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Re: Once upon a time there was a moderator for this group.....
LOUISE HAJDENBERG
This is what I am responding to:
Glenda wrote “I agree with Vivian on her points above, except that the person replying should cut and paste the original message in the reply. I tested this with this reply, and to make it easier to do, you need to cut the content, hit reply to the list, then paste. Where to paste?: at the top or below your reply (actual or reverse chronological). This could also lead to incomplete threads when some reply doing this and some don't. Back in the day, I appreciated seeing the full thread” I agree Glenda but in actuality it is the not ready for prime time system that should still be in beta that doesn’t do that for us. It is pure frustration. Louise Hajdenberg
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Re: Do you keep passports?
bernerfolk
Link to border crossing manifest for Nathan Wiesenfeld (his wife arrived with Chawe). He's going to his B-I-L at 396 Hastings, no name given, but...
further down the list is Marcus Eder who is a US citizen, also going to 396 Hastings.
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1075&h=5916440&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=fsM2614&_phstart=successSource
Finally, link to border crossing for Pinkas (indexed as Tinka Schlussel) , going to his brother Marcus in NY.
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1075/m1464_5-0038/132468?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdbid%3d1075%26gsln%3dsch*l%26gsln_x%3d1%26msady%3d1899%26msady_x%3d1%26msadm%3d8%26msadm_x%3d1%26msadd%3d12%26msadd_x%3d1%26msapn__ftp%3dquebec%252c%2bcanada%26msapn%3d5009%26hc%3d20%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26uidh%3de31%26redir%3dfalse&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults
and, border crossing for Meyer Schissel (likely the husband Sara and ch are going to the following spring). He's going to his brother Moses in NY.
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1075/m1464_3-0484?pid=66386&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?_phsrc%3DfsM2626%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource%26usePUBJs%3Dtrue%26indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D1075%26gsln%3Dsch*l%26gsln_x%3D1%26msady%3D1899%26msady_x%3D1%26msadm%3D8%26msadm_x%3D1%26msadd%3D12%26msadd_x%3D1%26msapn__ftp%3Dquebec,%2520canada%26msapn%3D5009%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26uidh%3De31%26redir%3Dfalse%26msT%3D1%26gss%3Dangs-d%26pcat%3D40%26fh%3D11%26h%3D66386%26recoff%3D%26ml_rpos%3D12&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=fsM2626&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.248129664.642911791.1579200846-1859318226.1534280181
Sherri Venditti
The Berkshires, USA
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Re: Once upon a time there was a moderator for this group.....
Glenda Rubin
Vivian Kahn wrote: Thank you, Joel! There should be one or more skilled moderators for this list and all others that JewishGen sponsors. However, those who send messages need to pay attention to what they’re doing. An informative subject line is essential, surnames (and nothing else) need to be in upper case, and, if one is responding to a previous message, the original message should be copied and pasted as a quotation. I agree with Vivian on her points above, except that the person replying should cut and paste the original message in the reply. I tested this with this reply, and to make it easier to do, you need to cut the content, hit reply to the list, then paste. Where to paste?: at the top or below your reply (actual or reverse chronological). This could also lead to incomplete threads when some reply doing this and some don't. Back in the day, I appreciated seeing the full thread. Glenda Rubin Richmond, CA, USA -- Glenda Rubin |
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Re: Passenger arrival records
bernerfolk
Found the US manifest (below). When immigrants arrived in Canada for transit to the US they went through the standard process conducted by US immigration agents as they would have if they'd arrived at Ellis Island. They were issued admittance passes which they then had to present on the train to their US destination.
Note that the two families listed above Chawe; Sara Schlissel & ch, and Ester Wiesenfeld & ch, are all from Tarnobrzeg and all going to their husbands at the same address, 340 Hastings. Pretty good bet these are relatives.
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1075/m1464_6-0148?pid=2421957&backurl=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv%3D1%26dbid%3D1075%26h%3D2421957%26tid%3D%26pid%3D%26usePUB%3Dtrue%26_phsrc%3DfsM2562%26_phstart%3DsuccessSource&treeid=&personid=&hintid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=fsM2562&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.248187264.642911791.1579200846-1859318226.1534280181
Sherri Venditti
The Berkshires, USA
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Re: Passenger arrival records
bernerfolk
Here's a link to Chawe, Hersch, and Chaim leaving Liverpool for Quebec. There should be a border crossing document into the US but I haven't found it yet, those records and indexes are spotty.
Sorry if you don't have easy access to Ancestry, I don't see the record on FS...they may not have the outbound manifests.
https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2997&h=44517327&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=fsM2560&_phstart=successSource
Sherri Venditti
The Berkshires, USA
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Re: Liski, Kolomea
Renee Steinig
Gesher Galicia's Galician Town Locator (https://www.geshergalicia.org/galician-town-locator/), which lists all towns located in the Austrian crown land of Galician in 1900, includes a Liski near Kolomea (now Kolomyya). It's probably the town that the JewishGen Gazetteer (https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp) shows as Leski, Ukraine -- about 8 miles north of Kolomyya. On GoogleMaps, the spelling is Lisky. The JewishGen distance is "as the crow flies." By car it's at least 13 miles, depending on the route. Hannah Sperber <naturefan33@...> wrote:
A town that was part of Austrian Empire and now is in the Ukraine.
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Re: What happened to threads?
jbonline1111@...
Are you signed into the website? You may not see the threads if you are not signed in.
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Re: Once upon a time there was a moderator for this group.....
Vivian Kahn
Thank you, Joel! There should be one or more skilled moderators for this list and all others that JewishGen sponsors. However, those who send messages need to pay attention to what they’re doing. An informative subject line is essential, surnames (and nothing else) need to be in upper case, and, if one is responding to a previous message, the original message should be copied and pasted as a quotation.
Vivian KAHN Santa Rosa, California
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Re: Passenger arrival records
Susan&David
I believe I may have found the Shlissel family on Ancestry's
Canadian Border Crossings. The ship is the Tunisian, arriving
Quebec on May 19, 1900.
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
Destination is Pincus Shlissel 340 Hastings St. Detroit. There are two other families on the same manifest going to that same address. David Rosen Boston, MA
On 1/15/2020 10:28 PM, Gayle Schlissel
Riley via Groups.Jewishgen.Org wrote:
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Re: Passenger arrival records
Richard Werbin
Do you have an ancestry subscription?
If you do not have an ancestry account you can probably find this at familysearch.org manifest Hirsh Schlussel age 4
in the U.S., Border Crossings from Canada with mother Chave age 28 & brother Chaim age 6 going to father Pincus at 340 Hastings? St.
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Re: What happened to threads?
Sue Martin
Got it - you will only see this button if there is at least one additional message in the thread. Otherwise, there's nothing.
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ViewMate translation request - Roumanian
#romania
David (Toshiba) <dhcperso@...>
I request a translation of the Roumanian text on a 5 letter pages. It is on
ViewMate at the following address http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM76692 also 76693 to 76396 Please respond using the online ViewMate form. Thank you so much, Yours David Cohen
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ViewMate translation request - Hungarian
#hungary
Omri Arnon
Dear group,
My great great grandfather was Herman Friedmann, who was a Cantor (chazan) in Subotica. I just found his death registration and would very much appreciate a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM76689 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Omri Arnon Israel
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Re: DNA ethnicity
ntc52@...
Hi Ellen, Thank you for taking to trouble to reply. I've made a note of The "Great Purge" for my reading.
My mother definitely believed that Siberia was the end for her parents and they were never heard of again. I hadn't realised myself until recently that some survived Siberia or escaped.
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Re: Once upon a time there was a moderator for this group.....
fredelfruhman
Mr. Ives,
You said it all so well! I find it amusing that your one typo -- I didn't go looking, but it just jumped out at me -- is genealogy-related. You suggest that a composer check the "spelling, punctuation, and the gramma ...". Shouldn't Gramma be capitalized? And why leave out Grandpa? :). Now if people will only follow your valuable suggestions. Fredel Fruhman Brooklyn, NY (not currently researching, but helping on ViewMate)
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Re: Looking for help please - searching great grandparents
Marks d 16/7/40 & Esther Milly d 20/11/52 Albeitman are buried next to each other in Willesden United Synagogue cemetery, section EX, Row 16, Plots 852/3. Next time I'm there I will take photos for you.
By chance, I am in the National Archives, Kew, and found there is only a naturalisation record for Samuel Harry. I have ordered one to view in 30 mins and will photograph it and send to you privately. I have taken the liberty of submitting a
Freedom of Information request for a closed record for SH which should be dealt with in a few weeks. I hope that is OK.
Carole Shaw, London UK
SCHNEIDER: Kamanets Podolsk, Ukraine & Libau/Libava/Liepaja, Latvia
KLUGMAN, GOLDSCHMID (plus variations), BRAUER: Libava/Libau/Liepaja, Latvia, Johannesburg ROSENTHAL, ZUSCHNEIDER: Lublin, Poland GREENBERG, BRZOZA/BJOZHA, SOBERSKI: Lomza/Nowogrod, Poland SAMSON, BLIK: Amsterdam, Zandvoort, Holland
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Passenger arrival records
Diane Jacobs
First, I trust you phonetically searched for the both surnames below on NYC Passenger Manifests using stevemorse.org
Next since they went to Detroit, you also should search phonetically using stevemorse.org for the Canadian Border Crossings and the Canadian Passenger Manifests for many immigrants came that way to get to Detroit.
After that you should search for all the other cities of entry using stevemorse.org
Good luck.
Diane Jacobs
From:
main@... [mailto:main@...] On Behalf Of Gayle Schlissel Riley via
Groups.Jewishgen.Org
Can someone help me find my grandfather's arrival records..I have tried but got no where..Hersch Schlissel born 1896 in Tarnobrzeg. his mother was Goldie/Chawa maiden name EDER.. They went to Detroit to father Pincus/Paul I figure they came into NYC They arrived in 1900..Please help me.. Passenger lists are the hardest..Thanks -- Diane Jacobs
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Re: The Zamosc Memorial Book is now On Line
Phyllis Berenson
Thank you so much for your translation! My maternal grandfather, Isaac (Yitzchak) Finkelstein was born in 1889 in Zamosc and lived there until he left for the US in the early 20th century. He was on the sub-committee for this book. We have Finkelstein relatives in Israel who have the original book, but it's wonderful that now our English-speaking family can read it.
Phyllis Gold Berenson San Francisco and Sonoma, California
Researching: BERENSON (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Shargorod, Ukraine), MILMAN (Briceni, Moldova) , FINKELSTEIN (Zamosc, Poland), GOLDFARB (Pavlivka. Ukraine,Poland), MELAMED (Lukiv, Ukraine,Poland), GOLDGEIN (Mogilev-Podolskiy, Ataki, Moldova)
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Re: thoughts - opinions
Trudy Barch
miscarriage is different than a stillborn or still birth, if you prefer that word.
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Re: Once upon a time there was a moderator for this group.....
Trudy Barch
I wrote thoughts/opinions and received many responses. Sorry that you feel it wasn't enough. IF you don't want to read the body of the message, you don't have to.
Trudy Barch, FL
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