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The LIPIS family
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Alyssa Freeman
I have a mystery in my family that I'm hoping someone can help me
solve. My 2x great-aunt, Leah (Lena) LIPIS (1875 - 1934) came through Ellis Island in 1913 with 5 children, whom I thought were all her children. My mom had never heard about one of them and it turns out she was a cousin (Bessie Lipis - eventually Bessie Dreskin, then finally Bessie Kaplan (1897 - 1978). We've discovered that her father's name was Mordecai Lewis Lipis (1880 - 1959). Clearly, he was very young when he had her. What we're missing is her mother's name and what happened - why she came with her aunt and didn't stay with her father, and what happened to her mother. Mordecai was married three times in his life. One wife was Fanny, another was Ida, and the third one - whose name we don't know - was Bessie's mother. Mordecai's father was either User or Asher Lipis/Lipes/Liebes (1856 - 1946). He had a bunch of children, including Mordecai and Israel (Leah's husband). If anyone has these people in their family tree and can help me out with who Bessie's mother was, I would be very greatful! I'd also like to know who User's/Asher's wife was. Thanks so much! Alyssa Freeman Henrico, VA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen The LIPIS family
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Alyssa Freeman
I have a mystery in my family that I'm hoping someone can help me
solve. My 2x great-aunt, Leah (Lena) LIPIS (1875 - 1934) came through Ellis Island in 1913 with 5 children, whom I thought were all her children. My mom had never heard about one of them and it turns out she was a cousin (Bessie Lipis - eventually Bessie Dreskin, then finally Bessie Kaplan (1897 - 1978). We've discovered that her father's name was Mordecai Lewis Lipis (1880 - 1959). Clearly, he was very young when he had her. What we're missing is her mother's name and what happened - why she came with her aunt and didn't stay with her father, and what happened to her mother. Mordecai was married three times in his life. One wife was Fanny, another was Ida, and the third one - whose name we don't know - was Bessie's mother. Mordecai's father was either User or Asher Lipis/Lipes/Liebes (1856 - 1946). He had a bunch of children, including Mordecai and Israel (Leah's husband). If anyone has these people in their family tree and can help me out with who Bessie's mother was, I would be very greatful! I'd also like to know who User's/Asher's wife was. Thanks so much! Alyssa Freeman Henrico, VA
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GerSIG Member Survey
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Alex Calzareth
GerSIG members,
As discussed at our annual meeting on Tuesday we have created a survey for GerSIG members. This will help your directors to learn where members live and which areas of Germany they are interested in. You can also volunteer to help GerSIG and let us know whether you have any German or Hebrew knowledge, your familiarity with spreadsheets and whether you can visit any local archives. Please also use the survey to tell us which towns you can contribute information for on our new website. Please take the GerSIG member survey by visiting https://goo.gl/forms/8XXQgark5Fge1tA83 Thank you for taking the time to complete our survey. Alex Calzareth, on behalf of your GerSIG directors
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Hamburg - Ohlsdorf Jewish Cemetery, Ilandkoppel
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Corinna Woehrl
Dear GerSig-List-Readers,
I am planning to visit the Hamburg "Ohlsdorf Jewish Cemetetery" soon (with a long list of graves to find and visit). If you know that your ancestors have been laid to rest at this specific cemetery I'll do my best to find the tombstone and volunteer to take a photograph or two. I would need the name and the code in the column "Grablage", i.e. "Abraham G. A11-296. You can search the grave-register via: http://www.juedischer-friedhof-altona.de/img/Datenbanken/ilandkoppel_grabregister.pdf Please correspond privately with your request. Regards, Corinna Woehrl nee Goslar, Hoisdorf (btw Hamburg and Luebeck) - Germany goslar@cwoehrl.de Researching: GOSLAR, KARPEL, DAZY (descendants of Jenny and Maurice); WUERZBURG; KI(T)ZITAFF; MEHRGUT Moderator note: Thank you for your offer of help. Please note: Spelling a word as you did KITZITAFF / KIZITAFF will prevent the word >from being found in archives searches.
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German SIG #Germany GerSIG Member Survey
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Alex Calzareth
GerSIG members,
As discussed at our annual meeting on Tuesday we have created a survey for GerSIG members. This will help your directors to learn where members live and which areas of Germany they are interested in. You can also volunteer to help GerSIG and let us know whether you have any German or Hebrew knowledge, your familiarity with spreadsheets and whether you can visit any local archives. Please also use the survey to tell us which towns you can contribute information for on our new website. Please take the GerSIG member survey by visiting https://goo.gl/forms/8XXQgark5Fge1tA83 Thank you for taking the time to complete our survey. Alex Calzareth, on behalf of your GerSIG directors
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German SIG #Germany Hamburg - Ohlsdorf Jewish Cemetery, Ilandkoppel
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Corinna Woehrl
Dear GerSig-List-Readers,
I am planning to visit the Hamburg "Ohlsdorf Jewish Cemetetery" soon (with a long list of graves to find and visit). If you know that your ancestors have been laid to rest at this specific cemetery I'll do my best to find the tombstone and volunteer to take a photograph or two. I would need the name and the code in the column "Grablage", i.e. "Abraham G. A11-296. You can search the grave-register via: http://www.juedischer-friedhof-altona.de/img/Datenbanken/ilandkoppel_grabregister.pdf Please correspond privately with your request. Regards, Corinna Woehrl nee Goslar, Hoisdorf (btw Hamburg and Luebeck) - Germany goslar@cwoehrl.de Researching: GOSLAR, KARPEL, DAZY (descendants of Jenny and Maurice); WUERZBURG; KI(T)ZITAFF; MEHRGUT Moderator note: Thank you for your offer of help. Please note: Spelling a word as you did KITZITAFF / KIZITAFF will prevent the word >from being found in archives searches.
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Suggestions for finding righteous gentile in Monowice (Near Oswiecim) Poland
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George <shelev56@...>
Hello, My mother told me that a righteous gentile hid my uncle during
the War. Unfortunately, my uncle did not survive. I have only limited information about him, yet the information might be identifying. His name was Jaszek and he was a guard at the lakes in Monowice, Poland (next to Oswiecim (Auschwitz). I was thinking maybe someone could help me communicate with a high school history teacher or principal in the town of Monowice and maybe they could do a school project to locate his descendants. Any other ideas? Maybe someone knows Polish or Jewish students in Poland who could help me honor him. G Frankel, San Francisco
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Suggestions for finding righteous gentile in Monowice (Near Oswiecim) Poland
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George <shelev56@...>
Hello, My mother told me that a righteous gentile hid my uncle during
the War. Unfortunately, my uncle did not survive. I have only limited information about him, yet the information might be identifying. His name was Jaszek and he was a guard at the lakes in Monowice, Poland (next to Oswiecim (Auschwitz). I was thinking maybe someone could help me communicate with a high school history teacher or principal in the town of Monowice and maybe they could do a school project to locate his descendants. Any other ideas? Maybe someone knows Polish or Jewish students in Poland who could help me honor him. G Frankel, San Francisco
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(Canada) Library and Archives Canada Completes Digitization of First World War Personnel Files
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Records Access <recordsaccess@...>
Library and Archives Canada announced it completed the digitization of
620,000 World War I personnel files-30 million images-- marking Canada's 100 days. August 8, 1918 is known as the beginning of Canada's 100 days, "when the Canadian Corps spearheaded attacks that became known as the Battle of Amiens, a major turning point that led to victory in the Great War and the Armistice of November 11". This marks the centennial of the end of the first World War. To read more about this see: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2018/First-World-War-database-completed.aspx Included in the database are files of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)-Soldiers, Nurses and Chaplains; non-permanent active militia files, Imperial War Service Gratuity Files and more. To search the personnel records go to: https://tinyurl.com/lpn2pql Original url: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/personnel-records.aspx Digitizing the First World war personnel records is the largest project to date, undertaken by the Library and Archives Canada. Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen (Canada) Library and Archives Canada Completes Digitization of First World War Personnel Files
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Records Access <recordsaccess@...>
Library and Archives Canada announced it completed the digitization of
620,000 World War I personnel files-30 million images-- marking Canada's 100 days. August 8, 1918 is known as the beginning of Canada's 100 days, "when the Canadian Corps spearheaded attacks that became known as the Battle of Amiens, a major turning point that led to victory in the Great War and the Armistice of November 11". This marks the centennial of the end of the first World War. To read more about this see: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/news/Pages/2018/First-World-War-database-completed.aspx Included in the database are files of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF)-Soldiers, Nurses and Chaplains; non-permanent active militia files, Imperial War Service Gratuity Files and more. To search the personnel records go to: https://tinyurl.com/lpn2pql Original url: http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/personnel-records/Pages/personnel-records.aspx Digitizing the First World war personnel records is the largest project to date, undertaken by the Library and Archives Canada. Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: research Hench Emchine
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Evertjan. <exxjxw.hannivoort@...>
(Evelyne Kamieniecki Lemberski evelynelemberski@yahoo.fr) wrote on 08 Aug
2018 in soc.genealogy.jewish: What is the origin of the next surname? Hench EmchineLDS Famsearch hes only one hit for an [Andrew] Emchine, in 1910 Baltimore Maryland, and that is clearly a transcription error, see: <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRV8-951?i=17&;cc=1727033> I submit that "Hench" is also supicious, giving no hits at all there. Perhaps you could show us the original on Viewmate, Evelyne? -- Evertjan Hannivoort. The Netherlands. exjxwxhannivoortATinterxnlxnet (Please change the x'es to dots)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: research Hench Emchine
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Evertjan. <exxjxw.hannivoort@...>
(Evelyne Kamieniecki Lemberski evelynelemberski@yahoo.fr) wrote on 08 Aug
2018 in soc.genealogy.jewish: What is the origin of the next surname? Hench EmchineLDS Famsearch hes only one hit for an [Andrew] Emchine, in 1910 Baltimore Maryland, and that is clearly a transcription error, see: <https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRV8-951?i=17&;cc=1727033> I submit that "Hench" is also supicious, giving no hits at all there. Perhaps you could show us the original on Viewmate, Evelyne? -- Evertjan Hannivoort. The Netherlands. exjxwxhannivoortATinterxnlxnet (Please change the x'es to dots)
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Re: Trying to determine a town name on a ship's passenger list
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Bette Mas
Mark Goldstein posted cropped images of town names in Russia from
Hamburg departure and New York arrival manifests for Israel GARFINKEL in 1913 asking for the town of origin. --- Towns that were in Russia before WWI are now in various countries including Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova and, less likely, Russia. When trying to identify an unknown ancestral town, be sure to obtain all possible family documents >from Ancestry. Search JewishGen Gazetteer by distance and direction (or by radius) from a known location.When trying to decipher handwriting, the entire page and the town name in the index are helpful. The indexed town names for last residence and place of birth are Buter and Ruyans, Russia. The passenger's naturalization documents say he was born in Rouzani, Russia and last foreign residence was Byten, Russia. His WWII draft registration lists birth place Rozana, Russia. A search in JewishGen Gazetteer results in the significant Jewish community of Byten, Belarus, in Slonim district, Grodno Gubernia, Russian Empire before WWI and lists the nearby Jewish community of Ruzhany 26 miles W. JewishGen Gazetteer < https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp > JewishGen Gazetteer Radius Search < https://www.jewishgen.org/communities/LocRad.asp > JewishGen Communities Locality Pages for Byten, Belarus: < https://www.jewishgen.org/communities/community.php?usbgn=-1942035 > and Ruzhany, Belarus: < https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1948969 > Bette Stoop Mas USA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen RE: Trying to determine a town name on a ship's passenger list
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Bette Mas
Mark Goldstein posted cropped images of town names in Russia from
Hamburg departure and New York arrival manifests for Israel GARFINKEL in 1913 asking for the town of origin. --- Towns that were in Russia before WWI are now in various countries including Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova and, less likely, Russia. When trying to identify an unknown ancestral town, be sure to obtain all possible family documents >from Ancestry. Search JewishGen Gazetteer by distance and direction (or by radius) from a known location.When trying to decipher handwriting, the entire page and the town name in the index are helpful. The indexed town names for last residence and place of birth are Buter and Ruyans, Russia. The passenger's naturalization documents say he was born in Rouzani, Russia and last foreign residence was Byten, Russia. His WWII draft registration lists birth place Rozana, Russia. A search in JewishGen Gazetteer results in the significant Jewish community of Byten, Belarus, in Slonim district, Grodno Gubernia, Russian Empire before WWI and lists the nearby Jewish community of Ruzhany 26 miles W. JewishGen Gazetteer < https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp > JewishGen Gazetteer Radius Search < https://www.jewishgen.org/communities/LocRad.asp > JewishGen Communities Locality Pages for Byten, Belarus: < https://www.jewishgen.org/communities/community.php?usbgn=-1942035 > and Ruzhany, Belarus: < https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1948969 > Bette Stoop Mas USA
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LitvakSIG new board and officers
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Carol Hoffman
Congratulations to the incoming board of LitvakSIG and its officers:
President Jill Anderson, Vice-Presidents Barry Halpern and Garri Regev, Secretary Judy Baston, Treasurer Eden Joachim join board members Russ Maurer, Amy Wachs, Ralph Salinger, Jody Tzucker and Rose Lerer Cohen. We are fortunate to have such wonderful leadership and wish them success. Carol Hoffman
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen LitvakSIG new board and officers
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Carol Hoffman
Congratulations to the incoming board of LitvakSIG and its officers:
President Jill Anderson, Vice-Presidents Barry Halpern and Garri Regev, Secretary Judy Baston, Treasurer Eden Joachim join board members Russ Maurer, Amy Wachs, Ralph Salinger, Jody Tzucker and Rose Lerer Cohen. We are fortunate to have such wonderful leadership and wish them success. Carol Hoffman
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Re: Slonim area towns
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Sherri Vendetti asks about "Kafkas" and "Baki" in Russia, 1901. "Kafkas"
means Caucasus in Russian. Before the Russian Revolution, one of the gubernii (provinces) in the Caucasus had its capital at Baku, now the capital of Azerbaijan. The Azeri language name for Baku is Baki. This area became part of the Russian Empire in the early 19th century. Alan Shuchat Newton, MA SHUKHAT (Talnoe, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Odessa, Balta (Abazovka), Tavrig, Pogrebishche) VINOKUR (Talnoe), KURIS (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki, Berdichev) ZILBERMAN (Soroki, Kremenets), BIRNBAUM (Kamenets-Podolskiy) KITAIGORODSKI (Zvenigorodka)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Slonim area towns
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Sherri Vendetti asks about "Kafkas" and "Baki" in Russia, 1901. "Kafkas"
means Caucasus in Russian. Before the Russian Revolution, one of the gubernii (provinces) in the Caucasus had its capital at Baku, now the capital of Azerbaijan. The Azeri language name for Baku is Baki. This area became part of the Russian Empire in the early 19th century. Alan Shuchat Newton, MA SHUKHAT (Talnoe, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Odessa, Balta (Abazovka), Tavrig, Pogrebishche) VINOKUR (Talnoe), KURIS (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki, Berdichev) ZILBERMAN (Soroki, Kremenets), BIRNBAUM (Kamenets-Podolskiy) KITAIGORODSKI (Zvenigorodka)
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Re: Looking for a place named Krivoy Ossen near Krivoy Rog in Ukraine
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From: Alberto Guido Chester <agchester@gmail.com>I don't where this place is, but in Russian osen' means autumn. Alan Shuchat Newton, MA SHUKHAT (Talnoe, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Odessa, Balta (Abazovka), Tavrig, Pogrebishche) VINOKUR (Talnoe), KURIS (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki, Berdichev) ZILBERMAN (Soroki, Kremenets), BIRNBAUM (Kamenets-Podolskiy) KITAIGORODSKI (Zvenigorodka)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Looking for a place named Krivoy Ossen near Krivoy Rog in Ukraine
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From: Alberto Guido Chester <agchester@gmail.com>I don't where this place is, but in Russian osen' means autumn. Alan Shuchat Newton, MA SHUKHAT (Talnoe, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Odessa, Balta (Abazovka), Tavrig, Pogrebishche) VINOKUR (Talnoe), KURIS (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki, Berdichev) ZILBERMAN (Soroki, Kremenets), BIRNBAUM (Kamenets-Podolskiy) KITAIGORODSKI (Zvenigorodka)
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