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Re: Finding My Grandfather's Siblings From Minsk
#belarus
temafrank1@...
My grandfather left Minsk in 1913 for Montreal. He was from Igumen/Dukora. Listed his name when he immigrated as Boruch Idelzchik. In Canada it became Bennie Adelson. He had a brother named Sruel, but presumably not the same one because his brother died as a teenager in about 1913. His other brother was named Max (Mische?) and came to Canada a bit later. My understanding is that ultimately he brought most of his many aunts and uncles to Canada. I'm attaching what I know of the family tree and names from Minsk gubernia.
Tema Frank
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Neil Rosenstein
Dr. Mehler, a Holocaust survivor and NYC MD was father of Raya who married Charles Rosenzweig
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ViewMate translation request – Russian
#translation
Kim Sheintal
Hi Everyone,
I posted three Russia records on ViewMate that I would like translated. My ggg grandparents from Raiciaz (Poland) are Leah and David Lejsman.
1908 death certificate for Abram Icek Lejsman akta 1
1899 death certificate for Berek Lejsman akta 5
1900 death certificate for Jakow Majer Lejsman akta 28
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88162
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88163
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88164
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you.
Kimberly Sheintal
Sarasota, Florida
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trying to make contact with the Baschkin family of Rye, NY
#usa
Neil Rosenstein
Bernard Baschkin who married Millicent, nee Auerbach and a descendant
of the Wiesel and Stern families was the father of Laurance and Karen-Anne Paul. I am trying to trace the rabbinical roots of this family. Neil Rosenstein
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-re Ackerman family in Hungary or Sub Carparhia
#hungary
Lois Gottesman
I have Ackerman relatives who are from Barbovo in Subcarpathia. You may want to check records for that town (Hungarian name Bardhaza).
Lois Gottesman
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ViewMate Translation Request - Russian
#translation
Lori Sandoval
Hello, I've posted 3 vital records in Russian for which I would like translations. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88167 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you! Lori Sandoval
Glendora, California, USA
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Re: Seeking Romanian Birth Certificate / Researcher
#romania
LarryBassist@...
Rabbi,
You might try Dan Jurca. I have obtained many records through him. His email is: dan_j777@... Hope that helps, Larry Bassist Springville, Utah
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Translation Request Russian Metrical Book (Update from Earlier Post)
#translation
Ann Scher
The link below is to a metrical book containing a death notice for Leiba Sharshevich (record M5) from Pakroujjis Lithuania. The translation from JewishGen is below.
The cause of death seems odd - is it correct? Is there any other genealogical information contained in this record? Thank you (and thank you to the several people who responded to my earlier posting with very useful information about how to locate this specific record). Ann Scher https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9GQ-JJLS?i=339
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Re: Tombstone
#translation
N. ARONSON
Shem Imo means "his mother's name". This is very common on tombstones in many places all over the world, not just in Hungary.
My experience is with Dutch tombstones and there many stones have it on. Even on stones of people who have no connection to Hungary. N. Aronson Manchester UK
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The link for Kazerine Dossin
Jan Meisels Allen
Steven et al, I thought I had republished my posting on Kazerine Dossin.with a working link..this is the link Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: Looking for a Lower East Side photo.
#photographs
Success! Here are the buildings at 8 and 10 Delancey Street in a photo taken in Dec. 1907, featuring the Guttman Coffee House and Delicatessen (see attached image, and detail). Perhaps this is your grandfather's restaurant, or perhaps his replaced the Guttman? This photo is from the New York Historical Society, which has a full set of 1907 Delancey St. images, building by building, from Dec. 1907 at http://digitalcollections.nyhistory.org/islandora/search/delancey?type=dismax
Enjoy, Bob M Robert Murowchick <robertmurowchick AT gmail.com> Researching these family links:
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HOROWITZ marriage in Minsk 19th cent. Hashtags Minsk, HOROWITZ, AGOLNICK family, Rabbinic group
#belarus
Yonatan Ben-Ari
Researching a supposed marriage of the son of a Rabbi David, Rabbi of
Novarodk, family name unknown to me, to a HOROWITZ daughter probably around the early part of the 19th century. The groom's name was Moshe (son of David son of Moshe of Klezk). Reportedly he adopted the HOROWITZ family name and died relatively young. (Possibitiy that his father, Rabbi David, had no family name. As the (A)GOLNICK) family in USA are descendants of the above Rabbi David of Novarodok, the above Moshe may be their ancestor. TIA Yoni Ben-Ari
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Dieveniskes, Vilna (Divenishok), Lithuania, Grenoble, France, c1935 Photo for Identification
#lithuania
#photographs
Adam Cherson
Seeking to identify close friend of Blumeh (Movshovich) Berkovich, writing to Blumeh from Grenoble, France:
the postcard reads something like this: “And I again settled in Grenoble. The mood is not to describe. And how are you? I didn't thank you for your friendship. Don't be upset/everything goes by [or ends] in this stupid life/the stupid existence becomes yesterday [news]/loses its whole importance___ Stupid post - again and again the same. ___I made piece with my destiny and you do the same. The game is over/the future preset. And work is awaiting me - again and again work. May God give us strength to cope with all. Be well your ...[illegible first name or 'friend' ] Wein.”
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Havana, Cuba: Class Pictures Centro Israelita, 1942-43
#photographs
Adam Cherson
Comments: Photo from family collection of Samuel BENYAKONSKI. This photos shoe the 5th and 6th grade classes of 1942-43 at the Centro Israelita of Havana (located on Muralla/between Zulueta and Egido). Reasonable to suppose that some of these kids were of parents from Divenishok (Dieveniskes).
Families known to have been associated with the Centro Israelita of Havana during this period and who may have family in these photos: ABRAMCZYK, AFRIN, ALTMAN, ARLIUK, BAUM, BAUMGART, BEYZER, BEREZDIVIN, BERGER, BIMBLICH, BLOCH, BOLTINSKI, COHEN, DREIMAN, EDELSHTEYN, FITER, GEITZHOLZ, GOLDSTEIN, GOLDWATER, GORFINKEL, HERTZBERG, HIMMELSHTEYN, HAIMOVICH, HANIVIESTKI, KATZ, HERSZFELD, KLEIMAN, KRAMER, KRIEGER, LAZAR, LEVINSON, LUBIN, MARKEVICH, MILINIFKER, MILLER, ORDER, RYBAK, SANDBERG, SCHLESINGER, SZLIPAKH, SCHUCHINSKI, SCHWED, SHAFTAL, SHKLAR, SHKOLNIK, STUTMAN, SZECHET, SZPRYNGIER, TAUBER, TENENBAUM, TUREK, WAGNER, WAHL, VOLBE, WEINER, VOLSON, YARMUS, ZAJAC, ZOLL 1941: 5th Grade (top row 3rd from viewer's left: Samuel BENYAKONSKI)
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Nov. 4: Zoom lecture on facial recognition tools for unnamed family photos
#events
#announcements
#photographs
Moriah Amit
Family History Today: Using Facial Recognition Tools to Identify Unnamed Ancestors This program is sponsored by the Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at the Center for Jewish History. It is supported, in part, by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Ticket Info: Pay what you wish; register at /tickets/family-history-today-2020-11-04 to receive a link to the Zoom program PLEASE NOTE: Our system cannot currently handle registrations from outside the U.S. International registrants, please send an email to programs@... with your name, email address and the name of the program for which you would like to sign up. We will register you manually and send you the Zoom link for the program. This is a free program but donations are welcome at cjh.org/donate/donate-now.
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Re: Tombstone
#translation
Maria Rev
Hi Laurent,
You are right, the grave is in a former Hungarian province, now in Romania, and related to a Hungarian family. In that case, what could be the meaning of "Shem Imo"? Many thanks Best regards Maria Rev
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Re: My grandparents JONUSS and MAZUS from Ezere, Latvia
#latvia
#lithuania
My great-great-grandparents Joseph Jonas (Jannes) and his wife were from Riga; they were feldshers (paramedics) that died in treating cholera victims during the epidemic that f=broke out in Moscow in1830. Their son, Samuel Jonas (Jannes)aged 12, and his sister were orphaned and went to live with an uncle. The uncle substituted my great grandfather Samuel for his son and he was drafted into the Russian army where he served for 25 years. Upon leaving the Russian army as a corporal, he married a younger Jewish woman and he served as a constable somewhere in central Russia. During that stay, his wife was attacked and Samuel beat the living daylights out of that lowlife. As Jews, they would have been lynched except because of Samuel's service, they were exiled to Bialystok in the Russian Pale. They grew a large family, which included my grandmother Gussie and all of them emigrated to the USA/ BTW, Matilda is not a rare name among Jews. I had two relatives named Tillie.
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Re: Opole Lubelskie Ghetto
#holocaust
perlagold@...
Most of my mother's family were from Opole Lubelskie. Only a few survived the Holocaust. I found records on Yad Vashem, submitted by a surviving cousin, saying they all died in Treblinka. My sister visited the area a few years ago with a guide who told her that some of the residents were taken to Poniatowa, near Opole Lubelskie, where they were forced to work and later killed.
Perla Goldschmidt Doylestown, PA Researching: ZYLBERMAN, SCHENKER, LERNER, JAKUBOWICZ, PERELBERG, GOLDSCHMIDT, GUTERMAN, KLEIN(er), BRETZLER
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Re: Belgium's Kazerne Dossin Online Exhibit
#announcements
#holocaust
#photographs
#records
Jeff.Kutcher@...
I can highly recommend a visit Kazerne Dossin (pandemic permitting) or of course online in the meantime. They keep alive an important part of the history of the Holocaust which some may be unaware of. They were (and still are) extremely helpful with my research on a branch of my family that emigrated to Belgium in the 1920s from Poland, who like so many more were seeking a better life away from poverty and antisemitism.
Jeff Kutcher
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Unfortunately I do not see an listings for this town in Alex Krakovsky's postings and not much online at JG database
Gary Pokrassa
Data Acquisition Director
Ukraine Research Division
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