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Re: Seeking Fritz BUKOFZER, film producer- Paris > Switzerland #france

David Selig
 

Hi all.   I have found Fritz's grave,he died in Feb 1958 in Luzern.   Many thanks to Herr Teichman.  I am now on a trail to find the marriage information - first through the Paris telephone books, held in a special Museum!
best to all
David SELIG, Paris
Re: finding obituaries #general

jbonline1111@...
 

Though I have not usually been successful at finding obituaries of my poor immigrant ancestors, I did find one for an uncle who died in 1916.  He was killed in an accident, so there was litigation involved.  While it may be difficult, it's not impossible. I think this was found at newspapers.com, to which a friend subscribes.
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Barbara Sloan
Conway, SC
Re: finding obituaries #general

robinson@...
 

I'm a historian, and I'm also chasing my own family's story. I also recommend the newspaper sites -- newspapers.com and genealogy bank. In addition, some universities have digitized old newspapers from their states. One thing to know is that some old newspapers listed obits only by the last name. 
Sherry Robinson
Albuquerque, NM
ZIMMER, KAMIEL, THOMASHEFSKY, LESHINSKY, FALKER from Galicia and Bessarabia
Re: Help locate this Gulag-camp or village listed in post-war record #russia #holocaust

olgaslavin@...
 

Greetings,

regarding Bawao "Gulag-camp". I have no intention to dispute your family history but would like to clarify the following. Some Jews from Western Ukraine voluntarily left their birth towns for Russia proper after 1939 events, some to return back after the war to finally leave the area for good. They did it for many reasons, some to get an education, better job prospects in cities, etc. Jacob Biber from Wolyn town of Maciejow, who survived the war hiding with his wife with the help of some friendly locals, writes about it in his book "Survivors". 

I read the information in this document as your great-uncle was working for Town <authorities> as a worker (sic) from 1940 til September 1945 in Siberian city of Barnaul with compensation of 150 rubles a month. This particular document, most likely written from his words, has no indication that he was in Gulag camps. It's interesting that he was an elementary school pupil in 1937-1939. Was he too young in 1940 to be placed in a penal system? The next line stating that in September of 1945 he was already in Berlin, Germany collaborates the idea that he (his family) wasn't interned. I highly recommend the above mentioned book to better understand how a civilian family/person could possibly leave USSR  at the time your great-uncle did. The book also mentions that the most local Jewish survivors were among those who moved to Russia in 1939-1940.

Best regards,
Olga Slavin (Barsht)
Need help in understanding / finding place names and from Belarus Revison Lists #belarus

Odeda Zlotnick
 

My Zlotnick family came from Lapitch (Lapici, Lapichi) – a shtetl between Bobruisk and Minsk (belonging to the Igumen Uyezd in the Minsk Gubernia).  My Zlotnick GGF was married to Ester daughter of Yaakov Pluchik.

We also know that the Zlotnick family from Lapitch was related to the Polishuk (also Paleshuk) family, from Lapitch.

In the Revision List for 1858:

1)      Paleshuk's and other recognized Lapitch families were found in a "populated place" within 10 Kms of Lapitch, called "Vysokaya Starina" in the Gazetteer, "Vysokaya Storona village" in the Revision List for 1858.  What kind of map will I find it on?

2)      Unlike the people in Lapitch, considered "petit bourgeois" those from Vysokaya were in the "Revision lists farmers". 

What is the difference between Vysokaya and Lapitch?

3)      Other POLYASHCHUK family members  were found in a place called "Kholuy" also in Igumen, Minsk.  I can't find this place anywhere other than in the Revision lists (tried the communities, tried the gazetteer).

 

Question 2: What and where is Kholuy of Igumen in the Minsk Gubernia, why can't I find it?

Question 3: My GGF at the age of about 17 in 1874 was in "Vyaz'ye" during one of the revisions, the note appearing in a list signed by a man from Kholuy.  Vyaz'ye is on a map – and in the gazetteer, but not in any revision list.  What is it and why?

 

See attached map, circled, north to south: Pukhovich, Lapitch, Vyaz'e.



Thank you,

Odeda Zlotnick

Searching for: ZLOTNICK (in the Minsk Gubernia) PLUCHIK, POLISHUK.

SIEGLER LESEROVICI (originally from Cosula Romania) KULIKOWER, BLASS BOTTWIN MELLER (originally from Lemberg/Lwow, then Vienna)

MENDLOWITSCH (MENDLEWICZ) and BEILIN from Tomaszow Mazowiecki
Re: DNA mtDNA - Newly found Jewish Cousins - Research advice needed #dna

Adam Cherson
 

Dear Agne Grigaraviciute,
If you are saying that you believe your maternal grandmother was born Jewish then you would have a substantial amount of Jewish genes. I have used a method before to identify whether a person is likely to have a substantial Jewish ancestry and could help you in this regard, if you wish. What I do cannot help with identifying any recent relatives, but would be worth trying simply to confirm whether your guess about your grandmother is correct.
Cordially,
Adam Cherson
Re: Hi~Searching for Family. GERSZON & POLEJES from Rubezhevichi, Belarus. #belarus

Adam Cherson
 

Dear Stefanie,
I keep a database of Gerszons due to my own tree's Kherszon (both pronounced as an 'h' in slavic). This is a long shot of course, but I do have an Ysroel Gerszon born in Vilna in 1866. Please contact me if you have any information connecting your ggf to the Vilna area.
Cordially,
Adam Cherson
Re: Ancestry's Drastic Changes Dash Hopes of Finding Connections #dna

Christine Hill
 

I agree with Phil Karlin's (above) assessment of Ancestry. Its interface is too opaque to be really useful in genetic genealogy. It needs a chromosome browser and to make available (and downloadable) more information about dna matches for it to be really useful, especially for researching distant relatives. As it is now, the results may be indicative of a relationship, but unless you know which chromosome the shared segment is on, and the starting and ending point of the shared segment, then you really won't be able to fully analyse or hypothesise a possible relationship.  I have used Ancestry for years and use it mainly to develop my tree, but I have uploaded the raw data to My Heritage to identify the shared segments with my matches, which I then put into DNA painter. This gives me a visual diagram of shared segments on each chromosome. So for example there is Person A where the DNA of my mother, her brother and myself, share 9 segments between us. Using the segment information from MyHeritage, I can see that all 3 of us share a segment on chromosome 1 with Person A, starting at the same position and ending at the same position, all of which are 12cM each. Also, all 3 of us also share a segment with the same person A on chromosome 12, where the segment of my mother and her brother start at the same position and end at the same position and are 6.5cM for both. Interestingly the same segment starts at a slightly earlier position in my DNA and ends at the same position, and is 7.2 cM. These segments might be too small to be of interest to people investigating close cousins, but to me, comparing family trees and trying to identify distant ancestors like 10gg's, these small shared segments are very significant and extremely unlikely to be occurring by chance. So Ancestry should not be removing matches of 8cM or below, as these may be of significance in certain circumstances when testing families, rather than only individuals. However, I assume that all this data is still in the raw data, so that by uploading to another site like MyHeritage of Gedmatch, you would be able to retrieve the small segment data. It is probably that they are now not showing these small segments on the Ancestry database as matches. So I am pretty sure they would still there in the raw data. It would be surprising if Ancestry had removed them.

Christine Hill
Re: Finding Tomaszow Poland Records - Post 1890 records #poland

Stanley Diamond
 

Sophia is referring to the town of Tomaszów Lubelski, 124 km SE of Lublin 
and not Tomaszów Mazowiecki, 57 km SE of Łódź.

To find answers to the status of record indexing/extraction of Polish towns, 
contact the JRI-Poland town leader for each town!   Click on the "Your Town"
link on the JRI-Poland navigation bar on the home page https://jri-poland.org


The link for Tomaszów Lubelski will take you to: https://jri-poland.org/town/tomaszow_lubels.htm

By contacting the Town Leader, you will learn that all the records in the Zamosc
branch of the Polish State Archives have been ether indexed or fully extracted
up to 1913!

Moreover, because Polish privacy laws now allow access to births up to 1919
(i.e. more than 100-years old) and marriages and deaths up to 1939 (more than 
80-years old), JRI-Poland now has extracts of these records as well.

JRI-Poland Town Leaders are available to help you in your research.  Another 
way to reach ANY Town Leader is to write to [townname]@jri-poland.org

Stanley Diamond, M.S.M.  (Montreal, 514-484-0100)
Executive Director, Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, Inc.


  
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Finding Tomaszow Poland Records - Post 1890 records #poland
From: FamilySearchPoland
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 02:26:55 EDT

Hello,

I would like to find records from around 1900-1903 from Tomaszow Poland on my mother Pesa Apfel. 
I have located the people she claims were he family, but cannot locate any documents on her life from Poland.  Does anyone know how to gain access to records post 1890?

According to Aaron B.  JRI-Poland's records only date from 1890 and before? I can't say if this is true or not, but it would make sense as to why I can find nother on my grandmother.

I have attached documents that should be useful in locating her if anyone does have access to these records.

1. She should be born around 1902 (But I'd search 1901-1903)

2. Her parents were Moszko Apfel and Esther Tauba Goldman.  - So documents we have found relating to her life state.

3. Her brother Judko Apfel and other siblings were Riwka Abram, and Pesla (who died).  Or at least I assume these are her family.  These are the people she listed on documents.  However, I cannot locate any record of her birth. Again, supposedly records post 1890 from Tomaszow aren't Public.

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Sophia Cohen
Re: finding obituaries #general

Sarah L Meyer
 

There is a Facebook group called FreeObituaryLookups.  https://obituarieshelp.org/  is like a Cindy's list for obituaries - it links to newspapers based on geographical location - but you may need a subscription to the paper (or not).   Also you may need to consider that in major cities, there may have only been a death notice and no obituary, especially if the family was not prominent or wealthy enough.

Sarah L Meyer
Georgetown TX
ANK(I)ER, BIGOS, KARMELEK, PERLSTADT, STOKFISZ, SZPIL(T)BAUM, Poland
BIRGARDOVSKY, EDELBERG, HITE (CHAIT), PERCHIK Russia (southern Ukraine) and some Latvia or Lithuania
https://www.sarahsgenies.com
Re: Ship Manifests : Profession " painter " - What does it mean ? #general

Harry Boonin
 

My 16 year old uncle was an art school student in Yelizavetgrad, Russia in October 1905 when the pogrom broke out, and his older brother was killed. 
He boarded a ship in Trieste, Austria. The manifest says he was a “painter.”

”He maintained his artistic interest throughout his life time.”
Harry D. Boonin
Warrington, PA
Re: LEBEDENKO/LEBEDENCO surname origins #ukraine #romania #russia #general

llevangta@...
 

My family also came from Lebedev. Their family name was GOLUB, What was your grandmother's name? 
Hey, thanks for the answer! My grandfather was born after his parents had already immigrated from Russia to Brazil around the 1924... if I recall it correctly my great grandmother, Feodora POPOV, was Romanian, and my greatgrandfather, Kiril Lebedenko, was Moldavian, born in Nikolaevka, Tiraspol, Transnistria, Moldova... but I really do not know how to keep going from there... I know my grandfather great grandfather was of israelense roots, his name was Yahim  LEBEDENCO, but that was as far as I could go... my grandmother, as you asked, has German genealogy, her name is Vanda Lúcia Rocha Lebedenco, and her husband is Anatoli Lebedenco... I guess what keeps me from going any further is that I have no way of knowing how they were called in their home countries, I do have some names which appear to be nicknames, but don’t know what to do with them.

Lailah Lebedenco Evangelista, from Brazil
Help with family research through Russian, Romanian, Ukrainian & Moldovian information #russia #ukraine #latinamerica #names #romania

llevangta@...
 

Hey everyone!
I am looking for any information on my maternal family that goes by the surname of LEBEDENKO/LEBEDENCO or POPOV, whom lived in Moldova. 
 
My grandfather was born after his parents had already immigrated from Russia to Brazil around the 1924, probably from Deutschland... one of them must have their names somewhere in the Hamburg Passenger Lists, though I couldn’t find it...

My great grandmother, Feodora POPOV (1900), was Romanian, and my greatgrandfather, Kiril LEBEDENCO/LEBEDENKO (1984), was Moldavian, born in Nikolaevka, Tiraspol, Transnistria, Moldova... they married in the city he was born in around 1920... but I really do not know how to keep going from there... I know my grandfather great grandfather was of israelense roots, his name was Yahim LEBEDENCO, but that was as far as I could go... Fidorka/Feodora‘s parents were Gerassin/Heracin POPOV, son of Miheika POPOV & Parankia CERKASSIN, & Anna BULGACOV, daughter of Grigori BULGACOV & Marfa/Marhutka YASTREBOV.
My grandmother, has German genealogy, her name is Vanda Lúcia Rocha Lebedenco, and her husband is Anatoli Lebedenco, Kiril & Feodora’s 5th son... I guess what keeps me from going any further is that I have no way of knowing how my russian great grandparents were called in their home countries, though I do have some names which appear to be nicknames, but don’t know what to do with them.

Any of their names, if are there any translations or anyone could explain the differing names for the same people, like Feodora was also called Fidorka & Marfa was called Marhutka (that’s what I meant by “nicknames) it’d be great help...

No matter how much information, if any, contact me please!! 


Lailah Lebedenco Evangelista, from Brazil

Just in case, I’ll leave all the surnames I’m looking for information about down here altogether... the surnames I’m looking for are LEBEDENCO/LEBEDENKO, POPOV, SEMENIKIN, BULGACOV, GORSKA, SEMENICHEN, KRAINIUK, SLOBOTICOV, CRANCIANINOV, GANHEW, SOROKIN, KANSTRUTM, POLESZUK, SIEPLIN, BOZZA, SEIRYU, EVANGELISTA, YASTREBOV & CERKASSIN please contact me if you know anything about them!

 
Re: I Want My Trees To Outlive Me #general

JPmiaou@...
 

Susan, Reba's post is incorrect. The IGI and the Genealogies section of FS are two totally different things. The first is an index (not family trees); it is indeed no longer being added to, but that's neither here nor there for our purposes. The Genealogies section is archived family tree files (GEDCOMs) submitted by users of FS. You can submit your own file by going to FamilySearch - Search - Genealogies and clicking the "Submit" button near the bottom of the page.

I don't know what Genealogies does with images. As far as I know, the GEDCOM format doesn't actually include pictures, only pointers to them (which of course are useless for portability), so I think you need some other site/service to archive those.

Julia Szent-Györgyi
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Re: I Want My Trees To Outlive Me #general

JPmiaou@...
 

Reba, Susan, as I pointed out somewhere above, you're looking in the WRONG PLACE.

Genealogies is NOT the IGI. The International Genealogical Index is a no-longer-being-added-to _index_. It is not a family tree.

You very much _CAN_ archive family tree files on FamilySearch. Got to Search - Genealogies, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click the blue button labeled "Submit Your Tree".

Julia Szent-Györgyi
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Anna Zacknau from Austria #austria-czech

Emanuel norman <emanuelno@...>
 

Looking for any relatives from Anna Zacknau
from Vienna arround 1914
emanuel norman
Re: finding obituaries #general

grayps@...
 

I have good luck with genealogybank.com - a subscription service.  It looks for ANY mention of a name, so I can find wedding announcements and interesting articles about people.
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Susan Gray, Chicago
Searching:

 -FELDSTEIN / FELDSZTAJN / FELTON / FELTYN etc.; GOLDBERG; WEINSTEIN / WEINSZTEIN etc. from Warsaw, Lutsk, Kamenets Podolskiy, Kholm.
-APPLE / APPEL / APEL etc; TAUB; LINEAL / LINIAL; KLEIN from Burshtyn, Rogatin, Sarniki, Putyatinsy, Dem'yanov, Solova.
-PAILET / PEYLET / PAILED / PEJLET etc; ITZCOVITZ / ITSKOVITCH etc. from Butrimonys, Panosiskes, Nemajunai, Vilnius, Drosgusitz.
-RATSAN / RACAN; SIROTA from Butrimonys, Jieznas, Brishton.
Re: finding obituaries #general

Ellen
 

Trudy,

As Barbara said, where to look for obituaries depends a lot on where your relatives lived.  I know of several websites that provide access to upstate New York newspapers, for example. 

This website provides links to newspapers by state:  https://www.theancestorhunt.com/newspaper-research-links.html  It is probably not complete, but it's a good starting point.

Ellen Morosoff Pemrick
Saratoga County, NY 
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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: finding obituaries #general

Beth Erez
 

I have found some obituaries in https://fultonhistory.com/fulton.html

Beth Erez
Hod Hasharon, Israel
Re: Finding Tomaszow Poland Records - Post 1890 records #poland

dtolman@...
 

Hi Sophia,
I believe the old LDS records may have gone to only 1890 or so - but the Polish archives has been scanning records and it appears that birth records past 1900 are available (and some are now indexed on Jewishgen - and while I saw birth records for 1902 on jewishgen, I did not see your mothers).

You can find them here: 
https://szukajwarchiwach.pl/88/783/0/str/1/100?ps=True#tabJednostki
Look for the lines with the years after 1900 and the words Akta urodzeń (Akta =Records, urodzen=Birth)

They appear to be written in Russian, with some names highlighted in Polish (essentially the same as English for names) - so while reading through hundreds of records is probably a daunting task, it at least appears they are there!

regards
Daniel Eig
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