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Re: Romanian Newspaper
#general
Stan Goodman <SPAM_FOILER@...>
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:23:19 UTC, boazber@bezeqint.net (daphnabrafman)
opined: I am trying to find an article published in a newspaper in the town ofA letter to the public library in Constanza? A guess that may help you: The name of the newspaper may have been closer to "Unirii", which means "Unity" or "Union" in Romanian. It's a name that pops up frequently in Romania, in recognition of the union of separate principalities to form the Romanian state. -- 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: Romanian Newspaper
#general
Stan Goodman <SPAM_FOILER@...>
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:23:19 UTC, boazber@bezeqint.net (daphnabrafman)
opined: I am trying to find an article published in a newspaper in the town ofA letter to the public library in Constanza? A guess that may help you: The name of the newspaper may have been closer to "Unirii", which means "Unity" or "Union" in Romanian. It's a name that pops up frequently in Romania, in recognition of the union of separate principalities to form the Romanian state. -- 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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Wainer/Weiner/Waner/Winer
#lithuania
Gene Rosenblum
My great grandfather was Israel Waner/Wainer, married to Kleine Malka. They
lived in Shavel Kovno Gubernia in about 1820. They had the following children: Yanke/Yakov; Morris/Moishe/; Shira Lea;Mayer;Chaim;Ephraim; and Schmuel/Samuel. I believed he died in about the 1920's. Morris, Mayer and Samuel came to the USA; Chiam and Ephraim settled in South Africa. I do not know anything about Yanke and I believe Shira Lea may have come to New York. I would like to know more about these relatives. I would appreciate any help. Gene Rosenblum gener01@msn.com MODERATOR'S NOTE: Make sure you also register these surnames/towns in the JewishGen Family Finder at www.jewishgen.org/jgff. Anyone with family information in response to this message, please respond privately.
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Wainer/Weiner/Waner/Winer
#lithuania
Gene Rosenblum
My great grandfather was Israel Waner/Wainer, married to Kleine Malka. They
lived in Shavel Kovno Gubernia in about 1820. They had the following children: Yanke/Yakov; Morris/Moishe/; Shira Lea;Mayer;Chaim;Ephraim; and Schmuel/Samuel. I believed he died in about the 1920's. Morris, Mayer and Samuel came to the USA; Chiam and Ephraim settled in South Africa. I do not know anything about Yanke and I believe Shira Lea may have come to New York. I would like to know more about these relatives. I would appreciate any help. Gene Rosenblum gener01@msn.com MODERATOR'S NOTE: Make sure you also register these surnames/towns in the JewishGen Family Finder at www.jewishgen.org/jgff. Anyone with family information in response to this message, please respond privately.
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Viewmate File VM6999 - Polish Translation Request
#poland
suejurisz@...
A scan of the marriage document of Pinchas Elbaum and Perl Rzeznik has
just been posted on Viewmate as file VM6999. This record was retrieved from an LDS microfilm of BMD >from Kossow, Poland.I would greatly appreciate a translation >from Polish to English, so that I can add details to my husband's family tree. The direct path to this file is: http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6999 Thank you so much-- Regards, Sue Jurisz New Hope, MN USA Searching: JURYSZ, MAJEROWICZ, NORDON, NAGRODSKI (Drobin, Plock, Sierpc). MANOWICZ, ELBAUM, MARGOLIS (Gora Kalwaria, Kosow Lacki) MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately.
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JRI Poland #Poland Viewmate File VM6999 - Polish Translation Request
#poland
suejurisz@...
A scan of the marriage document of Pinchas Elbaum and Perl Rzeznik has
just been posted on Viewmate as file VM6999. This record was retrieved from an LDS microfilm of BMD >from Kossow, Poland.I would greatly appreciate a translation >from Polish to English, so that I can add details to my husband's family tree. The direct path to this file is: http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6999 Thank you so much-- Regards, Sue Jurisz New Hope, MN USA Searching: JURYSZ, MAJEROWICZ, NORDON, NAGRODSKI (Drobin, Plock, Sierpc). MANOWICZ, ELBAUM, MARGOLIS (Gora Kalwaria, Kosow Lacki) MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately.
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Announcing the Biskupice (Lublin) PSA Project
#poland
RobinnM@...
Dear JRI-Poland Readers:
Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is pleased to announce that we've recently created an index of the Jewish vital records issued in Biskupice, Lublin District >from the last half of the 19th century through 1904! Biskupice is about 10 miles >from Lublin and Piaski. These records are kept in the Lublin branch of the Polish State Archives and are not available through the Mormons. The records indexed include: 1862-1904 births, 1859-1904 marriages, and 1863-1904 deaths. The Biskupice PSA project must raise $550 US to pay for this already complete work. The data can only be added to the JRI-Poland database after the project has been completely funded. Donations of any size are greatly appreciated. Donors of $100 or more will be eligible to obtain their own copy of the EXCEL spreadsheet via email following the signing of the Biskupice database sharing agreement. Donations are tax-deductible for US and Canadian taxpayers. Please visit http://www.jri-poland.org/visa.htm for more information on how to make tax-deductible donations, or send your check, money order or credit card information to: Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, Inc. c/o Sheila Salo, Treasurer 5607 Greenleaf Road Cheverly, MD 20785 USA Telephone: (301) 341-1261 Fax: 1-810-592-1768 (24 hours) E-Mail: ssalo@capaccess.org The 50 surnames most commonly found in the Biskupice Jewish records during this period are: ACHTERMAN, ALSPEKTOR, ALTMAN, ALTSPEKTOR, APFELD, BORENSZTAJN, BURSZTYN, CHANDELSMAN, CHITMAN, DRELICHMAN, EPELBAUM, ERLICHMAN, FELDZAMEN, FUKS, GAJST, GERC, GITMAN, GLIOBEN, GOLDFARB, GOLDMAN, JERLICHMAN, KERSZENBERG, KORN, KORNZAJER, LEDERMAN, MAGER, MANDEL, MELNIK, MICFLIKER, MIGDAL, NACHMAN, NAJMAN, ROZENBERG, ROZENBLUM, ROZENCWAJG, RUBINSZTAJN, SUKMAN, SUSMAN, SZEFLER, SZNAJDERMAN, SZRAJBMAN, SZYNKER, TAU, TON, TUCHSZNAJDER, WAGEN, WAJCMAN, WERTCHAUS If you are interested in learning more about this exciting project including the number of times your surname may be listed in this database or other Lublin area project databases, please contact me directly at: RobinnM@aol.com. I'd be glad to be of help. Best wishes, Robinn Magid Kensington, California Lublin Archives Project Coordinator Jewish Records Indexing - Poland RobinnM@aol.com
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JRI Poland #Poland Announcing the Biskupice (Lublin) PSA Project
#poland
RobinnM@...
Dear JRI-Poland Readers:
Jewish Records Indexing - Poland is pleased to announce that we've recently created an index of the Jewish vital records issued in Biskupice, Lublin District >from the last half of the 19th century through 1904! Biskupice is about 10 miles >from Lublin and Piaski. These records are kept in the Lublin branch of the Polish State Archives and are not available through the Mormons. The records indexed include: 1862-1904 births, 1859-1904 marriages, and 1863-1904 deaths. The Biskupice PSA project must raise $550 US to pay for this already complete work. The data can only be added to the JRI-Poland database after the project has been completely funded. Donations of any size are greatly appreciated. Donors of $100 or more will be eligible to obtain their own copy of the EXCEL spreadsheet via email following the signing of the Biskupice database sharing agreement. Donations are tax-deductible for US and Canadian taxpayers. Please visit http://www.jri-poland.org/visa.htm for more information on how to make tax-deductible donations, or send your check, money order or credit card information to: Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, Inc. c/o Sheila Salo, Treasurer 5607 Greenleaf Road Cheverly, MD 20785 USA Telephone: (301) 341-1261 Fax: 1-810-592-1768 (24 hours) E-Mail: ssalo@capaccess.org The 50 surnames most commonly found in the Biskupice Jewish records during this period are: ACHTERMAN, ALSPEKTOR, ALTMAN, ALTSPEKTOR, APFELD, BORENSZTAJN, BURSZTYN, CHANDELSMAN, CHITMAN, DRELICHMAN, EPELBAUM, ERLICHMAN, FELDZAMEN, FUKS, GAJST, GERC, GITMAN, GLIOBEN, GOLDFARB, GOLDMAN, JERLICHMAN, KERSZENBERG, KORN, KORNZAJER, LEDERMAN, MAGER, MANDEL, MELNIK, MICFLIKER, MIGDAL, NACHMAN, NAJMAN, ROZENBERG, ROZENBLUM, ROZENCWAJG, RUBINSZTAJN, SUKMAN, SUSMAN, SZEFLER, SZNAJDERMAN, SZRAJBMAN, SZYNKER, TAU, TON, TUCHSZNAJDER, WAGEN, WAJCMAN, WERTCHAUS If you are interested in learning more about this exciting project including the number of times your surname may be listed in this database or other Lublin area project databases, please contact me directly at: RobinnM@aol.com. I'd be glad to be of help. Best wishes, Robinn Magid Kensington, California Lublin Archives Project Coordinator Jewish Records Indexing - Poland RobinnM@aol.com
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rabbinical records in West Ukraine
#galicia
Jacqueline Pollak <jacqueline.pollak@...>
I try to to make the genealogy of a family Ascher-Pollak-Treitler wich was
living ca 1900 in the district of Stanislawow (today Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine) Does anybody know rabbinical sources in that neighbourhood ? Or was anything destroyed by the nazis ? And for example is there a synagogue in function to-day in Ivano-Frankivsk or Frankovsk ? I thank in advance all those who could give me some help Jacqueline Pollak Brussels
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia rabbinical records in West Ukraine
#galicia
Jacqueline Pollak <jacqueline.pollak@...>
I try to to make the genealogy of a family Ascher-Pollak-Treitler wich was
living ca 1900 in the district of Stanislawow (today Ivano-Frankivsk in Ukraine) Does anybody know rabbinical sources in that neighbourhood ? Or was anything destroyed by the nazis ? And for example is there a synagogue in function to-day in Ivano-Frankivsk or Frankovsk ? I thank in advance all those who could give me some help Jacqueline Pollak Brussels
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Detailed maps of (galicia) Southern Poland, Northern Hungary
#galicia
phylliskramer1@...
I stumbled upon these Polish maps on a Lemko site.
They are high resolution maps of the southeastern corner of poland...and a little of ukraine (so lots of the ex-galician area). The site says the maps were recently released for public use by the headquarters of the Polish Army. They are full color and terribly exciting....as you can see your shtetls and the surrounding areas quite clearly. They are fairly large at 300KB, but certainly worth downloading!! I intend to put some on my shtetlinks sites for Krosno Jaslo Rymanow Zmigrod Dukla Korczna Frysztak Strzyzow and Jaslo . http://www.lemko.org/maps100/ -- Happy Hunting! Phyllis Kramer, Wilton, Conn & Palm Beach, Fla PhyllisKramer1@att.net, researching (mostly Galicia): STECHER, TRACHMAN,>from Zmigrod, Dukla, Krosno KRAMER, BEIM, WISNER >from Jasienica SCHEINER, KANDEL, SCHIMMEL >from Strzyzow, Dubiecko LINDNER, EICHEL >from Rohatyn (also Iasi, Romania)
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Detailed maps of (galicia) Southern Poland, Northern Hungary
#galicia
phylliskramer1@...
I stumbled upon these Polish maps on a Lemko site.
They are high resolution maps of the southeastern corner of poland...and a little of ukraine (so lots of the ex-galician area). The site says the maps were recently released for public use by the headquarters of the Polish Army. They are full color and terribly exciting....as you can see your shtetls and the surrounding areas quite clearly. They are fairly large at 300KB, but certainly worth downloading!! I intend to put some on my shtetlinks sites for Krosno Jaslo Rymanow Zmigrod Dukla Korczna Frysztak Strzyzow and Jaslo . http://www.lemko.org/maps100/ -- Happy Hunting! Phyllis Kramer, Wilton, Conn & Palm Beach, Fla PhyllisKramer1@att.net, researching (mostly Galicia): STECHER, TRACHMAN,>from Zmigrod, Dukla, Krosno KRAMER, BEIM, WISNER >from Jasienica SCHEINER, KANDEL, SCHIMMEL >from Strzyzow, Dubiecko LINDNER, EICHEL >from Rohatyn (also Iasi, Romania)
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Cancellation of publication plans
#galicia
Suzan & Ron Wynne <srwynne@...>
Many readers have asked me about when my book, Finding Your Jewish Roots in
Galicia: A Resource Guide will be back in print. Gary Mokotoff, publisher of Avotaynu, had agreed to publish a substantially revised edition, but after many months of delay, he notified me today that he had decided not to move ahead with the new edition. I will be searching for a new publisher and will consider publishing and distributing it myself. I'd welcome any ideas about publishers that might be interested. Please contact me privately. Suzan Wynne srwynne@erols.com Kensington, MD
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Cancellation of publication plans
#galicia
Suzan & Ron Wynne <srwynne@...>
Many readers have asked me about when my book, Finding Your Jewish Roots in
Galicia: A Resource Guide will be back in print. Gary Mokotoff, publisher of Avotaynu, had agreed to publish a substantially revised edition, but after many months of delay, he notified me today that he had decided not to move ahead with the new edition. I will be searching for a new publisher and will consider publishing and distributing it myself. I'd welcome any ideas about publishers that might be interested. Please contact me privately. Suzan Wynne srwynne@erols.com Kensington, MD
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Re: Working Backwards from Certificate of Naturalization
#general
Stan Goodman <SPAM_FOILER@...>
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:55:59 UTC, dmc@dmcohen.com (Doug Cohen) opined:
After 1906, all naturalizations were in the federal district court. YouThis is very interesting to me. I had been led to believe that naturalizations were done in county courts as well, even after 1906. Is this my misunderstanding? I have sought the natuaralization of my pgf in the records of the pertinent county courts (Essex and Hudson counties, in NJ) without success; have I been barking up the wrong tree? That's easy to do >from this distance. My tentative conclusion had been that he was not, in fact naturalized, although he was telling census enumerators >from 1910 that he was a citizen. My recently devised "Plan B" is to get his 1929 passport application from the State Department, as I know that he travelled abroad in thatyear. Would that application contain information verifying his claim of citizenship, so that I could find his petition for naturalization, and learn when and on what vessel he arrived in the US in 1898? I have searched for this thoroughly, but in vain, at NARA in Washington, as records for that time, so I am told at NARA, were destroyed. -- 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: Working Backwards from Certificate of Naturalization
#general
Stan Goodman <SPAM_FOILER@...>
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:55:59 UTC, dmc@dmcohen.com (Doug Cohen) opined:
After 1906, all naturalizations were in the federal district court. YouThis is very interesting to me. I had been led to believe that naturalizations were done in county courts as well, even after 1906. Is this my misunderstanding? I have sought the natuaralization of my pgf in the records of the pertinent county courts (Essex and Hudson counties, in NJ) without success; have I been barking up the wrong tree? That's easy to do >from this distance. My tentative conclusion had been that he was not, in fact naturalized, although he was telling census enumerators >from 1910 that he was a citizen. My recently devised "Plan B" is to get his 1929 passport application from the State Department, as I know that he travelled abroad in thatyear. Would that application contain information verifying his claim of citizenship, so that I could find his petition for naturalization, and learn when and on what vessel he arrived in the US in 1898? I have searched for this thoroughly, but in vain, at NARA in Washington, as records for that time, so I am told at NARA, were destroyed. -- 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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Re: Pamela Furmidge's Family Mystery
#hungary
Pamela Furmidge <pamela.furmidge@...>
Thank you for your reply. It is definitely one and the same Martin Heller.
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Perhaps I should have explained that there were two mothers (both English) involved - the three sons were my mother's half brothers. My grandfather travelled a lot "on business" and moved between UK and Europe. Unfortunately, a lot of my mother's papers were lost during World War II, when her house was bombed. Quite a brick wall!
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From: "John J Kovacs" <j.kovacs@sbcglobal.net> To: "H-SIG" <h-sig@lyris.jewishgen.org> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 5:34 PM Subject: [h-sig] Pamela Furmidge's Family Mystery Pamela Furmidge is trying to reasearch her grandfather
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Hungary SIG #Hungary Re: Pamela Furmidge's Family Mystery
#hungary
Pamela Furmidge <pamela.furmidge@...>
Thank you for your reply. It is definitely one and the same Martin Heller.
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Perhaps I should have explained that there were two mothers (both English) involved - the three sons were my mother's half brothers. My grandfather travelled a lot "on business" and moved between UK and Europe. Unfortunately, a lot of my mother's papers were lost during World War II, when her house was bombed. Quite a brick wall!
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From: "John J Kovacs" <j.kovacs@sbcglobal.net> To: "H-SIG" <h-sig@lyris.jewishgen.org> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 5:34 PM Subject: [h-sig] Pamela Furmidge's Family Mystery Pamela Furmidge is trying to reasearch her grandfather
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Re: 1869 Census
#hungary
Robert Neu
That's fine, the search by town should also work, and
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it should work with either Hungarian or Slovak names and give the reference for all films for the town. Robert --- Michael Miller <mmillermrpjd@hotmail.com> wrote:
I beg to differ with Robert Neu about use of the
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Hungary SIG #Hungary Re: 1869 Census
#hungary
Robert Neu
That's fine, the search by town should also work, and
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it should work with either Hungarian or Slovak names and give the reference for all films for the town. Robert --- Michael Miller <mmillermrpjd@hotmail.com> wrote:
I beg to differ with Robert Neu about use of the
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