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Re: Geni Family Trees - Privacy and Baptism Concerns #general

Jeffrey Herrmann
 

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 09:12 AM, Max Heffler wrote:
You claim “Collaborative sites, like geni, provide the best possibility of progressive correctness for this record.”  
What is your evidence for this bold assertion?  The anecdotal evidence reported by many users of these sites suggests that the posted trees become progressively more incorrect as careless users cut and paste each others errors into ever more trees.  This is the antithesis of “progressive correctness.”
Jeffrey Herrmann
London
Re: Jewish Actors (Cohen) in England ca 1916 #unitedkingdom

Dexter Moseley
 

have you tried the actors union called Equity?


Dexter Moseley
dextermoseley@...
Re: translation from Russian needed #translation

mvayser@...
 

Deanna,
Unless the right side of the photo on the second line has some text, it should read
"To dear
sister
Hannah"

If, however, there is a word "от" / "om" on the 2nd line, that would indicate that it's "To dear sister from Hanna"

Photographer
V.S.Zhukovskiy
Nezhin

Maryellen,
you were pretty close with the word, but it's "Дорогой", not "Дороготы"

Mike Vayser
Re: Re Geni Family Trees - Privacy and Baptism Concerns #general

Lisa Lepore
 

Hi Joan,

The intent of trees such as those at Geni, and the ones at familysearch.org is to create one big tree where everyone connects to everyone else.  So, even if it were possible to replace your tree with the one you want, at some point the others can just add on to it again.  The problem with these types of trees is that some people are very careful with their research and are truly interested in connecting with the distant branches of their families.  Unfortunately, there are also many who are not careful, or who do not respond when you contact them.  In some cases that have been discussed here, unfortunately there are those Mormons who persist in adding Jewish people to their religious ceremonies, even though their own church has asked them not to do this.  I had some changes made to my familysearch tree by a man who answered very vaguely when I asked him how he was related to me.  He first said his wife had done it, then he didn't remember, then he stopped communicating with me.  He still makes changes to some of the people, so I'm not really sure what's going on there, and I wondered if it was related to some of these overzealous people baptizing everyone they can document?   Since I don't follow their beliefs, I don't think deceased people can agree to anything, so it's meaningless to me.   

Once you set up a public tree at one of these "one big tree" sites, this is a problem that will continue.  The only thing to do to avoid it is to keep your tree on your own computer, or find a site where you can post your tree and keep it private, or let people look at it but not add to it.  You can do this at myheritage & at ancestry, and there are probably other places I am not familiar with. 

Lisa Lepore
Mendon, MA
#110233  

On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 12:45 PM Joan Parker <parker5850@...> wrote:
I've been following this thread and wonder if this suggestion might be viable... or if I'm  being very naive. Since one cannot eliminate bad stuff added to their tree (I too had the ex-wife's family of my nephew added by  Randy Schoenberg.  It was just there one day and I have no interest in her or her family).  Her branch is not on my Ancestry or  My Heritage trees.  Can one make a gedcom of their other  tree and DL it to Geni as an upgrade to their Geni tree?  Would this eliminate all the bad stuff? Or is this just too simplistic?
 
Joan Parker
Past President/Archivist
JGS of Greater Miami, Inc.
1) GOLDBERG/ GOULD, GOODSTEIN/GUDSTEIN, BERGER, GERBER/CRAWFORD, JAGODA-Lipno, Plonsk, Plock, Poland-Russia; Warsaw, Poland-Russia; Galveston, TX; Bronx and Brooklyn, NY, Portland, OR, Los Angeles/Hollywood, CA.
2)  PARKER/PINKUS, WINOGRAD, (GERSHO-BEROVNA?)., R0SEN, -Brest (Litovsk), Belarus; Grodno, Russia; Bronx and Brooklyn, NY. WEISS, NEIKRUG, DEL PINO--Brooklyn, NY.  RABWIN--Hollywood, CA, Salt Lake City, UT. CLAYTON-California.
3) GELFAND, KRITZOFF, KATZ, TROCK --Berezin/Bresin, Kodima, Minsk, Belarus, Bronx, NY, Miami and Miami Beach, FL.
Re: translation from Russian needed #translation

Iryna
 

Hand inscription "Dear sister from Khana" Below "Photographer V.?. S *** vsky, Nezhin"
Iryna Tulchynska. Ukraine
Re: Slovakia civil registration records #records #slovakia

Carole Bass
 

Vivian Kahn,

I should have asked: is Mr. Abolson digitizing all civil registration records, or just those for Jewish births, deaths, and marriages?

Thanks again.
--
Carole Bass
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
bass.carole@...
Re: Slovakia civil registration records #records #slovakia

Carole Bass
 

Vivian Kahn,

Thank you very much. The records I'm looking for are from the Kosice Region — from the town of Gelnica or thereabouts — and are more than 100 years old. Are any digitized records online?

I will gladly donate in support of this work. I've worked with Hungarian Civil Registration records from elsewhere in Hungary and can usually find my way around the records, but I don't know that that qualifies me to transcribe. I don't read Hungarian or Slovak.
--
Carole Bass
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
bass.carole@...
Re: Sephardic Resiliencia Festival - Virtual #sephardic

Barbara Algaze
 

How do we join?
Where do we register?

The writing on the flyer is too small and I do not know how to enlarge it.

Barbara Algaze
Algaze3@... 
Warsaw cemetery #warsaw

Stanley Diamond
 

The Warsaw Okopowa Cemetery can be searched online on the JRI-Poland website
at https://jri-poland.org// "Search"
 
Information on the Foundation for Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland of
which the Warsaw Cemetery is the largest project is available on this web page:
https://jri-poland.org/foundation-for-documentation-jewish-cemeteries.htm

 
Stanley Diamond, M.S.M.  (Montreal, 514-484-0100)
Executive Director, Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, Inc.
 
  10a. 
Warsaw cemetery #warsaw
From: m_tobiasiewicz@...
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:17:04 EDT
Have the Jewish cemeteries in Warsaw been indexed?
I am looking for a distant cousin who died in Warsaw in 1956 in a trolley car accident.
His wife and 2 sons later moved to Tel Aviv.
--
Maryellen Tobiasiewicz
family from: Bielsko-Biala powiat Poland
Gorlice powiat Poland
Lviv Oblast Ukraine
 
Looking for help Zabokrich #ukraine

Len Weinstein
 

I am looking for any info on this town where many of my ancestors came from. Any help is greatly appreciated
Len Weinstein
POLIN Museum recalls the Jews imprisoned in the ghettoes across occupied Poland (and Ukraine)

tony hausner
 

https://www.polin.pl/en/core-exhibition-ghetto
 

The core exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews has been enriched with a new installation. It presents the stories of Jewish residents of several Polish towns who at the time of the Second World War were imprisoned in the ghettoes.

Warsaw ghetto is the most widely-known, yet the Germans established six hundred sealed-off quarters for the Jewish minority, among others in Lwów, Łódź, Przemyśl, Radom, Rzeszów and Tarnów. The first ghetto was established eighty-one years ago, on 8 October 1939.

 
--
Tony Hausner
Founder, Safe Silver Spring
Past Chair, 
AAII Chapter Leaders Executive Committee
Cell: 301-641-0497







 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Re: Potato Latkes...are you Litvak or Galitizianer? #galicia #lithuania

Sue Brundage
 

My maternal grandparents were from Malat: Kvas or Kwas, and Mindlin.
Litvaks! And we used both sour cream and apple sauce, though my choice was always apple sauce.

Susan Ginsburg Brundage
Searching for David ABRAMOWITZ-Boston -late 1800's-mid 1900's #usa

Yonatan Ben-Ari
 

My great great grandmother, Gittle ABRAMOWITZ came to the USA around
1870-1880 to New Haven, Ct. As she had remarried around her arrival we
are not sure what her second husband's name was (possibly LAZAROFF or
variant).

She had been widowed before leaving Europe (Novarodok) and came to the
states with 4 young children. The eldest (we presume his name was
David) was supposedly an older teenager left New Haven to find his
future in Boston.

As our family oral history goes (no records) David went to work in a
department store and eventually rose to management through
(supposedly) marriage into the owner's family. It is also supposed
that he changed his family name possibly to ABRAMS or something
similiar.

Around 1936 his Israeli nephew, my grandfather, who emigrated from
Palestine to Hartford,Ct. tried to contact his uncle at the store and
was rebuffed by the sec'y stating that David was not well and was
recuperating in his Florida home.

I state again all of the above is oral history written in an
autobiography of a family member no longer alive. If any of the above
sounds familiar to anyone I would love to hear.

TIA

Yoni Ben-Ari (Katzoff), Jerusalem
Re: Potato Latkes...are you Litvak or Galitizianer? #galicia #lithuania

Mark Halpern
 

My Bialystoker mother served her great latkes only with sugar. My Galitzianer father never complained.

Mark Halpern
Conshohocken, PA

 

On 2020-10-27 4:39 pm, Irwin Keller wrote:

My family is also from Krynki (names: Jacobs, Knishevitsky) and indeed we also take 'em with sugar!

Irwin Keller
Penngrove, CA

Could you someone help me with translating a gravestone from Hebrew to English? #translation

jonathan goldstine
 


Thank you!

Jonathan Goldstine
Re: translation from Russian needed #translation

JoAnne Goldberg
 

Google translate works well, but the nuances of language can cause confusion. Does "ship" mean to send, or is it a big boat? The root of дороготы is "dear" and one definition of "dear"  is expensive. But  you'd also use that Russian root to refer to a dear friend -- дорогой друг

_._,_._,_



--
JoAnne Goldberg - Menlo Park, California; GEDmatch M131535
BLOCH, SEGAL, FRIDMAN, KAMINSKY, PLOTNIK/KIN -- LIthuania
GOLDSCHMIDT, HAMMERSCHLAG,HEILBRUNN, REIS(S), EDELMUTH, ROTHSCHILD, SPEI(Y)ER -- Hesse, Germany
COHEN, KAMP, HARFF, FLECK, FRÖHLICH, HAUSMANN,  DANIEL  -- Rhineland, Germany

 
Re: Potato Latkes...are you Litvak or Galitizianer? #galicia #lithuania

Irwin Keller
 

My family is also from Krynki (names: Jacobs, Knishevitsky) and indeed we also take 'em with sugar!

Irwin Keller
Penngrove, CA
Re: Searching for family of Brunya Golberg from Krepice, Poland #poland

Renee Steinig
 

Bronia Goldberg, whose arrival and naturalization records are on
Ancestry, is probably the person you're looking for. She was born on 1
Mar 1910 Krzepice and married Chaim, born 19 Apr 1908. Son Lasor was
born 3 Mar 1950 in Germany and daughter Sarah was born 4 Jan 1952 in
Chicago. Chaim died in 1990, last residence Chicago.

Lasor and wife Esther live in Brooklyn. They're listed in the Verizon
White Pages (https://www.therealyellowpages.com/index.php).

Renee

Renee Stern Steinig
Dix Hills NY
genmaven@...

Eliyahu Allon <eliallon@...> wrote:

<<I am searching for the family of Brunya Goldberg from Krepice, a
town in southwest Poland near the German border. She was an older
friend of my mother-in-law, Fela Granek Szymkowicz, and helped her
survive War II. After the War, she and her husband settled in Chicago.
She had a daughter and son, both of whom moved to Brooklyn. Any
information would be appreciated.>>
Re: translation from Russian needed #translation

m_tobiasiewicz@...
 

I am working on google translate. Not easy from Russian to English. 
I used google translate for дороготы . It translates as Expensive.

Still playing with the translator.
Maybe someone out there can suggest a better translator.

The bottom handwriting may be the name of the photographer.
The handwritten part is fotograf. The samped tex is probably his name. The small stamp below it may be the town where the photographer is located.

 
--
Maryellen Tobiasiewicz
family from: Bielsko-Biala powiat Poland
Gorlice powiat Poland
Lviv Oblast Ukraine
Warsaw cemetery #warsaw

m_tobiasiewicz@...
 

Have the Jewish cemeteries in Warsaw been indexed?
I am looking for a distant cousin who died in Warsaw in 1956 in a trolley car accident.
His wife and 2 sons later moved to Tel Aviv.
--
Maryellen Tobiasiewicz
family from: Bielsko-Biala powiat Poland
Gorlice powiat Poland
Lviv Oblast Ukraine
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