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Searching for towns in Yiddish per ancestors' pronunciation
#general
redberliner@...
I just realized that when we are searching for towns, we may be searching for
the name in Yiddish as pronounced by our ancestors. Perhaps there is a way to translate the Yiddish name into Polish or Russian and then be able to find it. I don't know if Jewishgen.org has such a link or not. It seems it would be helpful to our researchers. My thoughts. Rachelle LEAF BERLINER Marietta, GA, USA redberliner@gmail.com Searching LEAF nee LIFSCHITZ/LIEBERMAN Ukraine, Russia, JACOBS nee EICHLER/GOLDSTEIN Prznasyz PO, London UK, Baltimore, MD, Atlanta, GA MODERATOR NOTE: The JewishGen Communities Database includes soundex in its search function so that communities may be located regardless of name variations. In addition, each community page includes all known variations of town names in a variety of languages. https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp You may search the communities Database >from the above URL; >from the JewishGen homepage http://www.jewishgen.org using the "Search for Town" box in the middle of the page; or by clicking the Databases tab on the homepage and, then, the third link down on the left side of the Databases page: "The JewishGen Communities Database."
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching for towns in Yiddish per ancestors' pronunciation
#general
redberliner@...
I just realized that when we are searching for towns, we may be searching for
the name in Yiddish as pronounced by our ancestors. Perhaps there is a way to translate the Yiddish name into Polish or Russian and then be able to find it. I don't know if Jewishgen.org has such a link or not. It seems it would be helpful to our researchers. My thoughts. Rachelle LEAF BERLINER Marietta, GA, USA redberliner@gmail.com Searching LEAF nee LIFSCHITZ/LIEBERMAN Ukraine, Russia, JACOBS nee EICHLER/GOLDSTEIN Prznasyz PO, London UK, Baltimore, MD, Atlanta, GA MODERATOR NOTE: The JewishGen Communities Database includes soundex in its search function so that communities may be located regardless of name variations. In addition, each community page includes all known variations of town names in a variety of languages. https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp You may search the communities Database >from the above URL; >from the JewishGen homepage http://www.jewishgen.org using the "Search for Town" box in the middle of the page; or by clicking the Databases tab on the homepage and, then, the third link down on the left side of the Databases page: "The JewishGen Communities Database."
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Re: Looking for relatives of Mangus Hirschfeld, MD
#general
Evertjan. <exxjxw.hannivoort@...>
Judith Hirshfield-Bartek judi.bartek@gmail.com wrote on 13 Feb 2018 in
soc.genealogy.jewish: Dear AllThe name is "Magnus HIRSCHFELD", not "Mangus". <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld> Don't miss out on the German version, which gives more family info: Read section: "Spates Privatleben und Erbnachlass" in <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld> You could use this translator, superior to Google, to read portions in English if you are a monoglot: <https://www.deepl.com/translator> Evertjan Hannivoort. The Netherlands. exjxwxhannivoortATinterxnlxnet (Please change the x'es to dots)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Looking for relatives of Mangus Hirschfeld, MD
#general
Evertjan. <exxjxw.hannivoort@...>
Judith Hirshfield-Bartek judi.bartek@gmail.com wrote on 13 Feb 2018 in
soc.genealogy.jewish: Dear AllThe name is "Magnus HIRSCHFELD", not "Mangus". <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld> Don't miss out on the German version, which gives more family info: Read section: "Spates Privatleben und Erbnachlass" in <https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Hirschfeld> You could use this translator, superior to Google, to read portions in English if you are a monoglot: <https://www.deepl.com/translator> Evertjan Hannivoort. The Netherlands. exjxwxhannivoortATinterxnlxnet (Please change the x'es to dots)
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Searching for Donald and Florence GREENBERG
#general
Carol Hochstadt
Brick wall time! I'm trying to locate my cousins - siblings Donald GREENBERG
(b. approx 1931 in NY) and Florence GREENBERG (b. approx. January 1930 in NY) and/or their children. Their parents were Harry GREENBERG (b. 1907 NY) and Mary KOTKIN. Paternal grandparents were Louis and Sophie GREENBERG. I have no marriage information for Florence. If this family group sounds familiar to you, please contact me privately. Thank you very much, Carol HOCHSTADT Researching GREENBERG (Sculeni, Iasi, Romania), KISMAN (Kornitsa, Volyn, Ukraine)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching for Donald and Florence GREENBERG
#general
Carol Hochstadt
Brick wall time! I'm trying to locate my cousins - siblings Donald GREENBERG
(b. approx 1931 in NY) and Florence GREENBERG (b. approx. January 1930 in NY) and/or their children. Their parents were Harry GREENBERG (b. 1907 NY) and Mary KOTKIN. Paternal grandparents were Louis and Sophie GREENBERG. I have no marriage information for Florence. If this family group sounds familiar to you, please contact me privately. Thank you very much, Carol HOCHSTADT Researching GREENBERG (Sculeni, Iasi, Romania), KISMAN (Kornitsa, Volyn, Ukraine)
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Reminder - Useful information and links are at the end of every GerSIG list message.
#germany
JewishGen German Research Division Coordinator
At this time of year we are required to add promotions
for IAJGS Conferences to the "footers" at the end of every list message. The long ad for the Warsaw 2018 Conference can make it difficult to remember the important links in the message footer. But those links are still there. **** The last one- the JewishGen **** List Manager **** page has these links at the bottom left corner of the List Manager page: (How to) Subscribe to other JewishGen Mailing Lists (How to put a temporary stop on list Email) Going on Vacation? Click here for options Search messages previously posted to the mailing lists: (Link to) JewishGen Discussion Group Message Archives (Link to) JewishGen SIG Lists Message Archives (How to) Change your (JewishGen and SIG) email address **** (Email address for) QUESTIONS or COMMENTS about GerSIG & to request our USER GUIDE and "Welcome Letter" in English or German: GerSIG HELP GerSigMod@gmail.com (Email address for sending messages to the GerSIG list:) POST your message for 2,000+ GerSIG Members- Send Email to the list: gersig@lyris.jewishgen.org (JewishGen Home Page) Sign in with your User ID and Password First at JewishGen: www.jewishgen.org SIG Message ARCHIVES - http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~sigspop JewishGen & GerSIG list "HELP" in English, Hebrew or French or Spanish: http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/Support.htm You are currently subscribed to gersig as: [your email address] (GerSIG Email can be sent as individual messages "MAIL" mode Or in one Email per day with all the day's messages "DIGEST" Or with only the subject and first lines of each message of the day "INDEX" mode To keep your GerSIG membership but stop GerSIG list Email - "NO MAIL" mode. To change the format (mode) in which you receive this mailing list To change your email address or to un-subscribe go to: Mailing List Management Center: http://www.jewishgen.org/ListManager Don't forget that these links follow every GerSIG list message even if they are hiding under the reequired Warsaw promotion. GerSIG Moderator
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German SIG #Germany Reminder - Useful information and links are at the end of every GerSIG list message.
#germany
JewishGen German Research Division Coordinator
At this time of year we are required to add promotions
for IAJGS Conferences to the "footers" at the end of every list message. The long ad for the Warsaw 2018 Conference can make it difficult to remember the important links in the message footer. But those links are still there. **** The last one- the JewishGen **** List Manager **** page has these links at the bottom left corner of the List Manager page: (How to) Subscribe to other JewishGen Mailing Lists (How to put a temporary stop on list Email) Going on Vacation? Click here for options Search messages previously posted to the mailing lists: (Link to) JewishGen Discussion Group Message Archives (Link to) JewishGen SIG Lists Message Archives (How to) Change your (JewishGen and SIG) email address **** (Email address for) QUESTIONS or COMMENTS about GerSIG & to request our USER GUIDE and "Welcome Letter" in English or German: GerSIG HELP GerSigMod@gmail.com (Email address for sending messages to the GerSIG list:) POST your message for 2,000+ GerSIG Members- Send Email to the list: gersig@lyris.jewishgen.org (JewishGen Home Page) Sign in with your User ID and Password First at JewishGen: www.jewishgen.org SIG Message ARCHIVES - http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~sigspop JewishGen & GerSIG list "HELP" in English, Hebrew or French or Spanish: http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen/Support.htm You are currently subscribed to gersig as: [your email address] (GerSIG Email can be sent as individual messages "MAIL" mode Or in one Email per day with all the day's messages "DIGEST" Or with only the subject and first lines of each message of the day "INDEX" mode To keep your GerSIG membership but stop GerSIG list Email - "NO MAIL" mode. To change the format (mode) in which you receive this mailing list To change your email address or to un-subscribe go to: Mailing List Management Center: http://www.jewishgen.org/ListManager Don't forget that these links follow every GerSIG list message even if they are hiding under the reequired Warsaw promotion. GerSIG Moderator
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Seraching REDLICH from Hannover / Germany around 1700 - 1720
#germany
Friedhelm Redlich <redlich@...>
Dear List members,
I am new and writing you >from Germany. I have done family research for some years and have a family tree with nearly 2.000 persons on MyHeritage. On my father's paternal tree I have: Christian Gottlieb REDLICH, born 1719 He became a baker in Bremen. My grandfather in the 4th degree. He got the "civil rights" in the German town of Bremen on October 3rd 1749 and claimed to come >from Hannover / Germany (town or duchy?) and to be a "proselyte". (In general the word "proselyte" explains a Jew who has changed to a Christian religion) This fact is proven by original documents in the archives of Bremen. By a DNA test I have even more indications that I have Jewish ancestors. Until now I could not find further connections to any Jewish family named REDLICH or / and coming >from the Hannover area. I have no experience how to do research in Jewish genealogy. Any hints / support and help is very much appreciated. Thanks a lot. Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grussen Friedhelm Redlich, 48165 Muenster - Germany redlich@muenster.de
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German SIG #Germany Seraching REDLICH from Hannover / Germany around 1700 - 1720
#germany
Friedhelm Redlich <redlich@...>
Dear List members,
I am new and writing you >from Germany. I have done family research for some years and have a family tree with nearly 2.000 persons on MyHeritage. On my father's paternal tree I have: Christian Gottlieb REDLICH, born 1719 He became a baker in Bremen. My grandfather in the 4th degree. He got the "civil rights" in the German town of Bremen on October 3rd 1749 and claimed to come >from Hannover / Germany (town or duchy?) and to be a "proselyte". (In general the word "proselyte" explains a Jew who has changed to a Christian religion) This fact is proven by original documents in the archives of Bremen. By a DNA test I have even more indications that I have Jewish ancestors. Until now I could not find further connections to any Jewish family named REDLICH or / and coming >from the Hannover area. I have no experience how to do research in Jewish genealogy. Any hints / support and help is very much appreciated. Thanks a lot. Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grussen Friedhelm Redlich, 48165 Muenster - Germany redlich@muenster.de
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Heinrich WALLACH from Mecklenburg
#germany
Does anyone have any information about a Heinrich WALLACH who was born in
1857 in Bad Sulze, Mecklenburg. He was adopted by his Maternal Uncle's family when he was three years old on the death of his Mother. His adopted family was HEYMANSON and they lived in Luebeck. However he retained his original last name of WALLACH. He arrived in the USA on August 16th 1891 I have not been able to find any record of him in the USA after his arrival. If anyone can shed any light on this person, I would be most grateful. Ronny Wallace, Apollo Beach, FL ronald@thewallaces.net
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German SIG #Germany Heinrich WALLACH from Mecklenburg
#germany
Does anyone have any information about a Heinrich WALLACH who was born in
1857 in Bad Sulze, Mecklenburg. He was adopted by his Maternal Uncle's family when he was three years old on the death of his Mother. His adopted family was HEYMANSON and they lived in Luebeck. However he retained his original last name of WALLACH. He arrived in the USA on August 16th 1891 I have not been able to find any record of him in the USA after his arrival. If anyone can shed any light on this person, I would be most grateful. Ronny Wallace, Apollo Beach, FL ronald@thewallaces.net
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Re: Revotsk and Kovorsk, Ukraine
#ukraine
Richard Cooper
A search in the JewishGen Communities Database turns up Kavarskas in
Kovno Guberniya in the Russian Empire (today in Lithuania). The nearest to Revotsk is Riebi'i (Ribenishki in Russian), about 100 miles north-east of Kavarskas, in Vitebsk Guberniya (today in Poland). How sure are you that the towns you're looking for were in Ukraine? Best wishes and happy ancestor-spotting, Richard Cooper (NB: Not related to any COOPERs!) Midhurst, UK MILLET, ENGELBERG, BLUMENKEHL, SUSSWEIN, WACKS & PITERZIL >from Tarnow, Dabrowa Tarnowska and Lezajsk LEZTER, SALENDER, RINENBERG, EISEN & KRAETTER >from Rzeszow and Kolbuszowa ADLER, FINKELSTEIN, PARYLLE, WEINTRAUB & ZILZ >from Tarnopol and Trembowla YAROSHEVSKY, SHAPOCHNIKOW & GRANITUR >from Odessa and Zlatopol/Novomirgorod LEWINSTEIN >from Berdichev BORENSTEIN, MATELEVITCH,GODZINSKIJ & ZIMNOWICZ and >from Warsaw and Radun
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Re: Revotsk and Kovorsk, Ukraine
#ukraine
Richard Cooper
A search in the JewishGen Communities Database turns up Kavarskas in
Kovno Guberniya in the Russian Empire (today in Lithuania). The nearest to Revotsk is Riebi'i (Ribenishki in Russian), about 100 miles north-east of Kavarskas, in Vitebsk Guberniya (today in Poland). How sure are you that the towns you're looking for were in Ukraine? Best wishes and happy ancestor-spotting, Richard Cooper (NB: Not related to any COOPERs!) Midhurst, UK MILLET, ENGELBERG, BLUMENKEHL, SUSSWEIN, WACKS & PITERZIL >from Tarnow, Dabrowa Tarnowska and Lezajsk LEZTER, SALENDER, RINENBERG, EISEN & KRAETTER >from Rzeszow and Kolbuszowa ADLER, FINKELSTEIN, PARYLLE, WEINTRAUB & ZILZ >from Tarnopol and Trembowla YAROSHEVSKY, SHAPOCHNIKOW & GRANITUR >from Odessa and Zlatopol/Novomirgorod LEWINSTEIN >from Berdichev BORENSTEIN, MATELEVITCH,GODZINSKIJ & ZIMNOWICZ and >from Warsaw and Radun
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Phyllis Kramer
You may well be inspired by the success stories recently published to
our website. You can access these accounts >from the "About Us" button on the website or by following this link: http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/testimonials/ ** Marla Raucher Osborn highlights the crucial role that secondary sources such as testimonies, memoirs, and survivor and witness accounts can play in emotionally connecting us to our ancestors. She gives us a tour of her ancestral town of Rohatyn, showing various buildings once inhabited by her family. ** Andrew Lenard survives the Holocaust and, years later, searches for R=C3=B3zsi, his musical partner during his teen years, who had been transported to Auschwitz >from their town in Hungary. We repost this moving story >from our Archives. ** Carol Clingan agrees to help a friend identify her great-grandfather's town of origin. Through the JewishGen Family Finder, she not only identifies the town and a variant of her friend's surname, but she also connects her friend with previously unknown cousins. JewishGen volunteers (Editor - Nancy Siegel and Webmaster - Colin Mathias Justin) collect and post these stories. We encourage you to submit your own success stories to us at success@lyris.jewishgen.org . Isn't JewishGen wonderful!! Phyllis Kramer, NYC & PBG, Florida VP, Education & Special Projects, JewishGen, Inc.
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alexandralsilver@...
Hello,
I've posted the back of a photograph of a girl posing by a fountain. I think the writing is in Polish, and would greatly appreciate any help with an English translation. It's on ViewMate at http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM63846 Thank you, Alexandra
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nwaksberg@...
Hello,
Your assistance is appreciated in helping me with Polish translations for the following vital records. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM63869 This may be a marriage contract. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64132 Please respond using the online ViewMate form. Thank you in advance for your valuable time and help. Nomi Waksberg Researching Family Names: FISZENFLED, BRAUN, WAKSBERG, ROZENBLAT, FRYDMAN, ZINGER, WOLKOWICZ, RYGIEL, KLAJNBART
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Phyllis Kramer
You may well be inspired by the success stories recently published to
our website. You can access these accounts >from the "About Us" button on the website or by following this link: http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/testimonials/ ** Marla Raucher Osborn highlights the crucial role that secondary sources such as testimonies, memoirs, and survivor and witness accounts can play in emotionally connecting us to our ancestors. She gives us a tour of her ancestral town of Rohatyn, showing various buildings once inhabited by her family. ** Andrew Lenard survives the Holocaust and, years later, searches for R=C3=B3zsi, his musical partner during his teen years, who had been transported to Auschwitz >from their town in Hungary. We repost this moving story >from our Archives. ** Carol Clingan agrees to help a friend identify her great-grandfather's town of origin. Through the JewishGen Family Finder, she not only identifies the town and a variant of her friend's surname, but she also connects her friend with previously unknown cousins. JewishGen volunteers (Editor - Nancy Siegel and Webmaster - Colin Mathias Justin) collect and post these stories. We encourage you to submit your own success stories to us at success@lyris.jewishgen.org . Isn't JewishGen wonderful!! Phyllis Kramer, NYC & PBG, Florida VP, Education & Special Projects, JewishGen, Inc.
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alexandralsilver@...
Hello,
I've posted the back of a photograph of a girl posing by a fountain. I think the writing is in Polish, and would greatly appreciate any help with an English translation. It's on ViewMate at http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM63846 Thank you, Alexandra
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nwaksberg@...
Hello,
Your assistance is appreciated in helping me with Polish translations for the following vital records. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM63869 This may be a marriage contract. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64132 Please respond using the online ViewMate form. Thank you in advance for your valuable time and help. Nomi Waksberg Researching Family Names: FISZENFLED, BRAUN, WAKSBERG, ROZENBLAT, FRYDMAN, ZINGER, WOLKOWICZ, RYGIEL, KLAJNBART
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