Subject: Bergman family in Toronto
Trying to make contact with the family of Selig Bergman (died in
Toronto in 1988) and his wife Miriam (died in 2018). His father was
Lazar Bergamn who married Leb, daughter of Esther (nee Eichenstein of
that Chassidic Dynasty) and Issachar Shual Teichman. Their children
are Allen Bergman, married Beverley and Helen, married David
Spiegelman of Toronto.
Neil Rosenstein

Hello all

Hello

My grandfather--who died before I was born--was a boy in Kamienczyk, Poland, during WWI.  A story passed down involves how he nearly died when a foxhole that he was in during WWI fighting caved in.

I'm not looking for a lot, but I'm trying to find other references/accounts of anything specific that occurred there during WWI.  I've Googled.  Another other leads/insight?

David Perle
Washington, DC

Researching PRZEGRODA, BLUM, PERLE, ARONOWSKY, SMOLEY/SMOLA, GOTTLIEB (Newark NJ from Austria-Hungary),
KROLL, COLLIER/KALIR, SKORA...

Diane,

You indicate Sam is your brick wall and you want to find his death record and burial. I presume this is to go back in time. I too could not find Sam after the 1930 census. 

It would seem that this is Sam's 9 Jun 1924 marriage to Ceil Hahn: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2473-94J 
It indicates his parents were Pesach Katz and Freida Greenberg.
Why do I think this might be his record and his parents?
The 1922 declaration of intent you supplied indicates he arrived via the Finland and that he was born in Bucharest. It does mention a "blank" day in August 1906 for his arrival. The attached is the 1 Aug 1906 ship manifest, and on line 18 there is a Samuel Katz.
Also, paging forward  in the Ancestry version of the declaration of intent book does show the attached 1925 court notice, giving his address as 366 South 1st Street, not the 66 Rivington  address. This matches the 1 Jun 1925 census for a Sam and Ceil Katz, off by one house number, at 364 South 1st Street, per attached, bottom left, rows 47-50, showing Sam from Romania, Ceil, and twins. Strangely, there is only a 7 May 1925 Manhattan birth record for Lila, but not Leonard, as per attached. Confusingly, perhaps the Lila listed in the attached, is NOT the Lila born to Brooklyn parents Sam and Ceil, but rather the Manhattan parents of Nathan and Ida Katz (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X42H-N4Q). 

Based on the detail of Sam's parents, this is the 1915 census record, which in Ancestry can be found here:
https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/6716896:2703?indiv=try&viewrecord=1&r=an

The 1914 marriage of Sam's brother Abraham (listed with him on the ship manifest) shows his parents as the same Pesach and Freida. See https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2431-1FZ
This Pesach passed in 1919. See either
FamilySearch: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2WDB-JYV
Ancestry: https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=61778&h=349653&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=2703

Pesach's parent were Shabsi (Shopse) and Anna. You can locate the exact plot here: http://www.mountzioncemetery.com/search.asp
Good luck and stay safe, 

Moishe Miller
Brooklyn, NY
moishe.miller@...
JGFF #3391

Hi,

Bob Silverstein asked:
How can I use the naturalization record card to find the naturalization
petition and related documents?

Depending on the county, he may be able to leverage the scanned
petitions on FamilySearch. An example of how to do this can be found for
some of the NYC courts, here:
http://www.jgsob.org/KingsNY-naturalizations.html

Bob's signature indicates he is from Illinois. The FamilySearch catalog
at
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog
would be the place to start. As an example, there are 18 recordsets for
United States, Illinois - Naturalization and citizenship

Stay safe,
Moishe Miller
Brooklyn, NY
moishe.miller@...
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Moishe Miller
Brooklyn, NY
moishe.miller@...
JGFF #3391

Hi,

I remember that there was some agreement between JewishGen.org and Ancestry.com to coordinate databases, I believe with some delay to give priority to JewishGen donors, but I wonder whether this is still in force. There seem to be quite a few JewishGen records that are no longer "linkable" via Ancestry.

Happy New Year, and thank you to the community for sharing your knowledge and passion through these pages!

David Izraelevitz
ISRAELEVICZ (Tauragnai/Utena), LEWO, PRUSKI (Varena, Alytus), MIKHLES (Vilijampole), SHVARTZ, KHAIKEL (Kaunas, Kedainiai), MEDINZ (Seta/Kedainiai)

I am trying to find the names of my great great grandmother's parents or siblings.  Betty Levi was born in 1837 in Hessen Kassel, but I don't know what township. She emigrated, possibly alone, to America in 1853 at the age of 16, and lived in both Baltimore and Cumberland, Maryland. She married Harmon White from Austria in 1866 and they raised their family in Cumberland, Maryland until separating in the late 1800s.  Betty died in Baltimore in 1913.  I would appreciate any suggestions for this search.
Joan Norris

I suggest you contact The Together Plan, a Jewish charity based in London and Belarus, which aims to help remaining Jews become self sufficient.  One project is genealogical research.  They have the huge advantage of speaking many languages plus a lifelong experience of the local bureaucracies  !! 

www.thetogetherplan.org.uk

Margaret Levin
London UK

Mike Coleman,

Thanks for your suggestion.  Unfortunately the name of the sibling who is believed to have gone to England is unidentified.  When the mother, Lena, emigrated to the U.S. in 1908, the papers she completed upon arriving in New York indicated that one of her daughters remained in Lithuania.  Unfortunately this information was written illegibly so the name remains unknown.  There are, to my knowledge, no other existent documents covering that daughter.  
Details have now been located for the daughter who went to the U.S.

David Wolk

You should be able to us Gimp , a free open source image editor.  
https://www.gimp.org/
The most useful tools for tombstone photos are brightness adjustment and contrast enhancement.

David Rosen
Boston, MA

Diane,

If you do a keyword search of the FamilySearch catalog (ex: "new york southern declaration"), you will see that they only have two collections of Declarations from the US SDNY court: 1845-1911 and 1924-1925, so your grandfather's declaration in 1922 is not available at FamilySearch.

You can pay to receive a copy from NARA NY once they resume services, post-Covid:  https://eservices.archives.gov/orderonline/start.swe

PS: I used the information that you provided and did a search to see if I could locate his final naturalization papers (petition) and could not find anything, so it is likely that he did not complete the naturalization process.

Regards,
David Oseas

Researching:
HYMAN/HEYMAN/HEIMOWITS/CHAJMOVITS: Zemplen-Dobra, Hungary > New York;  KLEIN: Satoraljaujhely (Ujhely), Hungary > New York > Los Angeles
KRONOWITH: Hungary > New York;  OSEAS/OSIAS/OSIASI/OZIAS: Iasi, Romania > Chicago > Milwaukee > Los Angeles
SCHECHTER/SHEKTER: Kishinev, Bessarabia > New York;  SHERMAN: Iasi, Romania > New York > Los Angeles
STRUL:  Iasi, Romania > Haifa, Israel;  WICHMAN: Syczkowo (Bobruisk), Belarus > Milwaukee > Los Angeles

These people are buried in Wellwood Cemetery - Long Island, NY

First Name	Last Name	Date of Death	Section	Block	Row	Grave	Div	Society
ABRAHAM J.	GRAZERSTEIN	8/6/1973	3	52	2	10R	SOU	Twersky Rabbi Foundation
GITEL	GRAZERSTEIN	2/20/1990	3	52	3	5-R	SOU	Twersky Rabbi Foundation

Dassy Wilen
dasw5@...

Seeking death records for my paternal grandparents.  My grandfather, Fajwel Konigsberg was born in 1873 in Kresge, Poland.  He died very young in Tarnogrod, Poland.  My grandmother, Majta Konigsberg (nee Bergerman was born in 1870, probably Bilgoraj, Poland.  She, too, died very young.  They probably died between 1904 and 1918 and I'm guessing closer to 1910.

Also seeking my mother's birth record.  Her name was Feige Malke Konigsberg Glicklich.  She was born in Tarnogrod between 1899 and 1903 and emigrated to New York in 1920.  
I've found records for some of my mother's siblings on JRI-Poland but haven't found her birth record.

What office in Poland would I contact via email that might have the above records?  

Also, which Jewish Gen group do the towns Tarnogrod and Bilgoraj belong to?  Thanks so much.

On my Grandfather's Declaration of Intention to become a US Citizen, he lists the birthplace of his wife as "Niveravitzk, Russia" (in 1891).   I cannot make heads or tales of this place. Nothing from Google, nothing in JewishGen databases.  Nothing even suggestive.  I suspect (but do not know for sure) that was in Vohlyinia as my Grandfather was born in Poritzk Poland/Russia (modern name Pavlivka). But I don't even know whether they knew one another in 'the old country' so that's uncertain.

Thanks in advance

Steve Granek