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OMG, Another COHEN Search!
#usa
SANDI ROOT
OK Guys - have another COHEN to uncover: David (no known middle name) COHEN,
b: October 15, 1888, Lithuania, or “Russia”. Around 1917 he lived at 1525 S. Hamlin Ave, in Chicago, and appears as a witness on my BLUMENTHAL father’s naturalization form. So THAT act should mean something in terms of a connection - like my father didn’t just go grab someone off the sidewalk and induct them into witness-ship, right? My father’s mother (my grandmother) is a COHEN, and, of course, I wonder if David is someone from a previously unknown cousin line. So far, I haven’t found one. The name “Henry J. BARNETT" also appears on the form, but I haven’t yet begun a search on him. The correct David COHEN appears on several census, but none of the names in his family have connectable meaning for me (yet). Isn’t this fun? Sandi (Blumenthal) Root Texas roadrunr2@...
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translation of Hebrew headstone needed
#translation
Deborah Friedman
For a Rachel Hess who died 1865 in Salem Fields Cemetery, NY.
Thank you for your help! photo attached Deborah Friedman Walnut Creek, CA dsfaec@...
Searching for: FRIEDMAN (KOPAIGOROD UKRAINE), SHULMAN/SCHULMAN (KOPAIGOROD UKRAINE), SPECTOR, GOLOGORSKY, KANSTERIN/KANSTEROOM, LIPSON (JERUSALEM), ZASLER (JERUSALEM, ZASLOW), LEVY, GRATZ/GRATCH, EISENSTEIN (DROHITCHIN), BENIOFF (KIEV AREA), SILBERMANN/SILVERMAN (ZEIL GERMANY), DINKELSPIEL(BADEN, GERMANY), MAIER, WIEDERQUIST, HOROWITZ (KIEV AREA), HESS (NEW ORLEANS), SANGER (NEW ORLEANS AND ALSACE), MAROZ (Ignatovka, Ukraine).
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Hebrew translation needed from headstone
#translation
Deborah Friedman
Hi
I have attached a photo of a headstone of a Rachel Hess who died in 1918. Thank you for your help, Deborah Friedman Walnut Creek, CA dsfaec@... Searching for: FRIEDMAN (KOPAIGOROD UKRAINE), SHULMAN/SCHULMAN (KOPAIGOROD UKRAINE), SPECTOR, GOLOGORSKY, KANSTERIN/KANSTEROOM, LIPSON (JERUSALEM), ZASLER (JERUSALEM, ZASLOW), LEVY, GRATZ/GRATCH, EISENSTEIN (DROHITCHIN), BENIOFF (KIEV AREA), SILBERMANN/SILVERMAN (ZEIL GERMANY), DINKELSPIEL(BADEN, GERMANY), MAIER, WIEDERQUIST, HOROWITZ (KIEV AREA), HESS (NEW ORLEANS), SANGER (NEW ORLEANS AND ALSACE), MAROZ (Ignatovka, Ukraine).
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Ellen Sinett
I am trying to learn more about my grandparents who came from Libaw, Russia in 1911.
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My ZANKEL and GLASER families were from Stanislawow/Ivano-Frankivsk.I too would be interested in accessing the databases.Joel Ives Fair Lawn, New Jersey USA
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Subj: ViewMate translation request - Russian
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paulmoverman@...
I've posted two Revision List entries in Russian for which I would greatly appreciate a translation. They are both posted on ViewMate at-- Paul Moverman Milford, NH USA
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Abraham Silverman, Providence, RI
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Davidmbrodsky1016@...
I am looking for the descendants of Abraham Silverman (or Zilberman) who arrived in Providence prior to 1904 from Letichev, Podolia Gubernia, in what is now Ukraine. He probably married after he arrived in Providence. David M. Brodsky
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Translation request for French marriage records
#france
#translation
I would be very grateful if one or more of you wonderful people would be willing to translate the genealogically relevant information from 4 nineteenth century French marriage records from Paris. Recently some of you helped me with 3 others. Thank you for the help! If you want to try one, and let others translate the other 3, that would be great too. Here they are on ViewMate: Marriage record of Aron Lieb Krzymiansky and Sara Mendel Mareslwsky from 1869: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM91473 Marriage record of Abraham Cohn and Adele Erligmann from 1896: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM91482 Marriage record of Benjamin Erligmann and Aline Doubelski from 1898: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM91483 Marriage record of Henry Waskanski and Mina Erligmann from 1901: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM91484
Seth Bittker Darien, Connecticut
Grodno, Belarus - BLAKHARZH / BITTKER, LIEBOVICH / LIEBOVITZ Babtai, Lithuania - REZNITSKY, LINKOVSKY Prienai, Lithuania - GROSSMAN, MIRASLAVSKI / LANGLEBAN / SCHEFERSON Onod, Hungary – ROTH Hernadszentandras, Hungary – HIPSCH, WEISS
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An unknown photo -
#russia
#belarus
#poland
#photographs
elena-boldyreva@...
I have posted a photo of the lady who was born around the 1860s. My family thinks she was a wife of Meer Rogovin from Minsk guberniya, but it may not be 100% true. We do not have her name. She should be my great great grandmother - her photo was among the photos belonging to my grandmother. We know that at the beginning of the 20s century this lady immigrated to the US. I would appreciate any information about her name, siblings, place of birth, or other details.
The photo on ViewMate: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM91506 Thank you, Elena Boldyreva, Toronto, Canada (searching for Rogovins/Ragovins/Rogowins)
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Viewmate Translation Request - German
#germany
#translation
Adam Oppenheim
I've posted the following vital record in German for which I need a transcription of the handwritten script. It is on ViewMate at the following address:
Please respond via the form(s) provided on the respective ViewMate image pages.
This record pertains to Meier Kahn and family, of Dudenhofen and connections to the Daub family of Nidda. I believe this may be the birth record of William Daub, who later founded the first synagogue in the Bronx.
Thank you very much.
Adam H. Oppenheim
Takoma Park, Md
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Re: Great Synagogue London marriage record Solomon Levy to Anne Levy 1860
#unitedkingdom
#records
In Lewin's records it shows that they were married on 7 June 1860. The groom's father was shown as Ziens Levy (deceased) and his Hebrew name as Avraham Shlomo ben Yehudah which is a little strange.There is also a question mark re the name of the groom. Ann Levy's father was Lyon Levy and her Hebrew name, Yenta bat Yehuda Leib. They both were shown as living at 16 Swan Street, Whitechapel. Solomon was 24 and Ann 22 . No names of mothers are ever given.
Regards Martyn Woolf London NW3
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Viewmate translation-Hebrew
#translation
Courtney Klein
Hello
Any help translating this, Slonim Yizkor book 1 page XIV from Hebrew would be greatly appreciated. It is about my grandmothers cousin.
Thank you
Courtney Klein
USA
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flmillner@...
Wikipedia’s article on Podolia includes the following: If the town and year fit, it could be Romanian!
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Re: Who was Cousin Jossel A in Philadelphia?
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jswack@...
i second the suggestion about the boat records. For me they are a total goldmine of information and helped link my mother’s maternal family together. You can see who the money was sent to, how much it cost, what boat they came on, the address of the person sending the money (often more than one relative as they banded together), and the names of all the passengers. I’ve been saving screenshots of all of the many ticket records for my family in this collection.
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Re: Who was Cousin Jossel A in Philadelphia?
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jswack@...
Have you looked at the Philadelphia boat ticket savings banks? These have been a goldmine for my own family’s immigration to Philadelphia.
They are indexed on Jewishgen. The actual ticket books are online at the Temple U. site. All of my mom’s mother’s extended family’s ticket orders are on it except for the first ticket.
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Re: Finding info on great grandparents Bayarsky in Belarus (Grodno? Minsk?)
#belarus
mkarina@...
Hi Nicholas,
My great-grandfather, Yankel Itskovich Boyarskiy, was from Lida. He got married in 1890 in Kiev. I don't have any additional information about his Lida family. I understand it's a common last name, but did someone like him happen to pop up in your research? Sincerely, Mikhailina Karina
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Re: Genealogical Revelations of Hungarian Jewish Families - First Volume Editor - Munkatchi
#hungary
Michelle Sandler
What is the ISBN for this book? Is this a book I should be getting for my JGS Library? Tell me about this book or series of books. I have very little on Jewish Genealogy in Hungary in my JGS Library. Just one book published by Avotaynu.
Michelle Sandler
Librarian Orange County California Jewish Genealogy Society
Westminster, California
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Re: Levitsky family from Porozovo
#belarus
schaffer6896@...
My maternal grandfather was Joseph Levitzki (in America, Joseph Levine) from Rosava in what is now Ukraine. His father was Yakov Levitzki from Boguslav in Ukraine. And his father was Isroel Levitzki but he was known as Isroel from the the steppe.
David Schaffer Vienna, VA USA
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Unger Hasidic Dynasty
#poland
Richard Stower
In the 1910 Census my maternal family (KANNER) was listed as having a cousin, Joseph UNGER, living with them. My family came from Dobrowa Tarnowska (Dombrov), Poland. I am wondering if someone has information that might connect Joseph (and thereby my Kanner family) to the Unger Hasidic dynasty.
Thank you. Richard Stower
Yarmouth, Maine
Researching Kolomyya: SECHESTOWER, SPIERMAN, THAU, BEISER, GRAFF.
Chortkiv/Budaniv: GROSS, FELLNER, HOCHMAN
Dobrowa Tarnowską: KANNER, SCHMIDT, WERNER, UNGER
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Shmuel Wolk
#lithuania
David Wolk
Seeking information on Shmuel Wolk, a resident of Krakinovo, Lithuania circa 1870 - 1885.
All replies gratefully appreciated. David Wolk
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