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Former President of Brazil's Family
#latinamerica
Marcia Kuusisto <DynamoPortuguese@...>
Good Day!
Could you please help me with my search on sugar cane Land Lords in Pernambuco, Brazil? Last name (usually together): Affonso de Mello The former President of Brazil, Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello, is descendent >from those Land Lords. Did Manuel Affonso de Mello, Collor de Mello's grandfather, a Land Lord in the 1800s or late 1700s go to Brazil >from Holland or Portugal? I've heard Manuel's wife was Dutch. Any luck for me? Thank you so much. Sincerely, Marcia Affonso de Mello Kuusisto, MSCE Arlington, TX MODERATOR NOTE: Welcome to the LatamSIG list Marcia. In future postings it would help if you would tell what research you have already done in an attempt to get answers to the questions you raise above.
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Latin America #LatinAmerica Former President of Brazil's Family
#latinamerica
Marcia Kuusisto <DynamoPortuguese@...>
Good Day!
Could you please help me with my search on sugar cane Land Lords in Pernambuco, Brazil? Last name (usually together): Affonso de Mello The former President of Brazil, Fernando Affonso Collor de Mello, is descendent >from those Land Lords. Did Manuel Affonso de Mello, Collor de Mello's grandfather, a Land Lord in the 1800s or late 1700s go to Brazil >from Holland or Portugal? I've heard Manuel's wife was Dutch. Any luck for me? Thank you so much. Sincerely, Marcia Affonso de Mello Kuusisto, MSCE Arlington, TX MODERATOR NOTE: Welcome to the LatamSIG list Marcia. In future postings it would help if you would tell what research you have already done in an attempt to get answers to the questions you raise above.
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IAJGS 2006 - Resource Room
#dna
Gloria Berkenstat Freund <resources@...>
The Resource Room at the 26th IAJGS International Conference on
Jewish Genealogy will provide a wide range of electronic, print, microfilm, and human resources to assist attendees with their research. Computer services and databases will include.... * access to Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest census records, the New York Times(1857-2000) and newspaper archives and Godfrey Library's collection of online databases * U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Database - (three million records normally available only at the Museum) and the Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive search tool and testimony catalog * Manhattan Brides Index (the data entered so far in the Genealogy Federation of Long Island project to index 1,400,000 marriage licenses by bride's name) * Memorial Database of Jewish Soldiers, Partisans and Workers Killed in Action during Nazism (a searchable database of Jews in the Russian army killed and missing in action during WWII) Among the 100+ books and other print materials on hand will be... * dozens of reference books on general and Jewish genealogy, Jewish and New York history, immigration, translation, cemetery research, rabbinic research, the Holocaust and a large collection of volumes on Jewish Bialystok * large scale insurance maps of New York's old Lower East Side and a variety of historical and modern maps of Europe * the Center for Jewish History Genealogy Institute Fact Sheets * individual research projects We are also delighted to offer... * a large microfilm collection of Jewish interest usually housed at the Woodside (Queens) Family History Center - including the Hamburg Emigration Lists - and 10 microfilm readers on which to view them Plus we welcome the participation in the Resource Room of... * translators to interpret documents in Russian, Polish, Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish, and other languages * representatives of Ancestry.com in the Resource Room to assist in using that site and representatives of the Shoah Foundation, available for consultation Please check the Resource Room page on the Conference website <http://www.jgsny2006.org/resource_room.cfm>; for details, additional items, and updates. If you have material to share, please contact us at <resources@jgsny2006.org>. Gloria Berkenstat Freund 26th Annual IAJGS Conference Program Committee Chair
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DNA Research #DNA IAJGS 2006 - Resource Room
#dna
Gloria Berkenstat Freund <resources@...>
The Resource Room at the 26th IAJGS International Conference on
Jewish Genealogy will provide a wide range of electronic, print, microfilm, and human resources to assist attendees with their research. Computer services and databases will include.... * access to Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest census records, the New York Times(1857-2000) and newspaper archives and Godfrey Library's collection of online databases * U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Database - (three million records normally available only at the Museum) and the Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive search tool and testimony catalog * Manhattan Brides Index (the data entered so far in the Genealogy Federation of Long Island project to index 1,400,000 marriage licenses by bride's name) * Memorial Database of Jewish Soldiers, Partisans and Workers Killed in Action during Nazism (a searchable database of Jews in the Russian army killed and missing in action during WWII) Among the 100+ books and other print materials on hand will be... * dozens of reference books on general and Jewish genealogy, Jewish and New York history, immigration, translation, cemetery research, rabbinic research, the Holocaust and a large collection of volumes on Jewish Bialystok * large scale insurance maps of New York's old Lower East Side and a variety of historical and modern maps of Europe * the Center for Jewish History Genealogy Institute Fact Sheets * individual research projects We are also delighted to offer... * a large microfilm collection of Jewish interest usually housed at the Woodside (Queens) Family History Center - including the Hamburg Emigration Lists - and 10 microfilm readers on which to view them Plus we welcome the participation in the Resource Room of... * translators to interpret documents in Russian, Polish, Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish, and other languages * representatives of Ancestry.com in the Resource Room to assist in using that site and representatives of the Shoah Foundation, available for consultation Please check the Resource Room page on the Conference website <http://www.jgsny2006.org/resource_room.cfm>; for details, additional items, and updates. If you have material to share, please contact us at <resources@jgsny2006.org>. Gloria Berkenstat Freund 26th Annual IAJGS Conference Program Committee Chair
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IAJGS 2006 - Resource Room
#rabbinic
Gloria Berkenstat Freund <resources@...>
The Resource Room at the 26th IAJGS International Conference on
Jewish Genealogy will provide a wide range of electronic, print, microfilm, and human resources to assist attendees with their research. Computer services and databases will include.... * access to Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest census records, the New York Times(1857-2000) and newspaper archives and Godfrey Library's collection of online databases * U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Database - (three million records normally available only at the Museum) and the Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive search tool and testimony catalog * Manhattan Brides Index (the data entered so far in the Genealogy Federation of Long Island project to index 1,400,000 marriage licenses by bride's name) * Memorial Database of Jewish Soldiers, Partisans and Workers Killed in Action during Nazism (a searchable database of Jews in the Russian army killed and missing in action during WWII) Among the 100+ books and other print materials on hand will be... * dozens of reference books on general and Jewish genealogy, Jewish and New York history, immigration, translation, cemetery research, rabbinic research, the Holocaust and a large collection of volumes on Jewish Bialystok * large scale insurance maps of New York's old Lower East Side and a variety of historical and modern maps of Europe * the Center for Jewish History Genealogy Institute Fact Sheets * individual research projects We are also delighted to offer... * a large microfilm collection of Jewish interest usually housed at the Woodside (Queens) Family History Center - including the Hamburg Emigration Lists - and 10 microfilm readers on which to view them Plus we welcome the participation in the Resource Room of... * translators to interpret documents in Russian, Polish, Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish, and other languages * representatives of Ancestry.com in the Resource Room to assist in using that site and representatives of the Shoah Foundation, available for consultation Please check the Resource Room page on the Conference website <http://www.jgsny2006.org/resource_room.cfm>; for details, additional items, and updates. If you have material to share, please contact us at <resources@jgsny2006.org>. Gloria Berkenstat Freund 26th Annual IAJGS Conference Program Committee Chair
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic IAJGS 2006 - Resource Room
#rabbinic
Gloria Berkenstat Freund <resources@...>
The Resource Room at the 26th IAJGS International Conference on
Jewish Genealogy will provide a wide range of electronic, print, microfilm, and human resources to assist attendees with their research. Computer services and databases will include.... * access to Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest census records, the New York Times(1857-2000) and newspaper archives and Godfrey Library's collection of online databases * U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Database - (three million records normally available only at the Museum) and the Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive search tool and testimony catalog * Manhattan Brides Index (the data entered so far in the Genealogy Federation of Long Island project to index 1,400,000 marriage licenses by bride's name) * Memorial Database of Jewish Soldiers, Partisans and Workers Killed in Action during Nazism (a searchable database of Jews in the Russian army killed and missing in action during WWII) Among the 100+ books and other print materials on hand will be... * dozens of reference books on general and Jewish genealogy, Jewish and New York history, immigration, translation, cemetery research, rabbinic research, the Holocaust and a large collection of volumes on Jewish Bialystok * large scale insurance maps of New York's old Lower East Side and a variety of historical and modern maps of Europe * the Center for Jewish History Genealogy Institute Fact Sheets * individual research projects We are also delighted to offer... * a large microfilm collection of Jewish interest usually housed at the Woodside (Queens) Family History Center - including the Hamburg Emigration Lists - and 10 microfilm readers on which to view them Plus we welcome the participation in the Resource Room of... * translators to interpret documents in Russian, Polish, Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish, and other languages * representatives of Ancestry.com in the Resource Room to assist in using that site and representatives of the Shoah Foundation, available for consultation Please check the Resource Room page on the Conference website <http://www.jgsny2006.org/resource_room.cfm>; for details, additional items, and updates. If you have material to share, please contact us at <resources@jgsny2006.org>. Gloria Berkenstat Freund 26th Annual IAJGS Conference Program Committee Chair
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Rav Eliyahu ROMM Z"TZL, A"BD Yerushalayim
#rabbinic
shimonsporn
Does anyone have any information on the Rav Eliyahu ROMM Z"TZL? Was
he the head of any Yeshiva? Did he have a connection to Rav Zvi Pesach FRANK Z"TZL? Which Beis Din was he the head of? When? etc... Thank you Shimon Sporn Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic Rav Eliyahu ROMM Z"TZL, A"BD Yerushalayim
#rabbinic
shimonsporn
Does anyone have any information on the Rav Eliyahu ROMM Z"TZL? Was
he the head of any Yeshiva? Did he have a connection to Rav Zvi Pesach FRANK Z"TZL? Which Beis Din was he the head of? When? etc... Thank you Shimon Sporn Ramat Beit Shemesh, Israel
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Re: Landsmanshaften & Burial Societies
#poland
Bialystoker
As the Moderator pointed out the JGS of New York has some
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lists of Landsmanschaften. They also have a searchable database of Burial Societies in the New York area at http://www.jgsny.org/searchcity.htm. Although New York City was not the only city with these Jewish beneficial societies, these collections are the only source I know for tracking down such information. Also, you may want to contact the Museum of Family History (see http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/main.htm). Steve Lasky has created a very useful website with a Cemetery project that has information about landsmanschaften plots in the New York area as well as some other locations. Mark Halpern BialyGen Coordinator
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Where can I find a list of all the Landsmanshaften & Burial Societies, associated with particular towns?Jalowka, Poland.various landsmanshaft lists at http://home.att.net/%7Elandsmanshaft/
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Re: Tykocin Synagogue Records
#poland
Bialystoker
Dear George:
JRI-Poland has indexed all the available Tykocin records from 1868 through 1900. These are searchable at theJRI-Poland website at www.jri-poland.org and click on Search database. All available records >from 1826 through 1867 will soon be indexed and will be placed online in the future. I have personally visited the Tykocin Museum and asked the Museum director for historical information about the Jews of Tykocin. In return, they provided a 1905 Property Tax list for Jews, which is being translated, and a few other minor lists. Other than the records listed on Miriam Weiner's Routes to Roots Foundation Archive Database at www.rtrfoundation.org, there just may not be any other Jewish records of Tykocin. Descendants of Tykocin Jews are fortunate to have a wealth of civil records available -- all of which are being indexed by JRI-Poland. Mark Halpern BialyGen Coordinator ----- Original Message ----- I've just started looking for records of the Avram
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BialyGen: Bialystok Region #Bialystok #Poland Re: Landsmanshaften & Burial Societies
#poland
Bialystoker
As the Moderator pointed out the JGS of New York has some
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
lists of Landsmanschaften. They also have a searchable database of Burial Societies in the New York area at http://www.jgsny.org/searchcity.htm. Although New York City was not the only city with these Jewish beneficial societies, these collections are the only source I know for tracking down such information. Also, you may want to contact the Museum of Family History (see http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/main.htm). Steve Lasky has created a very useful website with a Cemetery project that has information about landsmanschaften plots in the New York area as well as some other locations. Mark Halpern BialyGen Coordinator
-------- Original Message ----- >
Where can I find a list of all the Landsmanshaften & Burial Societies, associated with particular towns?Jalowka, Poland.various landsmanshaft lists at http://home.att.net/%7Elandsmanshaft/
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BialyGen: Bialystok Region #Bialystok #Poland Re: Tykocin Synagogue Records
#poland
Bialystoker
Dear George:
JRI-Poland has indexed all the available Tykocin records from 1868 through 1900. These are searchable at theJRI-Poland website at www.jri-poland.org and click on Search database. All available records >from 1826 through 1867 will soon be indexed and will be placed online in the future. I have personally visited the Tykocin Museum and asked the Museum director for historical information about the Jews of Tykocin. In return, they provided a 1905 Property Tax list for Jews, which is being translated, and a few other minor lists. Other than the records listed on Miriam Weiner's Routes to Roots Foundation Archive Database at www.rtrfoundation.org, there just may not be any other Jewish records of Tykocin. Descendants of Tykocin Jews are fortunate to have a wealth of civil records available -- all of which are being indexed by JRI-Poland. Mark Halpern BialyGen Coordinator ----- Original Message ----- I've just started looking for records of the Avram
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Nicole BERLINE <nberline@...>
Zvi Bernhardt of Yad Vashem has asked me to post this message
regarding difficulties experienced by researchers using the Yad Vashem Database. Joyce Field JewishGen VP, Data Acquisitions On Yom Hashoah, we [Yad Vashem] put up a whole new site. We did this in order to integrate a Russian interface for the site, a very important move as we have also started a project to collect Pages of Testimony among Russian speaking Jews. The project is currently being carried out in the Ukraine and in Israel. Like most new sites, the new site has bugs. We have sorted out most of the bugs, but the site is still not as stable as the site we had before Yom Hashoah. At this point, most of the time it works fine, but the problems described below happens every few days. Our computer people are working hard to solve the problem as quickly as possible. PLEASE write us at central.database@yadvashem.org.il if you encounter technical problems with our site. We usually aren't able to answer you quickly enough to help you, but you help us (and yourself in the long run) by making sure we know all the problems that exist. Zvi Bernhardt Yad Vashem
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Nicole BERLINE <nberline@...>
Zvi Bernhardt of Yad Vashem has asked me to post this message
regarding difficulties experienced by researchers using the Yad Vashem Database. Joyce Field JewishGen VP, Data Acquisitions On Yom Hashoah, we [Yad Vashem] put up a whole new site. We did this in order to integrate a Russian interface for the site, a very important move as we have also started a project to collect Pages of Testimony among Russian speaking Jews. The project is currently being carried out in the Ukraine and in Israel. Like most new sites, the new site has bugs. We have sorted out most of the bugs, but the site is still not as stable as the site we had before Yom Hashoah. At this point, most of the time it works fine, but the problems described below happens every few days. Our computer people are working hard to solve the problem as quickly as possible. PLEASE write us at central.database@yadvashem.org.il if you encounter technical problems with our site. We usually aren't able to answer you quickly enough to help you, but you help us (and yourself in the long run) by making sure we know all the problems that exist. Zvi Bernhardt Yad Vashem
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Connie Fisher Newhan
For thouse of you in the Chicago area or who will be visiting by=20
mid-October, there is a temporary exhibit there called The Auschwitz Album On the day American forces liberated her concentration camp, a young=20 prisoner named Lili found a photo album in one of the SS barracks. These im= ages are=20 now on display through October 15 at The Field Museum in Chicago. This=20 exhibition was created by Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs=E2=80=99 and He= roes=E2=80=99=20 Remembrance Authority in Israel. The Field Museum presentation is made poss= ible by=20 the American Society for Yad Vashem. For more information the link is: =20 _http://www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/aus_tempexhib.htm_ (http://www.fieldmus= eum.org/exhibits/aus_tempexhib.htm)=20 Best Regards, Connie Fisher Newhan (#1272) Corona, California FISHER/FISCHER/FISZER, FISZEL (Warszawa& Bedzin, Poland),S(Z)PRINGER, ,=20 HERSZLIKOWICZ, HAMBURGER (Bedzin, Lagiza, Zarki, Poland), GERSTEN (Obertyn,= =20 Galacia) BARSKA/BARSKY/BARSKIY(Odessa), GOLDBERG (Sokolka?), FELDMAN=20 (Veliuona,Kaunas), CAHN (Koln), FRIEDSAM (Bodendorf, Coln? Germany, Pittsbu= rgh, PA),=20 NEWHAN/NEUHAN/NEUHAHN (Hesse Cassel, Meimbressen, Germany, Baltimore, MD),=20 BOHORODCZANER (Potok Zloty, Ukraine), LEVINE, BLUM, ROTH, ROCKOVITZ, ABRAMS= ,=20 RABINOWITZ =20
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Nicole BERLINE <nberline@...>
The Resource Room at the 26th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy will provide a wide range of electronic, print, microfilm, and human resources to assist attendees with their research. Computer services and databases will include.... * access to Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest census records, the New York Times(1857Â2000) and newspaper archives and Godfrey LibraryÂ’s collectionof online databases * U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Database - (three million records normally available only at the Museum) and the Shoah FoundationÂ’s Visual History Archive search tool and testimony catalog * Manhattan Brides Index (the data entered so far in the Genealogy Federation of Long Island project to index 1,400,000 marriage licenses by bride's name) * Memorial Database of Jewish Soldiers, Partisans and Workers Killed in Action during Nazism (a searchable database of Jews in the Russian army killed and missing in action during WWII) Among the 100-plus books and other print materials on hand will be... * dozens of reference books on general and Jewish genealogy, Jewish and New York history, immigration, translation, cemetery research, rabbinic research, the Holocaust and a large collection of volumes on Jewish Bialystok * large scale insurance maps of New York's old Lower East Side and a variety of historical and modern maps of Europe * the Center for Jewish History Genealogy Institute Fact Sheets * individual research projects We are also delighted to offer... * a large collection of microfilm of Jewish interest usually housed at the Woodside (Queens) Family History Center - including the Hamburg Emigration Lists - and 10 microfilm readers on which to view the them Plus we welcome the participation in the Resource Room of... * translators to interpret documents in Russian, Polish, Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish, and other languages * representatives of Ancestry.com in the Resource Room to assist in using that site and representatives of the Shoah Foundation, available for consultation Please check the Resource Room page on the Conference website (www.jgsny2006.org/resource_room.cfm) for details, additional items, and updates. If you have material to share, please contact us at resources@jgsny2006. Gloria Berkenstat Freund 26th Annual IAJGS Conference Program Committee Chair glory1@RCN.COM
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Connie Fisher Newhan
For thouse of you in the Chicago area or who will be visiting by=20
mid-October, there is a temporary exhibit there called The Auschwitz Album On the day American forces liberated her concentration camp, a young=20 prisoner named Lili found a photo album in one of the SS barracks. These im= ages are=20 now on display through October 15 at The Field Museum in Chicago. This=20 exhibition was created by Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs=E2=80=99 and He= roes=E2=80=99=20 Remembrance Authority in Israel. The Field Museum presentation is made poss= ible by=20 the American Society for Yad Vashem. For more information the link is: =20 _http://www.fieldmuseum.org/exhibits/aus_tempexhib.htm_ (http://www.fieldmus= eum.org/exhibits/aus_tempexhib.htm)=20 Best Regards, Connie Fisher Newhan (#1272) Corona, California FISHER/FISCHER/FISZER, FISZEL (Warszawa& Bedzin, Poland),S(Z)PRINGER, ,=20 HERSZLIKOWICZ, HAMBURGER (Bedzin, Lagiza, Zarki, Poland), GERSTEN (Obertyn,= =20 Galacia) BARSKA/BARSKY/BARSKIY(Odessa), GOLDBERG (Sokolka?), FELDMAN=20 (Veliuona,Kaunas), CAHN (Koln), FRIEDSAM (Bodendorf, Coln? Germany, Pittsbu= rgh, PA),=20 NEWHAN/NEUHAN/NEUHAHN (Hesse Cassel, Meimbressen, Germany, Baltimore, MD),=20 BOHORODCZANER (Potok Zloty, Ukraine), LEVINE, BLUM, ROTH, ROCKOVITZ, ABRAMS= ,=20 RABINOWITZ =20
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Nicole BERLINE <nberline@...>
The Resource Room at the 26th IAJGS International Conference on Jewish
Genealogy will provide a wide range of electronic, print, microfilm, and human resources to assist attendees with their research. Computer services and databases will include.... * access to Ancestry.com, HeritageQuest census records, the New York Times(1857Â2000) and newspaper archives and Godfrey LibraryÂ’s collectionof online databases * U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Database - (three million records normally available only at the Museum) and the Shoah FoundationÂ’s Visual History Archive search tool and testimony catalog * Manhattan Brides Index (the data entered so far in the Genealogy Federation of Long Island project to index 1,400,000 marriage licenses by bride's name) * Memorial Database of Jewish Soldiers, Partisans and Workers Killed in Action during Nazism (a searchable database of Jews in the Russian army killed and missing in action during WWII) Among the 100-plus books and other print materials on hand will be... * dozens of reference books on general and Jewish genealogy, Jewish and New York history, immigration, translation, cemetery research, rabbinic research, the Holocaust and a large collection of volumes on Jewish Bialystok * large scale insurance maps of New York's old Lower East Side and a variety of historical and modern maps of Europe * the Center for Jewish History Genealogy Institute Fact Sheets * individual research projects We are also delighted to offer... * a large collection of microfilm of Jewish interest usually housed at the Woodside (Queens) Family History Center - including the Hamburg Emigration Lists - and 10 microfilm readers on which to view the them Plus we welcome the participation in the Resource Room of... * translators to interpret documents in Russian, Polish, Spanish, Hebrew, Yiddish, and other languages * representatives of Ancestry.com in the Resource Room to assist in using that site and representatives of the Shoah Foundation, available for consultation Please check the Resource Room page on the Conference website (www.jgsny2006.org/resource_room.cfm) for details, additional items, and updates. If you have material to share, please contact us at resources@jgsny2006. Gloria Berkenstat Freund 26th Annual IAJGS Conference Program Committee Chair glory1@RCN.COM
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Searching for descendants of POMERANTZ / HOLRIE / BRAHAM
#unitedkingdom
Yeruchem & Fraida Cohen
My great grandmother's name was Sarah (Sima) POMERANTZ. Her father's name
is listed as Harris HOLRIE on her death certificate and her first child, Anna, was born in England. I did a search for the name Harris Holrie on ancestry.com and his name came up in the UK London censuses of 1881, 1891 and 1901 living in Hamlet Mile Land (? not readable) Old Town and West Ham, Tidal Basin. I also found a death certificate index for him >from December 1903 >from the district of West Ham, County: Essex, Greater London, Volume 4a, Pg 68. He had a daughter Annie with whom he lived in the 1901 census, whose husband is listed as Lewis BRAHAM. They had the following children at the time: Sarah, Sidney, Lilly, and Caroline. I found a record of their marriage date as June,1889. If you have knowledge of anyone >from and of the abovementioned families, I would like to hear >from you. If you would like to answer privately, remove any numbers that might appear in my email address for your reply. Otherwise, please reply to the newsgroup. Fraida Cohen
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JCR-UK SIG #UnitedKingdom Searching for descendants of POMERANTZ / HOLRIE / BRAHAM
#unitedkingdom
Yeruchem & Fraida Cohen
My great grandmother's name was Sarah (Sima) POMERANTZ. Her father's name
is listed as Harris HOLRIE on her death certificate and her first child, Anna, was born in England. I did a search for the name Harris Holrie on ancestry.com and his name came up in the UK London censuses of 1881, 1891 and 1901 living in Hamlet Mile Land (? not readable) Old Town and West Ham, Tidal Basin. I also found a death certificate index for him >from December 1903 >from the district of West Ham, County: Essex, Greater London, Volume 4a, Pg 68. He had a daughter Annie with whom he lived in the 1901 census, whose husband is listed as Lewis BRAHAM. They had the following children at the time: Sarah, Sidney, Lilly, and Caroline. I found a record of their marriage date as June,1889. If you have knowledge of anyone >from and of the abovementioned families, I would like to hear >from you. If you would like to answer privately, remove any numbers that might appear in my email address for your reply. Otherwise, please reply to the newsgroup. Fraida Cohen
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