I would like to add that this presentation has much relevance for
Ashkenazi Jews as well. We are uncovering DNA and historical evidence
that many Eastern European Jews have Sephardic roots.

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island invites you to join us at our
Sunday, March 21, 2:00 PM, Mid-Island Y JCC, 45 Manetto Hill Road Plainview, NY
Topic: Sephardic Research
Dr. Malka will provide an overview of Sephardic genealogy resources
For more information please check our website: http://www.jgsli.org

Judy Simon
Stony Brook, NY

researching: BROZGOL (Barcelona, Spain and Rezekne, Latvia),
KAPELUSHNIK, MIRANSKY, SKUTELSKY, RAPOPORT (Rezekne and Daugavpils,
Latvia); LEFKOWITZ, KELMER, OLSTEIN, MEZELSOR, AKERMAN, PLANCZNER,
CHOJNA (Lodz area, Poland)

Hello to all,
My Hodmezovasarhely (Hungary) ShtetLinks site has been updated with an
addition about the SCHWIMMER, ROTH and MESSINGER families. I invite you to
take a look. Many thanks to E. Schwimmer for allowing his family to be
represented on my site and to A. Lenard for his assistance with translations.
Anyone who has stories, pictures, family, or anything else to add
about Hodmezovasarhely or about my other ShtetLinks site of Kormend, Hungary
is welcome to contact me!
Thanks much,

Judy Petersen
Fort Collins, CO

Researching: Towns--Kormend, Hodmezovasarhely, Eger, Budapest, Vac
(Hungary); Secovce, Michalovce (Slovakia), Subotica (Serbia), Koprivnica
(Croatia), Szurte (Ukraine)

Researching: Surnames--SCHREINER, LICHT, STOSZEL (and variants),
UNGERLEIDER, WEISS (and variants), WEISBERG[ER], RITSCHER, FRITZ, FURST,
DESZBERG, BRASCH, DEUTSCH, DRESDNER, KRAUSZ, POLLATSCHEK (and variants),
PRAGER, GLATTER, RAUSNITZ

I would like to add that this presentation has much relevance for
Ashkenazi Jews as well. We are uncovering DNA and historical evidence
that many Eastern European Jews have Sephardic roots.

The Jewish Genealogy Society of Long Island invites you to join us at our
Sunday, March 21, 2:00 PM, Mid-Island Y JCC, 45 Manetto Hill Road Plainview, NY
Topic: Sephardic Research
Dr. Malka will provide an overview of Sephardic genealogy resources
For more information please check our website: http://www.jgsli.org

Judy Simon
Stony Brook, NY

researching: BROZGOL (Barcelona, Spain and Rezekne, Latvia),
KAPELUSHNIK, MIRANSKY, SKUTELSKY, RAPOPORT (Rezekne and Daugavpils,
Latvia); LEFKOWITZ, KELMER, OLSTEIN, MEZELSOR, AKERMAN, PLANCZNER,
CHOJNA (Lodz area, Poland)

Hello to all,
My Hodmezovasarhely (Hungary) ShtetLinks site has been updated with an
addition about the SCHWIMMER, ROTH and MESSINGER families. I invite you to
take a look. Many thanks to E. Schwimmer for allowing his family to be
represented on my site and to A. Lenard for his assistance with translations.
Anyone who has stories, pictures, family, or anything else to add
about Hodmezovasarhely or about my other ShtetLinks site of Kormend, Hungary
is welcome to contact me!
Thanks much,

Judy Petersen
Fort Collins, CO

Researching: Towns--Kormend, Hodmezovasarhely, Eger, Budapest, Vac
(Hungary); Secovce, Michalovce (Slovakia), Subotica (Serbia), Koprivnica
(Croatia), Szurte (Ukraine)

Researching: Surnames--SCHREINER, LICHT, STOSZEL (and variants),
UNGERLEIDER, WEISS (and variants), WEISBERG[ER], RITSCHER, FRITZ, FURST,
DESZBERG, BRASCH, DEUTSCH, DRESDNER, KRAUSZ, POLLATSCHEK (and variants),
PRAGER, GLATTER, RAUSNITZ

I have this information >from one of the founders' nephews. B and G
condiments were introduced to the US by Julius GUGGENHEIMER, who
immigrated >from Ihringen, Baden-Wurttemberg, in 1887, along with his
second cousin ? BLOCH. They tried many things to make a living
including working in a circus as a horse rider and running a
stagecoach to Albany. Julius rented a room with the future Sen.
Wagner who was then a policeman, using the room in shifts as one
worked days and the other nights.

Julius and his cousin finally started a sauerkraut and pickle factory
that became the highly successful B and G Company. Parenthetically,
when I was living in NYC years ago, trial and error brought me to
their dill pickles as my favorites, though I had no idea that the
"G" stood for one of my distant cousins.

That branch of BLOCHs moved up to Buffalo >from the New York City area
and was related to Weber and Heilbronner men's clothing manufacturers.

Julius was the first of 11 children. My informant is a son of the 8th
child. The GUGGENHEIMER family goes back in Ihringen to 1740, when
Marx GUGGENHEIMER was granted permission to settle there.

Dottie Miller
San Antonio, TX

I have this information >from one of the founders' nephews. B and G
condiments were introduced to the US by Julius GUGGENHEIMER, who
immigrated >from Ihringen, Baden-Wurttemberg, in 1887, along with his
second cousin ? BLOCH. They tried many things to make a living
including working in a circus as a horse rider and running a
stagecoach to Albany. Julius rented a room with the future Sen.
Wagner who was then a policeman, using the room in shifts as one
worked days and the other nights.

Julius and his cousin finally started a sauerkraut and pickle factory
that became the highly successful B and G Company. Parenthetically,
when I was living in NYC years ago, trial and error brought me to
their dill pickles as my favorites, though I had no idea that the
"G" stood for one of my distant cousins.

That branch of BLOCHs moved up to Buffalo >from the New York City area
and was related to Weber and Heilbronner men's clothing manufacturers.

Julius was the first of 11 children. My informant is a son of the 8th
child. The GUGGENHEIMER family goes back in Ihringen to 1740, when
Marx GUGGENHEIMER was granted permission to settle there.

Dottie Miller
San Antonio, TX

Dear Genners,

Can someone please help me to translate a record of Hersh Bomze.
I hope the record contains the name of his grandparents, and possibly
a link to the Berdichever. I posted the document on Viewmate at:

http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=14696

The file references is: VM14696

It may be easier to view the image by itself in a separate window.

Thank you so much,
Binyamin Lewis

MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply by private e-mail or on the ViewMate page.

Dear Genners,

Can someone please help me to translate a record of Hersh Bomze.
I hope the record contains the name of his grandparents, and possibly
a link to the Berdichever. I posted the document on Viewmate at:

http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=14696

The file references is: VM14696

It may be easier to view the image by itself in a separate window.

Thank you so much,
Binyamin Lewis

MODERATOR NOTE: Please reply by private e-mail or on the ViewMate page.

The next meeting of the Greater Boston Society will be held on
Sunday, March 14 starting at 1:30 PM. The location is Temple
Emanuel in Newton Centre, MA USA (385 Ward Street).

The main presentation by Ron Arons will cover (1) websites that
provide a broad range of historical maps, (2) basic and advanced
features of internet-based mapping facilities (maps.google.com
amd www.bing.com/maps), and (3) lesser known mapping facilities
provided by whitepages.com, Microsoft's MapCruncher, and IBM's
Many Eyes.

Jay Sage's short presentation will feature Google Earth -- the
web-based software and data that provide a high-resolution three-
dimensional model of the earth based on satellite and aerial
photographs. Mr. Sage will describe how it can be used
genealogically: to map one's family history or to make virtual
visits to places where family events took place.

Ron Arons has spoken at several international conferences on a
variety of genealogy topics. He appeared in the PBS TV series The
Jewish Americans to discuss Jewish criminals of New York's Lower
East Side and published The Jews of Sing Sing in 2008. Jay Sage
is a former president of the Society, current co-editor of the
Society's journal, Mass-Pocha, and has given lectures at
international and local conferences.

The program is free for JGSGB members and $5 for non-members.
Refreshments will be served. For directions, go to
http://emanuel.jgsgb.org.

As usual at our monthly meetings, a wide selection >from our
research library will be available for your use. See
http://jgsgb.org/pdfs/jgsgb-resources-TE.pdf for an updated
listing.

For more information about JGSGB, visit www.jgsgb.org, e-mail
info@..., or call (617) 796-8522.

Howard Morris, Publicity Chair
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston
Morris@...

The next meeting of the Greater Boston Society will be held on
Sunday, March 14 starting at 1:30 PM. The location is Temple
Emanuel in Newton Centre, MA USA (385 Ward Street).

The main presentation by Ron Arons will cover (1) websites that
provide a broad range of historical maps, (2) basic and advanced
features of internet-based mapping facilities (maps.google.com
amd www.bing.com/maps), and (3) lesser known mapping facilities
provided by whitepages.com, Microsoft's MapCruncher, and IBM's
Many Eyes.

Jay Sage's short presentation will feature Google Earth -- the
web-based software and data that provide a high-resolution three-
dimensional model of the earth based on satellite and aerial
photographs. Mr. Sage will describe how it can be used
genealogically: to map one's family history or to make virtual
visits to places where family events took place.

Ron Arons has spoken at several international conferences on a
variety of genealogy topics. He appeared in the PBS TV series The
Jewish Americans to discuss Jewish criminals of New York's Lower
East Side and published The Jews of Sing Sing in 2008. Jay Sage
is a former president of the Society, current co-editor of the
Society's journal, Mass-Pocha, and has given lectures at
international and local conferences.

The program is free for JGSGB members and $5 for non-members.
Refreshments will be served. For directions, go to
http://emanuel.jgsgb.org.

As usual at our monthly meetings, a wide selection >from our
research library will be available for your use. See
http://jgsgb.org/pdfs/jgsgb-resources-TE.pdf for an updated
listing.

For more information about JGSGB, visit www.jgsgb.org, e-mail
info@..., or call (617) 796-8522.

Howard Morris, Publicity Chair
Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston
Morris@...

Chris Brennan wrote
...

I was wondering if someone out there might be able to help me out on the
meaning and possible origin of my grandmother's surname. It has various
spellings:

NIEMCZYNSKI
NEMCHINSKY
NIMCHINSKY, etc.

There are some family members that seem to think that this name isn't
Jewish, others insist that it is. Any thoughts, comments?

The family also dispute where the name is actually from. One relative says
Russia, another Poland, another says Germany, and yet another says
Prussia. I know they came to the U.S. around 1885.

Chris,

Surname Niemczynski is generally associated with Polish noun locative
declension form of Germany = Niemczech.

As to the name origin.

Jewish Records Indexing database at:

http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm

lists seven entries for Niemczynski (exact spelling) in Jewish villages
Sereje and Wiejseje in Sejny vicinity of Suwalki region.
This is Litvak territory and I am wondering if Niemczynski name is not
associated with Niemen River.

Best

Alexander Sharon
Calgary, Ab

Chris Brennan wrote
...

I was wondering if someone out there might be able to help me out on the
meaning and possible origin of my grandmother's surname. It has various
spellings:

NIEMCZYNSKI
NEMCHINSKY
NIMCHINSKY, etc.

There are some family members that seem to think that this name isn't
Jewish, others insist that it is. Any thoughts, comments?

The family also dispute where the name is actually from. One relative says
Russia, another Poland, another says Germany, and yet another says
Prussia. I know they came to the U.S. around 1885.

Chris,

Surname Niemczynski is generally associated with Polish noun locative
declension form of Germany = Niemczech.

As to the name origin.

Jewish Records Indexing database at:

http://www.jewishgen.org/JRI-PL/jriplweb.htm

lists seven entries for Niemczynski (exact spelling) in Jewish villages
Sereje and Wiejseje in Sejny vicinity of Suwalki region.
This is Litvak territory and I am wondering if Niemczynski name is not
associated with Niemen River.

Best

Alexander Sharon
Calgary, Ab

I am researching the BRANDMAN family >from Starokonstantinov. My
grandmother told us that one of her aunts or uncles who would have
been born in the 1870s was named Bobsa Brandman. Can anyone tell
me whether Bobsa is a recognised name or perhaps a nickname or
abbreviation; and is it a male or female name?

Many thanks

Richard Stone
London, England

I am researching the BRANDMAN family >from Starokonstantinov. My
grandmother told us that one of her aunts or uncles who would have
been born in the 1870s was named Bobsa Brandman. Can anyone tell
me whether Bobsa is a recognised name or perhaps a nickname or
abbreviation; and is it a male or female name?

Many thanks

Richard Stone
London, England

Because he was not technically a rabbi, and because he left no Chassidic
dynasty behind, family trees for the great tzadik, R. Yehuda Leyb
(1726-1812), better known as the Shpoler Zeyda, or Saba Kadisha, are rare.
Even Rabbi Kalmanson, the long-tenured President of the Shpoler Zeide
Society, was not aware of any published family trees for him.

As one of the Shpoler Zeyda's descendants (through the Polonsky-Zeyda
marriage connection), I decided to address this unfortunate situation.
Calling upon my good friend and able research associate Jeff Briskman, I
took on the project of assembling a family tree for the Shpoler Zeyda
(alternate spellings: Zayda, Zaide, Zeida, Zeide, Zejde, Zeyde, and American
variants Seid and Seide).

Through census and vital records, we have succeeded in identifying about one
hundred of the Shpoler Zeyda's descendants, through four generations, from
his sons, through his great-great grandsons. We have also identified some
fifth generation descendants through vital records. However, this is about
as far as the existing records will take us. To identify additional fifth,
sixth, and seventh generation descendants, we will need help >from his
descendants in the Zeide and Seide families.

We cordially invite anyone who is a descendant of the Shpoler Zeyda, and who
can identify their grandparents, and possibly their great-grandparents, to
help us in completing his family tree. In exchange for this information, in
addition to our gratitude, there is a very good chance that we can provide
you with your complete line of descent to the Shpoler Zeyda.

I look forward to publishing all of the information collected for the
Shpoler Zeyda's family tree in my book "Discovering the Ancient Lineage of
the Polonsky and Paull Family," which I hope to publish next year.

Best Wishes to All,

Jeffrey Mark Paull

Because he was not technically a rabbi, and because he left no Chassidic
dynasty behind, family trees for the great tzadik, R. Yehuda Leyb
(1726-1812), better known as the Shpoler Zeyda, or Saba Kadisha, are rare.
Even Rabbi Kalmanson, the long-tenured President of the Shpoler Zeide
Society, was not aware of any published family trees for him.

As one of the Shpoler Zeyda's descendants (through the Polonsky-Zeyda
marriage connection), I decided to address this unfortunate situation.
Calling upon my good friend and able research associate Jeff Briskman, I
took on the project of assembling a family tree for the Shpoler Zeyda
(alternate spellings: Zayda, Zaide, Zeida, Zeide, Zejde, Zeyde, and American
variants Seid and Seide).

Through census and vital records, we have succeeded in identifying about one
hundred of the Shpoler Zeyda's descendants, through four generations, from
his sons, through his great-great grandsons. We have also identified some
fifth generation descendants through vital records. However, this is about
as far as the existing records will take us. To identify additional fifth,
sixth, and seventh generation descendants, we will need help >from his
descendants in the Zeide and Seide families.

We cordially invite anyone who is a descendant of the Shpoler Zeyda, and who
can identify their grandparents, and possibly their great-grandparents, to
help us in completing his family tree. In exchange for this information, in
addition to our gratitude, there is a very good chance that we can provide
you with your complete line of descent to the Shpoler Zeyda.

I look forward to publishing all of the information collected for the
Shpoler Zeyda's family tree in my book "Discovering the Ancient Lineage of
the Polonsky and Paull Family," which I hope to publish next year.

Best Wishes to All,

Jeffrey Mark Paull

I am related to the RUFEISEN family through my maternal GGmother, Fani
RUFEISEN, and am currently trying to connect my information on various
branches of the RUFEISEN family, to include Brother Daniel, >from the Biala,
Sucha, Zwyiec and other nearby areas of Poland; and also some who came to
the US. The name Majer RUFEISEN is mentioned as the father of some RUFEISEN
ancestors, but no mention of his wife or any dates of birth, etc. Also,
there is a possible connection to distant RUFEISEN cousins in the Slovakia
area.

Another dilemma is that there are more than one set of parents who married
cousins having the same RUFEISEN surname, as well as different generations
with the same given names: Elias, Fani, Jakob, Josef, etc. so that it is
hard to tell who belongs to which branch of the family where birth dates are
missing, to include more than one couple where the same given names are also
repeated (Elias and Fani; Samuel and Gusti).

Information >from anyone researching the RUFEISEN surname is most
appreciated, as well as assistance with the requested information as noted.

Please respond privately.

Joyce Eastman
Orange City, FL USA

Researching: RUFEISEN >from Biala, Sucha, Zwyiec and surrounding areas;
SCHEIER >from Sucha and Stanislawow; WILDER and HELFER >from Brody, Poland and
Vienna, Austria

I am related to the RUFEISEN family through my maternal GGmother, Fani
RUFEISEN, and am currently trying to connect my information on various
branches of the RUFEISEN family, to include Brother Daniel, >from the Biala,
Sucha, Zwyiec and other nearby areas of Poland; and also some who came to
the US. The name Majer RUFEISEN is mentioned as the father of some RUFEISEN
ancestors, but no mention of his wife or any dates of birth, etc. Also,
there is a possible connection to distant RUFEISEN cousins in the Slovakia
area.

Another dilemma is that there are more than one set of parents who married
cousins having the same RUFEISEN surname, as well as different generations
with the same given names: Elias, Fani, Jakob, Josef, etc. so that it is
hard to tell who belongs to which branch of the family where birth dates are
missing, to include more than one couple where the same given names are also
repeated (Elias and Fani; Samuel and Gusti).

Information >from anyone researching the RUFEISEN surname is most
appreciated, as well as assistance with the requested information as noted.

Please respond privately.

Joyce Eastman
Orange City, FL USA

Researching: RUFEISEN >from Biala, Sucha, Zwyiec and surrounding areas;
SCHEIER >from Sucha and Stanislawow; WILDER and HELFER >from Brody, Poland and
Vienna, Austria

Dear One and All:

Gary Platt posted a message about -"Removal of Yahrzeit plaques".
It is a pity that all this information will be lost for future
referencing. All over the world there are memorial plaques
currently hanging on the wall in different congregations. Some
congregations that are no longer active have transferred their
memorial plaques to other congregations and others.... the plaque
are lost for ever. Is it possible for some people to "pick up the
glove" and start a project of indexing memorial plaques ??

All the best,

Jay Lenefsky -Israel

MODERATOR NOTE: JewishGen has no staff to manage, coordinate, or
work on projects like this. But we welcome data generated by projects.
In order to make sure that your data will be in a format suitable for
posting on the JewishGen website, it's best to review our guidelines at
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/$description.html
*before* you start collecting data.

Dear One and All:

Gary Platt posted a message about -"Removal of Yahrzeit plaques".
It is a pity that all this information will be lost for future
referencing. All over the world there are memorial plaques
currently hanging on the wall in different congregations. Some
congregations that are no longer active have transferred their
memorial plaques to other congregations and others.... the plaque
are lost for ever. Is it possible for some people to "pick up the
glove" and start a project of indexing memorial plaques ??

All the best,

Jay Lenefsky -Israel

MODERATOR NOTE: JewishGen has no staff to manage, coordinate, or
work on projects like this. But we welcome data generated by projects.
In order to make sure that your data will be in a format suitable for
posting on the JewishGen website, it's best to review our guidelines at
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/$description.html
*before* you start collecting data.