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Birth and marriage registers for Vienna, 1884-1848
#austria-czech
Florence & Henry Wellisch <kelwel@...>
Bob Hanscom and I are planning to put this on the internet.
While going through the Jewish birth and marriage registers of Vienna 1784 - 1848 I found certain interesting professions: Any comments regarding the translations? Wechselpapiernegotiant = Trader in promissory notes Admodiateur = Leaseholder Haendler mit Staatspapieren = Trader in Government securities Districtstabakverleger = District manager of tobacco products ? Traiteur = Caterer Handlungskommissionaer = Trade commissioner Oekonomielieferant = General wholesale supplier ? Warensensal = Broker in general goods Privilegiumsinhaber = Holder of a privilege? Sekretaer des Baron Rothschild: (1832, Moritz Goldschmidt) Armenkommissaer = Commissioner for the poor Verabschiedeter Polizeikorporal, jetzt Conducteur bei der Nordbahn = Retired policecorporal, now conductor for the northern railway Prokurist bei Rothschild (Leopold von Wertheimstein) Manufakturszeichner = Textile designer ? Gen. Sekretaer der Ungarischen Centralbahn, Wien (1847, Josef Sichrowsky) Gen. Sekretaer der Nordbahn (1847, Heinrich Sichrowsky) Universitaetsprofessor und Leibarzt in Konstantinopel (1847, Dr. Sigmund Spitzer) Koscherfleichversilberer = Kosher meat ???? (This beats me; what has kosher meat to do with silver?) Henry Wellisch Toronto
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Austria-Czech SIG #Austria-Czech Birth and marriage registers for Vienna, 1884-1848
#austria-czech
Florence & Henry Wellisch <kelwel@...>
Bob Hanscom and I are planning to put this on the internet.
While going through the Jewish birth and marriage registers of Vienna 1784 - 1848 I found certain interesting professions: Any comments regarding the translations? Wechselpapiernegotiant = Trader in promissory notes Admodiateur = Leaseholder Haendler mit Staatspapieren = Trader in Government securities Districtstabakverleger = District manager of tobacco products ? Traiteur = Caterer Handlungskommissionaer = Trade commissioner Oekonomielieferant = General wholesale supplier ? Warensensal = Broker in general goods Privilegiumsinhaber = Holder of a privilege? Sekretaer des Baron Rothschild: (1832, Moritz Goldschmidt) Armenkommissaer = Commissioner for the poor Verabschiedeter Polizeikorporal, jetzt Conducteur bei der Nordbahn = Retired policecorporal, now conductor for the northern railway Prokurist bei Rothschild (Leopold von Wertheimstein) Manufakturszeichner = Textile designer ? Gen. Sekretaer der Ungarischen Centralbahn, Wien (1847, Josef Sichrowsky) Gen. Sekretaer der Nordbahn (1847, Heinrich Sichrowsky) Universitaetsprofessor und Leibarzt in Konstantinopel (1847, Dr. Sigmund Spitzer) Koscherfleichversilberer = Kosher meat ???? (This beats me; what has kosher meat to do with silver?) Henry Wellisch Toronto
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Lithuanian Vital Records Indexing Project - Reminder, ease of donation
#lithuania
Joel Ratner
To all those interested in donating to the Vital Records Indexing
Project - you may fill out either the online form or a form I can e-mail to you and fax rather than send by snail-mail your credit card information to Richard Hoffman at 661/299-9198. Joel Ratner Coordinator, Vilna District Research Group Interim Coordinator, Vilna Vital Records
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Belzec
#lithuania
Joyce Field
The entire book by Robin O'Neil, "Belzec: Prototype of the Final
Solution; Hitler's Answer to the Jewish Question," is now online at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/belzec1/belzec1.html. You will find a forward and introduction,16 chapters with extensive footnotes, appendices, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. This original work was contributed to JewishGen by Robin and the online presentation was done by Lance Ackerfeld and Max Heffler. Robin says of the focus of the books, " What follows is the background of how this policy of genocide was conceived, put into operation and staffed, and how the ordinary men involved were caught up in one of the blackest moments in human history." This is not an easy read, by any means, but the scholarship will add immensely to our understanding of the Holocaust. Joyce Field JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition Yizkor Book Project Manager
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Lithuanian Vital Records Indexing Project - Reminder, ease of donation
#lithuania
Joel Ratner
To all those interested in donating to the Vital Records Indexing
Project - you may fill out either the online form or a form I can e-mail to you and fax rather than send by snail-mail your credit card information to Richard Hoffman at 661/299-9198. Joel Ratner Coordinator, Vilna District Research Group Interim Coordinator, Vilna Vital Records
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Belzec
#lithuania
Joyce Field
The entire book by Robin O'Neil, "Belzec: Prototype of the Final
Solution; Hitler's Answer to the Jewish Question," is now online at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/belzec1/belzec1.html. You will find a forward and introduction,16 chapters with extensive footnotes, appendices, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. This original work was contributed to JewishGen by Robin and the online presentation was done by Lance Ackerfeld and Max Heffler. Robin says of the focus of the books, " What follows is the background of how this policy of genocide was conceived, put into operation and staffed, and how the ordinary men involved were caught up in one of the blackest moments in human history." This is not an easy read, by any means, but the scholarship will add immensely to our understanding of the Holocaust. Joyce Field JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition Yizkor Book Project Manager
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Vilna City Vital Records - Matching funds challenge
#lithuania
Joel Ratner
Dear Vilna City researchers,
On February 22, a matching funds challenge for the translation of the Vilna City vital records was announced. Marvin and Arlene Baron Joachim pledged to match the next $1000 received [as of 2/22/05]. Please take this opportunity to contribute and allow us to benefit >from the matching grant challenge. If this challenge is satisfied, we will be able to translate a few years worth of Vilna City records. Remember, we've got 80 years worth of Vilna records, so we will need everyone to contribute. Those wishing to donate to this project may do so via the form accessible online >from the LitvakSIG web page [click on Donor Form at the bottom of the page] or via a convenient form I can e-mail to you. If you choose to use a credit card, you may fax the completed form to Richard Hoffman at 661/299-9198. Joel Ratner Coordinator, Vilna District Research Group Interim Coordinator, Vilna Vital Records
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Vilna City Vital Records - Matching funds challenge
#lithuania
Joel Ratner
Dear Vilna City researchers,
On February 22, a matching funds challenge for the translation of the Vilna City vital records was announced. Marvin and Arlene Baron Joachim pledged to match the next $1000 received [as of 2/22/05]. Please take this opportunity to contribute and allow us to benefit >from the matching grant challenge. If this challenge is satisfied, we will be able to translate a few years worth of Vilna City records. Remember, we've got 80 years worth of Vilna records, so we will need everyone to contribute. Those wishing to donate to this project may do so via the form accessible online >from the LitvakSIG web page [click on Donor Form at the bottom of the page] or via a convenient form I can e-mail to you. If you choose to use a credit card, you may fax the completed form to Richard Hoffman at 661/299-9198. Joel Ratner Coordinator, Vilna District Research Group Interim Coordinator, Vilna Vital Records
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YUTER - FINEBERG
#lithuania
Beryl. B <balden@...>
Dovid Yuter born in Subacius in the mid-1800's
left Lithuania for the U.S. in the late 1800's. He lived in Boston, working on a cattle farm. He married into the Fineberg family in Boston and changed his name >from Yuter to Fineberg. If anyone knows of this connection would you please contact me privately. thank you Beryl Juter Baleson Israel. balden@zahav.net.il
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania YUTER - FINEBERG
#lithuania
Beryl. B <balden@...>
Dovid Yuter born in Subacius in the mid-1800's
left Lithuania for the U.S. in the late 1800's. He lived in Boston, working on a cattle farm. He married into the Fineberg family in Boston and changed his name >from Yuter to Fineberg. If anyone knows of this connection would you please contact me privately. thank you Beryl Juter Baleson Israel. balden@zahav.net.il
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BLUMENTHAL, HARRY and /or ABRAHAM (Father Benny from Vilkomir)
#lithuania
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I'm hoping someone out there knows or is related to Harry BLUMENTHAL born
1910 in NY died 1994 in Queens or Abraham BLUMENTHAL born 1908 in New York died 1956. Their parents, Benny, who was born in Vilkomir, and Yetta (also known as Anna) were my great aunt and uncle. Thanks for your help. Carol Cohen Bklyn NY MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately.
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania BLUMENTHAL, HARRY and /or ABRAHAM (Father Benny from Vilkomir)
#lithuania
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I'm hoping someone out there knows or is related to Harry BLUMENTHAL born
1910 in NY died 1994 in Queens or Abraham BLUMENTHAL born 1908 in New York died 1956. Their parents, Benny, who was born in Vilkomir, and Yetta (also known as Anna) were my great aunt and uncle. Thanks for your help. Carol Cohen Bklyn NY MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately.
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Re: Need Telephone Call to Malmo, Sweden
#general
Stan Goodman <SPAM_FOILER@...>
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 04:48:13 UTC, bzilber@hotmail.com (Barbara Zilber)
opined: Carol Rider's recent request for a telephone caller in Sweden has given meFor what it's worth, my experience in Sweden is that every Swede speaks some sort of English, generally quite good. It may be worth your while to try making the call yourself. Why introduce an intermediary unnecessarily? -- Stan Goodman, Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel Searching: NEACHOWICZ/NOACHOWICZ, NEJMAN/NAJMAN, SURALSKI: >from Lomza Gubernia ISMACH: >from Lomza Gubernia, Galicia, and Ukraina HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: >from Dorohoi District, Romania GRISARU, VATARU: >from Iasi, Dorohoi, and Mileanca, Romania See my interactive family tree (requires Java 1.1.6 or better). the URL is: http://www.hashkedim.com For reasons connected with anti-spam/junk security, the return address is not valid. To communicate with me, please visit my website (see the URL above -- no Java required for this purpose) and fill in the email form there.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Need Telephone Call to Malmo, Sweden
#general
Stan Goodman <SPAM_FOILER@...>
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 04:48:13 UTC, bzilber@hotmail.com (Barbara Zilber)
opined: Carol Rider's recent request for a telephone caller in Sweden has given meFor what it's worth, my experience in Sweden is that every Swede speaks some sort of English, generally quite good. It may be worth your while to try making the call yourself. Why introduce an intermediary unnecessarily? -- Stan Goodman, Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel Searching: NEACHOWICZ/NOACHOWICZ, NEJMAN/NAJMAN, SURALSKI: >from Lomza Gubernia ISMACH: >from Lomza Gubernia, Galicia, and Ukraina HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: >from Dorohoi District, Romania GRISARU, VATARU: >from Iasi, Dorohoi, and Mileanca, Romania See my interactive family tree (requires Java 1.1.6 or better). the URL is: http://www.hashkedim.com For reasons connected with anti-spam/junk security, the return address is not valid. To communicate with me, please visit my website (see the URL above -- no Java required for this purpose) and fill in the email form there.
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Belzec
#poland
Joyce Field
The entire book by Robin O'Neil, "Belzec: Prototype of the Final
Solution; Hitler's Answer to the Jewish Question," is now online at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/belzec1/belzec1.html. You will find a forward and introduction,16 chapters with extensive footnotes, appendices, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. This original work was contributed to JewishGen by Robin and the online presentation was done by Lance Ackerfeld and Max Heffler. Robin says of the focus of the books, " What follows is the background of how this policy of genocide was conceived, put into operation and staffed, and how the ordinary men involved were caught up in one of the blackest moments in human history." This is not an easy read, by any means, but the scholarship will add immensely to our understanding of the Holocaust. Joyce Field JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition Yizkor Book Project Manager
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JRI Poland #Poland Belzec
#poland
Joyce Field
The entire book by Robin O'Neil, "Belzec: Prototype of the Final
Solution; Hitler's Answer to the Jewish Question," is now online at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/belzec1/belzec1.html. You will find a forward and introduction,16 chapters with extensive footnotes, appendices, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. This original work was contributed to JewishGen by Robin and the online presentation was done by Lance Ackerfeld and Max Heffler. Robin says of the focus of the books, " What follows is the background of how this policy of genocide was conceived, put into operation and staffed, and how the ordinary men involved were caught up in one of the blackest moments in human history." This is not an easy read, by any means, but the scholarship will add immensely to our understanding of the Holocaust. Joyce Field JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition Yizkor Book Project Manager
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who and where are the descendants of FABIAN family from KROSNO POLAND
#poland
Leah and Eli Teicher
My paternal grand mother Hadassa YUST(or JUST)- ZUCKERMAN had an aunt (her
father-SHMUEL JUST's sister) by the name MALKA JUST - FABIAN. MALKA FABIAN married to YA'AKOV (or JACOB) FABIAN >from KROSNO - POLAND. JACOB FABIAN born on 1864 went on 1899 (he was 35 years old) to U.S.A (according to Ellis Island records), there he went to his brother Josef. Later, on 1901 arrived to the U.S.A MALKA FABIAN with 3 of their kids: 1)BENJAMIN who was 4 years old, born on 1898, later his American name was BEN FABIAN. He married BETH FRIEDLAND 2)CHASKEL who was 11 months, later his American name was CHARLIE FABIAN. He later married ? 3)A girl, probably LEAH (written in ELLIS ISLAND papers ...L?eaci, means LEYCHE?) who was 7 years old, born on 1895, married? JACOB and MALKA FABIAN had other children probably born in the U.S.A.: 4)RUTH FABIAN who married BEART SCHWIMMER 5)ANNE FABIAN who married MORRIS CAACLFIN JACOB FABIAN (though he is not "our family") had a brother - BERL FABIAN from KORCZYNA - POLAND which is a little village close to KROSNO. BERL wentalso to the U.S.A with their widow mother - BRANDEL, wife - D'VORA, and 5 little kids: BENJAMIN, BEILE, ELIE, RACHEL, JACOB. They arrived in ELLIS ISLAND on 1900. Who are the descendants of FABIAN family, my grand mother's aunt? where are they to day? You have a large family here in Israel, who would like have contacts with you. We succeed in tracing here and abroad most of the members of the JUST large family, we'd like to have them all known. This "branch" is unknown to us at all. Thanks for any help!! Please answer us to Dr. Leah Teicher anafa-e@zahav.net.il Karmiel, Israel MODERATOR'S NOTE: Make sure you list the names and towns you are seeking in the JewishGen Family Finder at www.jewishgen.org/jgff so others connected to that family can find you.
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JRI Poland #Poland who and where are the descendants of FABIAN family from KROSNO POLAND
#poland
Leah and Eli Teicher
My paternal grand mother Hadassa YUST(or JUST)- ZUCKERMAN had an aunt (her
father-SHMUEL JUST's sister) by the name MALKA JUST - FABIAN. MALKA FABIAN married to YA'AKOV (or JACOB) FABIAN >from KROSNO - POLAND. JACOB FABIAN born on 1864 went on 1899 (he was 35 years old) to U.S.A (according to Ellis Island records), there he went to his brother Josef. Later, on 1901 arrived to the U.S.A MALKA FABIAN with 3 of their kids: 1)BENJAMIN who was 4 years old, born on 1898, later his American name was BEN FABIAN. He married BETH FRIEDLAND 2)CHASKEL who was 11 months, later his American name was CHARLIE FABIAN. He later married ? 3)A girl, probably LEAH (written in ELLIS ISLAND papers ...L?eaci, means LEYCHE?) who was 7 years old, born on 1895, married? JACOB and MALKA FABIAN had other children probably born in the U.S.A.: 4)RUTH FABIAN who married BEART SCHWIMMER 5)ANNE FABIAN who married MORRIS CAACLFIN JACOB FABIAN (though he is not "our family") had a brother - BERL FABIAN from KORCZYNA - POLAND which is a little village close to KROSNO. BERL wentalso to the U.S.A with their widow mother - BRANDEL, wife - D'VORA, and 5 little kids: BENJAMIN, BEILE, ELIE, RACHEL, JACOB. They arrived in ELLIS ISLAND on 1900. Who are the descendants of FABIAN family, my grand mother's aunt? where are they to day? You have a large family here in Israel, who would like have contacts with you. We succeed in tracing here and abroad most of the members of the JUST large family, we'd like to have them all known. This "branch" is unknown to us at all. Thanks for any help!! Please answer us to Dr. Leah Teicher anafa-e@zahav.net.il Karmiel, Israel MODERATOR'S NOTE: Make sure you list the names and towns you are seeking in the JewishGen Family Finder at www.jewishgen.org/jgff so others connected to that family can find you.
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Pogroms around Bialystok
#poland
Rosalind
Verbal history is that my maternal GGF's family, cousins, sibs were
wiped out in a progrom near Briansk near Bialystok about 1884. Soon after this my GGF wife and chiuldren left Warsaw for Ireland. Does anyone have reading material or suggestions on research of that year for Briansk, as I have not found anything on the Jewishgen listings so far. Thanks Ros Romem Jerusalem
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Belzec
#poland
Joyce Field
The entire book by Robin O'Neil, "Belzec: Prototype of the Final
Solution; Hitler's Answer to the Jewish Question," is now online at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/belzec1/belzec1.html. You will find a forward and introduction,16 chapters with extensive footnotes, appendices, a glossary, and an extensive bibliography. This original work was contributed to JewishGen by Robin and the online presentation was done by Lance Ackerfeld and Max Heffler. Robin says of the focus of the books, " What follows is the background of how this policy of genocide was conceived, put into operation and staffed, and how the ordinary men involved were caught up in one of the blackest moments in human history." This is not an easy read, by any means, but the scholarship will add immensely to our understanding of the Holocaust. Joyce Field JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition Yizkor Book Project Manager
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