohn family, please let me know.
Thanks.
Jennifer Mendelsohn
Baltimore, MD