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Cemetery projects progress
#bessarabia
Yefim Kogan
Hello JewishGeners,
I want to update you on a progress with Cemetery projects for the Bessarabia/Moldova region. - Lipkany, Phase2 - Clearing paths, cleaning, etc. - completed, first reading is in progress. Additional 1,000 burial records with photos will be added, hopefully in November-December of this year - Kishinev Jewish Cemetery, --Sector 5, photographing is done, indexing is at the last stage. New 2,700 burial records with photos will be added shortly in September-October of this year --Sector 1, 3, 6 - photographing is in progress - Vadu-lui-Vlad (Dombrovitsa) - photographing is completed. 45 burial records, but only several with readable inscriptions. Will be send to JOWBR in September of this year. This cemetery will need Phase2 - clearing paths, cleaning, etc. It will be scheduled for spring 2020 - Beltsy Jewish Cemetery - we already have about 4,000 burial records mostly with photos, and I received about 500+ photos, and now we need to do a "second" reading to send this set to JOWBR, hopefully in November of this year - Ataki Jewish Cemetery - Phase2 - clearing paths, cleaning, etc. - work for Phase2 is planned for Spring of 2020 - Vila Mariana, San Paulo, Brazil, Jewish cemetery. We got the names of people buried in that cemetery who is >from Bessarabia (no photos). About 500 burial records will be sent to JOWBR in October of this year - there are a number of Jewish cemeteries planning to photograph in 2019-2020: Klishkivtsi, Rishkany, Teleneshty - new cemetery, Vertujeni, Zguritsa... Please let me know if you have any questions. We may need help in translating the inscriptions >from Hebrew, Russian. Also please consider to donate to Bessarabia-Moldova Cemetery project. All the best, Yefim Kogan JewishGen Bessarabia SIG Leader and Coordinator
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Bessarabia SIG #Bessarabia Cemetery projects progress
#bessarabia
Yefim Kogan
Hello JewishGeners,
I want to update you on a progress with Cemetery projects for the Bessarabia/Moldova region. - Lipkany, Phase2 - Clearing paths, cleaning, etc. - completed, first reading is in progress. Additional 1,000 burial records with photos will be added, hopefully in November-December of this year - Kishinev Jewish Cemetery, --Sector 5, photographing is done, indexing is at the last stage. New 2,700 burial records with photos will be added shortly in September-October of this year --Sector 1, 3, 6 - photographing is in progress - Vadu-lui-Vlad (Dombrovitsa) - photographing is completed. 45 burial records, but only several with readable inscriptions. Will be send to JOWBR in September of this year. This cemetery will need Phase2 - clearing paths, cleaning, etc. It will be scheduled for spring 2020 - Beltsy Jewish Cemetery - we already have about 4,000 burial records mostly with photos, and I received about 500+ photos, and now we need to do a "second" reading to send this set to JOWBR, hopefully in November of this year - Ataki Jewish Cemetery - Phase2 - clearing paths, cleaning, etc. - work for Phase2 is planned for Spring of 2020 - Vila Mariana, San Paulo, Brazil, Jewish cemetery. We got the names of people buried in that cemetery who is >from Bessarabia (no photos). About 500 burial records will be sent to JOWBR in October of this year - there are a number of Jewish cemeteries planning to photograph in 2019-2020: Klishkivtsi, Rishkany, Teleneshty - new cemetery, Vertujeni, Zguritsa... Please let me know if you have any questions. We may need help in translating the inscriptions >from Hebrew, Russian. Also please consider to donate to Bessarabia-Moldova Cemetery project. All the best, Yefim Kogan JewishGen Bessarabia SIG Leader and Coordinator
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JGS of Maryland September 22, 2019, program announcement
#general
Speaker: Stephen Morse
Title: "One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools" Date and Time: Sunday, September 22, 2019, 1:30 p.m. Location: Pikesville Library's meeting room, 1301 Reisterstown Rd, Pikesville, MD Please join us on Sunday, September 22, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. at the Pikesville Library's meeting room, 1301 Reisterstown Road, Pikesville, when Stephen P. Morse presents our next program: "One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools." The One-Step website started out as an aid for finding passengers in the Ellis Island database. Shortly afterward, it was expanded to help with searching in the 1930 census. Over the years, it has continued to evolve and today includes about 300 web-based tools divided into 16 separate categories, ranging >from genealogical searches to astronomical calculations to last-minute bidding on eBay. This presentation will describe the range of tools available and give the highlights of each one. Stephen Morse is the creator of the One-Step Website, for which he has received both the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Outstanding Contribution Award >from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, Award of Merit >from the National Genealogical Society, first-ever Excellence Award >from the Association of Professional Genealogists, and two awards that he cannot pronounce from Polish genealogical societies.In his other life, Morse is a computer professional with a doctorate degree in electrical engineering. He has held various research, development, and teaching positions, authored numerous technical papers, written four textbooks, and holds four patents. He is best known as the architect of the Intel 8086 (the granddaddy of today's Pentium processor), which sparked the PC revolution nearly 40 years ago. The program is free for paid members and $5 for non-members (applied to membership fee when a visitor joins JGSMD) after their first meeting. Please check our web site at www.jgsmd.org for late updates and for the time, location, and program of future meetings. Susan Steeble JGSMD Public Relations Baltimore, MD
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen JGS of Maryland September 22, 2019, program announcement
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Speaker: Stephen Morse
Title: "One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools" Date and Time: Sunday, September 22, 2019, 1:30 p.m. Location: Pikesville Library's meeting room, 1301 Reisterstown Rd, Pikesville, MD Please join us on Sunday, September 22, 2019, at 1:30 p.m. at the Pikesville Library's meeting room, 1301 Reisterstown Road, Pikesville, when Stephen P. Morse presents our next program: "One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools." The One-Step website started out as an aid for finding passengers in the Ellis Island database. Shortly afterward, it was expanded to help with searching in the 1930 census. Over the years, it has continued to evolve and today includes about 300 web-based tools divided into 16 separate categories, ranging >from genealogical searches to astronomical calculations to last-minute bidding on eBay. This presentation will describe the range of tools available and give the highlights of each one. Stephen Morse is the creator of the One-Step Website, for which he has received both the Lifetime Achievement Award and the Outstanding Contribution Award >from the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, Award of Merit >from the National Genealogical Society, first-ever Excellence Award >from the Association of Professional Genealogists, and two awards that he cannot pronounce from Polish genealogical societies.In his other life, Morse is a computer professional with a doctorate degree in electrical engineering. He has held various research, development, and teaching positions, authored numerous technical papers, written four textbooks, and holds four patents. He is best known as the architect of the Intel 8086 (the granddaddy of today's Pentium processor), which sparked the PC revolution nearly 40 years ago. The program is free for paid members and $5 for non-members (applied to membership fee when a visitor joins JGSMD) after their first meeting. Please check our web site at www.jgsmd.org for late updates and for the time, location, and program of future meetings. Susan Steeble JGSMD Public Relations Baltimore, MD
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Important News for Purchasers of Yizkor-Books-In-Print Yizkor Books - More Yizkor Books indexed
#lithuania
Joel Alpert
We are pleased to announce the addition of Indices into more of our
publications. Additionally we have placed on the web links to printable files for those who have already purchased our titles. Please find these words in the announcement of the book on the YBIP page: https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/ybip.html "Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book." You can then print the index pages and insert into the back of your book. New orders for our books will have these pages already included. The remaining books without indices will have them included in the near future. The indexing work was carried out by a team of 20 volunteers led by Susan Rosin. Even if you have not purchased the Yizkor Book of your ancestral shtetl, look over the index to see if any of your family names appear. Joel Alpert, Coordinator of the Yizkor-Books-In-Print Project
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Important News for Purchasers of Yizkor-Books-In-Print Yizkor Books - More Yizkor Books indexed
#lithuania
Joel Alpert
We are pleased to announce the addition of Indices into more of our
publications. Additionally we have placed on the web links to printable files for those who have already purchased our titles. Please find these words in the announcement of the book on the YBIP page: https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/ybip.html "Click here to see the index containing the family names in this book. If you already have purchased the book, please print out and insert into the back of the book." You can then print the index pages and insert into the back of your book. New orders for our books will have these pages already included. The remaining books without indices will have them included in the near future. The indexing work was carried out by a team of 20 volunteers led by Susan Rosin. Even if you have not purchased the Yizkor Book of your ancestral shtetl, look over the index to see if any of your family names appear. Joel Alpert, Coordinator of the Yizkor-Books-In-Print Project
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The JRI-Poland family is saddened in learning of the passing of Phyllis Kramer z"l, a long-time friend of and volunteer for our organization.
Others have rightly lauded her devotion to Jewish family history and genealogy, and her efforts to help on many levels. Phyllis truly set a high mark and left a legacy that we might all try to emulate in one way or another, to the best of our ability. On a personal level, I have been a witness to Phyllis' passion, intelligence and bottomless commitment for and to the Jewish genealogical world, serving with her on an advisory board, working on a few of her educational projects and, of course, as a JRI-Poland town leader. I will miss the sparkle in her eyes and those warm hugs at the annual conferences. May the memory of Phyllis be for a blessing. Stanley Diamond, M.S.M. Executive Director, For the Board of Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
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What do old Jewish New Year's postcards >from Pinsk, school records
from Dubno dated 1846, and a young girl >from Rimalov standing alone ona Philadelphia dock in 1904 have in common? They are the inspirations for three moving success stories recently published to our website. You can access these accounts >from the "About Us" button on the website or by following this link: http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/testimonials/ Postcards >from Pinsk: A ViewMate Success Story By Linda Ewall Krocker Through a Ukrainian Brick Wall By Shirley Ginzburg What if it Hadn't Happened This Way? My Grandmother's Arrival in America By Marilyn Goldenberg Gelber Thank you to the authors who shared their stories with us, and to our Success! Stories Webmaster and Associate Editor, Richard Baum. We encourage you to submit your own success stories to us at: success@... . Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA) Editor, JewishGen's Success! Stories
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Nomi Waksberg <nwaksberg@...>
Hello,
I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM75042 Records in Polish http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72181 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72155 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72064 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Your time and support is appreciated. Thank you very much. Nomi Fishenfeld Waksberg
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The JRI-Poland family is saddened in learning of the passing of Phyllis Kramer z"l, a long-time friend of and volunteer for our organization.
Others have rightly lauded her devotion to Jewish family history and genealogy, and her efforts to help on many levels. Phyllis truly set a high mark and left a legacy that we might all try to emulate in one way or another, to the best of our ability. On a personal level, I have been a witness to Phyllis' passion, intelligence and bottomless commitment for and to the Jewish genealogical world, serving with her on an advisory board, working on a few of her educational projects and, of course, as a JRI-Poland town leader. I will miss the sparkle in her eyes and those warm hugs at the annual conferences. May the memory of Phyllis be for a blessing. Stanley Diamond, M.S.M. Executive Director, For the Board of Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
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What do old Jewish New Year's postcards >from Pinsk, school records
from Dubno dated 1846, and a young girl >from Rimalov standing alone ona Philadelphia dock in 1904 have in common? They are the inspirations for three moving success stories recently published to our website. You can access these accounts >from the "About Us" button on the website or by following this link: http://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen/testimonials/ Postcards >from Pinsk: A ViewMate Success Story By Linda Ewall Krocker Through a Ukrainian Brick Wall By Shirley Ginzburg What if it Hadn't Happened This Way? My Grandmother's Arrival in America By Marilyn Goldenberg Gelber Thank you to the authors who shared their stories with us, and to our Success! Stories Webmaster and Associate Editor, Richard Baum. We encourage you to submit your own success stories to us at: success@... . Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA) Editor, JewishGen's Success! Stories
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Nomi Waksberg <nwaksberg@...>
Hello,
I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM75042 Records in Polish http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72181 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72155 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM72064 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Your time and support is appreciated. Thank you very much. Nomi Fishenfeld Waksberg
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GRUNBAUM/GRYNBAUM, Abram 1924-1945, Sosnowiec, Poland/Buchenwald
#general
H Michael McTeer <mcteer@...>
Not quite sure how to do this. Tried searching the message files just to
make sure I had not posted previously but could not get through. Sometime ago >from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, I received a file for above individual in my search for GRYNBAUM/LENCZNER relatives. Could not make a connection with this individual. It did contain one page that included my cousin who survived the war and came to the US. My cousin and Abram were of the same age. I checked the Yad Vashem site to see if he was included in their db but could find no entry. So I post now in case someone is looking for this individual. According to the records, Abram GRUNBAUM was born 12.5.24 (12 May 1924), Sososnowiec, Poland. The only parental data I could find were a couple of documents giving his 'vater' as Berek G. I could find no listing of a mother. He lived on Marktstr ##, Sosnowiec. He had two prisoner numbers: AU 177269 and BU 124907. Could not read (understand) all the documents but apparently he had just been transferred to Buchenwald where he died at "9 30" 22.3.1945 (22 Mar 1945) of "Pneumonic". Abram GRUNBAUM did live. Abram GRUNBAUM died in a Nazi concentration camp. Abram GRUNBAUM was a victim of the Nazis. If this is someone you have been looking for, please contact me privately. Not sure if I should provide the documentation or the applicable reference numbers for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Michael McTeer, mcteer@... Crowley, TX USA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen GRUNBAUM/GRYNBAUM, Abram 1924-1945, Sosnowiec, Poland/Buchenwald
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H Michael McTeer <mcteer@...>
Not quite sure how to do this. Tried searching the message files just to
make sure I had not posted previously but could not get through. Sometime ago >from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, I received a file for above individual in my search for GRYNBAUM/LENCZNER relatives. Could not make a connection with this individual. It did contain one page that included my cousin who survived the war and came to the US. My cousin and Abram were of the same age. I checked the Yad Vashem site to see if he was included in their db but could find no entry. So I post now in case someone is looking for this individual. According to the records, Abram GRUNBAUM was born 12.5.24 (12 May 1924), Sososnowiec, Poland. The only parental data I could find were a couple of documents giving his 'vater' as Berek G. I could find no listing of a mother. He lived on Marktstr ##, Sosnowiec. He had two prisoner numbers: AU 177269 and BU 124907. Could not read (understand) all the documents but apparently he had just been transferred to Buchenwald where he died at "9 30" 22.3.1945 (22 Mar 1945) of "Pneumonic". Abram GRUNBAUM did live. Abram GRUNBAUM died in a Nazi concentration camp. Abram GRUNBAUM was a victim of the Nazis. If this is someone you have been looking for, please contact me privately. Not sure if I should provide the documentation or the applicable reference numbers for the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Michael McTeer, mcteer@... Crowley, TX USA
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Re: A town called Belev
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Alexander Sharon
Lois Sernoff wrote:
I am researching a very large family PUDLIN. On several of the records ofBelev is located in Tula region. According to Russian Jewish Encyclopedia town's Jewish population was as follows: Year 1863 - 46 Jewish residents 1910 - 87 1923 - 203 (1.9%) 1926 - 238 (1.8%) 1939 - 154 In 1910 town had synagogue and Jewish cemetery Best, Alexander Sharon Calgary, AB
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen RE: A town called Belev
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Alexander Sharon
Lois Sernoff wrote:
I am researching a very large family PUDLIN. On several of the records ofBelev is located in Tula region. According to Russian Jewish Encyclopedia town's Jewish population was as follows: Year 1863 - 46 Jewish residents 1910 - 87 1923 - 203 (1.9%) 1926 - 238 (1.8%) 1939 - 154 In 1910 town had synagogue and Jewish cemetery Best, Alexander Sharon Calgary, AB
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Volunteers needed (Danzig/Gdansk)
#general
Logan J. Kleinwaks
Are you interested in volunteering to transcribe or proofread
transcriptions of Jewish genealogical records >from Danzig/Gdansk? JewishGen's Danzig/Gdansk SIG is looking for volunteers who can confidently read handwritten Hebrew cursive or German Kurrent-style script (Suetterlin, etc.), or who can photograph archival documents in Berlin-Dahlem. These 18th-20th century records include vital records, censuses, narrative documents (marriage concessions, property concessions, contracts, disputes), synagogue seat records, and others. Please email me for more details if you might be interested. Logan Kleinwaks Coordinator, JewishGen Danzig/Gdansk SIG kleinwaks@... near Washington, D.C.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Volunteers needed (Danzig/Gdansk)
#general
Logan J. Kleinwaks
Are you interested in volunteering to transcribe or proofread
transcriptions of Jewish genealogical records >from Danzig/Gdansk? JewishGen's Danzig/Gdansk SIG is looking for volunteers who can confidently read handwritten Hebrew cursive or German Kurrent-style script (Suetterlin, etc.), or who can photograph archival documents in Berlin-Dahlem. These 18th-20th century records include vital records, censuses, narrative documents (marriage concessions, property concessions, contracts, disputes), synagogue seat records, and others. Please email me for more details if you might be interested. Logan Kleinwaks Coordinator, JewishGen Danzig/Gdansk SIG kleinwaks@... near Washington, D.C.
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Logan J. Kleinwaks
Are you interested in volunteering to transcribe or proofread
transcriptions of Jewish genealogical records >from Danzig/Gdansk? JewishGen's Danzig/Gdansk SIG is looking for volunteers who can confidently read handwritten Hebrew cursive or German Kurrent-style script (Suetterlin, etc.), or who can photograph archival documents in Berlin-Dahlem. These 18th-20th century records include vital records, censuses, narrative documents (marriage concessions, property concessions, contracts, disputes), synagogue seat records, and others. Please email me for more details if you might be interested. Logan Kleinwaks Coordinator, JewishGen Danzig/Gdansk SIG kleinwaks@... near Washington, D.C.
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Logan J. Kleinwaks
Are you interested in volunteering to transcribe or proofread
transcriptions of Jewish genealogical records >from Danzig/Gdansk? JewishGen's Danzig/Gdansk SIG is looking for volunteers who can confidently read handwritten Hebrew cursive or German Kurrent-style script (Suetterlin, etc.), or who can photograph archival documents in Berlin-Dahlem. These 18th-20th century records include vital records, censuses, narrative documents (marriage concessions, property concessions, contracts, disputes), synagogue seat records, and others. Please email me for more details if you might be interested. Logan Kleinwaks Coordinator, JewishGen Danzig/Gdansk SIG kleinwaks@... near Washington, D.C.
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