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September 2021 Summary of IAJGS Records Access Alert
#general
#jgs-iajgs
#records
Jan Meisels Allen
As mentioned previously, every month I post a listing of the IAJGS Records Access Alert topics from the previous month for you to see the variety of issues…some were posted on this discussion group but most were not—all postings are included below. The following are the summaries for the month of September, 2021. In order not to miss out on important information it is worthwhile for you to be subscribed to the Records Access Alert. Without records, genealogists cannot do genealogy –making certain that we retain access and gain access where it is impaired is every genealogists' responsibility.
The IAJGS Board of Directors approved opening the Records Access Alert to anyone who is interested in records access. This was announced previously. We now have subscribers from many genealogical organizations not previously able to subscribe. To be on top of what is happening you are encouraged to register for the Records Access Alerts to receive the information in a timely manner. If you are interested in any of the above items, please register for the IAJGS Records Access Alert and look at them in the archives. To register for the IAJGS Records Access Alert go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts and follow the instructions to enter your email address, full name and which genealogical organization you belong to a society, SIG or a subscriber of JewishGen, AVOTAYNU, Legal Genealogist etc. You will receive an email response that you have to reply to, or the subscription will not be finalized. The alerts are archived and once you register you may access the archives at: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts/
The IAJGS Records Access Alert is not a daily announcement list. Depending on what happens worldwide, there may be no postings for several days and other times there may be several in one day.
These are listed alphabetically not chronologically. Each month the locales covered differ.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Ovruch Ukraine
#ukraine
Bernis@...
Family lived in Shtetl Ovruch. Bais Weinberg sons Beryl Bernard Weinberg and Lazar Weinberg. Bernhardt was my grandfather. He married Doris Schatsky she died in childbirth and married her sister Mollie Malka Schatsky. They immigrated to Wisconsin. Any info would be wanted.
Bernis Kretchmar MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately
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Southern Jewish Historical Society conference will be virtual - Oct 22-24
#announcements
#usa
#events
peggyfreedman@...
The 45th annual conference of the Southern Jewish Historical Society will be held virtually from October 21 to October 23, 2021 and will be free of charge.
There will be panel discussions and speakers discussing: Expanding the Archives of Southern Jewish History
Collecting Kentucky Jewish History
The Art of the (Southern) Jewish Family
Facts and Fictions: Archives of Literature and Performance
How Old City Maps Can Enrich our Historical Imagination
Uncovering Lexington's Early Jewish Business Community, 1867-1924
Si Dresner's Civil Rights Activism in the Jim Crow South, 1961-1965
My Journey from Florala, Alabama
Enemy Alien Internment in the South in World War II
A Jewish Refugee in the Jim Crow South
Houston's Jewish Community and the Soviet Jewry Movement
Jewish Lawyers versus Jim Crow
For more information, and to register, go to the Conference website at: 2021 SJHS Virtual Conference | Jewish Historical Society of South Carolina (jhssc.org) Peggy Mosinger Freedman Atlanta, Georgia
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Re: The Hebrew translation for the name Yetta
#names
Mary Clare
My g-g-grandmother from Ellingen, Bavaria was named Yetta and also went by the name Idel, a Yiddish diminutive of the name Yehudit (or Yehuda for a male). Mary Clare
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In memory of Jill Anderson z'l
#JewishGenUpdates
#lithuania
Avraham Groll
 Dear JewishGen Community,
We were deeply saddened to learn of Jill Anderson's untimely passing this past weekend.
While in her professional life she worked as a presenter and newsreader at BBC radio, she is perhaps most well known for the direct and indelible impact she made to the field of Lithuanian genealogical research. Over the last 10 years, she volunteered for the LitvakSIG (a JewishGen partner), first as a District Research Group Coordinator, then as a board member, and most recently as the President. During that time, she was a frequent speaker at conferences, created new initiatives, and developed strategic partnerships which led to significant organizational growth. Many thousands of Jewish genealogical researchers have learned about their roots as a result of her efforts, and she will be deeply missed.
We send our sincere condolences to her family and many friends throughout the world.
May her family be comforted amongst the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem.
Avraham Groll, Executive Director
on behalf of the JewishGen Team
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Re: Identifying ancestral town - current day Ukraine
#ukraine
"The town appears to be listed as Bapoli. The father, Leizer, wrote Balta on his declaration of intent ..."
The town may be Bohopil (Bogopol in Russian), which was in the former Podolia gubernia and is now in Mykolaiv oblast in Ukraine. That town was written as "Bapolia" in a family tree in my possession, and it is not far from the Balta region. You may not find Bohopil on current maps because it no longer exists as a separate town; in 1919, it was incorporated into the town of Pervomaisk (Pervomaysk), along with Holta (Golta) and Olviopil (Olviopol), to make up the present city of Pervomaisk, which is on the Buh river and almost due east of Balta. -- Susan Kahan Steeble Baltimore, MD, USA Researching: FRIDGANT/FRIEDHAND and variants from Bershad, Ukraine KESSELMAN from Chorna/Okna, Ukraine BUDIANSKY/BUDINOFF and SLUTSKY from Korsun and Zolotonosha, Ukraine KAHANOWITZ/KAGANOVICH from Grodno, Belarus STUCHINSKY from Jurbarkas/Yurburg, Lithuania
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Re: Is this name (in Russian) Zvulinch or alike ?...
#russia
#translation
This looks like a Russian transliteration of the Biblical name Zebulon (Zevulun) in Genesis 30:20. זְבֻלֽוּן in Hebrew, זבולון in Yiddish.
-- Alan Shuchat
Newton, MA
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Re: Facial Comparison
#photographs
Nurit Har-zvi
The Jewish Genealogical Society of had a great talk on facial recognition tools given by Scott Genzer last February. He has a website with a facial comparison tool. Ancestorfacematch.com There is a link to a how-to youtube video near the bottom of the page. He gave his email as sgenzer@... to ask for a copy of an Avoteynu article on the topic.
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ViewMate Translation Requests - Hungarian
#translation
gdspencer02@...
I would like to request a translation of the Hungarian on two death records. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses:
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM95398 https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM95399 Please respond using the online ViewMate form. Thank you so much, Geoff Spencer
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itencorinne@...
Hi Helen
If he was part of the Austrian Imperial Army, then the first step would be to search through the Verlustlisten (list of fallen, wounded, missing soldiers and POWs) and the "Nachrichten über Verwundete und Kranke" (notices about wounded and sick soldiers) of the Austrian Imperial Army. You can look at the Verlustlisten on several Websites: https://des.genealogy.net/ou1wk/search/index (This index ist still not complete) Here you will find the Verlustlisten and the "Nachrichten über Verwundete und Kranke" https://anno.onb.ac.at/ http://kramerius.nkp.cz/kramerius/Welcome.do?lang=en In both the Verlustlisten and the "Nachrichten über Verwundete und Kranke" the regiments of the listed soldiers are mentionned. The "Nachrichten über Verwundete und Kranke" also mention the military hospitals where the soldiers were treated. If he entered the Army in Vienna you should find his Army service records in the Kriegsarchiv in Vienna. Many records of the Kriegsarchiv of Vienna are also online on familysearch if you search via Catalogue. https://www.oesta.gv.at/benutzung/forschungshinweise/kriegsarchiv.html Regards Corinne Iten Switzerland
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JGSGM Zoom Meeting October 10 at 10:30 a.m. The Jewish Community of Morocco
#announcements
#jgs-iajgs
Jgsgm President
From the desk of Yoram Millman, JGSGM VP Programming
Press Release
The following event is organized by the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Miami in collaboration with Temple Beth Am Library’s Sunday Salon, ANU Museum of the Jewish People and Sephardi Voices
Sunday, October 10, 2021, at 10:30 a.m.
To join us by Zoom, contact to get a link
A Slice of our Jewish Heritage Community
The Jewish Community in Morocco
Keynote speaker: Haim F. Ghiuzeli
A historian and the Director of the Databases of ANU - Museum of the Jewish People, calling live from Israel. The presentation focuses on the centuries-old history of the family names of the Jews of Morocco. Surnames may provide an insight into the geographical origins of some families or into the occupations of their ancestors, the role they played in the life of their communities, and the way family members were perceived by their neighbors and friends. Understanding the rich linguistic background of the Jews of Morocco is an essential clue for a correct interpretation of the meaning of their family names. A knowledge of the meaning of these family names may reveal details about past Jewish life in Morocco and could be instrumental for a successful research of family roots. Program moderated by Professor Henry Green, Professor of Religious Studies of Judaic and Sephardi Studies at the University of Miami - founder of Sephardic Voices - whose latest book published through Just in Press is SEPHARDI VOICES: The Untold Expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands
Sephardi voice participating in the panel – Mrs. Sete Bentata, a renowned architect born in Tetouan, Morocco, tracing her family story.
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Re: Is this name (in Russian) Zvulinch or alike ?...
#russia
#translation
Janet Furba
Written Звыилн Zvyiln
but sounds quite abnormal Janet Furba, Germany
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k5709999@...
is there anyone in this forum that has done research on families from Radomysl Wielki specifically on Keller from Radomysl and Tarnow thanks Joseph Kauftheil k5709999@...
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Re: Pre 1895 Records from Ugocsa Megye
#hungary
eretzhagar@...
Mr. Solomon,
The former Ugocsa County breaked to two parts in 1920. The Northern land became to be part of Czechoslovakia, and the Southern one is in Romania.
In North, the Nagyszolos (Vinogradiv, Selish) was the main Jewish Community, and some records are exist in Transcarpathian Archives, Ukraine.
In South, the Halmi (Halmeu) was the main Jewish Community. The Turcz births, marriages and deaths were registered in Halmi Community until 1895, but unfortunately, those records are missing, probably vanished, destroyed in 1944, or maybe in the 1950-1960's – anyway, there are not in archives, neither in Romania, nor in Ukraine. There are stories that the Halmi Jewish records were transported to Cluj or Bucharest, but I never found exact information about it, and I can't believe if those records are kept today in any archives.
Sadly, the 1848 Jewish census of Ugocsa County also not exist today.
Sincerely,
Sandor Bacskai genealogist
Budapest, Hungary
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Re: What happened to my great, great grandfather after he landed at Ellis Island?
#canada
#lithuania
#usa
David Ziants
Did you take into account that Nissen might have been Natan/נתן/Nathan/Nosson ? . As you no doubt know, in ashkenazi pronunciation, the soft tav ת is pronounced "s", and so it is easy for the names Nissan (ניסן) and Natan to become convoluted with one and another.
Ma'aleh Adumim, Israel
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Re: Kimberley Diamond Mines
#southafrica
Jill Whitehead
My great uncle Abraham Simon Guttenberg (later Graham) born Hull, 1872, and later lived in Grimsby and then Sheffield, went out to South Africa aged 16 after a row with his father. He ran a dry goods provisions service supplying mining companies, other companies and families. He got to know Barney Barnato (diamonds entrepreneur and relation of TV's Esther Rantzen), Mahatma Gandhi and (not something to mention these days) Cecil Rhodes. He later brought his Liverpool born wife out to Joberg (Minnie Gorfunkel) and his first two children were born there. They returned to Sheffield in 1914 at outbreak of war, but he visited in the 1920s. Apparently when he was a young man, he had his savings stolen when travelling on a train across South Africa. All this is recounted in Abe's memoirs which he deposited in Sheffield City Libraries and Archives. The outline contents of his memoirs can be searched online at Sheffield Archives. Part of his memoirs (relating to his return to Sheffield and his interest in poetry) were made into a radio programme by the BBC a couple of years ago. The memoirs need to be read with a nod to the mores of over 100 years ago.
Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK
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Veronica Zundel
I would also value a webinar in English, as I am trying to trace relatives from my mother's birth family (she was adopted) who may have emigrated from Vienna to Israel in 1927.
-- Veronica Zundel, London Searching descendants of Josef Jakob Horoschowski b. 1905 Drohobych
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Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, NY
#photographs
#usa
Good morning. Rebecca Parmet
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Re: Pre 1895 Records from Ugocsa Megye
#hungary
Mordechai David Pelta
Yes, there are Turt records in Satu Mare. I e-mailed you separately as well.
I am from the Farkas and Weisz families in Turt. Mordechai Pelta
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Re: Hungary SIG The Nagyszollos Ghetto
#hungary
#holocaust
Mordechai David Pelta
I researched this topic and found nothing in Israel and in Washington at the USHMM.
It is possible the records exists in an archive in Ukraine or even in Hungary, but that requires hiring the right person to investigate and, of course, be lucky. Mordechai David Pelta
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