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This new platform that JewishGen is using is a scalable, and sustainable solution, and allows us to engage with JewishGen members throughout the world. It offers a simple and intuitive interface for both members and moderators, more powerful tools, and more secure archives (which are easily accessible on mobile devices, and which also block out personal email addresses to the public).
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1. RE: News Release: Announcement of Miriam Weiner Agreement with JewishGen SIG
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Michelle Sandler
Thank you Miriam Weiner.
Michelle Sandler Westminster California
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Belarus SIG #Belarus 1. RE: News Release: Announcement of Miriam Weiner Agreement with JewishGen SIG
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Michelle Sandler
Thank you Miriam Weiner.
Michelle Sandler Westminster California
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26th June EESIG Reminder
#unitedkingdom
Raymond Montanjees
Dear interested Members,
Please send in your RSVPs for this coming Sunday's Eastern European Special Interest Group meeting and Workshop session, by mid afternoon on Thursday. I need to provide WLS' Security with a list of names. The meeting will be held at 33, Seymour Place W1 in the Council Room, on the 1st floor. Members free - Guests £5.00 including a library visit. (A reduced 1 year Membership will be given for those Guests who join on the day). Refreshments and use of the library for all. Assistance on hand. Thank You Raymond Montanjees
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Mixed marriage 1820s
#unitedkingdom
Sue Levy
Can anyone suggest where a Jew and a Christian might have married in England
in the mid-late 1820s? Mark Levy was >from Plymouth (Devon, England) and Mary Lambert was from Christchurch (Dorset - then Hampshire, England). They made their home in the Channel Islands so it's possible they married there. Mark retained his Jewishness, so it's extremely unlikely they married in a church, even supposing it were possible. Sue Levy Perth, Australia
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JCR-UK SIG #UnitedKingdom 26th June EESIG Reminder
#unitedkingdom
Raymond Montanjees
Dear interested Members,
Please send in your RSVPs for this coming Sunday's Eastern European Special Interest Group meeting and Workshop session, by mid afternoon on Thursday. I need to provide WLS' Security with a list of names. The meeting will be held at 33, Seymour Place W1 in the Council Room, on the 1st floor. Members free - Guests £5.00 including a library visit. (A reduced 1 year Membership will be given for those Guests who join on the day). Refreshments and use of the library for all. Assistance on hand. Thank You Raymond Montanjees
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JCR-UK SIG #UnitedKingdom Mixed marriage 1820s
#unitedkingdom
Sue Levy
Can anyone suggest where a Jew and a Christian might have married in England
in the mid-late 1820s? Mark Levy was >from Plymouth (Devon, England) and Mary Lambert was from Christchurch (Dorset - then Hampshire, England). They made their home in the Channel Islands so it's possible they married there. Mark retained his Jewishness, so it's extremely unlikely they married in a church, even supposing it were possible. Sue Levy Perth, Australia
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JewishGen's Memorial Plaques Database Update - June 2016
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bounce-3163818-785714@...
Memorial Plaques Database Grows to More Than 125,000 Records. Please help
us grow! JewishGen is proud to announce its 2016 pre-Conference Update for the Memorial Plaques Database (MPD). The MPD database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPD database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update added 23,000 records and 20,800 photos >from Argentina, Israel, Slovakia, the US. These records come >from 46 different synagogues and other institutions. The MPD database now includes 128,800 records and 89,000 photos >from more than 200 organizations covering 6 countries. Significant additions to the database include collections from Argentina and Slovakia as well as Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, and Texas in the US. For details on the contents of the database, please check http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/tree/MemList.htm for a complete listing of our inventory by location. We believe that the MPD is a good example of how users of JewishGen's databases can "give back". If you are a member of a synagogue or other organization with memorial plaques or Yizkor lists, please consider helping us to grow this database. You can find more information on submitting data at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/Submit.htm If you have additional questions, please contact me directly. Nolan Altman nta@pipeline.com
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JCR-UK SIG #UnitedKingdom JewishGen's Memorial Plaques Database Update - June 2016
#unitedkingdom
bounce-3163818-785714@...
Memorial Plaques Database Grows to More Than 125,000 Records. Please help
us grow! JewishGen is proud to announce its 2016 pre-Conference Update for the Memorial Plaques Database (MPD). The MPD database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/ The MPD database includes the data >from plaques and Yizkor lists >from synagogue and other organizations. Many of these sources include patronymic information. This update added 23,000 records and 20,800 photos >from Argentina, Israel, Slovakia, the US. These records come >from 46 different synagogues and other institutions. The MPD database now includes 128,800 records and 89,000 photos >from more than 200 organizations covering 6 countries. Significant additions to the database include collections from Argentina and Slovakia as well as Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, and Texas in the US. For details on the contents of the database, please check http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/tree/MemList.htm for a complete listing of our inventory by location. We believe that the MPD is a good example of how users of JewishGen's databases can "give back". If you are a member of a synagogue or other organization with memorial plaques or Yizkor lists, please consider helping us to grow this database. You can find more information on submitting data at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Memorial/Submit.htm If you have additional questions, please contact me directly. Nolan Altman nta@pipeline.com
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JewishGen's JOWBR Update - June 2016
#unitedkingdom
bounce-3163817-785714@...
JOWBR Grows to Over 2.8 Million Records!
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2016 pre-Conference update to the JOWBR (JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ This update adds approximately 103,000 new records and 28,000 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 540 cemeteries. JOWBR now includes 2.8 million records >from 6,400 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 123 countries! Once again, donors for this update include a mix of individuals, Jewish genealogical societies, historical societies, synagogues, cemeteries and museums. We appreciate all our donor's submissions and the transliteration work done by a faithful group of JewishGen volunteers. JewishGen wants to thank Eric Feinstein who has been instrumental in sourcing and coordinating foreign records, especially >from France and Germany. JewishGen would also like to thank Eric's team of data entry volunteers; Sandra Bennett, Sharon Duckman, George Jiri Goldschmied, Henry Graupner, Ann Meddin Hellman, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Hans Nord, Adina Schwartz, Marilyn Shalks, and Suzanne Tarica. In addition, JewishGen thanks our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, without whom we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. Significant additions to the database include collections from Brazil (Rio de Janeiro area), France, Germany, Italy (Milan and Torino), Moldova, Romania (Timisoara), Slovakia (Neologicky Cintorin), Ukraine (Chernivtsi) and the United States. Check http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of our inventory by location. We appreciate all the work our donors have done and encourage you to make additional submissions. Whether you work on a cemetery/cemetery section individually or consider a group project for your local Society, temple or other group, it's your submissions that help grow the JOWBR database and make it possible for researchers and family members to find answers they otherwise might not. Please also consider other organizations you may be affiliated with that may already have done cemetery indexing that would consider having their records included in the JOWBR database. Nolan Altman nta@pipeline.com
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JCR-UK SIG #UnitedKingdom JewishGen's JOWBR Update - June 2016
#unitedkingdom
bounce-3163817-785714@...
JOWBR Grows to Over 2.8 Million Records!
JewishGen is proud to announce its 2016 pre-Conference update to the JOWBR (JewishGen's Online Worldwide Burial Registry) database. The JOWBR database can be accessed at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/ If you're a new JOWBR user, we recommend that you take a look at the first two explanatory screencasts at http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/Screencasts/ This update adds approximately 103,000 new records and 28,000 new photos. The database is adding and/or updating 540 cemeteries. JOWBR now includes 2.8 million records >from 6,400 cemeteries / cemetery sections representing 123 countries! Once again, donors for this update include a mix of individuals, Jewish genealogical societies, historical societies, synagogues, cemeteries and museums. We appreciate all our donor's submissions and the transliteration work done by a faithful group of JewishGen volunteers. JewishGen wants to thank Eric Feinstein who has been instrumental in sourcing and coordinating foreign records, especially >from France and Germany. JewishGen would also like to thank Eric's team of data entry volunteers; Sandra Bennett, Sharon Duckman, George Jiri Goldschmied, Henry Graupner, Ann Meddin Hellman, Maurice Kessler, Harriet Mayer, Hans Nord, Adina Schwartz, Marilyn Shalks, and Suzanne Tarica. In addition, JewishGen thanks our volunteer transliterators, led by Gilberto Jugend, without whom we would not be able to add the information >from some very difficult to read photos. Significant additions to the database include collections from Brazil (Rio de Janeiro area), France, Germany, Italy (Milan and Torino), Moldova, Romania (Timisoara), Slovakia (Neologicky Cintorin), Ukraine (Chernivtsi) and the United States. Check http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Cemetery/tree/CemList.htm for a complete listing of our inventory by location. We appreciate all the work our donors have done and encourage you to make additional submissions. Whether you work on a cemetery/cemetery section individually or consider a group project for your local Society, temple or other group, it's your submissions that help grow the JOWBR database and make it possible for researchers and family members to find answers they otherwise might not. Please also consider other organizations you may be affiliated with that may already have done cemetery indexing that would consider having their records included in the JOWBR database. Nolan Altman nta@pipeline.com
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Mixed marriage 1820s
#general
Sue Levy
Can anyone suggest where a Jew and a Christian might have married in England
in the mid-late 1820s? Mark Levy was >from Plymouth (Devon, England) and Mary Lambert was from Christchurch (Dorset - then Hampshire, England). They made their home in the Channel Islands so it's possible they married there. Mark retained his Jewishness, so it's extremely unlikely they married in a church, even supposing it were possible. Sue Levy Perth, Australia
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Mixed marriage 1820s
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Sue Levy
Can anyone suggest where a Jew and a Christian might have married in England
in the mid-late 1820s? Mark Levy was >from Plymouth (Devon, England) and Mary Lambert was from Christchurch (Dorset - then Hampshire, England). They made their home in the Channel Islands so it's possible they married there. Mark retained his Jewishness, so it's extremely unlikely they married in a church, even supposing it were possible. Sue Levy Perth, Australia
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Translation request- Polish?Russian? & Hebrew?Yiddish? Birth record
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Roberta Solit
I've posted a vital record in Polish & Hebrew for which I need a
translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM47886 It is a birth record for David Solnicki or Solotnizky. I would like to know the names of his parents and any other people mentioned on the record and towns listed. I believe the year is 1864 or 1865. Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Roberta Solit Searching- Zolnitsky, Solotnizki, Schneider >from Izabelin, Grodno. MODERATOR NOTE: The first part appears to be in Russian, the second in a mixture of Hebrew and Yiddish.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Translation request- Polish?Russian? & Hebrew?Yiddish? Birth record
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Roberta Solit
I've posted a vital record in Polish & Hebrew for which I need a
translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM47886 It is a birth record for David Solnicki or Solotnizky. I would like to know the names of his parents and any other people mentioned on the record and towns listed. I believe the year is 1864 or 1865. Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application. Thank you very much. Roberta Solit Searching- Zolnitsky, Solotnizki, Schneider >from Izabelin, Grodno. MODERATOR NOTE: The first part appears to be in Russian, the second in a mixture of Hebrew and Yiddish.
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Help finding Rabbi? Jacob Breslow
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Danny Breslow <dbreslow11@...>
Hello!
I'm in need of help finding more information on my second-great-grandfather Jacob Breslow. He was born around 1855 in Slutzk, Minsk, Russia and immigrated in late 1898. His first wife Batya died around 1897 and he later married Dora Rudnizky in Manhattan where he lived until his death. The 1910 and 1920 Federal Censuses list his occupation as "Sexton" in a "Synagogue" The 1915 NYC Census lists his occupation as "Sexton" The 1917 city directory lists his occupation as "Sexton" The 1915 city directory lists his name as "Rev Jacob Breslow" I can't find any more comprehensive information anywhere. What synagogue did he work at? What was his actual occupation? I've read that sexton can mean anything >from Rabbi to gravedigger. Any assistance would be much appreciated. Danny Breslow, New Jersey Surnames: Breslow (Slutzk, Kletzk) Rappaport (Hlybokaye) Jablonski, Blecher, Babekier (Bialystok) Chudnovsky (Tahancha) Lita, Barzov (Korets) Metzik (Slonim) Gergas (Oleksandriya)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Help finding Rabbi? Jacob Breslow
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Danny Breslow <dbreslow11@...>
Hello!
I'm in need of help finding more information on my second-great-grandfather Jacob Breslow. He was born around 1855 in Slutzk, Minsk, Russia and immigrated in late 1898. His first wife Batya died around 1897 and he later married Dora Rudnizky in Manhattan where he lived until his death. The 1910 and 1920 Federal Censuses list his occupation as "Sexton" in a "Synagogue" The 1915 NYC Census lists his occupation as "Sexton" The 1917 city directory lists his occupation as "Sexton" The 1915 city directory lists his name as "Rev Jacob Breslow" I can't find any more comprehensive information anywhere. What synagogue did he work at? What was his actual occupation? I've read that sexton can mean anything >from Rabbi to gravedigger. Any assistance would be much appreciated. Danny Breslow, New Jersey Surnames: Breslow (Slutzk, Kletzk) Rappaport (Hlybokaye) Jablonski, Blecher, Babekier (Bialystok) Chudnovsky (Tahancha) Lita, Barzov (Korets) Metzik (Slonim) Gergas (Oleksandriya)
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help finding 1920 census ED
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Wendy Griswold
Hi, cousins.
I once again admit defeat and throw myself on the mercy of the kind folks who *get* this stuff. Looking for 22 or 32 Ridge Street (the handwriting on the document I'm working with is not so great, but they should be on the same block), NYC. It's ED 142 for the 1930 census. It's AD 4, ED 6 for the 1915 State Census. As I read the ED finder tool, it should be 1, 13, or 14 for 1920, but these census rolls don't seem to contain the address I'm looking for. Before anyone undertakes a wild goose chase on my behalf, truth in advertising: I have the address confirmed for 1919 but not 1920, so I'm operating on a wish and a prayer. My party is not at that address on the 1915 census. All help welcome. Wendy Griswold Pittsfield MA Searching: BLITZ, PFEIFFER/FEIFER, any spelling, Zurawno WENZELBERG, EINHORN, SHIFULDREM, Nowy Sacz area DWASS, SOROKOFF, any spelling, Ekaterinoslav area
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen help finding 1920 census ED
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Wendy Griswold
Hi, cousins.
I once again admit defeat and throw myself on the mercy of the kind folks who *get* this stuff. Looking for 22 or 32 Ridge Street (the handwriting on the document I'm working with is not so great, but they should be on the same block), NYC. It's ED 142 for the 1930 census. It's AD 4, ED 6 for the 1915 State Census. As I read the ED finder tool, it should be 1, 13, or 14 for 1920, but these census rolls don't seem to contain the address I'm looking for. Before anyone undertakes a wild goose chase on my behalf, truth in advertising: I have the address confirmed for 1919 but not 1920, so I'm operating on a wish and a prayer. My party is not at that address on the 1915 census. All help welcome. Wendy Griswold Pittsfield MA Searching: BLITZ, PFEIFFER/FEIFER, any spelling, Zurawno WENZELBERG, EINHORN, SHIFULDREM, Nowy Sacz area DWASS, SOROKOFF, any spelling, Ekaterinoslav area
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New Brooklyn, Queens, Newark Naturalizations + Lithuania Vital Records available on FamilySearch
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Michael Moritz
FamilySearch has been adding a significant number of digitized records
to its online collections. Although these sources are not evident from the list of records that are available, the following sources have been scanned and are freely searchable on FamilySearch. Of note: these records are not indexed on FamilySearch, so you have to manually search through the records yourself, but with the countless resources we have, this can be made easier. 1. New York, Eastern District Naturalization Petitions Available are all petitions until the year 1958, which far exceeds the documents available on ancestry.com or any other site. To find the requisite record, use ancestry to locate the petition number and then the following link contains all the records. Click on the camera icon next to the film to view the documents. https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/988724?availability=Family%20History%20Library [or http://tinyurl.com/j3qz3ff --Mod.] This is a significant addition of about two decades of additional records for Brooklyn and Queens. 2. New Jersey District Court at Newark Naturalization Petitions Available are all petitions for the years 1914 to 1945. An index to these records is available on italiangen.org. I don't believe these records have ever been available online. https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1332882?availability=Family%20History%20Library [or http://tinyurl.com/gtbz4ot --Mod.] 3. Jewish Records of Lithuania As far as I can tell, all Jewish vital records filmed by the LDS Church for the country of Lithuania have been digitized and are available online. On FamilySearch, go to Catalog, type in the town name, then on Jewish records, and there should be a link next to the record looking like a camera. Many (or most) of these records have been indexed by JewishGen, so using an index >from JewishGen might easily help you find the original. Happy searching! Best, Michael Moritz New York
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen New Brooklyn, Queens, Newark Naturalizations + Lithuania Vital Records available on FamilySearch
#general
Michael Moritz
FamilySearch has been adding a significant number of digitized records
to its online collections. Although these sources are not evident from the list of records that are available, the following sources have been scanned and are freely searchable on FamilySearch. Of note: these records are not indexed on FamilySearch, so you have to manually search through the records yourself, but with the countless resources we have, this can be made easier. 1. New York, Eastern District Naturalization Petitions Available are all petitions until the year 1958, which far exceeds the documents available on ancestry.com or any other site. To find the requisite record, use ancestry to locate the petition number and then the following link contains all the records. Click on the camera icon next to the film to view the documents. https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/988724?availability=Family%20History%20Library [or http://tinyurl.com/j3qz3ff --Mod.] This is a significant addition of about two decades of additional records for Brooklyn and Queens. 2. New Jersey District Court at Newark Naturalization Petitions Available are all petitions for the years 1914 to 1945. An index to these records is available on italiangen.org. I don't believe these records have ever been available online. https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1332882?availability=Family%20History%20Library [or http://tinyurl.com/gtbz4ot --Mod.] 3. Jewish Records of Lithuania As far as I can tell, all Jewish vital records filmed by the LDS Church for the country of Lithuania have been digitized and are available online. On FamilySearch, go to Catalog, type in the town name, then on Jewish records, and there should be a link next to the record looking like a camera. Many (or most) of these records have been indexed by JewishGen, so using an index >from JewishGen might easily help you find the original. Happy searching! Best, Michael Moritz New York
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