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Re: Tombstone Translation #photographs #translation

yitschok@...
 

Here lies 
Our dear mother
A modest and honest woman 
Honored and respected
Beloved by all who knew her 
Mrs. Chana Fraida
daughter of Mr. Yaakov
Died with good reputation 13 Kislev 5673
May her soul be bound in the bond of everlasting life 
Re: Iasi , Romania research #romania

Ilan Leibowitz
 

Shalom!

Tried several years ago with no success! Can you possibly help me with any new research?

Thank you,

Ilan Leibowitz

Israel

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Subject: LABOWITCH - Dorohoi, Romania
From: maya@...
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 20:57:49 +0200
X-Message-Number: 5

Dear Genners,

Seeking information on descendants of my great-grandfather's brother
Aizic Isaac/Yitzhak LABOWITCH.

My great-grandfather Wolf LABOWITCH from Dorohoi son of Reuven Leib, son
of Itzic was born in 1853 - mother's name Mariem - married in 1872
Rifka (Rebecca) Crashmariu.

They had several children and moved to London in the late 1800s where
they had more children, - have a full family tree.

Wolf is known to have had at least one brother called Aizic
(I am confident there were other siblings) whose wife was Rachel and
children Chaia and Nechama (there may have had more) It appears they did not
go to the UK nor remain in Dorohoi after 1900.

If your LABOWITCH (variant spellings) family tree has the above
mentioned persons please contact me privately.

Thank you for your time.

Ilan Leibowitz (Israel)

Kibbutz Afikim
litvaks #lithuania

ceteris@...
 

Looking for any info on Lithuanians  MANDELMAN or COHEN, born in Plonges and went to Jerusalem around 1850.

Peter Ceteris
Re: Tombstone Translation #photographs #translation

janllb@...
 

Chana Frayda, daughter of Yaakov.
Re: ReMa- Moses ISSERLES family tree #rabbinic

harry@...
 

Dear Mr Kaplan,
 My relative Rabbi Reuven Brim of Bnei Brak has written (in my humble opinion) an extraordinary book 'Lemalah Bakodesh' about the Ullmann family tree. The first 'famous ullmann' was Rabbi Shimon Ginzburg-Ullmann, whose son R' Eliezer married the Rema's daughter. 
I hope that helps.
I am interested in genealogy. if you have any info, I would be pleased to hear from you.
Kind Regards,
CA Ullmann
Re: Yiddish or Hebrew name for IDA #belarus #names

stahlshifra
 

My mother's Jewish name was Itta. When she started school (in North Carolina, USA) her teacher wrote her name as Ida.
 
Shifra Stein Stahl
Jerusalem, Israel
Re: Cohanim and Levites #dna

rv Kaplan
 

The abbreviation Bet Resh (B'R) in Hebrew stands for Ben Reb, or 'son of Mr.'  So not sure about surnames starting with BR.  Can't think of any examples - can anyone?
 
Harvey Kaplan
Glasgow, Scotland

On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 at 09:43, <rich.meyersburg@...> wrote:
I remember reading that for many Jewish names beginning with BR, the BR stands for ben Rabbi.
You would have to read up on this.
Rich Meyersburg

 

 
Re: Naming pattern - TURKUS #general

Sue Frank
 

My understanding is that patronymics were commonly used until about the mid 19th century among Ashkenazi Jews. However there does seem to be a difference here in that one of my ancestors was Iciek Leibkovich Rosenberg (so, son of Leib), whereas yours don’t appear to have the “kovich” suffix. Maybe this has something to do with the naming custom in the region where they originated rather than where they were living at the time. 
It’s curious, though, and not a common surname either, I don’t think. Is there any family rumour that they may have originated in more southern parts of Europe. Any DNA clues?

Sue Frank
Researching: ROSENBERG, SKOWRONEK, CHENCINER, Warsaw and Serock. 


On 24 Jun 2020, at 02:55, Elaine Farran via groups.jewishgen.org <elainefarran=yahoo.com@...> wrote:


While researching my Turkus ancestry, I noted an interesting series of names which seems odd for Ashkenazi Jews.
 
These are the names and their relationship to me -
5th  ggrandfather     ELIASZ Turkus
4th  ggrandfather  - DAWID ELIASZ Turkus
Dawid's son - Ahron DAVID Turkus; Dawid's daughter Szosza was my 3rd great-grandmother 
 
Would this repetition of names be an acceptable pattern for Ashkenazi Jews?
 
Many thanks
Elaine Farran
Researching: TURKUS, MUSZKATBLAT, HORSZTEIN/GORSTEIN/GORENSTEIN, Warsaw 

 


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Cambridgeshire, UK

Surnames: ROSENBERG, SKOWRONEK, CHENCINER, HERSZENKRUG from Warsaw
Re: Iasi , Romania research #romania

je_sternberg@...
 

Thank you, Teodora;
  I am looking for information about my grandfather, Abraham "Avram" Rappaport and his parents and siblings. He was born in Mihaileni, ~1888, but lived in Bacau for sometime before immigrating to Vienna Austria. He was the son of Eliezer "Leizer" and Clara Rappaport. I am interested in the birth, marriage and death records for Leizer and Clara and only the birth record for Avram because I already have his marriage and death records. I'd like to find out anything I can about the family of Leizer and Clara Rappaport. Any guidance will be much appreciated.
Thanks.
Judith Rapaport Sternberg
Boise, Idaho  USA
Re: Looking for information about my family from Yedenitz #bessarabia

Allison Mackler
 

Thanks for the guide Yefim, that's good information!

I found this post because of the mention of the name Mackler. My family is also from the area around Bessarabia and Ukraine. I have a marriage record in the US showing my 2x great-grandfather was born in Odessa, but had no other information other than they came from "Polish Russia."

It took me years to find any records for them on Jewish Gen. First I had to find their Yiddish names, which I got from their headstone when I visiting their grave a couple of years ago. Then, even though I thought I was being inexact, I was still limiting my searches too much! I finally found the marriage record of my 3x great-grandparents in Kishinev. I had been doing phonetic and sounds like searches on Mackler and Mekler, but the spelling used by the Russian officials were Meykler and similar. Their first names (Favyesh and Frima) were spelled different enough that I wouldn't have found them without going slowly through the records and reading each one. Plus, I wasn't expecting to find them in Bessarabia and was too focused on Ukraine.

So now I have found records showing they married in Kishinev, they had my 2x great-grandfather in Odessa and birth records of other children, in Kishinev, showing they were registered in Medzhybizh. I've also found a DNA cousin and her 3x great-grandfather was born in Odessa and records indicate that he was my 3x great-grandfather's brother.

I just wish there were more records for my family, there just aren't that many available for these areas and I don't know what other places they might have been.

Terry, I'd love to get in touch with you, but I see no way to contact you outside this forum.
Re: Cohanim and Levites #dna

rich.meyersburg@...
 

I remember reading that for many Jewish names beginning with BR, the BR stands for ben Rabbi.
You would have to read up on this.
Rich Meyersburg
Looking for FILITS descendants (family from Raseiniai/Siluva, Lithuania) #unitedkingdom #lithuania #southafrica

Adam Turner
 

I am trying to track down descendants of a family that I am increasingly confident was my ggg-grandmother's (born ~1845): that of the FILITS family, which appears to have been based in Siluva around the mid-19th century.

The records in the LitvakSIG database that I've turned up suggest that least some of the males in this family moved to the larger nearby town of Raseiniai and in at least some cases, the capital of Kaunas. A few may have ended up in Vilnius. 

So far, I know relatively little about this family:

  • The number of people with this surname in the database appears to be quite small. Virtually all the records in the database I've found so far seem to be for people who can all be traced back to a single progenitor: Shlomo Filits, son of Kasriel, born ~1770 to 1775, maybe. Most of the records appear to be for people in the family of Shlomo's older son, Yosef (born ~1808).
  • In some of the records, members of this family appear to have had their surnames transcribed as FELT, FELS, or FELSH.
  • There are currently only two records for anyone in this family in the database after the year 1900.
  • Searching more broadly, there is one person in the JGFF who listed "Filits" as a surname - but that family evidently was in Zhitomir, Ukraine, not Lithuania.
  • Nobody with any of these spellings who came from Lithuania appears to be in Yad Vashem's database of Shoah victims.
  • I have looked a bit, but so far have turned up no manifests or other US immigration documents from people with this surname. Nor do there seem to be any manifests for people with this surname in the South African Jewish Rootsbank database.
  • The one immigrant I have found so far who I suspect is most likely in this family is Mamie Cohen Levinson (b. ~1873), whose record of her second marriage to a Joseph Zimmerman appears to list her mother as a Kreine Filits. (I have a fairly significant DNA match to Mamie's great-granddaughter.) Mamie's father was evidently a "Philip Cohen" - perhaps named Feivel. It appears that Mamie married her first husband Harry Levinson in the US in 1891.
So my very loose guesses are that:

1) a very high percentage of people in this family might have emigrated from Lithuania prior to 1905, and quite possibly many of them left as early as the 1880s.
2) they may have gone to other countries than the US, and wherever they went, they might have changed their surname, possibly to something radically different from "Filits".
3) perhaps some changed their surname even before immigrating.

If you know of anyone who had this surname, or came from this part of Lithuania and may have changed their surname (perhaps to "Phillips"?) I would be interested in hearing from you!

Adam Turner
San Francisco, California
Re: Finding image on LDS microfilm from index #general

Stephen Weinstein
 

LVIA is the archive
728/4/373 are the Fond/List/Item
F266 means the 266th Female (males and females are numbered separately)
1897 is the year recorded
28/5/1897 is the date on the Julian calendar (16/5/1897 on our calendar)
43 is the age of the person

Stephen Weinstein
stephenweinstein@...
Camarillo, CA, USA
Naming pattern - TURKUS #general

Elaine Farran
 

While researching my Turkus ancestry, I noted an interesting series of names which seems odd for Ashkenazi Jews.
 
These are the names and their relationship to me -
5th  ggrandfather     ELIASZ Turkus
4th  ggrandfather  - DAWID ELIASZ Turkus
Dawid's son - Ahron DAVID Turkus; Dawid's daughter Szosza was my 3rd great-grandmother 
 
Would this repetition of names be an acceptable pattern for Ashkenazi Jews?
 
Many thanks
Elaine Farran
Researching: TURKUS, MUSZKATBLAT, HORSZTEIN/GORSTEIN/GORENSTEIN, Warsaw 

 
Tombstone Translation #photographs #translation

Mary Ellen
 


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Can anyone one please translate this for me.
Mary Ellen
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Re: Yiddish or Hebrew name for IDA #belarus #names

Linda Higgins
 

My grandfather's sister was called Ida. Her given name was Chaya.
Re: Application of Familiant Laws in early 19th century Moravia - #austria-czech

Eva Lawrence
 

Yes, what I was suggesting was that the fathers were Familianten from another town, and a way of tracing them would be through the married daughters of the family where the death occurred.
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Eva Lawrence
St Albans, UK.
Re: Historic Synagogues of Europe #general #unitedkingdom

Adelle Gloger
 

Another interesting site is synagogues360  https://synagogues360.bh.org.il/
This site allows for 360 degree panoramic views of synagogues around the world with historical information. You can search for USA, Europe, Asia any place.
 
Adelle Weintraub Gloger
Cleveland, Ohio
agloger@...
 
 
Re: Glickson, Cohodas, Wolf, Stern, families descendants of Horowitz of Cleveland #usa

Lisa Bertman Hoffman
 

Per the Cleveland Jewish News, Ida Cohodas died 11/29/2003.  It lists her son as living in Florida.  Her daughter, who was widowed, appears to have been living in the Cleveland (South Euclid) area at that time.
Re: Geni and Family Search #general

Alyssa Freeman
 

Like any other  genealogy group, it all depends on what the source of the information is. If it comes from official records, such as social security or a census, that's a lot more reliable than it coming from someone's tree. Obviously, the person with the name in the tree could have gotten it from a source, as well. That being said, if you search for someone on Family Search, you can search exclusively by records. Geni likely has the same records My Heritage does as they're owned by the same company.
 
Alyssa Freeman
Henrico, VA
FAVILYUKIS (Odessa), DIKERMAN, BOTNIK (Bessarabia), LEVANISKY, GORDON, KALLNER, FRIEMAN, KOHN  (Lithuania), KAPLINSKY, KAHAN/COHEN (Belarus), SUSSMAN, FREIMAN (Galicia)
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