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Bar (Ukraine)
#general
LGoldst415@...
I was just wondering what information is there on the shtetl of Bar, Ukraine
of the period 1890-1925. It was located in the province of Podolia and the nearest city is Vinitsa. Lyle Goldstein
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Bar (Ukraine)
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LGoldst415@...
I was just wondering what information is there on the shtetl of Bar, Ukraine
of the period 1890-1925. It was located in the province of Podolia and the nearest city is Vinitsa. Lyle Goldstein
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Re: Yiddish words
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WHirsch869 <whirsch869@...>
Stephen Warshall wrote:According to my Yiddish-English dictionary (Harkavy), these would be grooms or stablemen. Werner -- Werner S. Hirsch, Curator, Jewish Historical Soc. of Gr. New Haven (CT) http://pages.cthome.net/hirsch/ Reply to: <whirsch869@aol.com> or <whirsch@snet.net>
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Yiddish words
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WHirsch869 <whirsch869@...>
Stephen Warshall wrote:According to my Yiddish-English dictionary (Harkavy), these would be grooms or stablemen. Werner -- Werner S. Hirsch, Curator, Jewish Historical Soc. of Gr. New Haven (CT) http://pages.cthome.net/hirsch/ Reply to: <whirsch869@aol.com> or <whirsch@snet.net>
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Re: Orsha Records -where to write?
#belarus
Corin Goodwin <corin@...>
Argoff@aol.com wrote:
OK, I may displaying my ignorance, but isn't Orsha in Mogilev Guberniya? Or should I recheck that map... //Corin Barsily Goodwin Cupertino, CA USA Searching: BARSILA/BARZILY/BARZILOV/??? -- Austria-Hungary; Scotland; NYC BASOK/BARSACH -- Orsha, Russian Poland; Scotland; NYC; Providence, RI BRAUN -- NYC ... DU BOFF/MEISTROFF -- Russia; NYC; Nassau County, NY KANEFSKY/KANEVSKY and RIVKIN -- Elizabetgrod (Kirovgrod), Ukraine; NYC SIGAAR -- Holland ... VAN SANTEN -- Amsterdam; NYC WEISS -- Hungary or Czechoslavakia; NYC; Middlesex, NJ
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Belarus SIG #Belarus Re: Orsha Records -where to write?
#belarus
Corin Goodwin <corin@...>
Argoff@aol.com wrote:
OK, I may displaying my ignorance, but isn't Orsha in Mogilev Guberniya? Or should I recheck that map... //Corin Barsily Goodwin Cupertino, CA USA Searching: BARSILA/BARZILY/BARZILOV/??? -- Austria-Hungary; Scotland; NYC BASOK/BARSACH -- Orsha, Russian Poland; Scotland; NYC; Providence, RI BRAUN -- NYC ... DU BOFF/MEISTROFF -- Russia; NYC; Nassau County, NY KANEFSKY/KANEVSKY and RIVKIN -- Elizabetgrod (Kirovgrod), Ukraine; NYC SIGAAR -- Holland ... VAN SANTEN -- Amsterdam; NYC WEISS -- Hungary or Czechoslavakia; NYC; Middlesex, NJ
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SSDI records
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Joyce Peck <Joycekp@...>
I noticed a couple of conflicting postings about Social Security
Administration Death Index info in the most recent digest. I sent a letter a few weeks ago with a personal check for $14 (application info on both my parents) to the Baltimore address. What is a reasonable time to expect a response? Was I wrong to include a check? I followed instructions on Familytreemaker, but now feel like I sent a letter and check into a vast void. Thanx in advance. Joyce Peck joycekp@webtv.net Searching RUBIN and GOLDSMITH >from Minsk; KIRSNER and FINESILVER from Dubno
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen SSDI records
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Joyce Peck <Joycekp@...>
I noticed a couple of conflicting postings about Social Security
Administration Death Index info in the most recent digest. I sent a letter a few weeks ago with a personal check for $14 (application info on both my parents) to the Baltimore address. What is a reasonable time to expect a response? Was I wrong to include a check? I followed instructions on Familytreemaker, but now feel like I sent a letter and check into a vast void. Thanx in advance. Joyce Peck joycekp@webtv.net Searching RUBIN and GOLDSMITH >from Minsk; KIRSNER and FINESILVER from Dubno
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SSDI
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Ruffin R Cooper <rrcooper@...>
In response to the request for experience in requesting SS-5
records >from the Social Security Administration I would like to share this with you. I believe the Greene Street address is the correct one. I sent 2 requests early in July, separately, check included. The first one just came back after about 8 weeks. The second has not returned as of today!. Now, here is the funny part. In early August, 4 weeks after the first requests I sent a third request. This one was filled and back to me in 12 days! Explain that one! Anyhow, >from now on I am going to use the form suggested by Allan Rosen yesterday, giving them 10 days. Maybe that will work. Bob Cooper rrcooper@erols.com Searching for NEUFELD, STERN in Hungary and New York City.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen SSDI
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Ruffin R Cooper <rrcooper@...>
In response to the request for experience in requesting SS-5
records >from the Social Security Administration I would like to share this with you. I believe the Greene Street address is the correct one. I sent 2 requests early in July, separately, check included. The first one just came back after about 8 weeks. The second has not returned as of today!. Now, here is the funny part. In early August, 4 weeks after the first requests I sent a third request. This one was filled and back to me in 12 days! Explain that one! Anyhow, >from now on I am going to use the form suggested by Allan Rosen yesterday, giving them 10 days. Maybe that will work. Bob Cooper rrcooper@erols.com Searching for NEUFELD, STERN in Hungary and New York City.
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SSDI info -- another question
#general
Corin Goodwin <corin@...>
The new letter is probably the result of someone in Washington, DC,
trying to tighten things up and make them more 'consumer friendly.' I hope it works! While we're on the subject, I wrote away for SS info back in late June, and was told it took approximately 8-10 weeks. Does that sound correct? I'm still waiting... TIA, //Corin Barsily Goodwin Cupertino, CA USA Searching: BARSILA/BARZILY/BARZILOV -- Austria-Hungary; Scotland; NYC BASOK/BARSACH -- Orsha, Belarus; Scotland; NYC; Providence, RI BRAUN -- NYC ... DU BOFF/MEISTROFF -- Russia; NYC; Nassau County, NY KANEFSKY/KANEVSKY and RIVKIN -- Elizabetgrod (Kirovgrod), Ukraine; NYC SIGAAR -- Holland ... VAN SANTEN -- Amsterdam; NYC WEISS -- Hungary or Czechoslavakia; NYC; Middlesex, NJ
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen SSDI info -- another question
#general
Corin Goodwin <corin@...>
The new letter is probably the result of someone in Washington, DC,
trying to tighten things up and make them more 'consumer friendly.' I hope it works! While we're on the subject, I wrote away for SS info back in late June, and was told it took approximately 8-10 weeks. Does that sound correct? I'm still waiting... TIA, //Corin Barsily Goodwin Cupertino, CA USA Searching: BARSILA/BARZILY/BARZILOV -- Austria-Hungary; Scotland; NYC BASOK/BARSACH -- Orsha, Belarus; Scotland; NYC; Providence, RI BRAUN -- NYC ... DU BOFF/MEISTROFF -- Russia; NYC; Nassau County, NY KANEFSKY/KANEVSKY and RIVKIN -- Elizabetgrod (Kirovgrod), Ukraine; NYC SIGAAR -- Holland ... VAN SANTEN -- Amsterdam; NYC WEISS -- Hungary or Czechoslavakia; NYC; Middlesex, NJ
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Re: SSDI Payment
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Allison L Duke <allison.duke@...>
Disregard the page with the credit card info. If you read further it
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does say you can send a check or money order. I requested one the beginning of June and just now got it back about a week ago. Allison Duke Auburn, Ga On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:25:18 -0400 "David Gershon Leventhal" <David_Gershon@INAME.COM> writes:
Hello all,
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: SSDI Payment
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Allison L Duke <allison.duke@...>
Disregard the page with the credit card info. If you read further it
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does say you can send a check or money order. I requested one the beginning of June and just now got it back about a week ago. Allison Duke Auburn, Ga On Tue, 8 Sep 1998 17:25:18 -0400 "David Gershon Leventhal" <David_Gershon@INAME.COM> writes:
Hello all,
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Re: h-sig digest: September 08, 1998
#hungary
Rakoff125
Dear colleagues,
I must share a most poignant discovery. Last night I was able to integrate my data and find the confirming piece of information via an Alta Vista search that a Mimi Grossberg, whom I'd been seeking >from Vienna, was found. Sadly, I learned that this notable woman died June of '97 at the age of 92. >from what I have read about her she was extraordinary. I was always under the impression that she was dead, her old address was in my gm's book. I will never know why contact with my gm was not sustained (they were cousins) but wonder if it might have been related to the attitudinal conflict between Viennese and Hungarian Jews. Unfortunately I 'discovered 'her late to meet with her and learn a great deal. If anyone out there knows anything about her or her family I would appreciate hearing >from you privately. She was an awarding winning author who was deeply involved in the Austrian literary community and anti-facism movement. She came to the US in 1938, according to on line reports, and lived in NYC. thanks, Linda Rakoff, Newton, MA
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Help Needed on Yiskor Book
#general
Carole Feinberg <feincgs@...>
Dear Fellow JewishGenners,
I, too, am translating part of a yiskor book and need help with a few Yiddish words, abbreviations, titles. 1. alef, yud, nun, zayin, shin 2. pey, alef, resh, yud, zayin 3. dalet, gimel, nun, yud 4. Is pey/fey, resh, vav, yud the abbreviation for Professor? 5. Are "Manager" and "Supervisor" appropriate terms to use in a person's title, such as "Supervisor Abe Schwartz"? Many thanks for the anticipated help of caring individuals who read this Digest. Carole GLICK FEINBERG <feincgs@mindspring.com>
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Hungary SIG #Hungary Re: h-sig digest: September 08, 1998
#hungary
Rakoff125
Dear colleagues,
I must share a most poignant discovery. Last night I was able to integrate my data and find the confirming piece of information via an Alta Vista search that a Mimi Grossberg, whom I'd been seeking >from Vienna, was found. Sadly, I learned that this notable woman died June of '97 at the age of 92. >from what I have read about her she was extraordinary. I was always under the impression that she was dead, her old address was in my gm's book. I will never know why contact with my gm was not sustained (they were cousins) but wonder if it might have been related to the attitudinal conflict between Viennese and Hungarian Jews. Unfortunately I 'discovered 'her late to meet with her and learn a great deal. If anyone out there knows anything about her or her family I would appreciate hearing >from you privately. She was an awarding winning author who was deeply involved in the Austrian literary community and anti-facism movement. She came to the US in 1938, according to on line reports, and lived in NYC. thanks, Linda Rakoff, Newton, MA
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Help Needed on Yiskor Book
#general
Carole Feinberg <feincgs@...>
Dear Fellow JewishGenners,
I, too, am translating part of a yiskor book and need help with a few Yiddish words, abbreviations, titles. 1. alef, yud, nun, zayin, shin 2. pey, alef, resh, yud, zayin 3. dalet, gimel, nun, yud 4. Is pey/fey, resh, vav, yud the abbreviation for Professor? 5. Are "Manager" and "Supervisor" appropriate terms to use in a person's title, such as "Supervisor Abe Schwartz"? Many thanks for the anticipated help of caring individuals who read this Digest. Carole GLICK FEINBERG <feincgs@mindspring.com>
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KAVALSKY from Lithuania and Baltimore
#general
Steve Cohen <scohen@...>
Dear Jewishgenners:
For those of you who haven't tried to get an ancestor's Social Security SS-5 record, please do: I just learned >from my great-grandmother's record that her mother's name was Sara KAVALSKY, a surname hitherto completely unknown to me. Thus I am searching for all KAVALSKYs >from the area around Prienai, Lithuania. The name KAVALSKY only appears 9 times in the Social Security Death Index: three of the people listed were >from Maryland. My geat-grandmother came to Baltimore, and my grandmother was born there. So if you have the surname KAVALSKY, have ancestors >from Lithuania, or from around Baltimore, I'd llike to hear >from you! -Steve Cohen scohen@rutchem.rutgers.edu
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen KAVALSKY from Lithuania and Baltimore
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Steve Cohen <scohen@...>
Dear Jewishgenners:
For those of you who haven't tried to get an ancestor's Social Security SS-5 record, please do: I just learned >from my great-grandmother's record that her mother's name was Sara KAVALSKY, a surname hitherto completely unknown to me. Thus I am searching for all KAVALSKYs >from the area around Prienai, Lithuania. The name KAVALSKY only appears 9 times in the Social Security Death Index: three of the people listed were >from Maryland. My geat-grandmother came to Baltimore, and my grandmother was born there. So if you have the surname KAVALSKY, have ancestors >from Lithuania, or from around Baltimore, I'd llike to hear >from you! -Steve Cohen scohen@rutchem.rutgers.edu
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