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Miriam Weiner
The Routes to Roots Foundation is offering Weekly Featured Collections from its website at www.rtrfoundation.org.
This week, we are highlighting the following from the MAP COLLECTIONS:
1. This collection consists of individual street maps of towns and cities within the current borders of Ukraine. Many of the town maps consist of 1-4 separate maps. The maps are in color and about half of them include a "legend" – primarily an alphabetical listing of street names. The maps are in the Russian language (Cyrillic alphabet). This map collection includes more than 40 localities in present-day Ukraine. https://www.rtrfoundation.org/maps.shtml
2. This collection consists of individual street maps of towns and cities within the current borders of Belarus. Some of the town maps consist of 1-6 separate maps. The maps are in color and most of them include a "legend" – primarily an alphabetical listing of street names. The maps are in the Russian language (Cyrillic alphabet). This map collection includes 25 localities in present-day Belarus. https://www.rtrfoundation.org/maps.shtml
Miriam Weiner Secaucus, NJ
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Re: Papa/Pupa
#hungary
David Bernheim
The correct address for the Memorial Book of Pápa, Hungary is https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/papa/papa.html
My BERAN family - previously from Boskowitz/Boskovice in Moravia - had, I believe, a factory in Pépa. Regards David Bernheim Saint Martin Vésubie, France
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Re: Bialystok census??
#poland
Mark Halpern
Hi Robin:
On 2021-07-31 6:46 pm, Robin Schwalb wrote:
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Re: Agency in Poland in 1917
#poland
Odeda Zlotnick
I know Kuoni is an international travel agency that exists in Switzerland.
Kuoni Group -- Odeda Zlotnick Jerusalem, Israel.
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Bialystok census??
#poland
Robin Schwalb
Is there a website or printed material for A Bialystok census or directory from 1890-1915? Thanks
Robin Schwalb Cary North Carolina
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Edward McMahan's cause of death
#usa
Steve Pickoltz
Edward McMahon was born about 1888 I think in NYC. He died Dec. 9, 1927 in Manhattan, NY, cert # 27504. He married my aunt Rose Bernstein on July 20, 1927 in Manhattan, NY. It appears he was not Jewish, but my aunt was. Since his marriage to my aunt was short (about 4 months), I know nothing about him or his cause of death, where buried or HOW THEY MET. It was never spoken of in my family.
Is there anyone who could fill in some of this missing information. I am the only living relative of my aunt, and the above is ALL I know about their relationship.
Steve Pickholtz
nj55turtle@...
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bilgoraj cemetery.
#poland
hello to everyone,I am going to fly from israel to poland.my mother born in bilgoraj and I wanna come there.i understand that the cemetery their are not in a good shape and I wanna work their to fix what I can.
To who I need to talk about it?
yerucham ago kinstlich
Bnei Barack
Israel
-- Do you hear about private name of levi?
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kosfiszer8@...
Looking for relatives of Moshe Sztelman from Grojec, Poland. In the attached card he sends greetings to his aunt Zysla Miller. No place or date was provided. The picture studio was at 28 Smocza and the name of the Studio starts with MAT....(can not make up the name). I checked for the address in Warsaw but it corresponds to some market before the war. Thanks for your help.
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Re: Headstone translations - Narefka Gravestones
#translation
Joy Kestenbaum
The website of the Foundation for Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland has entries for 132 Narewka gravestones, with photos and identifying information, including name of deceased, surnames, fathers names, and date of death, when available, although there are no translated inscriptions. https://cemetery.jewish.org.pl/list/c_77/ile_1
Some photos with inscriptions and other identifying information can be found on the JewishGen KehilaLinks Jewish Cemetery page,
where there are links to other pages and websites with photos and information on the gravestones, including one contributed by David Feldman over ten years ago.
Joy Kestenbaum
Vice President, Programming
JGSNY
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Agency in Poland in 1917
#poland
Esther Brill
Does anyone have any information on an agency which sold tickets in 1917 by the name of Kuoni, Knowa, or Kuova. On her manifest it lists that she bought her ticket from them, but it is hard to discern the actual name. Thank you Esther Levine Brill
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
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Re: Removing Picture From a Find A Grave Page.
#general
Norma Schumow
You can't remove the photo, but you can add a note in the bio identifying the person in the photo. If you have other photos to add, you can rearrange the order of the photos so that the offending photo no long shows on the front page.
Norma Schumow California
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Re: Headstone translations - Narefka Gravestones
#translation
Susan&David
Are any of theses stones duplicated here:
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Narewka/NarewkaCemetery/index.html David Rosen Boston, MA
On 7/30/2021 11:16 AM,
dfeldman@... wrote:
There are 46 headstones at this link:
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Harry Boonin
I am searching for P. Kappeler & Sohn (Kappeller) rr ticket agency in Brody in 1906. I have been advised no archive (or library) in Galicia has knowledge or possession of records of rr ticket agencies in Brody at that time
Does any family escaping the “October 1905” pogroms from Southern Russia possess a family memoir or any document which describes how they crossed the Russian-Galician border and wrote a letter or later, a memoir, of a ticket agency in Brody. Harry D. Boonin Warrington, PA harryboonin@...
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Hello. This is the wiki link from familysearch.org: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/How_to_Find_Tennessee_Birth_Records#Births_from_1874_thru_1908
Good luck Shosh Eizenshtein, Toronto
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Re: Removing Picture From a Find A Grave Page.
#general
R Jaffer
Hello Ralph,
To have the photo removed, click on HELP at the bottom of the memorial where it says MEMORIALS CEMETERIES CONTRIBUTE etc. Then click on HOW CAN I REQUEST TO HAVE SOMETHING REMOVE FROM THE SITE? Follow the directions for: Memorial or part of a memorial. State that you are her son and that you want your aunt's photo removed from your mother's memorial, but the woman who uploaded it has not responded to your request. Roberta Jaffer, Massachusetts robertajaffer@...
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Re: Looking for data on 12thEast transport April 1942 Berlin to Warsaw Ghetto: looking for family
#holocaust
Evelyn and Christopher Wilcock
I use the images of the deportation lists on the website https://www.statistik-des-holocaust.de
The 12th transport from Berlin may be here. https://www.statistik-des-holocaust.de/list_ger_ber_ot12.html But it looks fragmentary. Arriving safely in a ghetto did not indicate safety or survival. Ghettos were liquidated and deportations made from ghettos to extermination centres or to other camps. Evelyn Wilcock London eandcw@...
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Re: Removing Picture From a Find A Grave Page.
#general
Dahn Cukier
Hello, Probably what I say will not help. There is a contact at the bottom of findagrave page, write or call them. The terms of service are the photos belong to the person whom uploaded the photo. (Billion Graves is different). I had no problem taking down photos I uploaded. If the person does not take down the photo, is her choice. The headstone in a publicly accessible cemetery is not protected by privacy in many countries. Sorry for the bad news. Dahn Zukrowicz When you start to read readin, how do you know the fellow that wrote the readin, wrote the readin right? Festus Hagen Long Branch Saloon Dodge City, Kansas (Gunsmoke)
On Friday, July 30, 2021, 10:14:42 PM GMT+3, Ralph Baer via groups.jewishgen.org <ursusminor=verizon.net@...> wrote:
This is not strictly a Jewish question. A couple of months ago, a woman named Tina D. added a picture of my aunt to my mother's Find A Grave page https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77312694/lore-baer. I would like to have the picture removed. I have tried to do that both by going through the editing process and by writing to Tina D. Neither has resulted in anything. Assuming that others agree that the picture does not belong there, is there another way to do this? I add the following, not really relevant to my question. There is currently no Find A Grave page for my aunt who passed away 22 days prior to my mother and is buried in Beth-El Cemetery in Paramus, NJ. I have no desire to do so. Also, neither of my aunt's children is familiar with the picture which was posted. Her full name as Gertraud Flora Gunzenhauser is written on the picture. Because there is no umlaut on the A in Gunzenhauser, it must be from after she left Germany in 1939, but certainly before she married in 1948, probably closer to the earlier date. The picture appears to have an official seal embossed on it. Interestingly, Tina D. has posted pictures of many people who lived in or near Duisburg, Germany, both Jewish and non-Jewish. My grandmother, that is my mother and my aunt's mother, was born in Ruhrort which is now part of Duisburg. -- Ralph N. Baer RalphNBaer@... Washington, DC
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Does anyone have any idea how to locate birth record for Tennessee about 1874 (Shelby, TN). Garret DeVries
and his wife Teresa Rosa Fisher both died in 1879 due to Yellow Fever and left 4 children ages 6 to 1. The only one not accounted for was Rachel DeVries. Did not know about Rachel until I read Garret’s will. But she seems to have vanished. Thank you to anyone who can help. Barbara Fisher Israel
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mvayser@...
Shelley,
Ted has already partially answered this question, but here is the full information on what's Kiev's TsDIAK archive is planning on posting on their web site. They've renumbered these vital records, which is why there is a difference in the ID of the files uploaded by Alex Krakovsky and others. So far they've posted only pages from the Kiev (complete) and Kiev uezd (partial), but hopefully, the rest is on its way. In the meantime, TsDIAK archive can be contacted to get a scan of the required page, if it's not yet available on their web site. Poltava governorate
Kiev governorate:
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Re: demande de traduction du Russe en Français
#russia
#translation
mvayser@...
The scan is of the description of the archival file (identification 1-1-2909), not of the file itself. It states that there are 30 pages in this file. You would have to order this file from the archive - Central State Archive of the USSR. As the USSR no longer exists, the archive has been renamed or maybe even merged into another archive. The first page is dated 1988, the second page has a note that this document was given to "Special storage" in March 1965.
There is no information at all what the document is titled, the content, or dates, associated with this document. Mike Vayser
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