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Looking For
#ukraine
Larry Berkson <larryberkson@...>
Hello,
Am new to site. Hope this is the way to connect. Am looking for anyone familiar with the names Dov, Czerewchewsky, or Zerebchefsky. Were names associated with my great grandfather who came form the Ukraine. Thank you Larry Berkson Chichester, N. H. larryberkson@... MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately.
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Looking For
#ukraine
Larry Berkson <larryberkson@...>
Hello,
Am new to site. Hope this is the way to connect. Am looking for anyone familiar with the names Dov, Czerewchewsky, or Zerebchefsky. Were names associated with my great grandfather who came form the Ukraine. Thank you Larry Berkson Chichester, N. H. larryberkson@... MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately.
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Tsatskin and Rovstovsky
#bessarabia
Peter Weinstock <ceteris@...>
A few days ago I requested help to find relatives of the CSATSKIN family in Odessa, I mistyped, it should have been TSATSKIN.
I am also looking for relatives of the ROVSTOVSKY family. My great grandmother's family left Odessa after 1868 and before 1898 and went to Palestine. There Sarah ROVSTOVSKY met Jacob LEW >from Warsaw and they were married. Thanks for those who have offered help and to all in advance Peter Weinstock Austrailia
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Bessarabia SIG #Bessarabia Tsatskin and Rovstovsky
#bessarabia
Peter Weinstock <ceteris@...>
A few days ago I requested help to find relatives of the CSATSKIN family in Odessa, I mistyped, it should have been TSATSKIN.
I am also looking for relatives of the ROVSTOVSKY family. My great grandmother's family left Odessa after 1868 and before 1898 and went to Palestine. There Sarah ROVSTOVSKY met Jacob LEW >from Warsaw and they were married. Thanks for those who have offered help and to all in advance Peter Weinstock Austrailia
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Family History Pages Course will begin October 1
#bessarabia
Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@... and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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Bessarabia SIG #Bessarabia Family History Pages Course will begin October 1
#bessarabia
Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@... and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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Family History Pages Course will begin October 1
#austria-czech
Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@... and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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Austria-Czech SIG #Austria-Czech Family History Pages Course will begin October 1
#austria-czech
Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@... and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@... and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@... and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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Family History Pages Course will begin October 1
#southafrica
Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@... and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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South Africa SIG #SouthAfrica Family History Pages Course will begin October 1
#southafrica
Phyllis Kramer
Do you have a lot of genealogical family material to share and want to
organize it into a set of images, but don't know how? Marlis Humphrey will explain and demonstrate how to create image rich family history pages for your family. Students will learn how to layout, design, and edit a quality family history page set for two ancestors, that can be broadened at a later time. You will learn to include documents like census, naturalization and photographs of your family, heirlooms and memorabilia .Students will discover sources of digital resources (templates, fonts, etc.) for formatting, and will walk through a project using Photoshop Elements 10 for editing. you will learn how to format the pages for printing using Shutterfly. The goal is to give students the basic PSE10 skills needed to complete your family history pages. Those students who master this formatting can enroll in the follow-on course to make covers, spines and backs required to make the mini-book print-ready. For details on requirements, tuition and dates, please view the course description at www.jewishgen.org/education. If you have any questions, please email jewishgen-education@... and, a happy and healthy new year to all Phyllis Kramer VP, Education: www.JewishGen.org/education
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Shanghai Rediscovers History of the 20,000 European Jews Who Fled There During WWII
#general
Jan Meisels Allen
An article in the Los Angeles Times, September 18, China's Little Vienna, is
about Shanghai rediscovering the history of the 20,000 European Jews who fled to the city during WW II. To read the article click on http://tinyurl.com/8ancgxx original url: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-jews-20120918,0,6744632,full.story Jan Meisels Allen IAJGS Vice President Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Shanghai Rediscovers History of the 20,000 European Jews Who Fled There During WWII
#general
Jan Meisels Allen
An article in the Los Angeles Times, September 18, China's Little Vienna, is
about Shanghai rediscovering the history of the 20,000 European Jews who fled to the city during WW II. To read the article click on http://tinyurl.com/8ancgxx original url: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-china-jews-20120918,0,6744632,full.story Jan Meisels Allen IAJGS Vice President Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Mount Lebanon Cemetery Glendale NY grave photo request
#general
lrrubinson@...
Hello
If you will be going to Mount Lebanon cemetery in Glendale NY, can you take 2 grave photos for me? Please respond privately to Lrrubinson@... Thank you very much. Leslie Rubinson Vista, California The graves are for NEWMAN, Jacob Block: WC Section: E Sub-Section: Plot: Line: 7 Grave: 3 Society: Workmens Circle Date of Death: 5/28/1946 and NEWMAN, Rebecca Block: WC Section: M Sub-Section: Plot: Line: 12 Grave: 5D Society: Workmens Cirle Date of Death: 6/2/1954
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Mount Lebanon Cemetery Glendale NY grave photo request
#general
lrrubinson@...
Hello
If you will be going to Mount Lebanon cemetery in Glendale NY, can you take 2 grave photos for me? Please respond privately to Lrrubinson@... Thank you very much. Leslie Rubinson Vista, California The graves are for NEWMAN, Jacob Block: WC Section: E Sub-Section: Plot: Line: 7 Grave: 3 Society: Workmens Circle Date of Death: 5/28/1946 and NEWMAN, Rebecca Block: WC Section: M Sub-Section: Plot: Line: 12 Grave: 5D Society: Workmens Cirle Date of Death: 6/2/1954
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ALBER from Akmena and Rokiskis
#lithuania
Appearing in the All Lithuania Data Base - Marriages and Divorces is the
marriage in 1891 of ALBER, Nokhim son of Iosel Girsha, >from Akmena, aged 27, with GURVICH, Khaya Sora daughter of Motel Berko of Rokiskis, aged 25. Both widowed. If the surname that appears for Khaya Sora is >from her previous marriage then I have no connection. However if GURVICH is her name >from birth she is most likely a sister of my great grandfather, Zalman Israel HURWITZ son of Motte Ber, of Rokiskis. Harry ABRAMOWITZ, who was the youngest of the grandchildren of Motte Ber Hurwitz, and passed away in 2006 aged 96, and who helped me make sense of the HURWITZ family was certain that he had no aunt or cousins by the name of ALBER. Going through the records we find that the couple had 4 children Zalman Osher ALBER born 1892 Leshe ALBER b 1893 Itsik Girsha ALBER b1895 Yoche ALBER born 1896 In the Dusetos Revision List of 1883 we find ALBER, Leiba Nokhum, son of Jossel, >from Akmena , born 1863, living in the same household as GOLDIN, Khaia Rivka as her adopted son. In the Rokiskis Revision List we find again ALBER, Nokhum aged 43 living with "the third wife" (the Revision List gives this detail ) Chana Iska daughter of Meyer Girsha aged 32. In the household with them are 3 of the children >from "the second marriage" and Gena Noyma , daughter >from the first marriage age 18 Mones, son >from the third marriage born 1901 Sheya Itel daughter >from the third marriage aged 2. I will be grateful if anyone who has a connection to the Alber family or can provide more information will contact me . Thank You and Shana Tova! Jules Feldman Kibbutz Yizreel Israel
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania ALBER from Akmena and Rokiskis
#lithuania
Appearing in the All Lithuania Data Base - Marriages and Divorces is the
marriage in 1891 of ALBER, Nokhim son of Iosel Girsha, >from Akmena, aged 27, with GURVICH, Khaya Sora daughter of Motel Berko of Rokiskis, aged 25. Both widowed. If the surname that appears for Khaya Sora is >from her previous marriage then I have no connection. However if GURVICH is her name >from birth she is most likely a sister of my great grandfather, Zalman Israel HURWITZ son of Motte Ber, of Rokiskis. Harry ABRAMOWITZ, who was the youngest of the grandchildren of Motte Ber Hurwitz, and passed away in 2006 aged 96, and who helped me make sense of the HURWITZ family was certain that he had no aunt or cousins by the name of ALBER. Going through the records we find that the couple had 4 children Zalman Osher ALBER born 1892 Leshe ALBER b 1893 Itsik Girsha ALBER b1895 Yoche ALBER born 1896 In the Dusetos Revision List of 1883 we find ALBER, Leiba Nokhum, son of Jossel, >from Akmena , born 1863, living in the same household as GOLDIN, Khaia Rivka as her adopted son. In the Rokiskis Revision List we find again ALBER, Nokhum aged 43 living with "the third wife" (the Revision List gives this detail ) Chana Iska daughter of Meyer Girsha aged 32. In the household with them are 3 of the children >from "the second marriage" and Gena Noyma , daughter >from the first marriage age 18 Mones, son >from the third marriage born 1901 Sheya Itel daughter >from the third marriage aged 2. I will be grateful if anyone who has a connection to the Alber family or can provide more information will contact me . Thank You and Shana Tova! Jules Feldman Kibbutz Yizreel Israel
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Keren Weiner <kerenweiner1@...>
Dear Lodz Area Research Group,
This is to correct my previous request for a direct translation for the two documents below, one a birth and one a marriage. The documents are in Russian, not Polish. One I believe is a birth document for Hinda NAFTAL in 1900. The viewmate ID is 24383 and the url is: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24383 I am also seeking a direct translation >from for what I believe is a marriage document between David NAFTAL and Chaya ULSCHER in 1895. The viewmate ID is 24382 and url is: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24382 The translations would be so much appreciated and might help us unblock the research for this side of the family. Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. With gratitude, Keren Weiner Pittsfield, Massachusetts Researching NAFTAL and ULSCHER >from Lodz and Ozorkow
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Keren Weiner <kerenweiner1@...>
Dear Lodz Area Research Group,
This is to correct my previous request for a direct translation for the two documents below, one a birth and one a marriage. The documents are in Russian, not Polish. One I believe is a birth document for Hinda NAFTAL in 1900. The viewmate ID is 24383 and the url is: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24383 I am also seeking a direct translation >from for what I believe is a marriage document between David NAFTAL and Chaya ULSCHER in 1895. The viewmate ID is 24382 and url is: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM24382 The translations would be so much appreciated and might help us unblock the research for this side of the family. Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. With gratitude, Keren Weiner Pittsfield, Massachusetts Researching NAFTAL and ULSCHER >from Lodz and Ozorkow
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