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ELEVA/EVEL
#ukraine
Beatrice Markel
Dear Researchers:
I misspelled the surname in my posting and apologize to you all. The family name is EVEL in the Rodomysl, Kiev area in Ukraine. Perhaps someone has a copy of Beider's book of Surnames in Russia and can look this up for me. Thank you so much! Beatrice Markel Searching: Minkovsky, Evel, Gokhvat, Talalaevsky
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine ELEVA/EVEL
#ukraine
Beatrice Markel
Dear Researchers:
I misspelled the surname in my posting and apologize to you all. The family name is EVEL in the Rodomysl, Kiev area in Ukraine. Perhaps someone has a copy of Beider's book of Surnames in Russia and can look this up for me. Thank you so much! Beatrice Markel Searching: Minkovsky, Evel, Gokhvat, Talalaevsky
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Viewmate translation request 18662: tombstone Hebrew to English
#general
Denise Azbill <famaz1@...>
Hello. I've posted a tombstone in Hebrew for which I need a translation.
It is somewhat degraded so appreciate whatever can be translated. I believe it is my great-grandmother's stone, Chane Schachter or ZWIRNBAUM, daughter of Menachem. It is on ViewMate at the following address http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=18662 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Denise Weidenfeld Azbill =
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Viewmate translation request 18662: tombstone Hebrew to English
#general
Denise Azbill <famaz1@...>
Hello. I've posted a tombstone in Hebrew for which I need a translation.
It is somewhat degraded so appreciate whatever can be translated. I believe it is my great-grandmother's stone, Chane Schachter or ZWIRNBAUM, daughter of Menachem. It is on ViewMate at the following address http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=18662 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Denise Weidenfeld Azbill =
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Translation needed - Hebrew viewmate
#general
Stuart Ungar
Hi,
I need translation to Hebrew for some gravestones. While they are 5 images, 4 of them are different parts of the same stone. One stone is >from Tiszalok, Hungary and one >from Leles (was Hungary and now Slovakia) Help is GREATLY appreciated! Here are the viewmate numbers: 18706 18707 18708 18709 18710 Thank you! Stuart Ungar Direct url: http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=18706 http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=18707 http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=18708 http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=18709 http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=18710
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Translation needed - Hebrew viewmate
#general
Stuart Ungar
Hi,
I need translation to Hebrew for some gravestones. While they are 5 images, 4 of them are different parts of the same stone. One stone is >from Tiszalok, Hungary and one >from Leles (was Hungary and now Slovakia) Help is GREATLY appreciated! Here are the viewmate numbers: 18706 18707 18708 18709 18710 Thank you! Stuart Ungar Direct url: http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=18706 http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=18707 http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=18708 http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=18709 http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=18710
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VM14161: Request help with Polish translation
#general
Reuben Gross <rgtect@...>
Looking for help translating a document on Viewmate ID 14161.
Thanks in advance to all who try And Chag Kasher V'sameach to all Reuben Gross Teaneck, NJ 07666 Direct url: http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=14161
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen VM14161: Request help with Polish translation
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Reuben Gross <rgtect@...>
Looking for help translating a document on Viewmate ID 14161.
Thanks in advance to all who try And Chag Kasher V'sameach to all Reuben Gross Teaneck, NJ 07666 Direct url: http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=14161
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ELEVA/EVEL
#general
Beatrice Markel
Dear Researchers:
I misspelled the surname in my posting and apologize to you all. The family name is EVEL in the Rodomysl, Kiev area in Ukraine. Perhaps someone has a copy of Beider's book of Surnames in Russia and can look this up for me. Thank you so much! Beatrice Markel Searching: Minkovsky, Evel, Gokhvat, Talalaevsky
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ELEVA/EVEL
#general
Beatrice Markel
Dear Researchers:
I misspelled the surname in my posting and apologize to you all. The family name is EVEL in the Rodomysl, Kiev area in Ukraine. Perhaps someone has a copy of Beider's book of Surnames in Russia and can look this up for me. Thank you so much! Beatrice Markel Searching: Minkovsky, Evel, Gokhvat, Talalaevsky
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Vienna 1930-1932: circumcision and baptism
#general
Odeda Zlotnick
I am submitting this question in both the JewishGen SIG list, and
the Austria-Czech one. I have discovered through a family member that one of my grandmother's 2nd cousins in Vienna married a Roman Catholic woman in 1930, yet his sons, born in 1931 - 1932 are circumcised. I find that surprising, since they are not Jewish according to the Halakha. Does anyone know if any boys at all were circumcised even when not Jewish then? Why, in a city that was growing more and more anti-Semitic, would a man have his sons circumcised? Would Any mohel do it? Wouldn't that making the the boys Jewish? Would this be registered anywhere? The father's marriage was registered (took place? "Eltern getraut am XX.XX. 1930 in Wien, Magistrat") in the Viennese magistrat". Does that preclude the possibility that the wife had converted to Judaism? 3 days after the Anschluss one of the boys (I don't yet know about the other) was baptized. Would it be a normal procedure to baptize ("nach roemisch-katolischem rictus getauft wuerde") a six year old? Is it a coincidence that it took place so close to the anschluss, or can that be seen as an attempt to protect the children? Thank you Odeda Zlotnick Interested in: ZIGLER >from Iassi, BLASS KILIKOWER Lemberg and Vienna BOTTWIN-MELLER Vienna ZLOTNICK FEIGIN Belarus (Lapich)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Vienna 1930-1932: circumcision and baptism
#general
Odeda Zlotnick
I am submitting this question in both the JewishGen SIG list, and
the Austria-Czech one. I have discovered through a family member that one of my grandmother's 2nd cousins in Vienna married a Roman Catholic woman in 1930, yet his sons, born in 1931 - 1932 are circumcised. I find that surprising, since they are not Jewish according to the Halakha. Does anyone know if any boys at all were circumcised even when not Jewish then? Why, in a city that was growing more and more anti-Semitic, would a man have his sons circumcised? Would Any mohel do it? Wouldn't that making the the boys Jewish? Would this be registered anywhere? The father's marriage was registered (took place? "Eltern getraut am XX.XX. 1930 in Wien, Magistrat") in the Viennese magistrat". Does that preclude the possibility that the wife had converted to Judaism? 3 days after the Anschluss one of the boys (I don't yet know about the other) was baptized. Would it be a normal procedure to baptize ("nach roemisch-katolischem rictus getauft wuerde") a six year old? Is it a coincidence that it took place so close to the anschluss, or can that be seen as an attempt to protect the children? Thank you Odeda Zlotnick Interested in: ZIGLER >from Iassi, BLASS KILIKOWER Lemberg and Vienna BOTTWIN-MELLER Vienna ZLOTNICK FEIGIN Belarus (Lapich)
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Seeking Stories from Jewish Refugees Who Came through Angel Island (US)
#general
janicemsj@...
The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF) promotes a
greater understanding of Pacific Coast immigration and its role in shaping America's past, present, and future. Currently, AIISF is asking for help in locating Jewish refugees who came to San Francisco in the late 1930's and 1940, and their descendants. AIISF hosts a database (http://aiisf.org/history/ai-jewish-refugees) with information about 132 Jewish immigrants who were processed at Angel Island Immigration Station. The database was compiled by volunteers who reviewed files at the National Archives branch in San Bruno, California. Please contact AIISF at the e-mail address or phone number listed on the Web site if you recognize any of the individuals listed in the database. AIISF would like to interview the individuals or their descendants in order to get their full stories. Janice M. Sellers http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Seeking Stories from Jewish Refugees Who Came through Angel Island (US)
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janicemsj@...
The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (AIISF) promotes a
greater understanding of Pacific Coast immigration and its role in shaping America's past, present, and future. Currently, AIISF is asking for help in locating Jewish refugees who came to San Francisco in the late 1930's and 1940, and their descendants. AIISF hosts a database (http://aiisf.org/history/ai-jewish-refugees) with information about 132 Jewish immigrants who were processed at Angel Island Immigration Station. The database was compiled by volunteers who reviewed files at the National Archives branch in San Bruno, California. Please contact AIISF at the e-mail address or phone number listed on the Web site if you recognize any of the individuals listed in the database. AIISF would like to interview the individuals or their descendants in order to get their full stories. Janice M. Sellers http://ancestraldiscoveries.blogspot.com/
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updated Zawady Surnames index
#general
Avigdor Ben-Dov <avigdorbd@...>
Genners might want to explore the Zawada Poland shtetl page for
updates of residents. This is a current list of surnames based on continuing research into the period before 1939: ARKIER, BABINSKI, BERKOWICZ, BRZOZA, CHANES, CHOROSZCZ CHOROSZUCHA, CUKROWICZ, CWEJMAN, CYMES, CYWAN, DWORKOWICZ DYNOWICZ, GASIOR, GOLDSZTAJN, GORA, KOWALSKI, KURCGOLD LATA, LEW, MAZUREK, MONACH, NURZEC, PIENIAZEK, ROZENFELD RUTKIEWICZ, RUDKOWICZ, RUZYCKI, SLIWKA, SLUCKI, TEYTEL WITCZYNSKI, WLODARSKI, ZDROJEWSKI, ZELKOWICZ Avigdor Ben-Dov (RUTKIEWICZ)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen updated Zawady Surnames index
#general
Avigdor Ben-Dov <avigdorbd@...>
Genners might want to explore the Zawada Poland shtetl page for
updates of residents. This is a current list of surnames based on continuing research into the period before 1939: ARKIER, BABINSKI, BERKOWICZ, BRZOZA, CHANES, CHOROSZCZ CHOROSZUCHA, CUKROWICZ, CWEJMAN, CYMES, CYWAN, DWORKOWICZ DYNOWICZ, GASIOR, GOLDSZTAJN, GORA, KOWALSKI, KURCGOLD LATA, LEW, MAZUREK, MONACH, NURZEC, PIENIAZEK, ROZENFELD RUTKIEWICZ, RUDKOWICZ, RUZYCKI, SLIWKA, SLUCKI, TEYTEL WITCZYNSKI, WLODARSKI, ZDROJEWSKI, ZELKOWICZ Avigdor Ben-Dov (RUTKIEWICZ)
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Perevelka (sp?)
#general
Rita Chernoff <ritachernoff@...>
I am trying to locate a village called Perevelka. The spelling is how it
sounded not what it really is/was. All I know is that the village is supposed to be in the Ternopol Oblast and the Pidhaitskyi Raion. The administrative centre was Pidhaitsi. I realize that this is a mixture of languages but this is all I have. I did locate a village called Peredelka but this one is in Belaruse and is too far East of where this other one is supposed to be. Can anyone help? Thank you so much Rita Chernoff Canada
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Perevelka (sp?)
#general
Rita Chernoff <ritachernoff@...>
I am trying to locate a village called Perevelka. The spelling is how it
sounded not what it really is/was. All I know is that the village is supposed to be in the Ternopol Oblast and the Pidhaitskyi Raion. The administrative centre was Pidhaitsi. I realize that this is a mixture of languages but this is all I have. I did locate a village called Peredelka but this one is in Belaruse and is too far East of where this other one is supposed to be. Can anyone help? Thank you so much Rita Chernoff Canada
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DC 2011 Conference Program now on line
#germany
jplowens@...
The preliminary program for the DC 2011 Conference
is now available at the Conference website: http://dc2011.org/index.php/conference-program John Lowens, Suburban New York City
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Looking for researcher Benjamin
#general
Neil Feder <paisaman37@...>
I am looking for the following researcher, who may have information about my
grandmother, Fannie Benjamin, and her family, >from Gloversville NY. Any information about who has taken over this woman's research would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Neil Feder Rheta Benjamin Tempel (#2974) ** La Jolla, CA 92037 United States MODERATOR NOTE: Private responses only,please
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