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Re: Advice on FTM 2010
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Janette <janettes@...>
Jim Bennett [mailto:bennett@...] wrote:
> > After six months of frustration I simply went out and found a new 32 bit > > Toshiba, installed Windows XP, and then FTW 2006, and now I'm happy and > > contented, and able to do the kind of work that I love.... >Alan Karan responded: >Before everyone who wants to run FTM 2006 and bought a 64bit Windows 7 >computer and goes out and buys a 32bit Windows XP, try installing XP mode on >your 64bit Windows 7 computer or get someone to do it for you. This will >save you >from using two computers and some money. There is a much easier solution which I used successfully on my multiple Vista computers and is also availble for Windows 7 - there is a free update available: http://pastftm.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/pastftm.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2777 (tinyurl http://tinyurl.com/22olxgl) Janette Silverman Phoenix, AZ [MODERATOR NOTE: Extended discussion of computer-related subjects, including details of the operation of genealogy programs, is beyond the scope of this forum. If you wish to continue this discussion, newsgroup soc.genealogy.computing may be an appropriate venue.]
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen RE: Advice on FTM 2010
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Janette <janettes@...>
Jim Bennett [mailto:bennett@...] wrote:
> > After six months of frustration I simply went out and found a new 32 bit > > Toshiba, installed Windows XP, and then FTW 2006, and now I'm happy and > > contented, and able to do the kind of work that I love.... >Alan Karan responded: >Before everyone who wants to run FTM 2006 and bought a 64bit Windows 7 >computer and goes out and buys a 32bit Windows XP, try installing XP mode on >your 64bit Windows 7 computer or get someone to do it for you. This will >save you >from using two computers and some money. There is a much easier solution which I used successfully on my multiple Vista computers and is also availble for Windows 7 - there is a free update available: http://pastftm.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/pastftm.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=2777 (tinyurl http://tinyurl.com/22olxgl) Janette Silverman Phoenix, AZ [MODERATOR NOTE: Extended discussion of computer-related subjects, including details of the operation of genealogy programs, is beyond the scope of this forum. If you wish to continue this discussion, newsgroup soc.genealogy.computing may be an appropriate venue.]
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In Memoriam - Jeremy Halpern
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Pamela Weisberger <pweisberger@...>
The board of Gesher Galicia expresses its heartfelt condolences
to our longtime honorary board member, Mark Halpern, and his wife, Joan, on the passing of their cherished son, Jeremy (Feivel ben Moshe), on September 2, 2010, at age 33 as a result of complications of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. More information can be found here: http://www.dailylocal.com/obituaries/ May Jeremy's memory be as a blessing. Pamela Weisberger President, Gesher Galicia pweisberger@...
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia In Memoriam - Jeremy Halpern
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Pamela Weisberger <pweisberger@...>
The board of Gesher Galicia expresses its heartfelt condolences
to our longtime honorary board member, Mark Halpern, and his wife, Joan, on the passing of their cherished son, Jeremy (Feivel ben Moshe), on September 2, 2010, at age 33 as a result of complications of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. More information can be found here: http://www.dailylocal.com/obituaries/ May Jeremy's memory be as a blessing. Pamela Weisberger President, Gesher Galicia pweisberger@...
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ALENIKOFF (Vitebsk/NY/Cuba/Israel?)
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Myree Mueller <kmueller@...>
Dear All,
I have had an update on my tree (after some 22 years of looking) including (at last) a name for great grandfather and the news that there was a fourth child of his so am sending out a new appeal for information. I am researching ALENIKOFF/ALEINIKOFF originally >from Vitebsk, Belarus. My great grandfather is now unveiled as Zalmin ALEINIKOFF (as spelt on his daughter's wedding certificate). his children were.... Milly b. 1888 (ended up in London, married to a BOROVITCH and their descendants have changed their names variously to Boris, Bradley, etc. Milly married for a second time as a widow aged 74 and it is >from that certificate which I got a copy of the other day which shows the father being Zalmin ALEINIKOFF) Phillip Solomon b. 1891 (ended up in New York with his wife Tillie at the beginning of the 20th century) Lipa b. 1898 (ended up living in Cuba, at least in 1940 with wife Cila - we only learned of his existence recently. Could be they had a son (maybe daugther, maybe more issue) but I'm having trouble tracking any information - I also wonder if any descendants went to Israel?) Haia S. b. 14 September 1902 my grandmother (ended up in Shanghai and then New York). She was born ALENIKOFF and then when in Shanghai she was calling herself Clara BLUESTEIN who married my grandfather MULLER/MUELLER. They divorced and in 1950 she emigrated to New York - first to her brother Phillip. Interestingly her name on the ship's manifest was Haia S. BLUESTEIN. USICS service was taken up and they found her in the indexes for alien registration but subsequent search of actual file deems it to be lost or destroyed. I have no clues whatsoever as to what happened to her after 1950 and it is said she may have married again. Considering the name Lipa only came up in recent months, I wonder if there were more children between Philip and Lipa or indeed after Haia. Regards, Koko Mueller Hong Kong
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ALENIKOFF (Vitebsk/NY/Cuba/Israel?)
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Myree Mueller <kmueller@...>
Dear All,
I have had an update on my tree (after some 22 years of looking) including (at last) a name for great grandfather and the news that there was a fourth child of his so am sending out a new appeal for information. I am researching ALENIKOFF/ALEINIKOFF originally >from Vitebsk, Belarus. My great grandfather is now unveiled as Zalmin ALEINIKOFF (as spelt on his daughter's wedding certificate). his children were.... Milly b. 1888 (ended up in London, married to a BOROVITCH and their descendants have changed their names variously to Boris, Bradley, etc. Milly married for a second time as a widow aged 74 and it is >from that certificate which I got a copy of the other day which shows the father being Zalmin ALEINIKOFF) Phillip Solomon b. 1891 (ended up in New York with his wife Tillie at the beginning of the 20th century) Lipa b. 1898 (ended up living in Cuba, at least in 1940 with wife Cila - we only learned of his existence recently. Could be they had a son (maybe daugther, maybe more issue) but I'm having trouble tracking any information - I also wonder if any descendants went to Israel?) Haia S. b. 14 September 1902 my grandmother (ended up in Shanghai and then New York). She was born ALENIKOFF and then when in Shanghai she was calling herself Clara BLUESTEIN who married my grandfather MULLER/MUELLER. They divorced and in 1950 she emigrated to New York - first to her brother Phillip. Interestingly her name on the ship's manifest was Haia S. BLUESTEIN. USICS service was taken up and they found her in the indexes for alien registration but subsequent search of actual file deems it to be lost or destroyed. I have no clues whatsoever as to what happened to her after 1950 and it is said she may have married again. Considering the name Lipa only came up in recent months, I wonder if there were more children between Philip and Lipa or indeed after Haia. Regards, Koko Mueller Hong Kong
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Translation from Yiddish
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Diane <dlfrankel@...>
Dear Genners,
I wonder if anyone can make sense out of this. It's a statement made by an ancestor in Yiddish, describing something about where they lived in Russia. "Yahtkigashz en yag zahl" Diane PRESSMAN Frankel Miami, FL Formerly >from Bayonne, NJ
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Translation from Yiddish
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Diane <dlfrankel@...>
Dear Genners,
I wonder if anyone can make sense out of this. It's a statement made by an ancestor in Yiddish, describing something about where they lived in Russia. "Yahtkigashz en yag zahl" Diane PRESSMAN Frankel Miami, FL Formerly >from Bayonne, NJ
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Shara Tfilo Cemetery, West Roxbury, MA.
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naomi ogin
Dear All
Having found burials on JOWBR at Shara Tfilo Cemetery, West Roxbury, MA, does anybody know if burial records are held there or whereabouts I could locate them. One burial is for 1956 and the other for 1960. Is a specific Synagogue connected to this Cemetery. Many thanks Naomi Ogin ndogin@... Brisbane Searching;BLACK,CHERNOSKY,CHORGAN,DAVIDOVITCH,DAVIDOFF,DOMANIS,GOLDWITZ, GREENBERG,HAYUDAH,HIATT,HUNT,LEBUS,MELNICK,OGIN,ORGIN,RABINOVITCH,RANDALL, RESNICK,RUBINSTEIN,SCHAPERE,TISMAN,TISHMAN,WILSON,WOLFSON
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Shara Tfilo Cemetery, West Roxbury, MA.
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naomi ogin
Dear All
Having found burials on JOWBR at Shara Tfilo Cemetery, West Roxbury, MA, does anybody know if burial records are held there or whereabouts I could locate them. One burial is for 1956 and the other for 1960. Is a specific Synagogue connected to this Cemetery. Many thanks Naomi Ogin ndogin@... Brisbane Searching;BLACK,CHERNOSKY,CHORGAN,DAVIDOVITCH,DAVIDOFF,DOMANIS,GOLDWITZ, GREENBERG,HAYUDAH,HIATT,HUNT,LEBUS,MELNICK,OGIN,ORGIN,RABINOVITCH,RANDALL, RESNICK,RUBINSTEIN,SCHAPERE,TISMAN,TISHMAN,WILSON,WOLFSON
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Researching DRIBIN and SELIKOWITZ families in USA
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Gerard Xavier <dak.sene07@...>
Dear all
I'm French, working actually for a Swiss NGO in Senegal. My grandfather, Shulem DRIBIN (DRIBINS) was born in Kretinga, Lithuania, abt 1875 and was son of Gutman DRIBIN. My grandmother, Taube (or Taube-Teckla) SELIKOWITZ was born in Skuodas, Lithuania, in 1879. They where settled in Libau, Latvia, at the end of the 19th century or very beginning of the 20th. They had 5 children there. One of them, Gita (twin sister of Wulf) was born in 14 august 1905 and was my mother. My grandfather died in December 1928 in Libau. My grandmother and a most of the family members where killed by the Nazis between 1941 and 1945, in the vicinity of Libau, in Auschwitz or in the Strutthof concentration camp. My mother and her sister Fruma where in France at the time of the WWII, that's why they survived. I know that members of the DRIBIN and SELIKOWITZ families emigrated >from Lithuania and Latvia to the USA, but I have very few informations. I just discovered on Ancestry.com that a Sarah DRIBIN, 69, widow, arrived in Ellis Island >from Libau on the "Polonia" in 1st December 1921 to join her son. She gave the address of an other son in Libau : Sholem DRIBIN, Juliannenstr. 24. So, this Sarah could be my great-grandmother. Thank you in advance for any information about the DRIBIN and/or SELIKOWITZ families. Gerard XAVIER Dakar, Senegal
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Researching DRIBIN and SELIKOWITZ families in USA
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Gerard Xavier <dak.sene07@...>
Dear all
I'm French, working actually for a Swiss NGO in Senegal. My grandfather, Shulem DRIBIN (DRIBINS) was born in Kretinga, Lithuania, abt 1875 and was son of Gutman DRIBIN. My grandmother, Taube (or Taube-Teckla) SELIKOWITZ was born in Skuodas, Lithuania, in 1879. They where settled in Libau, Latvia, at the end of the 19th century or very beginning of the 20th. They had 5 children there. One of them, Gita (twin sister of Wulf) was born in 14 august 1905 and was my mother. My grandfather died in December 1928 in Libau. My grandmother and a most of the family members where killed by the Nazis between 1941 and 1945, in the vicinity of Libau, in Auschwitz or in the Strutthof concentration camp. My mother and her sister Fruma where in France at the time of the WWII, that's why they survived. I know that members of the DRIBIN and SELIKOWITZ families emigrated >from Lithuania and Latvia to the USA, but I have very few informations. I just discovered on Ancestry.com that a Sarah DRIBIN, 69, widow, arrived in Ellis Island >from Libau on the "Polonia" in 1st December 1921 to join her son. She gave the address of an other son in Libau : Sholem DRIBIN, Juliannenstr. 24. So, this Sarah could be my great-grandmother. Thank you in advance for any information about the DRIBIN and/or SELIKOWITZ families. Gerard XAVIER Dakar, Senegal
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Email of researcher #3132 Russell Chase
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Daniel Scaliter <dscaliter@...>
Does anyone have a working email address for Russell Chase, researcher number
3132, with interest in the surname EISENBUD and town of Nesvizh? Thank you in advance, please respond privately, Daniel Scaliter Buenos Aires, Argentina
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Email of researcher #3132 Russell Chase
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Daniel Scaliter <dscaliter@...>
Does anyone have a working email address for Russell Chase, researcher number
3132, with interest in the surname EISENBUD and town of Nesvizh? Thank you in advance, please respond privately, Daniel Scaliter Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Contact Information for Rivkah Kreinovitz-Shnaider
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Marcy Greene
Just wondering if anybody knows where I can contact Rivkah Kreinovitz-Shnaider
who supplied photographs to the JewishGen ShtetLinks Page for (Tavrig) Taurage, Lithuania. The photographs were of the last class of the Hebrew pro gymnasium (1940) and the graduating class of the Hebrew elementary school in Tavrig (1936-37). Along with Rivkah Kreinovitz-Shnaider,there is a picture of Sonia SHLOMOVITZ who I believe is related to me. Hoping to speak with Rivkah Kreinovitz-Shnaider to find out some information on my SHLOMOVITZ family, as well as, to find out about Sonia SHLOMOVITZ. If any one knows how I can contact any of Rivkah Kreiner-Shnaider's immediate family that too would be of great assistance. Any help would be kindly appreciated. Some of my SHLOMOVITZ family perished in the Taurage District of Lithuania during the Holocaust and I would very much like to speak with Rivkah or someone in her family to see if she would be able to tell me what happened to other members of the family in Lithuania. Thank you everybody so much for taking the time to read my letter and looking forward to hearing >from you when you get a chance. All the best and Shana Tova to everybody. David Feder St.John's,Newfoundland, Canada Researching REICHMAN Taurage,Jurbarkas,Kvedarna,Ramygala and Panevezys (Lithuania) SHLOMOVITZ Taurage (Lithuania); CHEKNOVSKI Kvedarna (Lithuania)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Contact Information for Rivkah Kreinovitz-Shnaider
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Marcy Greene
Just wondering if anybody knows where I can contact Rivkah Kreinovitz-Shnaider
who supplied photographs to the JewishGen ShtetLinks Page for (Tavrig) Taurage, Lithuania. The photographs were of the last class of the Hebrew pro gymnasium (1940) and the graduating class of the Hebrew elementary school in Tavrig (1936-37). Along with Rivkah Kreinovitz-Shnaider,there is a picture of Sonia SHLOMOVITZ who I believe is related to me. Hoping to speak with Rivkah Kreinovitz-Shnaider to find out some information on my SHLOMOVITZ family, as well as, to find out about Sonia SHLOMOVITZ. If any one knows how I can contact any of Rivkah Kreiner-Shnaider's immediate family that too would be of great assistance. Any help would be kindly appreciated. Some of my SHLOMOVITZ family perished in the Taurage District of Lithuania during the Holocaust and I would very much like to speak with Rivkah or someone in her family to see if she would be able to tell me what happened to other members of the family in Lithuania. Thank you everybody so much for taking the time to read my letter and looking forward to hearing >from you when you get a chance. All the best and Shana Tova to everybody. David Feder St.John's,Newfoundland, Canada Researching REICHMAN Taurage,Jurbarkas,Kvedarna,Ramygala and Panevezys (Lithuania) SHLOMOVITZ Taurage (Lithuania); CHEKNOVSKI Kvedarna (Lithuania)
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Re: Other passenger lists: Brazil
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Dear fellows,
If anyone wants help in Portuguese, I'll be happy to help. Shana tova! Judite Orensztajn
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen RE: Other passenger lists: Brazil
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Dear fellows,
If anyone wants help in Portuguese, I'll be happy to help. Shana tova! Judite Orensztajn
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Tracing Abraham, Craig HAAS (Cont.)
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Arnon Hershkovitz <arnonh@...>
Hello, Dear Colleagues!
After my previous posting a few days ago, I've got some great to my query. Thanks everyone! I now know that Abraham (Ami) HAAS, son of Zerline and Julian, was probably born on November 1938 and died on September 1983 (SSN 074-30-7096). His SSN was issue in NY, but I have no further information of where did he die. It might be in NJ. I'm looking for more information about Abraham, who was divorced, and about his son, Craig (probably born in the 1970s). Any further help will be much appreciated, Yours, Arnon Hershkovitz, Israel arnonh@...
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Tracing Abraham, Craig HAAS (Cont.)
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Arnon Hershkovitz <arnonh@...>
Hello, Dear Colleagues!
After my previous posting a few days ago, I've got some great to my query. Thanks everyone! I now know that Abraham (Ami) HAAS, son of Zerline and Julian, was probably born on November 1938 and died on September 1983 (SSN 074-30-7096). His SSN was issue in NY, but I have no further information of where did he die. It might be in NJ. I'm looking for more information about Abraham, who was divorced, and about his son, Craig (probably born in the 1970s). Any further help will be much appreciated, Yours, Arnon Hershkovitz, Israel arnonh@...
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