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Jewish Genealogy SIG December Meeting
#education
#events
#announcements
Join us for: Jewish Genealogy SIG December Meeting
Tues, Dec 8 on Zoom 10:00 – 11:30 am, EST. For a Zoom invite, please send email to Arthur Sissman genresearch13@....
Jewish Genealogy SIG Meeting The program/agenda will include:
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Re: When only part of the family emigrates to the US
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Adelle Gloger
Thought I would throw another thought into the mix.
My paternal grandmother arrived in the USA in 1921 with 4 children, ages 20, 16, 12 and 9.
My grandfather, her husband, did not arrive until 1924. He was denied passage with the family because of trachoma -- an eye disease. My grandmother and the children came to live with her brother-in-law, my grandfather's brother.
Adelle Weintraub Gloger
Cleveland, Ohio
agloger@...
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Re: Researching Tzalel Blachman of Apt/Opatow
#poland
Researchers with an interest in the records and families of Opatow will be in the
best possible hands when they are in touch with JRI-Poland Kielce Research Area
Coordinator and Opatow Town Leader, Judy Golan.
This article is an indicator of Judy's expertise. https://www.iijg.org/research/reading-between-the-lines/
JRI-Poland has voluminous data on the families of Opatow that is not yet online.
To contact Judy, go to the Opatow "Your Town" page on https://jri-poland.org/
 Stanley Diamond, M.S.M. (Montreal, 514-484-0100)
Executive Director, Jewish Records Indexing - Poland, Inc.
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Hadassah Magazine article re genealogy
#general
Barbara Hershey
I was just alerted to this story by a friend. I haven’t read it yet but thought someone might be interested. https://www.hadassahmagazine.org/2020/11/02/genealogy-became-great-jewish-pastime/
Barbara Hershey Portland, Oregon, USA |
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Re: SHERSHEVICH / GERBER / FRAIZINGER / GRANITZKY from Pakruojis / Seduva / Paneveys / Kaunas area Lithuania
#lithuania
Feige Stern
If the family name was Shershevich, were they from Seduva? I had a PGGM whose last name was Sher from Seduva.
Her name was Chaia Sarah Kolovarsky nee Sher. Any connection to your family? Thanks, Feige Kauvar Stern Cleveland, OH |
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Records from town of Zavidovići, Bosnia ?
#records
#austria-czech
#hungary
Moishe Miller
Dear All,
Happy after-Thanksgiving, I hope you are all doing well. My late grandfather was born on or about 31 Jan 1906 in the town or municipality of Zavidovići (formerly part of the Austria-Hungarian Empire and currently in Zenica-Doboj Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina). Would anyone have experience or suggestions for trying to obtain his birth record?
Stay safe.
Moishe Miller Brooklyn, NY moishe.miller@... JGFF #3391 |
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Re: When only part of the family emigrates to the US
#usa
Robert Hanna
My grandmother and her sister, who were the two oldest of five children, came first. Then their father came a year later with the next oldest daughter. One year after that their mother arrived with the youngest two (a daughter and a son).
Robert Hanna NYC |
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Re: DNA testing
#dna
Robert Hanna
From my experience, MyHeritage is least accurate. They claim I have a small percentage from Central America. Not even close. It's possible that ancestors way, way back emigrated to Central America and descendants have had their DNA tested with MyHeritage. But that doesn't make my roots any amount of Central American. Ancestry has the largest database, so they are apt to be more accurate. They peg me as 100% Eastern European Jew. All four of my grandparents and two of my great grandparents emigrated to the US (New York) from Eastern Europe.
Robert Hanna NYC |
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Waschkoutz records
#ukraine
I am searching for records from Waschkoutz. In FamilySearch I have found "Births 1918-1928".
Daniella Alyagon 11 Rav Ashi St, Tel Aviv 6939545, Israel
Researching: ALYAGON (Israel), SHOCHETMAN (Kishinev / Letychev / Derazhnya), AGINSKY (Kishinev / Minsk), FAJNZYLBER (Siennica, Poland / Warsaw, Poland), JELEN (Minsk Mazowiecki, Poland), KIEJZMAN (Garwolin, Poland), SLIWKA (Garwolin, Poland), MANDELBAUM (Janowiec, Poland / Zwolen, Poland / Kozienice, Poland), CUKIER (Janowiec, Poland), RECHTANT (Kozienice, Poland), FALENBOGEN (Lublin, Poland), ROTENSTREICH (Galicia), SELINGER (Galicia), BITTER (Galicia / Bukowina), HISLER (Galicia / Bukowina ), EIFERMAN (Galicia / Bukowina), FROSTIG (Zolkiew, Galicia / Lviv, Galicia), GRANZBAUER (Zolkiew, Galicia), HERMAN (Zolkiew, Galicia), MESSER (Lviv, Galicia / Vienna, Austria), PROJEKT (Lviv, Galicia), STIERER (Lviv, Galicia), ALTMAN (Lviv, Galicia), FRIEDELS (Lviv, Galicia) |
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Researching Tzalel Blachman of Apt/Opatow
#poland
Carol Weinberg
Hi Genners
I am researching my paternal great grandfather Betazlel /Tzalel/Tzaleh Blachman for Apt/Opatow, Poland.
He was born to Gabriel Blajchman and Chia Chana Mer in Opatow in 1855 and died in Opatow about 1900.
He was a big "macher" in Opatow, an educated man that was known to be able to get things done. His nickname was "Der roiteh avocat" although I have no documentation that he was an actual lawyer. He helped numerous men avoid the draft into the Russian army, with bribes and exaggerated claims of physical challenges.
I am looking for any information about him, including information on his address in Opatow, his siblings, and any stories about people that he helped in Opatow.
He had 9 children:
Shaindlel Blachman Rosengarten, moved to Warsaw
Gittle Blachman Rozenblum, moved to New York
Rifka Bayla Blachman Wajnberg, died in Opatow
Devorah Blachman Cohen, moved to Toronto
Pinchas Blachman, moved to Toronto
Yita Blachman Wajnberg, moved to Toronto
Max Blacman, moved to London Ontario, then Toronto
Fishle Blachman, moved to London Ontario, then Toronto
Zlateh Blachman, moved to London Ontario, then Toronto, then New York
Thanks to all
Carol Blackman Weinberg, Toronto
Researching:
COTT/KOTT in Bialystok, Buenos Aires
BLACKMAN/BLACHMAN/BLAJCHMAN in Opatow, Ostrovtse, Ivansk
MIKLAVSKI in Poland and Russia
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Looking for Gussie Deutsch
#usa
We are looking for Gussie/Augusta Deutsch. We don’t know her maiden name. We assume she was Jewish. She was born about 1886 in Austria-Germany. She was married to Daniel Deutsch (1875-@1935). He lived in Hazelton, PA, where he was a shoemaker, and married Gussie around 1901. They had their first child, Helen, in 1901, in Hazelton, and then Thelma in 1903. They moved to New York about 1911 where their son Seymour was born. The best evidence we have about Daniel is his WWI Draft Registration Card, where he lists his wife Augusta and their address as 334 E 123rd St., NYC. Here Daniel is a shoe salesman, and is totally blind in his left eye. Daniel must have died before 1935, because Gussie is listed in the 1940 US Census as a widow living with her daughter Thelma Deutsch Friedberg in 1935 as well as 1940. We would be most appreciative if you can tell us more about Gussie. False Lead: There is a divorce record of Plaintiff August Friest against Defendant Daniel Deutsch in 1924. This is probably not our Gussie because she and Daniel are seen living together in the 1930 US Census at 334 E 123rd St. Thank you for your help David Jacobowitz |
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Vilnius Vital Records 1947
#lithuania
Ann Scher
Can someone please advise how (if possible) to find a birth record for a child / death record for the mother on the same day (Vilnius 1947). The child was given up for adoption so the birth name is unknown.
Other than the day, there is no other information known. Thank you. Ann Scher |
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#yizkorbooks
#ukraine
#poland
Bruce Drake
I probably share too many Yizkor book excerpts about market day in the shtetls. But the reason I am drawn to them is the vibrant picture of life that each presents. The reconstructed conversations that let you hear the way people speak and what they say. The portraits of real characters that they offer. The feel for the (shall I say, “robust”) haggling in each negotiation about a purchase. “Once Shmulye Feyde said to a peasant while haggling; – You want two gildn for such a handful of wood (30 Russian kopeks). I can carry it home on my shoulder! – If you carry it home all at once, take it without cost! – The peasant said to him. – Shmulye said, I hold you to your word.” You’ll have to read the excerpt to see how that turned out. But when all was over, it was off to a tavern where “several glasses of 95 proof spirits were drunk, roasted goose was eaten and they went as good friends. And, rounding out these accounts, dealing with shoplifters — “those who would miss no opportunity at lifting anything they could lay their hands on.” Here are excerpts from the book of Rohatyn in Ukraine, and Czyzew-Osada, Kolbuszowa and Brzozów in Poland. Bruce Drake Silver Spring MD Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel |
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mbauer1822@...
Hi All,
Curious if anyone thinks that Fosfalou might be a town that was known in Yiddish as Sasfalou? Not sure where that town is located either, but wondering is that is the same place. Thanks, Michael Bauer Brooklyn, NY |
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roderick.carberry@...
Is Sonnenglanz a Jewish name. It is very rare. I had relatives who lived in Niederschlesien. Any ideas?
Roderick Carberry |
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I am working on our family tree and trying to find two cousins: Anna or Ann Friedman and Bertha Friedman. I hope to get lucky with your help and leads.
They lived in Atlantic City, NJ as stated in the US Census 1940.
They lived at 116 South Raleigh Avenue, Rivera Apts #4E. Household as a head with a “uncle” Abraham Brown of Poland. There is no Brown family in our tree so I don’t know him. Anna apparently worked for him as a Secretary.
Bertha and Anna have siblings: Rebecca (Friedman, Rutledge, Zimmerman) of Forest Hills, NY, Mose Friedman of Charleston, WV, and Sarah (Friedman, Osherwitz, Bogdanov). May they all rest in peace…
Rebecca, Anna and Bertha were born in Charleston, West Virginia. Their other 2 siblings were born in Russia.
Bertha was born in 1899 and Anna in 1896. Both were single. Bertha had a nickname ‘Bay’.
Their father Rabbi Samuel Friedman was one of the founders of Bnai Jacob Synagogue in Charleston, WV.
US Census 1900: the whole family are listed and lived in West Virginia.
US Census 1910 - the whole family are listed and lived in West Virginia with son in law Benjamin and grandson Harry Osherwitz as well.
US Census 1920 - the whole family are listed and lived in West Virginia except for Mose.
US Census 1930 - Samuel passed away on January 31, 1930 so Mary, Anna and Bertha moved to 1027 Walton Ave, #48 Bronx, NY
US Census 1940 - Mary passed away on May 2, 1934 so Anna and Bertha moved to Atlantic City, NJ.
I want to find out where they are buried. I couldn’t find any obituary as well. I have looked everywhere and asked all living relatives, no luck.
Abraham Isaac Brown's death certificate lists Ann Friedman as the informant and Abraham has a sister Belle nee Brown Levinson. Their parents names are Sarah and Samuel Brown of Poland. He died in 1943. I belong to many genealogy groups. Ancestry, Billiongraves, My Heritage, FamilySearch, Geni, Findagrave, Newspapers.com, Rootspoint, etc etc etc… No luck so I am hoping this group will be a miracle!
Any information would be greatly appreciated! Please feel free to send me an email at SADror@...
Thank you so much…
Sharon Ann Dror |
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András Alvincz
Alvincz Andras
Hallo Eric! Glaube ohne das Schriftstuck gesehen zu haben , wird es nicht bestimmen konnen(wo Fosfalou liegt) Gr.Alvincz Andras . |
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Re: ViewMate translation request - Hungarian
#hungary
#translation
András Alvincz
Alvincz András
Wurde gerne, aber Vieew Mate beherrsche nicht. Gr. Alvincz András Kommt Antwort nicht bin Bereit ubersetzen Alvincz András |
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Daniel Teichman
I also vote for Kosice/Kascha etc. |
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Please have a look at the attached pages. The first shows an index line in Bedamayich Chayi, a yizkor/Pinkas Mohalim book for the village of Orasul Nou in today's Romania, close to Fosfalou, which I presume is the town you refer to. The line clearly states some names and spellings for the town you are looking for. Seth Jacobson Jerusalem |
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