I  believe the postal service kept records of money orders sent overseas.  I am also trying to track down one of these money orders as it was mentioned in a 1922 newspaper article that my great grandfather received a letter from Russia with stamps worth 10,000 rubles from his brother in law.  The brother in law thanks him for sending him money and reporting that circumstances were terrible back in Russia.  This was in the Bismarck Tribune.  My great grandfather lived in Bismarck, ND.

Does anyone know how best to track down these records?  I joined the National Archives but it's very confusing where to look.
Diane Katz
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Davis (possibly David) and brother Harry came from Lithuania (Vilna area) and settled in Chelsea, MA. The 1900 Census lists them at 157 Arlington Street in Chelsea, MA. The census says Davis was in the US for 13 years.  David was married to Alice Rosenthal. I do not know if they traveled together and if Alice traveled with Davis. They were relatives of my grandmother, Nechama (Annie) (Borr) Ribock.  I am hoping to find information from their documents that will help me understand how they were related.

Thank you,
Ann Neumann
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I am seeking information about the town of Zniesienie, Lwow district,Galicia.  I am researching an individual who was born there in 1887 and immigrated anywhere from 1900 to 1994.   I have failed to find information on Jewish Gen and have found meagre results on Google searches.

Thank you for any assistance!

Susan Miller

Dorman ~Rumsiskes & Ziezmariai, Lithuania / Obukhiv & Kiev, Ukrainę
Pekar ~Rozhiv & Kiev, Ukraine
Davidov ~Pusalotas, Pumpenai, Pasvalys, Panevezys, Pakruojis, Lithuania

In 1896, the NY papers were filled with the sensational news of Isaac Zucker/Zuker, who headed a gang of arsonists, and who was sentenced to 36 years at Sing Sing prison. I’m writing an article about him and trying to track down his descendants. However, I cannot find his wife and children in the 1900 and subsequent censuses, while Isaac is in prison.

The family is found in the 1880 US (Phil) census “Isaac Zeucker” and in the 1895 NJ state census (“Isaac Zuker”). Newspaper accounts list his children as Willie, Annie, Charlie, another daughter, and wife (Rosa or Rachel), a brother, Abraham Zuker, and state that Isaac was born c. 1847/48 and came to the US around 1878.  

Any of you super sleuths able to help with this?

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Sam Eneman
Charlotte NC USA

Your  tree has the marriage record of Harry Blinder to Bessie Weissman.

Ancestry has a NJ marriage index record for an Issie Gold to Bessie Weissman in 1913.  I suggest you order the marriage record.  If this is correct, then it is possible Bessie's naturalization record that Bessie arrived as Ida Gold is incorrect, although...It appears she and Issie may have been from the same place as his WWI draft registration gives his place of birth as Kanunity (?), Podolski,  Russia. So maybe they married in Russia and then had a US marriage.... 
The original marriage record may list her parents' names.

Also suggest you obtain Bessie's original marriage record to Harry Blinder to see if it confirms that her maiden name was Weissman and any other pertinent info such as was she listed as a widow or divorced. If her marital status (e.g. widow/divorced) is given, then you can use that to find Issie/Isadore Gold.

Would also suggest you obtain the original birth record for Matilda, again to see if it gives Bessie's maiden name.

Once you have confirmed Bessie's name before her first marriage, look for her on ship's manifests under that surname.  I would suggest you don't input a first name but look for where young females w/ that surname and likely first names were from and where they were going as that may help you find Bessie.

Johanna Becker
Newport, RI

Hello,

I am unable to provide information regarding the specific line of inquiry, however, I would like to provide additional information which may be of interest. I am currently reading, Journey to a Nineteenth-century Shtetl: The Memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik. Kotik was born about 1848 and grew up in Kamenets, the son and grandson of an influential family. His memoirs about growing up in Kamenets provide insight into what life was like at that time and place. It would be an interesting read for anyone with roots to Kamenets. Here is more about the book:

https://books.google.com/books/about/Journey_to_a_Nineteenth_century_Shtetl.html?id=knrfpytrp6YC&source=kp_book_description

Kind regards,
David Passman
Dallas, Texas

This is not a "from Point A to Point B" explanation but if it is of any help, here's an example from the the Yizkor book of Svencionys, Lithuania titled "“Fayvl the Mailman.” I've seen other accounts that said the money was sent to the town's rabbi.:

1) As a continuation of this thread, I want to first mention that someone emailed me privately with the information that New York birth records are not publicly available. I see that there is an organisation:-

https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/

and I see a link to New york that they succeeded to have these records online. Does anyone know whether there is a search engine or how does one locate a particular record or name?

2) I tried contacting Kibbutz Mizra, to see if they can put me in touch with Tali's family, but have yet to receive a response. I also could not reach any of the phone numbers I found in the Israeli white pages. 

3) Regarding having relatives in the USA and Canada, a second cousin of mine very recently told me that his grandmother mentioned when she was alive that there were cousins who migrated to the USA and Canada - but he does not know the names. There is a story that one of these was killed in a lift (elevator) accident sometime during the 20th century.

4) I want to share publically part of my correspondece with the late Samuel ZIONTS in 2007 (this was a number of years after his daughter Tali passed away). The caps are his, and part of my original posting above is a summary from this. As I already mentioned, what he says COMMUNITZ is no doubt Kamenetz.  There is also no proof that he is specifically referring to my great-grandparents because there was also another ZIANTS family in the UK who we do not know as our relatives and they did not know us, when we inquired. On the other hand, he might be, and am not bothered to find out this, despite the family rift that is described. 

I tried searching Yad Vashem archives (can now be done via JRI-Poland), but could not find any ZIONTS/ZAJAC entries that correlate with the names Samuel gave, but with no success.

Maybe  I missed something so is there anyone here who doesn't mind having a quick search as one never knows. I assume that the relatives he mentioned who perished were Morris's siblings and parents but this is also a bit ambiguous. 

Thank you in advance.

David

 

       MY FATHER, MORRIS ZIONTZ, CAME FROM COMMUNITZ LITOVSK, NORTH OF WARSAW POLAND IN 1923

TO NEW YORK. HE HAD RELATIVES THAT WENT TO ENGLAND. HE WANTED TO GO TO ENGLAND BUT THEY COULD NOT AFFORD HIS FARES. HE BECAME VERY ANGRY AND AS FAR AS I KNOW HE HAD NO MORE DEALINGS WITH THEM.

HIS FATHER'S NAME WAS JOSEPH. THERE WAS A BROTHER DAVID ZIONTZ WHO PLAYED A TRUMPET.

THE FAMILY WERE FIVE SISTERS AND TWO BROTHERS

TWO SISTERS WERE KILLED IN LODZ AND THE OTHERS IN AUSHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP, INCLUDING HIS MOTHER AND FATHER.
        I REMEMBER BIALISTOCK BECAUSE HE ENJOYED HIMSELF WHEN HE WAS YOUNG AND SPOKE ABOUT THE

SHTETEL.

Thank you very much in advance.

David

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David Ziants

Ma'aleh Adumim, Israel

I'm a film maker,

I am looking for Bernard Soika's descendents. He was born in Zawiercie  (Poland) on 28/11/1903 and died in Rome in the massacre of the Fosse Ardeatine in March 1944. His father's name was Samuel (Szmuel),  No one has ever identified his bod. Someone can help me?

Michela Micocci

Thanks for your response. 
A kind lady, Robbin Maggid, said she would see if there was anything available off-line. She said to be patient because she's up to her armpits in alligators right now, which I totally understand.
As long as I've still got the right party, I'm good.

Really appreciate the help and responsiveness. So many of my grand discoveries over the years have been with the help Jewish Gen.

B'shalom
Wendy Griswold

Town finder on JewishGen says it could be Haysyn/Gaysyn, Ukraine

David Price of Toronto researching PRAJS of Kielce, GORLICKI of Chmielnik, BADASZ and KUSZNER of Grodno/Hrodno, Belarus

Thank you Pieter.

For everyone, I learned yesterday that this site has photographs of a great deal of the headstones in Holland in Jewish cemeteries.

https://www.stenenarchief.nl/wp/en-us/

And the location of my grandmother Pessel was found here, JewishGen Online Burial Registry.
https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/ 

I also wish to thank N. Aronson for kindly sending me the photo of my great "Oma".

Appreciatively,
Michael Danziger
New Jersey

Almost all of Mount Lebanon has been photographed and is available on the website jewishdata.com. 
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Michael Moritz
Director, Romania Research Division
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