Naomi, try to google the Rothschild hospital in Paris,
they have an archives and history service,
maybe you will find something.

Anne-Marie Faraggi
Switzerland
Searching: FARAGGI, MALLAH

Naomi, try to google the Rothschild hospital in Paris,
they have an archives and history service,
maybe you will find something.

Anne-Marie Faraggi
Switzerland
Searching: FARAGGI, MALLAH

Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento

Topic: Beginning German Genealogy

Where: Albert Einstein Residence Center, 1935 Wright St., Sacramento, CA

When: Monday, July 19, 2010, 7 p.m.

At the July meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento,
Shirley Reimer will focus on the first steps needed for an understanding
of the cultural, historical and genealogical facts for German ancestral
research.
This includes a look at the Second German Empire as related to German
research as well as an overview of German civil and church records.

Shirley Reimer taught high school English for ten years, then worked in
communications for 22 years. After she retired, she published The German
Research Companion in 1997 and co-authored a second book in 2001. For
the last 18 years, she has published Der Blumenbaum, the quarterly journal
of the Sacramento German Genealogy Society. For the last nine years she has
also published the quarterly newsletter, Mitteilungen, for the Sacramento
TurnVerein German-American Cultural Center Library.
This August, Shirley will make her 41st visit to Germany.

All are welcome to attend the July 19, 7 p.m. meeting at the Albert
Einstein Residence Center, 1935 Wright St., Sacramento.

For more information about the Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento,

visit www.jgss.org, e-mail the JGSS at jgs_sacramento@... or leave
a message at 916-486-0906 ext. 361.

Bob Wascou

Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento

Topic: Beginning German Genealogy

Where: Albert Einstein Residence Center, 1935 Wright St., Sacramento, CA

When: Monday, July 19, 2010, 7 p.m.

At the July meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento,
Shirley Reimer will focus on the first steps needed for an understanding
of the cultural, historical and genealogical facts for German ancestral
research.
This includes a look at the Second German Empire as related to German
research as well as an overview of German civil and church records.

Shirley Reimer taught high school English for ten years, then worked in
communications for 22 years. After she retired, she published The German
Research Companion in 1997 and co-authored a second book in 2001. For
the last 18 years, she has published Der Blumenbaum, the quarterly journal
of the Sacramento German Genealogy Society. For the last nine years she has
also published the quarterly newsletter, Mitteilungen, for the Sacramento
TurnVerein German-American Cultural Center Library.
This August, Shirley will make her 41st visit to Germany.

All are welcome to attend the July 19, 7 p.m. meeting at the Albert
Einstein Residence Center, 1935 Wright St., Sacramento.

For more information about the Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento,

visit www.jgss.org, e-mail the JGSS at jgs_sacramento@... or leave
a message at 916-486-0906 ext. 361.

Bob Wascou

Hi, everyone

Just a reminder that Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog will
be blogging >from JGSLA 2010.

If you cannot be there - and we'll be sorry to miss you - this will be a
great way to get a glimpse of the excitement! If you will be there,
there will be coverage of events and sessions you couldn't personally attend.

All posts on Tracing the Tribe automatically post to Facebook and Twitter.
Twitter hashtags will be #iajgs, #jewishgenealogy, #jewish, and #genealogy.
Retweeting by readers is encouraged, of course!

Also blogging >from the conference will be Thomas MacEntee of
Geneabloggers.com - he'll also be presenting some interesting sessions.

I'm in Los Angeles now and will be at the hotel by noon on Friday.
Do come over and say hello. I will have my Tracing the Tribe hat.

Tracing the Tribe is at http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com.

See you in Los Angeles!

Schelly Talalay Dardashti
Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog
http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com

Hi, everyone

Just a reminder that Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog will
be blogging >from JGSLA 2010.

If you cannot be there - and we'll be sorry to miss you - this will be a
great way to get a glimpse of the excitement! If you will be there,
there will be coverage of events and sessions you couldn't personally attend.

All posts on Tracing the Tribe automatically post to Facebook and Twitter.
Twitter hashtags will be #iajgs, #jewishgenealogy, #jewish, and #genealogy.
Retweeting by readers is encouraged, of course!

Also blogging >from the conference will be Thomas MacEntee of
Geneabloggers.com - he'll also be presenting some interesting sessions.

I'm in Los Angeles now and will be at the hotel by noon on Friday.
Do come over and say hello. I will have my Tracing the Tribe hat.

Tracing the Tribe is at http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com.

See you in Los Angeles!

Schelly Talalay Dardashti
Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog
http://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com

A Yahoo group for Podhajce researchers has been established. This will let
members carry on discussions, post photos and share files and links.

Anyone can join, but the messages will be moderated to prevent spam. The
link to join the group is:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/podhajce (Joining is free.) Once you use
the link, click on "Join this Group". In order to be a member of a Yahoo
group, you first have to have a Yahoo account. If you don't have one, the
"Join this Group" process will alert you to the fact and will ask you to
create one. You'll need to choose a log-in-name and a password. Then you
continue the "Join" process. If you follow the instructions succesfully,
you will receive a welcome message at the email adress you specify.

Anyone with an interest in Podhajce, Ukraine is encouraged to join.

Jean Rosenbaum
Houston, TX
Podhajce Coordinator

A Yahoo group for Podhajce researchers has been established. This will let
members carry on discussions, post photos and share files and links.

Anyone can join, but the messages will be moderated to prevent spam. The
link to join the group is:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/podhajce (Joining is free.) Once you use
the link, click on "Join this Group". In order to be a member of a Yahoo
group, you first have to have a Yahoo account. If you don't have one, the
"Join this Group" process will alert you to the fact and will ask you to
create one. You'll need to choose a log-in-name and a password. Then you
continue the "Join" process. If you follow the instructions succesfully,
you will receive a welcome message at the email adress you specify.

Anyone with an interest in Podhajce, Ukraine is encouraged to join.

Jean Rosenbaum
Houston, TX
Podhajce Coordinator

I found a hand-drawn map of Lomza (circa 1927) in a Lomza Yizkor book
published in 1957 and posted on the yizkor book collection of the NY
Public Library. While I can make out some of the sites named on the
map, e.g. talmud torah, hakhnoset orkhim, groyser bays hamikdosh, and
possibly yeshiva, I can't make out the other site names. I hope someone
with keener eyesight, greater imagination, and/or greater familiarity
with the names of these sites can decipher the handwriting. I am
familiar with the street names so I am not concerned about those.

I have enlarged the area I am particularly interested in. It is shown in:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=15907

I had hoped to be able to show the original also but it has not yet been
posted by ViewMate..

Thanks.

Arnold Davidson
Boynton Beach, FL

I found a hand-drawn map of Lomza (circa 1927) in a Lomza Yizkor book
published in 1957 and posted on the yizkor book collection of the NY
Public Library. While I can make out some of the sites named on the
map, e.g. talmud torah, hakhnoset orkhim, groyser bays hamikdosh, and
possibly yeshiva, I can't make out the other site names. I hope someone
with keener eyesight, greater imagination, and/or greater familiarity
with the names of these sites can decipher the handwriting. I am
familiar with the street names so I am not concerned about those.

I have enlarged the area I am particularly interested in. It is shown in:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=15907

I had hoped to be able to show the original also but it has not yet been
posted by ViewMate..

Thanks.

Arnold Davidson
Boynton Beach, FL

Help with Hebrew translation - ketubah

I'd be grateful if someone could translate the name of the town in
Poland where the marriage of my great-grandparents took place in 1887.

The ketubah is shown on ViewMate at

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=15883

Please reply direct to me at richardstone201@...

Many thanks, Richard Stone London

Help with Hebrew translation - ketubah

I'd be grateful if someone could translate the name of the town in
Poland where the marriage of my great-grandparents took place in 1887.

The ketubah is shown on ViewMate at

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=15883

Please reply direct to me at richardstone201@...

Many thanks, Richard Stone London

Chuck Weinstein wrote

Is anyone familiar with either of these places?

snip...

Chuck,

Dagutka is listed in Poland Business as a homestead within the town and
parish administration of Bieniakonie, in district Lida in Nowogrodek
Province, Poland

http://data.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/1929/loadtop.htm?1021

It shows that Dagutka had 114 morga (1 morga ~0.5 ha) land and was own by
Antonina Rymsza. Rymsza family also own in the same parish large lands in
Podwaryszki.

Existence of Dagutka is also confirmed by 1866 census, which identifies
homestead as the private property, 45 km >from Lida which is approximately
distance >from Lida to Bieniakonie.

There is no mentioning of Jews in Dagutka, but in the adjacent property of
Podwaryszki (see above) belonging to the same Polish Gentry family Rymsza,
five Jewish souls are listed in addition to other 38 homestead's residents.

"Klevitza" - most probably homestead Klewica owned by Umiastowski family in
Oszmiany ditstrict, about 18 km distance >from Oszmiany and 12 km distance

from Dziewieniszki, seven Jewish folks and 27 Roman Catholics are listed

there in 1866 as total population.

Those small settlements are known in Polish as "zascianek" (hamlets) or
"folwark" (>from German "vorwerk), a grange or a farmhouse but often it was a
proper mansion.

I came across English equivalents of those properties called them as
"retreats", which can be confused with vacation/holidays places but this is
not correct.

I prefer to use term "homesteads" or estates. Those properties owned and
inherited by Polish Gentry were often business units, and this is the reason
that our Jewish ancestors can be located there as they were employed as
'ekonoms' (property or business managers).

Best Regards,

Alexander Sharon
JGFF Editor

Chuck Weinstein wrote

Is anyone familiar with either of these places?

snip...

Chuck,

Dagutka is listed in Poland Business as a homestead within the town and
parish administration of Bieniakonie, in district Lida in Nowogrodek
Province, Poland

http://data.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/1929/loadtop.htm?1021

It shows that Dagutka had 114 morga (1 morga ~0.5 ha) land and was own by
Antonina Rymsza. Rymsza family also own in the same parish large lands in
Podwaryszki.

Existence of Dagutka is also confirmed by 1866 census, which identifies
homestead as the private property, 45 km >from Lida which is approximately
distance >from Lida to Bieniakonie.

There is no mentioning of Jews in Dagutka, but in the adjacent property of
Podwaryszki (see above) belonging to the same Polish Gentry family Rymsza,
five Jewish souls are listed in addition to other 38 homestead's residents.

"Klevitza" - most probably homestead Klewica owned by Umiastowski family in
Oszmiany ditstrict, about 18 km distance >from Oszmiany and 12 km distance

from Dziewieniszki, seven Jewish folks and 27 Roman Catholics are listed

there in 1866 as total population.

Those small settlements are known in Polish as "zascianek" (hamlets) or
"folwark" (>from German "vorwerk), a grange or a farmhouse but often it was a
proper mansion.

I came across English equivalents of those properties called them as
"retreats", which can be confused with vacation/holidays places but this is
not correct.

I prefer to use term "homesteads" or estates. Those properties owned and
inherited by Polish Gentry were often business units, and this is the reason
that our Jewish ancestors can be located there as they were employed as
'ekonoms' (property or business managers).

Best Regards,

Alexander Sharon
JGFF Editor

My grandparents arrived in America in 1907 and lived in Philadelphia
with their respective families. I believe this is where they met and
married, although I am not positive about that because by 1910 they
were living in Manhattan so it is possible that the marriage took
place in NYC. I am looking for someone who would be willing to search
the Philadelphia archives for a marriage record or license.
Their names were Sam SOLOMOWITZ and Lizzie APFELBAUM and they were
married in 1908 or 1909. I would be glad to compensate you for your
time and the cost of the document. Thanks in advance.
Jeri Solomon, Oregon, USA

My grandparents arrived in America in 1907 and lived in Philadelphia
with their respective families. I believe this is where they met and
married, although I am not positive about that because by 1910 they
were living in Manhattan so it is possible that the marriage took
place in NYC. I am looking for someone who would be willing to search
the Philadelphia archives for a marriage record or license.
Their names were Sam SOLOMOWITZ and Lizzie APFELBAUM and they were
married in 1908 or 1909. I would be glad to compensate you for your
time and the cost of the document. Thanks in advance.
Jeri Solomon, Oregon, USA

Emails >from caring genners have sent information that Shlomo LIFSHITZ is the
son of Yerahmiel and Miriam LIFSHITZ. Yerahmiel passed away in 2009. Prior
to living in Tel Aviv, the family lived in Netanya.

Miriam lives in Tel Aviv in what I believe is a senior housing area. I
cannot get an answer on her telephone. Therefore, if I can make a contact
with Shlomo it would be most helpful.

I believe Yerahmiel was the youngest son of Samson/Shimshon and Alta Neome
AIN LIEBERMAN nee LIFSCHITZ >from Swislowitz/Sislevitz/Swislotz, Russia.
Yerahmiel gave testimony to Yad Vashem about two sisters who I believe are
the ones I have pictures of >from my dad but never knew their given names.

Please reply privately. Sadly, I do not speak Hebrew or Yiddish.

Many thanks again to everyone who is trying to help me establish
relationship between my dad, Samuel Isiah LEAF nee LIEBERMAN and Yerahmiel
LIFSHITZ, obm.

Rachelle LEAF Berliner
Marietta, GA U.S.A.
rlberliner@...
Searching: LIFSCHITZ, Ukraine; LIEBERMAN, Swislowitz/Sislevitz/Swislotz,
Russia; LEAF nee LIEBERMAN, Savannah, GA, Atlanta, GA, NYC.

Emails >from caring genners have sent information that Shlomo LIFSHITZ is the
son of Yerahmiel and Miriam LIFSHITZ. Yerahmiel passed away in 2009. Prior
to living in Tel Aviv, the family lived in Netanya.

Miriam lives in Tel Aviv in what I believe is a senior housing area. I
cannot get an answer on her telephone. Therefore, if I can make a contact
with Shlomo it would be most helpful.

I believe Yerahmiel was the youngest son of Samson/Shimshon and Alta Neome
AIN LIEBERMAN nee LIFSCHITZ >from Swislowitz/Sislevitz/Swislotz, Russia.
Yerahmiel gave testimony to Yad Vashem about two sisters who I believe are
the ones I have pictures of >from my dad but never knew their given names.

Please reply privately. Sadly, I do not speak Hebrew or Yiddish.

Many thanks again to everyone who is trying to help me establish
relationship between my dad, Samuel Isiah LEAF nee LIEBERMAN and Yerahmiel
LIFSHITZ, obm.

Rachelle LEAF Berliner
Marietta, GA U.S.A.
rlberliner@...
Searching: LIFSCHITZ, Ukraine; LIEBERMAN, Swislowitz/Sislevitz/Swislotz,
Russia; LEAF nee LIEBERMAN, Savannah, GA, Atlanta, GA, NYC.

In the experience of my half-Hungarian daughter, Sarika is
diminutive for Sara(h).But, if there's one thing that's clear >from
these discussions, it's that there are no tidy one-to-one correlations
between names, and many people - especially those who'd left so much
of their old lives behind in Europe - just assumed any name that
appealed to them.
Peter Lebensold, Toronto

Could Sarika and Charlotte be the same person? She was >from Hungary.

In the experience of my half-Hungarian daughter, Sarika is
diminutive for Sara(h).But, if there's one thing that's clear >from
these discussions, it's that there are no tidy one-to-one correlations
between names, and many people - especially those who'd left so much
of their old lives behind in Europe - just assumed any name that
appealed to them.
Peter Lebensold, Toronto

Could Sarika and Charlotte be the same person? She was >from Hungary.