Thanks to all who responded. I will have to take off an afternoon and look at those sources. I’m beginning to have doubts whether the entry for the individual listed as a seamstress in Apt. 119 was really Grandfather Yochelson’s sister. She would have been in her mid to late sixties by then and probably not able to survive or be chosen for a labor camp. Her first  names were Rokha Gitlia and she married Yosel Zalkind in 1900. The entry said she was on sick leave. People had similar names and I remember reading that she went to the Zalkind household, there already was a Rokha living there, When I did research I did notice that a source said that there was a Zalkind House of Trade, the biggest store in Vilnius, with 20 departments and a staff of 150 people. Hope she married into that branch.
Mindy Yochelson

So just to clarify what Yair found.
You should look for a copy of Sefer Zichron Yaakov by Rabbi Yaakov Bendetman, since the smaller collection Toras Chassidim which includes his grandfather Rav Shmuel Chassid's work was printed in the back of the larger book. Toras Chassidim also seems to be a collection of works from Rav Shmuel Chassid along with two of his contemporaries.
I believe Zichron Yaakov is a relatively easy to find book in stores that sell seforim, just make sure it is by the correct author because there are more than one book with the same title.
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Binyamin Kerman
Baltimore MD

Researching:
KERMAN Pinsk 
SPIELER Lodz, Zloczew, Belchatow
SEGALL, SCHWARTZ Piatra Neamt

I wrote to apltd production company for information on how to stream. Do you know how I can do this?
Thanks.
Mindy Yochelson

I don't have a physical copy of the book but I should be able to get you a scan.
This was not actually written directly by the Vilna Gaon as a book in itself but rather it is a more recent collection of his  from ideas, pieces from his other works,  and previously unpublished manuscripts arranged in a format that is more user friendly
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Binyamin Kerman
Baltimore MD

Researching:
KERMAN Pinsk 
SPIELER Lodz, Zloczew, Belchatow
SEGALL, SCHWARTZ Piatra Neamt

Hello everyone,
I am looking for descendants of Feiwel Bukowski and Sara Schnitzer.Feiwel Bukowski was son of Samuel Bukowski ,brother of my great-grandmother Tauba Szapira,In 1913 immigrated to NY and 1917 married Sara Schnitzler.Aprreciate for any help, guidance or ideas .
Jenny Bukowsky
jenya.kanadov@....

The summation of all of this discussion regarding in-depth studies and research by journalists and members of the press should be as follows:
“The days of professionalism and ethical individuals like the late Walter Cronkite have long disappeared.” “ We are left today with less than a mere shadow of his honesty and integrity.”
Fake news and ulterior motives are rampant today, with no consideration for honest reporting or the privacy and safety of individuals. They report that one is guilty as charged without due process of law.
Larry Gaum
Toronto

Thank you so much for making this available.
I wish I'd known all these tips for searching the Polish archives before I did my research :)
Now I can go back and revisit where I got stuck and hopefully find more records.
Thanks!
--
Shoshanah Glickman
UK

Thanks to all who replied.

Let me clarify - the family emigrated in 1879-1880, when the town of residence was specifically identified as being Austro-Hungarian, not German or Prussian and it seems unlikely to me that the Hamburg agent, who presumably was familiar with the region,  would have mistakenly concluded they were coming from a German and not an Austrian-Galician town. QED, I didn't pursue Breslau or Prenzlau. 

Furthermore, I have identified a family in Debica also with the surname 'Lische'. Debica is quite close (11 miles) to Przeclaw, and the name 'Lische' (or the variant 'Lishe') rarely appear elsewhere, strengthening the inference that 'Prezlau' might in fact mean Przeclaw. 

Hence the question - was it likely that Przeclaw somehow came out as Prezlau when the passengers were booked?

Alan Reische
Manchester NH
a.reische@...

Researching Reische, Lische, Lishe, Przeclaw,   

I am a student who is looking to make genealogy a part time career. I am offering to do freelance genealogy research at a rate of $25 an hour (with discounts in the event of me going through unindexed microfilm/scans and finding nothing of substance).
I am located in central New Jersey, and willing to travel as far as Boston or Washington DC (and especially New York) to visit libraries and archives (provided that travel expenses are covered).
Most of my experience is in Galicia and (modern day) Austria (not to mention the American immigrant generation), although I can give a try researching just about anywhere in Europe.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or interest.

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Yehuda Rubin
Member, APGen
Lakewood, NJ
yehudazevrubin@...
(732)994-3928

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.

 

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)

• First Name :   Elsi
• Last Name :   Akerman
• Nationality :   Russia, Hebrew
• Last Place of Residence :   Orzaworak, Russia
• Date of Arrival :   April 9th, 1909
• Age at Arrival :   20y
• Gender :   Female
• Marital Status :   Single
• Ship of Travel :   Alice
• Port of Departure :   Trieste
• Manifest Line Number :   0012

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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

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:
Breslau II main Marriage Register    82/1426/0/2/28    Heiraths-Haupt-Register Breslau II 1880 Band 6    1880    188    9 Nov 1880  ~  21 Dec 1880    cert 1001  ~  1184
        1881 Bands 1-3 ??          ~  These seem to be missing.             
Breslau II main Marriage Register    82/1426/0/2/29    Heiraths-Haupt-Register Breslau II 1881 Band 4    1881    204    13 Jul 1881  ~  2 Aug 1881    cert 600  ~  800
Breslau II main Marriage Register    82/1426/0/2/30    Heiraths-Haupt-Register Breslau II 1881 Band 5    1881    204    2 Aug 1881  ~  28 Oct 1881    cert 801  ~  1000
Breslau II main Marriage Register    82/1426/0/2/31    Heiraths-Haupt-Register Breslau II 1881 Band 6    1881    205    28 Oct 1881  ~  27 Dec 1881    cert 1001  ~  1200

If someone else looks and thinks I've made a mistake – especially with the date-numbers – I'm very open to correction.  That handwriting is "challenging" to modern eyes.

Mary Benedict
SW Herts, England
marybenedict51@...

Try the JewishGen Communities Database.  Searching Przeclaw gives the following:


-- Przecław, Poland
50°12' N 21°28' E
143 miles S of Warszawa


Doug Cohen
Sarasota, Florida
Lexington, MA