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Request for Translation Assistance
#galicia
BFisch1957@...
My family has two photographs dating to about 1890-1930 with Yiddish written
on the back. These are photos of relatives who stayed in Galicia and corresponded with my greatgrandmother in New York. The writer may have lived in the vicinity of Czernowitz. If anybody would be willing to try translating these we would greatly appreciate the help. Please contact me off-list and let me know what file format to send (I have the photo backs scanned-in as ".tif" files right now). Thanks! Ben Fischler Glenn Dale, Maryland Reply to bfisch1957@aol.com
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Gesher Galicia SIG #Galicia Request for Translation Assistance
#galicia
BFisch1957@...
My family has two photographs dating to about 1890-1930 with Yiddish written
on the back. These are photos of relatives who stayed in Galicia and corresponded with my greatgrandmother in New York. The writer may have lived in the vicinity of Czernowitz. If anybody would be willing to try translating these we would greatly appreciate the help. Please contact me off-list and let me know what file format to send (I have the photo backs scanned-in as ".tif" files right now). Thanks! Ben Fischler Glenn Dale, Maryland Reply to bfisch1957@aol.com
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Re: SSDI and How to Get More Information
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Regina Gualco <rgualco@...>
This is the current information for ordering an SS-5.
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To request a copy of the application for a Social Security Account Number (SS-5), write a letter to the Social Security Administration which includes the following: Applicant's name Applicant's Social Security Number (SSN) Applicant's approximate date of death Send your letter and a check or money order for $7.00 (U.S. Dollars only) to: Social Security Administration Office of Central Records Operations FOIA Workgroup P.O. Box 17772 300 N. Greene Street Baltimore, Maryland 21290 For more information including how to find an ancestor's SSN and how to order the application if you don't have the SSN, check out the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) that I've written. You'll also find a couple of sample SSN applications, a sample request letter and lots more at the web site. FAQ: Obtaining a copy of a Social Security Number Application http://members.aol.com/reginamari/ancestry/ssnfaq.html Regina Gualco Marjorie Rosenfeld wrote:
Regarding your query to the JewishGen Digest, if you found your people
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: SSDI and How to Get More Information
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Regina Gualco <rgualco@...>
This is the current information for ordering an SS-5.
toggle quoted messageShow quoted text
To request a copy of the application for a Social Security Account Number (SS-5), write a letter to the Social Security Administration which includes the following: Applicant's name Applicant's Social Security Number (SSN) Applicant's approximate date of death Send your letter and a check or money order for $7.00 (U.S. Dollars only) to: Social Security Administration Office of Central Records Operations FOIA Workgroup P.O. Box 17772 300 N. Greene Street Baltimore, Maryland 21290 For more information including how to find an ancestor's SSN and how to order the application if you don't have the SSN, check out the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) that I've written. You'll also find a couple of sample SSN applications, a sample request letter and lots more at the web site. FAQ: Obtaining a copy of a Social Security Number Application http://members.aol.com/reginamari/ancestry/ssnfaq.html Regina Gualco Marjorie Rosenfeld wrote:
Regarding your query to the JewishGen Digest, if you found your people
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BONIM family name
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Martha Lev-Zion <martha@...>
Would whoever was searching for the BONIM family name please contact me?
Martha LEVINSON Lev-Zion >from Israel <martha@bgumail.bgu.ac.il> Researching: LEVINSO[H]N (Latvia), LIEBERTHAL (Latvia/Lithuania) Anyplace in the world. HIM(M)ELHOCH (Latvia) Anyplace in the world. LEVOR/LEFOR (Barchfeld, Germany) Anyplace in the world. ROTHSCHILD (Bamberg, Germany) BERNET/BARNET (Frensdorf/Bamberg, Bavaria - Germany) HIMMELREICH (Frensdorf/Bamberg, Bavaria - Germany
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen BONIM family name
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Martha Lev-Zion <martha@...>
Would whoever was searching for the BONIM family name please contact me?
Martha LEVINSON Lev-Zion >from Israel <martha@bgumail.bgu.ac.il> Researching: LEVINSO[H]N (Latvia), LIEBERTHAL (Latvia/Lithuania) Anyplace in the world. HIM(M)ELHOCH (Latvia) Anyplace in the world. LEVOR/LEFOR (Barchfeld, Germany) Anyplace in the world. ROTHSCHILD (Bamberg, Germany) BERNET/BARNET (Frensdorf/Bamberg, Bavaria - Germany) HIMMELREICH (Frensdorf/Bamberg, Bavaria - Germany
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Re: Suni
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Simon Barak
Sometimes Shoshana (=Rose) was affectionally "diminutited" Shana or Shane and thus
transformed on to Sheine (=Beatiful), Sonia, etc Jenny would be written in Ydisch daled-zain-ayin-nun-yod Simon Barak Ury Link wrote: it can be that the name Suni is a nickname for Sonya. I find fewMODERATOR NOTE: This thread is now closed. Any further comments, please send privately.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Re: Suni
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Simon Barak
Sometimes Shoshana (=Rose) was affectionally "diminutited" Shana or Shane and thus
transformed on to Sheine (=Beatiful), Sonia, etc Jenny would be written in Ydisch daled-zain-ayin-nun-yod Simon Barak Ury Link wrote: it can be that the name Suni is a nickname for Sonya. I find fewMODERATOR NOTE: This thread is now closed. Any further comments, please send privately.
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ROSE Book
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Cheryl Hoover <crhoover@...>
To everyone that wrote me regarding the book on the ROSE famly. The
book has found a home. This Rose family was >from Alberta, Canada from what I can tell. I have already put the book in the mail so I can't look up the names for you. Please contact me privately for the address of the new owner of the book. Sincerely, Cheryl
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen ROSE Book
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Cheryl Hoover <crhoover@...>
To everyone that wrote me regarding the book on the ROSE famly. The
book has found a home. This Rose family was >from Alberta, Canada from what I can tell. I have already put the book in the mail so I can't look up the names for you. Please contact me privately for the address of the new owner of the book. Sincerely, Cheryl
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Searching for records in Ukraine
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Pollack <mapollac@...>
Hi Jewishgenners,
Does anyone know if there are records for any of the years 1850 to 1917 from the following towns in Ukraine:Gaysin (Gaysin district, Podolia guberniya) Stavishche (Tarashcha district, Kiev guberniya) Zvenigorodka (Zvenigorodka district, Kiev guberniya) Shpola (Zvenigorodka district, Kiev guberniya) Uman (Uman district, Kiev guberniya) Odessa (Odessa district, Kherson guberniya) Radomyshl (Radomyshl district, Kiev guberniya) Tulchin (Bratslav district, Podolia guberniya) Talnoye (Uman district, Kiev guberniya) I would be interested in records of any kind ---- Rabbinical metrical books, town lists of residents, revision lists, administrative and court records, etc. If available, how may I get copies of these records and what is the cost? Thanks in advance. Marty Pollack Melville, New York (Long Island) mapollac@suffolk.lib.ny.us Searching: ALPER (Stavishche), BADIAN (Talnoye), BOYARSKY (Zvenigorodka, Uman, Shpola), FEIMAN (Zvenigorodka, Uman, Shpola), FUKS (Gaysin, Odessa), MOLDOVSKY (Tulchin), POLYAK (Stavishche, Radomyshl), SMUSHKIN (Stavishche)
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching for records in Ukraine
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Pollack <mapollac@...>
Hi Jewishgenners,
Does anyone know if there are records for any of the years 1850 to 1917 from the following towns in Ukraine:Gaysin (Gaysin district, Podolia guberniya) Stavishche (Tarashcha district, Kiev guberniya) Zvenigorodka (Zvenigorodka district, Kiev guberniya) Shpola (Zvenigorodka district, Kiev guberniya) Uman (Uman district, Kiev guberniya) Odessa (Odessa district, Kherson guberniya) Radomyshl (Radomyshl district, Kiev guberniya) Tulchin (Bratslav district, Podolia guberniya) Talnoye (Uman district, Kiev guberniya) I would be interested in records of any kind ---- Rabbinical metrical books, town lists of residents, revision lists, administrative and court records, etc. If available, how may I get copies of these records and what is the cost? Thanks in advance. Marty Pollack Melville, New York (Long Island) mapollac@suffolk.lib.ny.us Searching: ALPER (Stavishche), BADIAN (Talnoye), BOYARSKY (Zvenigorodka, Uman, Shpola), FEIMAN (Zvenigorodka, Uman, Shpola), FUKS (Gaysin, Odessa), MOLDOVSKY (Tulchin), POLYAK (Stavishche, Radomyshl), SMUSHKIN (Stavishche)
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Searching Fritz LOMBARD
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Bruce & Helen Hill <bhill@...>
Searching for information about, or the descendants of, a Fritz Levi
LOMBARD - he may have changed his name to Lombard in the US. He was born ca. 1900, possibly in Blumenthal, a village near Bremen in Germany. In 1962 he was living in San Francisco. Regards Helen Hill, Perth, Western Australia Searching in Germany: BLUMENTHAL, Ahlen, Hamm, Hessen; BONDY, Balve: HESSE, Balve?: OSWALD, Ibbenbueren: PHYLIP, Ahlen: ROSENBERG, Dorstfeld, Ahlen: DOSSOW, KNOEFELT, THIELE, MAIER, Gralow, bei Landsberg: SCHMIDT, PARCHMANN, PEGLOW, MEIER, Schoeneberg, Krs. Soldin.
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Searching Fritz LOMBARD
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Bruce & Helen Hill <bhill@...>
Searching for information about, or the descendants of, a Fritz Levi
LOMBARD - he may have changed his name to Lombard in the US. He was born ca. 1900, possibly in Blumenthal, a village near Bremen in Germany. In 1962 he was living in San Francisco. Regards Helen Hill, Perth, Western Australia Searching in Germany: BLUMENTHAL, Ahlen, Hamm, Hessen; BONDY, Balve: HESSE, Balve?: OSWALD, Ibbenbueren: PHYLIP, Ahlen: ROSENBERG, Dorstfeld, Ahlen: DOSSOW, KNOEFELT, THIELE, MAIER, Gralow, bei Landsberg: SCHMIDT, PARCHMANN, PEGLOW, MEIER, Schoeneberg, Krs. Soldin.
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Re: uncle-niece marriages in Rhode Island
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Suzanne Klein <ssklein@...>
I've been interested in the thread on uncle-niece marriages. Apparently
the Rhode Island possibility was known to immigration lawyers. I remember (1949 or 1950) that a couple travelled >from New Jersey to Providence to marry. He was an elderly uncle, she a somewhat younger niece. The marriage was partly to being his or her children >from Europe. The father was the Rabbi and my brother, mother and I held the chuppah. The story somehow got into Life magazine (complete with pictures) perhaps because my father used his contacts in city hall to speed through the formalities of blood test, license, etc and some enterprising reporter picked it up. Several months later a young Cuban appeared at out door. He had seen the story and tracked my father down. His English wasn't very good as I recall. He had fallen in love with his niece and thought that the Pope had given my father an exemption >from the church's incest restrictions. He was crestfallen when my father got through the language barriers. Suzanne Silk Klein
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen re: uncle-niece marriages in Rhode Island
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Suzanne Klein <ssklein@...>
I've been interested in the thread on uncle-niece marriages. Apparently
the Rhode Island possibility was known to immigration lawyers. I remember (1949 or 1950) that a couple travelled >from New Jersey to Providence to marry. He was an elderly uncle, she a somewhat younger niece. The marriage was partly to being his or her children >from Europe. The father was the Rabbi and my brother, mother and I held the chuppah. The story somehow got into Life magazine (complete with pictures) perhaps because my father used his contacts in city hall to speed through the formalities of blood test, license, etc and some enterprising reporter picked it up. Several months later a young Cuban appeared at out door. He had seen the story and tracked my father down. His English wasn't very good as I recall. He had fallen in love with his niece and thought that the Pope had given my father an exemption >from the church's incest restrictions. He was crestfallen when my father got through the language barriers. Suzanne Silk Klein
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Place of origin listed in Russian records
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Haim Fridman <fridman@...>
Allan Shuchat wrote:
a person's place of origin is often a part of the record.... Is thisHerbert Lazerow replied: Neither. This is the place to which the individual is officiallyThis is not necessarily the reason in all cases. My family lived on Jewish agricultural colonies in the south-east Ukraine. They settled there in 1846 having come in the main >from Lithuania. Recently acquired Revision Lists from 1858 show that listings of the families then living in the Ukrainiancolonies included a statement which proceeded most family groups lists ">from the community of Rassein" etc. This was recorded since the colonists travelled in 1846 in convoys as a specific group denoted by town of and accepted by the authorities as potential colonists. This information is invaluable to assertain towns of origin instead of the common generalizatiom ">from Kovno Guberniya". Chaim Freedman Petah Tikvah, Israel email: fridman@ultinet.co.il
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen Place of origin listed in Russian records
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Haim Fridman <fridman@...>
Allan Shuchat wrote:
a person's place of origin is often a part of the record.... Is thisHerbert Lazerow replied: Neither. This is the place to which the individual is officiallyThis is not necessarily the reason in all cases. My family lived on Jewish agricultural colonies in the south-east Ukraine. They settled there in 1846 having come in the main >from Lithuania. Recently acquired Revision Lists from 1858 show that listings of the families then living in the Ukrainiancolonies included a statement which proceeded most family groups lists ">from the community of Rassein" etc. This was recorded since the colonists travelled in 1846 in convoys as a specific group denoted by town of and accepted by the authorities as potential colonists. This information is invaluable to assertain towns of origin instead of the common generalizatiom ">from Kovno Guberniya". Chaim Freedman Petah Tikvah, Israel email: fridman@ultinet.co.il
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March-April 1946 "Bialystoker Shtimmer"
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Miriam Deitcher <deitcher@...>
I've been directed by a very helpful JewGenner to a list of "Jews in
Bialystok After the War" in the March-April 1946 issue of the "Bialystoker Shtimmer". I've searched the internet and the JewGen discussion forum archives and can't find any info on that publication. I assume it's a magazine or newspaper of some sort. Anyone have any ideas how I might find this particular publication. A possible ancestor (Naftoli NOTOWICZ) is on the list and I'd like to see if there's more info included. I'm excited to see that someone >from my grandmother's family may have actually survived the Holocaust. This is my most difficult branch, and any help is greatly appreciated. Please reply privately. Miriam S. Deitcher Shaker Heights, OH deitcher@nowonline.net Searching: NOTOWICH/NOTOWICZ/NOTOVICH - Bialystok SZMULEWICZ - Belchatow, Sulejow, Lodz, Piotrkow KATZENELSON - Belarus (possibly Sitnya) BRAUNER - Sulejow DAJCZER - Radomsko
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JewishGen Discussion Group #JewishGen March-April 1946 "Bialystoker Shtimmer"
#general
Miriam Deitcher <deitcher@...>
I've been directed by a very helpful JewGenner to a list of "Jews in
Bialystok After the War" in the March-April 1946 issue of the "Bialystoker Shtimmer". I've searched the internet and the JewGen discussion forum archives and can't find any info on that publication. I assume it's a magazine or newspaper of some sort. Anyone have any ideas how I might find this particular publication. A possible ancestor (Naftoli NOTOWICZ) is on the list and I'd like to see if there's more info included. I'm excited to see that someone >from my grandmother's family may have actually survived the Holocaust. This is my most difficult branch, and any help is greatly appreciated. Please reply privately. Miriam S. Deitcher Shaker Heights, OH deitcher@nowonline.net Searching: NOTOWICH/NOTOWICZ/NOTOVICH - Bialystok SZMULEWICZ - Belchatow, Sulejow, Lodz, Piotrkow KATZENELSON - Belarus (possibly Sitnya) BRAUNER - Sulejow DAJCZER - Radomsko
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