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Major new Radzilow, Poland records extraction project launched
#poland
#announcements
Aaron Roetenberg
Long-time Radzilow and area researchers will be pleased to learn that Jewish Records Indexing - Poland has undertaken a huge new “Phase 3” project to fully extract all surviving Radzilow birth, marriage and death records from 1826 to 1912 in the Łomża branch of the Polish State Archives. In addition, we created indices (with fathers’ names) for the surviving 1918 to 1935 records. A number of years of Alegata records are also included.
As Town Leader, it would be my pleasure to send you a full description of the Phase 3 project and explain how you will be able to obtain these extracts as well as digital images of your family records up to 1912, before they go online.
I look forward to hearing from you. Top town surnames:
BURSZTYN FINKIELSZTEJN SZERASZEW GRINGRAS ZYLBERSZTEJN GRYNGRAS BEJNSZTEJN EBENSZTEJN WASERSZTEJN SZWARCBERG PIECHOTA GAMZON KOWALSKA GOLDBERG WYSZYŃSKA MILKIEWICZ ZIMNOWICZ BERMAN GUTFERD KOWALSKI LICHTENSZTEJN LIPIŃSKA SZTABIŃSKI GUZIK MILBERG ESTERZON MORUSZEWSKA NIEWODOWSKI CHROSTOWSKA FARBOWICZ SAWICKA ZANDLER SAWICKI BARANOWICZ MICHNOWSKI WYSZYŃSKI CZAPNIK
Aaron Roetenberg aroetenberg@... Town Leader, Radzilow Phase 3 extraction project.
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Re: Looking for burial grounds in Merseyside and Sheffield
#unitedkingdom
#general
Hi Peter,
There are no Jewish cemeteries in the Blundell Sands part of Liverpool. You can search for Jewish burial in Liverpool using the following search facility on JCR-UK at https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Cemeteries/Liverpool/Cemetery_menu.htm This link will give you a summary of the history of the Liverpool Jewish community https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Liverpool.htm Similarly, the Jewish burials in Sheffield are now searchable on the United Synagogue's Find A Grave search facility as the the synagogue in Sheffield is now part of the United Synagogue. You search here - https://www.theus.org.uk/category/find-grave. Otherwise, all you can does find the nearest cemeteries near to where you ancestors were living when they died. Just because they did not live near the main Jewish community doe snot mean they did not have a Jewish burial. Good luck! Richard Gilbert Hertfordshire, England (former resident of Liverpool)
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Re: Identifying town name from WW1 and WW2 Draft Cards. Maybe in Bessarabia?
#bessarabia
#russia
Marshall Lerner West Chester, PA Lerner or Beitel from Brecini; Sternberg or Steinberg from Khotin; Gherbel or Gabel from Darabani & Bucharest; Eisenberg & Markowitz from Roman or Tirgu Neamt Smoler from Zhitomir; Hodes from Lodz; Pachter from Wolbrom or Kielce
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Re: Lecture "Finding Your Polish Ancestors Online Through the Polish State Archives" now online
#poland
#education
#announcements
mbenedict51@...
Having "worked" [in my case, that really amounts to "playing" :) ] on a few of these sets of records, I realise that – like any similar browsing-research – it's important to note where you've looked so far, so that you don't repeat searches by accident. I've also concluded that – like the Medway CityArk (north of Kent in the UK) records which have similarly succinct descriptions of large blocks of images – it's worth having a record of what's in each set of records that you've searched: just the boundary values (I'm not suggesting a full indexing!). It would be useful if the resultant info could be recorded somewhere where everyone could make use of it, rather than the task being repeated by each researcher but I don't have the means to do that myself. Here's what I've recorded so far, for my own benefit:
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Re: Prezlau=Przeclaw?
#hungary
Doug Cohen
Try the JewishGen Communities Database. Searching Przeclaw gives the following:
--  Przecław, Poland50°12' N 21°28' E 143 miles S of Warszawa Doug Cohen Sarasota, Florida Lexington, MA
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Re: HKP Jewish Labor Camp 1943-1944
#holocaust
Joel Ratner
In regards to HKP in Vilna, an additional information source is a testimony given by Sidney Handler. Sidney was born and raised in Vilna and with his mother, the only survivors of his family, were interned at HKP. Sidneys testimony delves into life in Vilna, his experiences at HKP, and ultimately, his liberation and relocation to Germany and the U.S. I interviewed him around 20 years ago, when the Vital Records Translation Project was in its infancy. He lived here in Newton, MA. at the time. I believe he is about 87 years old now.
One source of his testimony can be found at:
Joel Ratner
Sent from Outlook
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aaran1286@...
Shalom,
If if anyone has the book פנינים משלחן הגר"א על התורה I would be immensely greateful if you could please send copy of page 30 and the footnote on page 324. According to google books, both of these pages mention my ancestor Rabbi Shmuel Chassid from Rassein. I was also wondering why, if this book was indeed written by the Vilna Gaon, it refers to him in the third person. I.e., the google books snippet says "הגאין ... היסב ... אצל רבנו הגדול רבה אליהו מוילנא". Thank you very much indeed. Shavua tov, Yoav Aran London
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Re: Prezlau=Przeclaw?
#hungary
Frank Szmulowicz
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 10:29 AM, Alan Reische wrote:
PrezlauUnless it is Prenzlau is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, the administrative seat of Uckermark District. It is also the centre of the historic Uckermark region. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prenzlau Frank Szmulowicz
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Enquiry about Pilovich and Melnik in Vilnia
#lithuania
#general
Graciela S.s
I’m looking for my grandmother’s and great grandparents birth certificate and any documents that prove their existence
Josefa pilovich 03/03/1910 Vilnia Salomón pilovich 1885 Vilnia Sarah Melnik. ( unknown) My grandmother and her father immigrated to Argentina in 1924/25 Thank you Graciela Saposnik - England Grace iPhone
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Re: “Torat Chasidism” by Rav Shmuel Chassid Bendet
#general
yairsegalparis@...
It's here:
https://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=832&st=&pgnum=136&hilite= -- Yair Segal
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Looking for burial grounds in Merseyside and Sheffield
#unitedkingdom
#general
Peter Bush
I need help finding two burial grounds where ancestors may not have been buried in Jewish Cemeteries.
The first was living at Blundell Sands, Merseyside. The second died in the workhouse infirmary at Ecclesall Bierlow in Sheffield. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks Peter Bush, London
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Elena Bazes
The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) has just released new and updated databases on its website. There are now over 2,000,000 records available in our databases. With each release we provide a variety of records to our collection. A preview of the databases is available at https://tinyurl.com/y5jaw9va New Databases
Annual Report of the Ashkenazi Community in Cairo 1938 988 listings Private Collection Beit Hinuch Orphans for the Sephardic Community – Jerusalem 1945 54 listings Israel State Archives University of Haifa & Oranim Graduates 2010 3,699 listings Internet Ben-Gurion University Graduates 2008 - 2009 10,565 listings Internet Updated Databases Students of Alliance –Mogador-Essaouira & Sefrou Morocco 1917 - 1964 3,444 listings Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People Voters Constituent Assembly-Settlements 1949 26,377 listings Israel State Archives Before viewing and searching the databases, please register for free on the IGRA website: http://genealogy.org.il/ To view/search the databases, go to the database tab on the website. Please note, the IGRA databases are now searchable to all registrants. The search results page is also available to all registrants. Additional details regarding most databases are available only to paid IGRA members. Certain exceptions exist due to requests of the specific archives. Elena Biegel Bazes IGRA Publicity Chair
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Re: Identifying town name from WW1 and WW2 Draft Cards. Maybe in Bessarabia?
#bessarabia
#russia
Odeda Zlotnick
You are looking for a person who was an alien in 1917, lived in NY, had a wife and 2 children and signed his name in Hebrew letters as Harry Ackerman הערי אקערמאן
If you limit your seach to H* Ackerman with a wife named Anna in immigration data on family search, you'll find: New York, Southern District, U.S District Court Naturalization Records, 1824-1946; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9HD-59X8?cc=2060123&wc=M5PD-449%3A351611901 This even has his picture, and the date of his marriage in the US. The ship he arrived on, the name he had then. -- Odeda Zlotnick Jerusalem, Israel.
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Re: Lecture "Finding Your Polish Ancestors Online Through the Polish State Archives" now online
#poland
#education
#announcements
Odeda Zlotnick
Thank you very much, Ted.
I managed to catch view it in that short 24 hour window -- but will definitely watch it again. As said above: it is well worth the time! -- Odeda Zlotnick Jerusalem, Israel.
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Re: HKP Jewish Labor Camp 1943-1944
#holocaust
beckyanderson53@...
If you are interested in details of life at the HKP in Vilna, I highly recommend the book The Search For Major Plagge by Michael Good. If will give you a good sense of what life was like at the camp. I also highly recommend the movie a (documentary), "The Good Nazi" which tells the story of the HKP camp, Plagge's role in trying to save the Jews who worked there (though only a small fraction survived the liquidation of the camp). The movie combines interviews with survivors and reenactments of parts of the history at the camp.
Rebecca Fogel Anderson
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Re: This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#yizkorbooks
#belarus
#JewishGenUpdates
tony hausner
In the Yizkor book for Skala Podolskaya that I had translated is a chapter about how Max Mermelstein survived two years in the forest outside of Skala. When the Nazis came around with dogs, he spent at times two days in a pit covered with branches without food and water. One of many very moving chapters in the book. See our website. https://kehilalinks.
Tony Hausner Silver Spring, MD
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Re: Identifying town name from WW1 and WW2 Draft Cards. Maybe in Bessarabia?
#bessarabia
#russia
Yefim Kogan
Lianne Shavua Tov,
I was trying to resolve your puzzle and I could not. There was not such a town (ARJOVONITZ or ARZANOVITCH or similar) in Bessarabia, and likely in the whole Russian Empire. I even looked into old names of towns and could not find anything. I also looked into Bessarabia Geographical Dictionary, https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/files/misc/GeographicalDictionary_JewishPopulationinBessarabia082013.pdf where we have towns, shtetlakh and even villages where Jews used to live or/and work, and the closest place was Arloneshty. Here is a suggestion to you. If you have any other information about that person, maybe written on a post card or letter. That may help. All the best, Yefim Kogan Bessarabia Group Leader and Coordinator
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Re: original article telling the Oskar Schindler Story
#holocaust
I, too, am an ex-Montrealer and it gives me great pride to learn that it was "one of our own", Herbert Steinhouse (and Stanley Diamond's own cousin), who scooped Thomas Keneally's 1982 book "Schindler's Ark" by writing an article about Schindler back in 1949. Furthermore, Mr. Steinhouse's direct access to Schindler himself, lends an authenticity that even the best researched book can't match. Refer to the links below.
Steven Lewkowicz Cleveland, Ohio USA szlewkowicz@...
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Beltsy, Soroki and Kishinev Uezd Vital records
#bessarabia
#translation
Yefim Kogan
Hello everybody, Shavua Tov!
After last week I asked for volunteers-translators, I got two new people to work on these records to work on Beltsy and Soroki uezd Vital records. That is great. I want to let you know what we still have for Kishinev Vital records: Birth records: 1920 in progress; Marriages: 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1919 all in progress, 1920 need translator from Romanian Deaths: 1905 in progress, and need translators for 1911-1915, 1917-1919 Russian and 1920 (Romanian) Please let me know if anyone is interested to work/translate on Kishinev records or also on some Beltsy, Soroki records, please let me know. All the best, Yefim Kogan Bessarabia Group Leader and Coordinator
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Upcoming JewishGen Classes: February-March 2022
#education
#JewishGenUpdates
Avraham Groll
JewishGen is offering the following courses during February and March 2022
ONGOING
Nancy Holden Director of Education education@...
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