Three questions re Google Photos:
(1) any way to import metadata (descriptions, etc.) from an existing source or does it all have to be reentered by hand?
(2) Any tips on structuring descriptions so as to be able to search accurately (eg "Bella Poland 1920s" etc.)?
(3) I read that there are issues with exporting comments should we ever want to move to a different platform. Any thoughts?
Thanks so much....

PS - There's a detailed and affectionate biography of [Siegfried] Sacher Werner here, with good anecdotes and photos (scroll to printed page 64 / PDF page 71 of 91):
https://harnessmuseum.com/sites/default/files/pictures/DTW,%20full%20book%20w.%20covers,%201-30-09.pdf

Peter

Can anyone suggest where to get a large multigenerational family tree template? I have over 200 family members and would like to record all of them on paper. 
Thank you.

Carole Bfrewster, Delray Beach, Florida.

Hi,

I recommend www.genteam.at - excellent for Austrian genealogy.  Membership is free, although my personal experience was that it was a bit of a hassle to join.  It has some more details for Tobias which you appear not to have: 

1). He and Leah divorced in Vienna on 24 Dec 1918
2). On 3 May 1920 he married Lotti Reinisch, also in Vienna.
3). That certainly didn't last - they divorced on 15 July 1920, again in Vienna
4). Still in Vienna, he then married a third time, to Frieda Zahler in 1924.

Then, Siegfried Sacher Werner:  Ancestry has a Sacher Siegfried Werner, born 29 Dec 1898, being naturalised in the state of New York on 5 Dec 1949.  And a Sigfried [sic] Sacher Werner,  same DOB, died in Dade County, Florida on 28 July 1983, aged 85.  I'm pretty sure he is the same Sacher Werner who gained a certain fame as a driver in the New York harness racing world: https://www.horseplop.com/index.php?topic=4015.15

If you have access to newspapers.com or a similar newspaper archive, there are some interesting articles about him.  Otherwise I can gladly send privately if you're interested.

Apart from Berta Bluma you don't give the names of the other siblings; and whilst Tobias and Siegfried feature on maggiej78360's tree on Ancestry (would that be you by any chance??), that tree is set to "Private" so I can't access more detail. However, the Sydney Morning Herald for 11 May 1978 (source: newspapers.com) carried an advertisement following the death of one Jakob Kurt Werner.  His executors are named as Robert Sacher Werner (aka David Sacher Werner) and Robert William Tobias, with a third executor Leah Susan Rebecca Werner in reserve.   Given the similarity of names, could it be that some of the family settled in Australia?  It's a long shot, but I thought it worth mentioning!

Best wishes
Peter Lobbenberg, London, UK
peterlob@...






Best wishes
Peter Lobbenberg, London, UK
peterlob@...

Hi Michael,
     You could write to Estela Rapoport at consultas.agja@.... AGJA is the Argentinean Genealogic Jewish association.
The JCA files and the 1912 census of the colonies may shed some light. Estela has access to them.
The "sepelios" files from the AMIA are difficult to search because they do not have SOUNDEX.
But the same information is in JOWBR JewishGen database with SOUNDEX. I could not find my great-grandfather in the AMIA files, but I did find him in JOWBR with the command "sounds like".
Good search,
Susana Rubin
Ottawa, Canada

Every Tuesday at 3:30 pm ET, tune into the Center for Jewish History's Facebook page for Genealogy Coffee Break, a short talk on a specific topic with one of our genealogy librarians. Discover recommended resources and strategies for online research, and have your questions answered live. This Tuesday (May 19), join us as we discuss how to find records from communities across the Sephardi and Mizrahi diaspora. If you have a topic you'd like us to cover, write to us at gi@.... Catch up on the entire series here. 

Moriah Amit
Senior Genealogy Librarian at the Center for Jewish History
New York, NY

Can you tell me what years of colonization were submitted to JewishGen ?

Hi:

The only Jewish vital records that have survived for Dunajow are 1924-1934 births, marriages and deaths. JRI-Poland has indexed the marriage and death records and those indices are contained in the JRI-Poland online database. The births are not available for public use until all the records in this birth register are over 100 years old. 

To find other relevant records in the Archives of Ukraine and Poland, refer to Miriam Weiner's Routes to Roots Foundation inventory of archival documents at https://www.rtrfoundation.org/index.shtml. 

Mark Halpern
JRI-Poland
Conshohocken, PA, USA

PS: I like to know to whom I am responding. In the future, please provide your name and where you live.

My earlier inquiry relating to "mixed marriages" may have been unduly polite.  Many researchers (or family history copiers) refer to Ursula Wyss Frey, apparently from a Swiss Jewish family in the 16th century, as the mother of various children with a Frey surname, presumably not Jewish.  If accurate there is Interesting ancestry from a prominent Rabbi Weil and descendants, including Vice President Pence (according to a Geni reconstruction).  Comments have been made that Endingen and Legnau were safe home-sites for Jews in Switzerland at that time and that Mennonite conversions of Jews occasionally occurred in the 17th century--resulting in some  Jewish ancestry among the "Pennsylvania Dutch".  I would be interested in comment on this alleged  family linkage and also the material crossover theory, by early day conversion or otherwise.

Howard Sachs   <hfsachs@...>

I have posted a ViewMate translation request for a portion of a letter found in my parents papers which appears to be in a language I do not recognize.  I would appreciate information on what language it is written in and some idea as to what the subject of the letter may be.   No word to word translation is required. 

 It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM80953
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you very much.

Amoz Chernoff

Hi all
I was seeking Ann Muriel Pinkus and had quite a few people who were so helpful ... thanks all.
Just to share this...I found her living in Camarillo , California. I know of ONLY ONE other family there... the brother of one of my dearest friends here in Sydney. Ann and this family live 3 doors away from each other and are friends.
Small world indeed!
Keep safe
Kathy

As one of the Holocaust survivors, eighty members of the family perished. As I stand in the synagogue during  Yizkor, I bow my head, stand still, and find it hard to open my mouth.

According to the poet H. N. Bialik, “Even Satan has not yet invented revenge for a little child's blood”
Leon Eisner

Held in Posad Govarchev on the twenty-eighth of December, one thousand nine hundred year.

 On January 10, one thousand nine hundred and one year, at ten o’clock in the morning, Simha Reshelbuh, thirty-four years old, and Aizik Eisenberg, thirty-eight years old, came to Posad Govarchev and announced: on December twenty-eight Year one thousand nine hundred, at the morning of six hours, Khaim Deikh died, his son Moshka and Fradka, nee Rosenfarb, leaving behind her widowed wife Khana-Tsinia, nee Stud.  According to the present certificate of the deceased "Chaim Daih", this act is present, read by us and witnesses signed:

Simha Reshelbuh Isaac Eisenberg

Ravin Yakub Brockman

(not clear) civil status       signature

 

Comment:  Lust name of the person not Deych, but Deikh.

 

Text is a formal death certificate of  Khaim Deikh.

I understand that Kretschme is a Yiddish word for inn or tavern. Corresponding word in Czech is Krcma, in Polish Karczma, etc. This root occurs also in other Slavic and non-Slavic languages, including Estonian, Hungarian, Albanian, Rumanian and Romani. See online krecme yiddish in Explorations in Judeo-Slavic Linguistics, by Paul Wexler (page 165).

Kris Murawski
Raleigh, NC

Thanks, the photos already in digital format.  It seems the logistical challenge of sharing thousands of word documents among hundreds of people would be considerable.  Have you had success doing that?
I was told that Google Photos might provide a simple solution.  Has anyone had experience with using that to crowdsource family information?

Hello

I've posted a vital record in Hungarian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM80916
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.

Thank you very much.

Ruth Bloomfield
London

Hello,

For several years I am trying to find information o my wife's Grandfather.

 

 

Hi,

Last year I looked for info about my family and discovered that the Jewish Colonization Asociation (JCA) had a very strong filing system of almost everythig: letters, telegraphs, draft notes, lists of emigrants from East Europe to South and North America, ships, detailed list of colonies and colonists, etc. It runs from 1870's till 1950's. If your mother's uncle contracted with the JCA by any kind of way, it is probably to find some hint about him. On the other side, if he did it "his way" and decided not to contact JCA, may be that there are no signs about him.

A copy of the archive is at The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People in Jerusalem. Just very little of all the material has been scanned and a more little part is online.

My experiance with CEMLA is not good. The index system is very strict  and every new search asks to insert a captcha code. Most burial registers from AMIA are indexed in JG.

If you have any name you can contact me and I'd try to help you based in my experiance. Most probably that it will demand a personal search in the archives, but they are closed now because the COVID.

Cesar Yeudkin

Israel
Researching YEUDKIN/YUDKIN from Belarus
OSCHEVEROF/OSHEVEROV, KOHON, DUGATKIN from Ukraine

Good day, I’m trying to find records that can link the Landau family to my family, the Gellers. My dad was born (1912) in Podkamien/Zolochev in Galicia Ukraine, and he had cousins (Michael Leon, Frymet/Gitel, Feiwel, Joseph Solomon, and Rachmie) in Zolochev named Landau. Their parents were Berl/Berish/Benjamin and Ryfka/Rebeka/Ruth (nee Wander). Ruth was born in Pomoryany or Sasow/Sasiv in ˜1878 to Mechel Wander and Rachel Hecht. If you have any information linking the Wanders or Landaus to my fathers parents Solomon or Breine (nee Frischwasser, parents Abraham Chaim and Chane), that would be very much appreciated.
Thanks, Steven Geller
Montreal, QC, Canada