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Re: Genealogy Software For Family Trees
#general
janenns@...
Chuck, I am interested in your topic and will be at the virtual conference. Which day and time is your software talk?
Thank you. Jan Enns
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Re: Is it possible to see NY Death Certificates (not indexes) and Naturalization Records (not indexes) online during Covid?
#records
Susan,
The naturalization records are available for viewing on FamilySearch. See these collections: Eastern District NY (1865-1958): https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/988724 Southern District NY (1824-1945): https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/51903 Kings County Supreme Ct (1907-1922): https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1056659 NY Superior Ct (1792-1906): https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/305732 Regards, David Oseas
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David Brostoff
On Jul 29, 2020, at 2:13 PM, alejandro@... wrote:
That may be, although Alexander Beider, in Dictionary of Jewish Surnames from the Russian Empire (rev. ed.), says it means "hawker" or "peddler." David
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Sherri Bobish
Minnie, There are databases on-line of incoming passenger manifests for many U.S. ports. A manifest from 1882 will likely have no other info than a person's name and name of country of origin. Although, it did vary by shipping line. Later manifests contain much broader info, as manifest data was mandated by the U.S. Here are some sites to try searching: https://stevemorse.org/ A great site with many helpful databases. www.familysearch.org A site with a large number of genealogical databases, including passenger manifests. Regards, Sherri Bobish Princeton, NJ
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Re: Maiden name of Great Grandmother
#ukraine
Raylene Gurewich
-- Yes, mother's maiden name left blank on my great uncles death certificates. :( Raylene Gurewich Port Jefferson Station, NY
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Re: Is it possible to see NY Death Certificates (not indexes) and Naturalization Records (not indexes) online during Covid?
#records
Moishe Miller
Susan,
I hope you are doing well.
I can answer #2. You can see many of the naturalization images online.
You might want to review this page:
Moishe Miller
Brooklyn, NY JGFF# 3391
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Re: NYC Municipal Death Records Archive
#usa
Debra Braverman
Marriage licenses 1950 on are held by the City Clerk and are public after 50 years.
Debra Braverman
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Re: Find Address - 30 Osborn, Brooklyn NY
#usa
Jx. Gx.
Jessica Skippon is 100 percent correct. In the 1950s NYC began putting up a lot of public housing complexes and in the process truncated or eliminated entire blocks of streets. If you Google "30 Osborn Street, Brooklyn" you will see in a map the approximate location of that former address indicated by a red dot. It is just below Howard Housing, mentioned by Jessica.
Jeffrey Gee Arizona
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Re: Is it possible to see NY Death Certificates (not indexes) and Naturalization Records (not indexes) online during Covid?
#records
Richard Werbin
I think they are available if you physically go to an LDS Family History Center. stevemorse.org had links that are supposed to work in a family history center.
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Re: are there benefits of the My Heritage site over Ancestry
#general
Richard Werbin
MyHeritage definitely has some information that is not at Ancestry or FamilySearch.
One that I know is that the Ellis Island arrival manifests include in their index the name of the person that the passenger is going to. At Ancestry & FamilySearch, that information is only available when you open the image and review it. Not searchable.
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alejandro@...
The exact meaning of this surname is en epenthesis of the surname Korb which is a german word for basket.
Now, "belnik" is a yiddish suffix for a person´s occupation. Therefore, the epenthesis occurs when you add or substract a letter from a surname. In this case an "a" was added and that is how Korabelnik means "a basket maker or seller". Best Alex
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Re: Equivalent Name for Rose
#names
bobmalakoff@...
Rifkeh (רבקה) is actually Rebecca in Hebrew and probably Yiddish. The parents probably preferred Rose.
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mmsandfriends@...
hello, is there a way to find a list of ship names/manifests for arrivals of Yiddish speakers from Russia? My husband's great-grandfather, Israel Divac arrived in 1882 and the 1920 census for Philadelphia listed his spoken language as Yiddish and his origins from Russia. Minnie Schreck
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 2:58 PM Marsha Paiste <marsha.paiste@...> wrote:
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Re: Equivalent Name for Rose
#names
bobmalakoff@...
Risha in Russian
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Is it possible to see NY Death Certificates (not indexes) and Naturalization Records (not indexes) online during Covid?
#records
Susan Goldsmith
I should know the answer to these two questions, but am floundering.
1. Is there any way to see death certificates, not indexes, after 1948-49 for NYC and Brooklyn online. I seek one for 1969 in Far Rockaway and one for 1981 in Brooklyn.
Thank you,
Susan Goldsmith
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
-- Susan Goldsmith San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA jcwsmg@... Researching GOLDSHMIDT, F(P)ILVINSKY, SHLIOMOVICH, GITTES (GADIE,GADYE, GIDUSH, GITES) Seta, Jonava, Kaunas, Adustiskes, Zemaiciu Naumiestes, Keidainiai, Ukmerge, Vandziogala, Lithuania HOROWITZ, DRASNIN (DRASNE) Dauhinava, Belarus; TOBIAS (TOUBES, TOBES, TAUBES) Novyy Swerzhen and Stowbtsy, Belarus; ROZANSKY, BILINSKY, MIRANSKY Iasevichi, Belarus DAVIS, HAFFNER Botosani, Romania WAXMAN (WAKSMAN), KOENIGSBERG Sandomierz, Ostrowiec Poland
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Looking for the birth certificate of MODLINGER from Przemsyl, Poland
#poland
Jacques Klein
Can somebody help me to find the birth certificate of MODLINGER ( may be another name) Israel Jacob, born on 5th December 1906 at Przemsyl (Poland) from Shraga and Miriam ? And if possible, a translation.
As I do not understand polish, it is very difficult to search in polish archives. Thanks J.KLEIN Paris, France
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Re: "His name was changed at Ellis Island"
#names
bobmalakoff@...
The name change idea was perpetuated in the Godfather movie. Vito says to the immigration agent "I am Vito Andolini from Corleone" and the agent writes down Vito Corleone. Many families changed their name on the own. My maternal great grandfather came over as Morris Shimishelovitz. Within his lifetime the name became Similovitz and then they said the heck with it, it's Simmons.
Bob Malakoff
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Feierstein and Finkelstein from Mihaileni
#romania
Margaret Kugel
My grandmother came from Mihaileni in Romania. According to Wikipedia there are several different towns called Mihaileni I would like to know how to find out which town is the right one.
Her family name was Feierstein or Fierstein or Feirstein. Her mother’s maiden name was Finkelstein. I would like to connect with anyone who has information on those families.
Margaret Kugel
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Marsha Paiste
Hello all--
When my great grandmother from Kornitsa brought her children to America in 1895 they came on a ship from Hamburg. The passenger list employs Yiddish names with unusual, perhaps German, spellings. For instance Tsiedel became Zeitel. Similar forms of the names also appear on the list of arrivals in NY.
One of the names is hard to read but looks like Therue or Tocherre
which I believe is my great aunt Jennie. Is Tocherre
a name? Is it possible that my ggmother said "daughter" or "tochter" and the name on the list
arises from that? Are there names for Jennie that seem like either of these?
Marsha Starr Paiste
New Hampshire
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I tried to answer this question about possible fatal accidents your "cutter" ancestor might have suffered earlier but the moderator misunderstood my reference to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire and rejected my message. But no one else has mentioned more common kinds of industrial accidents and I thought I'd try again.
My family had a clothing manufacturing business in Philadelphia for 70-80 years. They had their own cutting shop where material was cut in bulk and sent out for sewing to a jobber. They used electric saws to cut many layers of cloth at one time. There were the occasional accidents with the saws but I never heard of a fatality. More concerning were fires. There was always a lot of dust in the air from cut fabric. Scraps of fabric were everywhere, often in bins under the cutting tables. Rolls of cloth -- weighing 100s of pounds -- were stacked on racks (maybe another accident waiting to happen). And finished clothes hanging from racks. All told, a lot of fuel for a fire, which could be started by any number of common sources. The Triangle fire is the most famous but we still see reports of fatal sweatshop fires. If not fire, cutting shops were still industrial sites with plenty of opportunities for injury and death. Lee Jaffe
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