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Re: 1910 Manhattan census - Seward Park Strollers
#usa
Mary Henderson
...that's in the 1910 Manhattan census... not born in Manhattan...actually indexed as born in Austria... Mary Henderson
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 4:55 PM Mary Henderson via groups.jewishgen.org <gengenres=gmail.com@...> wrote:
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Re: GARTSTEIN from Novofastov, Ukraine
#general
mariafcampon@...
Hello Elena,
I've posted a picture of my great-grandmother and my great-aunt Roza Gartstein on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88526. Could you please take a look at the picture? I would like to find out if my ancestors are in any way related to your genealogical research. Thank you. María F. Garstein Argentina
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Re: Minsk gubernia town - Chuty, Huta or Choota
#belarus
Krzysztof Witaszek
Hello
Huta (Huty) is a Polish word for the smelter or ironworks. There were hundreds of small villages with that name in the area where once was the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (before the partitions of Poland in the end of XVIIIc) .
Look into the Geographic Dictionary of the Polish Kingdom (Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego) and you find four such villages in the Minsk area, in particular Ihumen county.
(On the left bottom page)
(The dictionary was written in XIXc, I don't know if it was ever translated into English)
Today's name for Ihumen is Chervyen (Чэрвень) some 40 km east from Minsk.
There are other Huta's located in Minsk Gubernia, but more distant from Minsk.
Regards
Krzysztof Witaszek
Lublin
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Re: 1910 Manhattan census - Seward Park Strollers
#usa
Mary Henderson
Hi, Sherri! Thank you for your response! A good person to search on would be Morris Mulbogart born 1892 in Manhattan Ward 10, in the 1910 census. Occupations, marital status, immigration status all marked "Un". About 95 men whose ages range from teens to 60s. I suspect these are homeless men. It's interesting about the baseball team, though. Mary Henderson
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 2:14 PM Sherri Bobish <sherribob@...> wrote:
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Re: Information Wanted regarding the Legion Etrangere Civile
#france
Paul Gottlieb
Did you search this database :
https://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/arkotheque/client/mdh/engages_volontaires_etrangers/resus_rech.php Thank you for your kind response. My father's name is not on the database you sent, even with different spellings. I'm quite sure at this point that the "Legion Etrangere Civile" membership card that he had (which looks quite official with his name, address, profession and nationality) is bogus. But I am still curious if other refuges in Paris sought (or forged) such documentation in order to avoid internment or deportation. Paul Gottlieb
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Re: 1910 Manhattan census - Seward Park Strollers
#usa
Deanna Levinsky <DEANNASMAC@...>
A “stroller “ is also another name for a small baby carriage --
Deanna Mandel Levinsky
-- Deanna M. Levinsky, Long Island, NY
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Sherri Bobish
Marcia, Perhaps this site, which lists the towns & villages in Saros County, will be helpful in finding "Felrener." The list is alphabetical. Assume that "Felrener" is some form of misspelling, and check the list for something close to that. http://www.hungarianvillagefinder.com/HVFIndex2/41_SAROS.html Many towns had different names in various languages, including Yiddish variants. Those variants can be found at: https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Search.asp Regards, Sherri Bobish
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Re: Dobromil research guidance
#ukraine
Sherri Bobish
David, Have you tried a soundex search on the surname? If you are doing an exact search than even one letter difference in the spelling can prevent finding the family. It is also possible that there just aren't extant records for the person and/or time frame you seek. Dobromil is very close to my ancestral town of Ustrzyki Dolne, from which records are almost totally non-existent. Another option is to search for all records from the town, and look through them for your family name. Regards, Sherri Bobish
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Re: 1910 Manhattan census - Seward Park Strollers
#usa
Sherri Bobish
Mary, If you give us one of the men's name, age, and birthplace (preferably a not too common name) than we can look at the 1910 census page. At www.fultonhistory.com I found a mention in a 1903 NYC newspaper for an amateur baseball team called The Park Strollers. Are there occupations listed for any of these men? What is their age range? Seeing the census sheet will be helpful. Regards, Sherri Bobish
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David Lewin
At 15:13 18/11/2020, Schonfeld.family via groups.jewishgen.org
wrote:
His Grave: Nathan Lester is mentioned on http://www.glima.info/verdicts/4AA21DB7D507BBBA4225724A0048DA5F.html
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Re: Resources for Jewish Refugees who went to Uruguay
#lodz
itencorinne@...
Hi
The first step should be to search for documents with more information in Uruguay. The second step should be to search for passenger manifests (familysearch, CEMLA). If she has got more details from this sources she can start the research in Europe. There are the records of the civil registry office and the censuslists (1926-1936) for Paris online. for the time in question birth records are not online, but marriage and death records are online. http://archives.paris.fr/r/123/archives-numerisees/ Regards Corinne Iten Switzerland
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Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania Launches New website
#announcements
#lithuania
#records
Jan Meisels Allen
The Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania launched a new website with list of anti-Soviet resistance participants. The website is: https://www.laisveskovos.lt/. It is all in Lithuanian so a translation service will be required such as https://translate.google.com/ or https://www.deepl.com/translator
The following was translated by Google translate:
“Armed resistance to Soviet occupation was the strongest action of Lithuanian civil society in the history of the state. Participants in guerrilla warfare included not only armed fighters (guerrillas) but also individuals outside direct armed structures: guerrilla liaison officers and supporters (although in the face of repression against guerrilla supporters, liaison officers and supporters were often forced to retire and take up arms in the long run). The guide provides individuals belonging to all the above-mentioned groups of guerrilla warfare participants. The main purpose of the guide is to provide the public with information about Lithuanian citizens who have joined the fight against the Soviet occupiers and who have sacrificed their lives for the freedom of Lithuania in the battlefield, camps and Lithuanian prisons.”
“The information will be loaded into the help in several steps. About 13,000 names are currently listed: those killed on the battlefield, those sentenced to death by shooting and those who died in prisons. In the later stages, it is planned to announce the names of the survivors of the partisan war: the names of the repressed, but who returned from the camps and the partisans who escaped, the liaison officers. The manual will be constantly updated and updated.”
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: Nidyki, Ukmerge uzed: Current location?
#lithuania
Sherri Bobish
Laurie, Perhaps Nidyki is a typo for Vidiškiai. It is 18 miles from Sirvintos. https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-2620548 Regards, Sherri Bobish
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Dan Rottenberg
I’ve been trying for years to connect my Margulies relatives from Zbaraz, Galicia (now Ukraine) to the rabbinic Margolioth dynasty, also of Galicia.. Two of my Margulies relatives told me years ago that the family was descended from rabbis. Also, R. Meir Wunder of Jerusalem, the authority on Galician rabbinical genealogies, once told me himself that everyone from eastern Galicia named Margolioth/Margulies is related. Thanks to Gesher Galicia's database, now I think I see a possible connection.
The house in Zbarazh (#131) where my Margulies relatives lived for several generations housed among others a Joseph Margulies, who died in Zbarazh in 1828 at the age of 70. On that basis, as well as naming patterns in subsequent generations, I have concluded that this Joseph Margulies was my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather.
Now I have reason to speculate that this Joseph Margulies may be identical to someone on the Margolioth rabbinic tree: Yosef b’Alexander Sender Margaliot.
Yosef's father Alexander Sender Margolioth (1730-1802) is known to have served at some point as rabbi in Zbaraz, having succeeded his father in law Zvi Hirsch (surname unknown); and Alexander’s son Mordecai Margolioth (1752-1818) was also at some point rabbi of Zbaraz. So the Margaliot dynasty did have a presence in Zbaraz in the 18th Century, about the time that my Joseph Margulies (1758-1928) was born.
Here’s my question: Can anyone tell me more about Yosef b’Alexander Sender Margolioth?
(Yosef's name does not appear in Neil Rosenstein’s The Unbroken Chain. But it does appear on a chart provided to me in 2005 by Dr. Yehuda Klausner of Jerusalem. It also appears on a tree chart by Randy Schoenberg on geni.com)
Thanks to anyone who can provide help or insight you can provide. This could be a big breakthrough for me.
Dan Rottenberg Philadelphia PA dan@...
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Viewmate Translation requewst - Polish
#poland
#records
#translation
lrjolson@...
I am looking for a translation of Viewmate 88547. I would like parents names, date of marriage, age of the two people marrying, and anything else you could tell me such as occpations, etc. The record is located at the following address:
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=88547 Thank you in advance! Lois Jolson JOLSON, JOELSON, DOREMBUS, JEDWAB: Wyszogrod and Kaluszyn Poland LEWERTOWICZ, EJDEM, ROCLAW: Ostrow Mazowiecka, Sniadowo and Andrzejewo Poland BULLER, HOFFER: Wiznitz, Bukovina SCHNITZER: Kuty, Galicia ZLOTOPIORO: Biala Podlaska, Poland LITTAUER: Myszyniec, Poland ZONSZAJN, WAJSBERG: Sieldce, Poland.
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Re: Malvine Weiss transferred to MAUTHAUSEN 14 April 1945, then where?
#hungary
#holocaust
Valentin Lupu
Hi Emma,
You may ask for information at https://memorial-archives.international/en/entities/show/546f87be759c02ca678ccbd4 As you may see, they have more on Malvin Weiss born Jan. 25, 1913 in Onod. Malvin's prisoner number is indeed 62225 transferred from Ravensbruck to Venusberg. I think that the best way is to ask for information at https://arolsen-archives.org/en/search-explore/inquiries/information-for-relatives// From my knowledge, they always reply. Valentin Lupu ISRAEL
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Gerald and Margaret
Your next step may be to find someone in Minsk to look through some archives for you. I suggest you contact The Together Plan, a charity based in London and Minsk. It helps Jewish Belarussians to help themselves, eg training for and getting work. One of their projects is genealogical research in Belarus on behalf of people who live elsewhere. They have the huge advantage of speaking the language , and often Russian, as well as understanding their Government's bureaucracy.
Have a look at wwwthetogetherplan.com, and go to Archive research. Margaret Levin London UK
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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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