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Molaff in Vitebsk and Mollef in Podolia
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bette_sscf <bette_sscf@...>
Sandy Aaronson wrote:
< A RUBENSTEIN cousin of mine made a tape years ago about his life in Verbovets, Podolia. He mentioned going on a "buying trip" for his father's Store at age 12. He said it was a 4-5 day trip in the snow in a horse drawn wagon and stopped in a town called Mollef on the Dniester River. I found a town called Miliye not on the Dniester but on another river, Cheremosh. This town is 102 miles >from Verbovets could it could possibly be the same town as the one Alan is looking for below? > Per JewishGen Jewish Communities Database < http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp > Miliye, Ukraine was formerly in Wiznitz district, Bukovina province, Austrian Empire and then Milie in Storojinet district, Bucovina, Romania and is located at 4820/2517, 30 miles W of Chernivtsi on the Cheremosh River. Based on its location and pronunciation, it is unlikely that Miliye, Ukraine is the town Mollef to which Sandy's cousin referred. Verbovets, Ukraine was formerly in Ushitsa district, Podolia province, Russian Empire and then in Vinnitsa district, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union and is located at 4844/2726, 26 miles NW of Mohyliv-Podilskyy. Mohyliv-Podilskyy, Ukraine was formerly Mogilev in Podolia province, Russian Empire and then Mogilev-Podolski in Vinnitsa district, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union and is located at 4827/2748. Mohyliv-Podilskyy is a major city in S Ukraine on the Dniester (border with Moldova/Bessarabia) and is not to be confused with Mogilev (Mahilyow), E Belarus. Besides its location on the Dniester in Podolia, Mohyliv is pronounced more similarly to Mollef and is likely the town Sandy's cousin went to on a buying trip. Alan Cohen was searching for a town Molaff in Vitebsk, now Vitsyebsk, Belarus, located at 5512/3012. Per JewishGen Gazetteer < http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp > The closest (sounds like) possibility for Molaff to Vitebsk is Myailovo (Myaklovo), Belarus, located at 5503/3016, only 9.1 miles SSE of Vitebsk. Myailovo is not in the JewishGen Jewish Communities Database because it did not have a significant Jewish community. In JewishGen Gazetteer search results, Jewish Communities are preceded by the JewishGen icon. Click on the icon to see a full page of information for that community including names in various languages, political jurisdictions during different time periods, maps, Jewish population and links to JewishGen resources. Bette Stoop Mas USA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Molaff in Vitebsk and Mollef in Podolia
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bette_sscf <bette_sscf@...>
Sandy Aaronson wrote:
< A RUBENSTEIN cousin of mine made a tape years ago about his life in Verbovets, Podolia. He mentioned going on a "buying trip" for his father's Store at age 12. He said it was a 4-5 day trip in the snow in a horse drawn wagon and stopped in a town called Mollef on the Dniester River. I found a town called Miliye not on the Dniester but on another river, Cheremosh. This town is 102 miles >from Verbovets could it could possibly be the same town as the one Alan is looking for below? > Per JewishGen Jewish Communities Database < http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp > Miliye, Ukraine was formerly in Wiznitz district, Bukovina province, Austrian Empire and then Milie in Storojinet district, Bucovina, Romania and is located at 4820/2517, 30 miles W of Chernivtsi on the Cheremosh River. Based on its location and pronunciation, it is unlikely that Miliye, Ukraine is the town Mollef to which Sandy's cousin referred. Verbovets, Ukraine was formerly in Ushitsa district, Podolia province, Russian Empire and then in Vinnitsa district, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union and is located at 4844/2726, 26 miles NW of Mohyliv-Podilskyy. Mohyliv-Podilskyy, Ukraine was formerly Mogilev in Podolia province, Russian Empire and then Mogilev-Podolski in Vinnitsa district, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union and is located at 4827/2748. Mohyliv-Podilskyy is a major city in S Ukraine on the Dniester (border with Moldova/Bessarabia) and is not to be confused with Mogilev (Mahilyow), E Belarus. Besides its location on the Dniester in Podolia, Mohyliv is pronounced more similarly to Mollef and is likely the town Sandy's cousin went to on a buying trip. Alan Cohen was searching for a town Molaff in Vitebsk, now Vitsyebsk, Belarus, located at 5512/3012. Per JewishGen Gazetteer < http://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp > The closest (sounds like) possibility for Molaff to Vitebsk is Myailovo (Myaklovo), Belarus, located at 5503/3016, only 9.1 miles SSE of Vitebsk. Myailovo is not in the JewishGen Jewish Communities Database because it did not have a significant Jewish community. In JewishGen Gazetteer search results, Jewish Communities are preceded by the JewishGen icon. Click on the icon to see a full page of information for that community including names in various languages, political jurisdictions during different time periods, maps, Jewish population and links to JewishGen resources. Bette Stoop Mas USA
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Re: How to find certificate number?
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davestra@ymail.com <davestra@...>
The New York City Dept. of Records lets you request a search for death
records based on date of death and name alone. You wouldn't need the certificate number. I think it costs about $20. I've ordered records >from them before. It takes about 6 weeks to get a response but the response does come. http://www.nyc.gov/dorforms/death.jsp. Also, Steve Morse has a useful page for searching NYC death records. Morse's site searches the italiangen.org website, so if the NYC record you're looking for exists and is mis-indexed on italiangen, you might not find it on Morse's site either. http://stevemorse.org/vital/nydeath.html Dave Strausfeld
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen re: How to find certificate number?
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davestra@ymail.com <davestra@...>
The New York City Dept. of Records lets you request a search for death
records based on date of death and name alone. You wouldn't need the certificate number. I think it costs about $20. I've ordered records >from them before. It takes about 6 weeks to get a response but the response does come. http://www.nyc.gov/dorforms/death.jsp. Also, Steve Morse has a useful page for searching NYC death records. Morse's site searches the italiangen.org website, so if the NYC record you're looking for exists and is mis-indexed on italiangen, you might not find it on Morse's site either. http://stevemorse.org/vital/nydeath.html Dave Strausfeld
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Starokonstantinov Duma Voters lists 1906, 1907, 1912
#ukraine
Barry E Chernick
I have just added the last towns to the Starokonstantinov Uezd Duma
voters lists on the Krasilov KehilaLinks web site http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Krasilov/index.html . 1906 and 1907 for Krasilov, Kuzmin, Volochisk, Teofipol, Starokonstantinov (Town), Bazaliya, Kulchiny, Kupel, Ozhigovtsy, Rural Uezd; and 1912 Starokonstantinov Uezd are all there now. A note of caution, some of the lists have not been proofed/checked yet. The links for those lists are in orange. Also note that for 1906 several pages at the beginning of the list were missing >from the microfilm. For 1907 there were one or two pages missing >from the end of the list. The 1912 list was complete but of cause there are no town designations in the 1912 list. Barry Chernick Bellevue, WA
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Starokonstantinov Duma Voters lists 1906, 1907, 1912
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Barry E Chernick
I have just added the last towns to the Starokonstantinov Uezd Duma
voters lists on the Krasilov KehilaLinks web site http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Krasilov/index.html . 1906 and 1907 for Krasilov, Kuzmin, Volochisk, Teofipol, Starokonstantinov (Town), Bazaliya, Kulchiny, Kupel, Ozhigovtsy, Rural Uezd; and 1912 Starokonstantinov Uezd are all there now. A note of caution, some of the lists have not been proofed/checked yet. The links for those lists are in orange. Also note that for 1906 several pages at the beginning of the list were missing >from the microfilm. For 1907 there were one or two pages missing >from the end of the list. The 1912 list was complete but of cause there are no town designations in the 1912 list. Barry Chernick Bellevue, WA
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Ukraine SIG Update and progress
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janettes@...
Ukraine SIG has a lot going on. I know I'm not listing everything that
has happened since January, but here is the progress of some projects. Thanks to the amazing work of our volunteers, we have acquired AND translated Zinkov vital records for 1839, 1849 and 1850 and records >from the Latvian National archives of people moving >from Courland to Kherson for 1837 and 1840; translations of vital records from: Priluki 1864-1867, 1889 births >from Nikolaev, a 1913 business directory >from Mogilev-Podolsky. Many of these are currently being proofread and are in the pipeline for submission to the JewishGen main office for inclusion into the JewishGen Ukraine SIG database. We have also acquired about 19,000 images >from Odessa; a Zinkov-Letichev 1875 revision list is being translated as are records >from Olgopol; microfilms from: Kerch, Nikolaev, Priluki, Olshana. We have also added 8 new Town Leaders. Our Ukraine SIG discussion group is also growing. Last, but not least, our Ukraine SIG Speaker for the IAJGS conference will be Dr. Eric Goldman - he'll be speaking at a session as well as at a "Lunch With the Experts." Janette Dr. Janette Silverman JewishGen Ukraine-SIG Coordinator ukrainesig.coordinator@... http://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/default.asp https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ukraine-SIG/180102942060505
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Ukraine SIG Update and progress
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janettes@...
Ukraine SIG has a lot going on. I know I'm not listing everything that
has happened since January, but here is the progress of some projects. Thanks to the amazing work of our volunteers, we have acquired AND translated Zinkov vital records for 1839, 1849 and 1850 and records >from the Latvian National archives of people moving >from Courland to Kherson for 1837 and 1840; translations of vital records from: Priluki 1864-1867, 1889 births >from Nikolaev, a 1913 business directory >from Mogilev-Podolsky. Many of these are currently being proofread and are in the pipeline for submission to the JewishGen main office for inclusion into the JewishGen Ukraine SIG database. We have also acquired about 19,000 images >from Odessa; a Zinkov-Letichev 1875 revision list is being translated as are records >from Olgopol; microfilms from: Kerch, Nikolaev, Priluki, Olshana. We have also added 8 new Town Leaders. Our Ukraine SIG discussion group is also growing. Last, but not least, our Ukraine SIG Speaker for the IAJGS conference will be Dr. Eric Goldman - he'll be speaking at a session as well as at a "Lunch With the Experts." Janette Dr. Janette Silverman JewishGen Ukraine-SIG Coordinator ukrainesig.coordinator@... http://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/default.asp https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ukraine-SIG/180102942060505
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Re: Help finding ship manifest and birth/marriage records
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news <news@...>
Scott Ehrlich wrote:
Israel's US citizenship form reports he, Rose, and David arrived in I would try a broader search. A search of the Morton Allen Directory (http://www.cimorelli.com/cgi-bin/safescripts/like_ma_new.asp?FMONTH=01&FDAY=01&FYEAR=1900&beginwith=Patricia) indicates that the Patricia didn't arrive in the U.S. in November of 1900: only October and December. Therefore, either the date is wrong or the ship name is wrong. Regards, David Oseas Researching: HYMAN/HEYMAN/HEIMOWITS/CHAJMOVITS: Zemplen-Dobra, Hungary > New York KLEIN: Satoraljaujhely (Ujhely), Hungary > New York > Los Angeles OSEAS/OSIAS/OSIASI/OZIAS: Iasi, Romania > Chicago > Milwaukee > Los Angeles SCHECHTER/SCHACHTER: Odessa, Ukraine > New York SHERMAN: Iasi, Romania > New York > Los Angeles STECKER: New York > Florida WICHMAN: Syczkowo (Bobruisk), Belarus > Milwaukee > Los Angeles (MOD: http://tinyurl.com/omrvfen)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Help finding ship manifest and birth/marriage records
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news <news@...>
Scott Ehrlich wrote:
Israel's US citizenship form reports he, Rose, and David arrived in I would try a broader search. A search of the Morton Allen Directory (http://www.cimorelli.com/cgi-bin/safescripts/like_ma_new.asp?FMONTH=01&FDAY=01&FYEAR=1900&beginwith=Patricia) indicates that the Patricia didn't arrive in the U.S. in November of 1900: only October and December. Therefore, either the date is wrong or the ship name is wrong. Regards, David Oseas Researching: HYMAN/HEYMAN/HEIMOWITS/CHAJMOVITS: Zemplen-Dobra, Hungary > New York KLEIN: Satoraljaujhely (Ujhely), Hungary > New York > Los Angeles OSEAS/OSIAS/OSIASI/OZIAS: Iasi, Romania > Chicago > Milwaukee > Los Angeles SCHECHTER/SCHACHTER: Odessa, Ukraine > New York SHERMAN: Iasi, Romania > New York > Los Angeles STECKER: New York > Florida WICHMAN: Syczkowo (Bobruisk), Belarus > Milwaukee > Los Angeles (MOD: http://tinyurl.com/omrvfen)
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Cincinnati explanation please
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Trudy Barch
United Jewish Cemetery - Is it Walnut Hills the name of the city or the
name of a section in the cemetery? Thank you, Trudy Barch
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Cincinnati explanation please
#general
Trudy Barch
United Jewish Cemetery - Is it Walnut Hills the name of the city or the
name of a section in the cemetery? Thank you, Trudy Barch
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Re: Tauberbischofsheim records - GRUNHUT
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Brian Stern <brians99@...>
Hank,
The Taberbischofsheim records are held at the Baden-Wuerttemberg state archives and these can be accessed online. There have been many mentions of these online BW records in this forum many times. For instance the family page for Hirsch GRUNHUT is here http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=3D1-446800-99 There are family pages of three Grunhut families in that book, as shown in the index near the end of the film. Good luck, Brian Stern, Lexington, KY brians99@... Moderator Reminder: The searchable SIG Email list archives contain all messages sent to our Forum and others. The separate JewishGen Discussion Group JGDG archives >from 1993 are also searchable. *** Log in to JewishGen with user name and password first. Then: SIG archives: http://www.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.isa?jg~jgsys~sigspop JGDG search: http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~archpop Henry Lobbenberg, Toronto, Ontario, Canada <hank.lobben@...> wrote: -------- Very recently, I discovered that my motherBetty LOBBENBERG nee GRUNHUT (daughter of Salli GRUNHUT and Rosa MARX) had a cousin, Ilse BROCH nee GRUNHUT b. 20 July 1914 in Tauberbischofsheim. ----- I have contacted various offices in Tauberbischofsheim and area without any success. If anyone out there has any knowledge of these families or can point me to a publication, I would appreciate it very much.
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German SIG #Germany Re: Tauberbischofsheim records - GRUNHUT
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Brian Stern <brians99@...>
Hank,
The Taberbischofsheim records are held at the Baden-Wuerttemberg state archives and these can be accessed online. There have been many mentions of these online BW records in this forum many times. For instance the family page for Hirsch GRUNHUT is here http://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/plink/?f=3D1-446800-99 There are family pages of three Grunhut families in that book, as shown in the index near the end of the film. Good luck, Brian Stern, Lexington, KY brians99@... Moderator Reminder: The searchable SIG Email list archives contain all messages sent to our Forum and others. The separate JewishGen Discussion Group JGDG archives >from 1993 are also searchable. *** Log in to JewishGen with user name and password first. Then: SIG archives: http://www.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.isa?jg~jgsys~sigspop JGDG search: http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~archpop Henry Lobbenberg, Toronto, Ontario, Canada <hank.lobben@...> wrote: -------- Very recently, I discovered that my motherBetty LOBBENBERG nee GRUNHUT (daughter of Salli GRUNHUT and Rosa MARX) had a cousin, Ilse BROCH nee GRUNHUT b. 20 July 1914 in Tauberbischofsheim. ----- I have contacted various offices in Tauberbischofsheim and area without any success. If anyone out there has any knowledge of these families or can point me to a publication, I would appreciate it very much.
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: [US] [NY] Burial Site for One Million In Mass Graves Restricted Access In New York City
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Ira Leviton
Dear Cousins,
As a follow-up to the recent message >from Jan Meisels Allen, I urge people interested in the potter's field on Hart Island in New York City to also go to the New York Times' web site and type Hart Island into the search box for more articles about it. (If you don't have a subscription to the Times, you're limited to 10 articles per month, but that's more than enough.) Although the Hart Island Project is a good cause, lookups of burials on Hart Island can also be done without registration or payment on a City of New York web site at http://a073-hartisland-web.nyc.gov/hartisland/pages/search/search.jsf. Records are very incomplete because only those >from 1980 to 2011 have been converted to a searchable on line format, some records were damaged in a fire, and others have been lost. Other information is available at http://www.nyc.gov/html/doc/html/hart_island/hart_island.shtml Ira Ira Leviton New York, N.Y.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen : [US] [NY] Burial Site for One Million In Mass Graves Restricted Access In New York City
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Ira Leviton
Dear Cousins,
As a follow-up to the recent message >from Jan Meisels Allen, I urge people interested in the potter's field on Hart Island in New York City to also go to the New York Times' web site and type Hart Island into the search box for more articles about it. (If you don't have a subscription to the Times, you're limited to 10 articles per month, but that's more than enough.) Although the Hart Island Project is a good cause, lookups of burials on Hart Island can also be done without registration or payment on a City of New York web site at http://a073-hartisland-web.nyc.gov/hartisland/pages/search/search.jsf. Records are very incomplete because only those >from 1980 to 2011 have been converted to a searchable on line format, some records were damaged in a fire, and others have been lost. Other information is available at http://www.nyc.gov/html/doc/html/hart_island/hart_island.shtml Ira Ira Leviton New York, N.Y.
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Re: Document questions - Postausweiskarte
#germany
Fritz Neubauer
Am 13.04.2014 21:58, schrieb Henry Graupner:
I hope some of your readers will be able to provide me with informationWas used until about ten or fifteen years ago so that another person would be able to accept a letter addressed to the person mentioned on the card, it was issued by the postal administration. Hope that helps, Fritz Neubauer, North Germany fritz.neubauer@...
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German SIG #Germany Re: Document questions - Postausweiskarte
#germany
Fritz Neubauer
Am 13.04.2014 21:58, schrieb Henry Graupner:
I hope some of your readers will be able to provide me with informationWas used until about ten or fifteen years ago so that another person would be able to accept a letter addressed to the person mentioned on the card, it was issued by the postal administration. Hope that helps, Fritz Neubauer, North Germany fritz.neubauer@...
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ViewMate Translation Request -- Polish
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ava rosenblum
Hello:
I've posted an email >from Lodz that is a reply to my inquiry about obtaining my grandfather's birth records, which I found in the JRI data base. I would be very grateful for a translation of what they are requesting >from me re. amount of money to send, where to mail it, address, and anything else I need to send them. Below is the Viewmate link: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM33209 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. With much gratitude, Ava Rosenblum Researching Rosenblum and Garner.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ViewMate Translation Request -- Polish
#general
ava rosenblum
Hello:
I've posted an email >from Lodz that is a reply to my inquiry about obtaining my grandfather's birth records, which I found in the JRI data base. I would be very grateful for a translation of what they are requesting >from me re. amount of money to send, where to mail it, address, and anything else I need to send them. Below is the Viewmate link: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM33209 Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. With much gratitude, Ava Rosenblum Researching Rosenblum and Garner.
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