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Re: Good New Tool: Thru Lines on Ancestry #general #announcements #dna #education

Vivian Kahn
 

I have a similarly frustrating problem with this new "tool". Thru Lines identifies my aunt's granddaughter as my aunt! The granddaughter has the correct relationship in her tree so the blame for this error obviously lies with Ancestry!
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Vivian Kahn, Santa Rosa, California
Researching families including:
BERKOVICS/BERKOWITZ/ROTH/GROSZ. Avas Ujvaros, Hungary/Orasu Nou, Romania
KAHAN/JOSIPOVITS/DUB, Sziget, Kabolacsarda, Nagyvarad, Hungary/Sighet, Ciarda, Oradea, Romania
KOHN/Zbegnyo/ Zbehnov, Tarnoka/Trnavka, Slovakia; Cleveland  LEFKOVITS/Kolbasa/Brezina, Slovakia
MOSKOVITS/Honkocz, Szobranc, Osztro, Kassa, Hungary/Chonkovce, Sobrance, Ostrov, Kosice, Slov., Nyiregyhaza, Hungary
ELOVITS/Hornya, Hungary/Horna, Slovakia
NEUMANN/Szeretva, Kereszt, Nagymihaly, Miskolc, Hung./Sobrance, Kristy, Stretavka, Michalovce, Slov. 
POLACSEK/Hunfalu, Hungary/Huncovce, Slovakia
SPITZ/Nikolsburg/Mikulov, Prosnitz/Prostejov, Moravia/Czech Republic; Kismarton/Eisenstadt, Hungary/Austria; Hunfalu,Hungary//Huncovce, Slovakia
ViewMate translation request - Polish #poland #translation

Alex Guri
 

Hello,

I've posted vital records in Polish for which I'd appreciate a translation.
They are on ViewMate at the following addresses:
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM88918
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89186
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89212
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89215

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you very much,
Alex Guri
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Re: Hungarian to English #translation

Klára Majoros
 

Dear Alex and Evrybody,

Agylob and agyhártyalob (agyhártyagyulladás) are two different things.

Agylob refers to the content material of the brain, the cerebrum.
Its inflamation is encephalitis as in a contemporary Hungariam medical dictionary also states:
https://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/KlasszikusOrvosiKonyvek_017/?pg=95&layout=s&query=agylob

Agyhártyalob (agyhártyagyulladás) is the inflamation of the meninges, the illness is called  meningitis. Example from the same medical dictionary.
https://library.hungaricana.hu/en/view/KlasszikusOrvosiKonyvek_017/?pg=170&layout=s&query=meningitis 

Best
Klári Majoros
Re: Ideas for Sephardic Instruments #sephardic

Adam Cherson
 

Consider the kanun.
--
Adam Cherson
ViewMate translation request - German #translation

June F Entman (jfentman)
 

I request a translation of my grandfather’s 1903 bar mitzvah reception speech delivered in German at Temple Shaare Zedek in New York City.  It is one handwritten page on ViewMate at the following address
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89269
Please respond using the online ViewMate form.
Thank you so much,
June Friedman Entman
St. Augustine, Florida
 
 
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Re: Good New Tool: Thru Lines on Ancestry #general #announcements #dna #education

Ellen
 

I set up Thru Lines on Ancestry awhile back, but I must say I've been disappointed, as it has errors that apparently can't be corrected.

For example:  Thru Lines identifies my grandmother's paternal aunt as potentially my grandmother's maternal grandmother.  The error results in Thru Lines misidentifying subsequent ancestors.
The FAQs for Thru Lines state: "If a potential ancestor does not support what you know about your family's history, you may contact the family tree owner associated with that person to correct any errors or make changes." 


But the family tree owner doesn't even have my grandmother listed in her tree; there's nothing there to correct.  Moreover, the error is not based on a DNA match (although I DO match a descendant of my grandmother's paternal aunt... which isn't even reflected here!).  I wish there was a way I could click "Ignore" as I do with some of the hints Ancestry provides for people in my family tree.

Ellen


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Ellen Morosoff Pemrick 
Saratoga County, NY

Researching WEISSMAN/VAYSMAN (Ostropol, Ukraine); MOROZ and ESTRIN/ESTERKIN (Shklov & Bykhov, Belarus); LESSER/LESZEROVITZ, MAIMAN, and BARNETT/BEINHART/BERNHART (Lithuania/Latvia); and ROSENSWEIG/ROSENZWEIG, KIRSCHEN, and SCHWARTZ (Botosani, Romania)
ViewMate translation request - Polish #translation #poland

Terv Gold
 

 
 
I've posted a death record in Polish on ViewMate for translation. The family name is Zalcberg.
 
 
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you!
 
Roseann Mandell
Massachusetts USA
Sephardic instruments popular in Bodrum and Rhodes #sephardic #general

Tony Romano
 

ve been falling in love with Sephardic music - durme durme, guidados de berenjena, adios keridos ....
 
I would like to learn how to play an instrument my ancestors played and wanted suggestions.   I have been considering the saz or lute.  Please share your suggestions and what folks in Bodrum Turkey and the Island of Rhodes would have played -- this is where my grandparents were from -- My grandmother Sara Beton from Rhodes and my Grandfather Abraham Romano from Bodrum..  
 
With love and gratitude,
 
Anthony 
Anthony Romano
Atlanta GA

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Tony Romano [he/him/his] 
Right To The City Alliance
Director of Field Organizing
c 404.593.5227
@ourcity  | Follow RTC on Facebook 
Re: Hungarian to English #translation

paveanyu@...
 

Dear Everybody                                                28th December 2020

I wonder, if I may add, politely suggest my translation/interpretation  : 'Agy-lob'  --I wonder AGYHARTYA-GYULLADAS

Best wishes to All at Jewish Gen

Veronika Pachtinger London UK
ViewMate translation request - Polish #translation #poland

Liliana Weintraub
 

I´ve posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It´s only one section of a birth certificate, particularly a word which appears there. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89268
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you very much.

Liliana Weintraub, Argentina.
Re: Wolk family #lithuania

Mike Coleman
 

Who was the sister who left for London (I assume England)?

If she married there her marriage cert. should give her father's name (or a variant thereof!).

Likewise the one who went to the U.S., although there you should get the mother's name also.
Mike Coleman

 
Re: Need translation help old German, Hungarian birth certificate #translation

MiraHabelman
 

Thank You everyone, one nice lady of the group translated what I couldn't understand! 
I am very greatful! 
Mira Habelman

Von meinem Huawei-Telefon gesendet
Re: New Jersey supreme court records from the 1920s? #records

Mike Coleman
 

Is the clip from Newspapers.com?

If yes, there may be others with more info.

If not, take a look.
Mike Coleman
Re: ViewMate translation request - German #translation

David Lewin
 

At 23:49 27/12/2020, June F Entman (jfentman) wrote:

I request a translation of my grandfather’s 1903 bar mitzvah reception speech delivered in German at Temple Shaare Zedek in New York City.  It is one handwritten page on ViewMate at the following address

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89269

Please respond using the online ViewMate form.

Thank you so much,

June Friedman Entman

St. Augustine, Florida

I find duplicated efforts a waste of time.  Most likely you will have several responses and be sorted.

If this does NOT happen, let me know and I will gladly help

David Lewin
London

Search & Unite attempt to help locate people who, despite the passage of so many years since World War II, may still exist "out there".
We also assist in the process of re-possession of property in the Czech Republic and Israel.
See our Web pages at https://remember.org/unite/

Re: Naturalization Papers #records

viferra@outlook.com
 

Hi Rebecca,

 

On 12/23 you asked if anyone has been able to get a certified copy of a naturalization certificate…

 

In early August I sent an e-mail to sanbruno.archives@... (this is my local NARA, near San Francisco) requesting a copy of the naturalization certificates for my parents and my grandmother.  I supplied their full names, date and place of birth, date and place of death, address at the time of naturalization, naturalization petition number, dates of entry into the U.S. (1949) and description of my relationship to them.  I did not complete any forms.  I obtained the naturalization petition number and dates of entry from their naturalization petitions, which I found on Family Search. 

 

Two weeks later I got a reply stating that my request was in their queue and they would complete my request when they reopened.  (Also thanked me for supplying the naturalization petition numbers.)

 

About 10 days ago I received another e-mail asking if I still wanted the documents, and if yes, did I need certified copies.  They also wanted to confirm my address.  So, you can get a certified copy from NARA if they have the document, it will just take a while due to their being closed from COVID.

 

Good luck!

 

--

Vicky Furstenberg Ferraresi
Belmont, California, USA

searching:

FUERSTENBERG (Gdansk, Berlin, Shanghai), PROCHOWNIK (Bydgoszcz, Berlin, Shanghai), QUIATOWSKY (Berlin, Ujest/Ujazd)), BAUM (Gdansk), FREYSTADT (Berlin, Sweden), HEYMANN (Israel, Geneva), SCHULVALTER (Berlin, Brazil), SILBERSTEIN/SILVER (Gdansk, Chicago)
Help with extra person mentioned in Slutsk Chevra Kadisha record #belarus #records

dwguard1-jgrom@...
 

My great-great grandfather, Benjamin Machlin (MAKHLIN, Binyamin) appears in the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry - Minsk from the Pinkas of the Chevra Kadisha from Slutsk, Belarus.

Here's the text of the Comment for the entry:
1309 On Sunday the twelfth day of Shvat (4 February 1917) passed away the elderly mh'r BINYAMIN the son of mh'r MOSHEH NISAN MAKHLIN tailor and he rests by AVRAHAM who passed away on Tuesday the twenty-ninth day of the aforementioned Tevet (23 January 1917) row 'twenty-five' b'k to the south side

Who is the Avraham they are referencing? Would this be a brother or uncle of Benjamin, buried next to him?

Thanks,
David Weinman

WEINMAN/WEXLER/WALDMAN (Majdan, Poland), KAPLAN/MACHLIN (Slutsk, Belarus), GREENFIELD/GREENBERG (Nemyriv, Ukraine), GINGOLD (Divin, Belarus), BRALOWER/BRALVER (Botosani, Romania)
directory Dzyarzhynsk/Dzerzhinsk, formerly Koidanova/Koydanava #belarus

Marcia Heller
 

Is there a Jewish address directory for Kodanova, Belarus for early 1900s? Also is it correct that the only buildings that survived after the Nazi invasion was only on Vilna Street?
Marcia Heller
 
Ideas for Sephardic Instruments #sephardic

Tony Romano
 

Hi Beloved Sephardic community, 
 
I hope you all had a joyful Hanukkah and hope you and your family are staying healthy.  
 
I have been falling in love with Sephardic music - durme durme, guidados de berenjena, adios keridos ....
 
I would like to learn how to play an instrument my ancestors played and wanted suggestions.   I have been considering the saz or lute.  Please share your suggestions and what folks in Bodrum Turkey and the Island of Rhodes would have played -- this is where my grandparents were from -- My grandmother Sara Beton from Rhodes and my Grandfather Abraham Romano from Bodrum..  
 
With love and gratitude,
 
Anthony 
Anthony Romano
Atlanta GA
 

Tony Romano [he/him/his] 
Right To The City Alliance
Director of Field Organizing
c 404.593.5227
@ourcity  | Follow RTC on Facebook 
ViewMate translation request - German #translation

June F Entman (jfentman)
 

I request a translation of my grandfather’s 1903 bar mitzvah reception speech delivered in German at Temple Shaare Zedek in New York City.  It is one handwritten page on ViewMate at the following address

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM89269

Please respond using the online ViewMate form.

Thank you so much,

June Friedman Entman

St. Augustine, Florida

 

 

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