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JOWBR Milestone: One Million Records
#austria-czech
Joyce Field
JewishGen is pleased to announce that the JewishGen Online Worldwide
Burial Registry (JOWBR) has now reached a milestone. With the current quarterly update, this searchable database exceeds one million records! We have been able to accomplish this feat because of donations of data and photographs >from hundreds of individuals and organizations. We also want to thank the translators who assisted by translating the inscriptions on photographs of matzevot and entering the data into our template. In addition, as many of you know, JOWBR could not function without Nolan Altman, Max Heffler, Michael Tobias, and Warren Blatt. Following are the number of records added to each country in the past quarter. There are too many cemeteries and landsmanschaft plots covered in this update to enumerate. The total number of cemeteries in JOWBR is now 1,929, and total number of burials is 1,006,675. New burial records by country follow: Belarus: 392 Canada: 15,993 Germany: 1,214 Hungary: 28 India: 104 Moldova: 3,410 Romania: 246 Ukraine: 968 USA: 10,074 As you travel this year and visit ancestral towns or towns in your current country of residence, please consider recording data >from the Jewish cemeteries and/or photographing all the tombstones in the cemetery or landsmanschaft plot for JOWBR. Following are the web sites with information on JOWBR: Search the database: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/ Cemetery inventory: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm JOWBR instructions: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/JOWBRinstructions.htm Photograph guidelines: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/JOWBR_Photos.htm How to submit data: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Submit.htm Donor agreement: http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/Form_donor.html We look forward to receiving burial data and photographs for the next JOWBR update. Feel free to contact Nolan Altman <nta@pipeline.com> or me with your questions or for assistance. Chag sameach. Joyce Field JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition
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Re: Need help with "Konskription Zettel" site
#austria-czech
Celia Male <celiamale@...>
Gary Mokotoff wrote: "I tried to use the Konskription Zettel site at
http://digi.nacr.cz/prihlasky/indexen.php searching for the surname "WINTERNITZ" and all I get are married women whose maiden name was WINTERNITZ. What am I doing wrong?" Gary is not doing anything wrong - the digitisation of millions of records has stopped at letter *H* with just a few *I* names appearing. However if you read the earlier postings {which I suggested} you will see that one can find women with maiden names all the way through letters A-Z, as long as they are married to men with letters A-I! In the early days, unfortunately, the maiden names of women were not registered; it would be a good collaborative project to record them ourselves! Thus you cannot be sure you have picked up all these married women. Try Eduard BACHRACH - you will see he is married to a Sara SCHIFF - but if you try searching for Sara SCHIFF married to BACHRACH - she is not there! There could be more WINTERNITZ women married to men with names starting with letters A-H, that Gary has not picked up. Thanks to Peter Zimmer for telling us that the English version is now available. I had missed that! Celia Male [U.K.]
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Re: Need help with "Konskription Zettel" site
#austria-czech
Gary Mokotoff: <mokotoff@...>
Celia:
Can you be more specific. I search the Austria-Czech Discussion archives as you suggested for "Konskription Zettel" and even just "Zettel" and could find no meaningful reference. Which issue of the Discussion Group did you explain the collection? Thanks. Gary Mokotoff
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Austria-Czech SIG #Austria-Czech JOWBR Milestone: One Million Records
#austria-czech
Joyce Field
JewishGen is pleased to announce that the JewishGen Online Worldwide
Burial Registry (JOWBR) has now reached a milestone. With the current quarterly update, this searchable database exceeds one million records! We have been able to accomplish this feat because of donations of data and photographs >from hundreds of individuals and organizations. We also want to thank the translators who assisted by translating the inscriptions on photographs of matzevot and entering the data into our template. In addition, as many of you know, JOWBR could not function without Nolan Altman, Max Heffler, Michael Tobias, and Warren Blatt. Following are the number of records added to each country in the past quarter. There are too many cemeteries and landsmanschaft plots covered in this update to enumerate. The total number of cemeteries in JOWBR is now 1,929, and total number of burials is 1,006,675. New burial records by country follow: Belarus: 392 Canada: 15,993 Germany: 1,214 Hungary: 28 India: 104 Moldova: 3,410 Romania: 246 Ukraine: 968 USA: 10,074 As you travel this year and visit ancestral towns or towns in your current country of residence, please consider recording data >from the Jewish cemeteries and/or photographing all the tombstones in the cemetery or landsmanschaft plot for JOWBR. Following are the web sites with information on JOWBR: Search the database: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/ Cemetery inventory: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm JOWBR instructions: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/JOWBRinstructions.htm Photograph guidelines: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/JOWBR_Photos.htm How to submit data: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Submit.htm Donor agreement: http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/Form_donor.html We look forward to receiving burial data and photographs for the next JOWBR update. Feel free to contact Nolan Altman <nta@pipeline.com> or me with your questions or for assistance. Chag sameach. Joyce Field JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition
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Austria-Czech SIG #Austria-Czech re: Need help with "Konskription Zettel" site
#austria-czech
Celia Male <celiamale@...>
Gary Mokotoff wrote: "I tried to use the Konskription Zettel site at
http://digi.nacr.cz/prihlasky/indexen.php searching for the surname "WINTERNITZ" and all I get are married women whose maiden name was WINTERNITZ. What am I doing wrong?" Gary is not doing anything wrong - the digitisation of millions of records has stopped at letter *H* with just a few *I* names appearing. However if you read the earlier postings {which I suggested} you will see that one can find women with maiden names all the way through letters A-Z, as long as they are married to men with letters A-I! In the early days, unfortunately, the maiden names of women were not registered; it would be a good collaborative project to record them ourselves! Thus you cannot be sure you have picked up all these married women. Try Eduard BACHRACH - you will see he is married to a Sara SCHIFF - but if you try searching for Sara SCHIFF married to BACHRACH - she is not there! There could be more WINTERNITZ women married to men with names starting with letters A-H, that Gary has not picked up. Thanks to Peter Zimmer for telling us that the English version is now available. I had missed that! Celia Male [U.K.]
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Austria-Czech SIG #Austria-Czech RE: Need help with "Konskription Zettel" site
#austria-czech
Gary Mokotoff: <mokotoff@...>
Celia:
Can you be more specific. I search the Austria-Czech Discussion archives as you suggested for "Konskription Zettel" and even just "Zettel" and could find no meaningful reference. Which issue of the Discussion Group did you explain the collection? Thanks. Gary Mokotoff
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OCHBERG ORPHANS
#lithuania
Anne LAPEDUS BREST <annebrest@...>
Hallo LitvakSIGGERS,
Lauren SNITCHER-TYFIELD in Cape Town, South Africa is looking for anyone who was, or is family of the OCHBERG Orphans who were brought over >from the Pale of Settlement to South Africa in 1921 by Isaac OCHBERG. There were 175 Orphans brought over, and Lauren has located 100 of these, and has leads on 20 more, so there are 50 still outstanding. I have done a Family Tree on the GAER (GAIER/GAYER) family, 3 of whom were OCHBERG Orphans, (Sarah Gayer GILINSKY, Eve/Chava Gayer QUEIT and Harry GAYER ) (all deceased) and have given a complete list of all their descendants to Lauren , and I am trying now to help her locate the 50 Orphans she has no leads on. If anyone knows of any OCHBERG Orphans, or their descendants, please could you contact me, Anne LAPEDUS BREST, at digitalphoto@icon.co.za privately, and I will give your contact information to Lauren. There is to be a re-union in Israel at some date in the not too distant future and Lauren is trying to contact each and every family who are descendants of the OCHBERG Orphans. Anne Lapedus BREST (ex Dublin, Ireland) Sandton, South Africa RESEARCHING - LAPEDUS and KAHN (Vieksniai, Lithuania). MARCUS and FELDMAN (Ackmene, Lithuania), KLOPMAN/KLAPMAN,(Silmalas, Latvia). SHILLMAN and BENSON (Krustpils, Latvia), MIRRELSON (Kurshan, Courland, Latvia) , BREST (Bauska, Latvia) , ORKIN (Zagere, Lithuania) CHAVIN and CHEIN (Zagare, Lithuania) GILINSKY (Daugavpils/Dvinsk, Latvia) and GAYER/GAER (Opalin, Poland)
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania OCHBERG ORPHANS
#lithuania
Anne LAPEDUS BREST <annebrest@...>
Hallo LitvakSIGGERS,
Lauren SNITCHER-TYFIELD in Cape Town, South Africa is looking for anyone who was, or is family of the OCHBERG Orphans who were brought over >from the Pale of Settlement to South Africa in 1921 by Isaac OCHBERG. There were 175 Orphans brought over, and Lauren has located 100 of these, and has leads on 20 more, so there are 50 still outstanding. I have done a Family Tree on the GAER (GAIER/GAYER) family, 3 of whom were OCHBERG Orphans, (Sarah Gayer GILINSKY, Eve/Chava Gayer QUEIT and Harry GAYER ) (all deceased) and have given a complete list of all their descendants to Lauren , and I am trying now to help her locate the 50 Orphans she has no leads on. If anyone knows of any OCHBERG Orphans, or their descendants, please could you contact me, Anne LAPEDUS BREST, at digitalphoto@icon.co.za privately, and I will give your contact information to Lauren. There is to be a re-union in Israel at some date in the not too distant future and Lauren is trying to contact each and every family who are descendants of the OCHBERG Orphans. Anne Lapedus BREST (ex Dublin, Ireland) Sandton, South Africa RESEARCHING - LAPEDUS and KAHN (Vieksniai, Lithuania). MARCUS and FELDMAN (Ackmene, Lithuania), KLOPMAN/KLAPMAN,(Silmalas, Latvia). SHILLMAN and BENSON (Krustpils, Latvia), MIRRELSON (Kurshan, Courland, Latvia) , BREST (Bauska, Latvia) , ORKIN (Zagere, Lithuania) CHAVIN and CHEIN (Zagare, Lithuania) GILINSKY (Daugavpils/Dvinsk, Latvia) and GAYER/GAER (Opalin, Poland)
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Skuodas
#lithuania
aviva tirosh <devekut@...>
Shalom,
I am looking for any information about my uncle and his family. He was chief rabbi of Shkud (Skuodas) >from 1917-1941. His name was Yaakov (Yankel) Chaim Terushkin. His wife was Chiena nee Hovsha. Also murdered in that summer of 1941 was their 31 year old son, Tzvi Hirsh. Any information would be appreciated. Many thanks, Aviva Tirosh MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately with family information. Suggestions for research methods or resources may be shared with the list.
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Skuodas
#lithuania
aviva tirosh <devekut@...>
Shalom,
I am looking for any information about my uncle and his family. He was chief rabbi of Shkud (Skuodas) >from 1917-1941. His name was Yaakov (Yankel) Chaim Terushkin. His wife was Chiena nee Hovsha. Also murdered in that summer of 1941 was their 31 year old son, Tzvi Hirsh. Any information would be appreciated. Many thanks, Aviva Tirosh MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately with family information. Suggestions for research methods or resources may be shared with the list.
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Schmorak
#poland
Hélène Mir <helene.mir@...>
Hello,
I am looking for anybody who could have known LEON SCHMORAK (my grand-father) during his stay in Auschwitz, before he was killed there. Leon Schmorak was born in Bolechow (Poland) on the 28th of April 1902. He was part of Convoy N°76 of the 30th of June 1944, >from Drancy (France) He was killed in Auschwitz on the 5th of July 1944 I am also looking for people (and any kind of information) who knew his parents Aron Schmorak and Malke Grunschlag, who lived and earned a business in Bolechow and Hoszow. They had a grocery shop, selling alcohol, beer, they were also distilling alcohol (also in Szcerczec) Thank you, Hélène Dessort-Mir Caux FRANCE MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately with family information. Suggestions for research methods and resources may be shared with the list.
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JRI Poland #Poland Schmorak
#poland
Hélène Mir <helene.mir@...>
Hello,
I am looking for anybody who could have known LEON SCHMORAK (my grand-father) during his stay in Auschwitz, before he was killed there. Leon Schmorak was born in Bolechow (Poland) on the 28th of April 1902. He was part of Convoy N°76 of the 30th of June 1944, >from Drancy (France) He was killed in Auschwitz on the 5th of July 1944 I am also looking for people (and any kind of information) who knew his parents Aron Schmorak and Malke Grunschlag, who lived and earned a business in Bolechow and Hoszow. They had a grocery shop, selling alcohol, beer, they were also distilling alcohol (also in Szcerczec) Thank you, Hélène Dessort-Mir Caux FRANCE MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately with family information. Suggestions for research methods and resources may be shared with the list.
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Re: Chicago Newspapers
#general
Jan Groshan <jangro@...>
You might take a look at www.footnote.com
"Joan Rosen" <jgrosen@verizon.net> wrote Are any Chicago newspapers >from 1927 available, online or elsewhere? snip.....
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Re: Had Gadya in multiple languages
#general
Ben Forman <ben.forman@...>
Hi Genners
Thanks for all the replies and advice regardng this recording, I haveBen is invited to post a short summary of the replies he receives. done a litle more research, and for those that are interested I actually found that it can be purchased online through an online music store. It is published by a company called Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and can be found on their website by typing "Chad Gadya" into the search box. They also make the liner notes available which are pretty interesting incase you only want to download the individual tracks rather than purchase a CD. It was actually published in 1982, by the "Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage" so I'm no clearer as to how a copy came to be in my granmothers prossesion. Anyway thanks as always to all Chag Sameach Ben Ben Forman Manchester UK searching: BERNSTEIN/WEINER: Ylakai, CAHN/WOLF: Koeln; FURMAN: Kaluszyn; GEVER: Daugavpils/Dvinsk, Latvia; SAWADY: Zavadi,Posen; STILLMAN: Pilica/Czestechowa; Zeyder/Zeidler: Kursan, Lithuania
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Chicago Newspapers
#general
Jan Groshan <jangro@...>
You might take a look at www.footnote.com
"Joan Rosen" <jgrosen@verizon.net> wrote Are any Chicago newspapers >from 1927 available, online or elsewhere? snip.....
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen RE: Had Gadya in multiple languages
#general
Ben Forman <ben.forman@...>
Hi Genners
Thanks for all the replies and advice regardng this recording, I haveBen is invited to post a short summary of the replies he receives. done a litle more research, and for those that are interested I actually found that it can be purchased online through an online music store. It is published by a company called Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and can be found on their website by typing "Chad Gadya" into the search box. They also make the liner notes available which are pretty interesting incase you only want to download the individual tracks rather than purchase a CD. It was actually published in 1982, by the "Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage" so I'm no clearer as to how a copy came to be in my granmothers prossesion. Anyway thanks as always to all Chag Sameach Ben Ben Forman Manchester UK searching: BERNSTEIN/WEINER: Ylakai, CAHN/WOLF: Koeln; FURMAN: Kaluszyn; GEVER: Daugavpils/Dvinsk, Latvia; SAWADY: Zavadi,Posen; STILLMAN: Pilica/Czestechowa; Zeyder/Zeidler: Kursan, Lithuania
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An Interesting Conference on North African Jewry
#sephardic
Mathilde Tagger <tagger@...>
Dear all,
The Ben Zvi Institute jointly with Yad Vashem are organizing an International Conference on North Africa and Its Jews During the Second World War, to be held on April 28-30, 2008, in Jerusalem. The three-day program can be viewed at: http://www.ybz.org.il/?ArticleID=2068 Best wishes for a Very Happy Pessah! Greetings >from Jerusalem! Mathilde Tagger Sephardim SIG Coordinator Israel Genealogical Society
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Sephardic SIG #Sephardim An Interesting Conference on North African Jewry
#sephardic
Mathilde Tagger <tagger@...>
Dear all,
The Ben Zvi Institute jointly with Yad Vashem are organizing an International Conference on North Africa and Its Jews During the Second World War, to be held on April 28-30, 2008, in Jerusalem. The three-day program can be viewed at: http://www.ybz.org.il/?ArticleID=2068 Best wishes for a Very Happy Pessah! Greetings >from Jerusalem! Mathilde Tagger Sephardim SIG Coordinator Israel Genealogical Society
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RE OCHBERG ORPHANS
#southafrica
DIGITAL PIX (Anne BREST) <digitalphoto@...>
Goeie More, Skatties,
Lauren SNITCHER-TYFIELD in Cape Town, South Africa is looking for anyone who was, or is family of the OCHBERG Orphans who were brought over >from Poland to South Africa in 1921 by Isaac OCHBERG. There were 175 Orphans brought over, and Lauren has located 100 of these, and has leads on 20 more, so there are 50 still outstanding. I have done a Family Tree on the GAER (GAIER/GAYER) family, 3 of whom were OCHBERG Orphans, (Sarah Gayer GILINSKY, Eve/Chava Gayer QUEIT and Harry GAYER ) (all deceased) and have given a complete list of all their descendants to Lauren , and I am trying now to help her locate the 50 Orphans she has no leads on. If anyone knows of any OCHBERG Orphans, or their descendants, please could you contact Lauren at tyfield@iafrica.com privately (and I have her permission to give out her email), or myself, Anne LAPEDUS BREST digitalphoto@icon.co.za privately. There is to be a re-union in Israel at some date in the not too distant future and Lauren is trying to contact each and every family who are descendants of the OCHBERG Orphans. Best Wense! Anne Lapedus BREST (ex Dublin, Ireland) Sandton, South Africa RESEARCHING - LAPEDUS and KAHN (Vieksniai, Lithuania). MARCUS and FELDMAN (Ackmene, Lithuania), KLOPMAN/KLAPMAN,(Silmalas, Latvia). SHILLMAN and BENSON (Krustpils, Latvia), MIRRELSON (Kurshan, Courland, Latvia) , BREST (Bauska, Latvia) , ORKIN (Zagere, Lithuania) CHAVIN and CHEIN (Zagare, Lithuania) GILINSKY (Daugavpils/Dvinsk, Latvia) and GAYER/GAER (Opalin, Poland)
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South Africa SIG #SouthAfrica RE OCHBERG ORPHANS
#southafrica
DIGITAL PIX (Anne BREST) <digitalphoto@...>
Goeie More, Skatties,
Lauren SNITCHER-TYFIELD in Cape Town, South Africa is looking for anyone who was, or is family of the OCHBERG Orphans who were brought over >from Poland to South Africa in 1921 by Isaac OCHBERG. There were 175 Orphans brought over, and Lauren has located 100 of these, and has leads on 20 more, so there are 50 still outstanding. I have done a Family Tree on the GAER (GAIER/GAYER) family, 3 of whom were OCHBERG Orphans, (Sarah Gayer GILINSKY, Eve/Chava Gayer QUEIT and Harry GAYER ) (all deceased) and have given a complete list of all their descendants to Lauren , and I am trying now to help her locate the 50 Orphans she has no leads on. If anyone knows of any OCHBERG Orphans, or their descendants, please could you contact Lauren at tyfield@iafrica.com privately (and I have her permission to give out her email), or myself, Anne LAPEDUS BREST digitalphoto@icon.co.za privately. There is to be a re-union in Israel at some date in the not too distant future and Lauren is trying to contact each and every family who are descendants of the OCHBERG Orphans. Best Wense! Anne Lapedus BREST (ex Dublin, Ireland) Sandton, South Africa RESEARCHING - LAPEDUS and KAHN (Vieksniai, Lithuania). MARCUS and FELDMAN (Ackmene, Lithuania), KLOPMAN/KLAPMAN,(Silmalas, Latvia). SHILLMAN and BENSON (Krustpils, Latvia), MIRRELSON (Kurshan, Courland, Latvia) , BREST (Bauska, Latvia) , ORKIN (Zagere, Lithuania) CHAVIN and CHEIN (Zagare, Lithuania) GILINSKY (Daugavpils/Dvinsk, Latvia) and GAYER/GAER (Opalin, Poland)
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