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New data on JewishGen
#hungary
iris.edit1@...
Shalom, moderator.
Is it planned to upload more data in JewishGen, especially Hungarian data? Thank you very much, Iris Moderator: The Hungarian SIG continues to acquire new records that are transcribed by volunteers and uploaded to the JewishGen Hungary database. One of the most recent additions includes the 1857 Census >from Saros megye, now in Slovakia.
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Hungary SIG #Hungary New data on JewishGen
#hungary
iris.edit1@...
Shalom, moderator.
Is it planned to upload more data in JewishGen, especially Hungarian data? Thank you very much, Iris Moderator: The Hungarian SIG continues to acquire new records that are transcribed by volunteers and uploaded to the JewishGen Hungary database. One of the most recent additions includes the 1857 Census >from Saros megye, now in Slovakia.
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"Vermugens von Juden"
#general
George Fogelson
In 1938 all German Jews had to complete a form listing their assets
and real estate holdings. It was known as the "Vermugens von Juden" vom 18. Juni 1938. I am trying to locate a copy of the form my family filled out in Berlin in 1938. I contacted the Berlin Archives and they do not have copies. Can anybody suggest where I could find a copy of the "Vermugens von Juden" vom 18. Juni 1938 specifically for Berlin? Many thanks, George FOGELSON Redondo Beach, CA fogelson@berkeley.edu
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen "Vermugens von Juden"
#general
George Fogelson
In 1938 all German Jews had to complete a form listing their assets
and real estate holdings. It was known as the "Vermugens von Juden" vom 18. Juni 1938. I am trying to locate a copy of the form my family filled out in Berlin in 1938. I contacted the Berlin Archives and they do not have copies. Can anybody suggest where I could find a copy of the "Vermugens von Juden" vom 18. Juni 1938 specifically for Berlin? Many thanks, George FOGELSON Redondo Beach, CA fogelson@berkeley.edu
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YOFFE - Pumpenai
#lithuania
It seems that my maternal great grandfather, Woolf Velvel KAGAN of Pumpenai
Lithuania, had a sister Peshe Mindel who in 1879 married in Pumpenai to Moshe Leib, son of Sora and Binyamin Hirsh YOFFE. They had 8 children all born in Pumpenai : Yokel Shlomo b. 1882 Abram Perets 1883 Vittel 1885 Yisrael Shmerel 1886 Chaya 1888 Sora 1894 Ita Mere 1897 Efroim Getsel 1898 Information about descendants will be welcome. Thanks, Jules Feldman Kibbutz Yizreel
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania YOFFE - Pumpenai
#lithuania
It seems that my maternal great grandfather, Woolf Velvel KAGAN of Pumpenai
Lithuania, had a sister Peshe Mindel who in 1879 married in Pumpenai to Moshe Leib, son of Sora and Binyamin Hirsh YOFFE. They had 8 children all born in Pumpenai : Yokel Shlomo b. 1882 Abram Perets 1883 Vittel 1885 Yisrael Shmerel 1886 Chaya 1888 Sora 1894 Ita Mere 1897 Efroim Getsel 1898 Information about descendants will be welcome. Thanks, Jules Feldman Kibbutz Yizreel
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Re: Question about given name of "Shere "
#lithuania
David Ellis
Roy Ogus <r_ogus@hotmail.com> writes:
My question is whether the name of "Shere" was a common given name for a female that eventually was called "Sarah". My g-gf's sister was named Sorka in Lithuania, a very common form of the Hebrew Sarah. She is listed in various records in the All Lithuania Database as Sorka, Serka, Sheril, Merel, Sherel and Sora. Variations in given names between different records for the same person are a quite common challenge we all have to deal with. David J Ellis Natick, MA 01760 djemkitso@verizon.net
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania re: Question about given name of "Shere "
#lithuania
David Ellis
Roy Ogus <r_ogus@hotmail.com> writes:
My question is whether the name of "Shere" was a common given name for a female that eventually was called "Sarah". My g-gf's sister was named Sorka in Lithuania, a very common form of the Hebrew Sarah. She is listed in various records in the All Lithuania Database as Sorka, Serka, Sheril, Merel, Sherel and Sora. Variations in given names between different records for the same person are a quite common challenge we all have to deal with. David J Ellis Natick, MA 01760 djemkitso@verizon.net
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Viewmate Translation from Russian
#lithuania
Jerry Zeisler <jzeisler@...>
Hi,
I've posted part of a marriage record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71929 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Jerry Zeisler Portland, Oregon USA
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Viewmate Translation from Russian
#lithuania
Jerry Zeisler <jzeisler@...>
Hi,
I've posted part of a marriage record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71929 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Jerry Zeisler Portland, Oregon USA
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New data available from the Vilnius Household Registers project
#poland
Russ Maurer
LitvakSIG is very pleased to announce that batch 4 of the Vilnius
household registers project, 5185 lines, is now available to qualified donors. To help you decide if this batch is relevant to you, please consult the free Batch 4 preview which you can download from the VHR home page, https://www.litvaksig.org/research/special-projects/vilnius-household-registers (short URL: https://tinyurl.com/yab5ojnv). The batch preview shows the full name and year of birth (or age) for each person in batch 4. During the period between WWI and WWII, Vilnius and adjoining areas (that today are within eastern Lithuania and western Belarus) were under Polish control. In Vilnius, Poland imposed its system of household registration for population registration and mobility control >from 1919 to 1940. More than 13,000 household registers have survived. They contain a treasure trove of information about people who lived in or visited Vilnius. Typical records may include the first and last name, maiden name, names of the parents including the mother's maiden name, marital status, nationality and religion, place and date of birth (or age), place of previous residence, date of arrival to the lodgings, date of leaving the lodgings and next destination. We estimate that the collection, in all, contains about a million lines of data for Jews. Because this is a long-term project, we are releasing data 5,000 lines at a time, approximately every 2-3 months. Batch 4 contains all available data >from six large apartment buildings located at Mala Stefanska 19, Wielka Stefanska 5 and 14, and Zawalna 10/3, 15, and 16. Each batch will be added to the free, searchable All-Lithuania database about 18 months after release. Of particular note, because of the shifting national boundaries, the Vilnius household registers will be of interest to a wider audience than one might imagine. There was no border between Vilnius and the rest of interwar Poland. People flowed freely between Vilnius and such other cities as Warsaw, Bialystok, Lodz, Lida, Disna, Oshmiany, Minsk, and others. If your ancestors were anywhere in that area between the wars, they could have stopped in Vilnius and made an appearance in a household register. All necessary information about these data releases, including how to become a qualified donor, can be found on the VHR home page linked above. While you're there, check out our new Vilnius interactive map (thank you, Jay Osborn!) Any questions should be directed to me at vhrproject@litvaksig.org Russ Maurer VHR project coordinator, LitvakSIG
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JRI Poland #Poland New data available from the Vilnius Household Registers project
#poland
Russ Maurer
LitvakSIG is very pleased to announce that batch 4 of the Vilnius
household registers project, 5185 lines, is now available to qualified donors. To help you decide if this batch is relevant to you, please consult the free Batch 4 preview which you can download from the VHR home page, https://www.litvaksig.org/research/special-projects/vilnius-household-registers (short URL: https://tinyurl.com/yab5ojnv). The batch preview shows the full name and year of birth (or age) for each person in batch 4. During the period between WWI and WWII, Vilnius and adjoining areas (that today are within eastern Lithuania and western Belarus) were under Polish control. In Vilnius, Poland imposed its system of household registration for population registration and mobility control >from 1919 to 1940. More than 13,000 household registers have survived. They contain a treasure trove of information about people who lived in or visited Vilnius. Typical records may include the first and last name, maiden name, names of the parents including the mother's maiden name, marital status, nationality and religion, place and date of birth (or age), place of previous residence, date of arrival to the lodgings, date of leaving the lodgings and next destination. We estimate that the collection, in all, contains about a million lines of data for Jews. Because this is a long-term project, we are releasing data 5,000 lines at a time, approximately every 2-3 months. Batch 4 contains all available data >from six large apartment buildings located at Mala Stefanska 19, Wielka Stefanska 5 and 14, and Zawalna 10/3, 15, and 16. Each batch will be added to the free, searchable All-Lithuania database about 18 months after release. Of particular note, because of the shifting national boundaries, the Vilnius household registers will be of interest to a wider audience than one might imagine. There was no border between Vilnius and the rest of interwar Poland. People flowed freely between Vilnius and such other cities as Warsaw, Bialystok, Lodz, Lida, Disna, Oshmiany, Minsk, and others. If your ancestors were anywhere in that area between the wars, they could have stopped in Vilnius and made an appearance in a household register. All necessary information about these data releases, including how to become a qualified donor, can be found on the VHR home page linked above. While you're there, check out our new Vilnius interactive map (thank you, Jay Osborn!) Any questions should be directed to me at vhrproject@litvaksig.org Russ Maurer VHR project coordinator, LitvakSIG
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Cyrillic extraction requests - Szczebrzeszyn near Zamosc
#poland
Tamar Amit <ta.genealogy@...>
Hi,
I have posted records in Cyrillic for the following surnames on Viewmate and would be very grateful for translations (they don't have to be word-for-word): GEWIRCMAN, RAJSBOJM, ROZENBERG. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71952 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71951 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71950 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71949 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71946 Thanking anyone who helps most sincerely in advance! Thanks Tamar AMIT Herzelia, ISRAEL
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JRI Poland #Poland Cyrillic extraction requests - Szczebrzeszyn near Zamosc
#poland
Tamar Amit <ta.genealogy@...>
Hi,
I have posted records in Cyrillic for the following surnames on Viewmate and would be very grateful for translations (they don't have to be word-for-word): GEWIRCMAN, RAJSBOJM, ROZENBERG. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71952 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71951 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71950 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71949 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM71946 Thanking anyone who helps most sincerely in advance! Thanks Tamar AMIT Herzelia, ISRAEL
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JGS New York Meeting Feb.24 - Lublin's 43 Thousand Project
#poland
Harriet Mayer
Jewish Genealogical Society New York Meeting
Sunday, Feb. 24 at 2 PM at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St. New York "Documenting an Entire Lost Jewish Community, One Individual at a Time: Lublin's "Grodzka Gate-NN Theatre" Centre and the 43 Thousand Project " Speaker: Olivier Szlos This presentation will describe the work of the "Grodzka Gate-NN Theatre" Centre to reclaim Jewish memory in the Lublin region of Poland, with its 43 Thousand Project, by exploring archives, personal testimonies and data >from private collections to retrieve names, photos, documents and stories. It will provide a hands-on approach to the project's public access database and touch on the Antwerp Lublin project, JRI-Poland and other genealogical sources. Olivier Szlos is a fundraising professional. For over thirty years he has been researching his family inFrance, Poland and ten other countries. Olivier has worked with the "Grodzka Gate-NN Theatre" Centre where, in 2017, he attended a reunion of 200 Shoah survivors and their families and descendants. He has visited his ancestral towns in the Lublin region and volunteers with the JRI-Poland Lubartow Town Project to help with indexing records. He donated Szlos family papers to the Shoah Museum in Paris and was a presenter at the IAJGS 2018 conference in Warsaw. Free for JGSNY members; guests welcome, $5 at the door. The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute will be open >from 11 AM to 4 PM. More information at our website: jgsny.org , or on Facebook. Submitted by Harriet Mayer JGSNY VP Communications New York NY
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JRI Poland #Poland JGS New York Meeting Feb.24 - Lublin's 43 Thousand Project
#poland
Harriet Mayer
Jewish Genealogical Society New York Meeting
Sunday, Feb. 24 at 2 PM at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St. New York "Documenting an Entire Lost Jewish Community, One Individual at a Time: Lublin's "Grodzka Gate-NN Theatre" Centre and the 43 Thousand Project " Speaker: Olivier Szlos This presentation will describe the work of the "Grodzka Gate-NN Theatre" Centre to reclaim Jewish memory in the Lublin region of Poland, with its 43 Thousand Project, by exploring archives, personal testimonies and data >from private collections to retrieve names, photos, documents and stories. It will provide a hands-on approach to the project's public access database and touch on the Antwerp Lublin project, JRI-Poland and other genealogical sources. Olivier Szlos is a fundraising professional. For over thirty years he has been researching his family inFrance, Poland and ten other countries. Olivier has worked with the "Grodzka Gate-NN Theatre" Centre where, in 2017, he attended a reunion of 200 Shoah survivors and their families and descendants. He has visited his ancestral towns in the Lublin region and volunteers with the JRI-Poland Lubartow Town Project to help with indexing records. He donated Szlos family papers to the Shoah Museum in Paris and was a presenter at the IAJGS 2018 conference in Warsaw. Free for JGSNY members; guests welcome, $5 at the door. The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute will be open >from 11 AM to 4 PM. More information at our website: jgsny.org , or on Facebook. Submitted by Harriet Mayer JGSNY VP Communications New York NY
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YOFFE - Pumpenai, Lithuania
#general
It seems that my maternal great grandfather, Woolf Velvel KAGAN of Pumpenai
Lithuania, had a sister Peshe Mindel who in 1879 married in Pumpenai to Moshe Leib, son of Sora and Binyamin Hirsh YOFFE, as his second wife. They had 8 children all born in Pumpenai: Yokel Shlomo b. 1882 Abram Perets 1883 Vittel 1885 Yisrael Shmerel 1886 Chaya 1888 Sora 1894 Ita Mere 1897 Efroim Getsel 1898 Information about descendants will be welcome. Please reply privately Thanks, Jules Feldman Kibbutz Yizreel
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen YOFFE - Pumpenai, Lithuania
#general
It seems that my maternal great grandfather, Woolf Velvel KAGAN of Pumpenai
Lithuania, had a sister Peshe Mindel who in 1879 married in Pumpenai to Moshe Leib, son of Sora and Binyamin Hirsh YOFFE, as his second wife. They had 8 children all born in Pumpenai: Yokel Shlomo b. 1882 Abram Perets 1883 Vittel 1885 Yisrael Shmerel 1886 Chaya 1888 Sora 1894 Ita Mere 1897 Efroim Getsel 1898 Information about descendants will be welcome. Please reply privately Thanks, Jules Feldman Kibbutz Yizreel
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Mein ELKRAT/ELCRAT
#general
Philip Deters <pjdeters@...>
I am searching for my great uncle "Mein" or "Max" ELKRAT/ELCRAT >from "Secola" in
the Russian Empire in the late 19th century. Any help? Philip Deters
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JGSGW February 24, 2019 Meeting & Program Announcement
#general
N. Kotz
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Washington (JGSGW) will
present Stop Thief! The True Story of Abraham Greenthal, King of the Pickpockets, in 19th Century New York City presented by Edward David Luft, taking place at Ohev Sholom: The National Synagogue, on Sunday, February 24, 2019, Ohev Shalom is located at 1600 Jonquil Street, NW Washington, DC. 1:00 PM - Schmooze and Discussion Tables - Central European Research sources 1:30 PM - Program Meeting Edward David Luft will speak about his book, Stop Thief! The True Story of Abraham Greenthal, King of the Pickpockets in 19th Century New York City, as Revealed >from Contemporary Sources. The author was inspired to write his book because he wanted to correct all of the erroneous information online on a popular website. Greenthal, 1822-1889, was probably the greatest pickpocket in history and the head of a gang of criminals with international connections. Crime was the family business, and Greenthal boasted near the end of his life that he had never done an honest day's work in his life. Learn the full story, painstakingly pieced together >from archives, authoritative books, contemporary newspaper publications, and actual visits to most of the locations abroad where Greenthal lived, including Brazil, Germany, and Poland. Edward David Luft graduated >from Syracuse University and received his J. D. degree >from Syracuse University College of Law. After two years in the Peace Corps in Botswana, he worked for The New Yorker Magazine. He retired >from U.S. Government employment in Washington, DC. He is the author of The Naturalized Jews of the Grand Duchy of Posen in 1834 and 1835, as well as the book about which he will speak. He is a frequent contributor to Avotaynu and other publications on a variety of subjects with a focus on genealogy research and resources in Germany and Central Europe, and his work is often cited in genealogy publications around the world. JGSGW Guest Attendance Policy: Meetings and most events are free to JGSGW members. Non-members may attend for a fee of $5. If they decide to join JGSGW at the meeting or event, the $5 will be applied toward membership. Members who require personal assistance due to a health condition or disability may bring an assistant at no charge. Nancy C. Kotz VP Communications, JGSGW http://www.jgsgw.org
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