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Re: JACOBS 1880-1970
#hungary
Robert Neu
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Robert Neu Ruth May <rarmay@yahoo.com> wrote: Shalom all, My grandfather's brother Arnold Vadasz Jacobs was born March 4, 1880 in Velkekapusawy, Hungary. He came to the US on Dec 2, 1923 >from Cherbourg, France, abord the Aquitania to New York City. In Hungary he was an attorney. I think he was a restaurant cashier in NYC. He lived at 121 92nd Street. He died in 1970. IF HE LIVED IN NEW YORK (MANHATTAN) THE ADDRESS IS EITHER E OR W 92 STREET AND MORE THAN LIKELY EAST. I know less about grandpa. His name was Kuby Jacobs born 1867 ungary, died 1961 in Oklahoma. Can anyone help me locate Velkekapusawy? THIS IS NOT A HUNGARIAN BUT A SLAVIC NAME. THE HUNGARIAN NAME WOULD BE "NAGY,,,,,,,,,,," DOUBLE CHECK USING ORIGINAL DOCUMENTATION SUCH AS PASSPORT, NATURALIZATION PAPERS, ETC Was the name Vadasz Jewish? THIS IS NOT A PARTICULARILY JEWISH NAME, THOUGH IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOME JEWS BEAR SUCH A NAME. IT IS A VERY COMMON HUNGARIAN NAME AND IT MEANS "HUNTER". Could Kuby be a diminuative for Jacob? KUBY/KOBI COULD BE A NICKNAME FOR JACOB/JAKAB Where shall I look next? WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? Thanks in advance for your advice. Ruth May Bellevue, WA JACOBS-Hungary.South Carolina>Tennesee>Oklahoma MADANSKY(changed to May 1923)-Sudikov, Dennevits,Ukraine>Illinois>Arkansas>Oklahoma MICHAELSON-Ukraine>Oklahoma GREENFIELD-South Carolina SCHATZ-Charleston, South Carolina All the Best from Ruth Alexis May
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Hungary SIG #Hungary Re: JACOBS 1880-1970
#hungary
Robert Neu
Answers in the text
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Robert Neu Ruth May <rarmay@yahoo.com> wrote: Shalom all, My grandfather's brother Arnold Vadasz Jacobs was born March 4, 1880 in Velkekapusawy, Hungary. He came to the US on Dec 2, 1923 >from Cherbourg, France, abord the Aquitania to New York City. In Hungary he was an attorney. I think he was a restaurant cashier in NYC. He lived at 121 92nd Street. He died in 1970. IF HE LIVED IN NEW YORK (MANHATTAN) THE ADDRESS IS EITHER E OR W 92 STREET AND MORE THAN LIKELY EAST. I know less about grandpa. His name was Kuby Jacobs born 1867 ungary, died 1961 in Oklahoma. Can anyone help me locate Velkekapusawy? THIS IS NOT A HUNGARIAN BUT A SLAVIC NAME. THE HUNGARIAN NAME WOULD BE "NAGY,,,,,,,,,,," DOUBLE CHECK USING ORIGINAL DOCUMENTATION SUCH AS PASSPORT, NATURALIZATION PAPERS, ETC Was the name Vadasz Jewish? THIS IS NOT A PARTICULARILY JEWISH NAME, THOUGH IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOME JEWS BEAR SUCH A NAME. IT IS A VERY COMMON HUNGARIAN NAME AND IT MEANS "HUNTER". Could Kuby be a diminuative for Jacob? KUBY/KOBI COULD BE A NICKNAME FOR JACOB/JAKAB Where shall I look next? WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? Thanks in advance for your advice. Ruth May Bellevue, WA JACOBS-Hungary.South Carolina>Tennesee>Oklahoma MADANSKY(changed to May 1923)-Sudikov, Dennevits,Ukraine>Illinois>Arkansas>Oklahoma MICHAELSON-Ukraine>Oklahoma GREENFIELD-South Carolina SCHATZ-Charleston, South Carolina All the Best from Ruth Alexis May
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Re: Maps
#bessarabia
Bobby Furst <bobby1st@...>
Original copies of these maps are available at the LDS in Salt lake
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City. They are larger than letter size. Perhaps you can order copies >from your local Family History center. Bobby
On Sep 2, 2005, at 2:02 AM, tom klein wrote:
what a wonderful collection of maps! thank you for the reference.
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Hungary SIG #Hungary Re: Maps
#hungary
Bobby Furst <bobby1st@...>
Original copies of these maps are available at the LDS in Salt lake
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City. They are larger than letter size. Perhaps you can order copies >from your local Family History center. Bobby
On Sep 2, 2005, at 2:02 AM, tom klein wrote:
what a wonderful collection of maps! thank you for the reference.
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wrote for the stage
#yiddish
Miltone@...
My relative supposedly wrote for the stage.
Are there any writer specific sources out there? I have exhausted the actors and general materials. Milton E. Botwinick botwinick@alumni.rowan.edu MEBotwinick@alumni.temple.edu phila pa usa Moderator's note: This is not specifically directed to the Yiddish stage. However, identification of resources regarding authors for the theater may be useful for other researchers.
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Yiddish Theatre and Vadeville #YiddishTheatre wrote for the stage
#yiddish
Miltone@...
My relative supposedly wrote for the stage.
Are there any writer specific sources out there? I have exhausted the actors and general materials. Milton E. Botwinick botwinick@alumni.rowan.edu MEBotwinick@alumni.temple.edu phila pa usa Moderator's note: This is not specifically directed to the Yiddish stage. However, identification of resources regarding authors for the theater may be useful for other researchers.
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Membership!
#romania
Rosanne Leeson <rdleeson@...>
Dear All!
Some good news.... It is with great pride, delight and astonishment that we must report to you all that we currently have 1063 members subscribed to our list! A good Labor Day to everyone! Rosanne and Paula
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Romania SIG #Romania Membership!
#romania
Rosanne Leeson <rdleeson@...>
Dear All!
Some good news.... It is with great pride, delight and astonishment that we must report to you all that we currently have 1063 members subscribed to our list! A good Labor Day to everyone! Rosanne and Paula
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Re: Segal
#unitedkingdom
Jackye Sullins <jsullins@...>
Have you tried searching JRI Poland and the shtetlseeker on Jewishgen.
Those are two great sources for finding towns. Jackye Sullins MODERATOR NOTE. This thread is now wondering off topic for JCR-UK which is for research into Jewish Communities and Records within the UK. My husband has been given the name of a village outside Warsaw in Poland.<snip> Can someone please make sense of the village name. Or does anyone know
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F"Rosenbaums of Zell" by Strauss
#unitedkingdom
Nick Landau <N.Landau@...>
Does anyone know a library in London where I can consult the book
"Rosenbaums of Zell" by Strauss? I have actually located it in a bookdealers, but I would like to have a look before I decide whether I want to go ahead and purchase. Regards Nick Landau London, UK COHNREICH (Anklam, Germany Krajenka, Poland) ATLAS (Wielkie Oczy (near Lvov/Lemberg), Poland) WECHSLER(Schwabach, Germany) KOHN (Wallerstein and Kleinerdlingen,Germany) LANDAU/FREDKIN(Gomel, Mogilev, Belarus)
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JCR-UK SIG #UnitedKingdom Re: Segal
#unitedkingdom
Jackye Sullins <jsullins@...>
Have you tried searching JRI Poland and the shtetlseeker on Jewishgen.
Those are two great sources for finding towns. Jackye Sullins MODERATOR NOTE. This thread is now wondering off topic for JCR-UK which is for research into Jewish Communities and Records within the UK. My husband has been given the name of a village outside Warsaw in Poland.<snip> Can someone please make sense of the village name. Or does anyone know
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JCR-UK SIG #UnitedKingdom F"Rosenbaums of Zell" by Strauss
#unitedkingdom
Nick Landau <N.Landau@...>
Does anyone know a library in London where I can consult the book
"Rosenbaums of Zell" by Strauss? I have actually located it in a bookdealers, but I would like to have a look before I decide whether I want to go ahead and purchase. Regards Nick Landau London, UK COHNREICH (Anklam, Germany Krajenka, Poland) ATLAS (Wielkie Oczy (near Lvov/Lemberg), Poland) WECHSLER(Schwabach, Germany) KOHN (Wallerstein and Kleinerdlingen,Germany) LANDAU/FREDKIN(Gomel, Mogilev, Belarus)
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Re: Naturalization Applications, early 1900's
#southafrica
Avi Lishower <lishower@...>
HI Ann
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recently i reveal a big branch of my father family lived in Oregon U.S.A Moses Lischauer came to the U.S >from Latvia in year 1893 the new recovered family update me that one sister of Moses arrive to south Africa and there is a possibility they change their surname to Lewis could you advise best regard Avi Lishower
Subject: RE: Naturalization Applications, early 1900's (BERELOWITZ)
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Cape Colony
#southafrica
Miltone@...
Is Cape Colony the same as Cape Town or is one a part of the other?
Milton E. Botwinick botwinick@alumni.rowan.edu Phila., PA usa
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South Africa SIG #SouthAfrica Re: Naturalization Applications, early 1900's
#southafrica
Avi Lishower <lishower@...>
HI Ann
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recently i reveal a big branch of my father family lived in Oregon U.S.A Moses Lischauer came to the U.S >from Latvia in year 1893 the new recovered family update me that one sister of Moses arrive to south Africa and there is a possibility they change their surname to Lewis could you advise best regard Avi Lishower
Subject: RE: Naturalization Applications, early 1900's (BERELOWITZ)
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South Africa SIG #SouthAfrica Cape Colony
#southafrica
Miltone@...
Is Cape Colony the same as Cape Town or is one a part of the other?
Milton E. Botwinick botwinick@alumni.rowan.edu Phila., PA usa
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Re: Naturalization
#general
Ann Rabinowitz <annrab@...>
In response to Milton Botwinick's inquiry about how to obtain SA
naturalizations, I suggest the following: 1. Determine when your ancestor might have come to SA and the possible period then when naturalization might have occurred. 2. If the time period was during 1903-1907, the SA SIG web site has a database I prepared for some 999 naturalizations in the Cape Colony, http://www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica/natrec.htm . It also can be found in the SA Jewish Rootsbank database, http://grub.its.uct.ac.za/cgi/cgi_RootWeb.exe?entry_point=Home . 3. You can look up your ancestor in the SA National Archives daabase and see if their naturalization record or even their immigration papers are contained there, http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm300gi?200509030821427D6D0162%26DB%3DRSAE. 4. You can go to the SA SIG web site, http://www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica, and look up how to order naturalizations, and also go to the JewishGen InfoFile on South Africa prepared by Dr. Saul Issroff at http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/za-infoa.txt or http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/za-infob.txt which will provide the address of the Archives. 5. You can also lookup applications for naturalizations for the Cape Colony to be found in the Mormon Family History Center's South African microfilms, also discussed by Roy Ogus for the period 1883-1911on the SA SIG web site, http://www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica/mormon-fhc/mormon.htm. Other materials relating to naturalization are also to be found there. Ann Rabinowitz annrab@bellsouth.net
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South Africa SIG #SouthAfrica RE: Naturalization
#southafrica
Ann Rabinowitz <annrab@...>
In response to Milton Botwinick's inquiry about how to obtain SA
naturalizations, I suggest the following: 1. Determine when your ancestor might have come to SA and the possible period then when naturalization might have occurred. 2. If the time period was during 1903-1907, the SA SIG web site has a database I prepared for some 999 naturalizations in the Cape Colony, http://www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica/natrec.htm . It also can be found in the SA Jewish Rootsbank database, http://grub.its.uct.ac.za/cgi/cgi_RootWeb.exe?entry_point=Home . 3. You can look up your ancestor in the SA National Archives daabase and see if their naturalization record or even their immigration papers are contained there, http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm300gi?200509030821427D6D0162%26DB%3DRSAE. 4. You can go to the SA SIG web site, http://www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica, and look up how to order naturalizations, and also go to the JewishGen InfoFile on South Africa prepared by Dr. Saul Issroff at http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/za-infoa.txt or http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/za-infob.txt which will provide the address of the Archives. 5. You can also lookup applications for naturalizations for the Cape Colony to be found in the Mormon Family History Center's South African microfilms, also discussed by Roy Ogus for the period 1883-1911on the SA SIG web site, http://www.jewishgen.org/SAfrica/mormon-fhc/mormon.htm. Other materials relating to naturalization are also to be found there. Ann Rabinowitz annrab@bellsouth.net
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Memorial pages - Dabrowa Gornicza
#general
Lance Ackerfeld <ackerfeld@...>
Dear Dabrowa Gornicza Researchers,
I am honored to be able to announce that the 85 pages of memorial pages from the Dabrowa Gornicza Yizkor Book are now online in the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project. These pages include a myriad of photographs and names that immortalize members of families who died in the Holocaust whilst also providing important details for the researcher about these same families. This project took quite a time before it saw the light of day and most of the credit for these impressive pages must be given to Osnat Ramaty who burned large quantities of midnight oil in keeping the format of these pages as close as possible to the original. My thanks also go out to Ricky Benhart who graciously volunteered to help translate the Yiddish dedications within this section. The index for these pages can be found at: http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Dabrowa/Dabnec.html And the main page for the Dabrowa Gornicza Yizkor Book at: http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Dabrowa/Dabrowa.html Yours, Lance Ackerfeld Project Coordinator
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Memorial pages - Dabrowa Gornicza
#general
Lance Ackerfeld <ackerfeld@...>
Dear Dabrowa Gornicza Researchers,
I am honored to be able to announce that the 85 pages of memorial pages from the Dabrowa Gornicza Yizkor Book are now online in the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project. These pages include a myriad of photographs and names that immortalize members of families who died in the Holocaust whilst also providing important details for the researcher about these same families. This project took quite a time before it saw the light of day and most of the credit for these impressive pages must be given to Osnat Ramaty who burned large quantities of midnight oil in keeping the format of these pages as close as possible to the original. My thanks also go out to Ricky Benhart who graciously volunteered to help translate the Yiddish dedications within this section. The index for these pages can be found at: http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Dabrowa/Dabnec.html And the main page for the Dabrowa Gornicza Yizkor Book at: http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Dabrowa/Dabrowa.html Yours, Lance Ackerfeld Project Coordinator
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