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"My great-grandfather's surname was Hoffert. However, looking at records for his newly discovered siblings show various spellings of the surname, Hoffort and Hoffart. Given they all lived in NYC, I am curious if anyone has ever heard WHY this happened."

My second rule of genealogy is that spelling doesn't count. People, up into the 20th century spelled what they heard, and immigrants couldn't spell English, even if they thought one spelling was right. My grandmother's birth record in NYC had her mother's maiden name Livingston - but it was Löwenstein; say it with a German accent and listen with an English ear, you get Livingston. You have to consider all the variants of your surname when you search, so use 'Sounds Like' or wild cards whenever you can. Soundex was made because of this as well.

Sally Bruckheimer
Princeton, NJ

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Sylvia KESBI-HERSZBAJN

A close friend is a Holocaust survivor who left Germany for the US after Kristalnacht. She was able to recover her German citizenship. Not only that, even her grandchildren gained German citizenship.  This enabled her granddaughter to live and work in Ireland for a year.

I understand that Lithuania has a similar program. However I do not know how I would prove that my grandfather was born there since he changed his name from Kemakh to Cohen in the US and there is no documentation of the change. Although he is Kemakh on the ship's manifest, I don't see how I can prove that he and the person on the manifest are the same person.
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Peter Cohen
California

Jewish Genealogical Society NY Meeting
Sunday March 21, 2021 at 2 p.m. EDT
Zoom Webinar

Fragments that Remain: The Search for My Mother's Lost Family

Speaker: Jennie Milne

In this presentation, Jennie Milne will describe her extraordinary journey to understand her mother’s mysterious background, as well as her Jewish and Polish ancestry. Raised in a wartime babies' home in Devon, England, Jennie's mother, Elizabeth Lis, found and briefly met with her parents, individually, in the mid-1960s, but subsequently lost contact and was unable to find them later in life.

In March 2014 Jennie began searching in earnest for her grandparents.  With the assistance of expert genealogists at JewishGen, JRI-Poland and Tracing the Tribe, as well as through DNA analysis, Jennie was able to break the silence of years. In this talk Jennie will take us through the extensive research that led to her understanding, as well as to her discovery of previously unknown cousins.

Jennie Workman Milne was born in Greenwich, London, and currently lives in North East Scotland. A freelance professional photographer, Jennie holds a Master's degree in Communication Design (Photography) from Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen. She presented her family story at the 2018 IAJGS conference in Warsaw. In February of 2020 Robert Gordon University mounted an exhibition of Jennie's research project documenting Jewish survivors of terrorism in Israel, along with her photographs documenting the search for her family.    

All are welcome; attendance is free, but registration is required:

Click here to register at our website

Submitted by:
Phyllis Rosner jgsny.org
JGSNY VP Communications
New York, NY

Dear given name mavens:

My ggg grandfather's given name is known to my family as Natan Noteh.  I don't know his wife's or his father's given name.  I am trying to connect him to a different family with almost identical surname from a different metrical record from a different district in present-day Lithuania (it is known that his daughter - my ancestor - moved from one to the other).  Those other records list the would-be identical person as Notke Eliash (and his father's name was given as Moszek).

I know that "Notke" is a diminutive - but was it used for Natan or for Noteh or for both?   How likely is it that "Notke" was used merely as short for "Natan Noteh" and that this could have been followed by another given middle name (Eliash) prior to the family name?   I'd really like to solidify the connection between as the 'other' family's tree extends a bit wider and further back than mine.  This came about because I and a living descendant from this other family have a significant DNA match, actually higher than expected, but it is hard to be precise 5 generations back (and for other reasons; DNA matches among Ashkenazi 3rd cousins or higher are often bloated because of hidden ancestry due to many generations of cousin-cousin and repeated inter-family marriages).

Thanks for any specific insight into the Natan Noteh name usage.

Wayne Frankel
Katonah, NY

I am doing genealogical research for a friend whose grandfather, Philip Newfield, was born in Stolbtsy (Stoibtz), now in Belarus, in 1879. Philip emigrated first to Scotland and later to the United States, where he died in 1937. Philip's father was Shraga Feivel (Feivish) Niefeld, born probably in or near Stolbtsy around 1850. My friend is clear about the children of Shraga Feivel Niefeld but knows nothing about Shraga Feivel's parents or siblings (or nieces/nephews). We would appreciate any help on these questions.

 

One thing that may help: my friend is confident that a man named Max Newfield (1901-1976), who was a high school teacher and later principal in Brooklyn, was a cousin of hers, though she is not clear about how closely they were related. Max Newfield was born in England, apparently to parents who had emigrated from Stolbtsy. His father was a Joseph Newfield/Niefeld, who seems at times to have used the name Julius after he came from England to America. Joseph Newfield may have been a first cousin to Philip Newfield, though I have been unable to determine the names of his parents. We would also like to clarify the relationship of Max Newfield to my friend's Newfield family.

 

Thanks!

 

Arend Flick

Pasadena CA

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Naomi Leon
Brighton, UK

LEWKOWICZ, RYWAN, SZNIATOWSKI, BLANKIET, LASKY, BERGER, WRON, FAJBISIEWICZ (Rawa Mazowiecka, Aleksandrow Lodzki, Lodz)

While your parents' first cousins are also your first cousins, once removed, in some cultures, it is a sign of respect to call all older people auntie or uncle.  This is true in Indian culture, for example. 
--
Barbara Sloan
Conway, SC

JGS-Montreal presents Gary Perlman, March 22 at 7:30 PM Eastern time

Streamlining Your Research with Our Genealogy Dashboard

YouTube link: https://youtu.be/Z8lYnJcNcRY

donation optional: https://jgs-montreal.org/dev/support.html#donations

 

Gary Perlman, JGS-Montreal Webmaster and IAJGS 2020 Volunteer of the Year, has created a genealogy dashboard that launches your research of dozens of sites with a single click. Learn how it can help you in your research and maybe inspire other societies to create their own versions.

-Victoria Barkoff for JGS Montreal