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Re: Where is Soslak (Szil) in the Carpathian Mountains?
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armata@...
In article <99c12c63.36a3eed9@aol.com>, JULFALK@aol.com writes
I am looking for a town in the Carpathian mountain region,formerly in Hungary If you look at the corner where Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine come together, Soslak, now Sil, is located in Ukraine, just east of the Slovak border, just south of the Polish border. It's about 5 miles NNE of Velyky Bereznyj in Ukraine, just north of where the Uz river makes its bend to the east. It's almost due east of Snina in Slovakia. Joe Armata armata@vms.cis.pitt.edu
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Where is Soslak (Szil) in the Carpathian Mountains?
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armata@...
In article <99c12c63.36a3eed9@aol.com>, JULFALK@aol.com writes
I am looking for a town in the Carpathian mountain region,formerly in Hungary If you look at the corner where Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine come together, Soslak, now Sil, is located in Ukraine, just east of the Slovak border, just south of the Polish border. It's about 5 miles NNE of Velyky Bereznyj in Ukraine, just north of where the Uz river makes its bend to the east. It's almost due east of Snina in Slovakia. Joe Armata armata@vms.cis.pitt.edu
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Re: Rovna, Russia
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MarkGrekin <markgrekin@...>
On Jan. 20, 1999 you wrote:
<< Need some help with some information that I just received on an SS-5 Social Security application. The applicant, who emigrated to the US in 1900 at age 4, put down Rovna, Russia as his birthplace. >> Hi Mark, Aah! Those mispronunciations again and again! ! ! Very often emigrating Jews didn't state the exact province of the Russian Empire they came from. They just put "Russia". The town name you are looking for is "Rovno", Ukraine or, in Ukrainian pronunciation, - "Rivne". In English that means "flat, plain surface" Look in the shtetlseeker and you will see about four of them in Ukraine. That's another problem but I guess I have a pretty good idea which one is your applicant's place. There was one and only one significant Rovno at the beginning of the century in the Ukraine with a large Jewish population. But to check where it is exactly located I shall visit our central library which has an old Russian encyclopedia published in 1891-1905 by Brockgause and Ephron in Saint Petersburg. But it's too far >from me to go. Check the big libraries in your area for this encyclopedia and if they have it, look under the Russian letter "R" (it's like English "P") I also remember reading a Russian book by Mr. Medvedev "Eto bylo pod Rovno" (it's a Russian title expessed in Latin letters) about Russian guerrilla actions against the Germans in WW2 near that town. Mark Grekin
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Rovna, Russia
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MarkGrekin <markgrekin@...>
On Jan. 20, 1999 you wrote:
<< Need some help with some information that I just received on an SS-5 Social Security application. The applicant, who emigrated to the US in 1900 at age 4, put down Rovna, Russia as his birthplace. >> Hi Mark, Aah! Those mispronunciations again and again! ! ! Very often emigrating Jews didn't state the exact province of the Russian Empire they came from. They just put "Russia". The town name you are looking for is "Rovno", Ukraine or, in Ukrainian pronunciation, - "Rivne". In English that means "flat, plain surface" Look in the shtetlseeker and you will see about four of them in Ukraine. That's another problem but I guess I have a pretty good idea which one is your applicant's place. There was one and only one significant Rovno at the beginning of the century in the Ukraine with a large Jewish population. But to check where it is exactly located I shall visit our central library which has an old Russian encyclopedia published in 1891-1905 by Brockgause and Ephron in Saint Petersburg. But it's too far >from me to go. Check the big libraries in your area for this encyclopedia and if they have it, look under the Russian letter "R" (it's like English "P") I also remember reading a Russian book by Mr. Medvedev "Eto bylo pod Rovno" (it's a Russian title expessed in Latin letters) about Russian guerrilla actions against the Germans in WW2 near that town. Mark Grekin
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Israel Phone book has English version
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Judith Romney Wegner
Subject: Israel Phone Book I have been told that there are listed in the ISRAELI PHONE BOOKSThe Israeli phone books are available in English as well as Hebrew, so it should be quite easy for you to get someone in Israel to send you photocopies of the pages you need, at least >from the phone books for Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa. Judith Romney Wegner jrw@brown.edu
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Israel Phone book has English version
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Judith Romney Wegner
Subject: Israel Phone Book I have been told that there are listed in the ISRAELI PHONE BOOKSThe Israeli phone books are available in English as well as Hebrew, so it should be quite easy for you to get someone in Israel to send you photocopies of the pages you need, at least >from the phone books for Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa. Judith Romney Wegner jrw@brown.edu
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Names Vitshe, Manusya
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Alan Shuchat <ashuchat@...>
Is Vitshe a Yiddish name? Is it a diminutive? My aunt Rita's name in the
Ukraine was Vitshe, as was her grandmother's. Or is it Russian, perhaps short for Viktoriya, the way Vitya is the diminutive of Viktor? What about names like Nusya, Manusya, Mousia? These sound Russian to me. Are they also diminutives, and if so of what longer names? What gender would they be? Thanks, Alan Shuchat Researching: SHUCHAT (Talnoye, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Odessa) VINOKUR (Talnoye) KURIS (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki, Berdichev) SILVERMAN (Soroki, Kremenets) BIRNBAUM (Kamenets-Podolski) KITAIGORODSKI (Zvenigorodka) MODERATOR NOTE: Have you consulted the Discussion Group Archives at http://www.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.isa?jg~jgsys~archpop? Type in a keyword and all messages pertaining to that topic will be posted.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Names Vitshe, Manusya
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Alan Shuchat <ashuchat@...>
Is Vitshe a Yiddish name? Is it a diminutive? My aunt Rita's name in the
Ukraine was Vitshe, as was her grandmother's. Or is it Russian, perhaps short for Viktoriya, the way Vitya is the diminutive of Viktor? What about names like Nusya, Manusya, Mousia? These sound Russian to me. Are they also diminutives, and if so of what longer names? What gender would they be? Thanks, Alan Shuchat Researching: SHUCHAT (Talnoye, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Odessa) VINOKUR (Talnoye) KURIS (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki, Berdichev) SILVERMAN (Soroki, Kremenets) BIRNBAUM (Kamenets-Podolski) KITAIGORODSKI (Zvenigorodka) MODERATOR NOTE: Have you consulted the Discussion Group Archives at http://www.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.isa?jg~jgsys~archpop? Type in a keyword and all messages pertaining to that topic will be posted.
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Searching: LEVY Twin Girls, b. ca 1949, NYC
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Alan K'necht <alan@...>
I am searching for lost cousins.
They are twin girls born approx. 1949 in or around New York City. Their father's nane was David Harris (Harry/Hersh) LEVY born approx. 1907 in London England and died in the 50's somewhere in the USA. Grandfather's name John (Jack) Levy (orginally KNECHT). One of the twins name may be something similar to Ira or Iris and may have married a WASSERMAN. Last contact (by another cousins) was more than 30 years ago while she was working for the Holiday Inn some where in Folorida. For more information on the family connection, please see the family history web site http://www.knecht.on.ca/history Anyone having information on the above please contact me by email. Alan Knecht
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching: LEVY Twin Girls, b. ca 1949, NYC
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Alan K'necht <alan@...>
I am searching for lost cousins.
They are twin girls born approx. 1949 in or around New York City. Their father's nane was David Harris (Harry/Hersh) LEVY born approx. 1907 in London England and died in the 50's somewhere in the USA. Grandfather's name John (Jack) Levy (orginally KNECHT). One of the twins name may be something similar to Ira or Iris and may have married a WASSERMAN. Last contact (by another cousins) was more than 30 years ago while she was working for the Holiday Inn some where in Folorida. For more information on the family connection, please see the family history web site http://www.knecht.on.ca/history Anyone having information on the above please contact me by email. Alan Knecht
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Book in Hebrew: Bat-Ami Yogev Cherzlia
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Cheryl Hoover <crhoover@...>
I just received a picture of my great great grandmother >from the book
above. This book was published in Israel and written in Hebrew. The person that sent me this picture said the title translates to They Were Ordinary People. My question is this: does anyone know if this book is available in either Hebrew or English? I would prefer the English version if it is available. I know this may be a long shot as this is suppose to be an old book, however, I am hoping. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Cheryl Hoover
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Book in Hebrew: Bat-Ami Yogev Cherzlia
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Cheryl Hoover <crhoover@...>
I just received a picture of my great great grandmother >from the book
above. This book was published in Israel and written in Hebrew. The person that sent me this picture said the title translates to They Were Ordinary People. My question is this: does anyone know if this book is available in either Hebrew or English? I would prefer the English version if it is available. I know this may be a long shot as this is suppose to be an old book, however, I am hoping. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Cheryl Hoover
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What's in a name...
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Anita Citron <anitac1@...>
And people think this is easy? That there is a simple name chart? HAAs Shelly said...and not just names. My father hated his oldest brother. When he filled in my gm's application of naturalization, he left Harry off entirely. If I hadn't had know he had an older brother, I might have thought there were only four in the family. This also makes you wonder what else he did? He shows my gps married 4/15/1889. Harry was born in 1889. Are the dates right? Did my grandmother make him leave Harry off because he was born out of wedlock? Who knows? The papers also say my gf (deceased by that point) had arrived here in 1893. The NYS Census in 1905 says he arrive in 1891. Sometimes I feel like I'm dealing with mercury. But ain't that half the frustrating fun? Oh, just to restore hope. I found had gathered unto me the data on every NADW/VORN/E/Y born in Ukraine in the world. Only 4 families, mine being one, one in Brazil, one other (which had only 4 members, 2 already gone). All other Nadwornys seem to be >from Poland. But I kept connecting the dots, and waiting for those cert, and the last where there were no living members. I kept searching and sending for certificates. AND I managed to incontroveribly match up two of them as having the same ggf/ggm (the one in Brazil and the 4 member one). The 2 survivors of the 4-member family thought they were the only ones in the world because their father told them that that is what their grandfather said. Might be what he believed but it was not the truth. So, if I managed to find success with my needle-in-a-haystack family, keep heart. Anita Citron anitac1@erols.com Flushing (NYC), New York Searching NADWORNY, SILVER (Odessa) MEDNIK/WILDMAN (Berdichev)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen What's in a name...
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Anita Citron <anitac1@...>
And people think this is easy? That there is a simple name chart? HAAs Shelly said...and not just names. My father hated his oldest brother. When he filled in my gm's application of naturalization, he left Harry off entirely. If I hadn't had know he had an older brother, I might have thought there were only four in the family. This also makes you wonder what else he did? He shows my gps married 4/15/1889. Harry was born in 1889. Are the dates right? Did my grandmother make him leave Harry off because he was born out of wedlock? Who knows? The papers also say my gf (deceased by that point) had arrived here in 1893. The NYS Census in 1905 says he arrive in 1891. Sometimes I feel like I'm dealing with mercury. But ain't that half the frustrating fun? Oh, just to restore hope. I found had gathered unto me the data on every NADW/VORN/E/Y born in Ukraine in the world. Only 4 families, mine being one, one in Brazil, one other (which had only 4 members, 2 already gone). All other Nadwornys seem to be >from Poland. But I kept connecting the dots, and waiting for those cert, and the last where there were no living members. I kept searching and sending for certificates. AND I managed to incontroveribly match up two of them as having the same ggf/ggm (the one in Brazil and the 4 member one). The 2 survivors of the 4-member family thought they were the only ones in the world because their father told them that that is what their grandfather said. Might be what he believed but it was not the truth. So, if I managed to find success with my needle-in-a-haystack family, keep heart. Anita Citron anitac1@erols.com Flushing (NYC), New York Searching NADWORNY, SILVER (Odessa) MEDNIK/WILDMAN (Berdichev)
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Searching: Susan TROBE (TRAUB/E), b. Brazil, Israel in 60s
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David Frey <dfrey@...>
Dear Jewish Genners,
Trying to contact lost cousin by the name of Susan TROBE or TRAUB or TRAUBE. Born Brazil - father worked for Jewish Agency - lived in Kfar Shemaryahu in late 60's. Would now be about 45 - 50. Please contact at address below. With best regards David L. Frey Victoria - Australia Researching - Frey, Frei, Gildensohn, Pitkin, Beshincovichi, Steinhaus and Walsh (yes, I know!)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching: Susan TROBE (TRAUB/E), b. Brazil, Israel in 60s
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David Frey <dfrey@...>
Dear Jewish Genners,
Trying to contact lost cousin by the name of Susan TROBE or TRAUB or TRAUBE. Born Brazil - father worked for Jewish Agency - lived in Kfar Shemaryahu in late 60's. Would now be about 45 - 50. Please contact at address below. With best regards David L. Frey Victoria - Australia Researching - Frey, Frei, Gildensohn, Pitkin, Beshincovichi, Steinhaus and Walsh (yes, I know!)
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Re: Photo recognition & Polish translation
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Lil Marv <lilmarv@...>
tried to go to the address you listed but received a message "host unknown".
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
Please check and repost the correct URL Thanks
Images can be viewed at http://alon.ourfamily.com/nir.html
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Photo recognition & Polish translation
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Lil Marv <lilmarv@...>
tried to go to the address you listed but received a message "host unknown".
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
Please check and repost the correct URL Thanks
Images can be viewed at http://alon.ourfamily.com/nir.html
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Central Cemetery, Vienna, Austria
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Rebecca F. <beckles@...>
My cousin informs me that her grandparents are buried in the
Zentralfriedhof in Vienna. I'm not sure I have the correct address for the cemetery, so if anyone does have the correct one, could you please share it with me? Also, should I have my cousin translate into German for me, or will correspondance in English be adequate? Thanks in advance, Rebecca Fenning Los Angeles, CA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Central Cemetery, Vienna, Austria
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Rebecca F. <beckles@...>
My cousin informs me that her grandparents are buried in the
Zentralfriedhof in Vienna. I'm not sure I have the correct address for the cemetery, so if anyone does have the correct one, could you please share it with me? Also, should I have my cousin translate into German for me, or will correspondance in English be adequate? Thanks in advance, Rebecca Fenning Los Angeles, CA
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