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Petition for Naturalization forms
#general
Roberta Berman
Were people given a copy of the forms they filled in, in order to become a
citizen? A friend has her grandfather's Petition for Naturalization filled-in form, from 1913, complete with folds and scotch taped together.It says that her grandfather arrived in the U.S. in 1903 and filed a Declaration of Intent in 1906 in the Circuit Court of the Southern District of New York. In the 1915 NY State census it says he was a citizen. No one in the family has his Certification of Naturalization. All the best, Roberta Berman Southern California Searching: CHAMEIDES, SCHONHOLZ >from Zaleszczyki
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Petition for Naturalization forms
#general
Roberta Berman
Were people given a copy of the forms they filled in, in order to become a
citizen? A friend has her grandfather's Petition for Naturalization filled-in form, from 1913, complete with folds and scotch taped together.It says that her grandfather arrived in the U.S. in 1903 and filed a Declaration of Intent in 1906 in the Circuit Court of the Southern District of New York. In the 1915 NY State census it says he was a citizen. No one in the family has his Certification of Naturalization. All the best, Roberta Berman Southern California Searching: CHAMEIDES, SCHONHOLZ >from Zaleszczyki
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The JGS of Montreal - Monday, May 06, 2019
#general
Merle Kastner <mbkgrand18@...>
The JGS of Montreal, in association with the
Jewish Public Library is pleased to announce - Returning with our annual, highly popular program - Join us this evening and learn >from our fellow members: Annual 3 Presenters - Merle Epelbaum Moses, Jon Goldberg & Janice Rosen Three Presenters - relating their stories and Janice Rosen, describing the enormous holdings of the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives. Come and hear them share their individual stories successes & many helpful tips. The program will be held on Monday, May 06, 2019 at 7:30 pm Gelber Conference Centre 5151 Cote Ste-Catherine/1 Carre Cummings For all information on our upcoming meetings & Sunday Morning Family Tree Workshops - call the JGS of Montreal Hotline - 24 hours a day: 514-484-0969 Please visit the JGS of Montreal website: http://jgs-montreal.org/ Merle Kastner JGS of Montreal, Programming
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen The JGS of Montreal - Monday, May 06, 2019
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Merle Kastner <mbkgrand18@...>
The JGS of Montreal, in association with the
Jewish Public Library is pleased to announce - Returning with our annual, highly popular program - Join us this evening and learn >from our fellow members: Annual 3 Presenters - Merle Epelbaum Moses, Jon Goldberg & Janice Rosen Three Presenters - relating their stories and Janice Rosen, describing the enormous holdings of the Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives. Come and hear them share their individual stories successes & many helpful tips. The program will be held on Monday, May 06, 2019 at 7:30 pm Gelber Conference Centre 5151 Cote Ste-Catherine/1 Carre Cummings For all information on our upcoming meetings & Sunday Morning Family Tree Workshops - call the JGS of Montreal Hotline - 24 hours a day: 514-484-0969 Please visit the JGS of Montreal website: http://jgs-montreal.org/ Merle Kastner JGS of Montreal, Programming
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ViewMate: Yiddish Translation assistance requested
#general
Godaire, Dawn <Godaired@...>
I have posted a letter in Yiddish for which I need a translation. I would love
to have the entire letter translated if possible, but I recognize that its quite long. If not translated, if someone could provide a summary I would really appreciate it. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72993 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Dawn Godaire
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ViewMate: Yiddish Translation assistance requested
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Godaire, Dawn <Godaired@...>
I have posted a letter in Yiddish for which I need a translation. I would love
to have the entire letter translated if possible, but I recognize that its quite long. If not translated, if someone could provide a summary I would really appreciate it. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72993 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Dawn Godaire
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FT DNA - volume and threshhold of matches
#dna
Steve Stein
My wife and I both tested years ago with Family Tree DNA. To date, I have
more than 3500 people listed as matches, growing at about 30 per week. My wife has more than 21,500. Hers is growing at about 200 per week. Yet of those 21,000+ matches, fewer than 140 have a total shared cM of >100 and longest block > 20 cM (Lara Diamond's threshold for endogamous matches worth seeking paper trail), and of those, only 1 has a total match > 150 cM with a longest string greater than 30 (her higher threshold). Yet every time I get a notice >from them of new matches, I feel obligated to go check, only to find that they report matches at such a low level that I am always disappointed. I have assiduously pursued potential matches at the high end; I am only now working on my first potential match that has a hope of a paper trail. Is there any way to either let FT DNA know that I am not interested in lower level matches, or to have the match display default to a filter? Steve Stein Highland Park, NJ
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DNA Research #DNA FT DNA - volume and threshhold of matches
#dna
Steve Stein
My wife and I both tested years ago with Family Tree DNA. To date, I have
more than 3500 people listed as matches, growing at about 30 per week. My wife has more than 21,500. Hers is growing at about 200 per week. Yet of those 21,000+ matches, fewer than 140 have a total shared cM of >100 and longest block > 20 cM (Lara Diamond's threshold for endogamous matches worth seeking paper trail), and of those, only 1 has a total match > 150 cM with a longest string greater than 30 (her higher threshold). Yet every time I get a notice >from them of new matches, I feel obligated to go check, only to find that they report matches at such a low level that I am always disappointed. I have assiduously pursued potential matches at the high end; I am only now working on my first potential match that has a hope of a paper trail. Is there any way to either let FT DNA know that I am not interested in lower level matches, or to have the match display default to a filter? Steve Stein Highland Park, NJ
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Match Question on Ancestry
#dna
David Goldman
Greetings everyone. Can anyone explain to me how there could be shared
matches with people on two unrelated sides of my family? The match and I are on one clear side of my family, and yet the shared matches include people on another side of my family, without any known connection between them at all in the last several generations. David Goldman NYC
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DNA Research #DNA Match Question on Ancestry
#dna
David Goldman
Greetings everyone. Can anyone explain to me how there could be shared
matches with people on two unrelated sides of my family? The match and I are on one clear side of my family, and yet the shared matches include people on another side of my family, without any known connection between them at all in the last several generations. David Goldman NYC
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Renovating the Kolomyya/Kolomea Kehilalink page
#galicia
Sheryl Stahl
Hi all,
Many years ago Alan Weiser created the Kehilalinks page for the Kolomea Administrative District at https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kolomea/kolomad.htm Alan maintained the site for over a decade including a ton of information about the area. Since I am working on my own family history in the area, I volunteered to update the page. If any of you have pictures or stories that you would like to include, please let me know! Sheryl Stahl Suwalki (RAKOVSKI, OKRAGLINSKI), Wizajni (RAKOVSKI), Kalvarja (FRIEDMAN, SUWALSKI), Odessa (STESSEL), Pervomaysk (STESSEL), Grzymalow (LANDAU), Kolomyya (STAHL, SCHMERTZLER, KRAIMER), Chernivtsi (STAHL)
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Renovating the Kolomyya/Kolomea Kehilalink page
#galicia
Sheryl Stahl
Hi all,
Many years ago Alan Weiser created the Kehilalinks page for the Kolomea Administrative District at https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kolomea/kolomad.htm Alan maintained the site for over a decade including a ton of information about the area. Since I am working on my own family history in the area, I volunteered to update the page. If any of you have pictures or stories that you would like to include, please let me know! Sheryl Stahl Suwalki (RAKOVSKI, OKRAGLINSKI), Wizajni (RAKOVSKI), Kalvarja (FRIEDMAN, SUWALSKI), Odessa (STESSEL), Pervomaysk (STESSEL), Grzymalow (LANDAU), Kolomyya (STAHL, SCHMERTZLER, KRAIMER), Chernivtsi (STAHL)
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Re: Herszek (Tzvi) Wigdor CHAMITA
#general
Herbert Lazerow
<Has anyone ever heard of the name Wigdor?>
Pronounced Vigdor, it is a given name that is a variation on Avigdor, which in turn is derived >from the biblical expression Avi Gedor, father of Gedor, which is found in 1 Chronicles 4:4. & 4:18. For reasons that are not at all clear, this was a nickname for Moses. The above courtesy Alexander Beider's A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names (Avotaynu 2001). Bert Herbert Lazerow San Diego CA U.S.A.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Herszek (Tzvi) Wigdor CHAMITA
#general
Herbert Lazerow
<Has anyone ever heard of the name Wigdor?>
Pronounced Vigdor, it is a given name that is a variation on Avigdor, which in turn is derived >from the biblical expression Avi Gedor, father of Gedor, which is found in 1 Chronicles 4:4. & 4:18. For reasons that are not at all clear, this was a nickname for Moses. The above courtesy Alexander Beider's A Dictionary of Ashkenazic Given Names (Avotaynu 2001). Bert Herbert Lazerow San Diego CA U.S.A.
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DELEVANTE Family in Morocco, Algeria and England
#general
Charles Fuller <charles.fuller@...>
Hello,
I am researching the DELEVANTE surname in England and there is one particular individual whom I would like to trace backwards. Background information: The DELEVANTE surname is extremely rare in England - there are only 166 births, marriages and deaths recorded in England and Wales between 1837 and 1900 even when including the 16 different ways the surname is spelled. A very small number of individuals/families appear to have migrated to the London area in the very late 1700s or early 1800s. All of these immigrants seem to have come >from what is now Algeria or Morocco. Most of the families adopted the Christian faith. Help request: I would like to trace Prosper DELEVANTE or DE LEVANTE: - He married in Norfolk, England on the 14th. March 1819 (17 Adar 5579) at a Church of England church. - The 1851 census return states that he was born in Algiers. - There is a Church of England baptism record for him which states that he was born on the 16th. July 1786 (20 Tamuz 5546) and that he was a son of Joseph and Dinah. Joseph is described as a Rabbi, of Mogador, Morocco. - Unfortunately the English immigration records for the early 1800s have been destroyed so there's no help there. Can anyone suggest what the original names might have been, and if there is a way to identify his parents? (Whilst I can cope with Latin and several modern European languages, I have absolutely no knowledge of Hebrew and similar languages. Since Delevante means "of the Levant", I suspect all of the names have been completely Anglicised.) Thank you, Charles Fuller. PS: If anyone else is researching this surname, I am happy to pass on all of the information I have found so far.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen DELEVANTE Family in Morocco, Algeria and England
#general
Charles Fuller <charles.fuller@...>
Hello,
I am researching the DELEVANTE surname in England and there is one particular individual whom I would like to trace backwards. Background information: The DELEVANTE surname is extremely rare in England - there are only 166 births, marriages and deaths recorded in England and Wales between 1837 and 1900 even when including the 16 different ways the surname is spelled. A very small number of individuals/families appear to have migrated to the London area in the very late 1700s or early 1800s. All of these immigrants seem to have come >from what is now Algeria or Morocco. Most of the families adopted the Christian faith. Help request: I would like to trace Prosper DELEVANTE or DE LEVANTE: - He married in Norfolk, England on the 14th. March 1819 (17 Adar 5579) at a Church of England church. - The 1851 census return states that he was born in Algiers. - There is a Church of England baptism record for him which states that he was born on the 16th. July 1786 (20 Tamuz 5546) and that he was a son of Joseph and Dinah. Joseph is described as a Rabbi, of Mogador, Morocco. - Unfortunately the English immigration records for the early 1800s have been destroyed so there's no help there. Can anyone suggest what the original names might have been, and if there is a way to identify his parents? (Whilst I can cope with Latin and several modern European languages, I have absolutely no knowledge of Hebrew and similar languages. Since Delevante means "of the Levant", I suspect all of the names have been completely Anglicised.) Thank you, Charles Fuller. PS: If anyone else is researching this surname, I am happy to pass on all of the information I have found so far.
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Re: Meaning of name Menachem Mendel
#general
Bernard Weill
Menachem Mendel is a very common conjunction of two names, in fact, used to
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name many Lubavitcher males. It is no different than Tzvi Hersh Aryeh Leib Zev Volf Yitzchok Eizek And many more that are not coming to mind right now. The question that should be asked is what is the meaning of Mendel. Bernard Weill
On 28 Apr 2019 21:56:21 -0700, Dahn Cukier photograve99@... wrote:
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Meaning of name Menachem Mendel
#general
Bernard Weill
Menachem Mendel is a very common conjunction of two names, in fact, used to
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name many Lubavitcher males. It is no different than Tzvi Hersh Aryeh Leib Zev Volf Yitzchok Eizek And many more that are not coming to mind right now. The question that should be asked is what is the meaning of Mendel. Bernard Weill
On 28 Apr 2019 21:56:21 -0700, Dahn Cukier photograve99@... wrote:
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Viewmate - Translation from Russian to English
#general
Dear Genners,
I have posted two vital records in Russian for which I would appreciate a translation to English. They are records >from Kaluszyn in Poland. Please provide all important genealogical details such as family names, places, dates etc. They are on Viewmate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73040 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73039 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you so much in advance. Ingrid Rockberger Co- Chair, Sharon Branch Israel Genealogy Research Association. Researching: ROCHVERGER:Lowicz and Lodz,Poland, KONIARSKI:Zloczew, Poland, LAJZEROWICZ:Lutotow, Poland, MONKA: Sokolow Podlaski, Poland, SCZNAJDER, Kozow Lacki, Poland.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Viewmate - Translation from Russian to English
#general
Dear Genners,
I have posted two vital records in Russian for which I would appreciate a translation to English. They are records >from Kaluszyn in Poland. Please provide all important genealogical details such as family names, places, dates etc. They are on Viewmate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73040 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73039 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you so much in advance. Ingrid Rockberger Co- Chair, Sharon Branch Israel Genealogy Research Association. Researching: ROCHVERGER:Lowicz and Lodz,Poland, KONIARSKI:Zloczew, Poland, LAJZEROWICZ:Lutotow, Poland, MONKA: Sokolow Podlaski, Poland, SCZNAJDER, Kozow Lacki, Poland.
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