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Is there a research section that covers the Vileika Uyezd of Vilnius Gubernia
#belarus
#lithuania
Susan Goldsmith
Is there a research section that covers the Vileika Uyezd of Vilnius Gubernia? I believe there used to be, but I can't find it. Did another district take over? I am particularly interested in Dauhinava, Belarus, formerly Dolhinow, Vileika, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Thank you, Susan Goldsmith -- 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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fjs@...
You may wish to contact Jewish Tour (jewish-tour.com), a long established firm based in Minsk, which offers an in-depth genealogical service as well as heritage tours. Another avenue which you might pursue is to contact Hesed - Rachamin, (hesed@...), also in Minsk. They can check to see if anyone with the family name you are seeking is listed on their register.
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Belarus Meeting at the IAJGS Conference
#belarus
#announcements
dfeldman@...
The annual Belarus meeting will be held at 2:45 pm (EST) on Monday, August 10. The conference is virtual this year but you will still need to register for the conference to get a link to the meeting.
Belarus Research Group
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Re: My Heritage - Theory of Family Relativity
#general
rv Kaplan
It's called the Theory of Family Relativity and was brought in with great fanfare a couple of years ago. Harvey Kaplan
On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 20:14, Alyssa Freeman <tsiporah.shani@...> wrote:
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Re: Online trees
#general
Marcel Apsel
I was long thinking to put my family trees on Geni and I speak about 8.000 names, but I won’t do it; I did extensive research on Geni and some far distant relation to whom I had once send a tree in gedcom put it on Geni without my permission; ok with recent generations he paid more attention to the privacy, but when I see what happened to that tree, I became horrified. The tree is a shulent, kishke and kigel mixed together, where my father becomes my great-uncle, a wife is born 25 years later than the date when her husband passed away, parts of the tree are mixed with others, wrong writing of names, death dates are put it as birth dates, information added by one person is contradictory with information put in by others etc. The principle to share family on a public tree is in principle a good idea, but the results are less, at least with my tree. I feel a pity for all the geni administrators who have to clean out mistakes and non realistic input. Conclusion: I keep my tree with me and family who wants to get a tree, I will share with them with a PDF format.
Marcel Apsel Antwerpen, Belgium
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Finding The Correct Record
#general
Teewinot
Hi Cousins,
I'm having trouble figuring out which image is the one I need. I'm hoping someone here has done this before and can help me. This whole numbering system has me confused. I'm looking for the birth record of Movsha-Meer MAJZLIN. The listing is as follows: Microfilm/Item: FHL1920797/3 Image: 86 Archive/Fond: NHABMinsk/3362/1/7 Place Recorded: Mogilev Year: 1872 Record Number: M259 The images are found here: https://www.familysearch.org/search/film/007766480 Which image is the one I want? That's what I can't figure out. Thanks in advance for your help. Jeri Friedman Port Saint Lucie, Florida -- teewinot13@... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RESEARCHING: FRIEDMAN, MILLER, BERKOWITZ (Grodno, Poland/Russia/Belarus); GEIST (?,Russia); GLICKMAN, KLUGMAN, STURMAN, KAPLAN, ROTENBERG (Bilgoraj, Lublin, Poland/Russia); LIEB/LEIBOWITZ, BLAU (Jassy/Iasi, Romania); GALINSKY, GELLIS (Suwalki, Poland/Russia); KRASNOPOLSKY, SILBERMAN/SILVERMAN (Krasnopol, Poland/Russia) KOPCIANSKY (?, Poland/Russia); GOLDSTEIN, SCHRAGER (?, Romania); CYRULNIK (Suwalki, Poland/Russia and Kalvarija, Lithuania) -- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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Re: My Heritage - Theory of Family Relativity
#general
Dorann Cafaro
I have also never had any luck with Theory of Family Relativity and have a large number DNA matches.
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Re: My Heritage - Theory of Family Relativity
#general
Alyssa Freeman
Where on MH is the theory of family relativity? Are you referring to the Estimated relationships?
Alyssa Freeman
Richmond, VA
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Re: Taking Photographs of Microfilm Reader Images at NYC Municipal Archives
#photographs
#general
suemo63141@...
I have been there many times. Initially I tried taking photos, but the staff is fairly alert and will reprimand you. Recently much of the microfilm has been indexed and you can see images online rather than using a microfilm reader (which are usually 50% out of commission and out of focus). The place is run on a shoestring clearly, and I have sympathy for the obvious fact they have no funding. At least the staff is helpful. My solution is to make up in advance a spreadsheet with identifiers for all the records I want to look up, and then when I have the image, enter the information in columns prepared for the data I need. The value to genealogists of marriage documents is to be able to decipher the names of the parents of both parties, addresses that help verify identities, and sometimes the officiant and witness names can be helpful as well. Birth and death record images can also contain unindexed information. Beware that this office has only the archived records that NYC allows to be public, and that NYC is very recalcitrant about liberating records that should be public by now (e.g. births only available to 1909). This office is separate from the Health Dept, which has later records and is much less public-friendly.
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The female Yiddish name Losche in the US?
#names
Susan Goldsmith
Dear Genners
A female Losche Tobias emigrated to the States, arriving in 1914 from Swerzhen, now Belarus. What might her American name be?
This is not a very common name. I have checked Jewish given name websites. I cannot find her in the 1915 NYS Census even though she went to an uncle in Brooklyn in 1914.
Thank you,
Susan Goldsmith
-- 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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mbakawaii@...
Thank you for your quick response to my question, Sherri! I’ve already researched Familysearch.com & other websites. I have almost reached the conclusion that my grandfather never was naturalized although I just received a very specific link within the NARA. I will try this link before I put this question to rest.
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Re: My Heritage - Theory of Family Relativity
#general
Max Heffler
I had some luck with it when it first came out. Haven’t looked at it in months. I probably should.
From: main@... [mailto:main@...] On Behalf Of rv Kaplan via groups.jewishgen.org
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2020 9:02 AM To: main@... Subject: [JewishGen.org] My Heritage - Theory of Family Relativity #general
Has anyone had any luck with this facility on My Heritage? MH says:
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Re: Taking Photographs of Microfilm Reader Images at NYC Municipal Archives
#photographs
#general
Max Heffler
Years ago I got LDS microfilm sent to a local Family History Library where they had a USB writer and I copied an entire film or two to USB and then created an indexing project and shared the index with JewishGen. I don’t know if NYC Municipal Archives has similar equipment. _._,_._,_
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Re: C- Files - US Naturalization Index care - what info on it?
#general
Moishe,
Regards, David Oseas
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Re: Ancestry to be Acquired by Blackstone Group for $4.7 Billion
#announcements
Peter Cherna
"Alternate asset manager" is a broad and loose term that includes venture capitalists and private equity fund managers. Imprecisely, it means managing money in ways other than buying and selling publicly traded stocks and bonds.
(Tiny anecdote unrelated to your question, but my own name basically translates as "Black Stone". In the early days of the internet I tried to register "blackstone.com" but "some company or other" that I'd not heard of at the time beat me to it.)
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ViewMate- Translation of German marriage record in Ukraine
#germany
#ukraine
#translation
e weiss
I am trying to help a Holocaust survivor find out more about her family. I've posted two marriage records in German for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83610 http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83611
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. E. Landau
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Re: Is Ojzer and Ejzer the same name as Uscher?
#general
Molly Staub
My father’s name was Usher Harast/Arost, becoming Oscar in the U.S. He had an uncle in Philadelphia also named Usher, and I have found several Jarast relatives in South America named Uscher. I have never found the spellings you posted. My father was from Dumbraveni, Soroki, Bessarabia. HOWEVER, I have recently discovered a large branch from Piotrkow, Poland with that name, spelled Jarost. I’m not an expert on Polish, but since your names include the letter J, perhaps that’s something you might pursue. Happy hunting,
Molly Arost Staub staubmolly@...
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Re: Taking Photographs of Microfilm Reader Images at NYC Municipal Archives
#photographs
#general
Shelley Mitchell
Officially, this is not permitted. My first time there I discovered I could not copy with my phone. Since I was interested in the data and not the certificate, I just wrote down info. In the NYC Municipal Building, if you need a Naturalization done through their Supreme Court, you can photograph everything including the valuable Petition.
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Re: Ancestry to be Acquired by Blackstone Group for $4.7 Billion
#announcements
Laurie Sosna
Another take on the acquisition
https://gizmodo.com/worlds-biggest-landlord-buys-worlds-biggest-genealogy-w-1844630685
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Re: Austria will Allow Descendants of Holocaust Victims to Receive Citizenship Beginning September 1st
#holocaust
Shelley Mitchell
This might be a silly question but I’m curious. I’ve several instances where Jews can apply for foreign citizenship while retaining US citizenship. My question is what would be the benefit of having a foreign citizenship? Taxes? Foreign Travel?
TIA
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