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joebein365@...
Good for you!!!!
Perhaps if you explain what needs to be done, and how it is done, some of us with few skills, but plenty of time will be willing to help. I have not offered to help primarily because I'm afraid that I do not have the skills necessary to really be of help. Let me know more, and if able I will help. Love, jJoe Bein
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Latvia SIG #Latvia Re: "Riga Kurlander Verein" and the unbalanced work load
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joebein365@...
Good for you!!!!
Perhaps if you explain what needs to be done, and how it is done, some of us with few skills, but plenty of time will be willing to help. I have not offered to help primarily because I'm afraid that I do not have the skills necessary to really be of help. Let me know more, and if able I will help. Love, jJoe Bein
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Re: Vedemosti Project
#ukraine
shirley pencer <scpencer@...>
Hi:
Regarding the "Kievski Guberniski Vedemosti" you should access Discussion Group Archives of Oct.11/98 by Vitaly Charny. His very informative letter gives a detailed discussion of his findings in the Harvard Library. He was researching the microfilms of the "old Russian offical newspaper== Kievski Guberniskie Vedemosti" and lists some of his findings. He gives his address, and he seems to be very knowledgeable. Moreover, he isobviously capable of interpreting Cyrillic, which I definitely am not. Having accessed records written in archaic Russian script, I would be hesitant to attempt to index these microfilms at Harvard if I should find myself in the area. In the Fall Issue of Avotaynu Vol.XVI No.3, there is an article on "The Russian National Census of 1897", by Thomas K. Edlund. Most libraries with extensive Judaica would have a copy of this magazine, if it hasn't been received by subscription. In the Appendix, he lists the pertinent records at the Latter Day Saints' Family History Library at Utah. Shirley Pencer Montreal, Qc MODERATOR'S NOTE: Thanks Shirley, for the lead on Vedomosti information. (The 1897 Russian Empire Census is another project entirely.) Vitaly's letter is very descriptive of the Vedomosti contents.
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine Re:Vedemosti Project
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shirley pencer <scpencer@...>
Hi:
Regarding the "Kievski Guberniski Vedemosti" you should access Discussion Group Archives of Oct.11/98 by Vitaly Charny. His very informative letter gives a detailed discussion of his findings in the Harvard Library. He was researching the microfilms of the "old Russian offical newspaper== Kievski Guberniskie Vedemosti" and lists some of his findings. He gives his address, and he seems to be very knowledgeable. Moreover, he isobviously capable of interpreting Cyrillic, which I definitely am not. Having accessed records written in archaic Russian script, I would be hesitant to attempt to index these microfilms at Harvard if I should find myself in the area. In the Fall Issue of Avotaynu Vol.XVI No.3, there is an article on "The Russian National Census of 1897", by Thomas K. Edlund. Most libraries with extensive Judaica would have a copy of this magazine, if it hasn't been received by subscription. In the Appendix, he lists the pertinent records at the Latter Day Saints' Family History Library at Utah. Shirley Pencer Montreal, Qc MODERATOR'S NOTE: Thanks Shirley, for the lead on Vedomosti information. (The 1897 Russian Empire Census is another project entirely.) Vitaly's letter is very descriptive of the Vedomosti contents.
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New shtetlinks site for Stanislawow/Ivano-Frankovsk!
#galicia
Denise Azbill <famaz@...>
Ivano Frankivsk (Stanislawow) ShtetLinks Site
Due to great effort on the part of Susannah Juni, a new ShtetLinks site has been launched for the city now known as Ivano Frankivsk, formerly Stanislawow, Stanislau, or Stanisle. You can go there directly by clicking on: http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/juni/stanislawow or by going to the ShtetLinks Home Page at www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/ and clicking on Ukraine, and then Ivano Frankivsk. Stanislawow was a large city of more than 100,000 residents, including a thriving Jewish community of 25-30,000 people. At this time, the site is still a work in progress, but there are great maps of the area, and many wonderful photographs. We have over 100 researchers who have asked to have their surnames of interest posted on the researcher's page. Have a look! You never know-you may have ancestors who lived in Stanislawow or nearby environs, such as Mariampol, Jezupol, Knihinin and the Knihinin colonie, Mykietynce, Zagwozdz, Paniczna, Tumierz, Halicz, Pobierce, and many other shtetls. If you have a question regarding whether or not a shtetl is in the administrative district of Stanislawow, please contact Denise Azbill, at Famaz@prodigy.net. Exciting news for the near future! Susannah has traveled throughout the region, and we have a database of literally thousands of records of data, including photographs both old new, documenting Jewish life in Stanislawow (Ivano Frankivsk). We are currently working with a database specialist to enable you to view all of this data, including many more Photo Highlights, from the website. (The current release of the website contains only a smallsampling of photographs, as well as research sources, links, maps, etc.) Please check back later in the year! (Targeted for around July, 2001...) Some of the data was provided by other researchers, and if you have data you'd like to contribute, please contact me later this year, as there will eventually be a mechanism for people to donate more data to the project. Volunteers are needed to help submit and computerize data for the SIF website on ShtetLinks. If you can help, please send an email to Denise Azbill famaz@prodigy.net No special skills required. Many, many thanks are due Susannah. She has created a wonderful site, and we invite you all to visit. Sincerely, Denise Azbill
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia New shtetlinks site for Stanislawow/Ivano-Frankovsk!
#galicia
Denise Azbill <famaz@...>
Ivano Frankivsk (Stanislawow) ShtetLinks Site
Due to great effort on the part of Susannah Juni, a new ShtetLinks site has been launched for the city now known as Ivano Frankivsk, formerly Stanislawow, Stanislau, or Stanisle. You can go there directly by clicking on: http://www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/juni/stanislawow or by going to the ShtetLinks Home Page at www.jewishgen.org/shtetlinks/ and clicking on Ukraine, and then Ivano Frankivsk. Stanislawow was a large city of more than 100,000 residents, including a thriving Jewish community of 25-30,000 people. At this time, the site is still a work in progress, but there are great maps of the area, and many wonderful photographs. We have over 100 researchers who have asked to have their surnames of interest posted on the researcher's page. Have a look! You never know-you may have ancestors who lived in Stanislawow or nearby environs, such as Mariampol, Jezupol, Knihinin and the Knihinin colonie, Mykietynce, Zagwozdz, Paniczna, Tumierz, Halicz, Pobierce, and many other shtetls. If you have a question regarding whether or not a shtetl is in the administrative district of Stanislawow, please contact Denise Azbill, at Famaz@prodigy.net. Exciting news for the near future! Susannah has traveled throughout the region, and we have a database of literally thousands of records of data, including photographs both old new, documenting Jewish life in Stanislawow (Ivano Frankivsk). We are currently working with a database specialist to enable you to view all of this data, including many more Photo Highlights, from the website. (The current release of the website contains only a smallsampling of photographs, as well as research sources, links, maps, etc.) Please check back later in the year! (Targeted for around July, 2001...) Some of the data was provided by other researchers, and if you have data you'd like to contribute, please contact me later this year, as there will eventually be a mechanism for people to donate more data to the project. Volunteers are needed to help submit and computerize data for the SIF website on ShtetLinks. If you can help, please send an email to Denise Azbill famaz@prodigy.net No special skills required. Many, many thanks are due Susannah. She has created a wonderful site, and we invite you all to visit. Sincerely, Denise Azbill
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[Fwd: Search:ABUSCH]
#galicia
jm.wolfo@...
Dear JGenners
If someone has heard about Samuel Abusch and children (Nathaniel,Haim and sisters ),thank you for help. Jm Wolfowicz [Where is this family >from in Galicia? When did they live there? Where did they go? All this will help us place these people - Moderator]
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Re: Tarnoruda
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IsraelP <zach4v6@...>
I suppose I could go into twenty different towns and write Pikholz,
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Pikholc, Pickholz, Pickholtz for every one of them, but it seems to me more reasonable to do so justr for the major towns and to do "any" for the rest. Maybe I'm wrong about that. Israel P.
Is there any particular reasons that nice Galitzyaners are avoiding JGFF?
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia [Fwd: Search:ABUSCH]
#galicia
jm.wolfo@...
Dear JGenners
If someone has heard about Samuel Abusch and children (Nathaniel,Haim and sisters ),thank you for help. Jm Wolfowicz [Where is this family >from in Galicia? When did they live there? Where did they go? All this will help us place these people - Moderator]
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Re: Tarnoruda
#galicia
IsraelP <zach4v6@...>
I suppose I could go into twenty different towns and write Pikholz,
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Pikholc, Pickholz, Pickholtz for every one of them, but it seems to me more reasonable to do so justr for the major towns and to do "any" for the rest. Maybe I'm wrong about that. Israel P.
Is there any particular reasons that nice Galitzyaners are avoiding JGFF?
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[Fwd: Search : BRAJTMAN]
#galicia
jm.wolfo@...
Dear JGenners
If someone has heard about Rah'el Brajtman born 1895-1900 in Kielce (Poland) or suburbs ,who was maried to Moszek Wolfowicz and died in 1920 or 1921, thank you for help Jm Wolfowicz
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[Fwd: Search: Wolfowicz]
#galicia
jm.wolfo@...
Dear JGenners
Looking desperately for Wolfowicz family in (or around) Kielce ,Poland Thanks for help jm Wolfowicz
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia [Fwd: Search : BRAJTMAN]
#galicia
jm.wolfo@...
Dear JGenners
If someone has heard about Rah'el Brajtman born 1895-1900 in Kielce (Poland) or suburbs ,who was maried to Moszek Wolfowicz and died in 1920 or 1921, thank you for help Jm Wolfowicz
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia [Fwd: Search: Wolfowicz]
#galicia
jm.wolfo@...
Dear JGenners
Looking desperately for Wolfowicz family in (or around) Kielce ,Poland Thanks for help jm Wolfowicz
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Re: Kievskie Gubernskie Vedomosti Project
#ukraine
haflo <haflo@...>
Dear Fellow U SIG Members:
As you are probably aware, the Ukraine SIG is investigating the feasibility of purchasing microfilm of the Kiev Gubernskie Vedomosti, in order to translate relevant material & make it available on our website. This is what we've learned so far. There are 136 reels of microfilm. In correspondence with the NYPL, we were given this information. The Gubernskie Vedomosti is on hundreds of microfilm reels. It is too expensive and almost impossible to make hard copies. They advised us to contact their vendor Norman Ross Publishing for purchase of the material. Norman Ross charges about $100 a film, although if you buy the whole set at once, there's a discount: Kievskie gubernskie vedomosti, 1838-1917 136 reels of 35mm microfilm -- $11,000 Obviously, we're not able to buy $11,000 worth of microfilm. For now, I'm putting out an urgent call to our New York members to do some voluntary library legwork. We need people to look through the available microfilm, & create an index that describes the contents of each reel. With such an index, we can then determine our priorities, & work on the most useful reels in order of relevance. Once we have a descriptive reference point, we'll have a better idea about how to proceed. (Let me know, too, if one of you can act as team leader to coordinate this effort.) If anyone else can give us some ideas on how we can undertake this project more efficiently & less expensively, I'd be very grateful for your suggestions. It's alright to share your answers with our mailing list, & I look forward to any & all helpful thoughts about the project. Sincerely, Florence Elman Ukraine SIG Coordinator <haflo@cadvision.com>
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Ukraine SIG #Ukraine RE: Kievskie Gubernskie Vedomosti Project
#ukraine
haflo <haflo@...>
Dear Fellow U SIG Members:
As you are probably aware, the Ukraine SIG is investigating the feasibility of purchasing microfilm of the Kiev Gubernskie Vedomosti, in order to translate relevant material & make it available on our website. This is what we've learned so far. There are 136 reels of microfilm. In correspondence with the NYPL, we were given this information. The Gubernskie Vedomosti is on hundreds of microfilm reels. It is too expensive and almost impossible to make hard copies. They advised us to contact their vendor Norman Ross Publishing for purchase of the material. Norman Ross charges about $100 a film, although if you buy the whole set at once, there's a discount: Kievskie gubernskie vedomosti, 1838-1917 136 reels of 35mm microfilm -- $11,000 Obviously, we're not able to buy $11,000 worth of microfilm. For now, I'm putting out an urgent call to our New York members to do some voluntary library legwork. We need people to look through the available microfilm, & create an index that describes the contents of each reel. With such an index, we can then determine our priorities, & work on the most useful reels in order of relevance. Once we have a descriptive reference point, we'll have a better idea about how to proceed. (Let me know, too, if one of you can act as team leader to coordinate this effort.) If anyone else can give us some ideas on how we can undertake this project more efficiently & less expensively, I'd be very grateful for your suggestions. It's alright to share your answers with our mailing list, & I look forward to any & all helpful thoughts about the project. Sincerely, Florence Elman Ukraine SIG Coordinator <haflo@cadvision.com>
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Re: LANGINGER, BAUMOEL, DISTENFELD from Sambor, Lvov, Buczach
#galicia
Alexander Sharon <a.sharon@...>
Hi Jeff,
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Langiners >from Sambor: Name, Initial, Occupation, Town, District, Street Address Langiner, Ch. Haberdasher (outfitter) Sambor Sambor Zamkowy, plac Langiner, M. Haberdasher (outfitter) Sambor Sambor Przemyska Langinger, S. Paint Store Sambor Sambor Kopernika Baumoels (slightly different spelling variations >from Sambor and vicinity) Baumoehl, S variety stores/sundries Schodnica Drohobycz Baumohl, J Flour sale Sambor Sambor Baumol, J Agricultural products Sambor Sambor Baumwohl, P General store Medenice Drohobycz This information has been published in BDS&V (Boryslaw, Drohobycz, Sambor) regional research group as extracted >from Poland 1929 Business Directory Bumoel have been probably also residing in Stryj. At least there is several listing for this surname in Lvov Ghetto database at: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/lvov.htm Regards, Alexander Sharon mailto: a.sharon@home.com
I am searching for any info about Chaim LANGINGER, his oldest daughter,
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Re: LANGINGER, BAUMOEL, DISTENFELD from Sambor, Lvov, Buczach
#galicia
Alexander Sharon <a.sharon@...>
Hi Jeff,
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Langiners >from Sambor: Name, Initial, Occupation, Town, District, Street Address Langiner, Ch. Haberdasher (outfitter) Sambor Sambor Zamkowy, plac Langiner, M. Haberdasher (outfitter) Sambor Sambor Przemyska Langinger, S. Paint Store Sambor Sambor Kopernika Baumoels (slightly different spelling variations >from Sambor and vicinity) Baumoehl, S variety stores/sundries Schodnica Drohobycz Baumohl, J Flour sale Sambor Sambor Baumol, J Agricultural products Sambor Sambor Baumwohl, P General store Medenice Drohobycz This information has been published in BDS&V (Boryslaw, Drohobycz, Sambor) regional research group as extracted >from Poland 1929 Business Directory Bumoel have been probably also residing in Stryj. At least there is several listing for this surname in Lvov Ghetto database at: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/lvov.htm Regards, Alexander Sharon mailto: a.sharon@home.com
I am searching for any info about Chaim LANGINGER, his oldest daughter,
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Re: Looking for SCHNEIDER in Rybotycze
#galicia
Alexander Sharon <a.sharon@...>
Rhoda,
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There is a website in Polish at: http://republika.pl/zamki_w_polsce/K/KPR/Rybotycz.htm delaing with the knight castle (or whatsever have left out of this castle) in Rybotycze. Next website describes that Rybotycze used to be a Jewish town, and that Jewish cemetery is located in Rybotycze. http://www.workjoy.com.pl/pmap_gos/wiahor/wiahor.html Generally, Rybotcze was a typical Jewish shtetl in the midst of Ukrainian population during Poland interwar period. There were 314 Jewish souls out of 1277 of total genearl population. Nearest railway station was in Nizankowice. Shtetl administration centre was in Dobromil, on the other (east) side of the San River. Interesting is that all the land property around shtetl were own by the Academy of Art from Krakow. There is not listing for SCHNEIDER in town as per Poland Business Directory. Few printed Jewish names are: SANDAHAUS, STECHER, ZINS, RUBINFELD, LIESER, DWULIT, STIFEL, AMSTER, ROTTENBERG, GLUCK, STEIGER, STERNBACH, LOWNHECH Regards, Alexander Sharon mailto: a.sharon@home.com
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From: "R & A GORDON" <granny@eticomm.net> To: "Gesher Galicia SIG" <galicia@lyris.jewishgen.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 6:14 AM Subject: Looking for SCHNEIDER in Rybotycze Is there any information about town of Rybotycze ?
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Re: Looking for SCHNEIDER in Rybotycze
#galicia
Alexander Sharon <a.sharon@...>
Rhoda,
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There is a website in Polish at: http://republika.pl/zamki_w_polsce/K/KPR/Rybotycz.htm delaing with the knight castle (or whatsever have left out of this castle) in Rybotycze. Next website describes that Rybotycze used to be a Jewish town, and that Jewish cemetery is located in Rybotycze. http://www.workjoy.com.pl/pmap_gos/wiahor/wiahor.html Generally, Rybotcze was a typical Jewish shtetl in the midst of Ukrainian population during Poland interwar period. There were 314 Jewish souls out of 1277 of total genearl population. Nearest railway station was in Nizankowice. Shtetl administration centre was in Dobromil, on the other (east) side of the San River. Interesting is that all the land property around shtetl were own by the Academy of Art from Krakow. There is not listing for SCHNEIDER in town as per Poland Business Directory. Few printed Jewish names are: SANDAHAUS, STECHER, ZINS, RUBINFELD, LIESER, DWULIT, STIFEL, AMSTER, ROTTENBERG, GLUCK, STEIGER, STERNBACH, LOWNHECH Regards, Alexander Sharon mailto: a.sharon@home.com
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From: "R & A GORDON" <granny@eticomm.net> To: "Gesher Galicia SIG" <galicia@lyris.jewishgen.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 6:14 AM Subject: Looking for SCHNEIDER in Rybotycze Is there any information about town of Rybotycze ?
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