Hi,

I do not know about getting a photo of the building ~1900, but NYC took photos of every building in 1940.  Here is a link to the site:

1940s NYC | Street photos of every building in New York City in 1939/1940

 

Hope this helps.

Avi Brickner

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Southern Nevada (JGSSN) invites you to a Zoom meeting at 11:00 a.m. (Pacific Daylight Time) on Sunday, October 10: “"Routes to Roots Foundation: New Surnames Databases, Maps, Town Images and More!” with Miriam Weiner

 

To request a Zoom link, please complete this short form: which can also be found on our Meetings webpage.

Members of JGSSN can attend for free.  Non-members can pay $5.00 on the Donate webpage and complete the short form.

Session Description:

From 30+ years of working in the archives of Eastern Europe (Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Lithuania), Miriam has acquired hundreds of various document collections yielding millions of surnames. She formed a close working relationship with archivists on all levels many of which continue to this day. 

During the past two years, she has created a surname database containing over 2,000,000 names (with continuing updates regularly). At the website, a surname search can produce entries from Holocaust name lists, vital records, census lists, school records, property lists, various telephone and business directories, applications for Communist Party membership and much more, most of which do not appear elsewhere online. A surname search can produce document results with that surname and links to a street map and town images. All in a single search!  A town name search can yield archive data for that town, as well as town images and a link to a street map of the town.  Another valuable website resource is the Maps database.  Miriam has acquired many maps from various localities. A map search will bring up very detailed maps that, when you zoom in, may reveal even the smallest shtetl.

About Miriam Weiner:

In 1989, Miriam Weiner accepted an invitation from the Polish National Tourist Office to visit the Polish Archives in preparation for arranging genealogy tours to Poland. That visit led to a 30+ year career working in the archives of Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus and Lithuania. 

In 1991, The Jewish Week in New York, referred to Miriam as “The Genealogist who Lifted the Archival Iron Curtain”. 
In 1998, The Forward referred to her as “The Indiana Jones of Pre-war Polish Jewry.” 
In 2019, The Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia referred to Miriam in a lecture review as "Genealogy Rock Star Discusses Digging up Jewish Roots."

Miriam's work in the genealogy field has produced a slew of awards beginning more than 30 years ago; among them are: 

In 1988, a writing award from the Council of Genealogy Columnists for her syndicated genealogy column

• In 1999, 2000, and 2003, three major awards from IAJGS (one for each of her two books and the Lifetime Achievement Award)
• In 2000, Reference Book of the Year award from the Association of Jewish Libraries
• In 2019, The National Genealogical Society presented Miriam with the prestigious "President's Citation" at its annual conference in St. Louis
• In 2020; The Federation of Genealogical Societies awarded her the Rabbi Malcolm H Stern Humanitarian Award 

The new version of the RTRF website has produced many comments from noted members of the genealogical community, See www.rtrfoundation.org/comments2020.shtml

 

Ben Kempner

Vice President,

Jewish Genealogy Society of Southern Nevada

Translation assistance, please, Yiddish to English.  This is a two page letter written, most likely, to my grandmother, Bessie/Basia (her husband is Benjamin Aronson). Malka and Rosa (her sisters) are names within the letter. Thank you, in advance, for taking the time to read. A full translation, most appreciated, but also will be very happy with names, places and events discussed.

 

https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=95178

 

https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=95179 


Thanks again!

Harlene Rosenberg
Researching Aronson (Kolno, Poland), Gavurin (Slonim, Poland), Zaretsky (Gomel, Belarus), Gancevitz (Neshviz, Belarus)

Correction - The (misspelled) name does not have to "live into perpetuity". A cousin of mine,who lived alone, had passed away some time ago. When I visited the cemetery and saw her matzevah, (headstone), I realized that the attorney, who had handled the arrangements, had supplied  the wrong Hebrew names for both the deceased, and her father. After I interceded, the monument company somehow made the correct changes to the stone in a manner that the changes were not readily apparent.

Neilan Stern      neilan1@...
researching: Stern, Pistrong, Stieglitz - Radomysl Wielki;  Aonov/wsky, Cohen - Vilijampole, Kovno, Lithuania; Black, Schwarz - Nesvizh, Belarus

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David Silvera

L'Shanah Tova!
I have posted three different vital records relating to the Siedlce region of Poland for which I would appreciate translations:
1) #95207 Miedzyrzec Podlaski death record
2) #95208 Terespol birth record
3) #95209 Radzyn Podlaski death record

All three are written in Polish.
With gratitude!
Tammy Weingarten

Hello everyone,
I've posted 4 vital records in Russian for which I need translations. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses ...

1.  Death record of Lejbus PRZEDNOWEK:  https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM95300&data=04%7C01%7C%7C79c355e6cb614809dd8708d97b96b000%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637676709394576188%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=iAkCKMOUdKYDv0T6ZjAqFe932iBHpVLZA7hJj5C2d10%3D&reserved=0

2.  Death record of Nachman PRZEDNOWEK:  https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM95301&data=04%7C01%7C%7C837e2da9836c4991f62b08d97b96b1ef%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637676709425498640%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=QoqhZ17H0k6xDbnM6XgugBxbJsq2wxtBp6ZSyUKFHfE%3D&reserved=0

3.  Death record of Ryfka KAUFER:  https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM95302&data=04%7C01%7C%7C8277233bfa3048792f3b08d97b96b361%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637676709466965107%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=HKQlCVwvTIeKGiGqujpCTuPvmDln66NcLbjo3VfqHGs%3D&reserved=0

4.  Birth record of Simcha Chil WINTER:  https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM95303&data=04%7C01%7C%7C3633a22bea77445ad5d408d97b96b567%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637676709483885507%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=ThbGPxcXZEQCKUzjzshYzIOfeFm8uAhEa5rkeWP1Otc%3D&reserved=0

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you very much.

Greg Tuckman
Phoenix, Arizona   USA

Try this link (Judaica of the library of the Goethe University Frankfurt). This works easier 
https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/freimann/content/titleinfo/1913980?query=Heppner&lang=en

Best regards
Ruth Leiserowitz
Berlin / Warsaw

I don't think it is pointless to try to determine the Hebrew (or Yiddish) name of an ancestor.  You need that information to find them in the Eastern European records.  One brick wall I have never been able to pierce is the ancestry of one of my great grandmothers. On her marriage license, my grandmother listed her mother's name as Jennie Katz.  Jennie died around 1876 (probably in Vilkomir, Lithuania). Her husband was born around 1852, so Jennie was probably in her early twenties. It is hard enough to try to research someone named Katz, but without knowing what her actual first name was, it has been impossible.  It is likely that "Jennie" was a name created by my grandmother for the purposes of her marriage certificate, since her mother never left Lithuania.  She is probably in the 1858 Revision List, but under what name?
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Peter Cohen
California

I believe the name is Zissel bat Yochanan


David Rosen
Boston, MA

Memorable Manitobans: Eva Finkelstein Abremovich (1877-1953)

Scholar.

Born at Radishevka, Volhynia Province, Russia on 10 June 1877, daughter of Tevel Finkelstein, one of the early Jewish arrivals in Winnipeg in 1882. She arrived in Canada in 1883 with her mother and sister. She attended Carlton School and Victoria School then, in 1897 she graduated from Manitoba College, the first Jewish person to do so. In 1902 she married Manuel Hirsch Abremovich (1875-1958), an electrical engineer, in Winnipeg. They resided in New York City for a few years before returning to Winnipeg where she was a member of the University Women’s Club and the Women’s Canadian Club. During each of the world wars, she worked for the Red Cross. In 1948, she and her husband retired to Vancouver, British Columbia. She died on 18 December 1953 while visiting Sarnia, Ontario, and is buried in Shaarey Zedek Cemetery.

Sources:

“City woman dies on visit to Sarnia” Winnipeg Free Press, 19 December 1953.

We thank Paul Silverstone for providing information used here.

This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.

Ronald Kaplan
Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Herman, though it is impossible to know for sure if it is the same person without more definite information, the name Leyvik is a dimunitive form of Levi.  It is very accepted.  As for Srol it is the same.  Remember that people were writing down what they heard.  It is definitely just like Srul--dimunitive of Yisroel/Israel.

Shimona Kushner, Haifa, Israel

In the 1900 census, 3 of the 22 families living at 84 Willett Street in New York City were my family. At other times, other family members lived there. Where would be the best place to get a photo of the building at 84 Willett Street around 1900? Thank you.
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Carl Kaplan

KAPLAN Minsk, Belarus
EDELSON, EDINBURG Kovno, Lithuania
HOFFERT, BIENSTOCK< BIENENSTOCK Kolbuszowa, Galicia
STEINBERG, KLINGER, WEISSBERG, APPELBERG Bukaczowce, Galicia

I am trying to find out if my 4x great grandmother Elizabeth Abrahams born c1786 in Aldgate/ Whitechapel in East London has Sephardic ancestry. There is a family story passed down my mother’s line that we have Spanish Jewish roots which I am exploring.

On Synagogue Scribes, Elizabeth Abrahams ( Hebrew name Beila) married Israel Jacobs in 1806 at the Great Synagogue. The Hebrew name of her father was listed as Abraham HaLevi.  I haven’t managed to find the name of her mother or go back any further on her father Abraham HaLevi. Many of my Ashkenazi distant cousin married Jews with Spanish Sephardic surnames  ( Mendoza, Nunes-Martines, Belasco etc). 

I know that The Great Synagogue was Ashkenazi, but I have also been informed that intermarrying of Sephardic and Ashkenazi occurred from the late 1700s onwards.  So it is possible one or both of Elizabeth Abrahams’ parents were Sephardic.  Can anyone point me in the right direction. Does anyone know if  Elizabeth’s Hebrew name Beila or the Hebrew name of her father Abraham HaLevi provides an clue? I read somewhere that Beila is a Spanish variant of the name Elizabeth.

Any help would be great fully received.

Many thanks in advance,

Elizabeth Graves 
London, UK
Known family names in my direct Ancestry going back to 1700s include : Isaacs, Jacobs, Abrahams, Levy in East London

Need the father's name on this matzeveh.



Thanks
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Bob Silverstein
bobsilverstein@...
Elk Grove Village, IL

Researching Kaplan (Krynki, Poland) Tzipershteyn (Logishin, Pinsk, Belarus), Friedson/Fridzon (Pinsk, Cuba, Massachusetts), Israel and Goodman (Mishnitz, Warsaw, Manchester).

There is a small village by the name of RADOSHIVKA, 50 11 N 26 53 E 34.3 miles W of Shumsk. The "ivka" ending is Ukrainian. RADOSHEVKA (or RADISHEVKA) would be the way the town was known by your ancestors in Yiddish.
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Avrohom Krauss
Kiryat Yearim (Telz-Stone) ISRAEL
kraussfig@...
Researching: KRAUS, GOTTFRIED, MONAT from PRZEMYSL (Galicia) Poland/ KINSTLICH, GREENBERG, SCHMIDT from Tarnobrzeg, Rozwadow, Ulanow (Galicia) Poland
KLOTZ from Telsiai, Lithuania/ ROGOZIN, KAPLOWITZ, from Vyazyn, Ilya, Vilyayka, Belarus /LAPIDUS, SOKOLSKY, ROGOZIN, Maladzyechna, Belarus

On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 02:01 AM, Paul Silverstone wrote:

It was well-known in our family that the Finkelsteins came from Shumsk, in Volhynia, Ukraine.   My grandfather on his Canadian naturalization said he was
born in Radishevka, also made by his younger sister Eva.   They arrived in Canada in 1882.
I have been unable to find a place with that name in Volhynia.    Suggestions are welcome as where this place might be or its true name.

Paul Silverstone
West Vancouver, BC

paulh2@...

 
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Avrohom Krauss
Kiryat Yearim (Telz-Stone) ISRAEL
kraussfig@...
Researching: KRAUS, GOTTFRIED, MONAT from PRZEMYSL (Galicia) Poland/ KINSTLICH, GREENBERG, SCHMIDT from Tarnobrzeg, Rozwadow, Ulanow (Galicia) Poland
KLOTZ from Telsiai, Lithuania/ ROGOZIN, KAPLOWITZ, from Vyazyn, Ilya, Vilyayka, Belarus /LAPIDUS, SOKOLSKY, ROGOZIN, Maladzyechna, Belarus

Announcement

23andMe Matches Workshop  Monday Oct 4, 2021  1-4pm EDT

Prerequisite: If you have NOT DNA tested at 23andMe and have already worked with matches webpages, please do not respond to this announcement, you are not ready.

 

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How about the following, very rare, very special name - I have run into it once.

Four Hundred Barrels of Wine - Yalta, the wife of Rav Nachman - Women of Distinction (chabad.org)

Spelled ילתא she seems to have been a very special woman. 

Have your grandchildren google the name in Hebrew -- if they speak the language.

Mind you, living with a rare name is not easy, though sometime fun because there are so few of you...
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Odeda Zlotnick
Jerusalem, Israel.