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Phyllis Kramer z'l #courland #latvia

Nancy Holden
 

To all JewishGeners

It is with deep grief that I have to tell you that Phyllis Kramer
just passed away. She has been a loyal and deeply loving friend to
JewishGen, to JewishGen education and to those who worked with her
and to all her students.

She will be mourned.

Nancy Holden
JewishGen Education
Phyllis Kramer z'l #southafrica

Nancy Holden
 

To all JewishGeners

It is with deep grief that I have to tell you that Phyllis Kramer
just passed away. She has been a loyal and deeply loving friend to
JewishGen, to JewishGen education and to those who worked with her
and to all her students.

She will be mourned.

Nancy Holden
JewishGen Education
Courland SIG #Courland #Latvia Phyllis Kramer z'l #courland #latvia

Nancy Holden
 

To all JewishGeners

It is with deep grief that I have to tell you that Phyllis Kramer
just passed away. She has been a loyal and deeply loving friend to
JewishGen, to JewishGen education and to those who worked with her
and to all her students.

She will be mourned.

Nancy Holden
JewishGen Education
South Africa SIG #SouthAfrica Phyllis Kramer z'l #southafrica

Nancy Holden
 

To all JewishGeners

It is with deep grief that I have to tell you that Phyllis Kramer
just passed away. She has been a loyal and deeply loving friend to
JewishGen, to JewishGen education and to those who worked with her
and to all her students.

She will be mourned.

Nancy Holden
JewishGen Education
Zvi family originally Berdyczewski #rabbinic

Neil@...
 

Trying to make contact with the family of Tom Michael Ziv and his
brother Daniel Harry Zvi, sons of Yaron Ziv who was killed in a small
plane accident in May 2006.
The family traced back to the Rosenblatt and Horowitz rabbinical
families. Yaron was married three times.

Neil Rosenstein

MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately.
Rabbinic Genealogy SIG #Rabbinic Zvi family originally Berdyczewski #rabbinic

Neil@...
 

Trying to make contact with the family of Tom Michael Ziv and his
brother Daniel Harry Zvi, sons of Yaron Ziv who was killed in a small
plane accident in May 2006.
The family traced back to the Rosenblatt and Horowitz rabbinical
families. Yaron was married three times.

Neil Rosenstein

MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply privately.
Family Tree Magazine List of 101 Best Genealogy Websites for 2019 #general

Jan Meisels Allen
 

Family Tree magazine has published its list of 101 Best Genealogy Websites
for 2019. There are 16 categories worldwide. Congratulations to JewishGen,
Steve Morse and Reclaim the Records for being included

The list may be found at:
https://www.familytreemagazine.com/best-genealogy-websites/

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Family Tree Magazine List of 101 Best Genealogy Websites for 2019 #general

Jan Meisels Allen
 

Family Tree magazine has published its list of 101 Best Genealogy Websites
for 2019. There are 16 categories worldwide. Congratulations to JewishGen,
Steve Morse and Reclaim the Records for being included

The list may be found at:
https://www.familytreemagazine.com/best-genealogy-websites/

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
ViewMate translation request - Cyrillic #general

Terry Ashton
 

Dear Jenners,
I've posted a vital record in Cyrillic of what I believe is the birth record
of a relative, Lev Segalovitch, for which I need a full translation into English.

It is on ViewMate at the following address:
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74937

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you very much.
Ms Terry Ashton
Melbourne, Australia

SEARCHING:
PRASHKER: Kalisz, Zdunska Wola - Poland
SZUMOWSKI: Gorki, Lomza - Poland
GOLDMAN: Budapest - Hungary, Blaszki - Poland
SEGA/SEGALOVITCHL: Vilnius - Lithuania
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ViewMate translation request - Cyrillic #general

Terry Ashton
 

Dear Jenners,
I've posted a vital record in Cyrillic of what I believe is the birth record
of a relative, Lev Segalovitch, for which I need a full translation into English.

It is on ViewMate at the following address:
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM74937

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you very much.
Ms Terry Ashton
Melbourne, Australia

SEARCHING:
PRASHKER: Kalisz, Zdunska Wola - Poland
SZUMOWSKI: Gorki, Lomza - Poland
GOLDMAN: Budapest - Hungary, Blaszki - Poland
SEGA/SEGALOVITCHL: Vilnius - Lithuania
Cemetery Projects: What we translate from inscription on the monumnet and what we do not... #general

Yefim Kogan
 

Hello everybody,

More about the cemetery projects, and I want to talk about what is
translated and entered into JOWBR and what information we do not translate.

- Of course we are translating everything about the person buried in that
grave: Names, Date of birth, Date of death, sometimes only Hebrew dates.
Occasionally we also have on the grave profession of the person or some
honorary degree or military rank.

- Also on many graves in Ukraine, Moldova you can find a pictures or
engravings of the deceased people. Actually, I found pictures at the
monuments at Cleveland, OH cemeteries, and also in Israel in cemeteries near
Haifa.

- Many writings for people died in 1950-1970s in cemeteries in Eastern
Europe have other names listed. It is mostly in memory of family members who
died on fronts of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) or during evacuation or in
concentration camps. There are might be a name of a son killed or missing in
action in 1941 on a front of a war or ten people >from one family killed by hands of
fascists. I saw also names of people who were persihed in the battles for
Stalingrad, or died in Tashkent during evacuation. I am now working on a sector
for the Kishinev Jewish cemetery, doing the "second" reading, and sector has about
3,000 burial sites. On these graves I think there are approximately 5,000
names listed. We are adding these names of perished in the war in th eComments,
and these names also are searchable and all these names will be displayed in JOWBR.

I strongly believe that this is our duty to put every name we can read to our JOWBR
database regardles if person was buried in that cemetery or died somewhere else.

I want to give you an example >from the grave of my grandmother Elka Shabsovna
Kogan (z''l) (1902-1969), see image at
https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/files/cemetery/Kishinev/MyGrands.jpg

You see 3 other names on her monument:

- Kogan Meer Peysakhovich, 1894 - 1944. It is Elka's husband, my grandfather. He
was conscripted to the labor army to work in Siberia in Kemerovo oblast in a coal
mine, and was killed by a wagon.

- Spivak Fanya Khaimovna, 1896-1941. This is my other grandmother, who died in a
shtetl Kaushany, Moldova before the war started on the territory of Soviet Union.
As my parents told me, the monument for her grave arrived a few days before they
had to evacuate to the East, and after the war everything was lost, the cemetery
was almost destroyed by local, and later completely disappeared, and now it is a
potato field with a number of houses build on top...

- Tismenetskiy David Mikhaylovich, my distant relative, died during the war.

There is no monument for either of them, and their names in Kishinev cemetery is
the reminder of their lives.

Now I should tell you what we are not translating. On many monuments you can find
information of a surviving family. It might be written that wife and son are
mourning the loss (that is valuable genealogical information), or son and grandson
will remember the deseased, or even you see a name of a person who put in the
monument, like daughter Lisa is mourning the great loss of her father. We are not
translating that information, first because these people were live at the time of
the burial, and I felt that it may not be appropriete to list such names in the
Burial registry. Also in some cases, surviving person could write a poem on a
stone, or a letter, and that is difficult to translate. Finally, it is a lot of
additional work for translators, and we have a number of cemeteries we did not
index at all.

Please let me know if you have any questions, suggestions.

all the best,
Yefim Kogan
JewishGen Bessarabia SIG Leader and Coordinator
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Cemetery Projects: What we translate from inscription on the monumnet and what we do not... #general

Yefim Kogan
 

Hello everybody,

More about the cemetery projects, and I want to talk about what is
translated and entered into JOWBR and what information we do not translate.

- Of course we are translating everything about the person buried in that
grave: Names, Date of birth, Date of death, sometimes only Hebrew dates.
Occasionally we also have on the grave profession of the person or some
honorary degree or military rank.

- Also on many graves in Ukraine, Moldova you can find a pictures or
engravings of the deceased people. Actually, I found pictures at the
monuments at Cleveland, OH cemeteries, and also in Israel in cemeteries near
Haifa.

- Many writings for people died in 1950-1970s in cemeteries in Eastern
Europe have other names listed. It is mostly in memory of family members who
died on fronts of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) or during evacuation or in
concentration camps. There are might be a name of a son killed or missing in
action in 1941 on a front of a war or ten people >from one family killed by hands of
fascists. I saw also names of people who were persihed in the battles for
Stalingrad, or died in Tashkent during evacuation. I am now working on a sector
for the Kishinev Jewish cemetery, doing the "second" reading, and sector has about
3,000 burial sites. On these graves I think there are approximately 5,000
names listed. We are adding these names of perished in the war in th eComments,
and these names also are searchable and all these names will be displayed in JOWBR.

I strongly believe that this is our duty to put every name we can read to our JOWBR
database regardles if person was buried in that cemetery or died somewhere else.

I want to give you an example >from the grave of my grandmother Elka Shabsovna
Kogan (z''l) (1902-1969), see image at
https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/files/cemetery/Kishinev/MyGrands.jpg

You see 3 other names on her monument:

- Kogan Meer Peysakhovich, 1894 - 1944. It is Elka's husband, my grandfather. He
was conscripted to the labor army to work in Siberia in Kemerovo oblast in a coal
mine, and was killed by a wagon.

- Spivak Fanya Khaimovna, 1896-1941. This is my other grandmother, who died in a
shtetl Kaushany, Moldova before the war started on the territory of Soviet Union.
As my parents told me, the monument for her grave arrived a few days before they
had to evacuate to the East, and after the war everything was lost, the cemetery
was almost destroyed by local, and later completely disappeared, and now it is a
potato field with a number of houses build on top...

- Tismenetskiy David Mikhaylovich, my distant relative, died during the war.

There is no monument for either of them, and their names in Kishinev cemetery is
the reminder of their lives.

Now I should tell you what we are not translating. On many monuments you can find
information of a surviving family. It might be written that wife and son are
mourning the loss (that is valuable genealogical information), or son and grandson
will remember the deseased, or even you see a name of a person who put in the
monument, like daughter Lisa is mourning the great loss of her father. We are not
translating that information, first because these people were live at the time of
the burial, and I felt that it may not be appropriete to list such names in the
Burial registry. Also in some cases, surviving person could write a poem on a
stone, or a letter, and that is difficult to translate. Finally, it is a lot of
additional work for translators, and we have a number of cemeteries we did not
index at all.

Please let me know if you have any questions, suggestions.

all the best,
Yefim Kogan
JewishGen Bessarabia SIG Leader and Coordinator
Recent updates to South African records on FamilySearch.org #southafrica

Roy Ogus
 

Note the following recent updates to the South African records available on
FamilySearch.org:

Record title | number of records

Cape Province, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972 | 432,092

Natal, Passenger Lists, 1860-1911 | 95,069

Orange Free State, Probate Records >from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1832-1989 | 325,690

Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954 | 226,877

Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011 | 40,312

Netherdutch Reformed Church Registers (Pretoria Archive), 1838-1991 | 1,156,677

Note that access to all the South African records on FamilySearch can be found at:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1927115?region=South%20Africa

By the way, don't assume that there are no records for Jewish individuals to be
found in the above Dutch Reformed Church records. I found a number of Cohen
records in these collections, as well as records for my family!

Roy Ogus
Palo Alto, California
r_ogus at hotmail.com
South Africa SIG #SouthAfrica Recent updates to South African records on FamilySearch.org #southafrica

Roy Ogus
 

Note the following recent updates to the South African records available on
FamilySearch.org:

Record title | number of records

Cape Province, Civil Deaths, 1895-1972 | 432,092

Natal, Passenger Lists, 1860-1911 | 95,069

Orange Free State, Probate Records >from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1832-1989 | 325,690

Transvaal, Civil Death, 1869-1954 | 226,877

Dutch Reformed Church Records (Stellenbosch Archive), 1690-2011 | 40,312

Netherdutch Reformed Church Registers (Pretoria Archive), 1838-1991 | 1,156,677

Note that access to all the South African records on FamilySearch can be found at:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1927115?region=South%20Africa

By the way, don't assume that there are no records for Jewish individuals to be
found in the above Dutch Reformed Church records. I found a number of Cohen
records in these collections, as well as records for my family!

Roy Ogus
Palo Alto, California
r_ogus at hotmail.com
This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page #general

Bruce Drake
 

Yizkor books are full of accounts of Jews resisting the Nazis and
other anti-Semites who persecuted them: uprisings in the ghettos of
the camps, acts of heroism against those who tried to murder them,
partisans dealing justice to the enemy. Aharon Moravtchik tells a
different kind of story in =E2=80=9CMy Small Revenge for the Heinous Crime
from the Dayvd-Haradok (David Horodoker) Yizkor book. He had lost my
entire family, my wife, my four children, my parents, brothers and
sisters, the entire Jewish community of my home town. He had kept a
list of names of those who had committed these crimes and, after the
war was over in 1946, he resolved to be the blood-avenger for my
David-Horodoker brothers and sisters, tracking down those involved in
the atrocities that befell his town.

URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/2478112432210897?__tn__==3DK-R

Bruce Drake
Silver Spring MD

Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page #general

Bruce Drake
 

Yizkor books are full of accounts of Jews resisting the Nazis and
other anti-Semites who persecuted them: uprisings in the ghettos of
the camps, acts of heroism against those who tried to murder them,
partisans dealing justice to the enemy. Aharon Moravtchik tells a
different kind of story in =E2=80=9CMy Small Revenge for the Heinous Crime
from the Dayvd-Haradok (David Horodoker) Yizkor book. He had lost my
entire family, my wife, my four children, my parents, brothers and
sisters, the entire Jewish community of my home town. He had kept a
list of names of those who had committed these crimes and, after the
war was over in 1946, he resolved to be the blood-avenger for my
David-Horodoker brothers and sisters, tracking down those involved in
the atrocities that befell his town.

URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/2478112432210897?__tn__==3DK-R

Bruce Drake
Silver Spring MD

Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
Bakonybank #hungary

michael_perl9@...
 

Thanks to a grant >from Mazsok, the small cemetery in Bakonybank was recently restored and a fence erected.
Together with Martin Perl, we paid to have the stones re-erected properly and cleaned so that we now have a photographic database of the 62 extant stones.

We donated these records to Jewishgen a month ago but they are not yet in the database. If anyone has family >from there, I would be happy to send it.

With regards,

Michael Perl

New York

Moderator: JewishGen is in the process of clearing our a backlog of transcribed
records. Please keep checking! Bear in mind that we are an organization with a
small staff that largely relies on volunteers and donors to support our operations.
Hungary SIG #Hungary Bakonybank #hungary

michael_perl9@...
 

Thanks to a grant >from Mazsok, the small cemetery in Bakonybank was recently restored and a fence erected.
Together with Martin Perl, we paid to have the stones re-erected properly and cleaned so that we now have a photographic database of the 62 extant stones.

We donated these records to Jewishgen a month ago but they are not yet in the database. If anyone has family >from there, I would be happy to send it.

With regards,

Michael Perl

New York

Moderator: JewishGen is in the process of clearing our a backlog of transcribed
records. Please keep checking! Bear in mind that we are an organization with a
small staff that largely relies on volunteers and donors to support our operations.
message to moderator #hungary

Jake Jacobs
 

Have there been no postings since 8/22? that's the last time I received a post. I'm still subscribed and they're not going to my spam filter.
thanks -

Diane Jacobs

Moderator: If there are no messages none get sent to subscribers!
Hungary SIG #Hungary message to moderator #hungary

Jake Jacobs
 

Have there been no postings since 8/22? that's the last time I received a post. I'm still subscribed and they're not going to my spam filter.
thanks -

Diane Jacobs

Moderator: If there are no messages none get sent to subscribers!
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