Has anyone had experience in finding information on unused American visas? Any
guidance would be appreciated.

I believe there is a chance that my mother's family may have been
issued visas to come to the US, but did not use them, possibly due to
my grandfather suffering disabling injuries during the 30 days he
spent at Buchenwald after being arrested during Krystallnacht. I
believe they were seeking visas >from an office in Stuttgart and if I
am correct, the visas would have been issued there. Has anyone had
experience in finding information on unused American visas? Any
guidance would be appreciated. thanks,

Dennis Aron, Skokie, IL, USA dennisaron@...

Has anyone had experience in finding information on unused American visas? Any
guidance would be appreciated.

I believe there is a chance that my mother's family may have been
issued visas to come to the US, but did not use them, possibly due to
my grandfather suffering disabling injuries during the 30 days he
spent at Buchenwald after being arrested during Krystallnacht. I
believe they were seeking visas >from an office in Stuttgart and if I
am correct, the visas would have been issued there. Has anyone had
experience in finding information on unused American visas? Any
guidance would be appreciated. thanks,

Dennis Aron, Skokie, IL, USA dennisaron@...

Please post
I've posted an index page >from PSA records for Grodzisk Mazowiecki
(which includes records of the small nearby shtetls which were registered here
Bonie, Nadarzyn).
A translation will let me know if I should pull the specific records for
additional translation. There may also be names on this list which may
be of interest to other researchers and I will include it on jewishgen
as an fyi.

You can find this translation request on:
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM52594

The family names I am searching for are with all possible spelling variants:
paternal: FISZENFELD - ZYNGER - KLEINBART - HEYN - FRIDMAN
maternal: BRAUN - WOLKOWICZ - RYGIEL- RAMBAUM

Please list all names (bride and groom) by line number, so I can pull
the correct AKT for translation.

Please respond using the ViewMate form.

Thank you in advance for your very much appreciated time and assistance.

Hello,

I've posted an index page >from PSA records for Grodzisk Mazowiecki
(and of the small nearby shtetls which were registered here
Bonie, Nadarzyn).

A translation will let me know if I should pull the specific records for
additional translation. There may also be names on this list which may
be of interest to other researchers and I will include it on jewishgen
as an fyi.

You can find this translation request on:
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM52593

The family names I am searching for are with all possible spelling variants:
paternal: FISZENFELD - ZYNGER - KLEINBART - HEYN - FRIDMAN
maternal: BRAUN - WOLKOWICZ - RYGIEL- RAMBAUM

Please list all names (bride and groom) by line number, so I can pull
the correct AKT for translation.

Please respond using the ViewMate form.

Thank you in advance for your very much appreciated time and assistance.

Hello,

I've posted a vital record for which I need a translation.

This is a birth record of 1898, I believe it is in Russian.

I would like to know :
1. the full name of each parent (given, sur and maiden),
2. verification of town name,
3. verification of date of birth (Month/ Day/Tear), as I've learned
that often the recorded birthdate and actual birthdate year are
not the same.

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM52592

Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

If viewing is too difficult, please let me know and I can send a
higher resolution image to you directly.

Thank you.
Nomi

Please post
I've posted an index page >from PSA records for Grodzisk Mazowiecki
(which includes records of the small nearby shtetls which were registered here
Bonie, Nadarzyn).
A translation will let me know if I should pull the specific records for
additional translation. There may also be names on this list which may
be of interest to other researchers and I will include it on jewishgen
as an fyi.

You can find this translation request on:
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM52594

The family names I am searching for are with all possible spelling variants:
paternal: FISZENFELD - ZYNGER - KLEINBART - HEYN - FRIDMAN
maternal: BRAUN - WOLKOWICZ - RYGIEL- RAMBAUM

Please list all names (bride and groom) by line number, so I can pull
the correct AKT for translation.

Please respond using the ViewMate form.

Thank you in advance for your very much appreciated time and assistance.

Hello,

I've posted an index page >from PSA records for Grodzisk Mazowiecki
(and of the small nearby shtetls which were registered here
Bonie, Nadarzyn).

A translation will let me know if I should pull the specific records for
additional translation. There may also be names on this list which may
be of interest to other researchers and I will include it on jewishgen
as an fyi.

You can find this translation request on:
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM52593

The family names I am searching for are with all possible spelling variants:
paternal: FISZENFELD - ZYNGER - KLEINBART - HEYN - FRIDMAN
maternal: BRAUN - WOLKOWICZ - RYGIEL- RAMBAUM

Please list all names (bride and groom) by line number, so I can pull
the correct AKT for translation.

Please respond using the ViewMate form.

Thank you in advance for your very much appreciated time and assistance.

Hello,

I've posted a vital record for which I need a translation.

This is a birth record of 1898, I believe it is in Russian.

I would like to know :
1. the full name of each parent (given, sur and maiden),
2. verification of town name,
3. verification of date of birth (Month/ Day/Tear), as I've learned
that often the recorded birthdate and actual birthdate year are
not the same.

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM52592

Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

If viewing is too difficult, please let me know and I can send a
higher resolution image to you directly.

Thank you.
Nomi

IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association) has posted two new articles on its
website- “Yagolnitzer Connection - Part 2”, by Jeffrey Knishbacher and “Notes
Regarding the Database-Ukraine Pogroms List of Victims”, by Ellen Stepak

“Yagolnitzer Connection - Part 2”, by Jeffrey Knishbacher

This article continues on >from where Part 1 left off to describe recent research
on a very large and prominent immigrant family in Rhode Island and beyond, many

from the area of Kamenetz Podolsk in the SW of Czarist Russia and adjacent areas

that have shifted in sovereignty between Romania, Russia, the USSR, and now
independent Moldova and Ukraine. It includes information attempting to reestablish
lost connections between members of this family, known by at least four surname
variants—Egolnitzer, Iegelnitzer, Yagolnitzer and Jagolinzer.

“Notes Regarding the Database-Ukraine Pogroms List of Victims”, by Ellen Stepak

A list of Ukraine pogrom victims was recently added to the IGRA databases on its
website. Many thousands of Jews were murdered in the pogroms of 1918-1920,
immediately following World War One, and during the Russian Revolution. This
article gives in depth information by Ellen Stepak about the list itself and her
preparation of the list.

These articles can be viewed for free for a week, after which time
only IGRA members will have access to them.

Before viewing the article, please register for free on the IGRA website

http://genealogy.org.il/

To view the Yagolnitzer article go to:
http://genealogy.org.il/2017/01/24/yagolnitzer-connection-part-2-jeffrey-knisbacher/
(MODERATOR: https://tinyurl.com/jqpbjxj )

To view the Ukraine pogrom article go to:
http://genealogy.org.il/2017/01/06/notes-regarding-database-ukraine-pogroms-list-victims-ellen-stepak/
(MODERATOR: https://tinyurl.com/zgcs3ph )

Elena Biegel Bazes
IGRA Publicity Chairperson

IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association) has posted two new articles on its
website- “Yagolnitzer Connection - Part 2”, by Jeffrey Knishbacher and “Notes
Regarding the Database-Ukraine Pogroms List of Victims”, by Ellen Stepak

“Yagolnitzer Connection - Part 2”, by Jeffrey Knishbacher

This article continues on >from where Part 1 left off to describe recent research
on a very large and prominent immigrant family in Rhode Island and beyond, many

from the area of Kamenetz Podolsk in the SW of Czarist Russia and adjacent areas

that have shifted in sovereignty between Romania, Russia, the USSR, and now
independent Moldova and Ukraine. It includes information attempting to reestablish
lost connections between members of this family, known by at least four surname
variants—Egolnitzer, Iegelnitzer, Yagolnitzer and Jagolinzer.

“Notes Regarding the Database-Ukraine Pogroms List of Victims”, by Ellen Stepak

A list of Ukraine pogrom victims was recently added to the IGRA databases on its
website. Many thousands of Jews were murdered in the pogroms of 1918-1920,
immediately following World War One, and during the Russian Revolution. This
article gives in depth information by Ellen Stepak about the list itself and her
preparation of the list.

These articles can be viewed for free for a week, after which time
only IGRA members will have access to them.

Before viewing the article, please register for free on the IGRA website

http://genealogy.org.il/

To view the Yagolnitzer article go to:
http://genealogy.org.il/2017/01/24/yagolnitzer-connection-part-2-jeffrey-knisbacher/
(MODERATOR: https://tinyurl.com/jqpbjxj )

To view the Ukraine pogrom article go to:
http://genealogy.org.il/2017/01/06/notes-regarding-database-ukraine-pogroms-list-victims-ellen-stepak/
(MODERATOR: https://tinyurl.com/zgcs3ph )

Elena Biegel Bazes
IGRA Publicity Chairperson

I am still seeking answers if anyone can help me. Have you come across the name
Else GRUN nee LINDNER. (1888-1943) ? Previously married to a Mr.KEIL. She married
Leopold GRUN (1882-1942) in 1920 in Skotschau,Slaskie. Divorced him in 1931. He
survived Dachau and moved to Israel in 1940. She originally came >from Skotschau,
Slaskie but lived in VIENNA around late 1930-1939. Her address was : 15/15
Liechtenstein Str., Vienna 9. With and without her husband! She came to London in
1939. She was well known to my late father when she was living in North London
towards the end of her life. I cannot find any immigration records, or Census
records in the UK. I found her grave in North London which has no Hebrew, and does
not show her fathers name. It shows her married name GRUN and her maiden name
LINDNER. Her UK death certificate gives her addresses in London and Vienna.
My paternal great-grandmother was Ruchel GRUN >from Tarnopol. I cannot determine if
she was related to Leopold GRUN. I cannot trace Else' parents either, so she
'stands alone' with Leopold just outside my family tree! Can anyone help with more
details on either Else or Leopold?

I have written to organisations in Vienna who could not help, and to a
descendent of Leopold's in Israel, who has not responded.
Please reply to : roystar20@...

Roy Star (London)

Also researching : STARISOLLER (various spellings) Tarnopol & Zbaraz ;
WAINSTAIN Lithuania ; GERSHCOWIT Poland ; GRADNER Bialystok ;
WARMAN Galicia ; CZYGLIK (Galicia).

I am still seeking answers if anyone can help me. Have you come across the name
Else GRUN nee LINDNER. (1888-1943) ? Previously married to a Mr.KEIL. She married
Leopold GRUN (1882-1942) in 1920 in Skotschau,Slaskie. Divorced him in 1931. He
survived Dachau and moved to Israel in 1940. She originally came >from Skotschau,
Slaskie but lived in VIENNA around late 1930-1939. Her address was : 15/15
Liechtenstein Str., Vienna 9. With and without her husband! She came to London in
1939. She was well known to my late father when she was living in North London
towards the end of her life. I cannot find any immigration records, or Census
records in the UK. I found her grave in North London which has no Hebrew, and does
not show her fathers name. It shows her married name GRUN and her maiden name
LINDNER. Her UK death certificate gives her addresses in London and Vienna.
My paternal great-grandmother was Ruchel GRUN >from Tarnopol. I cannot determine if
she was related to Leopold GRUN. I cannot trace Else' parents either, so she
'stands alone' with Leopold just outside my family tree! Can anyone help with more
details on either Else or Leopold?

I have written to organisations in Vienna who could not help, and to a
descendent of Leopold's in Israel, who has not responded.
Please reply to : roystar20@...

Roy Star (London)

Also researching : STARISOLLER (various spellings) Tarnopol & Zbaraz ;
WAINSTAIN Lithuania ; GERSHCOWIT Poland ; GRADNER Bialystok ;
WARMAN Galicia ; CZYGLIK (Galicia).

One of the big mysteries I have been trying to resolve since I began researching
my family almost a decade ago is where exactly in all the vast Soviet Union my
late father and grandparents were during World War II, and where and when exactly
my grandfather was killed. My father was only three years old when the Germans
invaded his native Poland, and he and his parents fled into "Russia." When Russia
went to war against Germany in mid-1941, my grandfather volunteered to fight
with the Red Army, and was apparently killed almost immediately. My grandmother
also died young (after the war) and my father simply never knew where exactly
he had been in Russia or when or where his father was killed.

A couple of years ago I received a document >from Poland which told me that early
in 1940 the family was in a town called Kizel, in the Ural Mountains. Now, thanks
to the wonderful people at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, I have received a document
that for the first time tells me more: This document, >from a health organization
in Poland that took care of survivors just after the war, says they were first in
the Urals (it doesn't specify Kizel, just the Urals), then in Simferopol,Ukraine,
and then (my grandmother and father only) in Urgencz (Urgench), Uzbekistan. It
also says that my grandfather's last place of residence was Simferopol, which
suggests he enlisted >from there. It does not say anything about where or when he
was killed.

So now I am desperate to discover more. Does anyone know anything about, or can
anyone suggest sources of information about Polish Jews in Kizel, Simferopol
or Urgench during World War II? These three places are vast distances >from one
another-- how or why would the family have gone or been sent >from one to the other?
Are there any lists of the movements of Polish Jews across the Soviet Union during
the war? And if my grandfather joined the Red Army >from Simferopol, is there a list
of any soldiers/volunteers of any kind >from that area? Where would he have been
deployed >from there, and in what capacity? As a Polish Jewish refugee who
volunteered, would he have served with Russian soldiers, or in a separate unit?
And, most importantly, where and when exactly was he killed? Is there somewhere I
could write to obtain information?

Please note that I have searched the Russian Defense Ministry's OBD Memorial for
every possible variation of my grandfather's name, and I've found nothing. I've
also searched other sources (listed in detail below). Any information or
suggestions to help me find something would be most gratefully received!

Thanking you most kindly in advance,
Miriam BULWAR David-Hay,
Raanana, Israel.

P.S. My grandfather's name was Abram Itzhak BULWAR, born 1900, Lodz,son of Szmul
Aron and Estera (nee ROZENBERG), killed mid- to late 1941, somewhere in "Russia."
My grandmother was Miriam (nee FRENKIEL)and my father was Tolek (Teofil) BULWAR.

The sites I have searched are as follows (in line with a request from
the discussion group moderator, I'm not including the URLs):

JewishGen, JRI-Poland, Yad Vashem, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, Fold3,
Ancestry, FamilySearch and also:

OBD, the Russian Defense Ministry site, which lists over a million fallen
Red Army soldiers.

Alexander Zaslavsky's Book of Electronic Memory, which lists more than
100,000 fallen Jewish Red Army soldiers.

Benjamin Meirchak's partial list of Jewish military casualties in WWII.

The Pobediteli website, which provides a multimedia history of the Eastern
Front and lists over a million surviving (in 2005) WWII Red Army veterans.

The Israeli Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II, which lists
soldiers and partisans who fought for the Allies.

The Martyrology list of Jewish soldiers killed in the Siege of Leningrad.

The Kresy Siberia Virtual Museum, which lists people deported or persecuted
in the pre-war eastern borderlands of Poland, but also contains complete
listings of Polish military unit personnel.

The Toldot website listing people buried in Jewish cemeteries in Russia.

Assorted lists and partial lists >from Marilyn Robinson's JewishGem blog.

MODERATOR NOTE: As Miriam has done above, adding the sources which have
already been checked, when asking for assistance is very helpful. Information like
this may provide additional resources for other Genners and also gives Genners
who can help with the question information so that they do not duplicate research
which has already been done. Thank you, Miriam.

One of the big mysteries I have been trying to resolve since I began researching
my family almost a decade ago is where exactly in all the vast Soviet Union my
late father and grandparents were during World War II, and where and when exactly
my grandfather was killed. My father was only three years old when the Germans
invaded his native Poland, and he and his parents fled into "Russia." When Russia
went to war against Germany in mid-1941, my grandfather volunteered to fight
with the Red Army, and was apparently killed almost immediately. My grandmother
also died young (after the war) and my father simply never knew where exactly
he had been in Russia or when or where his father was killed.

A couple of years ago I received a document >from Poland which told me that early
in 1940 the family was in a town called Kizel, in the Ural Mountains. Now, thanks
to the wonderful people at the U.S. Holocaust Museum, I have received a document
that for the first time tells me more: This document, >from a health organization
in Poland that took care of survivors just after the war, says they were first in
the Urals (it doesn't specify Kizel, just the Urals), then in Simferopol,Ukraine,
and then (my grandmother and father only) in Urgencz (Urgench), Uzbekistan. It
also says that my grandfather's last place of residence was Simferopol, which
suggests he enlisted >from there. It does not say anything about where or when he
was killed.

So now I am desperate to discover more. Does anyone know anything about, or can
anyone suggest sources of information about Polish Jews in Kizel, Simferopol
or Urgench during World War II? These three places are vast distances >from one
another-- how or why would the family have gone or been sent >from one to the other?
Are there any lists of the movements of Polish Jews across the Soviet Union during
the war? And if my grandfather joined the Red Army >from Simferopol, is there a list
of any soldiers/volunteers of any kind >from that area? Where would he have been
deployed >from there, and in what capacity? As a Polish Jewish refugee who
volunteered, would he have served with Russian soldiers, or in a separate unit?
And, most importantly, where and when exactly was he killed? Is there somewhere I
could write to obtain information?

Please note that I have searched the Russian Defense Ministry's OBD Memorial for
every possible variation of my grandfather's name, and I've found nothing. I've
also searched other sources (listed in detail below). Any information or
suggestions to help me find something would be most gratefully received!

Thanking you most kindly in advance,
Miriam BULWAR David-Hay,
Raanana, Israel.

P.S. My grandfather's name was Abram Itzhak BULWAR, born 1900, Lodz,son of Szmul
Aron and Estera (nee ROZENBERG), killed mid- to late 1941, somewhere in "Russia."
My grandmother was Miriam (nee FRENKIEL)and my father was Tolek (Teofil) BULWAR.

The sites I have searched are as follows (in line with a request from
the discussion group moderator, I'm not including the URLs):

JewishGen, JRI-Poland, Yad Vashem, the U.S. Holocaust Museum, Fold3,
Ancestry, FamilySearch and also:

OBD, the Russian Defense Ministry site, which lists over a million fallen
Red Army soldiers.

Alexander Zaslavsky's Book of Electronic Memory, which lists more than
100,000 fallen Jewish Red Army soldiers.

Benjamin Meirchak's partial list of Jewish military casualties in WWII.

The Pobediteli website, which provides a multimedia history of the Eastern
Front and lists over a million surviving (in 2005) WWII Red Army veterans.

The Israeli Museum of the Jewish Soldier in World War II, which lists
soldiers and partisans who fought for the Allies.

The Martyrology list of Jewish soldiers killed in the Siege of Leningrad.

The Kresy Siberia Virtual Museum, which lists people deported or persecuted
in the pre-war eastern borderlands of Poland, but also contains complete
listings of Polish military unit personnel.

The Toldot website listing people buried in Jewish cemeteries in Russia.

Assorted lists and partial lists >from Marilyn Robinson's JewishGem blog.

MODERATOR NOTE: As Miriam has done above, adding the sources which have
already been checked, when asking for assistance is very helpful. Information like
this may provide additional resources for other Genners and also gives Genners
who can help with the question information so that they do not duplicate research
which has already been done. Thank you, Miriam.

The Cosmo restaurant was not the only restaurant run by, and popular with,
German-Jewish refugees. Diagonally opposite was the Dorice. If you put in
either restaurant into the search engine of the AJR Newsletter:

http://www.ajr.org.uk/pdfjournals

you will get many hits as both restaurants frequently advertised in
the Newsletter.

[Also a mention of Cosmo in an AJR article >from 29 September, year??, about
commemorative plaques. http://www.ajr.org.uk/Frank_schon_plaque?q=3DCosmo
"Through our plaque scheme we are honouring prominent Jewish emigres from
Nazism who made a significant contribution to their adopted homeland. ....

....We have also installed a plaque in memory of the Cosmo restaurant in
Swiss Cottage, in London, a famous meeting place for the refugees."]

[Also this >from a letter to the Editor - October, 2009
http://www.ajr.org.uk/journal/issue.Oct09/letters?q=Cosmo
Gastronomic Memories
"Sir - Regarding the Cosmo Restaurant in Finchley Road, I believe it was
originally called the Cosmopolitan Restaurant, as we Northerners called it.
It became the Cosmo as the letters ‘politan’ gradually fell off and were not
replaced. " ]

Equally, a "google" search will also achieve many further links.

Another haunt was Schmidt's in Charlotte Street, a stone's throw >from the
Bloomsbury part of London, a German restaurant with a shop downstairs
selling German fare. I don't think it was Jewish owned but also had a
popular following >from the German-Jewish community as well as the nearby
general student community as it offered cheap and plentiful food in its
upstairs restaurant.

Alas, all three restaurants are no more but for those of us still around,
these restaurants invoke many childhood and young adult memories of Weiner
schnitzel, sauerbraten, Hungarian goulash, Koenigsberger klopse, apple
strudel.............................

Diana (Mohr) Gomes da Costa, Kent & formerly London dianadacosta@...

Researcher number: 166938
Researches include ARNSTEIN, BACH, BASS, BERLIN, COHN, DITTMANN, FLACHFELD,
GUETERMANN, HAHN, HELLMANN, HIRSCHMANN, KOHN, KRAILSHEIMER, KUGLER, LOEWI,
MANES, MARX, MENDEL, MORGENTHAU, MOHR, ROSENFELD, ROSENWALD, UHLMANN,
WEIKERSHEIMER and ZIRNDORFER - all originally >from Bavaria, mainly Furth,
Nurnberg and Bamberg as listed in the JGFF database.

The Cosmo restaurant was not the only restaurant run by, and popular with,
German-Jewish refugees. Diagonally opposite was the Dorice. If you put in
either restaurant into the search engine of the AJR Newsletter:

http://www.ajr.org.uk/pdfjournals

you will get many hits as both restaurants frequently advertised in
the Newsletter.

[Also a mention of Cosmo in an AJR article >from 29 September, year??, about
commemorative plaques. http://www.ajr.org.uk/Frank_schon_plaque?q=3DCosmo
"Through our plaque scheme we are honouring prominent Jewish emigres from
Nazism who made a significant contribution to their adopted homeland. ....

....We have also installed a plaque in memory of the Cosmo restaurant in
Swiss Cottage, in London, a famous meeting place for the refugees."]

[Also this >from a letter to the Editor - October, 2009
http://www.ajr.org.uk/journal/issue.Oct09/letters?q=Cosmo
Gastronomic Memories
"Sir - Regarding the Cosmo Restaurant in Finchley Road, I believe it was
originally called the Cosmopolitan Restaurant, as we Northerners called it.
It became the Cosmo as the letters ‘politan’ gradually fell off and were not
replaced. " ]

Equally, a "google" search will also achieve many further links.

Another haunt was Schmidt's in Charlotte Street, a stone's throw >from the
Bloomsbury part of London, a German restaurant with a shop downstairs
selling German fare. I don't think it was Jewish owned but also had a
popular following >from the German-Jewish community as well as the nearby
general student community as it offered cheap and plentiful food in its
upstairs restaurant.

Alas, all three restaurants are no more but for those of us still around,
these restaurants invoke many childhood and young adult memories of Weiner
schnitzel, sauerbraten, Hungarian goulash, Koenigsberger klopse, apple
strudel.............................

Diana (Mohr) Gomes da Costa, Kent & formerly London dianadacosta@...

Researcher number: 166938
Researches include ARNSTEIN, BACH, BASS, BERLIN, COHN, DITTMANN, FLACHFELD,
GUETERMANN, HAHN, HELLMANN, HIRSCHMANN, KOHN, KRAILSHEIMER, KUGLER, LOEWI,
MANES, MARX, MENDEL, MORGENTHAU, MOHR, ROSENFELD, ROSENWALD, UHLMANN,
WEIKERSHEIMER and ZIRNDORFER - all originally >from Bavaria, mainly Furth,
Nurnberg and Bamberg as listed in the JGFF database.

There is a Jewish cemetery in Nusfalau (a.k.a. Szilagynagyfalu), in Salaj
County in Transylvania. It is not in great condition but has several good
quality, legible headstones, among them that of my great-great-grandfather.
I visited this cemetery in 2000 and to my recollection, the cemetery is on
the outskirts of town and was fenced but not locked.

Recently, a family member visited Nusfalau but found the cemetery to be
locked, she could not get in. It appeared that the fence had been built up
since 2000. I am wondering if anyone is familiar with the area, and can
offer suggestions on whom to contact to gain entry. Another relative is
planning to visit in a few months. In particular, we are looking to get a
better photo of GGGF's stone. Thanks.

Steve Stein
Highland Park, New Jersey USA

Moderator: Nusfalau, Romania, was formerly Nagyfalu, Szilagy, Hungary.
This could be a good project for JOWBR. Please contact me off-list if you would be
interested in working on such an effort.

There is a Jewish cemetery in Nusfalau (a.k.a. Szilagynagyfalu), in Salaj
County in Transylvania. It is not in great condition but has several good
quality, legible headstones, among them that of my great-great-grandfather.
I visited this cemetery in 2000 and to my recollection, the cemetery is on
the outskirts of town and was fenced but not locked.

Recently, a family member visited Nusfalau but found the cemetery to be
locked, she could not get in. It appeared that the fence had been built up
since 2000. I am wondering if anyone is familiar with the area, and can
offer suggestions on whom to contact to gain entry. Another relative is
planning to visit in a few months. In particular, we are looking to get a
better photo of GGGF's stone. Thanks.

Steve Stein
Highland Park, New Jersey USA

Moderator: Nusfalau, Romania, was formerly Nagyfalu, Szilagy, Hungary.
This could be a good project for JOWBR. Please contact me off-list if you would be
interested in working on such an effort.

Shalom,

I'm happy to announce that I finished acquiring and transcribing all
available vital records >from Kosice Area (basically all towns and
villages in former Abauj-Torna county, belonging now to Slovakia).

As you can see >from the project status page (http://hsig.absolon.eu),
next database update will include 323 marriage records and 677 death
records >from 95 different registry books. As the records have to
undergo quality control checks, it may take some time until they
appear online.

The 1540 birth records are already available as part of JewishGen
Hungary Database.

So now it is time to start with the records available for city of
Kosice. In other words, another 70 books (covering years 1895-1915)
will have to be flipped through, photographed and transcribed. While
I'm doing it free of charge as my gift to the community, there are
still costs to be paid (various archive fees etc).

Therefore I'd like to ask you again for your kind contributions to
"Hungarian SIG General Fund" to help finalize this project (please
don't forget to send me the donation receipts afterwards for tracking
purposes).

Kind regards,
Peter Absolon
Kosice, Slovakia

Shalom,

I'm happy to announce that I finished acquiring and transcribing all
available vital records >from Kosice Area (basically all towns and
villages in former Abauj-Torna county, belonging now to Slovakia).

As you can see >from the project status page (http://hsig.absolon.eu),
next database update will include 323 marriage records and 677 death
records >from 95 different registry books. As the records have to
undergo quality control checks, it may take some time until they
appear online.

The 1540 birth records are already available as part of JewishGen
Hungary Database.

So now it is time to start with the records available for city of
Kosice. In other words, another 70 books (covering years 1895-1915)
will have to be flipped through, photographed and transcribed. While
I'm doing it free of charge as my gift to the community, there are
still costs to be paid (various archive fees etc).

Therefore I'd like to ask you again for your kind contributions to
"Hungarian SIG General Fund" to help finalize this project (please
don't forget to send me the donation receipts afterwards for tracking
purposes).

Kind regards,
Peter Absolon
Kosice, Slovakia