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Mohileff
#ukraine
Carol Cohen
Is Mohileff the same as Mogilev? Is this city part of the Ukraine?
Researching: Rosenfeld, Mogilev Podolsky Gibernia Thank you, Carol Gene Cohen
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Mohileff
#ukraine
Carol Cohen
Is Mohileff the same as Mogilev? Is this city part of the Ukraine?
Researching: Rosenfeld, Mogilev Podolsky Gibernia Thank you, Carol Gene Cohen
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Possibly Leipzig - Do you recognize?
#rabbinic
Yaacov Slizak <yslizak@...>
Dear Friends,
I am posting the following query on behalf of a relative of mine. For many years he has been trying to identify the rabbi pictured in this photo: http://tinyurl.com/4jphd7 There is very little information about him, most of it from recollections of my friends' late father, so this is to be taken with a grain of salt: Yaacov Slizak
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic Possibly Leipzig - Do you recognize?
#rabbinic
Yaacov Slizak <yslizak@...>
Dear Friends,
I am posting the following query on behalf of a relative of mine. For many years he has been trying to identify the rabbi pictured in this photo: http://tinyurl.com/4jphd7 There is very little information about him, most of it from recollections of my friends' late father, so this is to be taken with a grain of salt: Yaacov Slizak
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Noda BeYehuda descendants
#rabbinic
Ami Elyasaf
Searching for Yechezkel LANDAU 1861-1941 married to Reyla RAND
daughter of R. Menachem Mendel RAND (Lutowiska - Jerusalem 1917). How is he related to the Noda BeYehuda? Ami Elyasaf
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic Noda BeYehuda descendants
#rabbinic
Ami Elyasaf
Searching for Yechezkel LANDAU 1861-1941 married to Reyla RAND
daughter of R. Menachem Mendel RAND (Lutowiska - Jerusalem 1917). How is he related to the Noda BeYehuda? Ami Elyasaf
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War Bride
#general
Ian Jackson <ianj@...>
How can I find a record of a marriage between a British Woman and an
American Air Force or Army Captain during the second world war. I believe they may have got married in Germany. I was told she was one of the earliest to marry an American during this period. Ian Jackson ianj@...
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen War Bride
#general
Ian Jackson <ianj@...>
How can I find a record of a marriage between a British Woman and an
American Air Force or Army Captain during the second world war. I believe they may have got married in Germany. I was told she was one of the earliest to marry an American during this period. Ian Jackson ianj@...
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Translating letter from Warsaw Archive
#general
Sue Clamp <clamp@...>
After many months of waiting (One letter and three emails) I have
finally had a response >from the Warsaw archive. There are details of how to pay, but as my Polish is non-existent, I'm not sure whether the price quoted (10 PLN or 3.56 Euros) is per record or for all. It also looks like a couple of the records I requested could not be found as they are mentioned in a different part of the letter - but I am only guessing. Does Jewishgen have a list of key words that would be found on these letters? (I looked at the infofiles section but nothing jumped out at me) Or does anyone know of a reasonably accurate translation service, for instance, does Google Translate work OK (accented letters are a bit of a nuisance)? Or would it be simpler if I uploaded the scan of the letter to my own web site and asked someone who knows Polish to take a look at it? Many thanks Sue Clamp Cambridgeshire, UK Searching: ROSENBERG (Warsaw and Serock), SKOWRONEK, HERSZENKRUG, CHENCINER, KRIGSMAN, KRIEGSMAN (Warsaw)
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L. A. EBERG (b. 1891) - a Russian actor. The year of death needed.
#general
Mark Rybak
For the Jewish museum I am looking for the year of death of Lev
Aleksandrovitch EBERG. He was a Russian theater actor. As far as I know he was born in 1891 (don't know the exact place). Some time he was working in Estonia. I heared that he emigrated to the USA (may be through some other country) before the WWII and died there. I need the year of his death. The name may be also spelled as Leo. Thanks for any info.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Translating letter from Warsaw Archive
#general
Sue Clamp <clamp@...>
After many months of waiting (One letter and three emails) I have
finally had a response >from the Warsaw archive. There are details of how to pay, but as my Polish is non-existent, I'm not sure whether the price quoted (10 PLN or 3.56 Euros) is per record or for all. It also looks like a couple of the records I requested could not be found as they are mentioned in a different part of the letter - but I am only guessing. Does Jewishgen have a list of key words that would be found on these letters? (I looked at the infofiles section but nothing jumped out at me) Or does anyone know of a reasonably accurate translation service, for instance, does Google Translate work OK (accented letters are a bit of a nuisance)? Or would it be simpler if I uploaded the scan of the letter to my own web site and asked someone who knows Polish to take a look at it? Many thanks Sue Clamp Cambridgeshire, UK Searching: ROSENBERG (Warsaw and Serock), SKOWRONEK, HERSZENKRUG, CHENCINER, KRIGSMAN, KRIEGSMAN (Warsaw)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen L. A. EBERG (b. 1891) - a Russian actor. The year of death needed.
#general
Mark Rybak
For the Jewish museum I am looking for the year of death of Lev
Aleksandrovitch EBERG. He was a Russian theater actor. As far as I know he was born in 1891 (don't know the exact place). Some time he was working in Estonia. I heared that he emigrated to the USA (may be through some other country) before the WWII and died there. I need the year of his death. The name may be also spelled as Leo. Thanks for any info.
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Advice about Frankfurt/Oder and Berlin Research_AUFRECHT & SEIDENBERG
#germany
Fred Half <opticsmeister@...>
I had sent this to Jeanette but since there has been so much
additional traffic regarding the AUFRECHT family I am placing it here also. My sources for Anna's birth and marriage have not been verified (they are written in the family Stammbaum) but if anyone has any further information, I would certainly be interested. I have been researching the S(E)IDENBERG family in the US since their arrival in New York around 1850. My grandmother was a SIDENBERG (the E seems to have been dropped in the US). They seemed to have been in the towns near Breslau (Wroclaw) with some migration to Berlin. My gggrandfather Julius Israel SEIDENBERG was in Berlin in the 1880-1889 time period as I have letters written to his children in the US. Also there were descendants (BIBERSTEIN and NEISSER) still in Germany in the late 1930s as my grandparents helped some of their cousins get to Palestine. Fred Half Palo Alto, CA fredhalf@... MODERATOR NOTE: I have deleted copies of private emails between Mr. Half and Jeanette Rosenberg that had followed the above message. You may write to Mr. Half privately if you wish to be added to the conversation about this family. MOD 1
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German SIG #Germany Fwd: Advice about Frankfurt/Oder and Berlin Research_AUFRECHT & SEIDENBERG
#germany
Fred Half <opticsmeister@...>
I had sent this to Jeanette but since there has been so much
additional traffic regarding the AUFRECHT family I am placing it here also. My sources for Anna's birth and marriage have not been verified (they are written in the family Stammbaum) but if anyone has any further information, I would certainly be interested. I have been researching the S(E)IDENBERG family in the US since their arrival in New York around 1850. My grandmother was a SIDENBERG (the E seems to have been dropped in the US). They seemed to have been in the towns near Breslau (Wroclaw) with some migration to Berlin. My gggrandfather Julius Israel SEIDENBERG was in Berlin in the 1880-1889 time period as I have letters written to his children in the US. Also there were descendants (BIBERSTEIN and NEISSER) still in Germany in the late 1930s as my grandparents helped some of their cousins get to Palestine. Fred Half Palo Alto, CA fredhalf@... MODERATOR NOTE: I have deleted copies of private emails between Mr. Half and Jeanette Rosenberg that had followed the above message. You may write to Mr. Half privately if you wish to be added to the conversation about this family. MOD 1
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Upcoming new databases for some archives in Ukraine (Odessa and Cherkassy)
#ukraine
Miriam Weiner
The Routes to Roots Foundation, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has
signed a cooperative agreement with the Odessa Oblast Archives whereby we will index names >from a collection of 4,505 heads of Jewish families in Odessa for the period 1894-1918. The searchable database will be added to the existing database at www.rtrfoundation.org. There will be ordering instructions (>from the archives) for anyone interested in requesting a digital copy of specific documents referred to in the database. For more information about this collection, see: http://www.rtrfoundation.org/Odessa.html and scroll down the page to this section to learn more about this exciting collection of documents. 3 Genealogical Chapter, Fond 359: Odessa Board for Small Business, Jewish Section, 1894-1918 (alphabetical name index of 4,505 heads of Jewish families that had a status of Odessa Meshchanin (petty bourgeois) with address locations. Roots in Cherkassy: Next, we will be adding a search function by name to the Archive Database at the Foundation website for the 1858 Revisky Skasky (list of inhabitants) for the City of Cherkassy in Ukraine. This is also a joint venture with the Cherkassy Oblast Archives and there will be instructions on the website as to how one can request digital copies of specific documents >from the archives. There are numerous other projects "in the works" and announcements will be made as they become completed and online. Miriam Weiner, President Routes to Roots Foundation, Inc. 136 Sandpiper Key Secaucus, NJ 07094 www.rtrfoundation.org
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Upcoming new databases for some archives in Ukraine (Odessa and Cherkassy)
#ukraine
Miriam Weiner
The Routes to Roots Foundation, Inc. is pleased to announce that it has
signed a cooperative agreement with the Odessa Oblast Archives whereby we will index names >from a collection of 4,505 heads of Jewish families in Odessa for the period 1894-1918. The searchable database will be added to the existing database at www.rtrfoundation.org. There will be ordering instructions (>from the archives) for anyone interested in requesting a digital copy of specific documents referred to in the database. For more information about this collection, see: http://www.rtrfoundation.org/Odessa.html and scroll down the page to this section to learn more about this exciting collection of documents. 3 Genealogical Chapter, Fond 359: Odessa Board for Small Business, Jewish Section, 1894-1918 (alphabetical name index of 4,505 heads of Jewish families that had a status of Odessa Meshchanin (petty bourgeois) with address locations. Roots in Cherkassy: Next, we will be adding a search function by name to the Archive Database at the Foundation website for the 1858 Revisky Skasky (list of inhabitants) for the City of Cherkassy in Ukraine. This is also a joint venture with the Cherkassy Oblast Archives and there will be instructions on the website as to how one can request digital copies of specific documents >from the archives. There are numerous other projects "in the works" and announcements will be made as they become completed and online. Miriam Weiner, President Routes to Roots Foundation, Inc. 136 Sandpiper Key Secaucus, NJ 07094 www.rtrfoundation.org
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Re: Immigration with aid of Salvation Army
#general
Alexander Sharon
Linda Berkowitz wrote
In researching my husband's family, I found a reference that hisLinda Please refer to: http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/children/Organizations/salvation.html Alexander Sharon Calgary, Ab
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Immigration with aid of Salvation Army
#general
Alexander Sharon
Linda Berkowitz wrote
In researching my husband's family, I found a reference that hisLinda Please refer to: http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/children/Organizations/salvation.html Alexander Sharon Calgary, Ab
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Re: Information on those who came after the war.
#general
Peter Zavon <pzavon@...>
There was a time, into the early 1950s, when manifests were created for
incoming flights and were processed by immigration just the way the ship manifests were. They were, of course, much shorter. They are in the same record group as the vessel manifests, sometime on the same roll of film. Unfortunately, the INS name index ends around 1948, but the microfilms of the actual manifests continue into the 1950s. So, if you know the port of arrival and the rough date, you can look through the films and perhaps find the entry, even though the person arrived by air. Peter Zavon Penfield, NY PZAVON@... Bubylu@...> I was asked a question by a relative whose father came to America around 1950. Since he didn't come in thru Ellis Island but flew here, how can my relative get information on his father? It seems that his father used his mother's last name in Europe but changed it to his paternal last name here in America.
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Re: Links to download SLOWNIK GEOGRAFICZNY - Volumes I - XV
#lithuania
NKBper@...
Thanks for posting direct file links and instructions Joel. The SLOWNIK
GEOGRAFICZNY has been available for download [same DjVu format] >from at least two sites for the past few years. While those sites require searching and navigation to get to the desired publication and files, the links provided in your message simplify the process. At the Malopolska Digital Library site, switching the interface to English to search [szukaj] for SLOWNIK GEOGRAFICZNY, results in files available for either online browsing or free download. Of additional interest, on the main page there are links to other digital libraries in Poland, and to other digital libraries worldwide which I have found to be excellent resources. See: http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra/ Here is a handy organizational reference [compiled >from seveal sources] for the SLOWNIK GEOGRAFICZNY volumes and files you have downloaded: Volume Locality by Polish alphabet Vol. I Aa – Dereneczna Vol. 2 Derenek – Gzack Vol. 3 Haag – Kepy Vol. 4 Kes – Kutno Vol. 5 Kutowa – Malczyce Vol. 6 Malczyce – Netreba Vol. 7 Netreba – Perepiat Vol. 8 Perepiatycha – Pozajscie Vol. 9 Pozajscie – Rukszenice Vol. 10 Rukszenice – Sochaczew Vol. 11 Sochaczew – Szlurbowska Wola Vol. 12 Szlurpkiszki – Warlynka Vol. 13 Warmbrunn – Worowo Vol. 14 Worowo – Zyzyn Vol. 15 Ababi – Januszowo (addendum) Vol. 15 Januszpol – Sniatyn (addendum) Nancy Biederman ---------- Subject: Links to download SLOWNIK GEOGRAFICZNY - Volumes I - XV From: "Joel Ratner" <Joelrat1@...> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 06:39:52 -0400 X-Message-Number: 1 The Polish gazetteer known to many genealogists, "SLOWNIK GEOGRAFICZNY", is being made available for your use in the comfort of your home. I have been able to obtain Vols. I - XV. Volume 15 actually contains two books, so there will be 16 files made available. For those who have never used files in DjVu format, the required DjVu plugin can be found at the Celartem website at http://www.celartem.com/en/download/djvu.asp . Versions are available for Windows, Mac and Unix/Linux operating systems. Vol I - http://www.sendspace.com/file/6le349 Vol II - http://www.sendspace.com/file/3e8l57 Vol III - http://www.sendspace.com/file/986hw1 Vol IV - http://www.sendspace.com/file/19cu9b Vol V - http://www.sendspace.com/file/bu6xt0 Vol VI - http://www.sendspace.com/file/ju8ieo Vol VII - http://www.sendspace.com/file/b21rk1 Vol VIII - http://www.sendspace.com/file/3xbsad Vol IX - http://www.sendspace.com/file/93rv17 Vol X - http://www.sendspace.com/file/0qyxwv Vol XI - http://www.sendspace.com/file/02zozm Vol XII - http://www.sendspace.com/file/wnzren Vol XIII - http://www.sendspace.com/file/7gu4j3 Vol XIV - http://www.sendspace.com/file/wllrm5 Vol XV - http://www.sendspace.com/file/0j3si7 Vol XV Book 2 - http://www.sendspace.com/file/uzgk37 Joel Ratner
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