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

 

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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.

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

I have photographed more than 100 society plots at Beth David. Perhaps if you can tell me what society plot your people are buried in, and their names, I can check to see if I have info on them.

Steve Lasky

steve@...

Are there restrictions on access to FamilySearch POLAND JEWISH microfilm digitizations? Some researchers say a patron of FamilySearch has to actually be physically in a Library or Records Room to gain access to those parts of the microfilm collection. 

Dan Brockman
JewishGen #50584

Jennie is often Sheina.

David Shapiro
Jerusalem

of course it is important and helpful to find Hebrew/Yiddish names of ancestors. I think to use the word "translation" in this context sounds problematic.
Also the expression 'she created a name' sounds a little disturbing. In my research I learned that during the 18th-19th cent. people very often turn up with a variety of names, and we will never know how and by whom they were 'created'.

As to Jennie, I can give you a few samples of names which I found in German communities in connection with Jennie:
Judith, Jente, Jentel, Jachet, Jette, Julie, Shendel/Scheindel = Jeanette, Marianne, Chaya  ... and probably more

good luck,

Reuven Mohr
Israel

His name was definitely Nissen (ניסן).  In the Lithuanian Revision Lists he also shows up as Nossel for some reason. :)
All his children's graves have his name inscribed as such (son/daughter of Nissen - ניסן).  Also, my father was named after him and his Hebrew name is Nissen (ניסן), even though his English name is Nathan. Same with Moses' son described above (born June 1895).
Of course, during our research we looked at all Jewish Sagans - especially those named Nathan/Nissen and similar.  Complete blank.

My main request is to know if there is any database or lists (on-line or off-line) of those who died soon after arrival at Ellis Island/NYC - whether in quarantine or not - and, if so, where they are buried.  Of course, any other ideas are welcome as well. :)

Thanks.
Steve Goldberg
Jerusalem, Israel.

Trying to make contact with the Freund family of Vienna. Nissan Levy
married Yehudit daughter of Raatza Rechil, born in Hungary in 1897 and
died in Israel on August 30, 1984, married R. Joseph Freund, born in
Czechoslovakia on November 28, 1895 and died in Israel on October 31,
1962.
Neil Rosenstein

I struggled for years to locate my great grandfather's immigration info.  I suspect it was the new wife who purchased the tickets under her own [former] name, the registrar garbled the ages and names of the children, putting the husband's given name as a child and so on.  Her son by her first marriage used a variety of surnames, finally settling on one that was 'unknown' in our family.  But I eventually found him, and my g-grandfather.

Shirley Ginzburg
Aptos, California

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Join us for Researching Jewish Families in America, a special series of JewishGen Talks highlighting archives, museums, and historical society collections of interest to family historians. The next virtual talk will take place on Wednesday, October 6, 2021 at 2:00 PM ET, and will focus on New England Jewish Resources. Specifically, it will feature repositories with collections about the Jews of New England. The program is co-sponsored by the New England Jewish History Collaborative (nejhc.org). Registration: Registration is free with a suggested donation. Please click here to register now! After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about how to join the webinar. Speakers: Rachel C. King, Executive Director, The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at New England Historic Genealogical Society Lindsay Sprechman Murphy, Senior Archivist, The Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center at New England Historic Genealogical Society Kate-Lynn Laroche, Executive Director, Rhode Island Jewish Historical Association Elizabeth Rose, Executive Director, Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford Harris Gleckman, Director, Documenting Maine Jewry Project Ellen Kowitt, Director, JewishGen’s USA Research Division

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Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society  invites you to  

 

"O' Canada! Researching Your Canadian Jewish Ancestors from Afar "   

Speaker:  Marion Werle. Professional genealogist

Sunday, October, 24. 2021, 1pm Pacific Time Zone/4pm Eastern  . 

 

Register:Here

Free to Members, $5.00 to Guests

 

 

This presentation concentrates on internet-based Canadian family research that can be done from virtually anywhere. The focus is on the major years of Jewish immigration to Canada after 1880 and ranges from Jewish farming settlements in the Canadian West to immigration to larger cities. The presentation covers the major sources of Canadian genealogical records– government, general genealogy websites, educational and other institutions – and includes ship manifests, naturalization records, Canadian census and census substitutes, city directories, voter lists, 1940 residence records, Jewish communal institutions, vital records, cemetery data, military records and local histories.

Bio: Marion Werle, a professional genealogist, began family history research 25 years ago, researching family from Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus, who settled in the US, Canada, UK, and Israel. She has been on the boards of JGSLA and JGSCV (Conejo Valley/Ventura County) and is a past president and founding member of the Latvia SIG (Special Interest Group). She is currently on the board of the revitalized JewishGen Latvia Research Division. She has an ongoing interest in applying general genealogical methodology standards to Jewish research. Marion has also spoken at several IAJGS conferences and local genealogical societies in the Southern California area.

Zoom link will be sent to your email the week of the event, please check your Spam folder. For more information or membership information membership.scjgs@...

Contact: Leah Kushner

 President, SCJGS
Santa Cruz, California

 

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Many Russian-speaking Jewish genealogists have created indexes for
various record sets. I write about a method for identifying if your
surnames may be mentioned, which helped me find numerous documents
relating to my family.

https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/10/finding-family-j-roots-google-combined.html

Lara Diamond
Baltimore, MD

My grandmother had a brother, John, or Yonya, or Janne Raskin.  I know he existed because 1) the family has a photo of my grandmother and all her 6 surviving siblings when they are all quite old, at some sort of family event, and each person is labeled - he is labeled here as Yonya;  2) When the parents and 7 children arrived in NY in 1906 (excluding my grandmother and her brother who I was told came earlier) on the ship log they state they are going to their son/brother John Raskin on Pitt St., NYC.  But I can't find any other information on him except this death record, except it's got an error.

I have attached Janne Raskin's doc. sec. death index record on Ancestry, which says:
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Judy Kaufman
Irvine, CA
judykaufman7@...

If someone does go, i can add a couple names, and put a check in the mail (hope $20 is enough for your time) for them after photo's are taken and sent. Just send address to send it to. 

Names: 

Ruebin and Florence Fiedler, map is attached for location.

Brian Westerman, sea1958wa@...

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

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