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Romanian Emigration Route
#romania
Reuven Singer <reuven-s@...>
Does anyone have any information on what rail lines and what route would
have been taken by emigrants proceeding >from the area around Iasi to Hamburg in the late 19th century. Thanks Reuven Singer MODERATOR NOTE: Private replies only. This thread has been discussed and re-discussed and is now closed!
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Romania SIG #Romania Romanian Emigration Route
#romania
Reuven Singer <reuven-s@...>
Does anyone have any information on what rail lines and what route would
have been taken by emigrants proceeding >from the area around Iasi to Hamburg in the late 19th century. Thanks Reuven Singer MODERATOR NOTE: Private replies only. This thread has been discussed and re-discussed and is now closed!
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searching for FILDERMANN and ROTTEMBERG
#romania
Tania Mouraud <tania.mouraud@...>
I am searching for my grand parents Risla FILDERMAN dans Leib
ROTTEMBERG out of Romania, maybe in Roman or Bucarest. Their son Marcel migrated to France around 1931. He died in the Resistance in 1944. Are there brothers and sisters? If anyone can help me I would be very grateful Tania Mouraud PARIS MODERATOR NOTE: A good place to start is the JewishGen Family Finder. Go to www.jewishgen.org/jgff and enter your family names/towns and you can search for others who are searching the same names/towns. http://www.tania-mouraud.net
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Romania SIG #Romania searching for FILDERMANN and ROTTEMBERG
#romania
Tania Mouraud <tania.mouraud@...>
I am searching for my grand parents Risla FILDERMAN dans Leib
ROTTEMBERG out of Romania, maybe in Roman or Bucarest. Their son Marcel migrated to France around 1931. He died in the Resistance in 1944. Are there brothers and sisters? If anyone can help me I would be very grateful Tania Mouraud PARIS MODERATOR NOTE: A good place to start is the JewishGen Family Finder. Go to www.jewishgen.org/jgff and enter your family names/towns and you can search for others who are searching the same names/towns. http://www.tania-mouraud.net
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COHEN, GOLDENBERG, CREIMER, BLUM
#romania
amir goldenberg <agoldenmd@...>
Hi,
I am researching on my family. I would like to know if someone has information concerning the people who lived specially in Novoselitsa (Novoselitz), Romania, now Ukraine, specially Yanchel Volicovici COHEN who married Esther Beila CREIMER. Also, if someone has information concerning the people from Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine, specially PaulGOLDENBERG and Tina BLUM. I would appreciate some information or how I can get some more information about the communities on this shtetls. Thank you, Amir Goldenberg MODERATOR NOTE: Please sign all future messages with your location and capitalize all surnames.
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Romania SIG #Romania COHEN, GOLDENBERG, CREIMER, BLUM
#romania
amir goldenberg <agoldenmd@...>
Hi,
I am researching on my family. I would like to know if someone has information concerning the people who lived specially in Novoselitsa (Novoselitz), Romania, now Ukraine, specially Yanchel Volicovici COHEN who married Esther Beila CREIMER. Also, if someone has information concerning the people from Czernowitz, Romania, now Ukraine, specially PaulGOLDENBERG and Tina BLUM. I would appreciate some information or how I can get some more information about the communities on this shtetls. Thank you, Amir Goldenberg MODERATOR NOTE: Please sign all future messages with your location and capitalize all surnames.
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Kamenets Name Lists
#belarus
David M. Fox <davefox73@...>
One of our SIG members who recently returned >from a trip to Kamenets sent me
a few name lists >from Kamenets. One list is in typed Russian and has 240 entries and the other is handwritten with 276 entries. In addition to the two lists of names, I also received a hand drawn >from memory rendering of the Kamenets synagogue and a newspaper article (in Russian). At present there is no ShtetLink page for Kamenets, but hopefully someone will start one: http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/documentation/writing.htm? If there is anyone with an interest in volunteering to translate the the two name lists referenced above, please contact me. If there is someone willing to head up a group of Kamenetz researchers or if someone is already taking on this responsibility, please let me know. I have no personal connections to Kamenetz and someone with a personal interest in this shtetl needs to step forward to insure that data for this shtetl is found, translated, and made available on the JewishGen Belarus Database. Dave -- David Fox Mail to: davefox73@... Belarus SIG Founder and Past Coordinator Arnold, MD USA http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus http://homepage.mac.com/davefox73/
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Attention Volkovysk Researchers
#belarus
David M. Fox <davefox73@...>
For those of you with an interest in Volkovysk, I just received the notice
below >from the weekly newsletter >from the Belarus Embassy in Washington, DC: National Bank Launches Memorable Coins Dedicated to the City of Volkovysk The National Bank of Belarus (NBB) put into circulation on October 31 new silver and copper-nickel memorable coins dedicated to the City of Volkovysk. The bank had 2,000 ?proof? quality silver coins and 2,000 ?proof-like? quality copper-nickel coins minted in Warsaw, Poland. The head of the coin pictures a raised impression of Belarus? State Emblem circled by a geometrical ornament. Below the image of the State Emblem is the standard of alloy (for silver coins) and mint year. The tail of the coins features the emblem of the city of Volkovysk. In the middle of the coin there is an inscription ?1000 year?, and below there is a panorama of the city. Dave -- David Fox Mail to: davefox73@... Belarus SIG Founder and Past Coordinator Arnold, MD USA http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus http://homepage.mac.com/davefox73/
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Belarus SIG #Belarus Kamenets Name Lists
#belarus
David M. Fox <davefox73@...>
One of our SIG members who recently returned >from a trip to Kamenets sent me
a few name lists >from Kamenets. One list is in typed Russian and has 240 entries and the other is handwritten with 276 entries. In addition to the two lists of names, I also received a hand drawn >from memory rendering of the Kamenets synagogue and a newspaper article (in Russian). At present there is no ShtetLink page for Kamenets, but hopefully someone will start one: http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/documentation/writing.htm? If there is anyone with an interest in volunteering to translate the the two name lists referenced above, please contact me. If there is someone willing to head up a group of Kamenetz researchers or if someone is already taking on this responsibility, please let me know. I have no personal connections to Kamenetz and someone with a personal interest in this shtetl needs to step forward to insure that data for this shtetl is found, translated, and made available on the JewishGen Belarus Database. Dave -- David Fox Mail to: davefox73@... Belarus SIG Founder and Past Coordinator Arnold, MD USA http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus http://homepage.mac.com/davefox73/
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Belarus SIG #Belarus Attention Volkovysk Researchers
#belarus
David M. Fox <davefox73@...>
For those of you with an interest in Volkovysk, I just received the notice
below >from the weekly newsletter >from the Belarus Embassy in Washington, DC: National Bank Launches Memorable Coins Dedicated to the City of Volkovysk The National Bank of Belarus (NBB) put into circulation on October 31 new silver and copper-nickel memorable coins dedicated to the City of Volkovysk. The bank had 2,000 ?proof? quality silver coins and 2,000 ?proof-like? quality copper-nickel coins minted in Warsaw, Poland. The head of the coin pictures a raised impression of Belarus? State Emblem circled by a geometrical ornament. Below the image of the State Emblem is the standard of alloy (for silver coins) and mint year. The tail of the coins features the emblem of the city of Volkovysk. In the middle of the coin there is an inscription ?1000 year?, and below there is a panorama of the city. Dave -- David Fox Mail to: davefox73@... Belarus SIG Founder and Past Coordinator Arnold, MD USA http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus http://homepage.mac.com/davefox73/
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2006 IAJGS Conference Call for Papers
#belarus
Paula Zieselman <pzieselman@...>
The Jewish Genealogical Society of New York is the host society for the 2006
International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies' annual conference to be held at the Marriott Marquis here in New York City from August 13th to 18th. We have received a great number of submissions for new and varied presentations and look forward to receiving even more. If you are planning to make a submission, please note that today is one-month mark before the December 1st deadline for responding to our Call for Papers. Submissions should be made at the Conference website at http://www.jgsny2006.org/call.cfm All abstract submissions must be submitted via our on-line abstract module process. E-mail submittals will not be accepted. Possible presentation categories are listed below: Computer Training Workshops/Eastern and Central European research/Genetics and DNA Research/Holocaust research/Immigration, naturalization and migration/Eretz Israel, pre and post 1948/Methodology/Metropolitan New York City and New York State research/Non-European research (e.g. India, China)/Rabbinical research/Repositories/Sephardic research/South and Central American research/Technology and Internet resources/United States&North American research/Western European research/Yiddish theater/Tin Pan Alley The decision to accept a submission will be heavily weighted toward presentations not given at previous IAJGS Conferences, that provide specific research methodology and that include specific information for researchers to replicate the success of the presenter in acquiring information. Sessions will be one hour and fifteen minutes, with the last 15 minutes reserved for questions and answers. Proposal Deadline - December 1, 2005. Speakers will be notified no later than February 1, 2006. Handout material/resource material, due March 1, 2006, is required for each presentation and will be included in the syllabus distributed to all conference registrants. Further details of the handout material requirements will be provided upon acceptance of lecture. Gloria Berkenstat Freund 2006 Conference Program Committee Chair gloria@...
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Belarus SIG #Belarus 2006 IAJGS Conference Call for Papers
#belarus
Paula Zieselman <pzieselman@...>
The Jewish Genealogical Society of New York is the host society for the 2006
International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies' annual conference to be held at the Marriott Marquis here in New York City from August 13th to 18th. We have received a great number of submissions for new and varied presentations and look forward to receiving even more. If you are planning to make a submission, please note that today is one-month mark before the December 1st deadline for responding to our Call for Papers. Submissions should be made at the Conference website at http://www.jgsny2006.org/call.cfm All abstract submissions must be submitted via our on-line abstract module process. E-mail submittals will not be accepted. Possible presentation categories are listed below: Computer Training Workshops/Eastern and Central European research/Genetics and DNA Research/Holocaust research/Immigration, naturalization and migration/Eretz Israel, pre and post 1948/Methodology/Metropolitan New York City and New York State research/Non-European research (e.g. India, China)/Rabbinical research/Repositories/Sephardic research/South and Central American research/Technology and Internet resources/United States&North American research/Western European research/Yiddish theater/Tin Pan Alley The decision to accept a submission will be heavily weighted toward presentations not given at previous IAJGS Conferences, that provide specific research methodology and that include specific information for researchers to replicate the success of the presenter in acquiring information. Sessions will be one hour and fifteen minutes, with the last 15 minutes reserved for questions and answers. Proposal Deadline - December 1, 2005. Speakers will be notified no later than February 1, 2006. Handout material/resource material, due March 1, 2006, is required for each presentation and will be included in the syllabus distributed to all conference registrants. Further details of the handout material requirements will be provided upon acceptance of lecture. Gloria Berkenstat Freund 2006 Conference Program Committee Chair gloria@...
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2006 Conference in New York...Call for papers!
#france
Rosanne Leeson <rdleeson@...>
Please note that this message is being posted on behalf of the JGSNY.
Respond to the Conference Program Comm. Chair, Gloria Berkenstat Freund, as shown below, and *not* to me! Thank you, Rosanne Leeson ================================= The Jewish Genealogical Society of New York is the host society for the 2006 International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies' annual conference to be held at the Marriott Marquis here in New York City from August 13th to 18th. We have received a great number of submissions for new and varied presentations and look forward to receiving even more. If you are planning to make a submission, please note that today is one-month mark before the December 1st deadline for responding to our Call for Papers. Submissions should be made at the Conference website at http://www.jgsny2006.org/call.cfm All abstract submissions must be submitted via our on-line abstract module process. E-mail submittals will not be accepted. Possible presentation categories are listed below: Computer Training Workshops/Eastern and Central European research/Genetics and DNA Research/Holocaust research/Immigration, naturalization and migration/Eretz Israel, pre and post 1948/Methodology/Metropolitan New York City and New York State research/Non-European research (e.g. India, China)/Rabbinical research/Repositories/Sephardic research/South and Central American research/Technology and Internet resources/United States&North American research/Western European research/Yiddish theater/Tin Pan Alley The decision to accept a submission will be heavily weighted toward presentations not given at previous IAJGS Conferences, that provide specific research methodology and that include specific information for researchers to replicate the success of the presenter in acquiring information. Sessions will be one hour and fifteen minutes, with the last 15 minutes reserved for questions and answers. Proposal Deadline - December 1, 2005. Speakers will be notified no later than February 1, 2006. Handout material/resource material, due March 1, 2006, is required for each presentation and will be included in the syllabus distributed to all conference registrants. Further details of the handout material requirements will be provided upon acceptance of lecture. Gloria Berkenstat Freund 2006 Conference Program Committee Chair gloria@...
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French SIG #France 2006 Conference in New York...Call for papers!
#france
Rosanne Leeson <rdleeson@...>
Please note that this message is being posted on behalf of the JGSNY.
Respond to the Conference Program Comm. Chair, Gloria Berkenstat Freund, as shown below, and *not* to me! Thank you, Rosanne Leeson ================================= The Jewish Genealogical Society of New York is the host society for the 2006 International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies' annual conference to be held at the Marriott Marquis here in New York City from August 13th to 18th. We have received a great number of submissions for new and varied presentations and look forward to receiving even more. If you are planning to make a submission, please note that today is one-month mark before the December 1st deadline for responding to our Call for Papers. Submissions should be made at the Conference website at http://www.jgsny2006.org/call.cfm All abstract submissions must be submitted via our on-line abstract module process. E-mail submittals will not be accepted. Possible presentation categories are listed below: Computer Training Workshops/Eastern and Central European research/Genetics and DNA Research/Holocaust research/Immigration, naturalization and migration/Eretz Israel, pre and post 1948/Methodology/Metropolitan New York City and New York State research/Non-European research (e.g. India, China)/Rabbinical research/Repositories/Sephardic research/South and Central American research/Technology and Internet resources/United States&North American research/Western European research/Yiddish theater/Tin Pan Alley The decision to accept a submission will be heavily weighted toward presentations not given at previous IAJGS Conferences, that provide specific research methodology and that include specific information for researchers to replicate the success of the presenter in acquiring information. Sessions will be one hour and fifteen minutes, with the last 15 minutes reserved for questions and answers. Proposal Deadline - December 1, 2005. Speakers will be notified no later than February 1, 2006. Handout material/resource material, due March 1, 2006, is required for each presentation and will be included in the syllabus distributed to all conference registrants. Further details of the handout material requirements will be provided upon acceptance of lecture. Gloria Berkenstat Freund 2006 Conference Program Committee Chair gloria@...
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Joyce Field
During the month of October 2005 we updated 10 yizkor books and
posted four new entries. All the additions are flagged at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html. New entries: -Pinkas HaKehillot Hungary: town list -Liubavas, Lithuania: Pinkas Hakehillot Lita -Maramures Region: Ober Bistra (Verkhniy Bystryy), http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/maramures/maramures.html -Palanga, Lithuania: Lite, volume 1, pp. 1453-1474 Updates: -Borislav, Ukraine -Chelm, Poland -Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland -Holocaust in Belarus -Novogrudok, Belarus -Oradea, Romania -Podgaytsy, Ukraine -Radzyn Podalski, Poland -Rejowiec,Poland -Shumskoye, Ukraine We are always eager to receive new translations. Please consider translating a chapter >from a Pinkas HaKehillot volume or engaging someone to translate it. We also need tables of contents translated for many of the Pinkasim. Each volume covers a specific geographical area: Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia & Estonia, Libya, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland (7 volumes), Romania (2 volumes), Slovakia, Yugoslavia. There is a separate "chapter" for each town. Contact me privately if you have any qustions. Please also check the fundraising projects at http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23. Funds raised pay for the translation of these important volumes. Without financial assistance these books will not be translated. Joyce Field JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition jfield@... http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html
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Joyce Field
During the month of October 2005 we updated 10 yizkor books and
posted four new entries. All the additions are flagged at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html. New entries: -Pinkas HaKehillot Hungary: town list -Liubavas, Lithuania: Pinkas Hakehillot Lita -Maramures Region: Ober Bistra (Verkhniy Bystryy), http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/maramures/maramures.html -Palanga, Lithuania: Lite, volume 1, pp. 1453-1474 Updates: -Borislav, Ukraine -Chelm, Poland -Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland -Holocaust in Belarus -Novogrudok, Belarus -Oradea, Romania -Podgaytsy, Ukraine -Radzyn Podalski, Poland -Rejowiec,Poland -Shumskoye, Ukraine We are always eager to receive new translations. Please consider translating a chapter >from a Pinkas HaKehillot volume or engaging someone to translate it. We also need tables of contents translated for many of the Pinkasim. Each volume covers a specific geographical area: Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia & Estonia, Libya, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland (7 volumes), Romania (2 volumes), Slovakia, Yugoslavia. There is a separate "chapter" for each town. Contact me privately if you have any qustions. Please also check the fundraising projects at http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23. Funds raised pay for the translation of these important volumes. Without financial assistance these books will not be translated. Joyce Field JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition jfield@... http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html
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Re: Lodz Cemetery
#general
Fritz Neubauer
Shaw, Ruth schrieb:
My 2 uncles have yet to be found, and they also diedDear Ruth, if they died in one of the hospitals you may find a record of them in the Lodz Hospital Death List which iws accessible through the JewishGen Holocaust records. I helped to enter the data >from the type written records last year which is how I know about that. I hope that helps Fritz Neubauer, North Germany
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Fritz Neubauer
Shaw, Ruth schrieb:
My 2 uncles have yet to be found, and they also diedDear Ruth, if they died in one of the hospitals you may find a record of them in the Lodz Hospital Death List which iws accessible through the JewishGen Holocaust records. I helped to enter the data >from the type written records last year which is how I know about that. I hope that helps Fritz Neubauer, North Germany
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Isadore Gans Lodge
#general
Len Levin <llevin@...>
Hi Fellow Genners,
Does anybody know of a burial society called " The Isadore Gans Lodge"? They apparently officiated at the burial of some of my American family at the Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn. Some of the people were Meyer Cohen (obit 1925), his son-in-law Simon Newman & his son Irving & his wife, Esther. Is this Lodge still in operation, or does anyone recognise this New York family? As a genealogist , one can but hope & try! Thanks Len Levin
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Isadore Gans Lodge
#general
Len Levin <llevin@...>
Hi Fellow Genners,
Does anybody know of a burial society called " The Isadore Gans Lodge"? They apparently officiated at the burial of some of my American family at the Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn. Some of the people were Meyer Cohen (obit 1925), his son-in-law Simon Newman & his son Irving & his wife, Esther. Is this Lodge still in operation, or does anyone recognise this New York family? As a genealogist , one can but hope & try! Thanks Len Levin
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