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Volf and Benyamin
#lithuania
nathalieried@...
Hello,
I have a question for my fellow researchers : Apparently, my g-grandfather (Yoakhim) Benyamin VITKIND had a brother named Volf (and both lived to adulthood) and since Volf is the kinnui of Benyamin and both names are consequently very closely linked, I was wondering if it was a frequent occurence to name 2 sons after the same combination of names (Volf and Benyamin, Yehuda and Leyb etc ...) If you say that it was never done, I may have to look into the matter more closely ... Thanks for your kind help, your combined experience always brings such a wealth of tips and ideas! Best regards, Nathalie RIED (France)
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Volf and Benyamin
#lithuania
nathalieried@...
Hello,
I have a question for my fellow researchers : Apparently, my g-grandfather (Yoakhim) Benyamin VITKIND had a brother named Volf (and both lived to adulthood) and since Volf is the kinnui of Benyamin and both names are consequently very closely linked, I was wondering if it was a frequent occurence to name 2 sons after the same combination of names (Volf and Benyamin, Yehuda and Leyb etc ...) If you say that it was never done, I may have to look into the matter more closely ... Thanks for your kind help, your combined experience always brings such a wealth of tips and ideas! Best regards, Nathalie RIED (France)
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Ballots for SIG Election Sent Out
#lithuania
SoniaHoff1@...
The ballots for the LitvakSIG 2008 election have been sent via email to
current Members (those who paid dues for 2008). If you did not receive your ballot, please first check your spam folder and make sure your mailbox is not full. If you are a 2008 member, and you did not receive a ballot, please contact the Election Committee co-chair at soniahoff1@aol.com. If you are not a current member and would like to participate, you may pay your dues at www.litvaksig.org until August 12th, and you will receive a ballot. Email voting will continue until 9 a.m. EDT on August 17. You can also join the SIG and vote at the annual LitvakSIG membership meeting during the IAJGS conference in Chicago on August 18 at 3:30 p.m. if you have not voted by email. The proposed revised Bylaws and the Statements submitted by the candidates for the Board of Directors can be reviewed at www.litvaksig.org. There is a link on the homepage. If you are a member, you can also review the election information at the member's only website, www.litvaksig.com. This information includes the proposed Bylaws, the Nominating Committee report, the Candidates' Statements, the election procedures, the current Bylaws, and other postings by members. This website requires that you register your name and a password that you supply. Election Committee
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Dues Payment Clarification
#lithuania
Eden Joachim <esjoachim@...>
The LitvakSIG membership is based on the calendar year and runs >from January
1 to December 31. If you pay your dues in the last few months of the year and do not denote they are to be applied to the following calendar year's dues, they may not be. If you paid dues in the last few months of 2007, the payment was likely applied to your 2007 dues. If you meant this payment to be applied toward 2008 dues, please contact me directly. Eden Joachim Treasurer esjoachim@optonline.net
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Ballots for SIG Election Sent Out
#lithuania
SoniaHoff1@...
The ballots for the LitvakSIG 2008 election have been sent via email to
current Members (those who paid dues for 2008). If you did not receive your ballot, please first check your spam folder and make sure your mailbox is not full. If you are a 2008 member, and you did not receive a ballot, please contact the Election Committee co-chair at soniahoff1@aol.com. If you are not a current member and would like to participate, you may pay your dues at www.litvaksig.org until August 12th, and you will receive a ballot. Email voting will continue until 9 a.m. EDT on August 17. You can also join the SIG and vote at the annual LitvakSIG membership meeting during the IAJGS conference in Chicago on August 18 at 3:30 p.m. if you have not voted by email. The proposed revised Bylaws and the Statements submitted by the candidates for the Board of Directors can be reviewed at www.litvaksig.org. There is a link on the homepage. If you are a member, you can also review the election information at the member's only website, www.litvaksig.com. This information includes the proposed Bylaws, the Nominating Committee report, the Candidates' Statements, the election procedures, the current Bylaws, and other postings by members. This website requires that you register your name and a password that you supply. Election Committee
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Dues Payment Clarification
#lithuania
Eden Joachim <esjoachim@...>
The LitvakSIG membership is based on the calendar year and runs >from January
1 to December 31. If you pay your dues in the last few months of the year and do not denote they are to be applied to the following calendar year's dues, they may not be. If you paid dues in the last few months of 2007, the payment was likely applied to your 2007 dues. If you meant this payment to be applied toward 2008 dues, please contact me directly. Eden Joachim Treasurer esjoachim@optonline.net
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Re: brothers Volf and Benyamin (VITKIND)
#general
tom
I think the question has been discussed before, and you should search the
JewishGen archives. Obviously, "the naming rules" only matter if our ancestors followed them, otherwise they need to be changed to reflect reality, and not the other way around. It's just interesting to note that your ggf was called "Yoakhim Benyamin" (if I understood correctly), so it would seem that there are at least two significant differences >from his brother "Volf". It's possible that the brothers were named after two separate ancestors named "Zeev Vulf" or similar (a common name in some families, and even more so after Theodore Herzl), and this was the parents' attempt to name them something different. The proof would be to find the two relatives that passed away shortly before, both named some variation of Binyamin/Zeev/Vulf. tom klein, toronto nathalieried@free.fr wrote:MODERATOR NOTE: The JewishGen Discussion Group archives can be searched via http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~archpop
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: brothers Volf and Benyamin (VITKIND)
#general
tom
I think the question has been discussed before, and you should search the
JewishGen archives. Obviously, "the naming rules" only matter if our ancestors followed them, otherwise they need to be changed to reflect reality, and not the other way around. It's just interesting to note that your ggf was called "Yoakhim Benyamin" (if I understood correctly), so it would seem that there are at least two significant differences >from his brother "Volf". It's possible that the brothers were named after two separate ancestors named "Zeev Vulf" or similar (a common name in some families, and even more so after Theodore Herzl), and this was the parents' attempt to name them something different. The proof would be to find the two relatives that passed away shortly before, both named some variation of Binyamin/Zeev/Vulf. tom klein, toronto nathalieried@free.fr wrote:MODERATOR NOTE: The JewishGen Discussion Group archives can be searched via http://data.jewishgen.org/wconnect/wc.dll?jg~jgsys~archpop
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Interview with NY Cemetery Manager and museum search engine
#poland
Steven Lasky <steve725@...>
Greetings,
I have just placed online a very interesting interview I recently did with the manager of Mt. Judah Cemetery in Ridgewood, New York. It was interesting for me to do and I did learn a lot. Perhaps you will want to read it. I don't recall anybody ever doing an in-depth interview with the manager of a Jewish cemetery, so perhaps this is a first. The link is www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/qna-cem-mgr.htm . Most of you are unaware that my site has a rudimentary search engine. You can use it to search for words or names that may appear on my many lists, e.g. unique surnames, immigration, Postcard >from Home surnames and towns, etc. I strongly suggest that you read the "search tips" first before proceeding. Hopefully one day I will have a more precies search engine. www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/search-tips.htm This will make it easier to search my site when you are looking for the surnames of your family who once lived in Poland and elsewhere. Also this is the last call for information on active landsmanshaftn, as I am trying to compile a list for all to see, with contact info, etc. Please contact me to learn what information I need. Best, Steven Lasky New York www.museumoffamilyhistory.com steve@museumoffamilyhistory.com
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JRI Poland #Poland Interview with NY Cemetery Manager and museum search engine
#poland
Steven Lasky <steve725@...>
Greetings,
I have just placed online a very interesting interview I recently did with the manager of Mt. Judah Cemetery in Ridgewood, New York. It was interesting for me to do and I did learn a lot. Perhaps you will want to read it. I don't recall anybody ever doing an in-depth interview with the manager of a Jewish cemetery, so perhaps this is a first. The link is www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/qna-cem-mgr.htm . Most of you are unaware that my site has a rudimentary search engine. You can use it to search for words or names that may appear on my many lists, e.g. unique surnames, immigration, Postcard >from Home surnames and towns, etc. I strongly suggest that you read the "search tips" first before proceeding. Hopefully one day I will have a more precies search engine. www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/search-tips.htm This will make it easier to search my site when you are looking for the surnames of your family who once lived in Poland and elsewhere. Also this is the last call for information on active landsmanshaftn, as I am trying to compile a list for all to see, with contact info, etc. Please contact me to learn what information I need. Best, Steven Lasky New York www.museumoffamilyhistory.com steve@museumoffamilyhistory.com
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Litvak Sessions at the Upcoming Conference
#lithuania
Eden Joachim <esjoachim@...>
The annual conference is fast approaching, and we just wanted to let you
know about some presentations and meetings of interest to all of you Litvaks. Sunday, August 17 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 11:15 AM - Content and Location of Polish and Russian Language Documents in Eastern European Archives presented by Jonathan Shea Monday, August 18 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8:15 AM - Town - Wide Research: Bringing Your Shtetl to Life, presented by David Hoffman, board member and secretary of LitvakSIG and President of the Jewish Family History Foundation. David will focus will be on Ariogola using a wide array of documents to paint the picture of a typical Lithuanian town >from 1765 - 1940. 11:15 AM - Litvak Migratory Decisions in the 19th Century and Their Consequences, presented by Ruth Leiserowitz. 2:00 PM - Lithuanian Research - Updates, New Projects, etc., presented by Howard Margo, President of LitvakSIG. In addition to the latest news on Lithuanian and other archives, Howard will discuss his experiences during his recent trip to Bad Arolsen to research in the ITS records. 3:30 PM - Litvak SIG Meeting - this is the annual general meeting of the LitvakSIG which will include elections to the board of directors and great networking opportunities for all in attendance. You need not be a member of LitvakSIG to attend this meeting. Wednesday, August 20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 12:30 - LitvakSIG Luncheon Ruth Leiserowitz will give a talk on The Memel (Klaipeda) Archive Records - Where and What Are They? This is new information on records not previously known to exist, and should be of great interest to any researcher with a connection to Memel. Tickets must be purchased in advance, through the conference registration website. Attendees will only be allowed admission with a ticket, and no tickets to hear the talk only are available. 7:00 PM - The Litvak - Galitzianer Wars: The Cultural Geography of East European Jewry, presented by Zvi Gitelman. Four of five American Jews trace their ancestry to Eastern Europe. But that region was quite diverse in religious practices; Yiddish pronunciation, foods, customs, dress and political ideologies. Some of this diversity carried over to America, but over several generations it has faded. This talk will explore the differences among East European Jews and the stereotypes to which they gave rise, illustrating the richness and vitality of a civilization which continues to inform Jewish life in Europe, the Americas and Israel. Thursday, August 21 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 11:15 AM - Using 18th Century Grand Duchy Records for Belarus and Lithuania, presented by Sonia Hoffman. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was home to the ancestors of 80% of the Jews alive in the world today. During this "golden age" before this area became part of the Russian Empire, Jews enjoyed a great deal of self-government and economic security. The GDL project is translating thousands of pages of poll tax-census records >from the late 18th century for territory that later became Belarus and Lithuania for a patronymic database. The information in these records, as well as their historical context will be described, and methods for finding families in records without surnames will be illustrated 11:15 AM - Kupiskis - Rokiskis SIG Meeting Don't miss this meeting if your family came >from either town or the villages surrounding them in northeastern Lithuania, near the Latvian border. 11:15 AM - Reading and Interpreting Cyrillic Documents, presented by Matthew Bielawa. 12:30 PM - Suwalki-Lomza BOF Meeting Don't miss this if your Litvak ancestors had a connection to Suwalki Gubernia. 2:00 PM - Hands - on Approach to Learning the Cyrillic Alphabets and Reading, presented by Matthew Bielawa. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Films With Litvak Themes: "The World Was Ours" (about Vilna) - Monday, 12:30 - 2 PM "Unlikely Heroes" (which features Leon Kahn, a Lithuanian partisan and first cousin once removed to our Moderator, Judy Baston) - Wednesday, 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM "World Travels-Lithuania-Digging Up Roots" - Thursday, 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are many other presentations which will be of interest to Litvak researchers so check the printed program carefully. Among these are Computer Training Workshops, Eastern Europe and Central European Research, Israel pre and post 1948,Genetics and DNA Research, Holocaust Research, Jewish History and Sociology, Latin American Research, Methodology, Migration and Naturalization, Rabbinic Research, Research in Other Area, Technology and Internet Research, United States Research and Western European Research. Some of the always popular presenters are Steven Morse, Ron Arons, Gary Mokotoff, Mike Karsen, David Kleiman, Nick Evans, Kahlile Mehr, Alex Beider. And don't overlook the evening programs such as: Opening Session and Reception on Sunday >from 7:30 - 10:00 PM One Step Webpages by Steve Morse on Monday >from 8:00 - 10:00 PM The Jewish Collection at Ancestry.com on Tuesday >from 8:00 - 10:00 PM JewishGen:Setting Chicago on Fire on Wednesday >from 8:30 - 9:30 PM Don't forget about the Banquet on Thursday evening. It is a great way to relax after 5 days of 8 AM to 10 PM activities. Tickets must be purchased in advance through the conference website. The annual IAJGS awards are presented. Looking forward to meeting many of you in Chicago in two weeks. Eden Joachim For the Board of LitvakSIG
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Litvak Sessions at the Upcoming Conference
#lithuania
Eden Joachim <esjoachim@...>
The annual conference is fast approaching, and we just wanted to let you
know about some presentations and meetings of interest to all of you Litvaks. Sunday, August 17 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 11:15 AM - Content and Location of Polish and Russian Language Documents in Eastern European Archives presented by Jonathan Shea Monday, August 18 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8:15 AM - Town - Wide Research: Bringing Your Shtetl to Life, presented by David Hoffman, board member and secretary of LitvakSIG and President of the Jewish Family History Foundation. David will focus will be on Ariogola using a wide array of documents to paint the picture of a typical Lithuanian town >from 1765 - 1940. 11:15 AM - Litvak Migratory Decisions in the 19th Century and Their Consequences, presented by Ruth Leiserowitz. 2:00 PM - Lithuanian Research - Updates, New Projects, etc., presented by Howard Margo, President of LitvakSIG. In addition to the latest news on Lithuanian and other archives, Howard will discuss his experiences during his recent trip to Bad Arolsen to research in the ITS records. 3:30 PM - Litvak SIG Meeting - this is the annual general meeting of the LitvakSIG which will include elections to the board of directors and great networking opportunities for all in attendance. You need not be a member of LitvakSIG to attend this meeting. Wednesday, August 20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 12:30 - LitvakSIG Luncheon Ruth Leiserowitz will give a talk on The Memel (Klaipeda) Archive Records - Where and What Are They? This is new information on records not previously known to exist, and should be of great interest to any researcher with a connection to Memel. Tickets must be purchased in advance, through the conference registration website. Attendees will only be allowed admission with a ticket, and no tickets to hear the talk only are available. 7:00 PM - The Litvak - Galitzianer Wars: The Cultural Geography of East European Jewry, presented by Zvi Gitelman. Four of five American Jews trace their ancestry to Eastern Europe. But that region was quite diverse in religious practices; Yiddish pronunciation, foods, customs, dress and political ideologies. Some of this diversity carried over to America, but over several generations it has faded. This talk will explore the differences among East European Jews and the stereotypes to which they gave rise, illustrating the richness and vitality of a civilization which continues to inform Jewish life in Europe, the Americas and Israel. Thursday, August 21 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 11:15 AM - Using 18th Century Grand Duchy Records for Belarus and Lithuania, presented by Sonia Hoffman. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was home to the ancestors of 80% of the Jews alive in the world today. During this "golden age" before this area became part of the Russian Empire, Jews enjoyed a great deal of self-government and economic security. The GDL project is translating thousands of pages of poll tax-census records >from the late 18th century for territory that later became Belarus and Lithuania for a patronymic database. The information in these records, as well as their historical context will be described, and methods for finding families in records without surnames will be illustrated 11:15 AM - Kupiskis - Rokiskis SIG Meeting Don't miss this meeting if your family came >from either town or the villages surrounding them in northeastern Lithuania, near the Latvian border. 11:15 AM - Reading and Interpreting Cyrillic Documents, presented by Matthew Bielawa. 12:30 PM - Suwalki-Lomza BOF Meeting Don't miss this if your Litvak ancestors had a connection to Suwalki Gubernia. 2:00 PM - Hands - on Approach to Learning the Cyrillic Alphabets and Reading, presented by Matthew Bielawa. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Films With Litvak Themes: "The World Was Ours" (about Vilna) - Monday, 12:30 - 2 PM "Unlikely Heroes" (which features Leon Kahn, a Lithuanian partisan and first cousin once removed to our Moderator, Judy Baston) - Wednesday, 8:30 PM - 10:30 PM "World Travels-Lithuania-Digging Up Roots" - Thursday, 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are many other presentations which will be of interest to Litvak researchers so check the printed program carefully. Among these are Computer Training Workshops, Eastern Europe and Central European Research, Israel pre and post 1948,Genetics and DNA Research, Holocaust Research, Jewish History and Sociology, Latin American Research, Methodology, Migration and Naturalization, Rabbinic Research, Research in Other Area, Technology and Internet Research, United States Research and Western European Research. Some of the always popular presenters are Steven Morse, Ron Arons, Gary Mokotoff, Mike Karsen, David Kleiman, Nick Evans, Kahlile Mehr, Alex Beider. And don't overlook the evening programs such as: Opening Session and Reception on Sunday >from 7:30 - 10:00 PM One Step Webpages by Steve Morse on Monday >from 8:00 - 10:00 PM The Jewish Collection at Ancestry.com on Tuesday >from 8:00 - 10:00 PM JewishGen:Setting Chicago on Fire on Wednesday >from 8:30 - 9:30 PM Don't forget about the Banquet on Thursday evening. It is a great way to relax after 5 days of 8 AM to 10 PM activities. Tickets must be purchased in advance through the conference website. The annual IAJGS awards are presented. Looking forward to meeting many of you in Chicago in two weeks. Eden Joachim For the Board of LitvakSIG
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Index of Jewish Vital Records in the Lithuanian State Historical Archives
#lithuania
Peggy Freedman <peggyf@...>
The entire Index to Jewish Vital Records is now available on the
LitvakSIG.com Members Only web site, http://www.litvaksig.com/forum/phpBB3/ You must log in to the web site to see the index. Instructions for logging in: 1) If you have never registered for this site, click on REGISTER and follow the prompts. You will not be able to log in until your registration is activated. You must have paid your dues for calendar year 2008 to be activated. 2) If you have registered, log in, scroll down to the LitvakSIG Research Library, then click on INDEX OF JEWISH VITAL RECORDS IN LVIA. 3) When you click on this forum, you will see two topics. You can read the Introduction by clicking on it (it contains a good deal of information explaining the index), or you can go right to the Index. (Click on the topic, then the link inside the topic. >from this page, choose the letter that begins the name of the geographic area you are researching.) Peggy Mosinger Freedman Webmaster LitvakSIG Members Message Board
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Index of Jewish Vital Records in the Lithuanian State Historical Archives
#lithuania
Peggy Freedman <peggyf@...>
The entire Index to Jewish Vital Records is now available on the
LitvakSIG.com Members Only web site, http://www.litvaksig.com/forum/phpBB3/ You must log in to the web site to see the index. Instructions for logging in: 1) If you have never registered for this site, click on REGISTER and follow the prompts. You will not be able to log in until your registration is activated. You must have paid your dues for calendar year 2008 to be activated. 2) If you have registered, log in, scroll down to the LitvakSIG Research Library, then click on INDEX OF JEWISH VITAL RECORDS IN LVIA. 3) When you click on this forum, you will see two topics. You can read the Introduction by clicking on it (it contains a good deal of information explaining the index), or you can go right to the Index. (Click on the topic, then the link inside the topic. >from this page, choose the letter that begins the name of the geographic area you are researching.) Peggy Mosinger Freedman Webmaster LitvakSIG Members Message Board
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Richard Winer
#lithuania
Carol Baker
It is with great sadness that we have just learned that Richard Winer,
Coordinator of the LitvakSIG Ukmerge District Research Group, passed away July 17th as a result of a fall and subsequent stroke. Richard spent many happy years researching his family, helping Ukmerge contributors, attending local genealogy meetings in Boston and the annual IAJGS conferences and spending time with the many people he met through his dedication to LitvakSIG. We will all miss his ever cheerful disposition, his understanding and his friendship. He was truly a gentle man. Donations in his memory may be sent to the Jewish Historical Society of the North Shore, 1 Community Road, Marblehead, MA 01945. Carol Coplin Baker Olga Zabludoff Davida Noyek Handler MODERATOR'S NOTE: May his memory be for a blessing.
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania Richard Winer
#lithuania
Carol Baker
It is with great sadness that we have just learned that Richard Winer,
Coordinator of the LitvakSIG Ukmerge District Research Group, passed away July 17th as a result of a fall and subsequent stroke. Richard spent many happy years researching his family, helping Ukmerge contributors, attending local genealogy meetings in Boston and the annual IAJGS conferences and spending time with the many people he met through his dedication to LitvakSIG. We will all miss his ever cheerful disposition, his understanding and his friendship. He was truly a gentle man. Donations in his memory may be sent to the Jewish Historical Society of the North Shore, 1 Community Road, Marblehead, MA 01945. Carol Coplin Baker Olga Zabludoff Davida Noyek Handler MODERATOR'S NOTE: May his memory be for a blessing.
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Re: first name Israel
#general
tom
You can check in the JewishGen Given Names Database - that's its purpose in life.
The major variations listed include Srul and Iser. tom klein, toronto "Saul Goldstone" <saul@goldino.net> wrote:>MODERATOR NOTE: The JewishGEN Given Names Database can be found at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/GivenNames/
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: first name Israel
#general
tom
You can check in the JewishGen Given Names Database - that's its purpose in life.
The major variations listed include Srul and Iser. tom klein, toronto "Saul Goldstone" <saul@goldino.net> wrote:>MODERATOR NOTE: The JewishGEN Given Names Database can be found at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/GivenNames/
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Chicago street maps
#general
David Gordon
Alex Woodle asked for help locating a specific address in Chicago.
Although I responded to him privately with respect to his particular question, I thought many more might be interested in this website. The Encyclopedia Of Chicago has dozens of maps covering all kinds of information >from the 17th century through the 2000s. You may want to look at the site, http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/700011.html For detailed maps of the heart of the city, the best choice is probably Robinson's Atlas of the City of Chicago >from 1886. It is in four volumes and they are all scanned. Good luck! David Gordon tiganeasca@gmail.com Chicago, IL Searching: HORWITZ: Smolevichi, Lapichi, Bobruisk?, GORDON: Butrimonys GEBALOVITCH: Borisov, LEVIN: Butrimonys, DRAZIN: Bobruisk BENENSON: Borisov, HURWITZ: Gomel
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Chicago street maps
#general
David Gordon
Alex Woodle asked for help locating a specific address in Chicago.
Although I responded to him privately with respect to his particular question, I thought many more might be interested in this website. The Encyclopedia Of Chicago has dozens of maps covering all kinds of information >from the 17th century through the 2000s. You may want to look at the site, http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/700011.html For detailed maps of the heart of the city, the best choice is probably Robinson's Atlas of the City of Chicago >from 1886. It is in four volumes and they are all scanned. Good luck! David Gordon tiganeasca@gmail.com Chicago, IL Searching: HORWITZ: Smolevichi, Lapichi, Bobruisk?, GORDON: Butrimonys GEBALOVITCH: Borisov, LEVIN: Butrimonys, DRAZIN: Bobruisk BENENSON: Borisov, HURWITZ: Gomel
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