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Re: I Want My Trees To Outlive Me #general

JPmiaou@...
 

Michael McTeer: FS has multiple parts. You're talking about the collaborative tree. I'm talking about the Genealogies section, which is an archive that anyone can look through but nobody can change, except that the original contributor can delete an uploaded file at any time (and/or upload a different one).

Geni and WikiTree are the other major players in the collaborative tree concept. They're no more suited to unchangeable archiving than FamilySearch's tree.

Julia
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verse on a tombstone in Kishinev #bessarabia #yiddish

Yefim Kogan
 

Here is a terrific verse I found on a tombstone of Olga Shraybman (in Kishinev Jewish Cemetery):

Dear Olga!
You are not dead.
With that beautiful soul, 
With that great love to people
You live among us for ever.




Only person who could write it in Kishinev was Ikhil Shraybman, and Olga was his dear wife.


I have also attached an image of the tombstone of famous Jewish writer Ikhil Shraybman  (Kishinev Jewish Cemetery).

His Yiddish is so wonderful,  I recommend to read his works even in translations.

On Ikhil's stone it is written in Yiddish and Russian:

I am not writing in Yiddish, 
Yiddish I Kiss..
Yiddish is my Great Happiness.



Yefim Kogan

Re: I Want My Trees To Outlive Me #general

Christine Hills
 

I have had my tree on WikiTree since 2014 and find it excellent.  It is entirely free and is a worldwide collaborative tree. The profiles will never be deleted.  The only drawback I can see re. what you are looking for is that other people can edit your open profiles, that is those which relate to a person born over 100 years ago, unless that person is alive.  There is one profile for one person, so if people share an ancestor they share the profile.  However all entered data is saved, so you can find your own edit and reuse it. I have never had a problem with shared profiles, on the rare occasions someone has added anything it has always been helpful.  You might like to take a look at  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:About_WikiTree for more information.
Best wishes,
Christine Hills Dublin Ireland
Re: Staraya Ushitsa, Ukraine, records #ukraine

Chuck Weinstein
 

There are no known records of births, deaths, or marriages.  There are voter lists in both the Khmelnitski and Vinnisia Archives, as well as several other record sets pertaining to the Jewish community.  Most surviving known records are now in the Khmelnitski Archives, having been removed from Kamanets-Podolski following a fire in 2004.  The status of some of those records is unclear.  

Chuck Weinstein
Towns Director, JewishGen Ukraine Research Division
chuck1@...
Re: Family Tree Recommendations #general

Karen Lukeman
 

I originally put my family tree on MyHeritage, but when I exceeded the number of entries, I created a family tree on Geni because it was free & unlimited AND so that I could link up with the World Family Tree. Subsequently, I was able to find two branches of my Israeli family on MyHeritage...one of which made me learn that my great-grandfather had remarried after my great-grandmother passed away so I have lots more cousins!!

I also have since subscribed to MyHeritage for full access...it is a long term deal, so that the annual price was much better.  
--
Karen Calmon Lukeman
KALMANOWITZ (Lyubcha and towns near Grodno, Vilna and Minsk)
GOLDSMITH (Bakshty and Ivje)
NASSER (Damascus)
BENBAJI (Damascus)
BALLAS (Damascus)
Re: How to correct information in Jewishgen Databases #records

Sally Bruckheimer
 

"JewishGen records do not exist in and of themselves, for no reason except documentation. JewishGen records exist to aid people searching for ancestral family, and as such, should, as far as possible, provide help to share knowledge which will allow other people finding records to make connections they might not otherwise have been able to make."

The records are what they are. We can not expect to 'fix' records more than 100 years ago.  I just found a record for Shayna Leah Ruslander Stolowski's death, as Shayna Leah Vertcikovski Stolowski. Rather than wanting to 'fix' this to what you expect, I find it a link to the origin of the Ruslanders, before they went to the Kingdom of Poland and were known as 'Russian'. Shayna Leah was born in 1835, about the time the family went to Polish Russia. What if somebody changed it, so I wouldn't have that information.

That reminds me of a woman in the LDS library where I worked, who had ordered Swedish birth records. She was surprised that they weren't in English!

If you want to share your knowledge with others, perhaps you should put your tree on FTJP, with the 'correct' information. Otherwise, everything will turn into Geni, where people can 'correct' other peoples trees with incorrect information.

Sally Bruckheimer
Princeton, NJ
Re: OLD FAMILY TREE #general

peggyfreedman@...
 

Before computers helped us organize our genealogical information, there were a variety of numbering systems. I have a couple of old articles in my files from those days. 

But, since we live in the age of information technology, I looked on the internet and found this Wikipedia article on genealogical numbering systems.  Perhaps it will help:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogical_numbering_systems

Note that there were many different methods.  You will have to figure out which one your tree uses.

Peggy Mosinger Freedman
Atlanta, GA
Re: I Want My Trees To Outlive Me #general

rebasolomon
 

I will look into this. I have contributed to Yad Vashem but did not know they archived genealogies. Thank you. 

Reba Harris Solomon
Re: I Want My Trees To Outlive Me #general

rebasolomon
 

Thank you as I had not looked into Wikitree. Now at first look it seems to be a collaborative tree, like Genie and I’m looking more for a searchable archive that will remain intact. 

Reba Harris Solomon
Re: U.S. Appeals Court Rules Spanish Museum May Keep Nazi Looted Art #announcements #holocaust

Todd Warnick
 

It's like buying fenced properly. This is a scandalous decision. 
Re: I Want My Trees To Outlive Me #general

Ellen
 

What is Wikitree?  I've come across once or twice but wasn't really sure what it is and how it works.

I am also interested in the question originally posted.  I've done so much research over the years and would hate for all of it to be lost after I'm gone.  I don't have children to pass it on to, but my cousins and (more likely) their children and grandchildren may be interested in the future.

Ellen
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Researching WEISSMAN/VAYSMAN (Ostropol, Ukraine); MOROZ and ESTRIN/ESTERKIN (Shklov & Bykhov, Belarus); LESSER/LESZEROVITZ, MAIMAN, and BARNETT/BEINHART/BERNHART (Lithuania/Latvia); and ROSENSWEIG/ROSENZWEIG, KIRSCHEN, and SCHWARTZ (Botosani, Romania)
Re: Shlomo Boruch Tennenbaum #slovakia #austria-czech #rabbinic

paveanyu@...
 

Hello, Mr.Moishe  Tannenbaum,                            27th August 2020

I wonder, may I politely ask,  did you read Dr Neil Rosenstein's  "  The Unbroken Chain --THIRD EDITION--chapter nine--page 722--725  ?

I wonder, if you are connected to the Tannebaum Family--from Szendro--my grandmother /Grunwald/Grunfeld was born there--or for that matter;Erdobenye, Putnok Tallya, Edeleny etc.we might have some joint ancestors around 1800?

Best wishes
Veronika-Mindle Malka - Pachtinger--London UK
Social History Ternopil 1870-1880s #galicia

Deborah HOLMAN
 

I am looking for some resources to help me understand what my great-grandfather's life as a young man might have been like in 1870-1880s Tarnopol. He was born in 1875 to Rachmiel LICHTENTHAL, a dealer of leather, and left Tarnopol around 1890 to make a living in the hat-making industry. He eventually settled in Vienna, Austria.  Due to COVID limiting access to libraries, I'd appreciate online resources.

Thank you,
Deborah Holman
Hamden, CT USA
Re: ViewMate - Hebrew handwriting interpretation request #belarus #yizkorbooks #holocaust

Dubin, David M. MD
 

A few things:
1- the image is upside-down
2- the black areas look like tape that covers many parts of names. A better image is needed.

Upper left section with image right-side up
Itzik                 Auschklar
?                     Politschuk
Buchlinich?     Gessek
?                     Duker
                       Kagan

Upper left section
B__nstein        Lipik
Abrovitsch?      Gutman
Ken_nst_n        Schusterman
Milstein (three?)   Weissbrod
                           Roth___

Lower right section
Sobetzky (maybe corresponds to Sawicki on your list)
Pardes
Plaskovsky
Ins___
(second column illegible to me)

Lower left section
...ovich
?
...eshek
...stein

Good luck
Re: legal name change in New York. #general

James
 

Why not check the city directories? Assume he changed it a year before the directory was printed.
Re: Graves in Belz, Ukraine, Jewish cemetery? #rabbinic #ukraine #records

Shlomo Katz
 

I have a (Hebrew) book called "Tel Talpiot: Ha'Ir Belz B'Tifartah" which has a list of 35 tombstones in the Belz cemetery.

Feel free to email me privately with the names you are interested in.

Shlomo Katz
Silver Spring, Maryland
FRIEDER/SPALTER (Belz)
Re: Town name, Ukraine #ukraine #records

David Barrett
 

The city is now called DNIPRO [ Ukraine] originally called Ekaterinoslav [ google]
regards
Re: Town name, Ukraine #ukraine #records

Jana.Tegel@...
 

Elusavetgrag in the documents ist now Kirovograg/ Kirovohrad.

That is what I can see.
Danzig Jewry 1840-1943 #poland

oodrual@...
 

Is it possible to get online access to the english version of:
 

Danzig Jewry 1840-1943:
Integration, Struggle, Rescue
(Gdańsk, Poland)

 

by Logan Kowaks

Ron Peeters

Ulvenhout (NL)
Re: legal name change in New York. #general

Kenneth Ryesky
 

For whatever it might be worth:

 

More than 10 years ago, while doing scholarly research (more like archaeological digging) on some statutory history in the Queens County Courthouse Law Library, I chanced to access an oldy moldy volume of the Laws of New York.  It seems that in those days  (at least 1889 through 1905, with an apparent hiatus for years 1895 to 1897) the annual Laws of New York books indexed name changes granted by the courts.

Example:  For 1902, the list of name changes was on pages 805 - 1826; for 1903, pp. 1459 - 1479; for 1904, pp. 1949 - 1965; for 1905, pp. 2152 - 2176; for 1905, pp. 2152 - 2176; for 1906, pp. 1904 - 1926; and for 1907, pp. 2512 - 2540.  The indices list separate entries for from and to name changes, all in alphabetical order.

Further research archaeological digging disclosed that the General Index to the Laws of the State of New York 1902 - 1907 (Albany, J. B. Lyon Co., 1908) combines the listings for the years 1902 - 1907 (pages 468 - 570).  This tome is on the Internet Archive <https://archive.org/stream/generalindextol00baxtgoog>.

I found the information I had initially sought to research, and the name-change project was relegated to the lower levels of my "to-do" list.  Life subsequently intervened (including our Aliyah to Israel, the discontinuance of my college teaching gig, and the winding down of my solo law practice).  I do not know to what extent the indices have been transcribed.



-- Ken Ryesky
Petach Tikva, Israel

 

 

 


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