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Kornitzer family in Brooklyn #usa

Neil Rosenstein
 

Trying to make contact with the family of Feige Rachel (Faye),
daughter of Rabbi Avarham David Rubin who was the Lacunt Rebbe. Faye
married Moshe Yehoshua Kornitzer. Children are Binyamin Zeev and
Shalom Akiva.
Re: "His name was changed at Ellis Island" #names

Jules Levin
 

All the mistakes and incompetence in the world could not a change a
person's name against his will.  Why is that so difficult to get?   The
US did not care what name you used, that is what people are trying to
get thru to all the myth-clingers.  Can our current IRS with all its
incompetence and errors change your name on your tax form such that that
will be your new name??  That is what you are saying.


On 7/11/2020 8:58 AM, Bob Bloomberg wrote:
I did not say that anyone wrote a name down.  What I said was that
people make mistakes, especially when overwhelmed, over worked  and
maybe not paying strict attention.  Name tag or no, manifest or no,
questions or no, mistakes were made, and names INADVERTENTLY were
changed.  You might want to read Dahn Cukier's response.
What I don't understand is why people blame the discrepancies on
points of embarkation, faulty manifests, whatever, but NEVER at Ellis
Island.
Re: finding Yosef BARMATZ #poland #belarus #holocaust #israel

aryeh.lopiansky@...
 

If you want phone numbers for his children, send me an email [aryeh.lopiansky@...]. I don't think I'm allowed to post numbers.
Re: #belarus #hungary #holocaust #belarus #hungary #holocaust

Judith Shamian
 

Thank you re potential correction of Orsha, where can I find more info and potentially list of people who were at the labour camps?
Re: Does anyone know where Nishene Russia is? #poland #russia

Ina Getzoff
 

Deanna:
Do you possibly mean Neshvitz which is in Belarus? It was part of the Ukraine.
 
Ina Getzoff
Delray Beach, Fla.
Hebrew Translation of Headstone please #translation

Karen Gramigna-Warren
 


Could someone please translate the Hebrew on the Headstone?

Thanks in Advance.
Karen
Re: Need help with "Records of Aliens Pre-Examined in CANADA" 1918 #canada

Sherri Bobish
 


Hi Eileen,

On Ancestry I put 198 5th in the keyword search.  I typed Montreal in the "any event" section.  I found the 1921 census listing a family ASH living there at that time.

Of course, a different family may have been living at that address when Fannie visited.

You may be able to use Montreal city directories from the 1919 time frame to find out who was living at 198 5th when Fannie visited.

Regards,

Sherri Bobish
Princeton, NJ
Re: Why would my Grandfather travel under his older brother's name? #names

Matt Friedman
 

There are many reasons... in one instance, a person was ill and could not travel so he gave the ticket to his brother. 
 
Matt Friedman
Re: Why would my Grandfather travel under his older brother's name? #names

Marilyn Feingold
 

My grandfather used his brother's passport to come to America. He then sent it back to his brother so his brother could  use it to come to America. 
 
He left because his brother was in the military and was not making enough money to live. My grandfather's parents felt it was better for my grandfather to  immigrate to American rather than join the military for 25 years.
 
 
CAMENCA-Schlaffer,Tessler, Malamud, Luber,Schleifer, Schaffer
TULCHIN-Milgrom, Milgram, Lerner
OBIDIVKA/TROSTONETS- Milgrom, Kolker, Spivak
Re: Need help with "Records of Aliens Pre-Examined in CANADA" 1918 #canada

Diane Jacobs
 

You way want to search  stevemorse.org

for the Canadian border crossings and passenger manifests, there is lits of good information if you find family there

Diane Jacobs


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From: "Eileen Kessner via groups.jewishgen.org" <e.kessner1=verizon.net@...>
Date: 7/11/20 6:40 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: main@...
Subject: [JewishGen.org] Need help with "Records of Aliens Pre-Examined in CANADA" 1918 #canada

 

I found this record of my grandfather’s sister FANNIE GOODINSKY having resided in Canada

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=WinnipegAliens&h=309827

 

I do not fully understand the document.  She states she resides in Montreal at 198 Fifth Ave Dom. Pk., and she is travelling to her sister at 1010 Tremont Avenue which I believe is in the Bronx.  The ticket was paid for by herself.  Would this be a train ticket? Can anyone locate this address in Montreal for me and help me understand why she would be in Montreal?  She stated she had resided in the US from 1912 to December 10, 1918.  There is no family that I know of ever having lived in Canada.  She married in the Bronx in 1920 and remained there until her death in April 1984. Thanks in advance.

 

Eileen Goode Kessner

Researching : GOODINSKY, SCHMIDT from PRENAI, SALK, KATSEV from VILKOMIR, AUGUST from WIELKE-OCHY and FREEDMAN from LEEDS, UK

 

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Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey
Need help with "Records of Aliens Pre-Examined in CANADA" 1918 #canada

Eileen Kessner
 

 

I found this record of my grandfather’s sister FANNIE GOODINSKY having resided in Canada

https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=WinnipegAliens&h=309827

 

I do not fully understand the document.  She states she resides in Montreal at 198 Fifth Ave Dom. Pk., and she is travelling to her sister at 1010 Tremont Avenue which I believe is in the Bronx.  The ticket was paid for by herself.  Would this be a train ticket? Can anyone locate this address in Montreal for me and help me understand why she would be in Montreal?  She stated she had resided in the US from 1912 to December 10, 1918.  There is no family that I know of ever having lived in Canada.  She married in the Bronx in 1920 and remained there until her death in April 1984. Thanks in advance.

 

Eileen Goode Kessner

Researching : GOODINSKY, SCHMIDT from PRENAI, SALK, KATSEV from VILKOMIR, AUGUST from WIELKE-OCHY and FREEDMAN from LEEDS, UK

 

PDF
Fannie in Montreal.pdf

Re: How to determine Warsaw street address? #warsaw

Alexander Sharon
 

According to Warszawa Taryfa - 1877

https://praktykowaniegenealogii.wordpress.com/taryfa-domow-dla-warszawy-1877/

# 1101 / Grzybów 16

ps
Grzybow 16 is related to Grzybowski Place or Grzybowski Street.
Re: Immigration to US of Avram/Abraham BERCOVICI/BERKOWITZ from #romania

rich.meyersburg@...
 

Mike

this is a long shot, but have you looked for Avram traveling under the name Grossman?

Rich Meyersburg
Laurel MD
New recorded webinars available on IGRA website #announcements #events

Garri Regev
 

IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association) has released two lectures from its recent virtual seminar day (June 23, 2020)
 
Lecture in English: JDC Archives and Name Search Possibilities, Dr. Anat Kutner
 
Lecture in Hebrew: 
מהויסלה ועד העלטלנה: מקורות גנאלוגיים בארכיון מכון ז'בוטינסקי - מירי יהלום 
 
 
Both can be accessed here https://genealogy.org.il/videos/webinars/ and are free for registered IGRA users for the upcoming week (until July 19). Following that they are available to paid members.
 
Garri Regev
President, IGRA
Re: Origin of the name LAJOUS #france

paveanyu@...
 

Hi Everybody                     11th July 2020

I would like to mention--that as I am Hungarian born, in my view: --Lajous   with a strong probability could be  the Hungarian Lajos.

I wonder, do you have another name, in addition to the Lajos/--as Lajos is a 'first name'    Equal? a variation of LASZLO?--Laci ?

Or in my understanding in a 'Slovak' language--might be  Lagyislav--, with 'Cirril' lettering  ( I do not have on my computer)

As for Ludovicus? I wonder it may mean 'son of Ludov'--.

Best wishes to all

Veronika Pachtinger
Re: Does anyone know where Nishene Russia is? #poland #russia

Sherri Bobish
 


Hi Karen,

Have you tried searching for Nadarzyn at The JewishGen Poland Collection at:
https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Poland/
Perhaps you will find familiar family names amongst the records from that town?

Regards,

Sherri Bobish
Princeton, NJ
Re: "His name was changed at Ellis Island" #names

Sherri Bobish
 


Bob,

Manifests of passengers incoming to U.S. ports were written before the ship left the foreign port.

The names of the passengers were written down on the manifest at the foreign port. 

It's just like today, when people fly on planes.  A manifest of passengers on each plane is prepared before the plane ever takes off.  The manifest is not written after the plane lands at its destination.  It is written before departure.  Of course, it's all computerized today.

Regards,   Sherri Bobish, Princeton, NJ
Five Million Negatives From Chicago Sun-Times Found in Storage Locker #usa #announcements #photographs

Jan Meisels Allen
 

 

 

 

Hidden in a 30x30- foot storage locker in Dixon (Illinois) , an executive from the Chicago History Museum found more than 225 containers inside the storage locker containing about 5 million negative frames from the Chicago Sun-Times. The owners of the Chicago Sun Times were unaware where the negatives had been until this discovery.

 

Chicago History Museum employees have been working to organize and digitize large batches of the image basically 35 mm negatives shot over 75 years beginning in the mid-1900s.

 

While 100 of the images go on display in a free exhibition at the museum entitled, “Millions of Moments: The Chicago Sun-Times Photo Collection  (https://www.chicagohistory.org/exhibition/millions-of-moments-the-chicago-sun-times-photo-collection/). Entry to the museum will be limited due to the pandemic along with social distancing and wearing masks.

 

For those not in Chicago or are staying safer at home. The museum had placed 45,000 of the images on the museum’s website: https://images.chicagohistory.org/  I did a search using the word “Jewish” and many images  appeared from the search.  Archivists plan to add a few thousand images every month as they scan more negatives. Copies of images on line are also available for purchase.

 

History of the Photo Archive

The Sun-Times sold the photography archive to Arkansas sports memorabilia collector John Rogers in 2009. The Sun-Times retained the copyrights, and Rogers was going to digitize every image.  But Rogers scanned only a portion of the images before being sentenced in December 2017 to 12 years in federal prison for a $23 million scam involving fake sports memorabilia. He is scheduled for release in 2028.  After Rogers was arrested and his businesses were closed, it isn’t clear how the trove of Sun-Times negatives got from Little Rock, Arkansas, to Dixon, Il. The archive was sold multiple times, with buyers apparently cherry-picking the images they wanted to keep.

 

In late 2017, a Dixon businessman was put in contact with the Chicago History Museum, and, in June 2018, it acquired the storage locker filled with negatives for $125,000.


To read more see: https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2020/7/9/21036565/chicago-history-museum-sun-times-photo-archive

 

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

 
IGRA Zoom Show & Tell for July 13 & 15 #announcements #events

Garri Regev
 

IGRA (Israel Genealogy Research Association) is holding a Zoom session
as part of its "Show & Tell" series on Monday, July 13 at 9 pm Israel
time (2 pm EDT). The topic this week: A-Z of LitvakSIG with Carol
Hoffman, PhD.

The session is free and will be 45 minutes including questions. If you receive the message that the session is full - please check the IGRA website: www.genealogy.org.il on Tuesday for the recording of the session.

Advanced registration is required: (IGRA advises that by registering
you agree to receive mail with regard to this program and future
programs that may be of interest to you.)
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEld-ugrzojHNWDbrq__Kxf-cNwDzgdsW9k
- in response you will receive the direct link to enter the session.
 
The same session will be in Hebrew on July 15, also at 9 pm Israel time. 
משפחה מליטא? א-ב חיפוש קרובים דרך
LitvakSIG
PhD עם קרול הופמן  
The link to register is: 
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqf-6srzsjH9yfVStEeJzrs0ZrJzaEk6Z3

Garri Regev
President, IGRA  
Re: Name Variations (was: "His name was changed at Ellis Island") #names

Lee Jaffe
 

Thanks for moving the discussion to a new thread.  I have a name change case in my family and a more general related question.

My great-grandfather was born Mendel Stzejnsapir. In Bialystok in 1864  We found him in departure documents  traveling 1891 from Liverpool to NYC under the name Mendel Sapier.  We dont on't know when or how he got from Bialystok to England.  Once in the US he adopted the name Stein.  I have no idea about the  how of why of theses changes but I'm interested in knowing the mechanics of identity in crossing borders.  What kind of ID would a Jew in the Pale have and what would they need to cross borders?  I assume a passport was not an option.  If they left the Pale without papers, how could they purchase passage sailing to the US?  I assume that there'd be some leeway if you could show you were in transit to another destination but they'd need to have ID papers  of some sort at later stages of the crossing.  How did that work?

Lee Jaffe
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