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FBI Case Files on Fold3
#records
Sherri Bobish
Dear Genners,
There is a database "FBI Case Files" on Fold3.
There are two separate pages in that database, as follows:
Ester LOEFFELFELD
# 40-628
Both pages have the same number.
Can anyone with access to Fold3 tell me what these two pages contain?
Since her surname here has the same misspelling as on her 1921 passenger manifest, I am wondering if it relates to that, or her naturalization?
Thank you,
Sherri Bobish
Princeton, NJ
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Lazar Schwimmer + Ruchel Berkovits, married 1899 in Munkacs
#general
#subcarpathia
#ukraine
Moishe Miller
Hello,
My g-gm had a brother named Lazar Schwimmer, born 1876, who married Ruchel Berkovits in 1899, in Munkacs. He had a shoe store. Does anyone have knowledge of this family? -Moishe Miller Brooklyn, NY JGFF# 3391 moishe.miller@...
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Alexander Sharon
This profession was very popular just 50 years ago in Poland based Jewish tailoring co-operatives. Today I cannot locate name or definition of the tailor-cutter in Polish dictionaries.
If you are searching name of cutter in old Polish professions is known as "zakrojczy" [zah kroh i:chi] Alexander Sharon
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Re: Research individuals in France/MEYER
#france
Barbara Stein
Art,
My 2ndGGF, Leon Meyer (b. 1836, Laubach? Lembach?), emigrated from Alsace to the U.S. 1855. His father, Solomon M. Meyer (b. 1798), emigrated in 1859, if I have the correct records. My grandmother noted that that Solomon was married to a Fredericka Moehler (b. 1803). As I have not found an immigration record for her, I presume she died before Solomon left France. I know nothing else about where Solomon and Leon are from or their families. NOTE: There is a Solomon Meyer from Alsace who married a Fredericka Moog and I believe this couple has had their records confused with my relatives by others. Moog is listed as having a daughter Julia and a son Lewis. Fredericka Moehler had at least six children--Moses, Samuel, Leon, Sophia, David, Simon. I would welcome any records or hints you might find. My than ks in advance for your generosity and willingness to help! Barbara Stein Seattle, WA
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Re: JOWBR Grows Past 3.8 Million Records!
#JewishGenUpdates
#announcements
crjos
I'm delighted that you have added records from Liverpool. It has let me confirm details for many family members.
Thanks, Charles Joseph
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Re: are there benefits of the My Heritage site over Ancestry
#general
Cindy g
You may wish to check with your local library as many libraries subscribe to Newspapers.com. You can then access the site for free through the library. You do not have to be at the library to do this. There are many other sites that require paid membership, but can be accessed through you local library.
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Re: Research individuals in France
#france
Barbara Mannlein <bsmannlein@...>
How kind of you, David.
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My Weisser/Weiser are from BUCZACZ (today called BUCHACH)a Galician shtetl that belonged to Poland between the World Wars and is today in Ukraine. Austrian empire (1804—1867), Austro-Hungary (1867—1918), West Ukrainian People's Republic (1918—1919), Poland (1919—1939). Shabbat Shalom, Barbara
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Sunday's presentation
#events
Malka
Hello,
Please include the details of Sunday's presentation by Rose Feldamn Thank you, Malka Chosnek
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Re: Maiden name of Great Grandmother
#ukraine
Raylene Gurewich
Ellen, yes it's very frustrating. I hope somehow we can both find that missing branch. I see you are researching WEISSMAN/VAYSMAN. Funny, that is my paternal grandmother's mother's maiden name. She died giving birth to her 6th child in the Ukraine. Her first name was Hinda. The one I am missing is my paternal grandfather's mother.
-- Raylene Gurewich Port Jefferson Station, NY
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Re: Jewish soldier in Boer War
#general
EdrieAnne Broughton
Since the Boer War was fought in South Africa, 1899-1902 you have a time frame for your search. Since I doubt there was British Army recruitment in Lithuania, I would suppose that he immigrated to Britain before that. You don't give grandmother's birth date, or the brother's...or what his name was in Lithuania. With 20 years between siblings, there might have been siblings in between who passed down more complete information. My advice would be to write out a more complete synopsis of what you know, with complete names and dates as you know them...even off-line, as if you were writing a story and you might answer some of your own questions and at least in the end you might better define what your question is.
EdrieAnne Broughton
Vacaville, California
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Lipschitz-Cohen family of Chicago
#usa
Neil Rosenstein
Trying to make contact with the family of Charles Lipshitz of chicago
who died there in 2017, father of Rabbi Leon M. Lipshitz, married Sheri Linn Neiman, having four children and Deborah, married and later divorced Harold Katz (parents of Yaakov Katz, an American-born Israeli journalist and author and Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post since 2016, born in Chicago, in 1979, married, living in Jerusalem, having four children).
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Susan&David
Ryan: FamilySearch.org has placed the digitized images on-line of
the microfilmed records from this series of naturalizations. The
film has 360 images. 87 of these consist of a single page with only
a Missing Docket note and a name. #147 (image 354) says: "Missing
Dockets Abraham Kaslik"
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I appears that the original records were damaged or lost before the index cards were prepared, and before filming. There must have been a listing in existence whereby the absence of a record could have been determined. If you have access to FamilySearch.org I can help you find it yourself. David Rosen Boston, MA
On 7/30/2020 12:03 PM, Ryan Cramer via
groups.jewishgen.org wrote:
I've found my 2nd great-grandfather (Abraham Kaslick)'s naturalization index card however in the certificate (attached photo) it states "missing record."
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Re: Post WWII relatives records in Brussels, Belgium - JAKUBOWICZ
#general
JONES Etienne H.L.F.
response in your text
. . I have already contacted the mentioned archive in Brussels . . « Archives Générales du Rpyaume » or from which municipality ? – and I'm on a progress to reproduce a file regarding a family relative. Do you know if it can be sent by e-mail or just in hard copy ? I think it depends upon what you requested, perhaps they could both. In addition, I found on FamilySearch an immigration documents from Antwerpen, 1926, that with a careful guess I belive it also related to my family. What databases do you recommend for such documents ? Here Marcel did answer. Kind regards, Etienne JONES
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How to find reference of dead people in France after 1970 -- a guideline
#france
#guidelines
David Choukroun
Dear all,
Insee in France stands for "L’Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques" They are collecting, from all the 35000 communes in France (not a typo 35x1000) the death act of the French citizens this is not 100% completed -- as paper was used intensively in the 70"s and even 80's and those databases are updated monthly You have more than 25 Millions of records here I wanted to share here "how to do" with an example There are various tools to collect the information -- one of them is https://deces.matchid.io/search (ok this is my favorite because I know the SW dev. -- you have plenty of them with various interfaces like : https://arbre.app/insee/) Exemple I am looking at all the "Hirschfeld" dead in France from 1970 Just go to Advance search and type the wanted name (here Hirschfeld) - there is a gray framework to help about how to fill-in the fields -- they are ignored (Georges Pompidou was a French President in 1969 : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Pompidou) You will have a collection of results with variants in orthograph etc... just narrow your research by adding a first name, a gender (becareful, mistakes can happen) etc... A major function is about the Excel/CSV File as you can organize your filtering as wanted (see in RED below) What can you learn : a lot let see one record (the first one : HIRSCHFELD Marguerite) You can lean not only the dead information (date, location city, act number ) on the left side , but also the BIRTH dates/location/act number etc.... on the RIGHT side Those INSEE files are indexed by the major tools (e.g. Geneanet etc...) , but I find them very instructive while looking at siblings or even specific records where you do not know the exact dates/locations of one people Hope that helps Regards David david.choukroun@... France note : if you do not find your wanted name : either this has not be added (there are holes), either ... the wanted person is dead BEFORE 1970 ... either the wanted person wa NOT FRENCH either... bad luck (= I saw some mistakes in Gender for example) note2 : many thanks to the developers of MatchID -- the online documentation is in French today , I will ask them to produce an Eng. version
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Re: Deportation from U.S. ports back to Eastern Europe
#general
bethglaser52@...
My father in law came to New York as a stow away. He went to work for his brother but was turned in by the person whose job he took. He was sent back to Roumania. His future wife was sent to marry him, get pregnant and then he arrived about 1938 back in NY. Where would I find his deportation records for around 1935-37? Menacum Mendel (Max) Glazer or Glaser b. abt 1907.
Thank you Beth Glaser He stowed away with his friend Irving Hans who was also returned but from what I could find on him he was sent to Canada where he reentered with papers. Max chose to go home as his mother was very sick. Free ticket I guess.
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Re: Equivalent Name for Rose
#names
Nina Tobias
I would like to extend my sincere thanks to the many who contacted me privately as well to those who posted here. Your suggestions are most appreciated.
Now all I have to do is find my great-grandmother "Rose"! Nina -- Nina Tobias Scottsdale, Arizona Researching: HOROWITZ (Iasi, Romania; Odessa) SWARTZ (Iasi, Romania; Philadelphia; Chicago) TOBIAS (Rymanow, Galicia; Chicago) , VOROBYEV, GOLDMAN, VERB (Russia; Chicago)
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Moishe Miller
Hi Julia,
Typically, I do agree with your view. Even if "name is the same" applies to the spouse.
IMO, what is the same:
What is not the same
For me, especially as the death record is the only one Jonasz did not personally report, being dead, is the one leas likely to indicate it is a different person.
I would add, a search on JewishGen for another Jonasz Weinstock married to a Roza Benjamin, does not produce any results.
I am comfortable with the amount of evidence making it likely this is Jonasz's death place. What would really help is if I could locate his tombstone in one of the Oradae (Nagyvarad) cemeteries, and see that it has his father's name of Izak on it.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts,
Moishe Miller
Brooklyn, NY
JGFF# 3391
Moishe Miller
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Re: are there benefits of the My Heritage site over Ancestry
#general
Eva Lawrence
The basic difference between Ancestry and MH appears to be that Ancestry provides vital records,and a search engine to locate them and then you attach these to your tree, The information on MH and its other site, Geni is user-generated, so there can be interesting family information and photos. On the other hand, BMD information and relationships can often be either wishful thinking or very vague, . MH consists of private sites, with a primary owner, while Geni, as someone pointed out, has only a single tree, a collaborative effort.. Geni now has people working hard to iron out the discrepancies which are bound to occur.
Until quite recently, Ancestry concentrated far more on records than on personal trees and I think that that's what they do best. In contrast they give very imprecise information to users of their DNA tests compared to other companies, relying on their large user-base to give them an advantage. ,MH has a lively community of people looking for ancestors in Poland, Russia and Eastern Europe generally. My current experience of Ancestry is confined to the UK, where they provide census records, parish records and directories but only indexes for civil BMD records (cheapest from the General Record Office). but FMP has a much better search engine for British records. In the past.Ancestry,com have not been helpful for German ancestors, where there is no substitute for Famlysearch microfilms, many now online.. I'd always advise people to keep a personal tree, with images of original records on their own computer, to avoid being tied for ever to one subscription site. Your research may move in an unexpected direction, your needs (and income) may change and in any case it's worth trying several sites to see what they are offering. Once you've registered, all the sites send you hints and marketing emails,. How useful they are depends on what stage you are in your research. . -- Eva Lawrence St Albans, UK.
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Re: How to use the Paris Census record -- a guideline
#guidelines
#france
David Choukroun
@ Richard Cooper
Dear Ric You can find into those files :
your period 1876 and 1882 shall be covered on line : http://archives.paris.fr/r/127/presentation-des-archives-numerisees/ Regards David david.choukroun@... France
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Re: How to use the Paris Census record -- a guideline
#guidelines
#france
David Choukroun
@ LarryBassist
unfortunately with the name only, it will be impossible (to my knowledge) to find the exact reference into those files But they are other means: If you have the name, you can look into other databases (like the "Voter list" : http://archives.paris.fr/s/28/fichiers-des-electeurs/?) : one address will be written here you can also search for references in the Press -- most of the time there is also an address indication (gallica.fr or retronews.fr) Regards David david.choukroun@... France
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