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Re: Female Maiden Name on Headstone
#belarus
#general
#russia
#names
#translation
avivahpinski@verizon.net
I found a family stone in Ukraine from 1911 that is on the website of this organization: Chesed Shel Emet.
Mitzmatemet.org. I can only translate part of the stone at this point, so I wasn't sure what to do. Does anyone know anything about this organization? Has anyone had any dealings with this organization? They offer to clean the stone, paint the fence, etc for a charge. Thank you, Avivah Pinski near Philadelphia -- Avivah R. Z. Pinski , near Philadelphia, USA
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Lin Mor
Hi Hannah, I am sure that no two or more, situations are the same, but sometimes a misunderstanding happens. My maternal grandparents are on record to have received a marriage license in Erie PA in April, 1908. I am quite sure that they had a religious ceremony, possibly a few months before, because Grandma was about 3 months pregnant in April. Perhaps they though it wise to also have a civil marriage record, but the signed civil/legal paperwork was never returned to City Hall. According to civil law, then, the marriage did not take place. I attribute it to ignorance as well as perhaps a language barrier as to how it all needed to be done. My suggestion is that you can check to see if a marriage license was issued in 1938, the people in Erie PA found the license issuance easy to find in their records.
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Re: Florence MARMOR burial records of the New York Mokkom Sholom, Bayside and Acacia cemeteries
#usa
Steve Pickoltz
I too have a relative buried at Bayside, but he is not listed in your list. His death cert number is #20801 with a death date of June 4, 1893. The name is Israel Pikholz, and he was 14 days old.
Any additional info on him or his family would be greatly appreciated. His death cert is very hard to read.
Steve Pickholtz nj55turtle@...
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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I actually found the same thing for my g-grandparents. I have their marriage record in Poland, in 1895, immigrated in 1906, he naturalized in 1922, and they got married again in 1927. I'm not clear WHY.
Margie
Arizona, USA
LEVINE/LEWIN, SILBERNAGEL/ZYLBERNAGEL/SILVER, EPSTEJN/EPSTEIN, MOCZYDLOWER/MOCHEDLOVER, ERLICH, GRUNPELTZ, JOSKOWICZ, ZYLBERSZTEJN, SZTABINSKA, WILK
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Re: Does anyone know any survivors from Krinki/krinik
#poland
gncampbell@...
Murray, your Stollman/Sturmach family and mine are related through your grandmother Nechama/Naomi Epstein. She was my third great Aunt. The information you posted matches what I've found over the years and I'd love to exchange further information when your fingers allow. I have your father's generation being 4 females and 5 males so I'm interested in figuring out who I'm missing and about their lives. Also of course, any photos you might have from Krynki or of our mutual ancestors.
Someone mentioned upthread a Krynki "group" I'd like to be included in that as well. Thank you! gail Other Kyrnki familial names : Chaskes, Gershune, Greenberg, Tarlofsky, Epstein, Shuster, Berman
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Yonatan Ben-Ari
I am not sure that my cousin's situation is the same but: My first
cousin married a non-jewish woman (I think in Nevada). After a while they were married religiously by a reform Rabbi and eventually (a third time) by an Orthodox Rabbi. So she joked to me how she was married to my cousin 3 times. Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem
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Re: need help searching discussion group old messages
#general
Ina Getzoff
Nancy:
You don't say which groups you have tried or what exactly you are looking for. There are many different websites out there-Ancestry and My Heritage which are paid websites, JewishGen and Family Search which are free.
If you will share a little bit more information we probably can help you.
Ina Getzoff
Delray Beach, Fla.
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Records? Ancestor moved from Boston to Tel Aviv in 1920s.
#israel
Ryan Cramer
Oral history in my family indicated that my 2nd great-grandfather (Abraham Kaslick) emigrated from Boston, Massachusetts to Tel Aviv, Israel in the 1920s. However I cannot find any records to validate this; I would love to find a ship manifest, census records, or even cemetery records from Israel to continue my search. Abraham was born May 1858 in Odessa, Russia. I've found USA census records of he and his family for 1900 through 1920 but I'm at a loss from there (Example: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2KN-4TY). If anyone has any recommendations as to next steps of finding more proof of emigration to Israel, death, etc., it would be much appreciated!
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Re: Arolsen Archives search available online!!
#holocaust
R. Reuven K. Koffler
From: re_koffler@... <re_koffler@...>
Sent: Sunday, July 5, 2020 12:36 PM To: main@... <main@...> Subject: Re: Arolsen Archives search available online!! #holocaust Many thanks for your very helpful remarks. I have been in touch with them some five years ago, and had a similar experience. Since I could not travel to Arolsen, I was in touch with different assistants,
did not understand why, was not sure if multiple requests were not seen in a negative light. Is it possible that a visit to Arolsen will enable one to see material in addition to what one may get after filling out an inquiry form and getting an answer? Must an appointment be fixed before visiting the facility? Kind regards,
Reuven Koffler, Jerusalem
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estelle
Why my Brooklyn family was buried in New Jersey. My grandfather belonged to the New York Social Club which had a section in the large Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn probably since the early 1900s. But by the 1950s the plot was full, so the society bought land in a nearby cemetery in New Jersey, so that is where my grandparent's children , some grandchildren, and some cousins are buried.
Estelle Guttman Reston VA
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Re: Ellis Island looking for Rebecca Braunstein or Ritzer
#general
dasw5@...
Is this the correct person? Manifest says she is going to Lazar Grunberg
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FW: California's Privacy Act Regulations Went Into Effect July 1st
#announcements
Jan Meisels Allen
California’s Consumer Privacy Act regulations became effective July 1st. See article from the San Francisco Chronicle.
and
To read the previous postings about the California Consumer Privacy Act and privacy issues in general, go to the archives of the IAJGS Records Access Alert at: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts/. You must be registered to access the archives. To register go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts and follow the instructions to enter your email address, full name and which genealogical organization with whom you are affiliated You will receive an email response that you have to reply to or the subscription will not be finalized.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: parents as "cousins" on Ancestry.com
#dna
Lee Hover
I have a first cousin, Arlene, who married our mutual first cousin. Her parents, Bernard and Esther, were also first cousins. Bernard's parents were also first cousins. And I suspect that one of his parents was also the result of a cousin marriage. This makes for a very tangled tree, and I often say that the old song "I'm My own Grandpa" was written about my family. Try explaining that your Uncle was also your cousin and so on. In the case of Arlene, her aunt was also her mother-in-law. And, no, the family was not orthodox.
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Susan&David
In 2010 I was one of several contributors indexing records for JDC.
Included were Remittance Lists names. Today I checked a few names
that I know should be there, and they were.
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
There is a search box on the JDC website. https://www.jdc.org/ David Rosen Boston, MA
On 7/5/2020 11:39 AM, Alicia Weiss
wrote:
Can you please provide a search strategy for accessing these Remittance Lists online? Are they found in any particular collection?
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Susan&David
In 2010 I was one of several contributors indexing records for JDC.
Included were Remittance Lists names. Today I checked a few names
that I know should be there, and they were.
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
There is a search box on the JDC website. https://www.jdc.org/ David Rosen Boston, MA
On 7/5/2020 11:39 AM, Alicia Weiss
wrote:
Can you please provide a search strategy for accessing these Remittance Lists online? Are they found in any particular collection?
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Re: Searching for connections from Odessa named Eugenia and Polia Goldenberg.
#ukraine
Kathy Lorber
I have Odessa ancestors also named Goldberg. William(Wolf) Goldberg born 1871 in Odessa. Married Esther Barsay born about 1875 also in Ukraine. They immigrated to the US in 1892. Settled in Kingston, NY. Children include Sophia b. 1906, Joseph, Lawrence, Regina b.1900, Seymour b.1908 and Mildred b.1910. Let me know if you see any connections, and I will do the same.
All the best, Kathy Lorber
Montville, NJ
LORBER: Poughkeepsie, NY, Bardejov, Slovakia
FELDMAN: NYC, Varifalu GOLDBERG: Kingston, NY, Odessa, Ukraine LIVINGSTON/LEVENSTEIN: Chicago, Davenport, IA, Lithuania GOLDMAN/SZEYP: Davenport, IA, Mariampol, Lithuania; DAVIS: Chicago, Wales, UK; HERTZBERG: Chicago, Lithuania
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grandparents' names on Vienna birth certificates?
#general
#austria-czech
Mjacobsfr@...
Does anyone know whether the grandparents' names appeared on birth certificates registered in Vienna ? Would this apply to a birth in Vienna in 1906?
Any help will be much appreciated. Maggie Jacobs
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Sarah Sarolea Léa APTECKAR - in Odessa
#holocaust
#russia
Lemberski Evelyne
I'm looking for the first and last names of the parents of Sarah Sarolea Léa APTECKAR born on 08/01/1887 in ODESSA arrested in Charenton and deported on 07/29/1942 from Drancy to Auschwitz.
Evelyne Lemberski, Saint Maurice, France evelynelemberski@...
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fredelfruhman
Re:
"I would be happy to donate 4 plots to a worthy Jewish organization". Perhaps the "Hebrew Free Burial Association" would be interested. Here is their website: https://www.hebrewfreeburial.org/ Fredel Fruhman Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Re: A question about tattoos and Auschwitz
#general
#holocaust
jbonline1111@...
A family friend was never in Auschwitz but he was tattooed, presumably when kept at a children's detention center before he escaped through the children's march to the United States.
-- Barbara Sloan Conway, SC
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