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JGSCT February Program Additional Information #general

gkreynolds
 

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
JGS of Michigan Program - Lessons in Jewish DNA with Israel Pickholtz - February 2 at 7pm #general

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
New and Updated Databases on IGRA Website #general

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
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen JGSCT February Program Additional Information #general

gkreynolds
 

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
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen JGS of Michigan Program - Lessons in Jewish DNA with Israel Pickholtz - February 2 at 7pm #general

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
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen New and Updated Databases on IGRA Website #general

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
Joseph marriage to daughter of Admo"r of Lechovitz #general

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
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Joseph marriage to daughter of Admo"r of Lechovitz #general

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
Russian memorial books ("kniga pamyati") #general

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.
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Russian memorial books ("kniga pamyati") #general

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.
More Concentration camp info #general

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
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen More Concentration camp info #general

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
ViewMate translation requests - Yiddish and German #general

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
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ViewMate translation requests - Yiddish and German #general

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
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
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
Have you heard of Polanyu? #general

Susan J. Gordon
 

When I visited my long-estranged father shortly before his death, I asked
him where his immigrant father had come from. He said, "Polanyu" - which
sounded like "Po - lan - nyu." But I have been unable to locate this name as
a town, village or anything else in Galicia, Poland or elsewhere. Also, I'm
pretty sure his family name was "DAYAN," but it was Anglicized in the US.
Any suggestions? Thanks for your help!

Susan Gordon, New York.
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Have you heard of Polanyu? #general

Susan J. Gordon
 

When I visited my long-estranged father shortly before his death, I asked
him where his immigrant father had come from. He said, "Polanyu" - which
sounded like "Po - lan - nyu." But I have been unable to locate this name as
a town, village or anything else in Galicia, Poland or elsewhere. Also, I'm
pretty sure his family name was "DAYAN," but it was Anglicized in the US.
Any suggestions? Thanks for your help!

Susan Gordon, New York.
Success Story #general

msalzbank
 

Dear Geners

I want to share a success story that hopefully encourage those who
feel they hit a "dead end". My surname, SALZBANK, is not common at
all. I always felt it was changed at Ellis Island, but long ago, I saw
that it was the name in Galicia.

Using JRI-Poland I discovered a couple of names, Salzbank as well as
my grandfather, Moshe (Morris Salzbank). Neither my father or my uncle
were overly interested in the genealogy and they heard that my
grandfather may have had a sister living in Israel.

For years the search on JRI-Poland pulled the same 3 or 4 names...a
sister who died at 2 years old... but that was it... Just about a year
ago, I did the name search again and this time the marriage record of
Peril in 1909 came up. No doubt she was the sister. Success #1.

Unfortunately, there was no more information other than her husband's
name and his parents... my search on Ancestry came up with no leads...
here in the U.S. or in Israel. I have very little to go on.

**Today**, I see a hint on Ancestry and it is a hint to the marriage
record that I had discovered...why was someone else looking at it?
To my surprise and delight, someone else found this record and
attached it his tree and when I searched his tree I see all of these
living relatives of Peril & Shlomo (indeed in Israel). I have begun to
search and reach out.

Ya, never know... how mysteriously "dead ends" open up

Michael Salzbank
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Success Story #general

msalzbank
 

Dear Geners

I want to share a success story that hopefully encourage those who
feel they hit a "dead end". My surname, SALZBANK, is not common at
all. I always felt it was changed at Ellis Island, but long ago, I saw
that it was the name in Galicia.

Using JRI-Poland I discovered a couple of names, Salzbank as well as
my grandfather, Moshe (Morris Salzbank). Neither my father or my uncle
were overly interested in the genealogy and they heard that my
grandfather may have had a sister living in Israel.

For years the search on JRI-Poland pulled the same 3 or 4 names...a
sister who died at 2 years old... but that was it... Just about a year
ago, I did the name search again and this time the marriage record of
Peril in 1909 came up. No doubt she was the sister. Success #1.

Unfortunately, there was no more information other than her husband's
name and his parents... my search on Ancestry came up with no leads...
here in the U.S. or in Israel. I have very little to go on.

**Today**, I see a hint on Ancestry and it is a hint to the marriage
record that I had discovered...why was someone else looking at it?
To my surprise and delight, someone else found this record and
attached it his tree and when I searched his tree I see all of these
living relatives of Peril & Shlomo (indeed in Israel). I have begun to
search and reach out.

Ya, never know... how mysteriously "dead ends" open up

Michael Salzbank
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