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Lithuanian birth records - early 1900s
#general
JanG <jangro@...>
I have found a reference to what may be my uncles' birth records in
Lithuania. Where would I write to obtain copies,and does anyone know the cost. Jan Groshan.....Sherman Oaks, Ca
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Viewmate Translation Requests
#poland
Avi Solomon <aviesolomon@...>
I've posted two vital records, marriage certificates, in Russian for
which I need translations, please. I'd greatly appreciate an exact and full translation, in English. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses ... 1) http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM38792 2) http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM38793 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Avi Solomon (Researching Szymczak, Kirsztejn, Charach, Charon, Pekarsky) email: aviesolomon@gmail.com
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Lithuanian birth records - early 1900s
#general
JanG <jangro@...>
I have found a reference to what may be my uncles' birth records in
Lithuania. Where would I write to obtain copies,and does anyone know the cost. Jan Groshan.....Sherman Oaks, Ca
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JRI Poland #Poland Viewmate Translation Requests
#poland
Avi Solomon <aviesolomon@...>
I've posted two vital records, marriage certificates, in Russian for
which I need translations, please. I'd greatly appreciate an exact and full translation, in English. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses ... 1) http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM38792 2) http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM38793 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Avi Solomon (Researching Szymczak, Kirsztejn, Charach, Charon, Pekarsky) email: aviesolomon@gmail.com
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Jewish woman descended from a Polish queen?
#poland
RuthNW <ruthnw@...>
I just came across the record of a married woman whose given name
was originally Jadwiga. Was amazed to discover that Jadwiga was a 14th century Polish monarch! Her name was Ita/Jadwiga FRUMER (with an umlaut over the "U"). (I'm assuming that FRUMER is a variant of FRYMER, her husband's surname, even though it sounds Germanic.) Ita's parents were Moszek Zysel (unmistakably Jewish!) and Estera DOBROCZYCKICH/POZANSKA. Estera is always (or at least usually) considered Jewish - but what about those two last names - would they be considered "Jewish?" I'm wondering whether Ita's mother was of mixed parentage. Otherwise why would a (supposedly Jewish woman be named after a Polish (Christian) queen? Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Naidia Woolf San Francisco, California ruthnw@comcast.net Researching (partial list): DROZDIASZ: Karczew, Otwock, Poland SZAFIRSTAJN/SAFIRSTEIN: Karczew, Otwock, Poland KRAWIECKI, Lodz,, Poland KUJAWSKI: Lodz, Kalisz, Poland MICHALASZ, ?, Poland ISAACS: Mlawa, Poland (original Polish surname unknown)
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JRI Poland #Poland Jewish woman descended from a Polish queen?
#poland
RuthNW <ruthnw@...>
I just came across the record of a married woman whose given name
was originally Jadwiga. Was amazed to discover that Jadwiga was a 14th century Polish monarch! Her name was Ita/Jadwiga FRUMER (with an umlaut over the "U"). (I'm assuming that FRUMER is a variant of FRYMER, her husband's surname, even though it sounds Germanic.) Ita's parents were Moszek Zysel (unmistakably Jewish!) and Estera DOBROCZYCKICH/POZANSKA. Estera is always (or at least usually) considered Jewish - but what about those two last names - would they be considered "Jewish?" I'm wondering whether Ita's mother was of mixed parentage. Otherwise why would a (supposedly Jewish woman be named after a Polish (Christian) queen? Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Naidia Woolf San Francisco, California ruthnw@comcast.net Researching (partial list): DROZDIASZ: Karczew, Otwock, Poland SZAFIRSTAJN/SAFIRSTEIN: Karczew, Otwock, Poland KRAWIECKI, Lodz,, Poland KUJAWSKI: Lodz, Kalisz, Poland MICHALASZ, ?, Poland ISAACS: Mlawa, Poland (original Polish surname unknown)
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JewishGen Offers New Class April 6 - April 27
#austria-czech
Nancy Holden
Start Up: Research it Right the First Time
April 6 - April 27 This Course offers personal guidance on researching and organizing your family search. The focus is your immigrant ancestors and their immediate families in the United States. We cover census, vital records, passenger manifests and genealogical searching on the internet. If you want to find the names of your immigrant's parents, their former shtetl, passenger records or extended family, then consider this 3 week course. We feature an online FORUM where you are guided by the instructor in a one-on-one discussion of your work as you research your family roots. Our classes have no scheduled times as our students are international; enabling everyone to read/view/post at leisure. Requirements: Students must be comfortable browsing the Internet and downloading files and have 8-10 hours per week to read the lessons, search online and interact with the FORUM. Tuition for this U.S. Genealogy Course is $100 (there is no waiver for this course). Registration is open. https://www.jewishgen.org/education Click on the "Enroll Here" link Class size limited For questions, please email us at JewishGen-Education@lyris.jewishgen.org Nancy Holden nholden@interserv.com
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Austria-Czech SIG #Austria-Czech JewishGen Offers New Class April 6 - April 27
#austria-czech
Nancy Holden
Start Up: Research it Right the First Time
April 6 - April 27 This Course offers personal guidance on researching and organizing your family search. The focus is your immigrant ancestors and their immediate families in the United States. We cover census, vital records, passenger manifests and genealogical searching on the internet. If you want to find the names of your immigrant's parents, their former shtetl, passenger records or extended family, then consider this 3 week course. We feature an online FORUM where you are guided by the instructor in a one-on-one discussion of your work as you research your family roots. Our classes have no scheduled times as our students are international; enabling everyone to read/view/post at leisure. Requirements: Students must be comfortable browsing the Internet and downloading files and have 8-10 hours per week to read the lessons, search online and interact with the FORUM. Tuition for this U.S. Genealogy Course is $100 (there is no waiver for this course). Registration is open. https://www.jewishgen.org/education Click on the "Enroll Here" link Class size limited For questions, please email us at JewishGen-Education@lyris.jewishgen.org Nancy Holden nholden@interserv.com
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Bund juedischer Frontsoldaten Oesterreichs (BJF) Online
#austria-czech
bibliophile13@...
The above "book" seems to be a journal with a number of years of
issues, most of which are available online at https://archive.org/details/juedischefront . I hope this helps! Robert Goldberg
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Seeking marriange information
#austria-czech
marc.mangel@...
Dear Genealogical Investigators
I am trying to learn more about my grandparents and great-grandparents. All that I know is that they were married on 28 Mar 1909 at the Temple on Seitenstettengasse. My grandmother's maiden name was Antonie Behrer-Bruerk, and her mother's name was Marie. My grandfather's name was Marcus Pflugeisen and his mother's name was also Marie. If I could learn anything about the marriages of either Marie, that would be fantastic help. Many thanks in advance Marc Mangel --
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Austria-Czech SIG #Austria-Czech Bund juedischer Frontsoldaten Oesterreichs (BJF) Online
#austria-czech
bibliophile13@...
The above "book" seems to be a journal with a number of years of
issues, most of which are available online at https://archive.org/details/juedischefront . I hope this helps! Robert Goldberg
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Austria-Czech SIG #Austria-Czech Seeking marriange information
#austria-czech
marc.mangel@...
Dear Genealogical Investigators
I am trying to learn more about my grandparents and great-grandparents. All that I know is that they were married on 28 Mar 1909 at the Temple on Seitenstettengasse. My grandmother's maiden name was Antonie Behrer-Bruerk, and her mother's name was Marie. My grandfather's name was Marcus Pflugeisen and his mother's name was also Marie. If I could learn anything about the marriages of either Marie, that would be fantastic help. Many thanks in advance Marc Mangel --
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Re: Jewish Life in Botosani
#romania
luc.radu@...
To paraphrase Bibi N, better no book than a wrong book. I have not read
"Departures..." but just >from the publisher description below, I highly doubt one will get a good idea about Jewish life in 19th century Moldavia/Romania. I am aware of only one book by G. Sternberg, a monograph of Stefanesti, which could be of interest but it is mostly relevant to post 1900. I believe the best source of information are the entries in the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, published in 2008. "In early l9th Century Europe, Paris is the center of culture and thought, and Vienna the heart of music, dance and flirtation. Romania, part of the Ottoman Empire, is a mysterious land of Draculas, vampires, superstitions and curses. It struggles with Russia, is governed by corrupt Greeks, and sustained by Jewish merchants, peasants and enslaved Gypsies. It is the home of Iacob ABELESCU, the youngest brother of a Jewish family engaged in curing and purveying pelts. ABELESCU temporarily leaves Romania to visit a cousin, one of Vienna's salon Jews. He travels on to Paris, where he meets Jeannette Ballin, the well-educated daughter of a successful furrier. In love with a young Sephardic Jew, Jeannette is compelled by her father to accept Iacob Abelescu as her husband. More suited to wine, women and coffee-houses, he first brings her to Vienna, then home to Romania. "Departures" is a portrait of early l9th century Jews in Romania, France and Vienna, and the saga of a family divided by distance, of friends united by love. It is also a story of the nature of love, and the first of a series of related novels spanning two centuries." Luc Radu Great Neck, NY On 3/27/15, 1:04 PM, "Todd A. Halpern thalpern1@comcast.net" <rom-sig@lyris.jewishgen.org> wrote: A novel entitled "Departures: Beyond Recognition," by Miriam Striezheff: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:47:31 -0400 =-=----------------------------- X-Message-Number: 1
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Bibliography of Romanian Towns
#romania
Merle Kastner <merlek@...>
Dear Barbara,
What a terrific idea! I will be happy to contribute a couple of book reviews to your new bibliography. Happy Pesach. Merle Kastner JGS of Montreal VP & Programming merlek@bell.net ------------------------ Reading requests recently about books that would describe life in our ancestor's Romania, I got the idea of putting together a list of recommended reading and/or movies. Perhaps if we had such we could post it on the webpage. If people want to send me suggestions, possibly with a brief sentence or two about the book, I'd start compiling a list. Barbara Hershey barbara.hershey@comcast.net Portland, OR, US Research Coordinator Rom-SIG ~~~~~~~~
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Romania SIG #Romania Re: Jewish Life in Botosani
#romania
luc.radu@...
To paraphrase Bibi N, better no book than a wrong book. I have not read
"Departures..." but just >from the publisher description below, I highly doubt one will get a good idea about Jewish life in 19th century Moldavia/Romania. I am aware of only one book by G. Sternberg, a monograph of Stefanesti, which could be of interest but it is mostly relevant to post 1900. I believe the best source of information are the entries in the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, published in 2008. "In early l9th Century Europe, Paris is the center of culture and thought, and Vienna the heart of music, dance and flirtation. Romania, part of the Ottoman Empire, is a mysterious land of Draculas, vampires, superstitions and curses. It struggles with Russia, is governed by corrupt Greeks, and sustained by Jewish merchants, peasants and enslaved Gypsies. It is the home of Iacob ABELESCU, the youngest brother of a Jewish family engaged in curing and purveying pelts. ABELESCU temporarily leaves Romania to visit a cousin, one of Vienna's salon Jews. He travels on to Paris, where he meets Jeannette Ballin, the well-educated daughter of a successful furrier. In love with a young Sephardic Jew, Jeannette is compelled by her father to accept Iacob Abelescu as her husband. More suited to wine, women and coffee-houses, he first brings her to Vienna, then home to Romania. "Departures" is a portrait of early l9th century Jews in Romania, France and Vienna, and the saga of a family divided by distance, of friends united by love. It is also a story of the nature of love, and the first of a series of related novels spanning two centuries." Luc Radu Great Neck, NY On 3/27/15, 1:04 PM, "Todd A. Halpern thalpern1@comcast.net" <rom-sig@lyris.jewishgen.org> wrote: A novel entitled "Departures: Beyond Recognition," by Miriam Striezheff: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:47:31 -0400 =-=----------------------------- X-Message-Number: 1
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Romania SIG #Romania Bibliography of Romanian Towns
#romania
Merle Kastner <merlek@...>
Dear Barbara,
What a terrific idea! I will be happy to contribute a couple of book reviews to your new bibliography. Happy Pesach. Merle Kastner JGS of Montreal VP & Programming merlek@bell.net ------------------------ Reading requests recently about books that would describe life in our ancestor's Romania, I got the idea of putting together a list of recommended reading and/or movies. Perhaps if we had such we could post it on the webpage. If people want to send me suggestions, possibly with a brief sentence or two about the book, I'd start compiling a list. Barbara Hershey barbara.hershey@comcast.net Portland, OR, US Research Coordinator Rom-SIG ~~~~~~~~
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JewishGen Offers New Class April 6 - April 27
#romania
Nancy Holden
Start Up: Research it Right the First Time
April 6 - April 27 This Course offers personal guidance on researching and organizing your family search. The focus is your immigrant ancestors and their immediate families in the United States. We cover census, vital records, passenger manifests and genealogical searching on the internet. If you want to find the names of your immigrant's parents, their former shtetl, passenger records or extended family, then consider this 3 week course. We feature an online FORUM where you are guided by the instructor in a one-on-one discussion of your work as you research your family roots. Our classes have no scheduled times as our students are international; enabling everyone to read/view/post at leisure. Requirements: Students must be comfortable browsing the Internet and downloading files and have 8-10 hours per week to read the lessons, search online and interact with the FORUM. Tuition for this U.S. Genealogy Course is $100 (there is no waiver for this course). Registration is open. https://www.jewishgen.org/education Click on the "Enroll Here" link Class size limited For questions, please email us at JewishGen-Education@lyris.jewishgen.org Nancy Holden nholden@interserv.com
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Romania SIG #Romania JewishGen Offers New Class April 6 - April 27
#romania
Nancy Holden
Start Up: Research it Right the First Time
April 6 - April 27 This Course offers personal guidance on researching and organizing your family search. The focus is your immigrant ancestors and their immediate families in the United States. We cover census, vital records, passenger manifests and genealogical searching on the internet. If you want to find the names of your immigrant's parents, their former shtetl, passenger records or extended family, then consider this 3 week course. We feature an online FORUM where you are guided by the instructor in a one-on-one discussion of your work as you research your family roots. Our classes have no scheduled times as our students are international; enabling everyone to read/view/post at leisure. Requirements: Students must be comfortable browsing the Internet and downloading files and have 8-10 hours per week to read the lessons, search online and interact with the FORUM. Tuition for this U.S. Genealogy Course is $100 (there is no waiver for this course). Registration is open. https://www.jewishgen.org/education Click on the "Enroll Here" link Class size limited For questions, please email us at JewishGen-Education@lyris.jewishgen.org Nancy Holden nholden@interserv.com
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JewishGen Offers New Class April 6 - April 27
#france
bounce-2938537-772957@...
Start Up: Research it Right the First Time
April 6 - April 27 This Course offers personal guidance on researching and organizing your family search. The focus is your immigrant ancestors and their immediate families in the United States. We cover census, vital records, passenger manifests and genealogical searching on the internet. If you want to find the names of your immigrant's parents, their former shtetl, passenger records or extended family, then consider this 3 week course. We feature an online FORUM where you are guided by the instructor in a one-on-one discussion of your work as you research your family roots. Our classes have no scheduled times as our students are international; enabling everyone to read/view/post at leisure. Requirements: Students must be comfortable browsing the Internet and downloading files and have 8-10 hours per week to read the lessons, search online and interact with the FORUM. Tuition for this U.S. Genealogy Course is $100 (there is no waiver for this course). Registration is open. https://www.jewishgen.org/education Click on the "Enroll Here" link Class size limited For questions, please email us at JewishGen-Education@lyris.jewishgen.org Nancy Holden nholden@interserv.com
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French SIG #France JewishGen Offers New Class April 6 - April 27
#france
bounce-2938537-772957@...
Start Up: Research it Right the First Time
April 6 - April 27 This Course offers personal guidance on researching and organizing your family search. The focus is your immigrant ancestors and their immediate families in the United States. We cover census, vital records, passenger manifests and genealogical searching on the internet. If you want to find the names of your immigrant's parents, their former shtetl, passenger records or extended family, then consider this 3 week course. We feature an online FORUM where you are guided by the instructor in a one-on-one discussion of your work as you research your family roots. Our classes have no scheduled times as our students are international; enabling everyone to read/view/post at leisure. Requirements: Students must be comfortable browsing the Internet and downloading files and have 8-10 hours per week to read the lessons, search online and interact with the FORUM. Tuition for this U.S. Genealogy Course is $100 (there is no waiver for this course). Registration is open. https://www.jewishgen.org/education Click on the "Enroll Here" link Class size limited For questions, please email us at JewishGen-Education@lyris.jewishgen.org Nancy Holden nholden@interserv.com
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