Ina Getzoff explained the "pecking order" in regards to naming after living relatives. This is very common in Italy where my husband's paternal side originates. Makes genealogy a bit confusing. 

Ze'ev, I see the links from my first response did not transfer the actual records in the attachments.
But I was able to copy and scan the attached images for you. 
You can still access the marriage record with the hyperlinks to the individuals from any of the first attachments by registering with Family Search,
clicking on the Record tab and then inputting the name Maria Hallaij into the search function.
I am still not sure these are the people you are searching for but the names seem very similar in so many ways.

Good luck, 
Karen Schneider

How to contact LDS, UKR SIG to know which archives they have online and how to access them?

Dear Damon and other researchers interested in Suchowola and Sidra:

I am the JRI-Poland coordinator for the Bialystok area. I also have deep roots in Bialystok and other nearby towns now in Poland, but in Grodno Gubernia up to 1918/1919. 

Unfortunately the Jewish vital records for both Suchowola and Sidra have not survived. In addition, if you search Miriam Weiner's Routes to Roots Foundation Archival Inventory https://www.rtrfoundation.org/search.php, you will not find many other records of interest. 

However, for those with ancestry from Suchowola, Sidra, Bialystok or 24 other towns previously in Grodno Gubernia and now in Poland, JRI-Poland is your genealogical partner in two respects.

1) When people associated with JRI-Poland travel to this area, we delve deeply into those towns and find local resources that may be of value. For example, JRI-Poland has been provided with copies of school records from Sidra covering years in the 1920s and 1930s. In 2018, I visited Sidra with a group of people and we met a school principal who has an original register from 1936/37 of members of the Sidra Fire Brigade which included many Jews. In 2018, I also visited Suchowola and met the headmaster of the public school complex, who serves as the unofficial historian of the town.

2) JRI-Poland has embarked on a project to extract all Jewish records held at the Belarus Historical Archive in Grodno for the 27 or so towns now in Poland, but formerly in Grodno Gubernia. These are revision lists and associated list of Jews covering the period of 1816 through to about 1890. For Sidra, the inventory of the Grodno project includes about 100 records mostly from 1834 and 1850. For Suchowola, the inventory includes about 600 records covering years from 1834 to 1861 and also 1889. I want to impress on you and all researchers that the Archive in Grodno does NOT hold any Jewish VITAL records. 

The other towns now in Poland with records/lists in the Grodno Archive are Bialystok, Bielsk Podlaski, Bocki, Bransk, Choroszcz. Ciechanowiec, Dabrowa Bialostokca, Drohiczyn, Goniadz, Grodek, Janow Sokolski, Jasionowka, Knyszyn, Korycin, Krynki, Kuznica, Niemirow, Nowy Dwor, Orla, Siemiatycze, Sokolka, Suraz, Trzcianne, Wasilkow, and Zabludow. 

Assuming that people in Belarus will be fully mobile after the pandemic is under control, this project will be moving ahead in about 3 months. If you have an interest in these towns and this project, please let me know. We are raising funds to pay for the indexing that will be authorized in the near future. 

This response is for Damon as well as other researchers of towns in the Bialystok area. When you are researching in this area, the first place to look is JRI-Poland. Contact me for more information. Also contact me if you would like to volunteer to be a Grodno Project Town Leader for those town referenced in this posting. 

Please stay safe during this difficult period. 

Mark Halpern
JRI-Poland Bialystok Area Coordinator
Conshohocken, PA, USA
mark@...

When I see a newborn named after a living parent, I check to see if the baby died or was a stillbirth before he or she was given a name.

Sometimes a stillbirth baby was given a combination of the parents’ given names.

Some parents repeated the same given name after a child died.

Also have seen a baby named after her mother when the mother died in childbirth, apparently to keep the mother’s memory alive.

Linda Wolfe Kelley
Portland, OR, USA

 An Index to Naturalization records for eastern, & southern district are available at Italian Gen .org 

The Minnesota Jewish Genealogical Society March 29th meeting will be co-hosted by TCJEWFOLK as a WEBINAR. The topic is Crossing the Ocean: Finding your Family.

Please register at https://www.mnjgs.org/event

Thank you, Karen!

You are right: Those are my grandparents.

I know FamilySearch and also the Dutch archives. So there is no new information for me. Even if I follow all the links in there. For example: I only see a dead born child of her, but not my mother and not her sister (Else) and brother (Jan). I also don't find the date of her death and I don't remember when this was. It's quite long ago. Something 197x, if I remember right, but could also be 196x...

-> I have to continue my search in Poland, where my grandmothers family came from.

My Grandmother lived in Germany (Rotthausen, near Gelsenkirchen), before she married. I have a document from there, and it states, where her family came from. They came from Prussia (now Poland). I won't find anything more about them in Dutch archives. In my grandfather, who was from Rotterdam, I am not interested.

By the way: I have my family in MyHeritage. Here: https://www.myheritage.com/site-547158661/tschan

Best regards, Ze'ev
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[Ze'ev Itzhak Tschan, Har Adar, Israel]

Suchowola is right on the borders with the Suwalki Lomza gubernias, so may be records there. See JRI Poland for any shtetel in this area.

Philips is almost certainly certainly either a patronymic or anglicisation of another name.  Names were changed often on migration. 

Names from the Suwalki Lomza gubernias of NE Poland, some areas now partly in Lithuania (since WW1 Peace Setlement of 1919), can be found on JRI Poland or Litvak SIG.  Suwalk is the anglicisation of Suwalki - there is no V in Polish. 

Kurland was the old name for Latvia, implying a Latvian origin. Sackheim is a German name - though Suwalki Lomza was on the borders with Konigsberg in East Prussia (now Kaliningrad).

You do need to find out what the original name was. It took me many years to find out  that my Abrahams/Abrams ancestors from Suwalki and Manchester UK were originally called Ceglarksi, following a lucky hit on Family Tree DNA, to a US cousin who had a paper trail linking my family to his. Abrahams was the family patronymic. Many Suwalkers went to UK, Sweden and France as well as to North America, mainly early between 1860 and 1880. 

Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK formerly on Editorial Board of Landsmen, journal of Suwalki Lomza SIG (now defunct)
All my 8 great grandparents came from the Suwalki Lomza gubernias to the UK between 1865 and 1875. 

Names from Suwalki Lomza:

Ceglarski later Abrahams/Abrams from Suwalki and Manchester
Serwianski later Servian from Sejny, Lake Serwy and Liverpool
Brin later Brown from Vishtinetz/Wiestieniec/Vistystis/Wistitten (now in Lithuania) and Edinburgh
Rubenstein or Berenstein from Vishtinetz/Wiestieniec/Vistystis/Wistitten (now in Lithuania) and Edinburgh
Guttenberg later Graham from Rajgrod and Hull/Grimsby/Sheffield
Plotnowski/Plottnovsky later Jacobs from Raczki and Hull

My great great grandfather's Chicago death certificate says "Chronic
bronchitis with asthma" with contributory cause "old age" -- he was
about 58, & had been treated by the doctor for 5 days. This may all be
correct, but I had always heard he died of that flu.

Julie
(not listing research this time as automatic signature should listed; if
not I will try to correct it)

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/// Russia: BENIN / BERLAND Czernigow; Romny, Poltava > (Paris>) Chicago AMBERG BERKOWITZ EPSTEINE Odessa, Kherson, Poltava > (Paris >) Buffalo NY; Chicago GELBURD / GAYLBURD / GOLDBERG / GILBERT Vinnitsya; Nemyriv; Priluki Staraya; Podolia gub. > Philadelphia; Atlantic City; Milwaukee /// Galicia/Poland: BADER Felsztyn (Skelivka) > Philadelphia BADIAN Komarno? FELDMA(N)N Wolanka / Boryslaw > Philadelphia FREIDENHEIM Stryj, Drohobycz, etc. GERTLER Komarno, Wolanka, Stryj, Drohobycz, etc. WEINER/WIENER ? /// Germany: ADELSDORFER  ? BÄR / BAER Buttenhausen > mid-W US, esp. near Vandenburgh Co, IN. EPSTEI(N)N Willmarsch?, Röhrenfurth/Melsungen, Sachsenhausen, Guxhagen > Luxembourg; Amsterdam; mid-W US, esp. near Vandenburgh Co, IN HAUSSMAN Heidenheim? ISAAK Fellheim? MEYER Hannover > Aurora, IN. MOSES Gottenheim/Gottersheim, Sachsenhausen, Röhrenfurth. ROSENSTEIN Stuttgart; Elberfeld? > Philadelphia, Lancaster, PA.

 

Hello Ze'ev,

I found an interesting record in Familysearch.org.  If you are not familiar with the site, you will need to establish a free account to access it. 
Have attached two Family Search links to the transcription of a marriage record from April 11, 1925 in Eijgelshoven (Netherlands).
Maria Hallaij, born March 10, 1904 in Rotthausen (Duitsland) married Jozephus Jacobus Rutten, born November 2, 1900 in Rotterdam, profession: kantoorbediende (office worker).
Maria's surname and the day of her birth are slightly different than you have but perhaps the surname spelling of Hallaij is a Durch version of Hallay? 
It also gives both sets of parents. Maria's are listed as Johann Hallaij, occupation: Landlouwer (farmer/agriculturalist) and Wilhelmine Zagon which are also very close to your information. 

Once you are in the marriage record each person is hyperlinked to more possible records in Family Search. And you will also see links to the Dutch archives that record came from.
If it turns out that the family spent time in the Netherlands, you might be able to seach their archives from the link provided by the marriage record.
I've found the Amsterdam archives excellent and fairly easy to use with the help of google translate for key words. The ones in other parts of the country that Family Search links to might be similar.

Karen Schneider

This is a 1940 death record of my grandfather, Mendel Konigsberg,  registered in Lipcsemezo.  Can someone read the cause of death, located in the last column?
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