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ViewMate translation request -- German #germany #danzig

adamshemper@...
 

Hello All, 
I've posted a family letter in German from 1914 I need help translating.
The 2 pages are on ViewMate at the following addresses:
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=83244
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=83243

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you, 
Adam S.
IAJGS Conference Announcement #jgs-iajgs #education #events #announcements

Chuck Weinstein
 

ANNOUNCING: We are delighted to present the first iteration of the full conference program to the public. For those of you who have been waiting to register until you can read more about the offerings - this announcement is for you.

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 and register now if you have not already! The full conference fare is $325 and there is some access to free sessions. So please thank those who are paying for the conference because it is subsidizing those free sessions. Thank you!

 For the IAJGS Conference Chair,

 

 Chuck Weinstein

 

Communications Director
Re: What's a Cutter? #usa #general

Rich friedman
 

My father was a dress cutter starting after WWII. A dress cutter was a person who worked for a company that made dresses. His job was to pull rolls of material back and forth along a long table. When the pile reached a certain height he would put the pattern parts that made up  the dress on top of the pile and would use a machine to cut them out.
 
Rich Friedman
 
SEEKING
POK /POCK - Glubokie, Belarus
KURLANDCHIK- Seta and Jonava, Lithuanaia
Re: Looking for 19thC marriage record in NYC(?) #usa #austria-czech

Sherri Bobish
 


Ilan,

I searched https://stevemorse.org/vital/nymarriages-igg.html?index=bride
with broad parameters on name spelling, etc. and did not find a record using bride's surname Baunstein, or Jaffe (assuming that the following death record is the correct one.)

I did find what may be little Harry Cohen's death record at https://stevemorse.org/vital/nydeath-igg.html
May 2, 1910 Manhattan
Harry Cohen, 20 months old.

A bit more info transcribed at www.familysearch.org
The actual cert will have info on cause of death, and their address.
Name: Harry Cohen
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 22 May 1910
Event Place: Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Event Place (Original): Manhattan, New York, New York, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 1
Birth Year (Estimated): 1909
Father's Name: Jacob
Mother's Name: Becky Jaffe
Certificate Number: cn 16413

Regards,

Sherri Bobish
Princeton, NJ
Re: DNA and Gedmatch #dna

Bob Silverstein
 

GEDmatch is back up.  You might want to change your password.
Re: What's a Cutter? #usa #general

Alan Greenberg
 

It makes sense. When I was involved in the garment industry 60 years ago, the electric cutting machines (capable of cutting a pile of fabric 8 or more inches high) offered little protection to the cutter. Many were missing fingers or part of them. Google "stright knife cutting machine" images. Earlier in the century they were probably even more hazardous.

Alan Greenberg
Montreal, Canada


On July 25, 2020 12:34:49 PM EDT, "Phil Karlin via groups.jewishgen.org" <philk=nebasket.com@...> wrote:
Thanks everyone.
Does it make sense that someone could be killed in a work-related accident? I could see injured, but killed?
Maybe it was not work related.

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Re: Deportation from U.S. ports back to Eastern Europe #general

Sherri Bobish
 


Judi,

Can you clarify some things about Miksa HIRSCHFELD's wife and two daughters?

Do you mean you do not know their first names, or that you do not know their surname because Miksa's wife re-married?

Did Miksa's wife and two daughters visit your family from abroad, or did they live in the U.S. at the time of their visit around 1930?

Regards,

Sherri Bobish
Princeton, NJ
Ida Friedman/ Herman and Perl Katz #holocaust

Stuart Kaufer
 

Ida Friedman was the daughter of my maternal Great Uncle David Friedman who was murdered in Auschwitz.  The family lived in Nagytarna.  Ida contacted the family in 1949 and that is the last we heard of her.  She was sent to Stuthof KL and liberated there.   I do not know if she subsequently married or had children.  I have tried the usual avenues but nothing since 1949.   In the chance that this list serve may yield some information I am posting this and requesting information about her niece, Perl Katz.   Herman and Perl Katz lived in Munkacs, survived the war and emigrated to Israel.   I was in touch with them in the 60's when they were still in Munkacs, they had 3 sons, one of whom died.   One son's name was Friedrich.  Perhaps someone on the list knows of them or their children,  Perl and Herman are presumably dead as they were middle aged when I was in touch with them.   Thank you.
Re: What's a Cutter? #usa #general

Diane Jacobs
 

For many years if was known by New Yorkers S the rag business.

Diane Jacobs 



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-------- Original message --------
From: Mark Halpern <mark@...>
Date: 7/25/20 10:17 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: main@...
Cc: Phil Karlin <philk@...>
Subject: Re: [JewishGen.org] What's a Cutter? #usa #general

Many Jewish immigrants during that period took jobs as a cutter. My father's first job was as a cutter in 1921. A cutter is a person who cuts fabric. I would refer to this business as the "Shmatah" or clothing business. 

Mark Halpern

 

On 2020-07-25 9:55 am, Phil Karlin wrote:

An ancestor was killed in a work-related accident in 1894, in New York City. I can't find anything specific about the accident, but city directories & his children's birth records give his occupation as "Cutter."
Anyone know what that is? What type of business would employ such a person? How might it be dangerous?

thanks,
Phil K.

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Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey
Re: mtDNA matches #dna

sbloom@...
 

For the most part, you would likely not be able to assume this match's ancestors were your *direct ancestors* even along the direct female line that is traced by mtdna. The issue is that the common ancestor is much more likely to be further back than almost anyone can trace.  They would indeed be cousins, and some of them could be direct ancestors, but you can't assume so. 
Re: What's a Cutter? #usa #general

Hilary Henkin
 

A cutter is more than someone who just cuts fabric.  When I did theatre
(props) in my prior career, the Cutter translated what the designer
sketched, into actual pattern pieces, and designed how to assemble those
pieces to create what the designer wanted.

Regular workers would cut out the fabric, sew/please, gather, etc.

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Re: mtDNA matches #dna

curtstamps@...
 

Rollie Stamps
JewishGen ID#51898

Jody,
I am not an expert on the subject, so I contacted FamilyTreeDNA, due to your issue on the mtDNA sequence. This is their reply :

Thanks for contacting FamilyTreeDNA. At the full sequence level, even an exact match to your DNA (so a match with a genetic distance of zero) would likely share a common ancestor with you on your direct maternal line anywhere within the last 5-16 generations, or 125 to 400 years or so. When you start looking at matches with differences (genetic distance of 1, 2, or 3), those common ancestors can be even further back in time. Once you're looking at matches that are only at the HVR1 and HVR2 levels, it's possible that you could share a common ancestor with those matches anywhere within the last 1000 years. 

Depending on the extensiveness of your tree and your genealogy research, it's possible that your common ancestor could be further back than you have traced your genealogy.

The article I've linked below has a ton of great tips for getting the most out of your mtDNA matches and finding your common ancestor with them. I strongly recommend reading through it.

https://dna-explained.com/2019/07/03/mitochondrial-dna-part-4-techniques-for-doubling-your-useful-matches/

Hope this helps,

Rollie
Re: What's a Cutter? #usa #general

Diane Jacobs
 

A cutter is usually in the garment business.

Also if your Karlin family was from Belarus 
And possibly originally Karlinsky, we should talk further. 

Diane Jacobs 
geniediane@...



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-------- Original message --------
From: Phil Karlin <philk@...>
Date: 7/25/20 9:55 AM (GMT-05:00)
To: main@...
Subject: [JewishGen.org] What's a Cutter? #usa #general

An ancestor was killed in a work-related accident in 1894, in New York City. I can't find anything specific about the accident, but city directories & his children's birth records give his occupation as "Cutter."
Anyone know what that is? What type of business would employ such a person? How might it be dangerous?

thanks,
Phil K.
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Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey
Re: mtDNA matches #dna

Todd Leavitt
 

mtDNA certainly serves a purpose, but one must be cautious about reaching any conclusions regarding its actual value. My 92 year old mother belongs to haplogroup K1a1b1a, likely the most common group for Ashkenazi Jews. On FTDNA, she has over 425 0-step (i.e. no mutations present) matches! Compare that to my wife (who also turned out to be my cousin, sharing 85 cMs of DNA, probably on our maternal lines) who belongs to haplogroup H3p, and has only 14 0-step matches. Ultimately, both of them will trace back to Ancestral Eve. 
Re: What's a Cutter? #usa #general

Sam Wolff
 

In the movie "Breaking Away" (a great sports movie, if you don't know it- check it out), a cutter was a pejorative term for the local Indiana students on campus at Indiana University, named after those who worked in the neighboring quarries. But more likely, it signifies somebody who worked in the garment industry, as others have responded.
Re: What's a Cutter? #usa #general

Sally Bruckheimer
 

The person cuts things. In NYC, usually he cuts fabric for sewing.  In Polish records, he often cuts grain (like kasha).
 
Sally Bruckheimer
Princeton, NJ
Re: Looking for 19thC marriage record in NYC(?) #usa #austria-czech

Sherri Bobish
 


Hi Barbara,

NYC did not enforce the filing of marriages until circa 1900. It is very possible that a rabbi married them and never filed any civil paperwork.

I searched here:  https://stevemorse.org/vital/nymarriages-igg.html?index=bride

I used the broadest searches possible and found nothing.

Another possibility is that they married somewhere other than where you suppose they did.

Regards,

Sherri Bobish
Princeton, NJ
Re: Kansas City Lithuania Jews #lithuania #usa

Lee Hover
 

Altho not a Litvak, my paternal GF came in through Galveston and went to KC (my maternal side is Litvak--the name is LAP(P)IN).
Seeking info. on passage from Europe to Brazil circa 1913/1914 #russia #belarus

Myrna Waters
 

Hi,

My ggparents and their 8 youngest children left the town of Puchovichi, Russia in either late 1913 or early 1914 on a journey to Brazil where they had been offered land and an opportunity to settle.( Puchovichi was about 35 mi. SE of Minsk.) One of my great uncles made a recording of his memories of this journey.  He was around 8 yrs of age at the time and in his 80's when he recorded this.   He did not record the names of the port or the ship they traveled on.  I believe there were other villagers on the same voyage, possibly even relatives as he said an agent came to the town and told the Jewish people that there was an organization that wanted to make a Jewish settlement there and they would have free land and a home,etc.  (Possibly this was one of the Baron Hirsh farming settlements?)   
I believe they left from either Hamburg or Bremen (as they returned to Hamburg from Brazil several months later and again I have no records of this passage.)
My Great Uncle said they left Russia during a blizzard and took a train to Germany.  He said his father had a passport.  He said it was a steerage boat, not a passenger boat, if that helps narrow the possibilities.  He said the boat made several stops at various ports and took cargo on and off, plus people from various countries came onto the boat.  He remembers one port where many Italian people came onboard.  He said they arrived at Ameriga? (not sure if this spelling or name place is correct) and then they got on a train for possibly 2 days until they arrived at (Lubinengo?) In english it was called Flower Island?  From there they took a train again and finally arrived at their destination.  It was rainy season in Brazil, the baby sister died and they had to bury her in a cemetery far away from the holding area they were living in.   My ggfather then went to the area where the settlement was to be built.  At this point the immigrants could decide to return to Germany if they did not find this to be suitable for them and that is when my ggfather decided to return to Germany. 
I do know they arrived in Hamburg because they then left Hamburg on April 18, 1914  on the S/S President Grant and arrived in NY on April 30, 1914.

If anyone has any ideas about where any of these records might be found, please respond.  I do not know how the family name was spelled in Russia.
As with most names I have seen it spelled many ways from the Ellis Island manifests.   My ggfather had been to the USA twice before bringing his older boys to the USA, including my grandfather and returning to Russia afterwards.  There were 3 of them already in the USA when he finally brought over the rest of his family.   Here are various spellings of our family name:  Zlodnik, Zlotnick, Slotnik, Slotnick, Slatnick.   My ggfather was Judel, Jude and my ggmother was Tania, Toni, Tone.  

Thank you for your assistance. 

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Myrna (Slatnick) Waters
NJ/NY/FL USA

Researching:  SLEPACK (or similar)Belarus/Bialystok area; SLATNICK/SLOTNIK (or similar) Minsk/Puchovichi area of Russia; KURZMANN JasLo, Poland and Drohobych, Ukraine area (both formerly in what was the Galician area of Austria prior to WWI), KURTZMAN in NY/Bronx and NJ/Newark from 1914, SADOWSKY (or similar) from Belarus area of Russia/Bialystok area 19th century to Newark,NJ 1905 or after.
Re: What's a Cutter? #usa #general

Phil Karlin
 

Thanks everyone.
Does it make sense that someone could be killed in a work-related accident? I could see injured, but killed?
Maybe it was not work related.
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