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Re: Research individuals in France
#france
David Choukroun
Dear Patricia
The access to death Acts are fairly easy for Paris before 1987 http://archives.paris.fr/s/4/etat-civil-actes/? Then you can enter all the elements (2 fev 1941, 16ieme district and the ides 262) to catch the act It says : the 2.2.1941, 17h00 dead act of Paul Rattner address: 35 Rue Le Marois, born : Mohileff (Russia) the 26 April 1858 unemployed from Isidore RATTNER x Boddana GUMELEFF, both dead Husband of Julie ROSEN Legal + Witness : Charles VOGT, 55 years old, @ 80 rue de la Pompe Using the same interface, but for a wedding, you might be able to locate the Act if done in Paris Regards David david.choukroun@...
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Re: Seeking Fritz BUKOFZER, film producer- Paris > Switzerland
#france
itencorinne@...
Seeking Fritz BUKOFZER, film producer- Paris > Switzerland
Hi David (Selig)
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Orange County CA JGS Meeting Sunday July 26th 10:00 am PDT With Alex Krakovsky
#ukraine
#announcements
#events
Michelle Sandler
The Orange County California Jewish Genealogy Society is having their next virtual monthly meeting on Sunday July 26th 10:00 am PDT with Alex Krakovsky. ALex will be speaking on his project to freely acquire Ukrainian Jewish Archival records and put them up for free on the web. The program will be taped for those who are members of OCJGS or pay for the individual session. Dues are $15.00 through December 31st. A one time only fee is $5.00 per meeting. Everyone who registers before Saturday will get in to the lecture.
Michelle Sandler
President OCJGS
Vice President of Programming
Librarian OCJGS
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Family name meaning - MASZELNIK
#names
#poland
#lithuania
aviv_ya@...
My grandmother's maiden name was MASZELNIK and from what I know it is related to occupation of dairy producers (masło in Polish means butter).
The family is originally from Vilnius. Can someone please verify it? Thanks, Aviv Yahav
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patrice.markiewicz@...
Historian, I am looking for Jewish families from the Rusian Empire and Poland who emigrated toward the 18th arena of Paris France during the XIXth and XXTh centuries. Please contact Patrice Markiewicz at patrice.markiewicz@.... Thank you.
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ViewMate translation request - Yiddish
#yiddish
#translation
aviv_ya@...
I've posted a 2 pages letter in Yiddish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following addresses:
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83294 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83295 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Aviv Yahav
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SHEINSOHN from draft avoidance list
#lithuania
David Kohen
This record was found in the All Lithuania Revision List Database. If this family is whom I believe them to be, the parents (Shmuel and Hode Gite) registered a marriage in Riga in 1875, the children were born in Riga and other places between 1878 and 1897 and almost all of the family members were in the U.S. long before 1915. Is this possible? Does this listing mean that some or all of them were in Siauliai in 1915? Is it possible to find out whether this list was reconstructed from a prior registration? If so, how would I obtain the information from the prior registration? Thanks in advance for any help.
David M. Kohen
617-398-0570
dkohen.benchmark@...
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Lost family in Ukraine-a dead end
#ukraine
STANSKY
My family name in Russia was Shainsky. My paternal grandfather, grandmother, and children arrived in 1913 in Philadelphia. His 18 yo brother also came on the same ship, but was deported due to illness. I have not been able to trace one family member in Russia. There is a tree on MyHeritage, which has some equivalent names that I recognize, but the manager of the tree in Australia had not responded to my requests. I even looked at the trees of my DNA matches, with no luck. This has been previously posted on Tracing the Tribe. The 1897 Census does not yield any names on Ancestry when inserting the English spelling.
Here are the names:. GF- Chaim Yehoshuah Shainsky. His brother: Moishe Shainsky (Scheinsky on the ship manifest.). Their father: Mordechai (Mottel) Ber Shainsky, who never came to the US. His wife may be Rivka. On that family tree from Australia, Mordechai has numerous children, but my emigrant GF is not mentioned among them. Those include:. Volka Mordhovich Shainsky, Moisha Shainsky, Masia Shainsky, Malka Shainsky, Baila Shainsky, and one unknown. Other descendants include:. Geller, Vail, Ostrovsky, Kunin. I do have correspondence and photos from Russia with the given names Motele, Genia, Soyfer. There may also be a Gershon.
Any help anyone could offer would be much appreciated. I am in contact with a large U.S. Shainsky family via Y DNA, and we would love to discover how we are related. Thanks so much.
Stanley Solinsky
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Re: military notbook
#bessarabia
Yefim Kogan
Iryna,
thanks for the link. I did not know that information about regiments in Russian Army is now online. I even looked into other Regiments who participated in the wars and found names of Jews killed or wounded. All the best, Yefim
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Re: Help Identifying 1940s Military Uniform
#general
Lee Hover
It appears to be U.S., and medical corps. He has the medical symbol on both lapels.
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Re: military notbook
#bessarabia
Yefim Kogan
Hello Adrian, WoW! That is an amazing document. I would be glad to have it on our Bessarabia website if you do not mind, and maybe you can write a story about that relative...
You probably know that he got this military document when he left the military to a reserve. It also written that when he left he choose Khotin uezd, Kelmenskaya 'volost'". There is a town Kelmentsy, not far from Khotin, and it is written in Romaian on a map I enclosed as Chelmenti. Actually there is a page where it says that he was registered in Khotin uezd, Kelmentskay 'volost'' in 1910, November 13. Also at the very end there are two stamps about training people in reserve from 1911 and 1912 The last two pages are interesting... he used this military document as passport. At that time Russians to go abroad had to have passports. Did he emigrated to Argentina in 1913? What happened in 1935? By the way did you check our JewishGen Database - Romania (Bessarabia) where you find a lot of families with that surname and registered in Khotin... they could live somethere else, but registered in Khotin. I recomend to go thru all such entries. All the best, Yefim Kogan
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Re: Is the first name Marx a shortened version of Mordecai
#names
In my famly tree, there are Max, Marx and various spellings of Moritz. The equivalent Hebrew name is Mordechai.
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Re: From Austria to Venezuela
#general
rebecca.blum@...
Hi Patrick,
I know we have discussed elsewhere that our "Atlas-family" are most likely not connected. However seeing this message made me reconsider - my ATLAS married into the ADEST-family and they also fled to Venezuela and resided in Caracas until most of the family went to the US. Maybe it is worth looking into? Best, Rebecca
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Lenoppenheim@...
My mother was employed at the Jewish Children’s Home (also known as the Hebrew Orphan’s Assylum) at 534 Clinton Ave., in Newark in the early 1930’s. The Home sheltered both girls and boys. My mother was in charge of the girls. While working there she met my father who was a volunteer leader of the Home’s Boy Scout Troop. They married in 1935, thus ending my mother’s employment at the Home. Photos of the Home may be seen at: http://newarkcarefacilities.com/photos/index.php?cat=21
Evidently the Home existed into the 1950’s. See information at: Dana.njit.edu/items/show/176
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Re: military notbook
#bessarabia
That's what I'd think about the Argentinian stamped document. But what was a "military notebook"? What was its purpose and what organization issued it?
-- Erika Gottfried Teaneck, New Jersey
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Re: Is the first name Marx a shortened version of Mordecai
#names
Jules Levin
Marks was an established English family name. A Marks Virginia family
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settled in the 17th Century was related to either Lewis or Clark, the explorers of Louisiana Territory. I am too old and tired to check which one now. They were not Jewish, despite my hopes. 8-) Jules Levin
On 7/23/2020 5:28 AM, Jeffrey Knisbacher via groups.jewishgen.org wrote: Marx occurs as a first name in Bedford, England records of my TISINBOM
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Re: Song - Why don't they give a Yiddisher Boy a Chance?
#unitedkingdom
mjr92115@...
Bernard Kops is a 'Jewish Cockney', still living at age 94. In one of his autobiographical works, 'The World is a Wedding', he uses snatches of this song. You should try writing him, he might know all the words. His Wikipedia page gives more info.
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Re: Is the first name Marx a shortened version of Mordecai
#names
jbonline1111@...
My grandfather Mordechai, called Mordchi on a passenger list, was known as Max in the USA. My brother, named for him, is Mark. As a result, I would think Marx would be another possible English-sounding name, especially for someone coming from a German-speaking area.
-- Barbara Sloan Conway, SC
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Re: Family Tree Maker Exposes Data on 60,000 Users
#announcements
#general
jbonline1111@...
This is why I prefer to use only personal computer-based software for my database. I have no right to expose the information of living relatives to the public, let alone to hackers who may or may not be bad guys.
-- Barbara Sloan Conway, SC
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June Genis
I found the manifest for my grandmother arriving in Montreal from Liverpool but have never found documentation of how she got to Liverpool. Any suggestions? My grandfather came over before and I think arrived in New York although I can't find a manifest for his name, Simon or Solomon Okun, that I completely trust. Her manifest says she and their two daughters were meeting her husband, "Solomon" in St.Albans, VT I have no idea how he got there.
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