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Re: Austria Hungary map, plotting family movement
#general
Alexander Sharon
Best available on line Austro-Hungarian map known as 3rd Military Mapping Survey at Category:3rd Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary - Wikimedia Commons
Scroll down to see miniature images of 276 maps, click on selected miniature to enlarge it. To use clickable version of this entire map click on III. katonai felmeres (elte.hu) Alexander Sharon
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Reading a Headstone from Warsaw Cemetery
#poland
mrsbrite@...
Tzipa passed in 1911.
1. I want to know if it was common to write bar (son of ) instead of bas ( daughter of) at that time and place 2. Her Father seems to be Leib and Her husband was Eliezer. Was it common to list the husband on the headstone or could it be someone else? 3. What does א''ר signify? -- Marcie Murray Minneapolis MN
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MyHeritage Offers Free Access to Death Records October 27-November 2
#announcements
#records
Jan Meisels Allen
My Heritage is offering free access to all death, burial, cemetery and obituary records that were added to their database prior to October 2021. Since last Halloween, MyHeritage added 37 million records bringing their total to 586,664,785 records including newly added collections from Brazil, New Zealand, France. Poland, United States and more.
https://blog.myheritage.com/2021/10/celebrate-halloween-with-free-death-records-from-myheritage/?
To search go to: https://www.myheritage.com/research/category-2030/death-burial-cemetery-obituaries
You will be prompted to register with your name, email address and password. No credit card information is requested for this opportunity.
I have no affiliation with MyHeritage and am posting this solely for the information of the reader.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Roberta Berman
I received a message that answered my question about where to find a date that a house was built in New York City.
"The best way to resolve this is to go to the official source. Here's a link to the NYC Department of Finance's Property Tax Public Access web portal: https://a836-pts-access.nyc.gov/care/forms/htmlframe.aspx?mode=content/home.htm” The house my grandparents bought was built in 1910. They bought it in 1925 or 1926. Roberta Berman
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Robert Hanna
Zillow dates the house in the Bronx that I grew up in as built in 1935. My parents bought the house new (first owners) in 1940, the year before I was born. I doubt that it took 5 years to sell after it was built. I wouldn't trust Zillow.
Robert Hanna NYC Researching: CHANAN/HANAN/HANNE/HEINE/HINEY (Warsaw, Poland); BLUMENBLAT (Sarnaki, Poland); KARASIK, THOMASHOW/TOMOSHOFF, COHEN (Babruysk, Belarus); RUBINSTEIN, BUNDEROFF, PASTILNIK, NEMOYTEN, DISKIN (Minsk, Belarus)
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Jack Berger
I can translate Hebrew and Yiddish, if there is legible penmanship.
Write to me at jsberger@... Regards Jack Berger
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JUROVSKY,Catherine
Dear all
I have discovered that the Archives of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America based in New York city are in possession of a box of letters of my family "the bespaloff papers" among which letters from and to famous people. I have written twice to the Archives and received no answer. I had a person from the Library on line and she told me that the place is only accessible to faculty and students apparently due to Covid restrictions. Could somebody have a suggestion of how to proceed to be in touch with the relevant people in that institution. FYI I currently live in France and cannot pay them a visit ! Best regards Catherine JUROVSKY catherine.jurovsky@...
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Chana Bonn
Using Zillow to obtain an accurate date for when a house was built is not a good idea. Zillow dated the build-date of my grandfather's house many years after my mother had already grown up there! I knew the house well, and spent lots of time in it myself. Zillow was WAY OFF. I have no idea where Zillow gets their information, but I would definitely not rely on its accuracy.
Chana Bonn, Philadelphia (KAPLAN, PERESMYK, APPELBAUM, GELBURD/GILBERT)
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Jewish Surnames but lost history
#galicia
#germany
#general
#names
#sephardic
Hi! I am trying to find my Jewish ancestry but am stuck. Does anyone have information on the following surnames:
Heppner
Artmeier
Wessler
Beckman
I got stuck tracing Bernardine Mary Beckman Artmeier's (1845 Jettingen, Germany - 1921 Indiana, USA) father Herman Beckman. From her death certificate, he may have stayed in Germany? I know there was a potato famine in the 1800's that drove immigrants to the US. I can trace my great-grandmother's family immigration to the states (Heppner) from Bavaria, Germany in the 1840's.
In the mid 1900's, a fire destroyed our family's farm and, therefore, all records. I did not grow up being told I was Jewish, however, aside from an instinctual tug toward Judaism, and every maternal surname being listed in a Jewish registry, I am unsure if I am Jewish. It is my greatest wish to answer this question, so any aid is greatly appreciated.
I also noted that in the early 1900's, John Artmeier (1873-1935) was buried in a Catholic cemetery. I don't know if this has any bearing on religious conversion to Catholicism or, since it was the Great Depression, if it was simply available space.
Thank you for your time,
DakotaMODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately
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Re: Ever Heard of Neimark, Austria-Hungary>
#hungary
#austria-czech
Andreas Schwab
Novy Targ (Neumarkt) at Google maps:
https://goo.gl/maps/kWTuuLAzhrq3SwsM9 -- Andreas Schwab, Montreal, Canada
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Re: Viewmate translation - Russian
#lithuania
#translation
ryabinkym@...
In Russian:
#2 Акт о рождении Абрама-Гирша Олитского Состоялось в посаде Олита 18-го февраля 1872 года. Явился лично Ицка-Берка (двух имен) Олицкий, житель посада Олита, 45-и лет и в присутствии свидетелей Гершона Израилского, 48 лет и Шмуйлы Дубинского, 49-и лет и предъявили нам младенца мужского пола, который родился в посаде Олита 4-го февраля в 4 часа вечера от законной жены Бейли (не ясно) Олитской, 45-и лет. Ребенку этому при религиозном обряде дано имя Абрам-Гирш. Акт сей присутствующим прочитан ими подписан. Ицка-Берка Олицкий Гершон Израилский Шмуйла Дубинский Чиновник Гражданского Состояния Подпись
Translated Into English:
# 2 Birth certificate Abram-Hirsch Olitsky Held in the Olita Posad on February 18, 1872. Itska-Berka (two names) Olitsky, a resident of the Olita settlement, 45 years old, and in the presence of witnesses Gershon Izrailsky, 48 years old and Shmuila Dubinsky, 49 years old, personally appeared and presented us with a male baby who was born in the Olita settlement February 4st at 4 pm from Bailya legal wife (not clear) Olitsky, 45 years old. During a religious ceremony, this child was given the name Abram-Hirsh. This act was read and signed by those present. Itska-Berka Olitsky Gershon of Israel Shmuila Dubinsky Civil Status Official Signature Translated by Michael Ryabinky Boynton Beach, FL
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Re: Is the 2nd name on the headstone a given name or a family name?
#lithuania
#poland
#names
joelbnovis@...
Definitely agree with Mr Goldberg, this is a second part of what's referred to as a "Legal Double" given name. The Jewishgen Given Names database is a good resource to verify this.
Note that the initial consonant in the Russian and Polish roots for "black" is ch (as in English "cheese") -- Russian черный /chorny/, Polish czarny /charny/ -- but the ts/ch alternation in Yiddish is well attested, for example tchotchke/tsatskele, "toy, trinket" (and a few other meanings as well). Joel Novis Longmeadow, MA Researching: NOVITSKIY (Kyiv, Vasil'kiv), OLSZTAJN (Łódź, Łowicz, Żychlin, Zgierz), GEYMAN/HYMAN (Ashmyany), POTASNIK/LEVY (??)
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lee@...
Roberta,
Try locating the property on the Sanborn fire insurance maps that were produced in various years. Looks like there was one in 1915 that woukd show what was there in that earlier time period. https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn05791_032/ Then there was one done in 1928 for comparison https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn06115_006/ Hope this helps Lee Goodman Vermilion, Ohio
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Re: Ever Heard of Neimark, Austria-Hungary>
#hungary
#austria-czech
Howard Fink
There were (at least) 4 towns that were once named Neumarkt; these are their current names:
• Nowy Targ, Poland (previously Austria)
• Sroda Slaska, Poland (previously Germany)
• Targu-Mures, Romania (previously Hungary)
• Tirgu Secuiesc, Romania (previously Hungary)
Do you know the approximate timeframe for Yetta or any of her immediate family? I can't speak for the other towns, but I do see a Jentel Traunstein in our Nowy Targ records project. (These records are not yet online.)
While the Polish Archives has not yet scanned this set of Jewish vital records, JRI-Poland has privately photographed and indexed them.
Please contact me privately for more information about the 4 records that I see connected with the family of this Jentel Traunstein.
Howard Fink
Howard.Fink@... Nowy Targ Town Leader
Jewish Records Indexing - Poland
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Re: Approximate year this may have been taken
#photographs
Ellen
For what it's worth, I have photos of my great-grandmother wearing similar shoes, taken in the late 1920s.
-- Ellen Morosoff Pemrick Saratoga County, NY Researching WEISSMAN/VAYSMAN (Ostropol, Ukraine); MOROZ and ESTRIN/ESTERKIN (Shklov & Bykhov, Belarus); LESSER/LESZEROVITZ, MAIMAN, and BARNETT/BEINHART/BERNHART (Lithuania/Latvia); and ROSENSWEIG/ROSENZWEIG, KIRSCHEN, and SCHWARTZ (Botosani, Romania)
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Yehuda Rubin
I expect to be visiting Harvard University‘s Widener Library (which has an extensive Judaica collection, some which can’t be found elsewhere) twice, once on December 6, and once on December 15. I am available to go through and copy books, manuscripts, records, or archives, provided that you can help defray a portion of my cost of travel.
Please email me privately if you are looking for any files. Thank you. -- Yehuda Rubin Lakewood, NJ yehudazevrubin@...
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Re: When was this photo taken and where
#photographs
Bernard Flam
Hi from Paris,
Dear Marcie, I am in charge of ca 30.000 pictures from our archives. May I ask what is on reverse side of this picture when you take it out from the wooden frame ? Khavershaft Bernard Flam Archives & history of Medem Center - Arbeter Ring of France (Bund / Workmen Circle)
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Re: Ever Heard of Neimark, Austria-Hungary>
#hungary
#austria-czech
r.peeters
Where is Neumark on the map?
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mike yesnes
Tuesday
10/27/21 JDG, Looking to locate in Israel through yellow pages directories: Akiva Segal and wife Zeva/Zivi Segal. They lived in Jerusalem in 1968 - 1970's. Divorced in the 1970's. Had two kids: Chana and Ronnie. Born in the mid 1970's. Would appreciate your help. Thank you. Mike Yesnes
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Re: Is the 2nd name on the headstone a given name or a family name?
#lithuania
#poland
#names
ramot418@...
I would say it is definitely a 2nd given name.
A Google search in Hebrew reveals that there are 2 graves on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem with that name (as a given name). Also a death notice for someone else. All the deceaseds (or their families) are originally from Eastern Europe.. -- Steve Goldberg Jerusalem, Israel Researching: Sagan/Shagan family from Veliuona (Velon), Lithuania Goldberg family from Vidukle, Lithuania Susselovitch/Zuselovitch family from Raseiniai (Rossein), Lithuania
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