Could somebody who lives in New York photograph a headstone in Mount Zion Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens County, NY for me.  The person is my g-grandfather's sister "Rose L. Socolaw" Date of Burial: 05 Feb 1908, Location: 27R-2-621; Society: Chana David.  With gratitude, Jeff Skinnon (NZ)

Steve, or whomever can go,
My paternal grandparent are buried as follows:
Florence & Ruebin Fiedler in B Block 5, society: Young Friends Faternal"  on the corner of Emanuel & Harrison.
Any question BRIAN K. WESTERMAN, 206-450-0710

Thank you in advance for any assistance. 

Brian Westerman

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I was told that I am a descendant of Rabbi Schneur Zalman. Briefly my family tree is:
Rabbi Dovber Schneuri married Shayna Schneuri. They had a daughter Rivka Bella Wallis who married Yekutiel Zalman Wallis. They had a son Srul Mendel Zalmanson who married Gita Zalmanson. They had a son Levi Itzhak Zalmanson who I believe is my great grandfather.
My two questions:
1. From a genealogical or Rabbinic perspective does it make a difference that the lineage is not all male i.e. my connection to Schneur Zalman is through a daughter.
2. I have done an Ancestry DNA. If I wanted to repeat the DNA testing, bearing in mind the above information, which company and which test should I get.
Thanks.
Herman Salmenson

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

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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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