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Meetings of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois
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Mikekarsen@...
Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois (JGSI)
Sunday, March 26: Temple Beth Israel, 3601 W. Dempster Street, Skokie 1:15 pm "Tips and Tricks" for Users of Family Tree Maker by Franklin Mills 2:00 pm "Traveling back to our Birth/Ancestral Towns" by JGSI members Myrna Siegel & Walter Reed. Walter Reed left Germany as a kindertransport child shortly after Kristalnacht, and is the only member of his immediate family to survive the Holocaust. He will speak about his return trip home and the vast amount of information he found. In 1995, native Chicagoans Myrna and Shael Siegel visited their ancestral towns in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. They made a return visit to Lithuania and Belarus in 2004. Myrna will speak of their challenges and of new findings. --- Future Programs Sunday, April 30: Temple Beth Israel, 3601 W. Dempster Street, Skokie 2:00 pm "How to Find Your Immigrant Ancestors' Arrival Records Online" with Mike Karsen --- Sunday, May 21: Meet at Temple Beth Israel, 3601 W. Dempster Street, Skokie 1:15 pm Form car pools at Temple Beth Israel to Jewish Graceland Cemetery, 3919 North Clark Street, Chicago 2:30-3:30 pm: "Tour of Jewish Graceland Cemetery" with Mark Mandle and Norman Schwartz. To volunteer to drive or signup for a carpool e-mail Julie Levin at JewishGraceland@jgsi.org --- Save the Date! Tuesday, June 6: Temple Beth Israel, 3601 W. Dempster Street, Skokie 7:30 pm "One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools." presented by Dr. Stephen Morse. The lecture is free to JGSI members. Non-member fee is $10, which will apply to membership when you join JGSI by July 1, 2006. For more information and to reserve your seat, phone 312-666-0100 or e-mail rsvp@jgsi.org. --- 2:00 pm Sunday, June 25: Wilmette Public Library, 1242 Wilmette Avenue "Beginners' Workshop" presented by Judy Frazin --- For more information about JGSI call 312-666-0100 or email: info@jgsi.org www.jewishgen.org/jgsi Mike Karsen Researching FROST (Bucharest, Alexandria, Roumania) MARKOVITZ, BLUMNFELD (Botosani, Roumania)
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JGSCT meeting Sunday, March 26
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Arthur Meyers <marciarthur@...>
Greetings,
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut will have a combined meeting with the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford. The Program will be Documenting Family History: The Past and Present. The program will be on Sunday, March 26, 10 a.m. to 12 noon and will be held at the Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center located at 335 Bloomfield Avenue in West Hartford. $5 per person includes a light breakfast and handouts. Please RSVP to Anne Lander at (860) 231.6307 Marcia Indianer Meyers President JGSCT marciarthur@msn.com
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Meetings of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois
#general
Mikekarsen@...
Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois (JGSI)
Sunday, March 26: Temple Beth Israel, 3601 W. Dempster Street, Skokie 1:15 pm "Tips and Tricks" for Users of Family Tree Maker by Franklin Mills 2:00 pm "Traveling back to our Birth/Ancestral Towns" by JGSI members Myrna Siegel & Walter Reed. Walter Reed left Germany as a kindertransport child shortly after Kristalnacht, and is the only member of his immediate family to survive the Holocaust. He will speak about his return trip home and the vast amount of information he found. In 1995, native Chicagoans Myrna and Shael Siegel visited their ancestral towns in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. They made a return visit to Lithuania and Belarus in 2004. Myrna will speak of their challenges and of new findings. --- Future Programs Sunday, April 30: Temple Beth Israel, 3601 W. Dempster Street, Skokie 2:00 pm "How to Find Your Immigrant Ancestors' Arrival Records Online" with Mike Karsen --- Sunday, May 21: Meet at Temple Beth Israel, 3601 W. Dempster Street, Skokie 1:15 pm Form car pools at Temple Beth Israel to Jewish Graceland Cemetery, 3919 North Clark Street, Chicago 2:30-3:30 pm: "Tour of Jewish Graceland Cemetery" with Mark Mandle and Norman Schwartz. To volunteer to drive or signup for a carpool e-mail Julie Levin at JewishGraceland@jgsi.org --- Save the Date! Tuesday, June 6: Temple Beth Israel, 3601 W. Dempster Street, Skokie 7:30 pm "One-Step Webpages: A Potpourri of Genealogical Search Tools." presented by Dr. Stephen Morse. The lecture is free to JGSI members. Non-member fee is $10, which will apply to membership when you join JGSI by July 1, 2006. For more information and to reserve your seat, phone 312-666-0100 or e-mail rsvp@jgsi.org. --- 2:00 pm Sunday, June 25: Wilmette Public Library, 1242 Wilmette Avenue "Beginners' Workshop" presented by Judy Frazin --- For more information about JGSI call 312-666-0100 or email: info@jgsi.org www.jewishgen.org/jgsi Mike Karsen Researching FROST (Bucharest, Alexandria, Roumania) MARKOVITZ, BLUMNFELD (Botosani, Roumania)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen JGSCT meeting Sunday, March 26
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Arthur Meyers <marciarthur@...>
Greetings,
The Jewish Genealogical Society of Connecticut will have a combined meeting with the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford. The Program will be Documenting Family History: The Past and Present. The program will be on Sunday, March 26, 10 a.m. to 12 noon and will be held at the Greater Hartford Jewish Community Center located at 335 Bloomfield Avenue in West Hartford. $5 per person includes a light breakfast and handouts. Please RSVP to Anne Lander at (860) 231.6307 Marcia Indianer Meyers President JGSCT marciarthur@msn.com
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Re: Tivrov, Podolia Gubernia
#general
Doug Cohen
Yad V'Shem's Encyclopedia of Jewish Life before and During the Holocaust
says: Tivrov Vinnitsa dist., Ukr. Jews numbereed 353 in 1765 and 1,051 (total 3,153) in 1897. In the Soviet period, Yiddish cultural activity continued through the late 1930s. In 1939, the J. pop. was 397. The Germans captured T. on 18 July, 1941, immediatley murdering 28 J. men in the Black Forest. Another 250-400 were executed there in Nov. The Germans murdered about 420 Jews >from T. and another 721 >from the surrounding region. Sixteen young Jews survived in the forests. Doug Cohen Lexington, MA dmc@dmcohen.com Debbie Wang Etzion of Great Neck, NY, wrote, I am trying to find any information about the Jews of Tivrov, Ukraine. IsDebWE308@aol.com
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Re: Re:Tivrov, Podolia Gubernia
#ukraine
Doug Cohen
Yad V'Shem's Encyclopedia of Jewish Life before and During the Holocaust
says: Tivrov Vinnitsa dist., Ukr. Jews numbereed 353 in 1765 and 1,051 (total 3,153) in 1897. In the Soviet period, Yiddish cultural activity continued through the late 1930s. In 1939, the J. pop. was 397. The Germans captured T. on 18 July, 1941, immediatley murdering 28 J. men in the Black Forest. Another 250-400 were executed there in Nov. The Germans murdered about 420 Jews >from T. and another 721 >from the surrounding region. Sixteen young Jews survived in the forests. Doug Cohen Lexington, MA dmc@dmcohen.com Debbie Wang Etzion of Great Neck, NY, wrote, I am trying to find any information about the Jews of Tivrov, Ukraine. IsDebWE308@aol.com
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Re: Family's move from Lithuania to Latvia in 19th C
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Maria <elena@...>
Does anyone know the history of Jewish immigration >from Lithuania to=== My mother's family also has a Latvian/Lithuanian link, and also a line >from Belarus (Drissa): the Lithuanian family is the NOTES/NOTIS family, based in Kovno; the Latvian family is MALTINSKY, based in Dvinsk and also in Rezhitsa; the Drissa family is MOSTOW/MOSTOFF. In Rezhitsa, by 1897, there is at least one Notis/Maltinsky marriage. The relationship continued in NY, with at least two Notis/Maltinsky marriages. There was at least one Mostow/Maltinsky marriage by the time the couple came to Queens in 1900. Drissa and Dvinsk or Rezhitsa are relatively close together, but Kovno is a substantial jump >from the Latvian towns. Morris Maltinsky's father was a "small trader", or a merchant, as I recall. Not at all sure what the Notis family did, but if it had to do with trade, it wouldn't have been impossible to have become friendly in business. In the case of the intermarriage in Rezhitsa, incidentally, it was the bride, Elka (?) Notis, who traveled to Rezhitsa to marry Reuben Maltinsky. Maria Torres elena@pipeline.com MALTINSKY, RUBINSTEIN, MOSTOW, IMONITOFF, ZELLAT/ZELOTUKHIN (Latvia, PA, GA, NY) NOTIS (Kovno, NY); KUNST (Poland, PA), PADEREWSKI (Poland, Savannah); SABLODOWSKY (Poland, PA); ROSKOPH (Bohemia, OH, PA, NY); PHILLIPS (PSCHEDESKI, PRZDECKI, DADACZ), LEVY, POMERANZ, ZEPLINSKY, FRANKEL (Poland, NY, KY); RYBINSKI (Poland, UK) TOBIAS (Poland, UK); DANIELSKI (Przdecz Poland)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Family's move from Lithuania to Latvia in 19th C
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Maria <elena@...>
Does anyone know the history of Jewish immigration >from Lithuania to=== My mother's family also has a Latvian/Lithuanian link, and also a line >from Belarus (Drissa): the Lithuanian family is the NOTES/NOTIS family, based in Kovno; the Latvian family is MALTINSKY, based in Dvinsk and also in Rezhitsa; the Drissa family is MOSTOW/MOSTOFF. In Rezhitsa, by 1897, there is at least one Notis/Maltinsky marriage. The relationship continued in NY, with at least two Notis/Maltinsky marriages. There was at least one Mostow/Maltinsky marriage by the time the couple came to Queens in 1900. Drissa and Dvinsk or Rezhitsa are relatively close together, but Kovno is a substantial jump >from the Latvian towns. Morris Maltinsky's father was a "small trader", or a merchant, as I recall. Not at all sure what the Notis family did, but if it had to do with trade, it wouldn't have been impossible to have become friendly in business. In the case of the intermarriage in Rezhitsa, incidentally, it was the bride, Elka (?) Notis, who traveled to Rezhitsa to marry Reuben Maltinsky. Maria Torres elena@pipeline.com MALTINSKY, RUBINSTEIN, MOSTOW, IMONITOFF, ZELLAT/ZELOTUKHIN (Latvia, PA, GA, NY) NOTIS (Kovno, NY); KUNST (Poland, PA), PADEREWSKI (Poland, Savannah); SABLODOWSKY (Poland, PA); ROSKOPH (Bohemia, OH, PA, NY); PHILLIPS (PSCHEDESKI, PRZDECKI, DADACZ), LEVY, POMERANZ, ZEPLINSKY, FRANKEL (Poland, NY, KY); RYBINSKI (Poland, UK) TOBIAS (Poland, UK); DANIELSKI (Przdecz Poland)
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Gorbaty
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Cheryl Grossman <person@...>
Anyone here a relative or know where I can find relatives? My grandfather
was Max GORBATY >from Chichelnik, in what is now the Ukraine. Cheryl MODERATOR NOTE: Make sure to check the JewishGen Family Finder for other researchers of GORBATY. Don't forget to list your name/town of interest. The JGFF is located at: http://www.jewishgen.org/JGFF/
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Gorbaty
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Cheryl Grossman <person@...>
Anyone here a relative or know where I can find relatives? My grandfather
was Max GORBATY >from Chichelnik, in what is now the Ukraine. Cheryl MODERATOR NOTE: Make sure to check the JewishGen Family Finder for other researchers of GORBATY. Don't forget to list your name/town of interest. The JGFF is located at: http://www.jewishgen.org/JGFF/
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Seeking KNOCH and HIRSH/HIRSCH descendants/relatives
#general
After discovering a previously unknown branch of the KOBER family >from
Kempen, Posen, Prussia, and St. Louis, Missouri, USA, I am seeking to contact descendants and/or relatives of Adolph KNOCH (1849-1901) and his wife, Marie/Maria KNOCH (nee KOBER) (1848-1925) >from St. Louis, Mo.; their son, Joseph R. KNOCH (circa 1886-1951) >from St. Louis, Mo.; and his daughter Mercedes HIRSH or HIRSCH (nee KNOCH) >from Albany, New York, USA. Martin Fischer Oak Park, Illinois, USA ----------- The Fischer and Levin family history Web site is at: http://mefischer1.home.comcast.net/
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Seeking KNOCH and HIRSH/HIRSCH descendants/relatives
#general
After discovering a previously unknown branch of the KOBER family >from
Kempen, Posen, Prussia, and St. Louis, Missouri, USA, I am seeking to contact descendants and/or relatives of Adolph KNOCH (1849-1901) and his wife, Marie/Maria KNOCH (nee KOBER) (1848-1925) >from St. Louis, Mo.; their son, Joseph R. KNOCH (circa 1886-1951) >from St. Louis, Mo.; and his daughter Mercedes HIRSH or HIRSCH (nee KNOCH) >from Albany, New York, USA. Martin Fischer Oak Park, Illinois, USA ----------- The Fischer and Levin family history Web site is at: http://mefischer1.home.comcast.net/
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High School Near Delancy Street
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Vivian Kahn
My mother lived on Avenue C near 10th Street and went to Washington
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Irving High School, 40 Irving Place at 16th Street. Washington Irving is a short subway ride or a long walk >from Delancey Street. Seward Park High School at 350 Grand Street seems a much more likely "neighborhood" school. Zero Mostel and Walter Matthau are both Seward grads. The school continues to serve immigrant families but these days many are Asian. See http://www.insideschools.org/fs/school_profile.php?id=955 for more info. According to this website, Seward was being phased out as of 2003. Vivian Kahn, Oakland, CA (b. NYC)
If a person lived at 138 Delancey St in NYC, which high school would thisI'm not sure when it was first established, but my father-in-law went
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen High School Near Delancy Street
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Vivian Kahn
My mother lived on Avenue C near 10th Street and went to Washington
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Irving High School, 40 Irving Place at 16th Street. Washington Irving is a short subway ride or a long walk >from Delancey Street. Seward Park High School at 350 Grand Street seems a much more likely "neighborhood" school. Zero Mostel and Walter Matthau are both Seward grads. The school continues to serve immigrant families but these days many are Asian. See http://www.insideschools.org/fs/school_profile.php?id=955 for more info. According to this website, Seward was being phased out as of 2003. Vivian Kahn, Oakland, CA (b. NYC)
If a person lived at 138 Delancey St in NYC, which high school would thisI'm not sure when it was first established, but my father-in-law went
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Re: Seeking location of obscure shtetl
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tom klein <jewishgen@...>
What I can tell you for sure is that "Wegry" is Polish for Hungary, so you might
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be looking in the wrong country, or with the wrong spelling (Polish and Hungarian orthography being significantly different). Neither "Tetsek" nor "Tetoz" looks or sounds like an actual Hungarian word or place name, but more like a translation into Polish. A look at the distribution of STEINMETZs in the 1891 industry and trade directory of Hungary shows that 18 of the 30 hits are in Maramaros county, with the rest very scattered. And there happens to be a place called Te'cso: (Tyachev in Ukranian, Tesc in Yiddish, Tetsch in German) in Maramaros county, although I wouldn't exactly describe it as "obscure". So that's at least one possible avenue of research. Tom klein, Toronto
"Barb & Howard" <barb@thecollective.com> wrote:
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Seeking location of obscure shtetl
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tom klein <jewishgen@...>
What I can tell you for sure is that "Wegry" is Polish for Hungary, so you might
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be looking in the wrong country, or with the wrong spelling (Polish and Hungarian orthography being significantly different). Neither "Tetsek" nor "Tetoz" looks or sounds like an actual Hungarian word or place name, but more like a translation into Polish. A look at the distribution of STEINMETZs in the 1891 industry and trade directory of Hungary shows that 18 of the 30 hits are in Maramaros county, with the rest very scattered. And there happens to be a place called Te'cso: (Tyachev in Ukranian, Tesc in Yiddish, Tetsch in German) in Maramaros county, although I wouldn't exactly describe it as "obscure". So that's at least one possible avenue of research. Tom klein, Toronto
"Barb & Howard" <barb@thecollective.com> wrote:
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John Howard School, Laura Place, Clapton
#unitedkingdom
MavAlan Shaffer <mavalan_shaffer@...>
Dear JGenners,
I am trying to obtain/borrow a copy of the John Howard (Laura Place) School, Clapton, London E5, School Magazine for 1952 and would be very grateful if anyone has a copy. (Hackney Archives have copies up to 1951.) I was in UVL >from November 1951 to July 1952 (transferred >from Weston-super-Mare). It would also be good to hear >from anyone who was in that class! With thanks and best wishes, Mavis Shaffer (Morris) Essex, England Researching AARONS (Minsk), GUREVITCH (Minsk), LEIBISKI (lITHUANIA)
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JCR-UK SIG #UnitedKingdom John Howard School, Laura Place, Clapton
#unitedkingdom
MavAlan Shaffer <mavalan_shaffer@...>
Dear JGenners,
I am trying to obtain/borrow a copy of the John Howard (Laura Place) School, Clapton, London E5, School Magazine for 1952 and would be very grateful if anyone has a copy. (Hackney Archives have copies up to 1951.) I was in UVL >from November 1951 to July 1952 (transferred >from Weston-super-Mare). It would also be good to hear >from anyone who was in that class! With thanks and best wishes, Mavis Shaffer (Morris) Essex, England Researching AARONS (Minsk), GUREVITCH (Minsk), LEIBISKI (lITHUANIA)
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A MAGYARSAG EVFORDULONAPTARA
#hungary
Margarita Lacko <mishpologia@...>
Dear H-siggers,
=20 I was searching for information on MATUSKA Szilveszter because I just = heard that a relative, KRAMER Pal, was killed by him. MATUSKA blew up the = viaduct in Biatorbagy in 1931, when the Orient Express was passing over it (according to some web pages).=20 =20 During my search, I found this web page < http://www.vasidigitkonyvtar.hu/vdkweb/publikaciok/evford06.html#feb14 > = I have no idea what it is but I'm sure our Hungarian speaking members = will tell us. =20 Best regards, Margarita =20 Margarita Lack=F3 Now in Reston, Virginia, USA (JGFF researcher # 11453) GENEALOGY: =A9 < mailto:mishpologia@uzidog.com >=20
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Hungary SIG #Hungary A MAGYARSAG EVFORDULONAPTARA
#hungary
Margarita Lacko <mishpologia@...>
Dear H-siggers,
=20 I was searching for information on MATUSKA Szilveszter because I just = heard that a relative, KRAMER Pal, was killed by him. MATUSKA blew up the = viaduct in Biatorbagy in 1931, when the Orient Express was passing over it (according to some web pages).=20 =20 During my search, I found this web page < http://www.vasidigitkonyvtar.hu/vdkweb/publikaciok/evford06.html#feb14 > = I have no idea what it is but I'm sure our Hungarian speaking members = will tell us. =20 Best regards, Margarita =20 Margarita Lack=F3 Now in Reston, Virginia, USA (JGFF researcher # 11453) GENEALOGY: =A9 < mailto:mishpologia@uzidog.com >=20
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