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Molchadz, Belarus
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Shael Siegel <ssi448@...>
Looking for anyone having relatives >from or interest in:
Molchadz, Belarus Please contact me. Myrna Siegel ssi448@... Searching: BORETCKY, GORSKY, KOVENSKY and PLOFSKY >from Slonim, Molchadz, Baranovici and Novogrudok, Belarus OGRODNITZKY, NADOLNA, NEIDORF and RABINOWITZ >from Wizna, and Trzcianne, Poland SIEGEL, STIEN, ROSENWITZ >from Sirvintos, Uzpalai, Svedasai and Anyksciai, Lithuania
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Molchadz, Belarus
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Shael Siegel <ssi448@...>
Looking for anyone having relatives >from or interest in:
Molchadz, Belarus Please contact me. Myrna Siegel ssi448@... Searching: BORETCKY, GORSKY, KOVENSKY and PLOFSKY >from Slonim, Molchadz, Baranovici and Novogrudok, Belarus OGRODNITZKY, NADOLNA, NEIDORF and RABINOWITZ >from Wizna, and Trzcianne, Poland SIEGEL, STIEN, ROSENWITZ >from Sirvintos, Uzpalai, Svedasai and Anyksciai, Lithuania
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Sigmund GOLDSTEIN
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Paul Silverstone <paulh@...>
I am searching for information about Sigmund GOLDSTEIN who died in
Winnipeg on April 24, 1909, age 39. His father's name was Nathan and he was born in GErmany on May 29, 1870. He left his wife Katie and two children. -- Paul Silverstone reply to : paulh@...
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Sigmund GOLDSTEIN
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Paul Silverstone <paulh@...>
I am searching for information about Sigmund GOLDSTEIN who died in
Winnipeg on April 24, 1909, age 39. His father's name was Nathan and he was born in GErmany on May 29, 1870. He left his wife Katie and two children. -- Paul Silverstone reply to : paulh@...
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NEUFELD, STERN > Hungary to NYC - 1891
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Ruffin R Cooper <rrcooper@...>
I am looking for any information about the NEUFELD and STERN
families who came >from Budapest to New York in Dec 1891. My grandfather, William (Vilmos) NEUFELD and grandmother Fannie (STERN) NEUFELD lived in Brooklyn New York. He died in an accident in 1913 and she died in 1925. Their children were named: Leah, Harry, Sidney, Anna and Ruth (Regina). I have information about the family going back to the early 1800's in Hungary and a lot of information about the family in the 1900's in the U.S. I would be more than happy to hear >from anyone who can help and I have information to share. Bob Cooper rrcooper@...
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen NEUFELD, STERN > Hungary to NYC - 1891
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Ruffin R Cooper <rrcooper@...>
I am looking for any information about the NEUFELD and STERN
families who came >from Budapest to New York in Dec 1891. My grandfather, William (Vilmos) NEUFELD and grandmother Fannie (STERN) NEUFELD lived in Brooklyn New York. He died in an accident in 1913 and she died in 1925. Their children were named: Leah, Harry, Sidney, Anna and Ruth (Regina). I have information about the family going back to the early 1800's in Hungary and a lot of information about the family in the 1900's in the U.S. I would be more than happy to hear >from anyone who can help and I have information to share. Bob Cooper rrcooper@...
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Thoughts about INS requests
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james gross <larklane@...>
Hello,
Someone just sent this to me and I feel the info is of general interest. Q: I have been on a "waiting" list for almost 1 yr. I wait and wait andIf you have a INS #, just leave it alone til you get something. I've done about 17 INS requests and I usually send all my supporting garbage after the initial # is assigned to me. Then I call up and make sure they didn't feed everything to the dog. It is important to me so I spend the .10 a minute so I can speak to someone there. I have found the average turn around time to be under a year. I will say that if and once they find your relatives papers, I wouldn't get hung up on "did they find everything or should I appeal". >from what I understand, appealing is sort of a waste of time as per a conversation I had with one of the INS supervisors. Usually you are appealing a no record found reply. In my question to the supervisor, I asked," Does the INS ever find records but decide to withhold them >from the requestor because of any reason? " I was told that if the INS finds it, you get it, period. It is my feeling that they strive for customer service while fulfilling your request under the Freedom of Information act. It is contrary to their goals and objectives to have a million grandmothers screaming for records that they have found. The problem lies when papers/documents are misfiled, lost, or unreadable. The INS can't simply wiggle their noses and create the stupid document. On the positive side, If you've done an INS request several years ago, I understand the INS has recently improved the quality of the image copying with newer copying & microfilm machines. So, try a request for a clearer copy. James H. Gross Cherry Hill, N.J. e-mail: LARKLANE@... Gross-Steinberg Family Tree http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6721/
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Thoughts about INS requests
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james gross <larklane@...>
Hello,
Someone just sent this to me and I feel the info is of general interest. Q: I have been on a "waiting" list for almost 1 yr. I wait and wait andIf you have a INS #, just leave it alone til you get something. I've done about 17 INS requests and I usually send all my supporting garbage after the initial # is assigned to me. Then I call up and make sure they didn't feed everything to the dog. It is important to me so I spend the .10 a minute so I can speak to someone there. I have found the average turn around time to be under a year. I will say that if and once they find your relatives papers, I wouldn't get hung up on "did they find everything or should I appeal". >from what I understand, appealing is sort of a waste of time as per a conversation I had with one of the INS supervisors. Usually you are appealing a no record found reply. In my question to the supervisor, I asked," Does the INS ever find records but decide to withhold them >from the requestor because of any reason? " I was told that if the INS finds it, you get it, period. It is my feeling that they strive for customer service while fulfilling your request under the Freedom of Information act. It is contrary to their goals and objectives to have a million grandmothers screaming for records that they have found. The problem lies when papers/documents are misfiled, lost, or unreadable. The INS can't simply wiggle their noses and create the stupid document. On the positive side, If you've done an INS request several years ago, I understand the INS has recently improved the quality of the image copying with newer copying & microfilm machines. So, try a request for a clearer copy. James H. Gross Cherry Hill, N.J. e-mail: LARKLANE@... Gross-Steinberg Family Tree http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6721/
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Re: KAMINSKY
#general
Barbara C. Johnson <barbaracjohnson@...>
When I was in highschool (class of '52, 45 years ago, I had a
crush on a young man about two or three years older than I. His name was Phil Kaminsky. He was very blond and extremely handsome. If I remember correctly, he came >from around Methuen or Chelmsford, MA. I haven't seen him in as many years. I do know he went to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), a very good engineering school. I went to some prom, maybe even a homecoming weekend, with him. He would have been in the class of '53, '54, or '55. Write the WPI alumni office and have them forward your note to him. If he is interested in answering, he will. See the Khazaria site for red-haired Jews. The Turkish nation of Jews. Apparently it was the Turks who had the red hair and then they invited the Jews and the entire nation converted to Judaism. Evidently red-hair was predominant there until circa 850, when the Mongols overran it.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen re: KAMINSKY
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Barbara C. Johnson <barbaracjohnson@...>
When I was in highschool (class of '52, 45 years ago, I had a
crush on a young man about two or three years older than I. His name was Phil Kaminsky. He was very blond and extremely handsome. If I remember correctly, he came >from around Methuen or Chelmsford, MA. I haven't seen him in as many years. I do know he went to Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), a very good engineering school. I went to some prom, maybe even a homecoming weekend, with him. He would have been in the class of '53, '54, or '55. Write the WPI alumni office and have them forward your note to him. If he is interested in answering, he will. See the Khazaria site for red-haired Jews. The Turkish nation of Jews. Apparently it was the Turks who had the red hair and then they invited the Jews and the entire nation converted to Judaism. Evidently red-hair was predominant there until circa 850, when the Mongols overran it.
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Kovna
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Barbara C. Johnson <barbaracjohnson@...>
When I recently looked at the 1920 Census for my maternal
grandparents, I had to search Walnut Street in CHELSEA, MA. Half of Chelsea -- at least that particular area -- was >from Kovna. I remember thinking, What happened in Kovna that the whole damn town left. It was really quite remarkable. Neighbor after neighbor. Some group should organize to copy >from the 1910 and 1920 Censuses (pl?) the sreets containing the known pockets of Jewish immigrants in certain cities, and put it up on the Net. At least it's in English and will dispense with so much guessing at how the names were spelled at the time they arrived and the shtetls/cities/towns >from which they came and the names of their children living at the time. WE REALLY HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES HOW MANY INDIVIDUAL TRIPS ARE GOING TO BE MADE TO THE FEDERAL ARCHIVES AT WALTHAM, MASS. I really do think I'm missing something here. I probably spent 8 or 9 hours in total at Waltham plus travel to and fro three times. Is each of us going to make one or more trips to wind and rewind microfiche? I guess what I'm saying is that the info has to be made more easily accessible. And that's only the early part of the search. The passenger lists for ships going to New York are in Pittsfield, the other side of our state. I'm one of the lucky ones. Think of those for whom Pittsfield will be more than a day or two trip. You realize, don't you, that if any of us ran our businesses this ineffeciently, we'd be in or headed for bankruptcy! MODERATOR NOTE: Ideas are always welcomed on how to improve research methods, so are you willing to head up an effort to organize and implement this project? Additionally, we could begin by looking at the piles of papers we all have and see which contain names that can be shared with other J'Genners. Susan King proposed that all the photocopies of census records, all the copies of passenger manifest pages, all the lists of names we have on documents be sent to JewishGen for scanning into a proposed document storage and retrieval system. Folks attending the Los Angeles seminar graciously shared all manner of information and it has been scanned, waiting for the retrieval system to become an actuality.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Kovna
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Barbara C. Johnson <barbaracjohnson@...>
When I recently looked at the 1920 Census for my maternal
grandparents, I had to search Walnut Street in CHELSEA, MA. Half of Chelsea -- at least that particular area -- was >from Kovna. I remember thinking, What happened in Kovna that the whole damn town left. It was really quite remarkable. Neighbor after neighbor. Some group should organize to copy >from the 1910 and 1920 Censuses (pl?) the sreets containing the known pockets of Jewish immigrants in certain cities, and put it up on the Net. At least it's in English and will dispense with so much guessing at how the names were spelled at the time they arrived and the shtetls/cities/towns >from which they came and the names of their children living at the time. WE REALLY HAVE TO ASK OURSELVES HOW MANY INDIVIDUAL TRIPS ARE GOING TO BE MADE TO THE FEDERAL ARCHIVES AT WALTHAM, MASS. I really do think I'm missing something here. I probably spent 8 or 9 hours in total at Waltham plus travel to and fro three times. Is each of us going to make one or more trips to wind and rewind microfiche? I guess what I'm saying is that the info has to be made more easily accessible. And that's only the early part of the search. The passenger lists for ships going to New York are in Pittsfield, the other side of our state. I'm one of the lucky ones. Think of those for whom Pittsfield will be more than a day or two trip. You realize, don't you, that if any of us ran our businesses this ineffeciently, we'd be in or headed for bankruptcy! MODERATOR NOTE: Ideas are always welcomed on how to improve research methods, so are you willing to head up an effort to organize and implement this project? Additionally, we could begin by looking at the piles of papers we all have and see which contain names that can be shared with other J'Genners. Susan King proposed that all the photocopies of census records, all the copies of passenger manifest pages, all the lists of names we have on documents be sent to JewishGen for scanning into a proposed document storage and retrieval system. Folks attending the Los Angeles seminar graciously shared all manner of information and it has been scanned, waiting for the retrieval system to become an actuality.
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Re: N.Y.C. area cemeteries
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KAUFMANH <kaufmanh@...>
One of the three that are known as Bayside is Mokom Sholom Cemetery
201 East Broadway New York, NY 10002 They do write back. Good luck Howard Kaufman
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: N.Y.C. area cemeteries
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KAUFMANH <kaufmanh@...>
One of the three that are known as Bayside is Mokom Sholom Cemetery
201 East Broadway New York, NY 10002 They do write back. Good luck Howard Kaufman
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Census Translate
#hungary
TriciaC0@...
Hi, I'd like to verify the translation for the 1848 census for
CSONGRAD MEGYE Sorszam = Neve A csalad tagjai sorban megnevezendok = Eletkora = Szuletesi helye = Orszag = Kozseg = Kereset modja = Magaviselete = Eszrevetelek = Thank you in advance... Tricia
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Hungary SIG #Hungary Census Translate
#hungary
TriciaC0@...
Hi, I'd like to verify the translation for the 1848 census for
CSONGRAD MEGYE Sorszam = Neve A csalad tagjai sorban megnevezendok = Eletkora = Szuletesi helye = Orszag = Kozseg = Kereset modja = Magaviselete = Eszrevetelek = Thank you in advance... Tricia
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Re: ZOGER/ZAGER and MARSHAK
#belarus
Carol Skydell <skydell@...>
Allison,
Your first step is to SEARCH in the JewishGen Family Finder...not only will you find people researching the same names of interest to you, if you don't enter your own information into this database, you are effectively limiting your chances of finding connections. Go to the JewishGen homepage and click on the Family Finder and it will take you right there. Good luck with your search Carol Skydell JewishGen Support Team
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Belarus SIG #Belarus re: ZOGER/ZAGER and MARSHAK
#belarus
Carol Skydell <skydell@...>
Allison,
Your first step is to SEARCH in the JewishGen Family Finder...not only will you find people researching the same names of interest to you, if you don't enter your own information into this database, you are effectively limiting your chances of finding connections. Go to the JewishGen homepage and click on the Family Finder and it will take you right there. Good luck with your search Carol Skydell JewishGen Support Team
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Re: Researching Story of the Jews of MAJORCA
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BetteJoy <bettejoy@...>
Please read the MARRANOS by Cecil Roth. He discusses the Jews of
Majorca and how they were called Cuetas (pig) because they publically ate pork to avoid being taken for Jews. Betty Provizer Starkman, Michigan BetteJoy@...
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Researching Story of the Jews of MAJORCA
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BetteJoy <bettejoy@...>
Please read the MARRANOS by Cecil Roth. He discusses the Jews of
Majorca and how they were called Cuetas (pig) because they publically ate pork to avoid being taken for Jews. Betty Provizer Starkman, Michigan BetteJoy@...
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