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Info on Jacob Flam and family in Warsaw 1880-1920
#poland
Prim50@...
Jacob Flam, wife Gittel (?), daughter Helen and other children. Possibly two other daughters. Helen came to US in 1911. Maureen McDevitt USA
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Czech talk at ACLAV Havel library in quarantine
#austria-czech
#events
Helen Epstein
I was supposed to be speaking in Prague next week so I taped this for the Vaclav Havel Library in Prague instead. Please feel free to share it with interested parties.
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Re: Looking for what happened to family Blumberg, Popower, Chmielnik in Rio de Janiero
#poland
#latinamerica
Paulo Abrahamsohn
Hi Helen
It is not easy to find information here in Brazil. However, I found several Brazilian immigration documents about my grandmother and uncles using the site Familysearch.org Have you tried it? Regards Paulo A Abrahamsohn
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MyHeritage Offering Free Access to All Military Records May 20-26, 2020
#events
Jan Meisels Allen
In honor of Memorial Day, MyHeritage is offering free access to all military records from May 20-26. The collection consists of 57 million records and includes draft, enlistment, and service records, pension records, and other military documents from North America and around the world, dating back to the American Revolutionary War in the late 18th century.
Go to: https://www.myheritage.com/research/category-3000/military
To see a brief video about this offer go to: https://tinyurl.com/y98cvhb8 MyHeritage is also hosting 2 Facebook Live events about military records in the coming days: Searching Military Records on MyHeritage Tune in TODAY, May 20 at 1 P.M. EDT as Thomas MacEntee shares how to leverage MyHeritage’s vast collection of military records to learn more about your family history. Breaking Through Brick Walls with Military Records On May 24 at 1 P.M EDT, join Kate Eakman, senior researcher at Legacy Family Tree, who will show you how to use military records to break through brick walls in your genealogy research. Make sure you follow us on Facebook to tune in live. You can also watch the recorded sessions later on, and check out the full list of our online events in May and June. I have no affiliation with MyHeritage and am posting this solely for the information of the reader.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: Immigrants to Palestine 1927 onwards
#israel
There is available a full collection on the website of the Israel State Archives. The lists from the 20s and 30 aren't always easy to read. Of course, they are in Hebrew. They are not available online at the Central Zionist Archives.
The Israel Genealogy Research Association is transcribing them and transliteration the names to English so they can be searchable by non-Hebrew speakers. It is a slow process. We have various lists from the 40s and are working on transcribing 1949. Watch here and on our Facebook for updates of additional lists.
Rose Feldman
Israel Genealogy Research Association
Winner of 2017 IAJGS Award for Volunteer of the Year
http://genealogy.org.il
http:/facebook.com/israelgenealogy
Help us index more records at http://igra.csindexing.com
Keep up to date on archives, databases and genealogy in general and Jewish and Israeli roots in particular with http://twitter.com/JewDataGenGirl
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Re: MAZORKOFF family family who came from Russia and lived in Liverpool (UK) and Canada
#russia
#unitedkingdom
Michael Hoffman
Hello Steve,
In the UK you should do a search on the following website www.freebmd.org.uk and www.lancashirebmd.org.uk Regards, Michael Hoffman Borehamwood, HERTS, UK
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Rochelle Gershenow
I list the name of the shtetl as it was when the person was born, married, or died in the community. Then I put in parentheses the current name of the community, i.e., Stolbtsy, Minsk, Russian Empire (now Stowbtsy, Belarus)
Rochelle Gershenow Connecticut, USA
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Rochelle Gershenow
For people who emigrate and have changed their name from the old Russian name to a USA name I list the original name in parentheses and then the new name. If that person's children are born after the name change I list only the new name. In some cases where members of the same family spell the new name differently I list it as they spell it, e.g., Marrin, Marin, Maron.
Rochelle Gershenow Connecticut, USA
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Sarah L Meyer
I have always used the new name and had a tag that said "Former surname". You can also use the aka (also known as) field for that name - and there is no limit to the number of AKAs so you could also have one - or a tag- for their Hebrew/Yiddish/Jewish first name (and include the surname) so that it would be indexed properly.
-- Sarah L Meyer Georgetown TX ANK(I)ER, BIGOS, KARMELEK, PERLSTADT, STOKFISZ, SZPIL(T)BAUM, Poland BIRGARDOVSKY, EDELBERG, HITE (CHAIT), PERCHIK Russia (southern Ukraine) and some Latvia or Lithuania https://www.sarahsgenies.com
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Re: Simplest & Best Way For Extended Family To View/Comment On Digital Photos?
#general
peggyfreedman@...
Thank you Martin for a thoughtful question and Lynn for a thoughtful response.
I am also interested in this type project for similar reasons (I have photo collections from three great aunts!) One of my cousins set up a Facebook page and is using it as Lynn described, but I am having problems with it. It is wonderful to see the old pictures, but I can't find them when I want to go back to look at them six months later. I suspect that it is a big job to properly tag and sort the photos as they are posted. I have considered a few other solutions but have not tried them. I am posting my ideas to see if anyone else has used them as I would like your feedback. The software program TNG: The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding allows you to put your photos online in a digital family tree. The samples are beautiful. The learning curve is steep. I think that you can set the permissions to comment on a picture so that only a "member" of the site can post a comment. Has anyone in this group used this successfully? The software that comes with the scanning program QromaScan allows you to change the metadata with voice commands. I saw that Martin and Lynn have already scanned their pictures, but I believe that you can add metadata to an existing scan with voice commands. Has anyone in this group tried this? I have no connection with these commercial products but would like other opinions of their value. If the moderator thinks this is too commercial for JewishGen, please send me responses privately. Thank you! Peggy Mosinger Freedman
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entin@...
If you are researching in a place (country) where your family currently resides or resided under their new name, use the new name. If you are researching their ancestry in an old country, use their original ancestral name. You won't find them there under their new (changed) name.
Jeffrey Entin
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Yefim Kogan
Well, again the spelling. I am pretty sure that it is about town Kishinev or Chisinau...
Here is a very old story I remember from my past travel in the the Soviet Union. It is my first encounter of spelling issue. By the way I was born in Kishinev, USSR, now - an independent country Republic of Moldova (or Moldova). Also between world wars Kishinev was part of Romania. I traveled with my family in Carpathian mountains. We having dinner in a cafe. One of the dishes got my attention: "Кæшенёвские котлеты". (æ - as in word "bad"). I asked a person, what is Kæshinevskiy cutlet... the answer was - hey, you should know, there is a town somewhere south, called Kæshinev...?! My suggestion to you Bob, and to everybody, if you want to get a location of a town or village, and you think you know the spelling of it, please include into your message also an image of that spelling in the original language or at least how the name of the town was pronounced. All the best, Yefim
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Re: family tree template
#general
Sally Bruckheimer <sallybruc@...>
"Can you upload a GEDCOM to that?"
Which THAT do you mean? If you want information, you need to tell us what you want.
The same goes for the person who wanted docs translated. She didn't have the language or the place of the docs specified. Sometimes language is difficult if you haven't seen Russian before (after 1868 in the Kingdom of Poland and before the end of WW I) or Polish or even Hebrew.
Sally Bruckheimer
Princeton, NJ
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Re: Passenger records Rotterdam 1921
#general
itencorinne@...
Hi Mary
I have just found the passenger manifest on familysearch (it should also be on ancestry). But she didn't mention her parents, she mentionned two uncles. SS Noordam from Rotterdam Oct 11, 1921 and arrived in the US on Oct. 23, 1921 uncle Mr. S. Zinekowski, Berlinerstrasse 40, Cologne (Köln), Mulheim uncle Mr. J. Wiesen, 1605 Clybourn Avenue, Chicago, Illinois This is all typewritten, but above the line with "uncle Mr. J. Wiesen" it is handwritten: Temp. Sister Odgera, 609 E 5th Street, New York City New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island) 1892-1924 on familysearch. Regards Corinne Iten
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Re: Hungarian Forced LaborCompany 108-58
#holocaust
#hungary
#ukraine
Judy Petersen
Hi Alex,
I don't know of any resources for Hungarian Labor Battalions, but if you are simply trying to determine the current name of the Hungarian towns, there are several things you can try. 1) the JewishGen Gazetteer and or Communities database. It lists current and previous names of most towns. 2) Hungarian wikipedia. Enter the Hungarian name in the search field and you will find the town according to that name and it will give you the current name as well. 3) If the town is in German and you need the Hungarian name, this web site might help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_exonyms_for_places_in_Hungary Best, Judy Petersen Fort Collins, CO
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Re: Ursula Wyss FREY, 16th century religious crossover?
#general
howard sachs
If the Geni line to her grandfather is correct, he was buried in 1535 in the Jewish cemetery for Endingen-Lengnau, according to Findagrave. HFS
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Re: Immigrants to Palestine 1927 onwards
#israel
Trudy Greener
Try the Zionist Archives in Jerusalem. They do have an English-language search site. Not sure how they are working these days due to the Corona limitations.
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Re: ot in census
#names
John Hirschmann
You did NOT provide the cited material or other relevant material .
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Re: Immigrants to Palestine 1927 onwards
#israel
Malka
Good morning,
Try Israel Genealogical Research association (IGRA) in Jerusalem. Shalom, Malka Chosnek
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"Prussian spy", executed 1794
#poland
howard sachs
If interested in a Polish rebellion "Dreyfus case", with an unhappy ending, check out Wolfgang Heymann, son of a prominent Breslau (Wroclaw) Jewish businessman--an ancestor (the father that is).--executed in Warsaw in July 1794. Howard Sachs
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