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Two Portraits - Viewmate ID
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Flo Elman
Dear Fellow Researchers,
I have posted two portraits on the Viewmate site http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html - Numbers VM4678 & VM4679 Although I can make out terrific resemblances to my maternal grandfather's family, I cannot place these women. I would guess that the dark-complexioned woman seems to have been a daughter or sister (given name - Gitl?? Tsivya?? ) of Pesach GOTLIBOVICH >from Cherkassy, Ukraine. Do you recognize the ribbon she has on her dress? The slender fair-haired woman may have been a relative to KOROSTYSHEVSKY or GOTLIBOVICH. She is 16 years old in the photo which was taken in 1919. Does she look like anyone you recognize? Can you identify either of them? If you can help, please contact me privately at haflo@shaw.ca Many thanks, Florence Elman haflo@shaw.ca
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Two Portraits - Viewmate ID
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Flo Elman
Dear Fellow Researchers,
I have posted two portraits on the Viewmate site http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html - Numbers VM4678 & VM4679 Although I can make out terrific resemblances to my maternal grandfather's family, I cannot place these women. I would guess that the dark-complexioned woman seems to have been a daughter or sister (given name - Gitl?? Tsivya?? ) of Pesach GOTLIBOVICH >from Cherkassy, Ukraine. Do you recognize the ribbon she has on her dress? The slender fair-haired woman may have been a relative to KOROSTYSHEVSKY or GOTLIBOVICH. She is 16 years old in the photo which was taken in 1919. Does she look like anyone you recognize? Can you identify either of them? If you can help, please contact me privately at haflo@shaw.ca Many thanks, Florence Elman haflo@shaw.ca
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Yom Kippur in Prague
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PATRICIA FUTORAN <patfutoran@...>
We will be in Prague for Yom Kippur. Does anyone have
inforamtion regarding the synagogues and their services Please reply privately. Thank you Pat Futoran
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Yom Kippur in Prague
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PATRICIA FUTORAN <patfutoran@...>
We will be in Prague for Yom Kippur. Does anyone have
inforamtion regarding the synagogues and their services Please reply privately. Thank you Pat Futoran
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Re: WWI Alien Registration Cards
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joe <joe@...>
Hello Bert and Others,
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Some WWI Alien Affidavits have survived for Arizona, Kansas and St. Paul, MN. The Arizona records have digital copies online at NARA. These were for German (and some Austrian) aliens ("citizens >from countries at war with the United States during the First World War"). You can find links to these at... Online World War I Indexes & Records http://www.militaryindexes.com/worldwarone/ Look about the 5th listing down. There may be others as well. Good luck with your searches. Regards, Joe Beine Denver, CO Bert Lazerow wrote:
Alien registration did not begin in 1940. There was Alien
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: WWI Alien Registration Cards
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joe <joe@...>
Hello Bert and Others,
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
Some WWI Alien Affidavits have survived for Arizona, Kansas and St. Paul, MN. The Arizona records have digital copies online at NARA. These were for German (and some Austrian) aliens ("citizens >from countries at war with the United States during the First World War"). You can find links to these at... Online World War I Indexes & Records http://www.militaryindexes.com/worldwarone/ Look about the 5th listing down. There may be others as well. Good luck with your searches. Regards, Joe Beine Denver, CO Bert Lazerow wrote:
Alien registration did not begin in 1940. There was Alien
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Searching PRYMESKA/PRYMESKI
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Itta'i Malbin <malbin@...>
My father's cousin >from Bialystok, Poland immigrated after
WWII to Sweden. After the war, survivors sent greetings to their relatives, let them know they survived. My aunt was looking for: Alta PRYMESKA >from America and Kopte PRYMESKI >from Dnepropetowsk USSR. We don't know who where these relatives and I hope to find a point where to start. Itta'i MALBIN Searching: BIALY, EJDERMAN, KOPELMAN, PRYMESKA -> Bialystok and Nowogrodek Gubernia. PRYMESKA/PRYMESKI -> Dnepropetowsk, USA KATZ, NEUHAUS -> Rotenburg a.d Fulda, Baumbach, Germany FURST, KANTER -> Neustadt, Kassel, Germany
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Re: WWI Alien Registration Cards
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Mike Posnick
The State of Minnesota conducted an alien registration during World War I
from 1917 to 1919. Microfilmed copies of the completed multi-page forms,which generally contain a lot of genealogically useful information, are available at the Minnesota Historical Society and >from the society through inter-library loan. For further information, see the Minnesota Historical Society's website at <www.mnhistory.org>. Mike Posnick Minneapolis, Minnesota e-mail: mpoz@earthlink.net In his JewishGen message of 9/5/2004, Bert Lazerow <lazer@sandiego.edu> wrote: Alien registration did not begin in 1940. There was Alien
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching PRYMESKA/PRYMESKI
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Itta'i Malbin <malbin@...>
My father's cousin >from Bialystok, Poland immigrated after
WWII to Sweden. After the war, survivors sent greetings to their relatives, let them know they survived. My aunt was looking for: Alta PRYMESKA >from America and Kopte PRYMESKI >from Dnepropetowsk USSR. We don't know who where these relatives and I hope to find a point where to start. Itta'i MALBIN Searching: BIALY, EJDERMAN, KOPELMAN, PRYMESKA -> Bialystok and Nowogrodek Gubernia. PRYMESKA/PRYMESKI -> Dnepropetowsk, USA KATZ, NEUHAUS -> Rotenburg a.d Fulda, Baumbach, Germany FURST, KANTER -> Neustadt, Kassel, Germany
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: WWI Alien Registration Cards
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Mike Posnick
The State of Minnesota conducted an alien registration during World War I
from 1917 to 1919. Microfilmed copies of the completed multi-page forms,which generally contain a lot of genealogically useful information, are available at the Minnesota Historical Society and >from the society through inter-library loan. For further information, see the Minnesota Historical Society's website at <www.mnhistory.org>. Mike Posnick Minneapolis, Minnesota e-mail: mpoz@earthlink.net In his JewishGen message of 9/5/2004, Bert Lazerow <lazer@sandiego.edu> wrote: Alien registration did not begin in 1940. There was Alien
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Edmonton Federation Cemetery, VISIT
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russell
Hello Fellow Genners,
I have had much help >from the generous people on this list and would like to offer some help in return. I am visiting London next week and will be attending the Grounds at Edmonton on Sunday 12th (I may even get to the Adath Yisroel Cemetery, Enfield). If I can help anyone who needs a photograph of a headstone please contact me off list. Russell Vaughan Malaga Spain Looking for ARNOWITZ/ARONOWITZ (Russia, Holland, UK) BERNSTEIN (Dvinsk Latvia, South Africa) COHEN-LASK (England, South Africa, Israel, USA) DONOFSKY (Warsaw, Poland) FORGACZ, LASK, LEVINOVIS/LEVANOVITCH/LEVAN/and spellings (Plope, Poland, Brazil) SHORN (England), VANOVITCH/WANIEWICZ (Poland, France, Argentina), ZIMMER, ZESSMAN, ZEITMANN (Lithuania), ZEITMAN (Warsaw, Poland), lived at Grzybowska
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Edmonton Federation Cemetery, VISIT
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russell
Hello Fellow Genners,
I have had much help >from the generous people on this list and would like to offer some help in return. I am visiting London next week and will be attending the Grounds at Edmonton on Sunday 12th (I may even get to the Adath Yisroel Cemetery, Enfield). If I can help anyone who needs a photograph of a headstone please contact me off list. Russell Vaughan Malaga Spain Looking for ARNOWITZ/ARONOWITZ (Russia, Holland, UK) BERNSTEIN (Dvinsk Latvia, South Africa) COHEN-LASK (England, South Africa, Israel, USA) DONOFSKY (Warsaw, Poland) FORGACZ, LASK, LEVINOVIS/LEVANOVITCH/LEVAN/and spellings (Plope, Poland, Brazil) SHORN (England), VANOVITCH/WANIEWICZ (Poland, France, Argentina), ZIMMER, ZESSMAN, ZEITMANN (Lithuania), ZEITMAN (Warsaw, Poland), lived at Grzybowska
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Re: Family Reunion
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Natalie Spencer Carroll
Descendants and kin of Aron Czarnoczapka and his wife Ester Lea
nee Horowicz are having their second Family Reunion early this coming October. Interested parties are invited to contact me privately. Gerald I. Simon gilmore3@ix.netcom.com
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen RE: Family Reunion
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Natalie Spencer Carroll
Descendants and kin of Aron Czarnoczapka and his wife Ester Lea
nee Horowicz are having their second Family Reunion early this coming October. Interested parties are invited to contact me privately. Gerald I. Simon gilmore3@ix.netcom.com
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Synagogues of Slovakia
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Rona Michelson <rona@...>
My son-in-law sent me a PowerPoint presentation on synagogues
of Slovakia that was done recently by a young Israeli. If you are interested in receiving it, please email me and I will send it. Rona Michelson Modi'in, Israel
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Synagogues of Slovakia
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Rona Michelson <rona@...>
My son-in-law sent me a PowerPoint presentation on synagogues
of Slovakia that was done recently by a young Israeli. If you are interested in receiving it, please email me and I will send it. Rona Michelson Modi'in, Israel
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GARTSTEIN from Novofastov, Ukraine
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Elena Green <elena.v.green@...>
Shalom,
I am fairly new to JewishGen, but I thought I shall seek the advice from JewishGenners pertaining to my genealogical research since I seem to have been getting nowhere. I am searching for the names of 8 or 9 siblings of my great-great uncle Meyer-Haim Iosifovich GARTSTEIN, b. 1889 in Novofastov, Pogrebishchensky rayon/district, Vinnitzkaya gubernya/oblast/region, Ukraine/Russian Empire, to Iosif GARTSTEIN (b. 1874, Novofastov) and to >>> Chaya, with both parents perished in 1919 pogroms. Meyer-Haim had 8 or 9 other brothers and sisters, who are known to have immigrated to the USA fleeing the pogroms. According to my grandmother, Riva Haimovna GARTSTEIN (b.1917, Novofastov), eldest daughter of Meyer-Haim GARTSTEIN and Yenta Ruvinovna LURIE (b. 1891, Novofastov), all the siblings immigrated to Philadelphia and Chicago. My grandmother could only recall the names of her aunt Chanaleya and uncle Shaya of the 8-9 siblings. I have written to the Jewish Community of Vinnitsa, and to the State Archives of Ukraine in Vinnitsa and Kiev, but haven't heard back >from them as yet. I also tried searching for the names of g.uncles/aunts in Ellis Island database and on Ancestry.com, but came up only with one person listed as Welwel GARTSTEIN of "Novavastow" (b.1888?), who was heading to Chicago to join his uncle, J. GOLDBERG. The search gave a few other GARTSTEIN immigrated >from the towns other than Novofastov, e.g. Bar, Berdichev. I am not sure whether they are related to my family or not since they're from different shtetls. In addition to the names of my great-great uncles and aunts, I've been seeking any information on the shtetl of Novofastov, with almost no results. I know that my great-great uncle Meyer-Haim like most people in his shtetl worked on the Novofastov mill owned by a Polish landlady. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions >from the Genners on how to go about the search. Maybe there are things that are obvious for you, experienced genealogists, which I cannot see. Any advice at all is welcomed. Please reply privately to gartstein@shaw.ca. Thank you. Elena Green Victoria, BC ======= Searching: GARTSTEIN/GARTSHTEIN (Novofastov/Novavastow) LURIE/LURIA (Lithuania, Novofastov/Novavastow) GOLDBERG (Chicago)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen GARTSTEIN from Novofastov, Ukraine
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Elena Green <elena.v.green@...>
Shalom,
I am fairly new to JewishGen, but I thought I shall seek the advice from JewishGenners pertaining to my genealogical research since I seem to have been getting nowhere. I am searching for the names of 8 or 9 siblings of my great-great uncle Meyer-Haim Iosifovich GARTSTEIN, b. 1889 in Novofastov, Pogrebishchensky rayon/district, Vinnitzkaya gubernya/oblast/region, Ukraine/Russian Empire, to Iosif GARTSTEIN (b. 1874, Novofastov) and to >>> Chaya, with both parents perished in 1919 pogroms. Meyer-Haim had 8 or 9 other brothers and sisters, who are known to have immigrated to the USA fleeing the pogroms. According to my grandmother, Riva Haimovna GARTSTEIN (b.1917, Novofastov), eldest daughter of Meyer-Haim GARTSTEIN and Yenta Ruvinovna LURIE (b. 1891, Novofastov), all the siblings immigrated to Philadelphia and Chicago. My grandmother could only recall the names of her aunt Chanaleya and uncle Shaya of the 8-9 siblings. I have written to the Jewish Community of Vinnitsa, and to the State Archives of Ukraine in Vinnitsa and Kiev, but haven't heard back >from them as yet. I also tried searching for the names of g.uncles/aunts in Ellis Island database and on Ancestry.com, but came up only with one person listed as Welwel GARTSTEIN of "Novavastow" (b.1888?), who was heading to Chicago to join his uncle, J. GOLDBERG. The search gave a few other GARTSTEIN immigrated >from the towns other than Novofastov, e.g. Bar, Berdichev. I am not sure whether they are related to my family or not since they're from different shtetls. In addition to the names of my great-great uncles and aunts, I've been seeking any information on the shtetl of Novofastov, with almost no results. I know that my great-great uncle Meyer-Haim like most people in his shtetl worked on the Novofastov mill owned by a Polish landlady. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions >from the Genners on how to go about the search. Maybe there are things that are obvious for you, experienced genealogists, which I cannot see. Any advice at all is welcomed. Please reply privately to gartstein@shaw.ca. Thank you. Elena Green Victoria, BC ======= Searching: GARTSTEIN/GARTSHTEIN (Novofastov/Novavastow) LURIE/LURIA (Lithuania, Novofastov/Novavastow) GOLDBERG (Chicago)
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Two portraits to ID on Viewmate
#ukraine
Flo Elman
Dear Fellow Researchers,
I have posted two portraits on the Viewmate site http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html - Numbers VM4678 & VM4679 Although I can make out terrific resemblances to my maternal grandfather's family, I cannot place these women. I would guess that the dark-complexioned woman seems to have been a daughter or sister (given name - Gitl?? Tsivya?? ) of Pesach GOTLIBOVICH >from Cherkassy, Ukraine. Do you recognize the ribbon she has on her dress? The slender fair-haired woman may have been a relative to KOROSTYSHEVSKY or GOTLIBOVICH. She is 16 years old in the photo which was taken in 1919. Does she look like anyone you recognize? Can you identify either of them? If you can help, please contact me privately at haflo@shaw.ca Many thanks, Florence Elman haflo@shaw.ca Researching: NAVRICHESKY >from Korsun-Schevchenskiy; NERENBERG & POGRANICH(NY) from Podolia; SURIS >from Odessa & Berezovka, UkraineMLOTOK, relatives of GOTLIBOVICH & KATSOVICH; COTLER, cousins to SURIS
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Two portraits to ID on Viewmate
#ukraine
Flo Elman
Dear Fellow Researchers,
I have posted two portraits on the Viewmate site http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html - Numbers VM4678 & VM4679 Although I can make out terrific resemblances to my maternal grandfather's family, I cannot place these women. I would guess that the dark-complexioned woman seems to have been a daughter or sister (given name - Gitl?? Tsivya?? ) of Pesach GOTLIBOVICH >from Cherkassy, Ukraine. Do you recognize the ribbon she has on her dress? The slender fair-haired woman may have been a relative to KOROSTYSHEVSKY or GOTLIBOVICH. She is 16 years old in the photo which was taken in 1919. Does she look like anyone you recognize? Can you identify either of them? If you can help, please contact me privately at haflo@shaw.ca Many thanks, Florence Elman haflo@shaw.ca Researching: NAVRICHESKY >from Korsun-Schevchenskiy; NERENBERG & POGRANICH(NY) from Podolia; SURIS >from Odessa & Berezovka, UkraineMLOTOK, relatives of GOTLIBOVICH & KATSOVICH; COTLER, cousins to SURIS
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