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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
Sniderlh
This is good news to hear. I hope you have success with this, on this go 'round. I truly appreciate groups like yours who step up and go to bat for ALL of us, and fight for what is rightfully ours (to access & use). All the game playing (a nice term) that has gone on (& seems to be ramping up) over the years with public records, their access, and the gross cost of fee increases, is an affront to all tax payers in this country. I, like many family researchers I know, would be quite happy to do my own free online searching, and I have even paid for several needed records in the past. The new fees would make that impossible.
Good luck! Thank you, Leah H. Snider Silverdale, WA / USA
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Re: Tombstone
#translation
Malka
The abbreviation ה"כ הרני כפרת משכבו Hareini kaparat mishkavo – I am an atonement for his resting place Added after a name of a parent who passed away less than 12 mos. Prior
ש"אShm’mu’el alef Sh’iem ken – because if this were so
Shalom, Malka Chosnek
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Marriage records and dates
#records
Richard Stower
Will someone explain the apparent discrepancies between AGAD marriage records which have different dates of marriage that conflict with births of the couple's children.
Thank you Richard Stower Yarmouth, Maine Researching in Kolomyya: SECHESTOWER (or variations), THAU, SPIERMAN, GRAFF. In Dobrowa Tarnowska: KANNER, SCHMIDT (or SMITH and variations), WERNER. In Chortkiv: GROSS, FELLNER.
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Re: Looking for a reliable archivist to obtain family records from Ukraine
#ukraine
Sniderlh
Two years ago I had Andriy Dorosh handle research for me in Brody & Lviv. This was to supplement my own work & ahead of a trip to Ukraine which he also arranged for me (with guide & driver). Oksana, was the woman who did the archival research & she also gave information to town guides we met with in Brody, Lviv & Kolomyia (and then they did some supplemental work to augment my town visits). Oksana, was also my personal guide throughout the week I spent in Ukraine, and she did a great job. You can see Andriy's online site at: www.DoroshHeritageTours.com, and contact him at: dorosh.andriy@... He did a really nice job with all our arrangements and had a good complement of people working for him. My trip was very beneficial & the archival research helped a lot, too. Prices, I felt, were very reasonable.
Leah H. Snider Silverdale, WA /USA
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Sherri Bobish
Michele, How about this as a vague possibility? I've seen names of towns even more distorted. Lahoysk, Belarus Alternate names: Lahoysk [Bel], Logoysk [Rus], Lahoisk [Yid], Łohojsk [Pol], Logoisk, Łahojsk Region: Minsk A very quick look at https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Belarus/ finds virtually no records for this town. There are several other 'Genners researching this town, and one is searching LEVINE. Of course, that is an extremely common name, but you never know! Regards, Sherri Bobish
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Visegrad 4 Film Series - Oct. 15-28, 2020 - ONLINE
#announcements
tony hausner
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Cell: 301-641-0497
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Re: Looking for a reliable archivist to obtain family records from Ukraine
#ukraine
t s
Another high recommendation for Bela. He has been very helpful.
Todd Samovitz
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Michele Lock
I originally thought the town was Lida as well. But during Russian times, Lida was in the Vilna gubernia, and I believe in the Grodno gubernia before that.
In the 1920 US census, when asked by the enumerator Mrs. Koplowitz what his birthplace was, the father Simon Lavine answered 'MInsk'. I can see that his neighbors who were Jewish immigrants gave answers such as Vilna, Kovna, Galitzia, Grodno. It appears that Mrs. Koplowitz was asking them in Yiddish what gubernia they were born in, probably because she knew the usual 'Russia' was way too broad. See the partial column from the census image below; the entry that is the third from the bottom is for Simon Lavine: This is why I believe Simon Lavine and his family are from the Minsk gubernia, and that 'Ligia' is located somewhere there. I have requested the New Jersey death certificate for Simon Lavine, to see if there is any more definitive information on that document, though it will likely just say Russia. The death certificate for his wife Ada Lavine says Russia, and that is it. Michele Lock Alexandria, VA
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flmillner@...
Yes, Lida is probably the town. We may be cousins. My gggrandfather Benjamin Vine/Wein was from Lida. He had a sister Celia who immigrated to NYC 1893 with her husband Bernard Levin. They moved to Trenton about 1901. Bernard's siblings used the surname Bergman. Celia and Bernard had seven children (5 Levins, one Levine and one Lavine). My grandmother, Rose Vine, was Celia's grand niece. I can't find Charles, Esther, or Simon in my family file. Bernard's father was Louis Levin. Bernard's death certificate lists Louis and says he (like Bernard) was born in Lida. Wish I could give you a real connection. Lots of Levines, Levins, and Lavines in Trenton!
Fred Millner Hamilton, NJ
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Looking for a Lower East Side photo.
#photographs
Bruce Drake
I occasionally post about this here in my never-ending quest to find a photo that includes somewhere the storefront of a restaurant that my grandfather, Samuel Drach (from Wojnilow) owned on 10 Delancey Street, between the Bowery and Chrystie, in the years between 1910-1920. (That building and its storefront are still there but now unsurprisingly is a craft whiskey bar). I have scoured every possible photo source and am posting here in case anyone has old family photographs that might have such a shot. The closest I have come is a 1940 NYC tax photo taken at a point when the storefront was a bird shop.
Obviously, answer privately.
Bruce Drake
Silver Spring MD
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ViewMate translation request - Polish
#poland
#translation
Alex Guri
Hello,
I've posted vital records in Polish for which I'd appreciate a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88056 https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88057 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much, Alex Guri
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Viewmate Translation Request - Russian
#translation
Josh Poritz
Hi all,
I have posted three pages from the 1834 Grodno Revision List on ViewMate and am looking for translation of the entries on these pages that pertain to the DZIVETETSKY, SCHMIGELSKY, or KHAZANOVITZ families:
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thanks in advance!
Josh Poritz
New York, NY
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How can I research famliy members from the Volyn area (Ratno, Kovel, etc). that emigrated in the late 19th and early 20th Century to the US?
#ukraine
Steve.Millman@...
My family tree does not go back any further than the US at the moment as I cannot track my relatives into their native lands, which were held by Russia, Prussia and Poland at various times.
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Re: Wer Einmal War: Salomon (Salo) Landau (Pages: 1716-1718)
#austria-czech
jeremylehmann89@...
Hi Johann and Laurent,
Thank you so much for this information. I do think my ggg-grandfather Schia Landau and Salomon (Salo) Landau were brothers. Schia Landau was also born in Nowy Sacz (~1841) and his father was Judah Leib HaLevi Landau. Interestingly, Sophie Wachmann's sister Amalie Wachsmann married Schia's nephew Josef Baruch Landau, which further strengthens the connection to my family. Thank you again! Best, Jeremy Lehmann
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Re: Tombstone
#translation
Leya Aronson
Good morning.
Actually the Shin and Aleph are abbreviations for SHEM IMO...the name of his mother. The letters after are an abbreviation for "She should live [and be well]" [Shetichye means she should live, the ,and be well is understood.] So while his father was deceased, his mother ws alive when he died. Hope this helps. Leya Aronson Toronto Canada
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Re: Wer Einmal War: Salomon (Salo) Landau (Pages: 1716-1718)
#austria-czech
kassells@...
Hi Johann,
Actually "Wer einmal war " gives his father name on his Hebrew name. There Salomon is mentioned as the son of Judah haLevi. Best regards, Laurent Kassel Moreshet, Israel
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boris
It is Lida, Belarus.
-- _______________________________________ Boris Feldblyum FAST Genealogy Service boris@...
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Re: Need map of the Padua Ghetto
#general
s.sciaky@...
At this site: https://www.beniculturalionline.it/location-1755_Ghetto-di-Padova---Comunit%C3%A0-Ebraica.php
you can find a brief history of the Padua community (in italian) and a map of the old ghetto. Please keep in mind that what is referred to the "ghetto" area today is much larger than the actual historical ghetto. There is also a nice website of the Padova Jewish Museum at: https://www.museopadovaebraica.it/ It's in english too. Hope it helps. Best
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Re: Tombstone
#translation
binyaminkerman@...
Here is buried
The beloved and esteemed young man The honorable Rabbi Abraham son of Yitzchak peace be upon him, son of our teacher the Rabbi Menachem Rosenberg may his light shine Died the 8th of Cheshvan 5697 May his soul be bound in the bond of life His wife's name Chila may she live A few notes: Many of these words are abbreviated as is common, the second description is abbreviated my best guess is that it's meant to say "vhachoshuv" (and the esteemed) but it is misspelled. The abbreviated title before his name probably doesn't mean he was an ordained Rabbi at his young age but was just an honorific. His grandfather, however, seems to have been living and was a Rabbi (maybe well known given the fact he is mentioned). The title "habachur" (the young man) usually means he is unmarried, but the line at the bottom of the stone seems to give his wife's name so it probably is just referring to his very young age at death. I have never seen a stone list the wife's name exactly like this and again it's abbreviated but I believe it stands for "Shem ishto" (his wife's name). The 8th of Cheshvan would have been either the night of October 23 or the 24th of 1936. His yartzeit is actually a week from now, Sunday night and Monday the 25th into the 26th. Binyamin Kerman Baltimore MD
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Re: Tombstone
#translation
seth@...
Can't make out all of it, but:
Buried here
The Dear and Wise Youngster*
כ"ה The late Abraham the son of Yits’chak (Isaac)
Son of Our Teacher
the late Menachem Rosenberg
Died on 8 Cheshvan 5737
ש"א (abbreviation that I don’t know) Chila (should she live)
* actually “Unmarried”
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