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ITMAN and STABUN
#general
Angie Elfassi
Hi,
I have recently understood that ITMAN is my ggrandmother Chaya's maiden name. Her father was Benjamin. When she moved to Leeds, UK she became Annie. In Lithuania she had married Yosel Reichzeligman and in the UK the family changed the surname to Richman. On LitvakSIG I have found what I believe to be a brother of hers: In 1900 ITMAN, Abram Itzko m. STABUN, Riva Dvora (her maiden name was ZUBITZKY), they were both widowers. Im looking for more information about Abram Itzko ITMAN. Does anyone have any information about him? Regards Angie Elfassi Israel Searching: RAYKH-ZELIGMAN/RICHMAN, Stakliskes, Lithuania/Leeds COHEN, Sakiai, Lithuania/Leeds MAGIDOWITZ, Jurbarkas, Lithuania/Leeds KASSIMOFF, Rezekne, Latvia/Leeds ITMAN, Stakliskes, Lithuania/USA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ITMAN and STABUN
#general
Angie Elfassi
Hi,
I have recently understood that ITMAN is my ggrandmother Chaya's maiden name. Her father was Benjamin. When she moved to Leeds, UK she became Annie. In Lithuania she had married Yosel Reichzeligman and in the UK the family changed the surname to Richman. On LitvakSIG I have found what I believe to be a brother of hers: In 1900 ITMAN, Abram Itzko m. STABUN, Riva Dvora (her maiden name was ZUBITZKY), they were both widowers. Im looking for more information about Abram Itzko ITMAN. Does anyone have any information about him? Regards Angie Elfassi Israel Searching: RAYKH-ZELIGMAN/RICHMAN, Stakliskes, Lithuania/Leeds COHEN, Sakiai, Lithuania/Leeds MAGIDOWITZ, Jurbarkas, Lithuania/Leeds KASSIMOFF, Rezekne, Latvia/Leeds ITMAN, Stakliskes, Lithuania/USA
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family vinitzky
#romania
Lemberski Evelyne
family Vinitzky
I am looking for the dates of births, marriage of death and places of death of the following persons : Jacob Vinitzky born in 1860 in Nemyriv or Nemirov in ukraine Sarah stoutchinsky born in 1865 in nemyriv or nemirov in ukraine ila vinitzky born in nemyriv or nemirov in ukraine risa born in nemyriv or nemirov in ukraine chiva vinitzky having lived in soroca in Moldavia in the 1930s guerki born in nemyriv or nemirov in Ukraine are there current descendants of ila, risa, chiva and guerki please? Evelyne Lemberski evelynelemberski@... saint Maurice france
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Romania SIG #Romania family vinitzky
#romania
Lemberski Evelyne
family Vinitzky
I am looking for the dates of births, marriage of death and places of death of the following persons : Jacob Vinitzky born in 1860 in Nemyriv or Nemirov in ukraine Sarah stoutchinsky born in 1865 in nemyriv or nemirov in ukraine ila vinitzky born in nemyriv or nemirov in ukraine risa born in nemyriv or nemirov in ukraine chiva vinitzky having lived in soroca in Moldavia in the 1930s guerki born in nemyriv or nemirov in Ukraine are there current descendants of ila, risa, chiva and guerki please? Evelyne Lemberski evelynelemberski@... saint Maurice france
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family lemberski and gurfinkel in Ukraine and/or moldavia
#romania
Lemberski Evelyne
family lemberski and gurfinkel in Ukraine and/or moldavia
I am looking for the dates and places of births, marriages, deaths and places of death and cemeteries of the following persons: leiba itzek or lejvi-itsko or leon or leivi Istic lemberski born in 1865 in ukraine or moldova eta etis Lazar or helene or ethea schartsman or swartzman or chrvarzmann or chvarchman wife lemberski born in 1867 in ukraine or moldova reisl bas efraim froim gurfinkel born in 1869 in soroca in moldova or ukraine ratathi levna or hilena or Ihilevna ayzengart wife gurfinkel rata born in 1882 in moldova or Ukraine Evelyne lemberski evelynelemberski@... Saint Maurice France
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Romania SIG #Romania family lemberski and gurfinkel in Ukraine and/or moldavia
#romania
Lemberski Evelyne
family lemberski and gurfinkel in Ukraine and/or moldavia
I am looking for the dates and places of births, marriages, deaths and places of death and cemeteries of the following persons: leiba itzek or lejvi-itsko or leon or leivi Istic lemberski born in 1865 in ukraine or moldova eta etis Lazar or helene or ethea schartsman or swartzman or chrvarzmann or chvarchman wife lemberski born in 1867 in ukraine or moldova reisl bas efraim froim gurfinkel born in 1869 in soroca in moldova or ukraine ratathi levna or hilena or Ihilevna ayzengart wife gurfinkel rata born in 1882 in moldova or Ukraine Evelyne lemberski evelynelemberski@... Saint Maurice France
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family lemberski and gurfinkel in Ukraine and/or moldavia
#ukraine
Lemberski Evelyne
family lemberski and gurfinkel in Ukraine and/or moldavia
I am looking for the dates and places of births, marriages, deaths and places of death and cemeteries of the following persons: leiba itzek or lejvi-itsko or leon or leivi Istic lemberski born in 1865 in ukraine or moldova eta etis Lazar or helene or ethea schartsman or swartzman or chrvarzmann or chvarchman wife lemberski born in 1867 in ukraine or moldova reisl bas efraim froim gurfinkel born in 1869 in soroca in moldova or ukraine ratathi levna or hilena or Ihilevna ayzengart wife gurfinkel rata born in 1882 in moldova or Ukraine evelyne lemberski evelynelemberski@... saint Maurice france
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine family lemberski and gurfinkel in Ukraine and/or moldavia
#ukraine
Lemberski Evelyne
family lemberski and gurfinkel in Ukraine and/or moldavia
I am looking for the dates and places of births, marriages, deaths and places of death and cemeteries of the following persons: leiba itzek or lejvi-itsko or leon or leivi Istic lemberski born in 1865 in ukraine or moldova eta etis Lazar or helene or ethea schartsman or swartzman or chrvarzmann or chvarchman wife lemberski born in 1867 in ukraine or moldova reisl bas efraim froim gurfinkel born in 1869 in soroca in moldova or ukraine ratathi levna or hilena or Ihilevna ayzengart wife gurfinkel rata born in 1882 in moldova or Ukraine evelyne lemberski evelynelemberski@... saint Maurice france
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family vinitzky
#ukraine
Lemberski Evelyne
family vinitzky
I am looking for the dates of births, marriage of death and places of death of the following persons : jacob Vinitzky born in 1860 in nemyriv or nemirov in ukraine sarah stoutchinsky born in 1865 in nemyriv or nemirov in ukraine ila vinitzky born in nemyriv or nemirov in ukraine risa born in nemyriv or nemirov in ukraine chiva vinitzky having lived in soroca in moldavia in the 1930s guerki born in nemyriv or nemirov in Ukraine are there current descendants of ila, risa, chiva and guerki please? evelyne lemberski evelynelemberski@... saint Maurice france MODERATOR COMMENT: go to the JewishGen homepage and click on "get started" The info files are a good place to start searching the info you need.
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine family vinitzky
#ukraine
Lemberski Evelyne
family vinitzky
I am looking for the dates of births, marriage of death and places of death of the following persons : jacob Vinitzky born in 1860 in nemyriv or nemirov in ukraine sarah stoutchinsky born in 1865 in nemyriv or nemirov in ukraine ila vinitzky born in nemyriv or nemirov in ukraine risa born in nemyriv or nemirov in ukraine chiva vinitzky having lived in soroca in moldavia in the 1930s guerki born in nemyriv or nemirov in Ukraine are there current descendants of ila, risa, chiva and guerki please? evelyne lemberski evelynelemberski@... saint Maurice france MODERATOR COMMENT: go to the JewishGen homepage and click on "get started" The info files are a good place to start searching the info you need.
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LitvakSIG All-Lithuania Database - 76,000 new records online now
#general
Russ Maurer
The quarterly addition of new data to the LitvakSIG All Lithuania Database
(ALD) is now searchable online. The ALD is free and may be searched by any researcher >from the LitvakSIG home page, www.litvaksig.org . The summary below describes the 76,627 lines of new data just added. Revision List template (42,049 lines): Kaunas Gubernia farmer lists, early 20th century Jewish censuses for Radun and Lida town, conscription lists for Marijampole and Vilnius, 1834 census for Vilnius city and other places in Vilna Gubernia, and a 1915 list of residents of the Panevezys district. A new data set making its debut in the ALD is the "Emigration to Eretz Israel" documenting those, >from throughout Lithuania, who received permission to emigrate in the interwar years. Indexing of this data set is ongoing. The nearly 6,975 lines included in this upload is only the first installment. Tax / Voters template (32,087 lines): a major new record set, the 1941 Kaunas voter list, accounts for almost all of these lines. Vital records (1071 lines): Marriages and births for Klaipeda, 1874-1915. Internal passports (1420 lines): Vilnius foreign passport applications. Results >from ALD searches will be grouped by template. Note that the template name may not necessarily describe the kind of data accurately, e.g., the Revision List template is used for data sets such as lists of farmers and conscription lists, not just revision lists. Please look at all search results even if you don't think the template type is relevant to your search. You just never know what you'll find. Russ Maurer Records Acquisition and Translation coordinator, LitvakSIG
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen LitvakSIG All-Lithuania Database - 76,000 new records online now
#general
Russ Maurer
The quarterly addition of new data to the LitvakSIG All Lithuania Database
(ALD) is now searchable online. The ALD is free and may be searched by any researcher >from the LitvakSIG home page, www.litvaksig.org . The summary below describes the 76,627 lines of new data just added. Revision List template (42,049 lines): Kaunas Gubernia farmer lists, early 20th century Jewish censuses for Radun and Lida town, conscription lists for Marijampole and Vilnius, 1834 census for Vilnius city and other places in Vilna Gubernia, and a 1915 list of residents of the Panevezys district. A new data set making its debut in the ALD is the "Emigration to Eretz Israel" documenting those, >from throughout Lithuania, who received permission to emigrate in the interwar years. Indexing of this data set is ongoing. The nearly 6,975 lines included in this upload is only the first installment. Tax / Voters template (32,087 lines): a major new record set, the 1941 Kaunas voter list, accounts for almost all of these lines. Vital records (1071 lines): Marriages and births for Klaipeda, 1874-1915. Internal passports (1420 lines): Vilnius foreign passport applications. Results >from ALD searches will be grouped by template. Note that the template name may not necessarily describe the kind of data accurately, e.g., the Revision List template is used for data sets such as lists of farmers and conscription lists, not just revision lists. Please look at all search results even if you don't think the template type is relevant to your search. You just never know what you'll find. Russ Maurer Records Acquisition and Translation coordinator, LitvakSIG
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Re: Akiva EGER birthday
#general
David Dubin <davidmdubin@...>
Hi all,
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Is it possible that the discrepancy is simply the difference between the Gregorian and Julian dates? Ten days apart is about right. David Dubin Traude Triebel wrote:
The Austrian Jewish Museum in Eisenstadt made a new hot announcement!
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen re: Akiva EGER birthday
#general
David Dubin <davidmdubin@...>
Hi all,
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
Is it possible that the discrepancy is simply the difference between the Gregorian and Julian dates? Ten days apart is about right. David Dubin Traude Triebel wrote:
The Austrian Jewish Museum in Eisenstadt made a new hot announcement!
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Obtaining death certificates from Puerto Rico?
#general
David W. Perle
Happy fall, all!
I'm having a bit of an ordeal trying to obtain the death certificate of my great-grandfather who died while living in Puerto Rico in 1965. Basically, they only provide to immediate family or to an "heir," and an heir needs a legal "need" for it. I'm going through VitalChek (which I believe is the only avenue) for ordering the copy, a VitalChek rep handling Puerto Rico requests told me a couple of weeks ago that I count as an heir, but she was apparently mistaken. I tried justifying my request that the family wants the record not only for genealogical purposes but also in order obtain important genetic family health information with regard to cause of death. No dice. I've been told more than once and I think more than twice that only mother, father, spouse, child may order a copy otherwise. Obviously, most of that is absurd for an adult great-grandchild in 2018 to be contacting them about concerning someone who died in 1965. Between Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, and New York, I have never heard of such a thing where they tell you that you basically have no right to your great-grandfather's death certificate >from 53 years ago. Help? David W. Perle Washington, DC Researching PRZEGRODA, BLUM, PERLE, ARONOWSKY, SMOLEY/SMOLA, GOTTLIEB, KROLL, COLLIER, SKORA...
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Obtaining death certificates from Puerto Rico?
#general
David W. Perle
Happy fall, all!
I'm having a bit of an ordeal trying to obtain the death certificate of my great-grandfather who died while living in Puerto Rico in 1965. Basically, they only provide to immediate family or to an "heir," and an heir needs a legal "need" for it. I'm going through VitalChek (which I believe is the only avenue) for ordering the copy, a VitalChek rep handling Puerto Rico requests told me a couple of weeks ago that I count as an heir, but she was apparently mistaken. I tried justifying my request that the family wants the record not only for genealogical purposes but also in order obtain important genetic family health information with regard to cause of death. No dice. I've been told more than once and I think more than twice that only mother, father, spouse, child may order a copy otherwise. Obviously, most of that is absurd for an adult great-grandchild in 2018 to be contacting them about concerning someone who died in 1965. Between Ohio, New Jersey, Florida, and New York, I have never heard of such a thing where they tell you that you basically have no right to your great-grandfather's death certificate >from 53 years ago. Help? David W. Perle Washington, DC Researching PRZEGRODA, BLUM, PERLE, ARONOWSKY, SMOLEY/SMOLA, GOTTLIEB, KROLL, COLLIER, SKORA...
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Looking for a Guide in Warsaw, Bialystok and Krakow
#poland
Shelley Ross
My husband and I will be traveling to Warsaw and Krakow in November
with a group but will have some free days and half days and would like to find a guide /driver who can show us Jewish (and other) sites of interest in and around Warsaw and Bialystok and a few days later in Krakow. I would also like to know if this person could do some research into a family name we have in Bialystok. Our tour will include visits to the concentration camps so we will not need to see those. I would appreciate any recommendations. Thank you in advance. Shelley Harris Ross Carlsbad, CA MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately with contact information for guides/researchers.
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BialyGen: Bialystok Region #Bialystok #Poland Looking for a Guide in Warsaw, Bialystok and Krakow
#poland
Shelley Ross
My husband and I will be traveling to Warsaw and Krakow in November
with a group but will have some free days and half days and would like to find a guide /driver who can show us Jewish (and other) sites of interest in and around Warsaw and Bialystok and a few days later in Krakow. I would also like to know if this person could do some research into a family name we have in Bialystok. Our tour will include visits to the concentration camps so we will not need to see those. I would appreciate any recommendations. Thank you in advance. Shelley Harris Ross Carlsbad, CA MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately with contact information for guides/researchers.
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3rd quarter update to the ALD is now online
#lithuania
Russ Maurer
The quarterly addition of new data to the LitvakSIG All Lithuania Database
(ALD) is now searchable online. A separate post to this digest described the passport data which were part of the addition. The summary below describes another 75,207 lines of new data uploaded to the ALD for the 3rd quarter of 2018. Revision List template (42,049 lines): Kaunas Gubernia farmer lists, early 20th century Jewish censuses for Radun and Lida town, conscription lists for Marijampole and Vilnius, 1834 census for Vilnius city and other places in Vilna Gubernia, and a 1915 list of residents of the Panevezys district. A new data set making its debut in the ALD is the "Emigration to Eretz Israel" documenting those, >from throughout Lithuania, who received permission to emigrate in the interwar years. Indexing of this data set is ongoing. The nearly 6,975 lines included in this upload is only the first installment. Tax / Voters template (32,087 lines): a major new record set, the 1941 Kaunas voter list, accounts for almost all of these lines. Vital records (1071 lines): Marriages and births for Klaipeda, 1874-1915. Results >from ALD searches will be grouped by template. Note that the template name may not necessarily describe the kind of data accurately, e.g., the Revision List template is used for data sets such as lists of farmers and conscription lists, not just revision lists. Please look at all search results even if you don't think the template type is relevant to your search. You just never know what you'll find. Russ Maurer Records Acquisition and Translation coordinator, LitvakSIG
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania 3rd quarter update to the ALD is now online
#lithuania
Russ Maurer
The quarterly addition of new data to the LitvakSIG All Lithuania Database
(ALD) is now searchable online. A separate post to this digest described the passport data which were part of the addition. The summary below describes another 75,207 lines of new data uploaded to the ALD for the 3rd quarter of 2018. Revision List template (42,049 lines): Kaunas Gubernia farmer lists, early 20th century Jewish censuses for Radun and Lida town, conscription lists for Marijampole and Vilnius, 1834 census for Vilnius city and other places in Vilna Gubernia, and a 1915 list of residents of the Panevezys district. A new data set making its debut in the ALD is the "Emigration to Eretz Israel" documenting those, >from throughout Lithuania, who received permission to emigrate in the interwar years. Indexing of this data set is ongoing. The nearly 6,975 lines included in this upload is only the first installment. Tax / Voters template (32,087 lines): a major new record set, the 1941 Kaunas voter list, accounts for almost all of these lines. Vital records (1071 lines): Marriages and births for Klaipeda, 1874-1915. Results >from ALD searches will be grouped by template. Note that the template name may not necessarily describe the kind of data accurately, e.g., the Revision List template is used for data sets such as lists of farmers and conscription lists, not just revision lists. Please look at all search results even if you don't think the template type is relevant to your search. You just never know what you'll find. Russ Maurer Records Acquisition and Translation coordinator, LitvakSIG
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