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Re: Benjamin and James VORZIMER
Barbara Mannlein <bsmannlein@...>
Renee, you are wonderful!
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I theorized that the sons might have used their mother’s maiden name….(Wonder what the father did that both boys dropped his name) but could not make the connection to the one in London. Could you use your magic and see if you can find obits for her or the boys? Many thanks! Barbara
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Re: Relationship question
Trudy Barch
Betty is NOT legally related to Edgar. Being that it is her current husband's son from his first marriage and assuming that he has visitation rights.....Edgar might refer to her as Betty or mother out of respect. Also depends upon Edgar's age when the 2nd marriage occurred. Was Edgar a child or adult? Also different scenario IF Betty adopted Edgar. Also depends upon what year you are referring - in the 1940s children did not call adults by their first name. In the 2000s first names are accepted by most adults.
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Chaikin Researchers
#belarus
Rochelle Gershenow
I am looking for any researchers who have Shlioma Chaikin (b. 1869) and
Beile Chaikin (b. 1872) in their trees. Shlioma and Beile were probably both born in Gomel but moved to Priluki with their father, Leivik, when he remarried in 1878 after the death of his first wife. Another brother, David (b.1875 in Gomel), lived with his father and stepmother and lived in Kharkov as an adult. I have contacted researchers listed in JGFF. Rochelle Gershenow Connecticut, USA MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately
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Belarus SIG #Belarus Chaikin Researchers
#belarus
Rochelle Gershenow
I am looking for any researchers who have Shlioma Chaikin (b. 1869) and
Beile Chaikin (b. 1872) in their trees. Shlioma and Beile were probably both born in Gomel but moved to Priluki with their father, Leivik, when he remarried in 1878 after the death of his first wife. Another brother, David (b.1875 in Gomel), lived with his father and stepmother and lived in Kharkov as an adult. I have contacted researchers listed in JGFF. Rochelle Gershenow Connecticut, USA MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately
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Re: Help Stop USCIS Genealogy Program Fee Hikes
Hello David Thank you for looking at the information. You do not need to be a US resident nor citizen to submit a public comment. Any interested party can make their voice heard. It does not matter if you live in the USA or another location. The only part that is for US residents is writing to Congress. The only way to impact the rulemaking process is to submit comments at the Federal portal. You can make a difference. Make your voice heard in 3 easy steps: Step 1: Review the proposed rule here, and jump to the Genealogy Program section here. There’s a summary available at RecordsNotRevenue.com Step 2: Write your comments, addressing the issues listed here or any issue you think is important. See these conversation starters for thoughts on how to begin. Step 3: Send your comments BEFORE 16 DECEMBER 2019 to
Only part B of this last step is for US residents. Everyone can help with sending comments to the Rulemaling Portal. Thank you Renée
On Fri, 22 Nov 2019, 12:23 am David Lewin, <david@...> wrote:
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Re: Relationship question
Geoff Bradley-cox
Betty is the step-mother of Edgar; Alan is the step-father of Edgar
Daisy is the step-mother of Charles Step-parents are married to the natural fathers or mothers of children. I have 2 step-daughters - each of them are children of my husband, who was married twice before I met him, so they each have a different mother. I pity family historians in the future!
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Conditions for emmigrants from Poland to UK to USA.
#poland
N. Summers
I just found a terrific webpage about the migration of emmigrants from Poland to Scandinavia to the UK to the US! A few days ago I found a passenger list with my grandparents’ names on it, from a ship that left Liverpool, England for New York in 1920. It said that they were from Poland and had arrived in the UK from Danzig and Hull on the steamship Ellerman of the Wilson Line. That led me to look for Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) and Hull (a port on the east coast of England, in Yorkshire). And the Wilson Line. It turns out that a lot of people took this route to the United States. The website I found has lots of helpful information, including a report from a local inspector about the lack of satisfactory accommodations for immigrants once they arrived in Hull, and the statement that most immigrants transiting England took a train from Hull to Liverpool. I’m sure others have found this site before me, but it was a pretty exciting find for me! Norway Heritage Project Maryland, USA FINKELSTEIN, BOOKSTEIN, LISS, ALPER, LIFSCHITZ, LEAF, LUSMAN
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Jewish ancestry
Geoff Bradley-cox
I have a Jewish ancestor - my 3 x great-grandmother. Am I able to call myself Jewish?
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Mauthausen Transport List
#hungary
Vivian Kahn
As I mentioned in a recent message, Peter Lande at the US Holocaust =
Memorial Museum has come across a list of 1944 transports >from Auschwitz = to Mauthausen. He is going to make lists available to JewishGen to = transcribe so the names can be added to the Holocaust database. The = names are primarily Hungarian but include some Polish prisoners as well. = Nolan and I reviewed a few pages and they appear to be relatively = legible. Except for the occupations, which are in German, the list = should be easy for anyone who has some familiarity with Hungarian = personal and place names. We will provide a template and translation = guide for the occupations (e.g. schneider = tailor, arbeiter, = worker, schuster = cobbler, etc.). If you are interested in = volunteering, please contact me off list and Nolan and I will get you = started. Thanks are, of course, again due to Peter, who is always on the lookout = for resources likely to be of interest and use to JewishGen researchers. Vivian Kahn, Oakland, California Hungarian Research Director=
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Hungary SIG #Hungary Mauthausen Transport List
#hungary
Vivian Kahn
As I mentioned in a recent message, Peter Lande at the US Holocaust =
Memorial Museum has come across a list of 1944 transports >from Auschwitz = to Mauthausen. He is going to make lists available to JewishGen to = transcribe so the names can be added to the Holocaust database. The = names are primarily Hungarian but include some Polish prisoners as well. = Nolan and I reviewed a few pages and they appear to be relatively = legible. Except for the occupations, which are in German, the list = should be easy for anyone who has some familiarity with Hungarian = personal and place names. We will provide a template and translation = guide for the occupations (e.g. schneider = tailor, arbeiter, = worker, schuster = cobbler, etc.). If you are interested in = volunteering, please contact me off list and Nolan and I will get you = started. Thanks are, of course, again due to Peter, who is always on the lookout = for resources likely to be of interest and use to JewishGen researchers. Vivian Kahn, Oakland, California Hungarian Research Director=
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Re: Relationship question
rv Kaplan
I reckon that Charles and Edgar are half brothers, sharing the same father. Betty isn't the step-mother of Edgar, as she is no longer married to Edgar's father. Harvey Kaplan Glasgow, Scotland
On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 00:45, <JoRose@...> wrote: Allen and Betty marry and have a son--Charles.
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"NYC's YIVO Institute holds Jewish memories saved from destruction during the Holocaust -- What's in the Basement?"
#galicia
"NYC's YIVO Institute holds Jewish memories saved >from destruction during the
Holocaust -- What's in the Basement?" https://mashable.com/video/yivo-jewish-institute/ My mother's family comes >from Skala Podolskaya in Eastern Galicia. Our JewishGen town research group has copied over 100 documents that were accumulated between 1960-2000 >from various archives. These were stored at YIVO. Tony Hausner Silver Spring, MD 20901 (primary email address: thausner@gmail.com) MODERATOR NOTE: This 14-minute video features YIVO Executive Director Jonathan Brent and staff members Eddy Portnoy and Stefanie Halpern, describing YIVO's history and unique holdings. Another video in Mashable's "What's in the Basement?" series (https://mashable.com/shows/whats-in-the-basement/) explores the "history found under the floor boards" of New York City's Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side.
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia "NYC's YIVO Institute holds Jewish memories saved from destruction during the Holocaust -- What's in the Basement?"
#galicia
"NYC's YIVO Institute holds Jewish memories saved >from destruction during the
Holocaust -- What's in the Basement?" https://mashable.com/video/yivo-jewish-institute/ My mother's family comes >from Skala Podolskaya in Eastern Galicia. Our JewishGen town research group has copied over 100 documents that were accumulated between 1960-2000 >from various archives. These were stored at YIVO. Tony Hausner Silver Spring, MD 20901 (primary email address: thausner@gmail.com) MODERATOR NOTE: This 14-minute video features YIVO Executive Director Jonathan Brent and staff members Eddy Portnoy and Stefanie Halpern, describing YIVO's history and unique holdings. Another video in Mashable's "What's in the Basement?" series (https://mashable.com/shows/whats-in-the-basement/) explores the "history found under the floor boards" of New York City's Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side.
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Trip to Lvov (Lviv) UKRAINE on April 2020
#galicia
Daniel Horowitz
Hi all,
I am planning a trip to Lvov (Lviv) next April 2020 for the first time, and would like to hear any suggestions and comments about the city. I have some addresses >from ancestors that lived in the area, but I also would like to visit the archive to do some research, go to the cemetery looking for records or burials, visit synagogues and Jewish areas (if they are) and of course do a bit of regular tourism with my wife, mom and 2 kids (17 & 11). Any suggestions, comments or tips would be appreciated. If you have recommendations of locals that can help, much better. Feel free to answer me directly. Best regards Daniel Horowitz Daniel@microtarget.com MODERATOR NOTE: Please send privately any recommendations of paid guides and/or researchers.
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Trip to Lvov (Lviv) UKRAINE on April 2020
#galicia
Daniel Horowitz
Hi all,
I am planning a trip to Lvov (Lviv) next April 2020 for the first time, and would like to hear any suggestions and comments about the city. I have some addresses >from ancestors that lived in the area, but I also would like to visit the archive to do some research, go to the cemetery looking for records or burials, visit synagogues and Jewish areas (if they are) and of course do a bit of regular tourism with my wife, mom and 2 kids (17 & 11). Any suggestions, comments or tips would be appreciated. If you have recommendations of locals that can help, much better. Feel free to answer me directly. Best regards Daniel Horowitz Daniel@microtarget.com MODERATOR NOTE: Please send privately any recommendations of paid guides and/or researchers.
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Re: Searching for relatives
Richard Gross
I'm researching my husband's family from Lviv,Galicia. The earliest ancestor we have is Hersh Gross. One of the family, Samuel Gross who married Jessie Sloman in Leeds, UK, went to Brooklyn soon after the wedding where they raised three sons and a daughter. I wonder whether your Brooklyn family and our Brooklyn family were connected in any way.
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VORZIMER not VORIZMER
Barbara Mannlein <bsmannlein@...>
CORRECTION OF TYPO
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Re: Help Stop USCIS Genealogy Program Fee Hikes
David Lewin
As I see it,
RecordsNotRevenue.com is
directed at US citizen. This is an International
problem, not an American one.
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Please will you make a Petition place for all researchers to use David Lewin London
At 14:16 20/11/2019, Renée K. Carl wrote:
Building off of Jan Meisels Allen's 15 Nov post ( https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/message/1150), I have more information to share on the outrageous proposal by USCIS Genealogy Program to raise the cost of accessing documents by more than 400%. An ad hoc group of genealogists, historians, and records access advocates have compiled a summary of the issues, information on the USCIS Genealogy program, and 3 easy steps you can take to help stop this fee hike.
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Re: Relationship question
Betty is NOT the step mother of Edgar. For this to be true, she would have to be currently married to Allen.
Good question.
Happy Thanksgiving to all
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From: JoRose <JoRose@...> To: main <main@...> Sent: Thu, Nov 21, 2019 7:45 pm Subject: [JewishGen.org] Relationship question Allen and Betty marry and have a son--Charles.
They divorce. Allen and Daisy marry and have a son--Edgar. [Have you noticed that the names are in alphabetical order, for clarity.] Facts: Allen is the father of Charles and Edgar. Daisy is the step-mother of Charles and the mother of Edgar. Betty is the mother of Charles. Is Betty the step-mother of Edgar? Why or why not? Thanks in advance for your opinion.
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Re: Jewish Gravestones Used as Cobblestones in Prague to be Returned to Old Jewish Cemetery #Czech Republic
Joan A. Baronberg
I read this over three times to ensure there wasn’t a typo in the date. It is shocking to think that in the 1980s, Jewish cemetery stones were used for paving secular streets.
"Evidently the pieces were removed from the 19th century cemetery for street building in the late 1980s."
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