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Re: Vetting family tree submissions to genealogy sites for data soundness
#general
MARC M COHEN
I use Reunion for the Mac, OS10.xx. I have never uploaded any of it online, except for the disastrous experience with Geni.com for one branch of my maternal GGM. I am content to keep it that way.
-- Marc M. Cohen, Los Gatos, California, USA BARAK/CANTORCZY: Khotin, Bessarabia; Strorozhinets, Bukovina, Ukraine CHOMITZ/HAMETZ: Ionina (Janina), Greece; Ignatovka, Ukraine; Kiev Gubernia, Ukraine COHEN: Dinovitsi (Dunayevtsy) Ukraine; Roman/Tirgu Frumos, Romania KORNITZKY: Kiev Gubernia, Stepnitz/Stepantsy, Ukraine RÎBNER: Storozhinetz, Costesti (Costyntsi), Drachinets, Cabesti, Bukovina, Ukraine ROSENBERG: Tirgu Frumos, Roman, Romania; ISRAEL WEININGER: Cabesti, Costesti, Drachinets, Czernowitz, Bukovina, Ukraine
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Re: Cohanim and Levites
#dna
MARC M COHEN
Point of information: All true Cohanim are also Leviim since Aaron and Moses came from the tribe of Levi. What you mean to say is that they were Leviim but not Cohanim, despite the Cohen surname.
The story that the immigration authorities changed the surname at the port of entry to the US or any other country is almost always false, since they would copy the surname from the ship's registry. However, I know one guy, very highly educated both secularly, in Torah and Talmud, and genealogy, who insists it happened in his family. In this case, of his immigrant ancestor from Poland/Lithuania—the story goes—the surname was long and complicated and at least partially illegible. As a result, he claims that the immigration agent at Ellis Island "shortened" it to Levine. They are not Leviim.
-- Marc M. Cohen, Los Gatos, California, USA BARAK/CANTORCZY: Khotin, Bessarabia; Strorozhinets, Bukovina, Ukraine CHOMITZ/HAMETZ: Ionina (Janina), Greece; Ignatovka, Ukraine; Kiev Gubernia, Ukraine COHEN: Dinovitsi (Dunayevtsy) Ukraine; Roman/Tirgu Frumos, Romania KORNITZKY: Kiev Gubernia, Stepnitz/Stepantsy, Ukraine RÎBNER: Storozhinetz, Costesti (Costyntsi), Drachinets, Cabesti, Bukovina, Ukraine ROSENBERG: Tirgu Frumos, Roman, Romania; ISRAEL WEININGER: Cabesti, Costesti, Drachinets, Czernowitz, Bukovina, Ukraine
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Re: Cohanim and Levites
#dna
robyncamm@...
The Cohen lines (Kohanim, or priestly class) are descended from Aaron, while the Levites are a tribe.
One is Jewish IF one's mother is Jewish, however one's tribal status was given by the father. Therefore, while my mother is a Kohanim "ha-Cohen", I am not because my father was not Jewish. I am "ha-Isreal" or of Jacob.
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ViewMate translation - German
#translation
Alice
I have posted a vital record in German for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM82607
Please respond on the ViewMate image page and sincere thanks for any assistance.
Regards and thanks, Alice Riley
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Re: Seeking Researcher In Romania for Votkana, Bucharest, Barlad and Lasi
#romania
bdw_29@...
Dear Marshall,
I would be very grateful if you could kindly e-mail me ( bdw_29@... ) the e-mail addresses to contact Sorin Goldenberg and Luc Radu personally. I have very little information but am trying to trace the childhood, marriage and emigration details for my great-grandparents, Barnet and Rebecca Horam, probably from Transylvania, who moved to London, UK around 1900. Thank-you very much from Beth Wilson, Northumberland, UK.
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Tombstone photo translated requests
#translation
sacredsisters1977@...
Hi All
Two tombstone photos I would like translated. Number Vm8555 and Vm8552. Thanks for all help. I believe this to be a great aunt of mine and her son connected to Greenberg ancestry from Hertza dorohoi. Sarah Greenberg (USA) sacredsisters1977@...
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MARC M COHEN
My maternal grandmother Golda "Gussie, Gusta" WEININGER benefited from the HIAS in 1920 in Cherbourg, France, on her way from Czernowitz, Romania to NYC. They helped provide kosher food, lodging, and a medical exam so she could get the all-important doctor's certificate stating that she was healthy.
-- Marc M. Cohen, Los Gatos, California, USA BARAK/CANTORCZY: Khotin, Bessarabia; Strorozhinets, Bukovina, Ukraine CHOMITZ/HAMETZ: Ionina (Janina), Greece; Ignatovka, Ukraine; Kiev Gubernia, Ukraine COHEN: Dinovitsi (Dunayevtsy) Ukraine; Roman/Tirgu Frumos, Romania KORNITZKY: Kiev Gubernia, Stepnitz/Stepantsy, Ukraine RÎBNER: Storozhinetz, Costesti (Costyntsi), Drachinets, Cabesti, Bukovina, Ukraine ROSENBERG: Tirgu Frumos, Roman, Romania; ISRAEL WEININGER: Cabesti, Costesti, Drachinets, Czernowitz, Bukovina, Ukraine
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Re: Iasi , Romania research
#romania
bdw_29@...
Hello Teodora
I don't know if it will be possible, but I am trying to find any Romanian records for Barnett and Rebecca Horam who emigrated to the UK around 1900. Possibly Transylvania. A son Max was born there in 1897 and subsequent children in London.I am still searching for passenger and naturalisation records, so have limited details. Barnett is recorded as being an 'Austrian' in the UK 2011 census and Rebecca as being a Russian. However their daughter Lily, born in London always said they were Romanians. Hope you have a safe and successful trip in any case. Thank-you from Beth Wilson, Northumberland UK
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Translation of 1884 German Death Record
#germany
#translation
Jeff Marx
Dear friends:
I would appreciate help in translating the German death record for Samuel Lazarus Samuel, to provide some vital information: his parents’ names, wife’s name, his place of birth and residency. It is on Viewmate at the following address: http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM82557 --Jeff Marx Researching ANSPACHER, AUGAPHEL, AUGENBLICK, BREGSTEIN, CARLEBACH, HIEGENLICH, KUBELSKY, MARX, SALOMON
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Cohanim and Levites
#dna
YaleZuss@...
Your status in the Kohen-Levite-Israel trichotomy is inherited from your father and began well before surnames were introduced. There are some surnames that are common for Kohanim and others for Levi'im, but having one of these surnames doesn't establish that you are in that group.
To identify the relationship between your surname and your status in this trichotomy, I'd focus on back-tracking the surname. Where does it come from geographically? Have you been told anything about how it was acquired? Start there.
Yale Zussman
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Viewmate Translation Request - Russian
#translation
Greg Tuckman
Hello everyone,
I've posted 5 vital records in Russian for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses... 1. Birth Record of Masza WAJSBLECH: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM82628&data=02%7C01%7C%7C93a8070e810f44d90e7008d816305ddb%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637283744265749736&sdata=PV0%2FUnxpR0XHq7aAOIH3Xb0UIsZ3YKGeiP8ddv3bSRM%3D&reserved=0 2. Birth Record of Estera WAJSBLECH: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM82629&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cee84bf3334304c206a5408d816306077%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637283744308924180&sdata=Rw0CSZxYGYfs5z93m4FtstdP8q1wQNo3zFfsN%2F10NSk%3D&reserved=0 3. Birth Record of Fajga WAJSBLECH: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM82630&data=02%7C01%7C%7C8f2bc4b4e1324f50c24308d816306407%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637283744369843881&sdata=j92p0dy4BG4fY1I8IfX6%2FMK7QIPi5tAPKu2n%2Frobn%2Bo%3D&reserved=0 4. Birth Record of Witla Bina WAJSBLECH: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM82631&data=02%7C01%7C%7C1a75b52524e946bc727008d8163067be%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637283744431011750&sdata=z2NsI7XEUiN%2BY4C5YDPG4wxDGN3NmMqOHo73JXE9O70%3D&reserved=0 5. Death Record of Boruch Mordko WAJSBLECH: https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM82632&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cf0b111fd521d412f6a3a08d816306af1%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637283744484892393&sdata=ghf58Zaf%2B6%2B1Xh0nlELHEOSl7nQhmrHVXfvLXis8I3E%3D&reserved=0 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Greg Tuckman Phoenix, Arizona USA
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Re: Meaning of the given name
#names
Dr.Josef ASH
In the Bible - she was the mother of Moshe Rabenu, Moisei.
in the name: Yo....- from the God's name ...cheved - from the root meaning "weight, respect, importance"
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Dr.Josef ASH
Shliomovna is not surname,
her father was Shliomo.
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Re: New York index to death records-finding pre 1865 death date
#usa
Renee Steinig
Joan, what you found is not a record of Gerson's death. It is the death record of Gerson's daughter Jeannette (married name RUND), 65, who died on 17 Oct 1907. Gerson's name appears in Ancestry's index because he is mentioned in the record. After clicking on Gerson's name in Ancestry's index, you'll come to a second page. Click on Jeannette's name there to see additional details. Renee
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020 at 1:23 PM Joan Pollak <JFPollak@...> wrote:
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Re: New York index to death records-finding pre 1865 death date
#usa
Sally Bruckheimer <sallybruc@...>
"1. Would the dates of the index indicate that he died 1862 and after-not before?
2. Would there be a next step in finding his actual death certificate/death date? I surmise that he died before May of 1865 because of naming patterns in the family." Check italiangen.org. You couldn't be buried in NYC without a death record, very, very early. My ggrandmother's uncle and foster father, Adolf Mincho, died in 1864, and he had one. Sally Bruckheimer Princeton, NJ
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Re: New York index to death records-finding pre 1865 death date
#usa
Moishe Miller
Joan,
I looked up the same record at FamilySearch. It gives Abbott's detail as well. See below.
Moishe Miller
Brooklyn, NY Jeanette RundNew York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949
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Marga LEVY - Unna and Berlin # Germany
#general
Mike Redel
Dear gersigs,
Marga Levy was born 30.07.1923 in Unna. Her father was the salesman Julius Levy. Marga and her father lived in Halensee (now Berlin) Seefenerstr. 50 Marga leave the school in 30.06.1938 - the reason: profession. I have not found Marga and Julius in the german Gedenkbuch. Could one of you help me with informations about their life. regards Mike Redel - germany
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Re: New York index to death records-finding pre 1865 death date
#usa
Moishe Miller
Joan,
You asked about that death record. Actually, it is not for Gershon. If you click on the daughter's name, you will see it is her 1907 death. See it below.
Moishe Miller
Brooklyn, NY
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Stephen Weinstein
Maybe he didn't want to be asked about when he first entered, where he had been living in the U.S., why he returned to Russia, etc.
Or maybe he had gotten into some sort of legal or financial or other trouble when in the U.S. previously and didn't want the immigration authorities to alert his creditors, abandoned wife, the police, etc., that he had returned. Or just didn't think they'd let him into the U.S. a second time if they were aware of what had happened the first time. My grandfather told me that his father entered the U.S., returned to what would have been Russia then (Belarus today), went to the U.S. again, and believing that he wouldn't be admitted again under the same name, used the name of the person ahead of him on line who had just been admitted under that name. Some details of this story don't make sense (for example, he would have been asked his name before he knew whether person ahead of him on line was admitted), but he really did enter under the name that my grandfather said had been his birthname. (My grandfather said the reason for the name change was because his father had traveled back and forth several times and didn't think he'd get in again if he kept using the same name, but I think that no one would have known, because they didn't keep track; the records were indexed or computerized, so they couldn't tell how many times a person had entered.)
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Re: Stories my father told me
#general
Sharon Taylor
My family came from Mariampol Galicia, just outside of Stanislawow. My favorite bedtime story, told in Yiddish, was about "Der Grosse Bear." I believe my mother learned the story from her mother or grandmother, and its similar to the tale of the Baba Yaga. One day, a mother leaves her children home while she goes to market. When she returns, the house is a shambles and all the children are gone. She grabs her sewing kit and heads into the forrest, following the enormous footprints of a bear. She finds him sleeping beside a stream. She takes her scissors and cuts open the bear's belly and the children pop out. I always assumed that this story was common in that part of today's Ukraine. Is anyone familiar with this story or another similar tale?
Sharon Taylor
Philadelphia PA
Researching NEMETH, BLOCH (Mariampol and Stanislawow, Galicia)
WEISNER, FLEISIG (Kulikow and Lemberg, Galicia)
FISHER, RAPPAPORT (Raguva, Vilna, and Kovno, Lithuania)
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