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Wer Einmal War: Salomon (Salo) Landau (Pages: 1716-1718) #austria-czech

jeremylehmann89@...
 

Hi, 

I was wondering if someone could tell me what is written about Salomon (Salo) LANDAU in Wer Einmal War. I believe he is written about on pages 1716-1718. In addition to learning more about Salomon, I would love to know if anything is written about his parents. I am pretty sure Salomon was the brother of my ggg-grandfather Schia LANDAU, who lived in Nowy Sacz.

Thank you,
Jeremy Lehmann
Re: Finding My Grandfather's Siblings From Minsk #belarus

Israel P
 

You haven't mentioned anything that  might help someone recognize the family. Your grandfather's parents' names, for instance, of his age. Do you know if he was born in Minsk or that's just "where he left from?" (Not to mention that Minsk may refer to the area, not the actual city.)

DNA might be helpful - both Y and autosomal.

There is a Kaplan page on Facebook which you might find useful.

Israel Pickholtz  .
Netherlands- Holland America Passenger Lists 1900-1974 #announcements #names #records

Jan Meisels Allen
 

 

The Rotterdam City Archives, Netherlands,  Gemeentearchief te Rotterdam, digitized and indexed the Holland-America Line Passenger Lists 1900-1974 from the lines’ archives (Passenger lists from 3 May 1900 through 14 October 1974). This includes the departure records from New York. Crowd-sourced indexing is still ongoing. Both Rotterdam City Archives and WieWasWie joined forces on the crowdsourcing platform VeleHanden to  make the records more accessible.  See:

https://stadsarchief.rotterdam.nl/over-ons/projecten/passagierslijsten-hal/

 

To search go to: https://stadsarchief.rotterdam.nl/zoek-en-ontdek/passagierslijsten/

 

Holland-America first offered transatlantic trips, including one-way passage for emigrants. Along with Dutch immigrants from Netherlands, roughly one million Eastern Europeans sailed on Holland-America. 

“Between 1880 and 1920 about one million Eastern Europeans moved to America via Rotterdam.  The Holland America Line had offices [in] Bulgaria, Latvia and Russia. Tickets could be bought for the train to Rotterdam,

the boat to America, and again the train to every station in the new world.”

 

Passenger lists include the ship, ports, names of passengers, class of travel and the cost of the trip. The original passenger lists have been scanned. 


Search by last name, first name, departure port, key word and or span dates. You can also do word card searches.  The search interface also offers a list of all ports for Holland-America ships.

Ports with the most records are Rotterdam, New York, Vienna, Boulogne-sur-Mer, and Hamburg.

 

This is an update from the December 2019 searchable lists that covered the first 500,000 names covering 1900-1920.


To read more see: https://www.sassyjanegenealogy.com/holland-america-passenger-lists-1900-1974/

 

To read the previous postings about Holland America Line Passenger Lists,  go to the archives of the IAJGS Records Access Alert at:  http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts/. You must be registered to access the archives. 

To register go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts  and follow the instructions to enter your email address, full name and which genealogical  organization with whom you are affiliated  

You will receive an email response that you have to reply to or the subscription will not be finalized.

 

Jan Meisels Allen

Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

 

 

 
Re: Possible Spam RE: making Donations to a Group in Lithuania (JGFF) #general

Stephen Katz
 

Yes, I received via JGFF what is apparently the same message. The sender's initials were EB (I omit the full name out of caution). The message sought contributions to a "Litvak Memorial Garden." I was initially suspicious, but I did an internet search for "Litvak Memorial Garden" (not using the link in the message) and it apparently does exist. However, the message also gives a Lithuanian email address for the fund: jbfund [dot] lt; whether that's legit I cannot say, and I don't want to risk going to that site.
In any case, I find it quite objectionable that JGFF is being used for solicitation purposes, even if legitimate. I hope the powers that be at JewishGen will address this.
Stephen KATZ
New York

Moderator Note: The message was not authorized and was a violation of the JGFF’s TOS. We are taking steps to ensure it doesn’t happen in the future. Thank you
Passenger List the ship Caribia sailing to Trinidad from Hamburg #records

Daniela Torsh
 

My cousin Monica Shapiro has asked me to help her find a passenger list for
the ship Caribia sailing to Trinidad from Hamburg. Her mother Gertrude
sailed from Hamburg on Nov 11 1938 arriving in Port of Spain, Trinidad on
November 11. Gertrude was born THORSCH is Brno 1915. She and her husband
Sumer Wolf sailed separately. Caribia was sailing to South America and
stopped in Trinidad. Any ideas or information gratefully received.
Daniela Torsh
Sydney, Australia
Searching for BRANDMANN in Tarnów and Krakow
Utah JGS meeting on October 19 #jgs-iajgs

Banai Lynn Feldstein
 

The next Utah JGS meeting is on Monday, October 19, at 6;30pm Mountain time.

We have Brooke Schreier Ganz presenting Reclaim the Records: Using
Freedom of Information Laws for Genealogy.

Will she mention their latest FOIA request? Come and find out.

All are welcome.

Registration is here:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5945820640434269452




Banai Lynn Feldstein
Utah JGS Webmaster
webmaster@...
http://ujgs.org/
JewishGen Offers Education November Class: Prussia and the Baltic States #education #general

Nancy Holden
 

JewishGen Offers Education November Class: Prussia and the Baltic States
Nov 1 to Nov 22, 2020

This course will cover the land of the Baltic Prussians whose German
heritage dominated the area of the Baltic Sea. Jewish identity was tied
to regional wars, famine, trade and treaties. Mighty rivers ran from
interior Russia to the Baltic, formed the changing national borders, and
determined the lives of Jews and the Old Prussian descendants of the
Teutonic tribes.


Jews lived in East Prussia from the 1500s and migrated into the northern
Baltic: Kaliningrad (formerly Koenigsberg), Klaipeda (formerly Memel),
Lithuania Minor (currently Kaunas), Latvia and Estonia during the period
before the partitions of Poland. Many countries ruled these nation-states
over the centuries. The fate of the Jews was in the hands of rulers who
periodically welcomed them and closed their borders to them.

If your ancestral roots were in East Prussia, Northern Poland, Western
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - in the German speaking areas of the
Baltic Sea, we will work in the Jewish and Lutheran records still in
existence for these areas.


Requirements: Students must feel comfortable with computers. Classes
are open 24/7. Please send the instructor an application, a brief
summary of your research project, to see if it fits within the scope of
this class.

https://www.jewishgen.org/education/description.asp?course=40222

Format: This is a personal mentoring program which features an online
Forum where you'll be encouraged to post one ancestral branch: here you
can ask any question you have. This personal mentoring process is unique
to JewishGen education. Out classes have no scheduled times as our
students are international, enabling everyone to read/view/post at
leisure.

Tuition for this class is $150. 

To register: https://www.jewishgen.org/education/
For questions please email the instructor

Nancy Holden, Director of Education
nholden@...
Re: I am looking for Dr Willy SELIG, German Census 1933 #germany

Ruth
 

Thanks for your suggestions about the address books.  I am looking for Dr Willy Selig.  He and his family left Berlin around 1933 and he was a GP in Kingsbury.  We are trying to establish exactly when they left.

Ruth Bloomfield
London
Re: Finding My Grandfather's Siblings From Minsk #belarus

mpipik
 


Did you check the Yizkor book  https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/minsk/minsk.html
and Memories of the Minsk Ghetto? https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/weremember/weremember.html

I too would like information on family research in the Minsk region.


Jessica Schein
Chushansky/ Sushensky or similar from Minsk gubernya possibly towns of Petrikov and  Kopitkevich 
Re: Shemini Atzeret custom #galicia

N. ARONSON
 

Re: German Census 1933 #germany

Gerald and Margaret
 

What was Dr Selig's first name?  In the 1950s , My GP in London  was Dr Selig.  His practice was in Kingsbury

Margaret Levin nee Stein
Re: Creating a Belarus Jewish Genealogy PowerPoint Presentation #belarus

crjos
 

A poster on another thread shared The Together Plan https://thetogetherplan.com/ who have expertise in Belarus research and may be able to help with presenting.

Charles Joseph
London
Re: Shemini Atzeret custom #galicia

crjos
 

There are multiple customs regarding sukkah on Shemini Atzeret.  Some make kiddush in the sukkah, but eat indoors; others eat in the sukkah at night but not by day, or "go inside" after daytime kiddush.  This makes some sense if you consider that the "geshem" prayer for rain is on Shemini Atzeret morning, so why would you sit in a sukkah when you've just prayed for rain!

Generally one should follow one's ancestral custom.  I suppose the OP would like to know what the ancestral custom of that town was.  If the town or local area had a notable Rabbinic leader, then that could help find the answer.

If one doesn't have a family custom, then they would do as per their own Rabbi.

Charles Joseph
London
Re: JERUSALIMSKY/ROSEN-Schuzcin to USA #usa

Sarina Roffe
 

I am seeking Jerualemsky relatives in Iisrael
Many f them are now Jerome here in the US

Sarina Roffe
New Korolowka house mapping project #galicia

Max Heffler
 

Racheli Kreisberg has been developing an amazing house number mapping project for 15 years. Towns she has worked one include Skala Podoskaya:

 

https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/skalapodol/Skala%20House%20Number%20paper%20published%20in%20Galizianer%20Nov%202010.pdf

 

& Nadworna. We are embarking on a Korolowka (Oliyevo-Koralivka, Ukraine - 13 miles from Skala-Podilska, Ukraine; 12 miles from Melnytsya-Podilska, Ukraine - a number of families moved back and forth - as noted in the index) house mapping project since we have the cadastral and land-owner records and a school student index. We are requesting one or two volunteers for this.

 

On the cadastral map is a listing of 130 plots with surnames filled in for approximately 100 of them. This simple indexing would just create a simple spreadsheet with those house numbers and those surnamed. We have a template and it would likely take about 10 minutes.

 

The next step would be to attempt to connect the student index, which contains student and their parents and a sequence number to a house number from the first index above and adding that house number column and filling it in, where possible.

 

Thanks,

Max Heffler

Houston, TX


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Web sites I manage - Personal home page, Greater Houston Jewish Genealogical Society, Woodside Civic Club, Skala, Ukraine KehilalLink, Joniskelis, Lithuania KehilaLink, and pet volunteer project - Yizkor book project: www.texsys.com/websites.html
Re: Reclaim The Records launches its biggest FOIA request ever, for BILLIONS of digital images and associated text metadata, from the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) #records

Asparagirl
 

A minor correction: we formally submitted our FOIA request to NARA on Wednesday (October 14th), not Monday.
 
See, we really did wait. ;-)
 
 
- Brooke Schreier Ganz
Mill Valley, California
 
Re: Reclaim The Records launches its biggest FOIA request ever, for BILLIONS of digital images and associated text metadata, from the United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) #records

Asparagirl
 

Ethan W. Kent commented:
 
"it seems to me that 1) it has probably taken much time and effort to scan the huge number of Images already available online via that Catalog"
 
Yes, it did. And it was clearly known to all of the "partner organizations" (i.e. Ancestry.com, Archives.com, Fold3.com, FamilySearch, etc.) right from the outset that all their work to digitize and transcribe these microfilm or paper records would be returned to the American public when their "embargo period" of exclusivity ran out. In most cases, those embargo periods have been over for a decade, and in some cases, those embargo periods have been over for two decades!
 
(If we were really playing hardball, we probably could choose to challenge the legality of a government archive making any kind of exclusivity deal on access to public materials, or the very idea of an embargo period at all! But for the purposes of this FOIA request, we are not touching that issue, at the moment.)
 
The records, both the images and the associated text metadata, belong to the public, full stop. We want them back -- and we want to put them all online for free. Honestly, NARA should really have been the ones to do that part, but with very limited exceptions they just didn't release the material. So now we're going to hold their feet to the fire and make it happen.
 
"2) it will take much more time to scan everything (even everything not still "classified"),"
 
Ah, but we're not asking NARA to scan brand new things! We're only asking them in this FOIA request for copies of billions of records that have already been scanned and transcribed directly under their public-private partnership program, records that have been sitting on a shelf waiting to be freely released to the public for years. In practice, in all these years, most of these could only be seen or used on Ancestry.com or their subsidiary companies, if you had a subscription, or multiple subscriptions. That's unacceptable. Government agencies should not be enabling private monopolies on public data.
 
"Maybe the lawsuit could at least wait until after (G-d willing) the current epidemic in the US ends?"
 
It's not a lawsuit yet, still just a request. We're all waiting to find out how NARA wants to handle the request, follow the law or break the law. We're hopeful they're going to comply.
 
That being said, if we do have to sue them, we will not wait out the end of the pandemic, and we will probably not even wait out the end of the year. Two decades of locked-up and monetized public files is quite long enough to wait.
 
Also, FYI, we at Reclaim The Records did hold off on filing any new Freedom of Information lawsuits against government agencies over the past 7-8 months -- which is, for us, quite a long time! But we held off making this particular FOIA request to NARA for quite a while, because the people at NARA who process FOIA requests from the public were simply not back in the building yet. (Legally speaking, government agencies were not actually allowed to stop processing FOIA requests because of the pandemic, though in practice a whole lot of them did.)
 
But NARA is right now moving to "Phase Two" of their re-opening procedures, which explicitly includes re-opening their FOIA division. And so we finally sent this long-awaited FOIA request on Monday, to get to the head of the line.
 
We want our records back.
 
 
- Brooke Schreier Ganz
Mill Valley, California
 
Re: Seeking Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Dynow #austria-czech #poland #galicia

Stanley Diamond
 

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While the vital  records of Dynow did not survive, I am pleased to advise that
Jewish Records Indexing - Poland https://jri-poland.org/  has fully extracted the 
Dynow Books of Residents.

There are a number of entries for the WEINIG and KASSER/KOSSER and related
families.

There are also 900 different family names in the Dynow Books of Residents project
as well as 183 towns other than Dynow noted as Place of Birth.

Researchers making a qualifying contribution in support of the extraction of the
Dynow Books of Residents are eligible to receive all entries for their families. 

To inquire about this project, please write to dynow@...

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

10a. 
Seeking Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Dynow #austria-czech #poland #galicia
From: Ed Vogel
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 22:58:18 EDT
  • My mother-in-law, Hella Wexler nee Wenig, was born in Dynow Poland on Sep 28, 1931.  
  • Her parents were Joseph Weinig (Jun 28, 1891) and Miriam Kasser (Nov 23, 1900).  
  • Hella had 3 half brothers, as both Joseph and Miriam had been married previously.  
  • Joseph's sons were Mundek (1920) and Schmulik.  
  • Miriam's son was known as Larry, but I don't know the name he went by in Europe.  
  • Miriam's story is rather unusual, as she actually was divorced, which is very unusual for that time.  
  • Neither Mundek or Schmulik survived the Holocaust.  
  • Joseph's parents were Ben Weinig and Chaia.  
I would like to find as much as possible about Joseph and Miriam's siblings and ancestors.  

Thanks.

Ed Vogel

 My mother-in-law, Hella Wexler nee Wenig, was born in Dynow Poland on Sep 28, 1931.  
Her parents were Joseph Weinig(Jun 28, 1891) and Miriam Kasser(Nov 23, 1900).  
Hella had 3 half brothers, as both Joseph and Miriam had been married previously.  
Joseph's sons were Mundek (1920) and Schmulik.  Miriam's son was known as Larry, but 
I don't know the name he went by in Europe.  
Miriam's story is rather unusual, as she actually was divorced, which is very unusual for that time.  
Neither Mundek or Schmulik survived the Holocaust. 
Joseph's parents were Ben Weinig and Chaia.  
I would like to find as much as possible about Jose
Re: Yiddish male given name 'Kos' #poland #names

Diane Jacobs
 

You can call Beth David cemetery and ask if they would photograph the tombstone.
The cemetery is in Elmont NY just over the Queens border, not in  Brooklyn.

Diane Jacobs


Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

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From: Michele Lock <michlock77@...>
Date: 10/6/20 8:17 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: main@...
Subject: Re: [JewishGen.org] Yiddish male given name 'Kos' #poland #names

All these choices seem reasonable to me. I just checked the Polish birth record for Aron Kos, and there does not appear to be any Hebrew or Yiddish written out for his name, though his parents' names are there in Hebrew letters. I can clearly make out 'Kos' in Polish, and just those letters. The 1879 Russian Marriage record for Aron Kos does not have any Hebrew in it. I agree that viewing a photo of the New York City gravestone would answer this question. I looked on FindAGrave, BillionGraves, Jewishdata.com, and JOWBR, but no photos, though FindAGrave does confirm that he is buried as Koss Shaler at Beth David cemetery in Brooklyn. Myself, I'm leaning towards Kohos or Kosriel. 
Perhaps I should look to see if I can find other individuals in the Lublin gubernia records that have the given name 'Kos' and see if I can find their names written out in Hebrew letters in their original records.

Thanks for the responses.

Michele Lock
Alexandria, VA
--
Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey
ggf ISRAEL MAJER MORGENTHAL - Buchach, Ukraine #ukraine

sarahsilb@...
 

My paternal grandmother was Tzipe LENZ (B1887 Buchach).  She had at least two siblings - Chaya SCHWARZ (DOB unknown) and Sara Lea ROCK (born 1870). 
Their parents were Israel Majer MORGENTHAL and Freude Lenz.  I know a little about Freude Lenz's family, but virtually nothing about my ggf Israel Majer Morgenthal.
My grandmother's marriage certificate of 1904 in London (my grandmother was the only one of her immediate family to settle in the UK) has her father as deceased.  He is listed as Sara Rock's father on her marriage record on JRI Poland. These are the only mentions I have of him.
I have recently found an Izrael Majer MORGENTHAL (again, via a JRI marriage record) as being married to Sara KOFLER, their daughter Frieda Kofler (B 1897) marrying Schaje LEIBEL in 1923.
I am wondering if this is the same person as my ggf?  If my ggm died, would he have named a child from a subsequent marriage after her?
Any more information about my ggf would be gratefully received.
Sarah Silberston
Brighton, UK
SILBERSTON/SHAKHNOVICH - KLETSK, BELARUS
LENZ, MORGENTHAL - BUCHACH, UKRAINE
FREY/FREI - NOWY TARG, POLAND
RUBINSTEIN - ZLOCLOW, POLAND
BAUMWALD - ZLOCLOW, POLAND
BLASENSTEIN - TARNOBRZEG, POLAND
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