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Re: Equivalent Hebrew Name for Clara
#names
Marcia Segal
The long discussion is because this is how threads unspool in a discussion. Nobody got injured, and people want to share.
One of my great-grandmothers was Chaia on the passenger list, and Clara in the US Federal censuses. Her daughter Chana became Annie. What I haven't figured out is what another great-grandmother's name may have been. On her grave marker it's Machli, but that's the masculine for of Machla. The only thing I can think of is that the final "ee" sound was a nickname of sorts, the way Loretta (as in Loretta Lynn) became Loretty to her family, and as above Chana became Annie but may have been Anna at some point. Marcia Segal
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Re: Suggestions for Simple Genealogy Software for Mac
#general
David Silvera
Reunion for the Macintosh. Easy to get started, prints great reports and charts. For more advanced usage can share data with other Macs and companion apps on the iPhone and iPad.
David Silvera
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Re: Looking for Bihari from Budapest
#hungary
Judy Petersen
Hi Robert,
Can you give us a bit more to work with? What were their parents' names? About when were they born? Were they all living in Budapest? Were they married there? What resources have you checked already (so we don't duplicate your work)? Do you have a family tree on-line that we could check? What exactly are you trying to determine--are you trying to find specific relatives of your mother's family? If so, do you know her siblings' or cousins' names? Thanks, Judy Petersen Fort Collins, CO, SUA
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Re: Another finding among Bessarabia records - Service Form List
#bessarabia
#ukraine
#records
#translation
jpalmer@...
On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 04:11 PM, Yefim Kogan wrote:
Hello Researchers, Yefim, Your work on Bessarabia Research and your frequent posts to this group are enormously beneficial for me. I have limited access to information about my family in Edinet and the urrounding area where my family lived. The access you provide is as good as gold. I cannot thank you enough. I read your reports with great interest. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! Jeffrey B Palmer Researching PINKOWITZ (Bessarabia), HARFENIST (Galicia), DOCTOR (Bohemia), WEINSTEIN (Russia), SWERNOFSKY (Belarus),
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Re: Family of DAVID BARNETT b 1831 & ANNA SAMUEL b 1837 Russian Poland
#poland
I have not yet done any deep research on the BARNETT branch of my family (my grandmother was a Barnett). The first Barnett I am aware of who emigrated from Russia/Poland is JOSEPH BARNETT around 1822. On the 1841 and subsequent censuses, he and other BARNETTS were in South Wales. Certainly, in the 1900s some BARNETTS lived in Birmingham too. Names you give are names in my family too, but the dates and relationships don't match. I have an ESTHER DAVIS whose daughter LOUISA married my second-great-grandfather HENRY BARNETT (JOSEPH BARNETT'S son). They had a son DAVID BARNETT and a BARNET BARNETT (aka BENNETT BARNETT), who seems to have died at 6 or 7 years old. Whether or not JOSEPH had siblings who emigrated to the UK, and perhaps not to Wales, I don't know. If yes, then there may be a family match. I will keep this thread on file for when I get around to researching the BARNETTS, and of course let you know if I discover a potential link.
I have a question for you or ANYONE FAMILIAR WITH BARNETTS ... Do you have any ideas as to the RUSSIAN/POLISH/HEBREW names BARNETT may have come from? Thank you, Barry Clarke British, living in Sarasota Researching STEIGLITZ OR SIMILAR, SZKLARKIEWICZ OR SIMILAR that became CLARKE in London, Dublin, Liverpool, Bulawayo, Cape Town, maybe USA too, BARNETT in Wales, MYERS in Manchester and Cape Town, NEUMARK that became NEWMARK in London and USA, LEVINSON changed to BRAHAM in London. All families originally from Poland.
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Shel
And ‘my’ Nettie was Gnesia….
Shel Bercovich, CALGARY, AB, CANADA BERCOVICI - Darabani, RO; GHERBIL - Darabani, RO; LIPKIND - Belarus; KLEBANOV - Belarus; ZWANG - Ukraine; ECHTER - Ukraine;
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Re: Suggestions for Simple Genealogy Software for Mac
#general
I use REUNION, a program specifically for Mac that I have had for 20+ years and find it does everything I need. The company also offers great support.
Simon Kreinder
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Shoshana and Theresia
#israel
Peter Heilbrunn
Hi,
My aunt Theresia Rosmarin nee Feldmann was born in Vienna. She lived and died in Haifa having reached Palestine in 1933. There is however no death record in her name. I have however found a headstone with the name Shoshana Rosmarin. Could Shoshana be a Hebrew equivalent? Also she married sometime between 1933 and 1946. How might I discover a marriage record? Thanks for your help. Peter Heilbrunn
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Shlomo Gurevich
I am not sure that telephone books were published in Ekaterinoslav in yearly 1900s. For example, even the big 1913' All Ekaterinoslav book contains lists of businesses, governmental offices and homeowners with their addresses but without phone numbers. Only some rare advertisements contain them. But maybe the following information can be helpful for you:
The following pharmacies in Ekaterinoslav are listed in 1903' Ekaterinoslav Gubernia Memory Book: 1. Sartioson heirs' (The Avenue) 2. Pharmacist Oswald's (The Avenue) 3. Pharmacist Gurvich's and its subsidiary (Voyennaya Str.) 4. Pharmacist Stephanovich's (Alexandrovskaya Str.) 5. Ekaterinoslav Medical Society's (Torgovaya Str.) 6. Pharmacist Bystritzky's (The Avenue) and its subsidiary (Peterburgskaya Str.) 7. Pharmacist Peck-Fon Ammenshild (Pervozvannovskaya Str.) 8. Pharmacist Weinstein (The Avenue) 9. Pharmacist Lemberg's Homeopathic Pharmacy (Sadovaya Str.) Shlomo Gurevich, Hoshaya, Israel http://shl2gur.tripod.com
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Re: Suggestions for Simple Genealogy Software for Mac
#general
I have used Reunion since 1995 and love it,
Claire Bruell Auckland New Zealand researching BRIESS, BRUELL, SCHIMMERLING, BERGER, LOEWY, HOFFMAN, Moravia and Vienna ROSENBLUM, JURMANN, WOLFTHAL, KITTENPLON, DANKBERG, Buczacz, Borshov, Galicia
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Re: Yiddish/Hebrew name Shirley and Libby
#names
Shirley Holton
My name is Shirley after my ggmother Tzirl. The late great Prof Gerry Esterson told me it was a diminutive either of Sara or Tsipporah.
Shirley Holton London, England MANKUNSKI, SHOCHET Simnas Lithuania, AJMINSKI Szczuczyn in Lomza Poland
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Re: Equivalent Hebrew Name for Clara
#names
Oded
Jane Foss,
None of the names you have mentioned is Clara.
What Sara or Chana has to do with Clara?
To all.
Why such a long discussion about such a simple question: What is the equivalent Hebrew name for Clara?
Oded Freilich
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Re: Equivalent Hebrew Name for Clara
#names
kassells@...
The grand mother of my father in law was named Clara and her Jewish name was Keila, which has 18 hits in David Rosen's list.Oded Freilich's suggested methodology is certainly not the way our ancestors looked at the question My wife was named Claire after her great grandmother. However her Hebrew name is Sarah, being born on Shabbat "Chayei Sarah". In her youth though she looked for a Hebrew equivalent as Oded did. She found Bruria, which a special name from a Talmudic heroine. Best regards Laurent Kassel Moreshet Israel
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YIVO Jewish Immigration to America Online Exhibit
#announcements
#photographs
Jan Meisels Allen
YIVO has extensive immigration collections: rich sources of information about the experiences of some of the over 2.5 million Jews from Eastern Europe who immigrated to America from 1881-1924, Jewish refugees who sought refuge from Hitler in the 1930s-40s, and later waves of Jewish immigrants.
Every one of those immigrants has a unique story. And every piece of paper, every photograph in YIVO’s immigration and migration collections is a gateway to those stories.
https://immigrationusa.yivo.org/exhibits/show/immigrationstories/1870s1920s
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: Question about keeping old newspaper clippings
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erikagottfried53@...
I agree with Harvey, but I'd make it stronger: If you value these clippings you definitely ought to print out the scans in addition to keeping the digital copies. Preserving these items with through digital files alone requires relying on a technology that is, as of now, still fickle and fragile. Print copies are another backup.
Print out the clippings on acid and lignin-free paper. If you use good-quality toner and keep the printouts in acid and lignin -free folders in acid free boxes, and away from light they can last for up to 100 years. If you can afford pigment-based ink or toner (depending on whether you have a laser or ink jet printer) the printouts will be more stable and last even longer. None of this is cheap, of course, but it's not impossibly expensive, either. But if you want to be certain to preserve these items, I counsel this belt and suspenders approach. Also extremely important is that you make certain either that the newspaper title and date and page number of the story are visible in each of the scans (it's not good enough to include this information in the file name -- it needs to be actually visible as part of the scan itself), or if you didn't do that at the time of scanning, if you have this information write that it on the back of each printout of a clipping -- in pencil, not pen (unless the ink in the pen is acid-free). If I seem a little fanatical about this, I am, based on more than 25 years as a visual materials archivist. If you follow the protocols above you can discard the original crumbling clippings in good conscience, although you might want to retain a few of them to have a sample of the flavor of the original object (in which case, store them in clear polyester or polyproplylene sleeves -- these are acid-free and since they are transparent you can see the items immediately). Good for you for taking the trouble and time to scan these clippings, and for asking how to take care of them properly. Erika Gottfried Teaneck, New Jersey
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Re: Yiddish/Hebrew name Shirley and Libby
#names
Marc Friedman
My great grandmother left Hamburg as Liebe, and US census records , and family notes, have her name as Libby.
Marc Friedman Irvine CA
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Suggestions for Simple Genealogy Software for Mac
#general
loren greenberg
Hello,
In would appreciate suggestions for simple to use genealogy software for Mac. Thank you, Loren Greenberg ABELOW-Merkine, Lithuania VOLPIANSKY- Balbierishkis and Kaunas, Lithuania MILLER,MILNER -Smiltene, Latvia SHAFIR, SCHAEFFER,MELAMED,AGAZIM,VINOGRAD -StaroKonstantinov, Ukraine
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Re: COHENS and GOLDBERGS from Sakiai, Lithuania
#lithuania
#unitedkingdom
walters.cathy
My fathers maternal side is somehow related to them too, PLATSKY / LASOVSKY from Lithuania, AncestryDNA. 2nd cousin Miriam Herlen Warshofsky-SHOSKI Poland / HERSHKOVITCH Lodz she was born in England, past away couple months ago, we connected to GOLDBERG / COHEN in England, we just don't know how exactly. We don't know exactly how we even connected, she never knew her grandparent nor their names, I'm guessing from her mothers side HIRSCHKOVICH.
So I'm also interested, Cathy Walters, Elgin,MN
GINSBERG,PLATSKY,LASOVSKY-Lithuania, SHOSKI-Poland,HERSHKOVITCH-HIRSCHKOVICH Lodz,
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Looking for Bihari from Budapest
#hungary
zaida67@...
I am looking for my mothers Family from Budapest. Her Maiden was Wilma Irene Bihari. She married my father Morris Taub Thank you.
Robert Taub
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Re: COHENS and GOLDBERGS from Sakiai, Lithuania
#lithuania
#unitedkingdom
Jeff Miller
I am related to Golda Zewi through DNA and have triangulated with a number of relatives through surnames Goldberg/Berman/Miller/Millner/Mlynarz/Mlynarzewicz. There’s an extensive tree available on Geni that I can refer you to as well.
Best regards, Jeff Miller Maryland
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