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I have never come across this name before in Suwalki. There were others in Suwalki whose names originate from elsewhere e.g. names beginning with Plock coming from that town. Allegedly my Brin/Brunn/Braun family from Vishtinetz may have come from Brno/Brunn in Moravia originally. 

In Suwalki you are more likely to find local place names used as surnames e.g. Serwianski after lake Serwy (this is my father's family)

Jill Whitehead, UK, formerly UK rep on Editorial Cttee of Landsmen, journal of Suwalki Lomza gubernia.

Is there anyone here who has knowledge of the following Czech/German
family in Huenfeld,Oberwiesenbern, Hessen ?

Mother Margita HORAK
Children :
Erhard
Werner
Helmuth

David Lewin
London

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In Russian:

 

231

Состоялось в городе Варшава, 1911 году,  7-го (20-го) сентября, в 10 часов утра.  Явился лично отец , Хаим Наймастер, 36-и лет, в городе Варшава живущий,проживающий в доме 1042,  в присутсвии совершеннолетних свидетелей Мордки Зинбойма, служащего, живущего в доме 1088 и Израиля Эдельштейна, управляющего домами, живущего в доме 1032, и предъявили нам мальчика, объявляя, что он родился 1-го (14-го) сентября сего года, в час дня, от законной жены Ханы-Мириам, урожденной Адамсбаум, тридцати двух лет от роду, и младенцу этому дано имя Рувин. Акт сей присутствующим прочитан и затем нами и свидетелями подписан.

 

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Held in the city of Warsaw, 1911, on September 7th (20th), at 10 am. Father, Chaim Naymaster, 36, personally appeared in the city of Warsaw, living in house 1042, in the presence of adult witnesses Mordka Zinboim, an employee living in house 1088, and Israel Edelstein, house manager, living in house 1032, and presented to us boy, announcing that he was born on September 1 (14) of this year, at one o'clock in the afternoon, from the legal wife of Hana-Miriam, nee Adamsbaum, thirty-two years old, and this baby was given the name Ruvin. This act was read to those present and then signed by us and by witnesses.

 

 

 

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In Russian:

 

231

Состоялось в городе Варшава, 1911 году,  7-го (20-го) сентября, в 10 часов утра.  Явился лично отец , Хаим Наймастер, 36-и лет, в городе Варшава живущий,проживающий в доме 1042,  в присутсвии совершеннолетних свидетелей Мордки Зинбойма, служащего, живущего в доме 1088 и Израиля Эдельштейна, управляющего домами, живущего в доме 1032, и предъявили нам девочку объявляя, что она родилась 1-го (14-го) августа 1909 года, в 10 часов вечера, от законной жены Ханы-Мириам, урожденной Адамсбаум, тридцати двух лет от роду, и младенцу этому дано имя Тауба.  Причина несвоевременного заявления не понятна.  Акт сей присутствующим прочитан и затем нами и свидетелями подписан.

 

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Held in the city of Warsaw, 1911, on September 7th (20th), at 10 am. Father, Chaim Naymaster, 36, personally appeared in the city of Warsaw, living in house 1042, in the presence of adult witnesses Mordka Zinboim, an employee living in house 1088, and Israel Edelstein, house manager, living in house 1032, and presented to us the girl declaring that she was born on August 1 (14), 1909, at 10 o'clock in the evening, from the lawful wife of Hana-Miriam, nee Adamsbaum, thirty-two years old, and this baby was given the name Tauba. The reason for the untimely announcement is not clear. This act was read to those present and then signed by us and by witnesses.

 

 

 

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My father was a furrier and employed a cutter who cut furs and patterns. 

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In Rusian:

 

21.

Состоялось в Варшаве, в 1900-м году, 2-го (14) февраля, в час дня, в концелярии чиновника гражданского состояния нехристианских исповеданий 7-го (не ясно) учаска города Варшавы. Явился учасковый равин Зайнвель Клейфиш и жених холостой Хаим Наймастер, торговец, 25-и лет, родился в городе Варшаве, в доме под номером 1431, проживающий, сын Боруха и Ханы, урожденной Соболь, живых супругон Наймастер и невеста девица Хана-Мириам Адамсбаум, дочь торговца, 21-го года, родилась в Варшаве,проживающая в доме под номером 927 С, дочь Герша-Нисона и Таубы, уроьденной Шварцбеин, живых супругов Адамсбаум, и свидетелей Моска Зеленек и Шлёма-Меер Финкельштейн проживающих под номером 1464 А и 1042 Б, оба совершеннолетние.  Равин Клейфиш объявил нам, что 25го января (6 февраля) он сочетал религиозным браком холостого Хаима Наймастера с девицей Чаной-Мириам Адамсбаум, что брак этот состоялся по обоюдному согласию молодоженов, каковому не было никаких препядствий и сему браку предшествовали 3 предбрачные оглашения, 18, 25 декабря прошедшего года и 1-го января сего года.  Новобрачные объявили нам, что они заключили брачный договор у нотариуса при ипотечной канцелярии мировых судей города Варшавы, Михаила Рудницкого от 17-го (29-го) января сего года за номеро 117.  Акт сей прочитан и нами подписан, кроме неграмотных новобрачных. 

 

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It took place in Warsaw, in 1900, on February 2 (14), at one o'clock in the afternoon, in the office of an official of the civil status of non-Christian confessions of the 7th (not clear) section of the city of Warsaw. The district rabbi Zainvel Kleifish appeared and the groom is single, Chaim Naymaster, a merchant, 25 years old, was born in the city of Warsaw, at house number 1431, living, the son of Borukh and Khana, née Sable, living spouse Naymaster and the bride girl Khana-Miriam Adamsbaum, daughter of a merchant, 21 years old, was born in Warsaw, living in house number 927 C, daughter of Gersh-Nison and Tauba, born Schwarzbein, living spouses Adamsbaum, and witnesses Moska Zelenek and Shlema-Meer Finkelstein living at number 1464 A and 1042 B, both adults. Rabbi Kleifish announced to us that on January 25 (February 6) he combined the religious marriage of the bachelor Chaim Naymaster with the girl Chana-Miriam Adamsbaum, that this marriage took place by mutual consent of the newlyweds, which there were no obstacles and this marriage was preceded by 3 premarital announcements, 18, 25 of December, the last year and January 1 of this year. The newlyweds announced to us that they had entered into a marriage contract with a notary at the mortgage office of the magistrates of the city of Warsaw, Mikhail Rudnitsky, dated January 17 (29) this year, number 117. This act was read and signed by us, except for illiterate newlyweds.

 

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The name looks like Sheintza which, I suspect is a variation on Sheyna, Sheindel, etc. which means "pretty."

On a worker's id card from the Radom in 1942, it says that their relatives (ages 12 and 19) were "employed" at a sawmill. Is anyone aware of where the sawmill might have been in Radom during the war? Could it have been in a surrounding town?

Thank you,
Andrew Cooke

I am looking for someone adept at all functions of Ancestry website and combining genealogical information from other sites to be included on Ancestry site. Please email to janbburns@...

Nancy,

Look at the Citizenship columns of the census returns.  They will indicate "Al", meaning alien: the immigrant did not yet file for citizenship; "Pa" meaning papers: the immigrant filed "first papers" (Declaration of Intention); or "Na": naturalized: the immigrant filed their Petition for Naturalization.  Depending on the census, there may also be a date of the naturalization activity.  Then search the naturalization indexes to see if you can locate their papers.  Depending on when they naturalized, there may be information about the date and means of arrival. Many naturalization collections additionally have the Certificate of Arrival, which contains the same arrival info, and usually lists the name that was used on the passenger list.

Regards,
David Oseas

Researching:
HYMAN/HEYMAN/HEIMOWITS/CHAJMOVITS: Zemplen-Dobra, Hungary > New York
KLEIN: Satoraljaujhely (Ujhely), Hungary > New York > Los Angeles
KRONOWITH: Hungary > New York
OSEAS/OSIAS/OSIASI/OZIAS: Iasi, Romania > Chicago > Milwaukee > Los Angeles
SCHECHTER/SHEKTER: Kishinev, Bessarabia > New York  
SHERMAN: Iasi, Romania > New York > Los Angeles
STRUL:  Iasi, Romania > Haifa, Israel
WICHMAN: Syczkowo (Bobruisk), Belarus > Milwaukee > Los Angeles

Dear Group

I am hoping that SKP might help me discover the names of my GGPs from this record.
I do not know if it is a record that Alex has copied, or is available anywhere.
(I am hopeless at translating, and dna interpreting.) Have taken a few JGen courses.

My father, Samuel BLACK, was born in London, England, in 1915 to a Russian couple who had been married by the Kiev, Section 2 City Rabbi, Ya M Aleshkovsky on 25 May 1908.
Entry number 149 in the Register of Births, Deaths and Marriages of the Jewish population of Kiev year 1908 - Part II - Marriages, according to a translated Certificate 1507 issued on 6 August 1909, for submission to the authorities in Belaya Tserkov.

Levi-Itzkhok Tsalevich Tcherny married Sosya Mordkovna Dyvinskaya, both of Kiev Gubernia. He was registered in Belaya Tserkov, she in Vasikov.

In 1906 he passed a beginners' book-keeping course in Kiev and in October was conscripted in Vasilkov, but was discharged as medically unfit from a Black Sea Regiment.

I used to think that they decided to get married and leave the area because of the Pogroms, as both their sons were born in Baku. Marcus on 24 February 1909, and Moisei on 16 October 1910.
I guessed Lionel was dealing in oil shares, and made enough money to bring his family to England, and not only avoid the poverty of the East End, but afford to leave his wife and three sons from 1916 to 1918 while he took a business trip to New York.

But, but, I have just, as I wrote this looked again closely at the dates.

Could they have stayed in Baku from 1908 until about 1911, when they started to make their way to England, arriving February 1912, if that Certificate was collected in Kiev on 6 August 1909, and taken to Belaya Tserkov?

Yes, I suppose that Lionel could have left his wife and baby in Baku, and made a solo trip.
Any ideas please? Would his wife have been required to appear with him?
Did they need the Civil marriage registration to obtain a passport?
There are no records of how they travelled to London.

My grandparents, who I knew as a child in London, had remained Stateless, my father told me just before he died in 1999.
I have dna-tested myself and all my living relatives, with no unknown close matches. I have a cluster of names, but no idea (and nor have they) how we are related.
Brick wall is the ignorance of the names of any gt grandparents.  Impossible to create a tree. I really need your help please.

My father kept all his mother's Russian documents, which I inherited, but I have nothing about his father except for the book-keeping course, marriage registration details, and conscription discharge. And a studio photograph of the family of four taken in Baku before they left. (The ornate reverse of which I put in Viewmate some years ago, and was given a translation, thanks.)

When they reached London in 1912, they changed TCHERNY into BLACK. (Before Deed Poll existed.)
When my father was born in Stoke Newington in 1915, they just registered him as Samuel BLACK.
British by birth, luckily for me.

Pat Hamilton ID 519415. Grandparents' haplogroups: Mt H6a1a5. BigY  E-A20849
TCHERNY, BLACK, DEVINSKY, Russian Empire, London,UK, USA, Canada; CHORNEY, USA

Reb Yossel was a rosh yeshiva, and Zelda was a commission merchant for Polish nobles. Is there a variant spelling for Weinstein I can check? His name was originally a form of Romm or Rumsch. I know he had an uncle, Yitzhak ben Moshe Rumsch, a schoolteacher, who translated "Robinson Crusoe” into Hebrew from German. Yossel and Zelda were my maternal great-great-grandparents. Their son Moishe Aaron, an auditor of liquor sales, married Malke Eilperin from the outskirts of Vilna. I’d be greatly appreciative if anyone can lead me to more information about my family.

Susan Sorkenn <sorkennwellness@...>

I concur that they did a great job under very difficult circumstances.  My understanding is many more got to participate this way than a standard conference.  

Searching for Shirley May/Mae KOMINSKY (b.1937), and family - Chicago-based.

She is the daughter of Gerald KOMINSKY, and granddaughter of Anna SCHNEIDERMAN / SNYDERMAN.  Anna’s mother, Brayna
Rivka ‘Rebecca’ (COHEN) SCHNEIDERMAN / SNYDERMAN, is my grandmother, Sarah (COHEN) BLUMENTHAL’s, sister.  

The sisters are buried next to each other at Waldheim (long story!).

Hope something turns up, and thank you.

Sandi (Blumenthal) Root

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