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Re: Notice in Nasz Przeglad
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Mark Shapiro
Isabel Cymerman asks, "How can I obtain a copy of the death notice listed in
"Nasz Przeglad" for 23 November 1930." The YIVO Library at the Center for Jewish History in New York has copies of "Nasz Przeglad" >from 1923 to 1939 on microfilm. Mark Shapiro, New York, NY JGSNY Researching CZAPRAK (Warsaw), KRECHEVSKY (Slonim), YEVISH (Granov), ROZWADOWER (Warsaw), TINKELMAN (Granov)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Notice in Nasz Przeglad
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Mark Shapiro
Isabel Cymerman asks, "How can I obtain a copy of the death notice listed in
"Nasz Przeglad" for 23 November 1930." The YIVO Library at the Center for Jewish History in New York has copies of "Nasz Przeglad" >from 1923 to 1939 on microfilm. Mark Shapiro, New York, NY JGSNY Researching CZAPRAK (Warsaw), KRECHEVSKY (Slonim), YEVISH (Granov), ROZWADOWER (Warsaw), TINKELMAN (Granov)
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Re: Ode to Finchleystrasse, Cosmos [sic] restaurant in NW London in the early 1940s : actually Cosmo
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p.loften@sky.com
Thanks to Shulamit for the link to this very interesting radio program. It is
the first time I heard it although it was originally aired in 2013. I remember the Cosmo Restaurant so well as I worked at Swiss Cottage Library for over 30 years and would sometimes have lunch there. I recall some of the characters mentioned and also their faces and also the waiters who were just as interesting to observe as the customers. I doubt if they would remember me as I was just a lunchtime observer although I should imagine most of the regular customers are no longer around as they were generally getting on a bit. It was my job to call on people for non returned items and I had the opportunity to meet many of the local community in their homes. One I vividly remember meeting in the early 1980's, was a very elderly gentleman, Peter Bornstein who I spent a long time talking to about his playing the violin in a quartet with Albert Einstein in pre war Germany. He showed me pictures of them playing together and also of him playing the violin on tour with Isadora Duncan dancing. He said that Einstein could not count, that is musically. and would always come in at the wrong moment. It was a great joke that they shared as he knew Einstein well as a regular member of their musical quartet. When it closed up some of the crowd who used to frequent the Cosmo then went to the Swiss Cottage Library, which is a huge modern building just down the road and used it as a meeting place and I would often see their faces in deep discussion at the library. Time moves on but for me that particular space in Finchley road will always be reserved for the Cosmo and its customers. I am registered with jewishgen digest as researching my maternal grandparents family who were >from Gorwaczow Paul Loften MODERATOR NOTE: the URL cited in Shulamit's original message was http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s09k1
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Ode to Finchleystrasse, Cosmos [sic] restaurant in NW London in the early 1940s : actually Cosmo
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p.loften@sky.com
Thanks to Shulamit for the link to this very interesting radio program. It is
the first time I heard it although it was originally aired in 2013. I remember the Cosmo Restaurant so well as I worked at Swiss Cottage Library for over 30 years and would sometimes have lunch there. I recall some of the characters mentioned and also their faces and also the waiters who were just as interesting to observe as the customers. I doubt if they would remember me as I was just a lunchtime observer although I should imagine most of the regular customers are no longer around as they were generally getting on a bit. It was my job to call on people for non returned items and I had the opportunity to meet many of the local community in their homes. One I vividly remember meeting in the early 1980's, was a very elderly gentleman, Peter Bornstein who I spent a long time talking to about his playing the violin in a quartet with Albert Einstein in pre war Germany. He showed me pictures of them playing together and also of him playing the violin on tour with Isadora Duncan dancing. He said that Einstein could not count, that is musically. and would always come in at the wrong moment. It was a great joke that they shared as he knew Einstein well as a regular member of their musical quartet. When it closed up some of the crowd who used to frequent the Cosmo then went to the Swiss Cottage Library, which is a huge modern building just down the road and used it as a meeting place and I would often see their faces in deep discussion at the library. Time moves on but for me that particular space in Finchley road will always be reserved for the Cosmo and its customers. I am registered with jewishgen digest as researching my maternal grandparents family who were >from Gorwaczow Paul Loften MODERATOR NOTE: the URL cited in Shulamit's original message was http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s09k1
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JGSCT February Program Additional Information
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Resending because I neglected to include the speaker's bio on the original post
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut presents "Jewish Genealogical Research in Ukraine" on Sunday, February 19, 2017 at 1:30 pm at Temple Sinai, 41 West Hartford Road, Newington, CT 06111. This program is free and open to the public. Ms. Diamond discusses various strategies used to get documents >from Ukraine: hiring private researchers, crowdsourcing research for specific towns, and utilizing the Family History Library's resources. Many of these strategies also apply to much of Eastern Europe. The talk includes demonstrations of the wide variety of document types available for different parts of Ukraine (including those parts formerly in the Russian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Poland), allowing you to both trace your family back generations and to gain an understanding of the people they were. Lara Diamond is President of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland (JGSMD) and has been researching her family for 25 years, since she was too young to have a driver's license and had to rely on her mother as a chauffeur. She has traced all branches of her family back to Europe and most multiple generations back in Europe. She blogs about her mostly Eastern European research at http://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com. For additional information, please visit www.jgsct.org. Gail Kalison Reynolds, Publicity Chair Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut
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JGS of Michigan Program - Lessons in Jewish DNA with Israel Pickholtz - February 2 at 7pm
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Adina Lipsitz
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan
is pleased to welcome Israel Pickholtz: Lessons in Jewish DNA - One Man's Successes and What He Learned On the Journey *** The hottest topic in genealogy in recent years has been genetics and many thousands of genealogists have ordered DNA tests. Most of those haven't a clue what to do with their results. The situation is more complicated among Jews, who have married "within the tribe" for hundreds of years, thus ensuring that everyone is related to everyone else, multiple times. Marrying within a closed community -- "endogamy" -- has barely been addressed by the non-Jewish genetic genealogy community. This presentation, as in the speaker's book 'ENDOGAMY: One Family, One People,' does not bring a "how to" approach, as every family is different. The speaker prefers a "how I did it" approach, demonstrating the successes he has had in his own families and the general lessons which are applicable to all genetic genealogy research. His goal is to inspire his listeners and readers to say, "I can do this!" *** Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 7:00 PM Farmington Community Library Auditorium 32737 W. Twelve Mile Road Farmington Hills, MI 48334 Free and open to the public Registration: http://jgsmi.org/ *** About the Speaker Pittsburgh-born, living in Israel since 1973. My personal research includes single-surname research in Galicia (formerly Austria, now Ukraine) as well as my families >from Slovakia, Poland, Belarus, Hungary and later in the US, UK and Israel. >from there I developed skills relating to more general Jewish genealogy, including Holocaust research. I have participated in grave translation projects, searches for missing relatives and Holocaust-era insurance claims, as well as traditional genealogy research using European, American and Israeli sources. My most frequent assignments >from Israeli sources involve locating and photographing graves, locating living people, Mandatory Citizenship records, records for Galician residents in the 1920s and 1930s, inheritance matters and Holocaust research. I have lectured IAJGS Conferences on Jewish Genealogy in the United States, as well as other subjects in Israel. I have served on the Board of the Israel Genealogical Society, as Secretary of Gesher Galicia and as Town Leader for JRI-Poland. I have recently taken my family research deep into the field of DNA and am prepared to consult with clients on the subject. Register at http://jgsmi.org/lessons-in-jewish-dna-with-israel-pickholtz/ Adina Lipsitz VP Publicity, Webmaster and Past President Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan
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New and Updated Databases on IGRA Website
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Elena Bazes
The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) has just released new
and updated databases on its website. With the current release of databases, IGRA has passed the 900,000 record mark! New Databases Voters' Lists 19th General Conference of the Teachers' Union 1955 This database is a voters' lists of 12,219 delegates >from all over Israel to the 19th Histadrut HaMorim (Teachersâ?? Council) Conference. This was located in the Archives of Jewish Education in Israel and Diaspora Studies. (Images available) Delegates to the 2015 Histadrut Conference of Engineers This database lists 301 delegates to the 2015 Histadrut Conference of Engineers. This list comes >from an internet website: Portal of Associations of Engineers, Architects and Graduates in Technological Sciences in Israel. (No images available) Delegates to the Histadrut Conference - Ottoman Society 2015 This database lists 301 delegates to the Histadrut Conference - Ottoman Society in 2015. This list comes >from an internet website: Portal of Associations of Engineers, Architects and Graduates in Technological Sciences in Israel. (No images available) Births in Gan Shmuel 1931 - 1945 This database is a list of 107 children born to parents living on Kibbutz Gan Shmuel between the years 1931-45. The list comes >from Yad Ya'ari Archives. (Images available) Births in Zikhron Ya'akov 1919 - 1940 This database is a list of 611 children born in Zikhron Ya'akov. The information is >from the Mathilde A. Tagger Collection. It was prepared from the "Book of Births" at the Zikhron Ya'akov Historical Archives.(No images available) Engagements 2016 This database is a list of 3,020 Orthodox couples who were engaged in 2016 throughout Israel. It lists name, date of the record, locality, education and the language of the record. (No images available) Communists Arrested 1936 This database is a list of 198 people who were arrested by the British Government in Palestine during the riots that took place in 1936. This includes country of origin and religion. The list was located in the Central Zionist Archives and donated by Dr. Eli Brauner. (No images available) Residents of Tel Aviv 1915 This is a handwritten list of 714 residents. It comes >from the Municipal Archives of Tel-Aviv - Jaffa. It includes the name of the head of the household and language spoken, how many others are living with him, if they are male or female and how large of a dwelling they are living in. Additional information may be available as well, such as if there was a bathroom in the home and professions of those living in that home. (Images available) Kibbutz Yavne Cemetery This database is a list of 305 of those buried in the Kibbutz Yavne Cemetery. (No images available) Updated Databases Operation Eagles' Wings (Operation Magic Carpet) Yemenite Airlift Passenger List of Residents of Aden, 1,359 Immigrants, 1949-Part 2 Following Israel's independence, the JDC (Joint Distribution Committee) organized and financed Operation Eagles' Wings (Operation Magic Carpet), bringing Yemenite Jews to Israel. The list includes names, sex, birth year, weight, and family status. The documentation was transcribed in the JDC archives, with the transliteration from English to Hebrew handled by IGRA volunteers. (No images available) Palestine Marriage/Divorce Certificates 3,022 marriages 3,022 marriage certificates have been added to this database. These certificates were issued during the British Mandate, 1921-1948 to those requesting copies of their certificates. The certificates include both old and new names (first and last), nationality and address. Some include information about parents. This is not a list of certificates issued by the Rabbinate. (Images available) Before viewing the databases, please register for free on the IGRA website: http://genealogy.org.il/ To view the databases, go to http://genealogy.org.il/AID/index.php Our many thanks to all of our dedicated volunteers. Elena Biegel Bazes IGRA Publicity Chairperson
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen JGSCT February Program Additional Information
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Resending because I neglected to include the speaker's bio on the original post
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut presents "Jewish Genealogical Research in Ukraine" on Sunday, February 19, 2017 at 1:30 pm at Temple Sinai, 41 West Hartford Road, Newington, CT 06111. This program is free and open to the public. Ms. Diamond discusses various strategies used to get documents >from Ukraine: hiring private researchers, crowdsourcing research for specific towns, and utilizing the Family History Library's resources. Many of these strategies also apply to much of Eastern Europe. The talk includes demonstrations of the wide variety of document types available for different parts of Ukraine (including those parts formerly in the Russian Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Poland), allowing you to both trace your family back generations and to gain an understanding of the people they were. Lara Diamond is President of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland (JGSMD) and has been researching her family for 25 years, since she was too young to have a driver's license and had to rely on her mother as a chauffeur. She has traced all branches of her family back to Europe and most multiple generations back in Europe. She blogs about her mostly Eastern European research at http://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com. For additional information, please visit www.jgsct.org. Gail Kalison Reynolds, Publicity Chair Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen JGS of Michigan Program - Lessons in Jewish DNA with Israel Pickholtz - February 2 at 7pm
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Adina Lipsitz
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan
is pleased to welcome Israel Pickholtz: Lessons in Jewish DNA - One Man's Successes and What He Learned On the Journey *** The hottest topic in genealogy in recent years has been genetics and many thousands of genealogists have ordered DNA tests. Most of those haven't a clue what to do with their results. The situation is more complicated among Jews, who have married "within the tribe" for hundreds of years, thus ensuring that everyone is related to everyone else, multiple times. Marrying within a closed community -- "endogamy" -- has barely been addressed by the non-Jewish genetic genealogy community. This presentation, as in the speaker's book 'ENDOGAMY: One Family, One People,' does not bring a "how to" approach, as every family is different. The speaker prefers a "how I did it" approach, demonstrating the successes he has had in his own families and the general lessons which are applicable to all genetic genealogy research. His goal is to inspire his listeners and readers to say, "I can do this!" *** Thursday, February 2, 2017 at 7:00 PM Farmington Community Library Auditorium 32737 W. Twelve Mile Road Farmington Hills, MI 48334 Free and open to the public Registration: http://jgsmi.org/ *** About the Speaker Pittsburgh-born, living in Israel since 1973. My personal research includes single-surname research in Galicia (formerly Austria, now Ukraine) as well as my families >from Slovakia, Poland, Belarus, Hungary and later in the US, UK and Israel. >from there I developed skills relating to more general Jewish genealogy, including Holocaust research. I have participated in grave translation projects, searches for missing relatives and Holocaust-era insurance claims, as well as traditional genealogy research using European, American and Israeli sources. My most frequent assignments >from Israeli sources involve locating and photographing graves, locating living people, Mandatory Citizenship records, records for Galician residents in the 1920s and 1930s, inheritance matters and Holocaust research. I have lectured IAJGS Conferences on Jewish Genealogy in the United States, as well as other subjects in Israel. I have served on the Board of the Israel Genealogical Society, as Secretary of Gesher Galicia and as Town Leader for JRI-Poland. I have recently taken my family research deep into the field of DNA and am prepared to consult with clients on the subject. Register at http://jgsmi.org/lessons-in-jewish-dna-with-israel-pickholtz/ Adina Lipsitz VP Publicity, Webmaster and Past President Jewish Genealogical Society of Michigan
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen New and Updated Databases on IGRA Website
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Elena Bazes
The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) has just released new
and updated databases on its website. With the current release of databases, IGRA has passed the 900,000 record mark! New Databases Voters' Lists 19th General Conference of the Teachers' Union 1955 This database is a voters' lists of 12,219 delegates >from all over Israel to the 19th Histadrut HaMorim (Teachersâ?? Council) Conference. This was located in the Archives of Jewish Education in Israel and Diaspora Studies. (Images available) Delegates to the 2015 Histadrut Conference of Engineers This database lists 301 delegates to the 2015 Histadrut Conference of Engineers. This list comes >from an internet website: Portal of Associations of Engineers, Architects and Graduates in Technological Sciences in Israel. (No images available) Delegates to the Histadrut Conference - Ottoman Society 2015 This database lists 301 delegates to the Histadrut Conference - Ottoman Society in 2015. This list comes >from an internet website: Portal of Associations of Engineers, Architects and Graduates in Technological Sciences in Israel. (No images available) Births in Gan Shmuel 1931 - 1945 This database is a list of 107 children born to parents living on Kibbutz Gan Shmuel between the years 1931-45. The list comes >from Yad Ya'ari Archives. (Images available) Births in Zikhron Ya'akov 1919 - 1940 This database is a list of 611 children born in Zikhron Ya'akov. The information is >from the Mathilde A. Tagger Collection. It was prepared from the "Book of Births" at the Zikhron Ya'akov Historical Archives.(No images available) Engagements 2016 This database is a list of 3,020 Orthodox couples who were engaged in 2016 throughout Israel. It lists name, date of the record, locality, education and the language of the record. (No images available) Communists Arrested 1936 This database is a list of 198 people who were arrested by the British Government in Palestine during the riots that took place in 1936. This includes country of origin and religion. The list was located in the Central Zionist Archives and donated by Dr. Eli Brauner. (No images available) Residents of Tel Aviv 1915 This is a handwritten list of 714 residents. It comes >from the Municipal Archives of Tel-Aviv - Jaffa. It includes the name of the head of the household and language spoken, how many others are living with him, if they are male or female and how large of a dwelling they are living in. Additional information may be available as well, such as if there was a bathroom in the home and professions of those living in that home. (Images available) Kibbutz Yavne Cemetery This database is a list of 305 of those buried in the Kibbutz Yavne Cemetery. (No images available) Updated Databases Operation Eagles' Wings (Operation Magic Carpet) Yemenite Airlift Passenger List of Residents of Aden, 1,359 Immigrants, 1949-Part 2 Following Israel's independence, the JDC (Joint Distribution Committee) organized and financed Operation Eagles' Wings (Operation Magic Carpet), bringing Yemenite Jews to Israel. The list includes names, sex, birth year, weight, and family status. The documentation was transcribed in the JDC archives, with the transliteration from English to Hebrew handled by IGRA volunteers. (No images available) Palestine Marriage/Divorce Certificates 3,022 marriages 3,022 marriage certificates have been added to this database. These certificates were issued during the British Mandate, 1921-1948 to those requesting copies of their certificates. The certificates include both old and new names (first and last), nationality and address. Some include information about parents. This is not a list of certificates issued by the Rabbinate. (Images available) Before viewing the databases, please register for free on the IGRA website: http://genealogy.org.il/ To view the databases, go to http://genealogy.org.il/AID/index.php Our many thanks to all of our dedicated volunteers. Elena Biegel Bazes IGRA Publicity Chairperson
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Joseph marriage to daughter of Admo"r of Lechovitz
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Yonatan Ben-Ari
My great great grandfather' (David)s brother Joseph, married the daughter
of the Admo"r of Lechovitz, Rabbi Aharon and Pearl. Pearl, I believe, was the daughter of the Admo"r of Stolin and/or Karlin. I am not sure of David and Joseph's family name but there is a presumption that it was ROSENBAUM. David's children went under the name SCHECHTER as per their profession. Does anyone have biographical information on Joseph's parents and/or other ancestors. TIA Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Joseph marriage to daughter of Admo"r of Lechovitz
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Yonatan Ben-Ari
My great great grandfather' (David)s brother Joseph, married the daughter
of the Admo"r of Lechovitz, Rabbi Aharon and Pearl. Pearl, I believe, was the daughter of the Admo"r of Stolin and/or Karlin. I am not sure of David and Joseph's family name but there is a presumption that it was ROSENBAUM. David's children went under the name SCHECHTER as per their profession. Does anyone have biographical information on Joseph's parents and/or other ancestors. TIA Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem
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Russian memorial books ("kniga pamyati")
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Miriam Bulwar David-Hay
Last week, I posted a question (well, several questions really) asking
whether anyone knows how or where I can search for information about my family who fled >from Poland into the Soviet Union during WWII, and in particular about my grandfather who volunteered to fight with the Red Army, probably >from Simferopol in the Crimea, and was killed in mid- to late 1941. I received several helpful suggestions that I am following up, but today I want to focus on Mel Comisarow's informative post about printed Russian memorial books, "kniga pamyati," which list slain Red Army soldiers. Mel wrote that there is a four-volume memorial book specifically listing Jewish Red Army soldiers, and some 200 other books based on region. It was my understanding that the Jewish book forms the basis of Alexander Zaslavsky's Book of Electronic Memory ( http://jmemory.org/) and that the regional books form the basis of the Russian Defense Ministry's OBD memorial website (http://www.obd-memorial.ru/html/index.html ), both of which sites I have already searched in the past, without finding anything matching my grandfather. This week, I found a website specific for the Crimea (http://rk-memory.ru/ ) and searched that too, once again fruitlessly. (I should point out that these sites are in Russian only, which I don't speak, and using online translations and virtual keyboards to painstakingly type in Cyrillic letters in various combinations for searches and then going through results has been like pulling teeth!) But I don't know if my understanding that these websites are based on the printed books is correct. And even if it is, I don't how many of the printed books are actually covered in the websites, or if all the contents of a book that is in the website are included. Can anyone shed any light on this subject? How much of a correlation is there between the printed books and the websites? And if the websites don't cover all the printed books or all their contents, are they adding content as time goes on, or staying as they are? Any information would be most appreciated and I'm sure would be useful for quite a few people. Thanking you in advance, Miriam Bulwar David-Hay, Raanana, Isael.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Russian memorial books ("kniga pamyati")
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Miriam Bulwar David-Hay
Last week, I posted a question (well, several questions really) asking
whether anyone knows how or where I can search for information about my family who fled >from Poland into the Soviet Union during WWII, and in particular about my grandfather who volunteered to fight with the Red Army, probably >from Simferopol in the Crimea, and was killed in mid- to late 1941. I received several helpful suggestions that I am following up, but today I want to focus on Mel Comisarow's informative post about printed Russian memorial books, "kniga pamyati," which list slain Red Army soldiers. Mel wrote that there is a four-volume memorial book specifically listing Jewish Red Army soldiers, and some 200 other books based on region. It was my understanding that the Jewish book forms the basis of Alexander Zaslavsky's Book of Electronic Memory ( http://jmemory.org/) and that the regional books form the basis of the Russian Defense Ministry's OBD memorial website (http://www.obd-memorial.ru/html/index.html ), both of which sites I have already searched in the past, without finding anything matching my grandfather. This week, I found a website specific for the Crimea (http://rk-memory.ru/ ) and searched that too, once again fruitlessly. (I should point out that these sites are in Russian only, which I don't speak, and using online translations and virtual keyboards to painstakingly type in Cyrillic letters in various combinations for searches and then going through results has been like pulling teeth!) But I don't know if my understanding that these websites are based on the printed books is correct. And even if it is, I don't how many of the printed books are actually covered in the websites, or if all the contents of a book that is in the website are included. Can anyone shed any light on this subject? How much of a correlation is there between the printed books and the websites? And if the websites don't cover all the printed books or all their contents, are they adding content as time goes on, or staying as they are? Any information would be most appreciated and I'm sure would be useful for quite a few people. Thanking you in advance, Miriam Bulwar David-Hay, Raanana, Isael.
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More Concentration camp info
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Paul Czerniejewski <ypekia1@...>
I recently searched and found my family names listed in Dachau Concentration
camp. Is there anyway of finding photos or more information on these individuals?? Thanks for your help. Paul Czerniejewski MODERATOR NOTE: We are sure JewishGen Discussion Group participants will have good suggestions. Do make sure to check out the JewishGen InfoFiles for "Holocaust." http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/#Holocaust
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen More Concentration camp info
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Paul Czerniejewski <ypekia1@...>
I recently searched and found my family names listed in Dachau Concentration
camp. Is there anyway of finding photos or more information on these individuals?? Thanks for your help. Paul Czerniejewski MODERATOR NOTE: We are sure JewishGen Discussion Group participants will have good suggestions. Do make sure to check out the JewishGen InfoFiles for "Holocaust." http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/#Holocaust
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ViewMate translation requests - Yiddish and German
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Martha Neuman <mneuman3@...>
I've posted two letters on ViewMate for which I am hoping to find
translation. Each letter has two pages, a front and back. The first letter is in both German and Yiddish. The second letter is in German, I think. The links are: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53139 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53140 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53141 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53142 Please respond via the form provided in ViewMate. I am very grateful for what help anyone can provide. Martha Neuman MODERATOR NOTE: If one ever has questions about ViewMate or how to post messages on this or other JewishGen SIG discussion groups, please first check the ViewMate page or discussion group pages for instructions. Instructions on how to post messages for each discussion forum is included at the end of each daily digest. If one's questions are not answered, contact support@jewishgen.org
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ViewMate translation requests - Yiddish and German
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Martha Neuman <mneuman3@...>
I've posted two letters on ViewMate for which I am hoping to find
translation. Each letter has two pages, a front and back. The first letter is in both German and Yiddish. The second letter is in German, I think. The links are: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53139 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53140 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53141 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM53142 Please respond via the form provided in ViewMate. I am very grateful for what help anyone can provide. Martha Neuman MODERATOR NOTE: If one ever has questions about ViewMate or how to post messages on this or other JewishGen SIG discussion groups, please first check the ViewMate page or discussion group pages for instructions. Instructions on how to post messages for each discussion forum is included at the end of each daily digest. If one's questions are not answered, contact support@jewishgen.org
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Three very interesting 1875 lists translated for Lida and Vasilishki (in the Lida District)
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Jrbaston
Dear fellow Lida District researchers:
I'm delighted to let you know that we've translated three very interesting 1875 Lists of Men >from the Lida District. Two are >from Lida town <LID_LID_1_1875_men> (595 individuals) and <LID_LID_2_1875_men> (679 individals), and one >from Vasilishki <LID_VAS_1875_men> (1,873 individuals). Despite the names of these files, they contain many people who are either residing or are registered in Lida District towns other than Lida and Vasilishki. <LID_LID_1> is divided by the streets on which people lived -- look for the orange-highlighted rows with "Novy Gorod Street," "near the Pharmacy" and other information about a family's location in Lida. This file also contains some physical descriptions and ages. There is a surname list for these files at the bottom of our site's homepage (https://lidadistrict.shutterfly.com), under Surname Lists. While these files will eventually be publicly searchable in the LitvakSIG All-Lithuania Database and the JewishGen Belarus Database, they are currently available only to participants in the LitvakSIG Lida District Research Group. To become part of the LitvakSIG Lida District Research Group, a qualifying contribution of $100 to LitvakSIG will guarantee you access to Excel Files of all translations -- new and old -- of Lida District records through December 31, 2021. To contribute, please go to: https://www.litvaksig.org/membership-and-contributions/join-and-contribute/ Click on "Research Groups for Districts and Gubernias" and choose Lida District. Your contribution will not only provide you access to these files, it will help us translate the 1905 Family Lists for Lida town, Orlya, Radun and Shchuchin. And because we have been able to obtain a matching grant, everything you contribute will be doubled and help us reach our goal twice as fast! Please let me know if you have any questions, Judy Baston, Coordinator, LitvakSIG Lida District Research Group JRBaston@aol.com
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Three very interesting 1875 lists translated for Lida and Vasilishki (in the Lida District)
#general
Jrbaston
Dear fellow Lida District researchers:
I'm delighted to let you know that we've translated three very interesting 1875 Lists of Men >from the Lida District. Two are >from Lida town <LID_LID_1_1875_men> (595 individuals) and <LID_LID_2_1875_men> (679 individals), and one >from Vasilishki <LID_VAS_1875_men> (1,873 individuals). Despite the names of these files, they contain many people who are either residing or are registered in Lida District towns other than Lida and Vasilishki. <LID_LID_1> is divided by the streets on which people lived -- look for the orange-highlighted rows with "Novy Gorod Street," "near the Pharmacy" and other information about a family's location in Lida. This file also contains some physical descriptions and ages. There is a surname list for these files at the bottom of our site's homepage (https://lidadistrict.shutterfly.com), under Surname Lists. While these files will eventually be publicly searchable in the LitvakSIG All-Lithuania Database and the JewishGen Belarus Database, they are currently available only to participants in the LitvakSIG Lida District Research Group. To become part of the LitvakSIG Lida District Research Group, a qualifying contribution of $100 to LitvakSIG will guarantee you access to Excel Files of all translations -- new and old -- of Lida District records through December 31, 2021. To contribute, please go to: https://www.litvaksig.org/membership-and-contributions/join-and-contribute/ Click on "Research Groups for Districts and Gubernias" and choose Lida District. Your contribution will not only provide you access to these files, it will help us translate the 1905 Family Lists for Lida town, Orlya, Radun and Shchuchin. And because we have been able to obtain a matching grant, everything you contribute will be doubled and help us reach our goal twice as fast! Please let me know if you have any questions, Judy Baston, Coordinator, LitvakSIG Lida District Research Group JRBaston@aol.com
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