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Family of Jenny Rosenstein, Neustadt am Rübenberge
#germany
Christiane
Hello,
I am looking for relatives of Jenny Pins, nee Rosenstein. Jenny was born in Neustadt am Rübenberge in 1878. There she married her husband Louis Pins and moved to Dülmen. In 1940 she emigrated to Montevideo. She died in 1946.
I am specifically looking for the Rosenstein family from Neustadt.
Thanks Christiane Daldrup
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Schonfeld.family@...
His Grave:
https://gravez.me/deceased/BF7DE236-C6A9-4F5D-A91C-F286E4E2652C You can contact the Tel Aviv Chevra Kadisha for more Info. Jacob Shayzaf Israel
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Re: Survivor testimony
#holocaust
#records
jdsherod@...
Don't you have to be a relative in order to receive a copy?
Jonathan Sher Plano, Texas
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Re: Information Wanted regarding the Legion Etrangere Civile
#france
de.ewenczyk@...
Paul,Did you search this database : https://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/arkotheque/client/mdh/engages_volontaires_etrangers/resus_rech.php There are many entries. You may find your father. I hope you will. GOTTLIEB Albert 24-12-1894AllemagneGOTTLIEBAlbert 24-12-1894AllemagneGOTTLIEBAndré 17-04-1918 HongrieGOTTLIEBAndré27-04-1918 HongrieGOTTLIEBIsidore09-06-1918Autriche GOTTLIEBJoseph07-05-1915Hongrie GOTTLIEBJoseph07-05-1915Hongrie GOTTLIEBJoseph17-04-1919Hongrie GOTTLIEB Joseph17-08-1919Hongrie GOTTLIEB Marc26-02-1905GOTTLIEB Marc26-02-1905GOTTLIEB Sammuel10-08-1896Palestine You might search with other spellings, such as GOTLIEB, GOTTLIB, GOTLIB. Good luck! Daniel Ewenczyk Paris, France daniel.ewenczyk@...
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Carole Bass
Sally, thank you for the explanation. Now a follow-up question: how do you record these names in your family tree? Do you use the "correct" name (which, as I understand it, is "correct" only because the civil authorities didn't recognize Jewish religious marriages)? Or the father's surname, which is presumably what the person used in life?
Thanks again. -- Carole Bass New Haven, Connecticut, USA bass.carole@...
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Minsk gubernia town - Chuty, Huta or Choota
#belarus
Risa Heywood
Is anyone familiar with a village or town in Minsk gubernia that was known as Chuty or Chuta? I am trying to figure out the town or area my great-grandmother's family was from so I can start searching for Russian records. I haven't found any Russian records for the family on JewishGen and the town names I have are not pointing to one area or district.
The surname in the US was Zipkin or Chipkin, family story says it was Tzipkin in Russia. The passenger list records that I have are for Zipkin, Zipin, Cipin (2) and Tzipin. These are for 6 siblings. Any US document without a specific town name says that the family was from Minsk. Documents that give town names for where the siblings were from or born give the following towns: Szmilowitz and Schmilowitz Chuty, Huta and Choota Yurewitz and Jurewitz The spouse of one brother who married in Russia was from Nistonowitz I've used the JewishGen Town Finder and also the Gazeteer but the most likely town matches seem to be: Szmilovich could be Smilovichi, Igumen district or Smolevichi, Borisov district Yurewitz - could it be Yaremichy, Rechitsa district Nistonowitz could be Nestanovichi, Borisov district, Minsk Nothing likely comes up for Chuty, Huta or Choota. It could be many tiny villages. Any help is appreciated! -- Risa Daitzman Heywood Arizona and Portugal
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Re: Jewishgen Latvia Research Division Quarterly Meeting
#announcements
#latvia
Paul Cheifitz
Hi Joyaa,
We are hoping that the meeting will be recorded. Send us your queries by email and we will try to address them. Perhaps you can gather some others interested in Latvian research in the same time zone and we can have another session at a time that's more convenient for you? Write to us at LatviaRD@... All the best, Paul Cheifitz Co-Director, Jewishgen Latvia Research Division
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Moroccan Sephardic Migration to England in the 19th Century
#announcements
#events
Sephardic World talk this Sunday! All free!
During the 19th Century many Sephardic families from the city of Mogador/Essaouira in Morocco migrated to England where they became part of the rich fabric of the Jewish community. This week's speaker, Sidney Corcos, was born in Agadir, and left Morocco to Israel as a child. He served as director of the Natural History Museum in Jerusalem and is currently working on the new Beit Dakyra museum in Mogador/Essaouira. Sidney has done extensive research on the history and genealogy of his family and other Moroccan Sephardim. Topic: Moroccan Sephardic Migration to England in the 19th Century Time: Sunday Nov 22, 2020. 2pm NYC, 7pm London, 8pm Amsterdam/Paris, 9pm Jerusalem. Sign up to our mailing list for the details: https://mailchi.mp/sephardicgenealogy/ars1w3v45e Best wishes, David Mendoza and Ton Tielen
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IGRA Show & Tell, November 30
#announcements
#events
Garri Regev
IGRA's next Show & Tell will host Lance Ackerfeld talking about "Yizkor Books and Their Hidden Treasures"
Yizkor books provide an important insight into the communities that were decimated during the Holocaust. Besides providing detailed histories of these communities, the Yizkor books also contain a wide range of unique genealogical information about the people who lived there.
Join us on November 30, 2020 - 9 pm Israel time (2 pm EST). Advanced registration is required: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrcO6spjsjEtUqZMkwCpy0vqRgvwp0F9cW
Garri Regev
President, IGRA
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Offering Mt Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens NY
#usa
A. E. Jordan
I am going to continue to do cemetery visits as long as the weather holds out in New York.
I am offering photos from Mt Zion, in Maspeth, Queens.
Please send me the specific names, dates and location of the grave. You can research people on the cemetery website.
Mt Zion is one of the largest cemeteries in the area and while most of it is very well laid out some plots are difficult. I am not sure if the office is open to the public as well and some cases the only way to find people is with a map from the office.
Please no generic requests saying that I think someone s buried there or sending me around the cemetery to find everyone with a specific name in hopes it is your family member. FamilySearch transcribed a lot of the death certificates and they show what cemetery someone is buried in.
My process is I group and sort the requests based on location, time, weather and how far I can get in a day.
I appreciate but do not require a few dollars in return to help offset the cost of doing this for everyone. Unfortunately the expense of doing this week after week, plus having to invest in a new camera, adds up.
As always feel free to ask questions as well on email. Please reply directly to me and not the entire list.
Allan Jordan
New York
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Mt Hebron Cemetery Flushing Queens NY
#usa
A. E. Jordan
I am going to continue to do cemetery visits as long as the weather holds out in New York.
I am offering photos from Mt Hebron in Flushing, Queens.
Please send me the specific names, dates and location of the grave. You can research people on the cemetery website which is one of the best databases available. Better to use the cemetery page versus the commercial sites like Find a Grave.
Please no generic requests saying that I think someone s buried there or sending me around the cemetery to find everyone with a specific name in hopes it is your family member. FamilySearch transcribed a lot of the death certificates and they show what cemetery someone is buried in.
My process is I group and sort the requests based on location, time, weather and how far I can get in a day.
I appreciate but do not require a few dollars in return to help offset the cost of doing this for everyone. Unfortunately the expense of doing this week after week, plus having to invest in a new camera, adds up.
As always feel free to ask questions as well on email. Please reply directly to me and not the entire list.
Allan Jordan
New York
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Re: Records for Ellis Island deportations
#records
Years ago I wrote to Homeland Security (was it INS then?) asking if they had anything on my mother's uncle, who was rejected at Ellis Island in 1906. They referred me to the US archives, and told me exactly what file to ask for, and its location. What I got was a miracle: the record of the hearing on his appeal of deportation. A treasure trove of information. I am told that very few of them survived. Nowy Sacz area: Einhorn, Wenzelberg, Shifuldrem Ekaterinoslaw / Dniepro: Dwass
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Re: Travel from Galicia or Imperial Russia to Bessarabia
#bessarabia
#russia
#galicia
Renee Steinig
It's not possible for a town to have been partly in Galicia and partly in Bessarabia, because the two regions didn't share a border. A possibility to consider is Novoselitsa, Bessarabia -- now Novoselytsya, Ukraine. https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1048544 It's on the Prut River, which separated Bessarabia and the Austrian crown land of Bukovina, and about 27 miles from Lipkany -- now Lipcani, Moldova. Renee Renee Stern Steinig Dix Hills NY genmaven@... Marilyn Levinson <wallachlevinson@...> wrote: <<I know based on a passenger manifest that my grandfather emigrated to the United States in 1911 from the village of Lipkany in Bessarabia and in other documents he states his birth place is Nova Sulitza in Bessarabia. Half of the town of Nova Sulitzy was in Galicia and half was in Russia. I was wondering if anyone has any information about their families' journey from Galicia to Bessarabia or from a part of Tsarist Russia to the specific area of Bessarabia. The family name I am researching is Wallach.>>
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Re: 1910 Manhattan census - Seward Park Strollers
#usa
billie.stein@...
I haven't heard the term before, but the Seward Park Strollers were most likely homeless. Seward Park is on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, at Essex Street/East Broadway.
Billie Stein Givatayim, Israel
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Re: Improving the Odds of a Reply When Contacting Someone by E-Mail
#general
Diane Jacobs
I agree totally but one trick I learned if I am able to make contact with a possible relative who does not know me is to give them some information they might not know and then they usually respond and provide me with information. I have made contact with family over the years and with some friendships. I have visited family in Sydney. London, Halifax NS, Los Angeles, Miami Beach, and Tel Aviv. Diane Jacobs Diane Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message -------- From: m_tobiasiewicz@... Date: 11/17/20 2:12 PM (GMT-05:00) To: main@... Subject: Re: [JewishGen.org] Improving the Odds of a Reply When Contacting Someone by E-Mail #general Twenty or thirty or more years ago, I wrote to a cousin who DID know me and did not respond. About 5 years ago she died, her son found the letter and contacted me.
I would say 1 out of 10 is great odds. Mine were not that good.
-- Not everyone in the family is interested in the family tree. A bigger annoyance: cousins who are working on the same family and will not answer emails or work with you! I have better luck with complete strangers. Maryellen Tobiasiewiczfamily from: Bielsko-Biala powiat Poland
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Re: Dobromil research guidance
#ukraine
Tony Kahane
Hi David,
A good way to find possible Jewish vital record sets from Galicia is to search Gesher Galicia's "Global Search" facility. You can find this at: https://inventories.geshergalicia.org/#/ If you enter "dobromil births" in the search box at the top, you will see the second result in the list, which is: "Dobromil [Jewish] Births 1896-1915". This is held, as it indicates, at AGAD, in their Fond 300, File 3211. There is also a green rectangle displayed on the right of this record, labeled "SCANS AVAILABLE". If you click on the green rectangle, the link will take you straight to the set of page images of this book, stored on the AGAD website. There you can inspect the records, including those from 1906. The Global Search facility aims to cover all the Polish state archive and Ukrainian state archive branches with records from Galicia. The exception is the National Archives in Kraków. We plan to add record sets held in Kraków once the restructuring of that archive is complete - hopefully next year. Best wishes, Tony Kahane
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Re: Need help to translate several old postcards handwritten in German script
#germany
#translation
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 05:23 PM, Ellen Lukas Kahn wrote:
ellnkahn@...If Viewmate doesn't work out, I have used someone by the name of Joshua Grayson. His rates are reasonable. He gave a seminar at the IAJGS Conference, and has a website: Lost Roots Family History. One of the things he did for me was to translate Kurrentschrift. -- Carl Kaplan KAPLAN Minsk, Belarus EDELSON, EDINBURG Kovno, Lithuania HOFFERT, BIENSTOCK< BIENENSTOCK Kolbuszowa, Galicia STEINBERG, KLINGER, WEISSBERG, APPELBERG Bukaczowce, Galicia
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Re: Translation of Birth, Marriage, Death Record Headings
#germany
#poland
#translation
Howard Fink
JRI-Poland has this:
https://jri-poland.org/galicia/GalicianVitalRecords_Titles_Nov2002.pdf You can find this link along with many other useful resources here: https://jri-poland.org/jripltip.htm Howard Fink Acton, Massachusetts
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Re: Jewishgen Latvia Research Division Quarterly Meeting
#announcements
#latvia
Hi Paul,
Will it be recorded - and might those of us unable to attend at this time (e.g. those based in the Antipodes) be able to make a late contribution? Thank you for your consideration. Joyaa ANTARES In the Land Downunder ...
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Re: Information Wanted regarding the Legion Etrangere Civile
#france
Bernard Flam
Hi from Paris,
Dear Paul, I have checked with Google to be sure (even if you surely did it), and there is no link to "Legion Etrangère Civile". My GF was enrolled in Legion Etrangere, as a lot of Bundist from Paris : I have some of their military papers. If you wish, send me by private mail or by Viewmate your document for a more accurate answer. Khavershaft Bernard Flam Archives & history of Medem Center - Arbeter Ring (French Bund -Workmen Circle)
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