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View Mate translation request - Russian
#ukraine
Patricia Klindienst <epk13@...>
I've posted four images for which I need translations >from Russian. Two are cover images >from Russian Revolutionary Journals >from 1905-06, and two are two sides of a postcard Empress Alexandra sent to a friend.
These images are on ViewMate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64706 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64707 I'd like every Russian word printed on both sides of the postcard translated, please. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64853 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64854 Thank you! Patricia Klindienst Guilford, CT USA SPIWAK /SPIVAK of Orgeyev & Kishinev, Bessarabia; Mendoza, Argentina; and Queens. SCHAPOSCHNIK / ZAPOSNEK of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Elisavetgrad, or Mendoza, and their related names, SHAPIN, SHAPIRO of Mendoza, Argentina, Chile, Canada, and the US. SCHOCHETMAN of Odessa (who became SCHACHT in the US). MILSTEIN of Orgeyev & Kishinev. WOLMAN / VOLLMAN of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Capresti. TSAREVKAN/CIRIFCAN/SARAFCONN of Orgeyev, Teleneshti, Uruguay, becoming COHEN in the US. BELINKSY of Odessa and Philadelphia. KALIK of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Argentina. LICHT of Briceva.
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine View Mate translation request - Russian
#ukraine
Patricia Klindienst <epk13@...>
I've posted four images for which I need translations >from Russian. Two are cover images >from Russian Revolutionary Journals >from 1905-06, and two are two sides of a postcard Empress Alexandra sent to a friend.
These images are on ViewMate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64706 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64707 I'd like every Russian word printed on both sides of the postcard translated, please. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64853 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64854 Thank you! Patricia Klindienst Guilford, CT USA SPIWAK /SPIVAK of Orgeyev & Kishinev, Bessarabia; Mendoza, Argentina; and Queens. SCHAPOSCHNIK / ZAPOSNEK of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Elisavetgrad, or Mendoza, and their related names, SHAPIN, SHAPIRO of Mendoza, Argentina, Chile, Canada, and the US. SCHOCHETMAN of Odessa (who became SCHACHT in the US). MILSTEIN of Orgeyev & Kishinev. WOLMAN / VOLLMAN of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Capresti. TSAREVKAN/CIRIFCAN/SARAFCONN of Orgeyev, Teleneshti, Uruguay, becoming COHEN in the US. BELINKSY of Odessa and Philadelphia. KALIK of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Argentina. LICHT of Briceva.
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Ancestry Free Access to Irish Records Through March 19
#general
Jan Meisels Allen
To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, Ancestry is making all their Irish records
free through Monday March 19,2018 at 11:59 p.m. ET. If you try to access records other than in the featured collection you will be invited to subscribe to Ancestry's World Explorer Membership, same if you try to access records, even in the featured collection when the free access ends. To search and see the records in the featured collection go to: https://search.ancestry.com/search/group/irish_heritage You will be required to register with your name, email address and password. No credit card information is required for accessing the featured collection. When you do your search, the results will return with view image. Click on View. In the upper right hand side is a green box that says "save". If you wish to save it to your computer or to our Ancestry shoe box, click there. To save it to your computer will open to your photo software where you can then save it to your hard drive. If you prefer to print it, on the right hand side there is an icon with tools. Click on the tools and click on print. You may also download to your computer >from this application. Some of the records are not >from Ancestry, such as the Ireland Census and you may be directed to another site, such as the National Archives of Ireland. I tried a number of "Jewish sounding names" and came up with many hits. According to Wikipedia, Jews have been in Ireland for nearly a thousand years. While always a small community it is an established community. In addition, a number of Jews immigrated to Ireland in the late 19th and 20th centuries whose families were >from central Europe, due to the pogroms, and especially >from Lithuania. Jews also stopped in Ireland along the way to immigrating to North America-and may have lived there for a few years. You never know what an Irish census or ships manifest may reveal! I have no affiliation with Ancestry and am posting this solely for the information of the reader. Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Ancestry Free Access to Irish Records Through March 19
#general
Jan Meisels Allen
To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, Ancestry is making all their Irish records
free through Monday March 19,2018 at 11:59 p.m. ET. If you try to access records other than in the featured collection you will be invited to subscribe to Ancestry's World Explorer Membership, same if you try to access records, even in the featured collection when the free access ends. To search and see the records in the featured collection go to: https://search.ancestry.com/search/group/irish_heritage You will be required to register with your name, email address and password. No credit card information is required for accessing the featured collection. When you do your search, the results will return with view image. Click on View. In the upper right hand side is a green box that says "save". If you wish to save it to your computer or to our Ancestry shoe box, click there. To save it to your computer will open to your photo software where you can then save it to your hard drive. If you prefer to print it, on the right hand side there is an icon with tools. Click on the tools and click on print. You may also download to your computer >from this application. Some of the records are not >from Ancestry, such as the Ireland Census and you may be directed to another site, such as the National Archives of Ireland. I tried a number of "Jewish sounding names" and came up with many hits. According to Wikipedia, Jews have been in Ireland for nearly a thousand years. While always a small community it is an established community. In addition, a number of Jews immigrated to Ireland in the late 19th and 20th centuries whose families were >from central Europe, due to the pogroms, and especially >from Lithuania. Jews also stopped in Ireland along the way to immigrating to North America-and may have lived there for a few years. You never know what an Irish census or ships manifest may reveal! I have no affiliation with Ancestry and am posting this solely for the information of the reader. Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: STONE family from Estonia
#general
Adam Cherson
Dear Leslie,
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I don't know if this applies in your instance, but I have seen the surname Stoller become Stone. Stoller could in turn be spelled as Stolyar, Shtoler, Shtalier, Stol, etc. I hope this helps. Adam Cherson From: Leslie Leader <lleader@telus.net>
Can anyone suggest what the original family name is for "STONE" might mbe? They
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: STONE family from Estonia
#general
Adam Cherson
Dear Leslie,
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I don't know if this applies in your instance, but I have seen the surname Stoller become Stone. Stoller could in turn be spelled as Stolyar, Shtoler, Shtalier, Stol, etc. I hope this helps. Adam Cherson From: Leslie Leader <lleader@telus.net>
Can anyone suggest what the original family name is for "STONE" might mbe? They
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SCHEINERMAN/SCHEINMAN from Brest-Litovsk
#general
Toby Gass <tgass@...>
Hello,
My great-grandmother Malka/Mary Shainman/Scheynmann/Sheinermann (born approx 1872) came >from a fairly prominent family in Brest-Litovsk. One of her brothers was Ariel Sharon's grandfather, so many people have documented that specific line in her family. I have found birth, death and/or immigration/emigration information for *all* of her siblings in the US, Russia and British Palestine, but I do not have any records specifically of my great-grandmother prior to her marriage to Louis Schwarz in Philadelphia in 1893. According to family lore, she arrived in Baltimore with her Schwartz future in-laws some years earlier, but I'm beginning to have doubts about that story for various reasons. I have thoroughly explored all the standard and some non-standard resources in multiple languages. Now, I'm wondering if anyone who is familiar with the family has any information specifically on Malka's birth or, even better, her immigration to the United States. Unfortunately, her birth year is one of the years that is not included in the Brest-Litovsk records that are online. Thank you so much. Toby Gass
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen SCHEINERMAN/SCHEINMAN from Brest-Litovsk
#general
Toby Gass <tgass@...>
Hello,
My great-grandmother Malka/Mary Shainman/Scheynmann/Sheinermann (born approx 1872) came >from a fairly prominent family in Brest-Litovsk. One of her brothers was Ariel Sharon's grandfather, so many people have documented that specific line in her family. I have found birth, death and/or immigration/emigration information for *all* of her siblings in the US, Russia and British Palestine, but I do not have any records specifically of my great-grandmother prior to her marriage to Louis Schwarz in Philadelphia in 1893. According to family lore, she arrived in Baltimore with her Schwartz future in-laws some years earlier, but I'm beginning to have doubts about that story for various reasons. I have thoroughly explored all the standard and some non-standard resources in multiple languages. Now, I'm wondering if anyone who is familiar with the family has any information specifically on Malka's birth or, even better, her immigration to the United States. Unfortunately, her birth year is one of the years that is not included in the Brest-Litovsk records that are online. Thank you so much. Toby Gass
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Re: STONE family from Estonia
#general
Evertjan. <exxjxw.hannivoort@...>
(Leslie Gabriel Leader lleader@telus.net)
wrote on 15 Mar 2018 in soc.genealogy.jewish: Can anyone suggest what the original family name is for "STONE" might"STONE family >from Estonia" Stein, Schteyn, Schteyne, ... --- Yiddish: "A seyfer is a jeder schteyn" ["Every stone is a book"] Evertjan Hannivoort. The Netherlands. exjxwxhannivoortATinterxnlxnet (Please change the x'es to dots)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: STONE family from Estonia
#general
Evertjan. <exxjxw.hannivoort@...>
(Leslie Gabriel Leader lleader@telus.net)
wrote on 15 Mar 2018 in soc.genealogy.jewish: Can anyone suggest what the original family name is for "STONE" might"STONE family >from Estonia" Stein, Schteyn, Schteyne, ... --- Yiddish: "A seyfer is a jeder schteyn" ["Every stone is a book"] Evertjan Hannivoort. The Netherlands. exjxwxhannivoortATinterxnlxnet (Please change the x'es to dots)
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View Mate translation request - Russian
#romania
Patricia Klindienst <epk13@...>
I've posted four images for which I need translations >from Russian. Two are cover
images >from Russian Revolutionary Journals >from 1905-06, and two are two sides of a postcard Empress Alexandra sent to a friend. These images are on ViewMate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64706 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64707 I'd like every Russian word printed on both sides of the postcard translated, please. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64853 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64854 Thank you! Patricia Klindienst Guilford, CT USA SPIWAK /SPIVAK of Orgeyev & Kishinev, Bessarabia; Mendoza, Argentina; and Queens. SCHAPOSCHNIK / ZAPOSNEK of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Elisavetgrad, or Mendoza, and their related names, SHAPIN, SHAPIRO of Mendoza, Argentina, Chile, Canada, and the US. SCHOCHETMAN of Odessa (who became SCHACHT in the US). MILSTEIN of Orgeyev & Kishinev. WOLMAN / VOLLMAN of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Capresti. TSAREVKAN/CIRIFCAN/SARAFCONN of Orgeyev, Teleneshti, Uruguay, becoming COHEN in the US. BELINKSY of Odessa and Philadelphia. KALIK of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Argentina. LICHT of Briceva.
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Romania SIG #Romania View Mate translation request - Russian
#romania
Patricia Klindienst <epk13@...>
I've posted four images for which I need translations >from Russian. Two are cover
images >from Russian Revolutionary Journals >from 1905-06, and two are two sides of a postcard Empress Alexandra sent to a friend. These images are on ViewMate at the following addresses: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64706 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64707 I'd like every Russian word printed on both sides of the postcard translated, please. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64853 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64854 Thank you! Patricia Klindienst Guilford, CT USA SPIWAK /SPIVAK of Orgeyev & Kishinev, Bessarabia; Mendoza, Argentina; and Queens. SCHAPOSCHNIK / ZAPOSNEK of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Elisavetgrad, or Mendoza, and their related names, SHAPIN, SHAPIRO of Mendoza, Argentina, Chile, Canada, and the US. SCHOCHETMAN of Odessa (who became SCHACHT in the US). MILSTEIN of Orgeyev & Kishinev. WOLMAN / VOLLMAN of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Capresti. TSAREVKAN/CIRIFCAN/SARAFCONN of Orgeyev, Teleneshti, Uruguay, becoming COHEN in the US. BELINKSY of Odessa and Philadelphia. KALIK of Orgeyev, Kishinev, Argentina. LICHT of Briceva.
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Tuesday, March 20: free genealogy program at the Center for Jewish History in New York
#general
Moriah Amit
Please join us for the following free lecture and guided pop-up exhibit,
presented by the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute and Yeshiva University Museum. Family History Today: Family Heirlooms Date: March 20, 6 PM Place: Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 Description: Family heirlooms offer us tangible windows into the lives of our ancestors. In this program, you will hear intriguing stories behind a selection of family heirlooms >from the Yeshiva University Museum and learn how to care for your own collections. Tickets: free; reservations required at https://www.smarttix.com/Event/fam9E4 Moriah Amit, New York
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Tuesday, March 20: free genealogy program at the Center for Jewish History in New York
#general
Moriah Amit
Please join us for the following free lecture and guided pop-up exhibit,
presented by the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute and Yeshiva University Museum. Family History Today: Family Heirlooms Date: March 20, 6 PM Place: Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 Description: Family heirlooms offer us tangible windows into the lives of our ancestors. In this program, you will hear intriguing stories behind a selection of family heirlooms >from the Yeshiva University Museum and learn how to care for your own collections. Tickets: free; reservations required at https://www.smarttix.com/Event/fam9E4 Moriah Amit, New York
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LitvakSIG 20th anniversary - second article
#lithuania
Carol Hoffman
We are proud to present the second article in the series celebrating
LitvakSIG's 20th anniversary. LitvakSIG in the Beginning https://www.litvaksig.org/information-and-tools/online-journal/litvaksig-in-the-beginning by co-founder and past president, Davida Noyek Handler, takes us to the heady days of excitement of forming the SIG and its rapid development. We do hope that you will enjoy this article and celebrate with us. I do want to remind everyone that LitvakSIG is a voluntary tax free organization. All contributions are welcome to help us maintain the work that we do for you and Litvaks throughout the world. On line contributions can be made at https://www.litvaksig.org/membership-and-contributions/join-and-contribute/ We thank you for your support! Carol Hoffman LitvakSIG President
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania LitvakSIG 20th anniversary - second article
#lithuania
Carol Hoffman
We are proud to present the second article in the series celebrating
LitvakSIG's 20th anniversary. LitvakSIG in the Beginning https://www.litvaksig.org/information-and-tools/online-journal/litvaksig-in-the-beginning by co-founder and past president, Davida Noyek Handler, takes us to the heady days of excitement of forming the SIG and its rapid development. We do hope that you will enjoy this article and celebrate with us. I do want to remind everyone that LitvakSIG is a voluntary tax free organization. All contributions are welcome to help us maintain the work that we do for you and Litvaks throughout the world. On line contributions can be made at https://www.litvaksig.org/membership-and-contributions/join-and-contribute/ We thank you for your support! Carol Hoffman LitvakSIG President
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Pawel Brunon Dorman
#poland
Good day all,
Does anyone know if Pawel Dorman is still an active researcher in Poland? Many thanks Abbee Abbee S Corb, PhD, CAS, CMAS Consultant Email: abbeecorb@me.com MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately.
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JRI Poland #Poland Pawel Brunon Dorman
#poland
Good day all,
Does anyone know if Pawel Dorman is still an active researcher in Poland? Many thanks Abbee Abbee S Corb, PhD, CAS, CMAS Consultant Email: abbeecorb@me.com MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately.
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ViewMate Translation, Russian (SZNAJDER, KALMUS, Opole Lubelskie)
#poland
Genealogy BLW
I have uploaded a birth records in Russian for translation. This is for
my maternal grandfather's SZNAJDER branch who (so far) originated in Opole Lubelskie, Poland moving to Ostrowiec and Chodel. This is a follow on to previous requests for records of the several Touba/Tauba who I am identifying and tracing. Please extract or translate as much of the record as possible. Please respond using the ViewMate form. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64798 Thank you very much! Barbara Weintraub Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Researching in Galicia: WEINTRAUB, BRODE, HAMMER/KAMER, SPINDEL, BROMBERG And, in congress Poland: KATZ/KAC, SZNAJDER, WAKSMAN, FINKIELSZTAJN, MELNIK, and spouses >from towns near Ostrowiec and Opole Lubelskie
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JRI Poland #Poland ViewMate Translation, Russian (SZNAJDER, KALMUS, Opole Lubelskie)
#poland
Genealogy BLW
I have uploaded a birth records in Russian for translation. This is for
my maternal grandfather's SZNAJDER branch who (so far) originated in Opole Lubelskie, Poland moving to Ostrowiec and Chodel. This is a follow on to previous requests for records of the several Touba/Tauba who I am identifying and tracing. Please extract or translate as much of the record as possible. Please respond using the ViewMate form. http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM64798 Thank you very much! Barbara Weintraub Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Researching in Galicia: WEINTRAUB, BRODE, HAMMER/KAMER, SPINDEL, BROMBERG And, in congress Poland: KATZ/KAC, SZNAJDER, WAKSMAN, FINKIELSZTAJN, MELNIK, and spouses >from towns near Ostrowiec and Opole Lubelskie
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