By chance tonight I stumbled upon a short reference to Beth Heim
Cemetery in Greenwich Village in Manhattan.

The entry was recorded by Anna Alice Chapin in 1917 in her book
"Greenwich Village".

The link to the free online book ( written in 1917 it is now in the
public domain) : http://tinyurl.com/BethHeim

Hope this is helpful to someone.

Stacye Mehard
Virginia

Does anyone know how to contact Valerie Schatzker? I am trying to
email her and my emails keep bouncing back. I have info re: families
that we are both researching.
Thank you!
Sandy Schachter
New Jersey

By chance tonight I stumbled upon a short reference to Beth Heim
Cemetery in Greenwich Village in Manhattan.

The entry was recorded by Anna Alice Chapin in 1917 in her book
"Greenwich Village".

The link to the free online book ( written in 1917 it is now in the
public domain) : http://tinyurl.com/BethHeim

Hope this is helpful to someone.

Stacye Mehard
Virginia

Does anyone know how to contact Valerie Schatzker? I am trying to
email her and my emails keep bouncing back. I have info re: families
that we are both researching.
Thank you!
Sandy Schachter
New Jersey

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am trying to locate the Michael Wald who was in Seattle in 2007 and who created
an extensive family tree online. At that time,his Email was
<michael@...>, but that is no longer his correct Email address.
Please reply privately.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Edward Luft
Washington, DC

Dear Genners,

Thanks to the kind efforts of David Price, I have completed a translation project
of 54 Biezun records that I ordered >from the Mlawa Archives. Although all
the records are for the KEDECKI/KADET/KADETZ/KADETSKY family >from Biezun,
Poland/Russia there are 26 other surnames in these records. I have organized all
the relevant information >from the records onto a public google spreadsheet
(using the format that the JRI Poland results come in) at this link:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AvUOam2iDRbQdGlRX0g4WVlYZEVZRS1p
WFhiYXZDTEE&hl=en&authkey=CJLnv-EF#gid=0
http://tinyurl.com/2749mye [MOD]

Please feel free to email me questions/comments, Let me know if you
have Biezun or Kadecki records that could be included in the spreadsheet.

Here is a list of other surnames on these records:
APELBAUM
BARAN
CHLIEBOWAK / CHLIEBOW
EBERT
FRAJDENBERG
GARBEN
GOKSIOR
GRODKO
KARMEL
KARNISZYN
KON
LASINSKI
MODLINK
NAGURG
NESSE
NUSYN
OSTASZOWER
ORLIK
RAKOW
RATKOWICZ
ROZENSZTEJN
SZNAJDER
WAJSMAN / WAKSMAN
ZACID
ZIJELENEWSKI

Hope this is helpful,
Gary Lelonek
Bronx, NY
http://kadetskyfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/

Dear Genners,

Thanks to the kind efforts of David Price, I have completed a translation project
of 54 Biezun records that I ordered >from the Mlawa Archives. Although all
the records are for the KEDECKI/KADET/KADETZ/KADETSKY family >from Biezun,
Poland/Russia there are 26 other surnames in these records. I have organized all
the relevant information >from the records onto a public google spreadsheet
(using the format that the JRI Poland results come in) at this link:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AvUOam2iDRbQdGlRX0g4WVlYZEVZRS1p
WFhiYXZDTEE&hl=en&authkey=CJLnv-EF#gid=0
http://tinyurl.com/2749mye [MOD]

Please feel free to email me questions/comments, Let me know if you
have Biezun or Kadecki records that could be included in the spreadsheet.

Here is a list of other surnames on these records:
APELBAUM
BARAN
CHLIEBOWAK / CHLIEBOW
EBERT
FRAJDENBERG
GARBEN
GOKSIOR
GRODKO
KARMEL
KARNISZYN
KON
LASINSKI
MODLINK
NAGURG
NESSE
NUSYN
OSTASZOWER
ORLIK
RAKOW
RATKOWICZ
ROZENSZTEJN
SZNAJDER
WAJSMAN / WAKSMAN
ZACID
ZIJELENEWSKI

Hope this is helpful,
Gary Lelonek
Bronx, NY
http://kadetskyfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am trying to locate the Michael Wald who was in Seattle in 2007 and who created
an extensive family tree online. At that time,his Email was
<michael@...>, but that is no longer his correct Email address.
Please reply privately.

Thank you.

Sincerely,
Edward Luft
Washington, DC

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado has made progress identifying
the names of mohels and/or shochets that performed circumcisions in the late
1800s in the Colorado area.

The records for Dr. John ELSNER and Rabbi FREUDENTHAL are available, and an
online surname index is being created.

Do you have family stories about other men who performed brit
milah/circumcisions anywhere in Colorado or Kansas Territories prior to 1876
or in the state of Colorado after 1876?

Better yet, do you have those records? We'd like to help add them to an
index.

Please contact me offline. Thanks.

Ellen Shindelman Kowitt
President, JGS Colorado

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Colorado has made progress identifying
the names of mohels and/or shochets that performed circumcisions in the late
1800s in the Colorado area.

The records for Dr. John ELSNER and Rabbi FREUDENTHAL are available, and an
online surname index is being created.

Do you have family stories about other men who performed brit
milah/circumcisions anywhere in Colorado or Kansas Territories prior to 1876
or in the state of Colorado after 1876?

Better yet, do you have those records? We'd like to help add them to an
index.

Please contact me offline. Thanks.

Ellen Shindelman Kowitt
President, JGS Colorado

I've gotten responses to my last inquiry which has led me to need a verification
of a birth certificate and a will. Is there someone heading to the archives that
can look up the following for me?

I have the birth certificate information for ISSIE GINCIG b February 15, 1901 to
William and Lena (nee MORRIS) GINCIG/GINZIG but need to know if there is a birth
certificate for Ira William (or William Ira) GINCIG born December 15, 1901 to the
same parents to verify they are not the same person.

Also I would like information of beneficiaries (and if mentions family members)
for Morris GINCIG/GINZIG (married to Julia REINHEIMER). He died March 29, 1950
in either the Manhattan area or maybe in Sheepshead Bay, New York. If not too
costly, a copy of the will would be great.

Thank you
Debby Painter

I've gotten responses to my last inquiry which has led me to need a verification
of a birth certificate and a will. Is there someone heading to the archives that
can look up the following for me?

I have the birth certificate information for ISSIE GINCIG b February 15, 1901 to
William and Lena (nee MORRIS) GINCIG/GINZIG but need to know if there is a birth
certificate for Ira William (or William Ira) GINCIG born December 15, 1901 to the
same parents to verify they are not the same person.

Also I would like information of beneficiaries (and if mentions family members)
for Morris GINCIG/GINZIG (married to Julia REINHEIMER). He died March 29, 1950
in either the Manhattan area or maybe in Sheepshead Bay, New York. If not too
costly, a copy of the will would be great.

Thank you
Debby Painter

Wednesday, December 15, 2010 is the next meeting of the Jerusalem
Genealogical Society. Our library is open >from 6 pm. Announcements begin
at 7:30 followed by our lectures. The topic for the Hebrew Speakers is:
"The passing down of tradition in the Karlin Stolin Hassidut" by Avraham
Shor. The topic for the English speakers section is: "The Jews of
Shanghai" - part 2 with the film "Shanghai Miracle".

We meet at Beit Frankforter, 80 Derech Beit Lechem, Jerusalem. Guest fee -
20 NIS. For more information: Garri Regev - 052-228-3480 or Barbara Siegel
02-561-8153.

Garri Regev
chair JGS

Wednesday, December 15, 2010 is the next meeting of the Jerusalem
Genealogical Society. Our library is open >from 6 pm. Announcements begin
at 7:30 followed by our lectures. The topic for the Hebrew Speakers is:
"The passing down of tradition in the Karlin Stolin Hassidut" by Avraham
Shor. The topic for the English speakers section is: "The Jews of
Shanghai" - part 2 with the film "Shanghai Miracle".

We meet at Beit Frankforter, 80 Derech Beit Lechem, Jerusalem. Guest fee -
20 NIS. For more information: Garri Regev - 052-228-3480 or Barbara Siegel
02-561-8153.

Garri Regev
chair JGS

The following site http://www.beta.familysearch.org has now put online the
Estate Records, 1951-1973, for the Orange Free State, South Africa.
Although this is only a small portion of the total estate records, it is a
real bonanza for South African and other Jewish researchers.

The estate records are a wonderful resource as they can provide all or only
some of the following information: the name of the person, where they were
born, when died and where, their spouse(s), when married and where, names of
descendants and their married names and birth dates. In addition, the
estate can give you the property left by the deceased and who it was left to
which can be very interesting.

To view the records click on Africa and then the name of the records. You
can search by family name or by country the deceased was born in. As the
majority of Jews in South Africa were of Lithuanian descent, this is very
handy as you can find all Lithuanian-born individuals by going to Advanced
Search and plug in Birth and Lithuania. You will find approximately five
pages full of listings. Unfortunately, not all of the estates will have the
name of the shtetl in Lithuania as the descendants may not have known the
name of the shtetl or did not perhaps know how to spell it.

Some of the shtetls >from the major countries represented in the estate
records are:

LATVIA - Canday, Lutzin, Pilten, and Riga.

LITHUANIA - Abel, Bizui, Jasvan, Kurshan, Kwadan, Pikelly, Pokroi, Poneves,
Popelyany, Rittawen, Rokiskis, Salant, Saukena, Shadova, Shat, Shavli,
Telsia (Telz, Telsh, etc.), Trissik, Yurburg, Zabilen, and Zagara.

POLAND - Bialystok, Latria, Warsaw, and Wegrow.

RUSSIA - Curland, Gruzd, Sadowe, and Sukyajan (some of these are actually
Lithuania and Latvia).

It is well worth checking this site out as you may not realize that you have
branches of your family who went to Orange Free State in South Africa.

Ann Rabinowitz
annrab@...

The following site http://www.beta.familysearch.org has now put online the
Estate Records, 1951-1973, for the Orange Free State, South Africa.
Although this is only a small portion of the total estate records, it is a
real bonanza for South African and other Jewish researchers.

The estate records are a wonderful resource as they can provide all or only
some of the following information: the name of the person, where they were
born, when died and where, their spouse(s), when married and where, names of
descendants and their married names and birth dates. In addition, the
estate can give you the property left by the deceased and who it was left to
which can be very interesting.

To view the records click on Africa and then the name of the records. You
can search by family name or by country the deceased was born in. As the
majority of Jews in South Africa were of Lithuanian descent, this is very
handy as you can find all Lithuanian-born individuals by going to Advanced
Search and plug in Birth and Lithuania. You will find approximately five
pages full of listings. Unfortunately, not all of the estates will have the
name of the shtetl in Lithuania as the descendants may not have known the
name of the shtetl or did not perhaps know how to spell it.

Some of the shtetls >from the major countries represented in the estate
records are:

LATVIA - Canday, Lutzin, Pilten, and Riga.

LITHUANIA - Abel, Bizui, Jasvan, Kurshan, Kwadan, Pikelly, Pokroi, Poneves,
Popelyany, Rittawen, Rokiskis, Salant, Saukena, Shadova, Shat, Shavli,
Telsia (Telz, Telsh, etc.), Trissik, Yurburg, Zabilen, and Zagara.

POLAND - Bialystok, Latria, Warsaw, and Wegrow.

RUSSIA - Curland, Gruzd, Sadowe, and Sukyajan (some of these are actually
Lithuania and Latvia).

It is well worth checking this site out as you may not realize that you have
branches of your family who went to Orange Free State in South Africa.

Ann Rabinowitz
annrab@...

The following site https://beta.familysearch.org/ has now put online the
Estate Records, 1951-1973, for the Orange Free State, South Africa.
Although this is only a small portion of the total estate records, it is a
real bonanza for South African and other Jewish researchers.

The estate records are a wonderful resource as they can provide all or only
some of the following information: the name of the person, where they were
born, when died and where, their spouse(s), when married and where, names of
descendants and their married names and birth dates. In addition, the
estate can give you the property left by the deceased and who it was left to
which can be very interesting.

To view the records click on Africa and then the name of the records. You
can search by family name or by country the deceased was born in. As the
majority of Jews in South Africa were of Lithuanian descent, this is very
handy as you can find all Lithuanian-born individuals by going to Advanced
Search and plug in Birth and Lithuania. You will find approximately five
pages full of listings. Unfortunately, not all of the estates will have the
name of the shtetl in Lithuania as the descendants may not have known the
name of the shtetl or did not perhaps know how to spell it.

Some of the shtetls >from the major countries represented in the estate
records are:

Latvia - Canday, Lutzin, Pilten, and Riga.

Lithuania - Abel, Bizui, Jasvan, Kurshan, Kwadan, Pikelly, Pokroi, Poneves,
Popelyany, Rittawen, Rokiskis, Salant, Saukena, Shadova, Shat, Shavli,
Telsia (Telz, Telsh, etc.), Trissik, Yurburg, Zabilen, and Zagara.

Poland - Bialystok, Latria, Warsaw, and Wegrow.

Russia - Curland, Gruzd, Sadowe, and Sukyajan (some of these are actually
Lithuania and Latvia).

It is well worth checking this site out as you may not realize that you have
branches of your family who went to Orange Free State in South Africa.

Ann Rabinowitz
annrab@...

The following site https://beta.familysearch.org/ has now put online the
Estate Records, 1951-1973, for the Orange Free State, South Africa.
Although this is only a small portion of the total estate records, it is a
real bonanza for South African and other Jewish researchers.

The estate records are a wonderful resource as they can provide all or only
some of the following information: the name of the person, where they were
born, when died and where, their spouse(s), when married and where, names of
descendants and their married names and birth dates. In addition, the
estate can give you the property left by the deceased and who it was left to
which can be very interesting.

To view the records click on Africa and then the name of the records. You
can search by family name or by country the deceased was born in. As the
majority of Jews in South Africa were of Lithuanian descent, this is very
handy as you can find all Lithuanian-born individuals by going to Advanced
Search and plug in Birth and Lithuania. You will find approximately five
pages full of listings. Unfortunately, not all of the estates will have the
name of the shtetl in Lithuania as the descendants may not have known the
name of the shtetl or did not perhaps know how to spell it.

Some of the shtetls >from the major countries represented in the estate
records are:

Latvia - Canday, Lutzin, Pilten, and Riga.

Lithuania - Abel, Bizui, Jasvan, Kurshan, Kwadan, Pikelly, Pokroi, Poneves,
Popelyany, Rittawen, Rokiskis, Salant, Saukena, Shadova, Shat, Shavli,
Telsia (Telz, Telsh, etc.), Trissik, Yurburg, Zabilen, and Zagara.

Poland - Bialystok, Latria, Warsaw, and Wegrow.

Russia - Curland, Gruzd, Sadowe, and Sukyajan (some of these are actually
Lithuania and Latvia).

It is well worth checking this site out as you may not realize that you have
branches of your family who went to Orange Free State in South Africa.

Ann Rabinowitz
annrab@...

Stacye Mehard posted a wonderful entry in an old guide to Greenwich Village
regarding a Jewish cemetery there. This cemetery is the 2nd of 3 cemeteries
of Congregation Shearith Israel (better known as "The Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue") in Manhattan.

A more modern reference is:
http://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/second-shearith-israel-cemetery/
(http://tinyurl.com/2w9mox2). See also:
http://www.sephardicstudies.org/csi11.html.

For genealogical research of families known to have belonged to this
earliest of congregations in the US, I would suggest contacting the
synagogue directly: http://www.shearith-israel.org/.

Ittai Hershman

Stacye Mehard posted a wonderful entry in an old guide to Greenwich Village
regarding a Jewish cemetery there. This cemetery is the 2nd of 3 cemeteries
of Congregation Shearith Israel (better known as "The Spanish and Portuguese
Synagogue") in Manhattan.

A more modern reference is:
http://nycemetery.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/second-shearith-israel-cemetery/
(http://tinyurl.com/2w9mox2). See also:
http://www.sephardicstudies.org/csi11.html.

For genealogical research of families known to have belonged to this
earliest of congregations in the US, I would suggest contacting the
synagogue directly: http://www.shearith-israel.org/.

Ittai Hershman