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New Kaunas Material!
#general
ralph <Salinger@...>
Dear Genners,
Since the beginning of the year we have added a large number of new files to our Shutterfly site, http://kaunas.shutterfly.com/ These files include the following : Vilijampole Death Records 1875 -1891 and 1896-1898 Vilijampole Births 1910 and 1911 were added Kaunas Draft Lists for 1877 and 1878 and new material was added to the 1879 list. Kaunas Gubernia Draft List 1852 Kaunas Nationalized Property and Businesses 1940 - 1941 And today I have added 3 sets of records for Grinkiskis, Births 1844 - 1914, Marriages 1873 - 1910 and Deaths 1873-1915 Also with the kindness of Mr. Barry Mann we have added his researches into modern Kaunas Death Records. In addition I added a link to the site for pre World War 2 Lithuanian Telephone Books. I look forward to hearing >from you, Ralph Salinger Coordinator Kaunas District Research Group
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen New Kaunas Material!
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ralph <Salinger@...>
Dear Genners,
Since the beginning of the year we have added a large number of new files to our Shutterfly site, http://kaunas.shutterfly.com/ These files include the following : Vilijampole Death Records 1875 -1891 and 1896-1898 Vilijampole Births 1910 and 1911 were added Kaunas Draft Lists for 1877 and 1878 and new material was added to the 1879 list. Kaunas Gubernia Draft List 1852 Kaunas Nationalized Property and Businesses 1940 - 1941 And today I have added 3 sets of records for Grinkiskis, Births 1844 - 1914, Marriages 1873 - 1910 and Deaths 1873-1915 Also with the kindness of Mr. Barry Mann we have added his researches into modern Kaunas Death Records. In addition I added a link to the site for pre World War 2 Lithuanian Telephone Books. I look forward to hearing >from you, Ralph Salinger Coordinator Kaunas District Research Group
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Announcing the Rohatyn BoF Meeting: IAJGS Paris July 15, 2012
#poland
Marla Raucher Osborn <osborn@...>
Dear researchers,
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I am very pleased to announce that there will be a Rohatyn Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting on the opening day of the 32nd Annual IAJGS Conference this summer in Paris, Sunday, 15 July 2012 at 5:00 p.m This meeting is open to anyone with family connections to the Galician town of Rohatyn, or is generally interested in learning more about the town, its former Jewish community, and Jewish research sources abroad. The following is a synopsis. Today, Rohatyn is located in western Ukraine, less than two hours' drive south >from the beautiful historic city of Lviv (formerly, Lemberg and Lwow). In many ways, Rohatyn was - and is - a typical eastern Galician town: during the inter-War years its population was 50% Jewish; at the outbreak of WWII, its population was 1/3 Polish, 1/3 Jewish, and 1/3 Ukrainian. It was multi-lingual and culturally vibrant, and was commercially linked by rail to Lwow, Tarnopol, and Chernivtsi. Many Rohatyn Jewish families sent their sons and daughters to prestigious academic Universities in Krakow, Vienna, Prague, and Budapest, and maintained strong business connections as well to these urban "jewels" in the crown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Rohatyn BOF meeting will be conducted by Marla Raucher Osborn, a member of the Board of Directors of Gesher Galicia. Over 2011, Marla spent five months living and researching in Lviv, making more than half a dozen trips to Rohatyn. Marla will discuss her Rohatyn trips and discoveries as well as the undertaking of a long-term project to recover the Jewish headstone fragments still found around the town today and their return to Rohatyn's former Jewish cemetery. She will also present slides and other information about the box of Jewish paper scraps discovered in the 2011 renovation of a building that housed the Rohatyn Judenrat during the Nazi occupation, the proposed future plans for translating and exhibiting of these rare and important artifacts, and her meetings with various townspeople and officials during 2011. Marla will also talk about the Rohatyn Shtetl Research Group, founded in 2009 by Dr. Alex Feller, today with more than 150 members worldwide, all of whom have family or historic connections to the town, like herself. Time permitting, Marla will also share examples of the many and varied types of records she has obtained across western and central Europe for her Rohatyn family (>from sources in Lviv, Vienna, Krakow, Warsaw, and Munich, to name a few), plus discuss the RSRG's latest, exciting project: the overlaying of Rohatyn's 1846 cadastral maps onto google maps, allowing users to zoom in on their pre-War ancestral homes and businesses! Bilingual in English and French, Marla will be happy to take and respond to questions and comments >from those attending this BOF meeting. We hope you can join her at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 15th. Please continue to check with the conference website for updates and room changes: http://www.paris2012.eu/events/rohatyn-ukraine-bof Kind regards, Marla Raucher Osborn headed to Krakow for 3 months, then back to Paris, France for 2012 osborn@nuthatch.org Researching surnames HORN, FRUCHTER, LIEBLING, and KURZROCK >from Rohatyn and TEICHMAN >from Chodorow (Galicia, Western Ukraine); SILBER >from Ulanow and Sokolow Malapolski (Poland); BLECHER >from Soroka, Bessarabia (Moldova); BRUNSHTEIN/BROWNSTEIN/BRONSTEIN, SARFAS/CHARFAS, and FABER >from Mohyliv Podilskyy and Kamyanets Podilskyy (Ukraine); FRANKENBERG >from Vilnius (Lithuania); and RAUCHER/RAUSCHER and KESTENBAUM/KOSTENBAUM /KASTENBAUM
from Przemysl (Poland)
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JRI Poland #Poland Announcing the Rohatyn BoF Meeting: IAJGS Paris July 15, 2012
#poland
Marla Raucher Osborn <osborn@...>
Dear researchers,
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I am very pleased to announce that there will be a Rohatyn Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting on the opening day of the 32nd Annual IAJGS Conference this summer in Paris, Sunday, 15 July 2012 at 5:00 p.m This meeting is open to anyone with family connections to the Galician town of Rohatyn, or is generally interested in learning more about the town, its former Jewish community, and Jewish research sources abroad. The following is a synopsis. Today, Rohatyn is located in western Ukraine, less than two hours' drive south >from the beautiful historic city of Lviv (formerly, Lemberg and Lwow). In many ways, Rohatyn was - and is - a typical eastern Galician town: during the inter-War years its population was 50% Jewish; at the outbreak of WWII, its population was 1/3 Polish, 1/3 Jewish, and 1/3 Ukrainian. It was multi-lingual and culturally vibrant, and was commercially linked by rail to Lwow, Tarnopol, and Chernivtsi. Many Rohatyn Jewish families sent their sons and daughters to prestigious academic Universities in Krakow, Vienna, Prague, and Budapest, and maintained strong business connections as well to these urban "jewels" in the crown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Rohatyn BOF meeting will be conducted by Marla Raucher Osborn, a member of the Board of Directors of Gesher Galicia. Over 2011, Marla spent five months living and researching in Lviv, making more than half a dozen trips to Rohatyn. Marla will discuss her Rohatyn trips and discoveries as well as the undertaking of a long-term project to recover the Jewish headstone fragments still found around the town today and their return to Rohatyn's former Jewish cemetery. She will also present slides and other information about the box of Jewish paper scraps discovered in the 2011 renovation of a building that housed the Rohatyn Judenrat during the Nazi occupation, the proposed future plans for translating and exhibiting of these rare and important artifacts, and her meetings with various townspeople and officials during 2011. Marla will also talk about the Rohatyn Shtetl Research Group, founded in 2009 by Dr. Alex Feller, today with more than 150 members worldwide, all of whom have family or historic connections to the town, like herself. Time permitting, Marla will also share examples of the many and varied types of records she has obtained across western and central Europe for her Rohatyn family (>from sources in Lviv, Vienna, Krakow, Warsaw, and Munich, to name a few), plus discuss the RSRG's latest, exciting project: the overlaying of Rohatyn's 1846 cadastral maps onto google maps, allowing users to zoom in on their pre-War ancestral homes and businesses! Bilingual in English and French, Marla will be happy to take and respond to questions and comments >from those attending this BOF meeting. We hope you can join her at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 15th. Please continue to check with the conference website for updates and room changes: http://www.paris2012.eu/events/rohatyn-ukraine-bof Kind regards, Marla Raucher Osborn headed to Krakow for 3 months, then back to Paris, France for 2012 osborn@nuthatch.org Researching surnames HORN, FRUCHTER, LIEBLING, and KURZROCK >from Rohatyn and TEICHMAN >from Chodorow (Galicia, Western Ukraine); SILBER >from Ulanow and Sokolow Malapolski (Poland); BLECHER >from Soroka, Bessarabia (Moldova); BRUNSHTEIN/BROWNSTEIN/BRONSTEIN, SARFAS/CHARFAS, and FABER >from Mohyliv Podilskyy and Kamyanets Podilskyy (Ukraine); FRANKENBERG >from Vilnius (Lithuania); and RAUCHER/RAUSCHER and KESTENBAUM/KOSTENBAUM /KASTENBAUM
from Przemysl (Poland)
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Re: Search for MARKS
#poland
Jan Bousse <janbousse@...>
Thank you, Anita. I looked in fact for Markus, Marcus, Marks, Marx. Anyway,
they appear mostly together as variations. I haven't found anything corresponding in JRI-Poland. I mainly now would like to get information about the local archives, where I might request information. Jan Bousse, Oostende, Belgium -------------------------------------------------- From: "Anita Drexler" <asleuth@att.net> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 8:49 AM To: "JRI-Poland" <jri-pl@lyris.jewishgen.org> Subject: Re:[jri-pl] Search for MARKS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~MODERATOR'S NOTE: Searching the JRI-Poland database for "Starts With" and then "Mark" in the surname field might yield longer names, such as MARKOWICZ, which might have been shorten to Marks.
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JRI Poland #Poland Re: Re:Search for MARKS
#poland
Jan Bousse <janbousse@...>
Thank you, Anita. I looked in fact for Markus, Marcus, Marks, Marx. Anyway,
they appear mostly together as variations. I haven't found anything corresponding in JRI-Poland. I mainly now would like to get information about the local archives, where I might request information. Jan Bousse, Oostende, Belgium -------------------------------------------------- From: "Anita Drexler" <asleuth@att.net> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 8:49 AM To: "JRI-Poland" <jri-pl@lyris.jewishgen.org> Subject: Re:[jri-pl] Search for MARKS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~MODERATOR'S NOTE: Searching the JRI-Poland database for "Starts With" and then "Mark" in the surname field might yield longer names, such as MARKOWICZ, which might have been shorten to Marks.
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Re: Queens or Bronx, NY Death Certificate
#general
Hope, have you "done the obvious" of calling the cemetery to ask what
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they have on record, or can surmise, or....? Have you contacted the appropriate departments in the Bronx and Queens about getting a copy of the death certificate? It costs something like $20 to do so (including postage) - even if you ordered >from both and got only one, it wouldn't break the bank! Do you know about www.findagrave.com? Can you find your great aunt listed for that cemetery? Martha Forsyth Newton, MA Hope Gordon wrote:
...I am trying to locate a Death Certificate for my Great Aunt who died in 1925
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Queens or Bronx, NY Death Certificate
#general
Hope, have you "done the obvious" of calling the cemetery to ask what
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they have on record, or can surmise, or....? Have you contacted the appropriate departments in the Bronx and Queens about getting a copy of the death certificate? It costs something like $20 to do so (including postage) - even if you ordered >from both and got only one, it wouldn't break the bank! Do you know about www.findagrave.com? Can you find your great aunt listed for that cemetery? Martha Forsyth Newton, MA Hope Gordon wrote:
...I am trying to locate a Death Certificate for my Great Aunt who died in 1925
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Anybody near Har Nebo cemetery in Philadelphia?
#general
Mark London <mrl@...>
Hi - Is anyone close to Har Nebo cemetery (or will be going there in the
near future), that can take a photo of a gravestone for me? Thanks. (Please reply off the mailing list). Mark London Natick, MA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Anybody near Har Nebo cemetery in Philadelphia?
#general
Mark London <mrl@...>
Hi - Is anyone close to Har Nebo cemetery (or will be going there in the
near future), that can take a photo of a gravestone for me? Thanks. (Please reply off the mailing list). Mark London Natick, MA
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Re: Queens or Bronx, NY Death Certificate
#general
Teewinot
ms nodrog wrote:
I am trying to locate a Death Certificate for my Great Aunt who died in 1925Have you called the cemetery? I'm often amazed at the information they can provide. Sometimes they even have the death certificate number. The best days to call are Wednesday and Thursday. They're not as busy. Jeri Friedman (Florida, but born in NY) teewinot13@bellsouth.net Researching: FRIEDMAN, MILLER (Grodno, Poland/Russia/Belarus); GEIST (?,Russia); GLICKMAN, STURMAN (Lublin, Poland/Russia); LIEB/LEIBOWITZ (Jassy/Iasi, Romania); GALINSKY, GELLIS (Suwalki, Poland/Russia); KRASNOPOLSKY, SILBERMAN/SILVERMAN (Krasnopol, Poland/Russia); KOPCIANSKY (?, Poland/Russia); GOLDSTEIN, SCHRAGER (?, Romania);CYRULNIK (Suwalki, Poland/Russia and Kalvarija, Lithuania)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Queens or Bronx, NY Death Certificate
#general
Teewinot
ms nodrog wrote:
I am trying to locate a Death Certificate for my Great Aunt who died in 1925Have you called the cemetery? I'm often amazed at the information they can provide. Sometimes they even have the death certificate number. The best days to call are Wednesday and Thursday. They're not as busy. Jeri Friedman (Florida, but born in NY) teewinot13@bellsouth.net Researching: FRIEDMAN, MILLER (Grodno, Poland/Russia/Belarus); GEIST (?,Russia); GLICKMAN, STURMAN (Lublin, Poland/Russia); LIEB/LEIBOWITZ (Jassy/Iasi, Romania); GALINSKY, GELLIS (Suwalki, Poland/Russia); KRASNOPOLSKY, SILBERMAN/SILVERMAN (Krasnopol, Poland/Russia); KOPCIANSKY (?, Poland/Russia); GOLDSTEIN, SCHRAGER (?, Romania);CYRULNIK (Suwalki, Poland/Russia and Kalvarija, Lithuania)
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New Kaunas Material !
#lithuania
ralph <Salinger@...>
Dear Litvak Researchers,
Since the beginning of the year we have added a large number of new files to our Shutterfly site, http://kaunas.shutterfly.com/ These files include the following : Vilijampole Death Records 1875 -1891 and 1896-1898 Vilijampole Births 1910 and 1911 were added Kaunas Draft Lists for 1877 and 1878, and new material was added to the 1879 list. Kaunas Gubernia Draft List 1852 Kaunas Nationalized Property and Businesses 1940 - 1941 And today I have added 3 sets of records for Grinkiskis, Births 1844 - 1914, Marriages 1873 - 1910, and Deaths 1873-1915 Also with the kindness of Mr. Barry Mann we have added his researches into modern Kaunas Death Records. In addition I added a link to the site for pre World War 2 Lithuanian Telephone Books. All of this was made possible by the generosity of our supporting contributors. Again, if you are researching anywhere in the Kaunas area and you are not part of our group, you should seriously consider joining. For details go to http://www.litvaksig.org/contribute I look forward to hearing >from you, Ralph Salinger Coordinator, Kaunas District Research Group
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Lithuania SIG #Lithuania New Kaunas Material !
#lithuania
ralph <Salinger@...>
Dear Litvak Researchers,
Since the beginning of the year we have added a large number of new files to our Shutterfly site, http://kaunas.shutterfly.com/ These files include the following : Vilijampole Death Records 1875 -1891 and 1896-1898 Vilijampole Births 1910 and 1911 were added Kaunas Draft Lists for 1877 and 1878, and new material was added to the 1879 list. Kaunas Gubernia Draft List 1852 Kaunas Nationalized Property and Businesses 1940 - 1941 And today I have added 3 sets of records for Grinkiskis, Births 1844 - 1914, Marriages 1873 - 1910, and Deaths 1873-1915 Also with the kindness of Mr. Barry Mann we have added his researches into modern Kaunas Death Records. In addition I added a link to the site for pre World War 2 Lithuanian Telephone Books. All of this was made possible by the generosity of our supporting contributors. Again, if you are researching anywhere in the Kaunas area and you are not part of our group, you should seriously consider joining. For details go to http://www.litvaksig.org/contribute I look forward to hearing >from you, Ralph Salinger Coordinator, Kaunas District Research Group
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Business Directories for Podgorze
#galicia
Pauline Crump <pauline@...>
My Great Grandfather Dawid ABRAHAMER is listed in the 1880
Podgorze census living at house no. 1/13 with Innkeeper as his occupation. On a visit some time ago I noticed the building called Pod Czarnym Orlem (Under the Black Eagle) on the north side of the Market Square. I recently found a description of the building on the Cracow Travel site: "The oldest part of Podgorze Market Square is the dense line of houses on its north western side.... The building most worthy of attention is No. 13, the former 'Pod Czarnym Orlem' Inn..." It does seem a very large coincidence, but I wonder whether this could have been where he was the Innkeeper. Does anyone know of any local Business directories >from this period which might list the names of Innkeepers? He was listed as coal merchant in 1870, living at 1/14. I would love to identify where the family was living. I have looked in the main databases without success. Pauline Crump Researching ABRAHAMER, LIKIER, Krakow, Podgorze, Vienna
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Announcing the Rohatyn BoF Meeting: IAJGS Paris July 15, 2012
#galicia
Marla Raucher Osborn <osborn@...>
Dear researchers,
I am very pleased to announce that there will be a Rohatyn Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting on the opening day of the 32nd Annual IAJGS Conference next summer in Paris, Sunday, 15 July 2012 at 5:00 p.m. This meeting is open to anyone with family connections to the Galician town of Rohatyn, or is generally interested in learning more about the town, its former Jewish community, and Jewish research sources abroad. The following is a synopsis. Today, Rohatyn is located in western Ukraine, less than two hours' drive south >from the beautiful historic city of Lviv (formerly, Lemberg and Lwow). In many ways, Rohatyn was - and is - a typical eastern Galician town: during the inter-War years its population was 50% Jewish; at the outbreak of WWII, its population was 1/3 Polish, 1/3 Jewish, and 1/3 Ukrainian. It was multi-lingual and culturally vibrant, and was commercially linked by rail to Lwow, Tarnopol, and Chernivtsi. Many Rohatyn Jewish families sent their sons and daughters to prestigious academic Universities in Krakow, Vienna, Prague, and Budapest, and maintained strong business connections as well to these urban “jewels” in the crown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Rohatyn BOF meeting will be conducted by Marla Raucher Osborn, a member of the Board of Directors of Gesher Galicia. Over 2011, Marla spent five months living and researching in Lviv, making more than half a dozen trips to Rohatyn. Marla will discuss her Rohatyn trips and discoveries, as well as the undertaking of a long-term project to recover the Jewish headstone fragments still found around the town today and their return to Rohatyn's former Jewish cemetery. She will also present slides and other information about the box of Jewish paper scraps discovered in the 2011 renovation of a building that housed the Rohatyn Judenrat during the Nazi occupation, the proposed future plans for translating and exhibiting of these rare and important artifacts, and her meetings with various townspeople and officials during 2011. Marla will also talk about the Rohatyn Shtetl Research Group (“RSRG”), founded in 2009 by Dr. Alex Feller, today with more than 150 members worldwide, all of whom have family or historic connections to the town, like herself. Time permitting, Marla will also share examples of the many and varied types of records she has obtained across western and central Europe for her Rohatyn family (>from sources in Lviv, Vienna, Krakow, Warsaw, and Munich, to name a few), plus discuss the RSRG's latest, exciting project: the overlaying of Rohatyn's 1846 cadastral maps onto google maps, allowing users to zoom in on their pre-War ancestral homes and businesses! Bilingual in English and French, Marla will be happy to take and respond to questions and comments >from those attending this BOF meeting. We hope you can join her at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 15th. Please continue to check with the Conference website for updates and room changes: http://www.paris2012.eu/events/rohatyn-ukraine-bof Kind regards, Marla Raucher Osborn headed to Krakow for 3 months, then back to Paris, France for 2012 osborn@nuthatch.org Researching HORN, FRUCHTER, LIEBLING, KURZROCK >from Rohatyn and TEICHMAN >from Chodorow (Galicia, Western Ukraine); SILBER >from Ulanow and Sokolow Malapolski (Poland); BLECHER from Soroka, Bessarabia (Moldova); BRUNSHTEIN/BROWNSTEIN/BRONSTEIN, SARFAS/CHARFAS, FABER >from Mohyliv Podilskyy and Kamyanets Podilskyy (Ukraine); FRANKENBERG >from Vilnius (Lithuania); RAUCHER/RAUSCHER and KESTENBAUM/KOSTENBAUM/ KASTENBAUM >from Przemysl (Poland)
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Business Directories for Podgorze
#galicia
Pauline Crump <pauline@...>
My Great Grandfather Dawid ABRAHAMER is listed in the 1880
Podgorze census living at house no. 1/13 with Innkeeper as his occupation. On a visit some time ago I noticed the building called Pod Czarnym Orlem (Under the Black Eagle) on the north side of the Market Square. I recently found a description of the building on the Cracow Travel site: "The oldest part of Podgorze Market Square is the dense line of houses on its north western side.... The building most worthy of attention is No. 13, the former 'Pod Czarnym Orlem' Inn..." It does seem a very large coincidence, but I wonder whether this could have been where he was the Innkeeper. Does anyone know of any local Business directories >from this period which might list the names of Innkeepers? He was listed as coal merchant in 1870, living at 1/14. I would love to identify where the family was living. I have looked in the main databases without success. Pauline Crump Researching ABRAHAMER, LIKIER, Krakow, Podgorze, Vienna
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Announcing the Rohatyn BoF Meeting: IAJGS Paris July 15, 2012
#galicia
Marla Raucher Osborn <osborn@...>
Dear researchers,
I am very pleased to announce that there will be a Rohatyn Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting on the opening day of the 32nd Annual IAJGS Conference next summer in Paris, Sunday, 15 July 2012 at 5:00 p.m. This meeting is open to anyone with family connections to the Galician town of Rohatyn, or is generally interested in learning more about the town, its former Jewish community, and Jewish research sources abroad. The following is a synopsis. Today, Rohatyn is located in western Ukraine, less than two hours' drive south >from the beautiful historic city of Lviv (formerly, Lemberg and Lwow). In many ways, Rohatyn was - and is - a typical eastern Galician town: during the inter-War years its population was 50% Jewish; at the outbreak of WWII, its population was 1/3 Polish, 1/3 Jewish, and 1/3 Ukrainian. It was multi-lingual and culturally vibrant, and was commercially linked by rail to Lwow, Tarnopol, and Chernivtsi. Many Rohatyn Jewish families sent their sons and daughters to prestigious academic Universities in Krakow, Vienna, Prague, and Budapest, and maintained strong business connections as well to these urban “jewels” in the crown of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Rohatyn BOF meeting will be conducted by Marla Raucher Osborn, a member of the Board of Directors of Gesher Galicia. Over 2011, Marla spent five months living and researching in Lviv, making more than half a dozen trips to Rohatyn. Marla will discuss her Rohatyn trips and discoveries, as well as the undertaking of a long-term project to recover the Jewish headstone fragments still found around the town today and their return to Rohatyn's former Jewish cemetery. She will also present slides and other information about the box of Jewish paper scraps discovered in the 2011 renovation of a building that housed the Rohatyn Judenrat during the Nazi occupation, the proposed future plans for translating and exhibiting of these rare and important artifacts, and her meetings with various townspeople and officials during 2011. Marla will also talk about the Rohatyn Shtetl Research Group (“RSRG”), founded in 2009 by Dr. Alex Feller, today with more than 150 members worldwide, all of whom have family or historic connections to the town, like herself. Time permitting, Marla will also share examples of the many and varied types of records she has obtained across western and central Europe for her Rohatyn family (>from sources in Lviv, Vienna, Krakow, Warsaw, and Munich, to name a few), plus discuss the RSRG's latest, exciting project: the overlaying of Rohatyn's 1846 cadastral maps onto google maps, allowing users to zoom in on their pre-War ancestral homes and businesses! Bilingual in English and French, Marla will be happy to take and respond to questions and comments >from those attending this BOF meeting. We hope you can join her at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, July 15th. Please continue to check with the Conference website for updates and room changes: http://www.paris2012.eu/events/rohatyn-ukraine-bof Kind regards, Marla Raucher Osborn headed to Krakow for 3 months, then back to Paris, France for 2012 osborn@nuthatch.org Researching HORN, FRUCHTER, LIEBLING, KURZROCK >from Rohatyn and TEICHMAN >from Chodorow (Galicia, Western Ukraine); SILBER >from Ulanow and Sokolow Malapolski (Poland); BLECHER from Soroka, Bessarabia (Moldova); BRUNSHTEIN/BROWNSTEIN/BRONSTEIN, SARFAS/CHARFAS, FABER >from Mohyliv Podilskyy and Kamyanets Podilskyy (Ukraine); FRANKENBERG >from Vilnius (Lithuania); RAUCHER/RAUSCHER and KESTENBAUM/KOSTENBAUM/ KASTENBAUM >from Przemysl (Poland)
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INTRO - researching Jewish community, Naugard, Pommern,Germany- Nowogard, Poland
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Piotr Mankowski <piomank@...>
Hello GerSig,
I just joined the group. I have been doing genealogy research for a few months. I consider myself to be beginner in doing German Jewish Genealogy research. I live in former German town Naugard/Pommern- now Nowogard/Poland . My native language is Polish and I also know English and some basic German. I consider myself intermediate in using a computer. My experience in using the Internet is (extensive to intermediate. I have identified the names and birth and death dates of many members of the former Jewish community of the town Naugard - no family relation My primary research goals now are to find out: all available details of Jewish community in Naugard / Nowogard. My JGFF Researcher ID number is 522288. The family names and ancestral towns that I have entered in the JGFF (JewishGen Family Finder) are: no entries at the moment. Piotr Mankowski, Nowogard Poland piomank@gmail.com MODERATOR NOTE: Welcome to GerSIG! Thank you for your INTRO email.
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German SIG #Germany INTRO - researching Jewish community, Naugard, Pommern,Germany- Nowogard, Poland
#germany
Piotr Mankowski <piomank@...>
Hello GerSig,
I just joined the group. I have been doing genealogy research for a few months. I consider myself to be beginner in doing German Jewish Genealogy research. I live in former German town Naugard/Pommern- now Nowogard/Poland . My native language is Polish and I also know English and some basic German. I consider myself intermediate in using a computer. My experience in using the Internet is (extensive to intermediate. I have identified the names and birth and death dates of many members of the former Jewish community of the town Naugard - no family relation My primary research goals now are to find out: all available details of Jewish community in Naugard / Nowogard. My JGFF Researcher ID number is 522288. The family names and ancestral towns that I have entered in the JGFF (JewishGen Family Finder) are: no entries at the moment. Piotr Mankowski, Nowogard Poland piomank@gmail.com MODERATOR NOTE: Welcome to GerSIG! Thank you for your INTRO email.
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