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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Re:London names HOLRIE, ABRAHAM, BRAHAM
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Nick <tulse04-news@...>
"david nathan" <d.nathan1@...> wrote:
You have the name of that synagogue correct - Sandys Row. It is a verySandys Row Synagogue is the oldest existing and still functioning synagogue in London - and therefore not a mosque - it certainly wasn't one when I visited it a few years ago on the European Day of Jewish Culture (this year 3 September) http://www.jewisheritage.org/edojc/index.php?s=en -- Nick Landau London, UK COHNREICH (Anklam, Germany Krajenka, Poland) ATLAS (Wielkie Oczy (near Lvov/Lemberg), Poland) WEITZMAN (Cracow), WECHSLER(Schwabach, Germany), THALHEIMER (Mainbernheim, Germany), KOHN/WEISSKOPF (Wallerstein and Kleinerdlingen,Germany), LANDAU (only adopted on leaving Russia/Belarus or later)/FREDKIN (?) (Gomel, Mogilev, Chernigov, Russia/Belarus) |
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Re: London names HOLRIE, ABRAHAM, BRAHAM
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Nick <tulse04-news@...>
"david nathan" <d.nathan1@...> wrote:
You have the name of that synagogue correct - Sandys Row. It is a verySandys Row Synagogue is the oldest existing and still functioning synagogue in London - and therefore not a mosque - it certainly wasn't one when I visited it a few years ago on the European Day of Jewish Culture (this year 3 September) http://www.jewisheritage.org/edojc/index.php?s=en -- Nick Landau London, UK COHNREICH (Anklam, Germany Krajenka, Poland) ATLAS (Wielkie Oczy (near Lvov/Lemberg), Poland) WEITZMAN (Cracow), WECHSLER(Schwabach, Germany), THALHEIMER (Mainbernheim, Germany), KOHN/WEISSKOPF (Wallerstein and Kleinerdlingen,Germany), LANDAU (only adopted on leaving Russia/Belarus or later)/FREDKIN (?) (Gomel, Mogilev, Chernigov, Russia/Belarus) |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Re:London names HOLRIE, ABRAHAM, BRAHAM
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Nick <tulse04-news@...>
"Bubby" <yeruchem18@...> wrote:
I wonder if the fact that they apparently lived near the docks would explainAccording to Celia Male's post, the Poultow/Poulton family came >from Deptford and Greenwich. At Greenwich there were Naval Dockyards and there is still a station called Greenwich Dockyard. The Dockyard in Deptford closed in 1869. As Celia suggests >from their Deptford/Greenwich origins - and I infer >from the fact that the marriage took place in a registry office - the Poultow/Poulton family were almost certainly not Jewish. I do imagine that a shipwright was a fairly "respectable" trade. (Incidentally my maternal grandfather Atlas and his family settled in nearby Woolwich when they came to England - this was and is an old army town.) -- Nick Landau London, UK COHNREICH (Anklam, Germany Krajenka, Poland) ATLAS (Wielkie Oczy (near Lvov/Lemberg), Poland) WEITZMAN (Cracow), WECHSLER(Schwabach, Germany), THALHEIMER (Mainbernheim, Germany), KOHN/WEISSKOPF (Wallerstein and Kleinerdlingen,Germany), LANDAU (only adopted on leaving Russia/Belarus or later)/FREDKIN (?) (Gomel, Mogilev, Chernigov, Russia/Belarus) |
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Re: London names HOLRIE, ABRAHAM, BRAHAM
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Nick <tulse04-news@...>
"Bubby" <yeruchem18@...> wrote:
I wonder if the fact that they apparently lived near the docks would explainAccording to Celia Male's post, the Poultow/Poulton family came >from Deptford and Greenwich. At Greenwich there were Naval Dockyards and there is still a station called Greenwich Dockyard. The Dockyard in Deptford closed in 1869. As Celia suggests >from their Deptford/Greenwich origins - and I infer >from the fact that the marriage took place in a registry office - the Poultow/Poulton family were almost certainly not Jewish. I do imagine that a shipwright was a fairly "respectable" trade. (Incidentally my maternal grandfather Atlas and his family settled in nearby Woolwich when they came to England - this was and is an old army town.) -- Nick Landau London, UK COHNREICH (Anklam, Germany Krajenka, Poland) ATLAS (Wielkie Oczy (near Lvov/Lemberg), Poland) WEITZMAN (Cracow), WECHSLER(Schwabach, Germany), THALHEIMER (Mainbernheim, Germany), KOHN/WEISSKOPF (Wallerstein and Kleinerdlingen,Germany), LANDAU (only adopted on leaving Russia/Belarus or later)/FREDKIN (?) (Gomel, Mogilev, Chernigov, Russia/Belarus) |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Looking for GUBIN descendants
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Jack L Weinstein
I am looking descendants of GUBIN family >from the area of Gorodnitsa
and Slavuta in the Ukraine. The time frame would be around 1890 to 1945. Please respond privately. Jack L WEINSTEIN - Phila., Pa.- jwtv@... |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen re: Last Name TYM
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Celia Male <celiamale@...>
Nurit Kraus-Friedberg writes: I recently discovered that my
gggrandmother's maiden name was TYM. I've never heard of this name, ever, on anyone. I have, however met people with the name DYM. Does anyone out there have any information on these two names and if they are variants of each other? Nurit tells us they were >from Galicia and as we know, many Galicians settled in Vienna, I looked for traces there. I could of course look intensively on jri-pl and other sites but in the meantime I can confirm that a TYM lived and died in Vienna: TYM Abraham aged 74 died 01.08.1915 buried Zentralfriedhof Gate 1 Group 50 row 49 grave 63A There are however seven Galician DYM buried in Vienna. We can see that Abraham was born in 1841 - but where? A study of the records in Vienna should tell us. However, sadly Yad Vashem tells us more: there are under 30 TYM victims mostly >from Strzow, Rzesow, Lwow/Lemberg - a few from Tarnopol Krakow and also >from Sanok. We remember them all here today Most of them have POTs. Here again the DYM predominate - there are about 400 and most have POTs. They come >from more or less the same areas that the TYM come from. There are no TYM holocaust victims from Vienna but 14 DYM settled there and you can see where they camefrom. Celia Male [U.K.] |
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Re: Last Name TYM
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Celia Male <celiamale@...>
Nurit Kraus-Friedberg writes: I recently discovered that my
gggrandmother's maiden name was TYM. I've never heard of this name, ever, on anyone. I have, however met people with the name DYM. Does anyone out there have any information on these two names and if they are variants of each other? Nurit tells us they were >from Galicia and as we know, many Galicians settled in Vienna, I looked for traces there. I could of course look intensively on jri-pl and other sites but in the meantime I can confirm that a TYM lived and died in Vienna: TYM Abraham aged 74 died 01.08.1915 buried Zentralfriedhof Gate 1 Group 50 row 49 grave 63A There are however seven Galician DYM buried in Vienna. We can see that Abraham was born in 1841 - but where? A study of the records in Vienna should tell us. However, sadly Yad Vashem tells us more: there are under 30 TYM victims mostly >from Strzow, Rzesow, Lwow/Lemberg - a few from Tarnopol Krakow and also >from Sanok. We remember them all here today Most of them have POTs. Here again the DYM predominate - there are about 400 and most have POTs. They come >from more or less the same areas that the TYM come from. There are no TYM holocaust victims from Vienna but 14 DYM settled there and you can see where they camefrom. Celia Male [U.K.] |
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Looking for GUBIN descendants
#general
Jack L Weinstein
I am looking descendants of GUBIN family >from the area of Gorodnitsa
and Slavuta in the Ukraine. The time frame would be around 1890 to 1945. Please respond privately. Jack L WEINSTEIN - Phila., Pa.- jwtv@... |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Last name TYM
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Stan Goodman <SPAM_FOILER@...>
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:49:48 UTC, n.kraus-friedberg@... asked:
I recently discovered that my gggrandmother's maiden name was TYM.In both Polish and Russian, "Dym" means "smoke". In Russian, "T'ma" means "dark", so that the name might be equivalent to German "Schwarz", but phonetically that's a stretch. -- Stan Goodman, Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel Searching: NEACHOWICZ/NOACHOWICZ, NEJMAN/NAJMAN, SURALSKI: Lomza Gubernia ISMACH: Lomza Gubernia, Galicia, and Ukraina HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: Dorohoi District, Romania GRISARU, VATARU: 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: Last name TYM
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Stan Goodman <SPAM_FOILER@...>
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 17:49:48 UTC, n.kraus-friedberg@... asked:
I recently discovered that my gggrandmother's maiden name was TYM.In both Polish and Russian, "Dym" means "smoke". In Russian, "T'ma" means "dark", so that the name might be equivalent to German "Schwarz", but phonetically that's a stretch. -- Stan Goodman, Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel Searching: NEACHOWICZ/NOACHOWICZ, NEJMAN/NAJMAN, SURALSKI: Lomza Gubernia ISMACH: Lomza Gubernia, Galicia, and Ukraina HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: Dorohoi District, Romania GRISARU, VATARU: 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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Fw: We Are Fine
#galicia
arie meir
To all the those with whom we are in contact.
Just to tell you that we are fine and don't intend to leave Haifa Arieh Mayer & family Haifa Israel. MODERATOR'S NOTE: Under the circumstances, I am passing this message on to the list and wish the Mayer Family well. To all the Galitzianers - your humble Moderator will be attending the conference in NYC and thus will not be available >from now until August 21. My esteemed mentor and font of knowledge of all things Galicia, Shelley Pollero, will be otherwise occupied. So please hold your messages until after the 21st. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated. If you plan to attend the conference, I look forward to seeing you at the Galicia lunch and SIG meeting, Marcia Orol Kaplan. |
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Fw: We Are Fine
#galicia
arie meir
To all the those with whom we are in contact.
Just to tell you that we are fine and don't intend to leave Haifa Arieh Mayer & family Haifa Israel. MODERATOR'S NOTE: Under the circumstances, I am passing this message on to the list and wish the Mayer Family well. To all the Galitzianers - your humble Moderator will be attending the conference in NYC and thus will not be available >from now until August 21. My esteemed mentor and font of knowledge of all things Galicia, Shelley Pollero, will be otherwise occupied. So please hold your messages until after the 21st. Your cooperation is greatly appreciated. If you plan to attend the conference, I look forward to seeing you at the Galicia lunch and SIG meeting, Marcia Orol Kaplan. |
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Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic FRIEDMAN, HALPERIN, HALBERSTAM, MOSKOWITZ
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briena klang <bribrukla@...>
To whom it may concern,
I am researchin;g my family history and am looking for information about my ancestors and to contact any living relatives. I am looking for FRIEDMAN - Rabbi Zusha FRIEDMAN of Odessa, who was related to the famous FRIEDMAN Rabbis of Ruzin. HALPERIN - Rabbi Abraham Leib (Full name- Abraham Zarach Aryeh Yehudah Leibish) and Rabbi Joel HALPERIN, of Brzezany, formely known as Brezahn. MOSKOWITZ - Rabbi Yoel MOSKOWITZ, who was a rabbi in the town of Shatz. I am also looking for information about Rabbi Chaim HALBERSTAM - particularly his descendants. Thank you for your time. B. Klang |
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FRIEDMAN, HALPERIN, HALBERSTAM, MOSKOWITZ
#rabbinic
briena klang <bribrukla@...>
To whom it may concern,
I am researchin;g my family history and am looking for information about my ancestors and to contact any living relatives. I am looking for FRIEDMAN - Rabbi Zusha FRIEDMAN of Odessa, who was related to the famous FRIEDMAN Rabbis of Ruzin. HALPERIN - Rabbi Abraham Leib (Full name- Abraham Zarach Aryeh Yehudah Leibish) and Rabbi Joel HALPERIN, of Brzezany, formely known as Brezahn. MOSKOWITZ - Rabbi Yoel MOSKOWITZ, who was a rabbi in the town of Shatz. I am also looking for information about Rabbi Chaim HALBERSTAM - particularly his descendants. Thank you for your time. B. Klang |
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New address for PURS web site
#belarus
Karen Zale
Dear Fellow Researchers,
Back in July, I was looking for the PURS (Pruzhany Uyezd Research Organization) web site. I want to thank everyone that answered me. Jose Serlin took over the site [Please contact Karen for his email] if you are interested in becoming a member. This is the new address of the web site. http://www.pruzhanydistrict.com.ar/ Regards, Karen Zale kbzpzq@... Plano, TX GREENBERG - Pultusk, Wyszkow KAPLAN - Chernigov EHRENFREUND, KELLERMAN - Tarnow REITMAN, ZALEFSKY - Shereshevo FINKELSTEIN - Shchedrin SORKIN - Kapustino, Rogachev |
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Belarus SIG #Belarus New address for PURS web site
#belarus
Karen Zale
Dear Fellow Researchers,
Back in July, I was looking for the PURS (Pruzhany Uyezd Research Organization) web site. I want to thank everyone that answered me. Jose Serlin took over the site [Please contact Karen for his email] if you are interested in becoming a member. This is the new address of the web site. http://www.pruzhanydistrict.com.ar/ Regards, Karen Zale kbzpzq@... Plano, TX GREENBERG - Pultusk, Wyszkow KAPLAN - Chernigov EHRENFREUND, KELLERMAN - Tarnow REITMAN, ZALEFSKY - Shereshevo FINKELSTEIN - Shchedrin SORKIN - Kapustino, Rogachev |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen National Archives Naturalization Petitions
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Steven Lasky <steve725@...>
Greetings All,
I was at the National Archives-Northeast Division (NYC) today and discovered that all the Southern District of New York naturalization petitions filed between the years 1897 and 1944 are now on microfilm (M1972). These incorporate Volume No. 64, Page 1 to Petition No. 436400. They are currently microfilming all the records for the Eastern District of New York. This means that they will no longer be retrieving those big books stored in the back room with the original naturalization records, at least for the ones I just mentioned that have already been microfilmed. One can now locate, e.g. a person's Petition for Naturalization number on www.italiangen.org, , go to NARA (perhaps at conference time), and make your own copies (thirty cents per page, avg. three pages per person) and obtain, when available, the applicant's Declaration of Intention, Certificate of Approval, and Petition for Naturalization in one fell swoop. Alternatively, one can send the document number(s) to NARA, and they will photocopy the documents for you at ten dollars per record and send it your way. The microfilm rolls mentioned are all the way in the back row of cabinets, on top against the wall, with the green labels. There is a looseleaf binder in the bookcase at the back of the microfilm reading room that tells you the microfilm reel number that corresponds to the document number, as well as computers hooked up to the Internet or other databases where you can look up the petition document number if you haven't previously done so. See you at the conference, Steve Lasky New York |
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National Archives Naturalization Petitions
#general
Steven Lasky <steve725@...>
Greetings All,
I was at the National Archives-Northeast Division (NYC) today and discovered that all the Southern District of New York naturalization petitions filed between the years 1897 and 1944 are now on microfilm (M1972). These incorporate Volume No. 64, Page 1 to Petition No. 436400. They are currently microfilming all the records for the Eastern District of New York. This means that they will no longer be retrieving those big books stored in the back room with the original naturalization records, at least for the ones I just mentioned that have already been microfilmed. One can now locate, e.g. a person's Petition for Naturalization number on www.italiangen.org, , go to NARA (perhaps at conference time), and make your own copies (thirty cents per page, avg. three pages per person) and obtain, when available, the applicant's Declaration of Intention, Certificate of Approval, and Petition for Naturalization in one fell swoop. Alternatively, one can send the document number(s) to NARA, and they will photocopy the documents for you at ten dollars per record and send it your way. The microfilm rolls mentioned are all the way in the back row of cabinets, on top against the wall, with the green labels. There is a looseleaf binder in the bookcase at the back of the microfilm reading room that tells you the microfilm reel number that corresponds to the document number, as well as computers hooked up to the Internet or other databases where you can look up the petition document number if you haven't previously done so. See you at the conference, Steve Lasky New York |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen KERNER in NYC, 1919
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Mel Comisarow <melcom@...>
Looking for descendants of a KERNER/KOERNER family, who in 1919 lived in
NYC (or the NYC area?) and who were related to the ROKHOVICH/ROCK family of Rochester NY. The matriarch of this KERNER family could be Haya Elka ROKHOVICH KERNER, born in Grafskoy, Ekaterinoslav Gubernia, Russia/Ukraine in 1855, and who had a son named George, presumabley born in say, 1880. |
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Machpelah Cemetery, Glendale, Queens- help needed
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Edward M Lewison <neddana@...>
The Machpelah Cemetery's Manhattan office (718-366-5959) tells me that 2
of my CAHN/KAHN relatives are buried in Gate 23- Bnai Jischri Lef. But because I cannot provide dates of death, the office is not able to give me names/dates of any other relatives there. So I need someone who is going to Machpelah anyway to check the burials next to these 2 graves. If anyone is willing to help, please contact me privately -- I can provide a few details, and I don't want to send more than one volunteer on this mission of mercy. Thank you, Ned Lewison Baltimore, MD neddana@... DINKELSPIEL (Gemmingen, Baden>Louisville, KY), ULMAN (Gemmingen), SAMSTAG (Eubigheim, Baden), STRAUS STROUSE (Grombach, Baden>Baltimore, MD), STRAUSS (Altenhasslau or Gelnhausen, Hesse), OSTWALD (Herford, Westphalia), FLEISCHMANN (Olomouc, Krnov, Pnovice, Zabreh- all Moravia) |
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