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Re: Nograd - Ludany, birth records KLEIN in 1880s
#hungary
JPmiaou@...
Unfortunately, what's in item 4 on that film is all that FamilySearch has for Szécsény, and it is highly incomplete. There's a summary of what's missing on image 418: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS87-S75H-M?i=417&cat=261203
I interpret it to mean that births between 1868 and 1895 are all missing (among others). Whenever you find a new location to pursue, it's always a good idea to start with the gazetteers. They were specifically compiled to answer questions like "where's the church" or "where's the registry office". https://web.archive.org/web/20160327063819/http://www.radixhub.com/radixhub/gazetteers/1877 http://konyvtar.ksh.hu/index.php?s=kb_statisztika#kb_statisztika_helysegnevtarak Julia . /\ /\ .>*.*<
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Re: Ship Manifests, immigration
#general
Eva Lawrence
If the person was a stowaway it would explain bot why they wre detained and and why they were not on the ship manifest, as would if they were travelling under a false name.
-- Eva Lawrence St Albans, UK.
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Sherri Bobish
Hi Carl, Are you looking at the transcription, or a copy of the actual cert? Those old certs are often times near impossible to read. I suggest looking at the cert itself, and not relying on what a transcriber thought they saw written. Regards, Sherri Bobish Princeton, NJ
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Re: Shabbos meals
#belarus
Abraham Schijveschuurder <ams@...>
hi
i originate from Holland where this is happening. In particular on seder nights milchig is eaten! And moreover on shabbes mornings.
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Re: Public School 25 Brooklyn photos from ca. 1913
#photographs
Sherri Bobish
Perhaps try The Brooklyn Historical Society. If they don't have files of such photos they might know other options on where to find them. https://www.brooklynhistory.org/ According to their site, they remain closed due to Covid. I do not know if they are answering e-mails. Also, you might try The NYC Municipal Library: https://www.archives.nyc/ They are also closed due to Covid. There is an e-mail address on the above site. Regards, Sherri Bobish Princeton, NJ
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A curious mtDNA question
#dna
YaleZuss@...
It may reflect a propensity for the descendants of conversos to marry other descendants of conversos, even after leaving Spain. That would result in an even higher degree of endogamy than is often the case for Jews in general.
Yale
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Re: How to use the Paris Census record -- a guideline
#guidelines
#france
Richard Cooper
Many thanks for this very interesting information!
Any ideas how to access much earlier Paris censuses? I'm looking for 1876 and 1882,
Ric Cooper (NB: Not related to any COOPERs!)
Midhurst, UK BORENSTEIN, MATELEVITCH,GODZINSKIJ & ZIMNOWICZ and from Warsaw and Radun MILLET, ENGELBERG, BLUMENKEHL, SUSSWEIN, WACKS & PITERZIL from Tarnow, Dabrowa Tarnowska and Lezajsk
LEZTER, SALENDER, RINENBERG, EISEN & KRAETTER from Rzeszow and Kolbuszowa YAROSHEVSKY, SHAPOCHNIKOW & GRANITUR from Odessa and Zlatopol/Novomirgorod LEWINSTEIN from Berdichev ADLER, FINKELSTEIN, PARYLLE, WEINTRAUB & ZILZ from Tarnopol and Trembowla
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Renee Steinig
"Nuseaue," like many names in Family Search's NYC indexes, is likely a transcriber's bad reading of bad handwriting. I would want to get a copy of the original death record to interpret it for myself. Also, as you may know, Abraham had a sister named Nettie Biegeleisen, one of whose daughters was Ester Marion Thurm (c.1890-1978). Perhaps she was named for Nettie and Abraham's mother. Unfortunately, her gravestone, pictured on JewishData.com, shows no Hebrew name. Renee Carl Kaplan <carl.kaplan@...> wrote:
A great-great uncle from Galicia, named A. Bienenstock, has the following in the information from New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949. What would Nuseaue be, since the mother's married name would have been Bienenstock, and maiden name was Hoffert? I didn't find Nuseaue in Beider's book on given names. Thanks.
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Re: Weinstock from Hungary: Romanian Nat'l Archives-Oradea, Reg.46
#hungary
Moishe Miller
Aaron and the rest of our community,
Wow! Thank you so much! I have been looking for this death detail for decades. I appreciate you doing the obvious and then sharing it with me. Over the years, I have done this same search, but with no results, which is why I thought to reach out to our group.
The record you point out has Jonasz at age 73 in 1906, which yields a computed birth in 1832 or 1833. That dovetails nicely with the 1832 birth for him in the 1869 Hungarian census.
Would anyone know how I could:
Moishe Miller
Brooklyn, NY
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Searching for Brom/Braun family in Lithuania
#lithuania
Phil Goldfarb
I am hoping that there are some great researchers out there who can help myself and some cousins with a brick wall. We are looking for the name of the wife of Mordecai Braun/Brom from Lithuania. We know that they had at least three children: Elka b~1850 who married Josef Fivel Jacobson, a son Boruch b~1855 who married Sara Matushon and Rachel b.1864 who married Benjamin Lit/Leet. The last town that Boruch Brom listed on his ship manifest was Svedasai, Lithuania. We know that Benjamin Lit and his family lived in Radeikiai, Lithuania which is about 11 miles away. Rachel Leet had he maiden name as Broun on her death certificate while Boruch Brom's ship manifest and death certificate had Brom.
Any help would be appreciated Phil Goldfarb Tulsa, OK phil.goldfarb@...
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Re: Nograd - Ludany, birth records KLEIN in 1880s
#hungary
carolynhat@...
Hi,
My father was Fred Klein, b. 1918, son of Arthur Klein, son of Israel Klein. They lived in Vienna, Austria, however, I don't know where they came from before they landed in Austria. Sorry if this doesn't help. I thought I would send it to you because you never know if there is a link. Carolyn
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AVIGDOR rabbinical family-Pinsk (Karlin ?)18-19 th cent
#belarus
Yonatan Ben-Ari
When I was researching my maternal great grandparents' roots in Pinsk
I came across the name AVIGDOR . As I don't have that material handy right now can anyone confirm or send me details on this family. There's a slight chance that the AVIGDOR that's in my mind was the first name rather than a family name but I doubt it. Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem
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Re: Braila Romania cemetery
#romania
lisab5308@...
I would be interested in knowing this as well. Thanks.
Lisa Bracco New York City
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A great-great uncle from Galicia, named A. Bienenstock, has the following in the information from New York, New York City Municipal Deaths, 1795-1949. What would Nuseaue be, since the mother's married name would have been Bienenstock, and maiden name was Hoffert? I didn't find Nuseaue in Beider's book on given names. Thanks.
Carl Kaplan Winchester, MA
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Re: Bessarabia region: new records found
#bessarabia
#ukraine
Yefim Kogan
Yerukhim, I am not sure I understand your question.
For now, I am looking for translators/transcribers? Do you want to be one of them? Just let me know. We still need a person who will work on Cheder's list for Khotin, All the best, Yefim
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Re: military notebook
#bessarabia
Yefim Kogan
Erica,
I think we saw here TWO different documents. I believe that Adrian's document was given after the service ended. It says in the beginning "Uvolnitelnyy bilet", which is given when person is dismissed. Larry's document is different. It is like a certificate that a person completed his service and now he is in "opolchenie" - militia and will be going to service in time of war, etc. All these documents have a lot of information for genealogists. All the best, Yefim
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Re: Hatschek (Hungary), Schwartz from Herend, Hungary, Valdhauser (Waldhauser) Hungary
#hungary
George Muenz
Thank you.
I have two both under George Muenz T524666 A915128
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Re: military notbook
#bessarabia
Yefim Kogan
Adrian,
thank you very much for allowing us to post this document to the JewishGen Bessarabia website. I appreciate it very much. One more thing here, if you can also write a brief article about that person, and together with the military papers, that would a great addition to our site. Tell a bit about his life, when, where was born, education, family.... moved out from Bessarabia... I think that when he left Russia, he did not have any other documents except this one, and that in fact became his passport, that is why all these stamps, etc. Does it say on page 19 that this document is going to be excepted as passport? Also on that page is a date 1935.... what was that year? The regiment lists has only listed officers, and not soldiers. I found in one regiment Jews listed as wounded or killed in action, but not in one you are interested in. As far as JewishGen... please explore the site, it has a lot of great information on Jews in Bessarabia. The main site is www.jewishgen.org from that you can find all databases, and especially you need Romania(Bessarabia)... and direct link is https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Romania/ after that you can do all kind of searches, by surname, town, etc. I am looking forward to get a story for us, and also to see how you searched our database. one more thing, we also have in JewishGen our Bessarabia website, where you can find additional information on Jews in Bessarabia... please explore that too: www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia All the best, Yefim Kogan
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Re: Lost family in Ukraine-a dead end
#ukraine
Many metrical records for Belaya Tserkov can be found on Alex Krakovsky's excellent wiki page at https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%84%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B5_%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%BE#%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%97%D0%B2%D1%81%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D1%96%D1%8F. The site is in Ukrainian, but Google Chrome browser will translate into English (sort of). Scroll down to Bila Tserkva. The records, themselves, are in Russian. We hope to find volunteers to translate them and create an index.
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Re: IAJGS Conference Announcement
#jgs-iajgs
#education
#events
#announcements
It is up on the website on the Program tab.
Chuck Weinstein
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