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David Rosen
Boston, MA

I would be extremely grateful for some guidance on looking for individuals in the New York records: arrival from Europe from Vienna (via Paris) after 1938. Parents Izsak (born Furta, Hungary) and Szidonia (born Mako, Hungary) with children Margit, Iren, Kalman, Ernest, maybe Regine and possibly some others. Ancestry doesn't seem to be able to find them.

It would be great to see them on address or voter lists, and then to see when they died, and particularly to find death certificates of Izsak (he may have died 1953) and Sidonia so I can verify their parents' names which I hope would be on the certificates.

Very many thanks for any help with these
Emma

My Stein family lived in the Zilina region of Slovakia during the 1840's in and near Vychodna, but we don't know when they arrived, or where they might have originated. Vychodna is not that distant from the southern border of Poland. Does anyone know where Jews in that area might have come from during the mid-1700's to mid-1800's?

And, a real stretch: I have reason to believe that there might have been rock quarries in the vicinity which were conceivably the basis for the name Stein (German: stone). Can anyone confirm this? 

Separately, I'm trying to determine whether Grywald, Poland, was formerly part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 

According to the 1887 Zalesie death record (transcript) of my g-great-grandmother, Rebeka (Guttman) Nuernberger, she was born c. 1817 in "Grunwald."  I believe Grunwald is a reference to Grywald, Poland, formerly named Grunvald, which is only some eight miles from Zalesie. Both Zalesie and Grywald are very close to the Slovak / Polish border but are now on opposite sides. I'm unable to determine from maps online whether Grywald was formerly part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and hope that someone might have a better map that clarifies this.

I would greatly appreciate any help with these questions.

Hilary (Stein) Osofsky
Orinda, CA

STEIN: Vychona, Turany, Sucany, Kiraly Lehota / Kral'ova Lehota, Liptovsky Hradok, Liptovska Porubka, Priechod
REICHER: Benadikova, Budapest
WOLF: Huncovce, Sulin, Kis Szalok, Nizne Ruzbachy, Bucovce, Spenglau, Jelsava, Cerveny Kamen, Szatmar / Satu Mare
NUERNBERGER / NIRNBERGER: Gibely / Zalesie, Hagy, Spisska Stara Ves, Presov, Nizne Ruzbachy, Vysne Ruzbachy, Podolinic, Zsolna

I don't have any problem about sharing information on ancestors who have died but would never share anything about a living person without their permission. In our country (Ireland) there are strict data protection laws and publishing anything about a living person without their written consent can lead to heavy fines.
Christine Hills, Dublin, Ireland tinasusanamy@...

Yizkor Books would be a post World War II thing.  Records exist in the Khmelnitskiy Archives, but they have mostly not been digitized or indexed.   Alex Krakovsky has so far posted Census records for the census (Revision List) of 1875 on his wiki page, but the scans have not been indexed.  For more information on JewishGen's collection, see the Proscurov Town Page at  https://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/GEO_town.asp?id=237.  

My family came from Proskurov. I know they are working on a Yiskour book. I also have some information you might like to see. I put together a book for my family and did a lot of research.

Email me and I will send you copies of my info.

Meryl Goldberg.  meryl@q.com
(Erlichman, , Gerrick, Gerkovich, Harris, Abromovitz

If you include a deceased mother’s maiden name of living persons it is not difficult to figure out who they are. Don’t give it or her parents’ surnames.

The other thing is, as stated in a previous reply, I almost always give a general, incomplete response asking for information back. Used to look at their online trees but often it is too much work to A) prune errors, and B) find the alleged connection and trace it both to them and to me. Have stopped doing that. Insufficient return on investment of time and especially the distraction by allowing someone else to direct my research.

I do try to give something and to remain courteous. If their information and request seem sincere, it may be best to give a timeframe in which you will devote time and attention, and respond more fully.

I should have added some more information. The older siblings and one younger sibling (born in 1905) list their birthplaces at or near Zagare, Lithuania. It doesn't make much sense to me that the son born in 1902 would have been born 700 miles away in southern Ukraine. 

There is an article on JewishGen about the exile of Jews from Lithuania into Russia in 1915, and one of the areas of exile mentioned is the Yekaterinoslav Gubernia in southern Ukraine, where Slaviansk is located.  

In 1920, when the Jews were allowed back into the newly independent Lithuania, this son and two of his brothers (the ones who had not yet left for the US), applied for their internal passports to the Lithuanian government (from records on JewishGen). Once the Lithuanian Archives are open again, I plan on getting copies of these applications, and I imagine there will be more info about where they had spent the preceding 5 years.

Does anyone know a linguistic reason to prefer a transliteration of
the Hebrew suffix bet-yud--tzadik sofi such as in the name Rabinovitz
in the absence of documentary evidence? If no rule or reason shouldn't
phonetic usage dictate consistent transliterations within one document
or book?
Sometimes a name is spelled -witz or. as from the Polish to English
usage -wicz.. Common also are the suffixes --vich., -vitch -wich and
-witch (as in Borovitch or Borovich). The latter usage seems unsound
phonetically, but it exists. A name is a private matter after all and
can be legally changed. Appreciate any comments.
.
#name suffix transliteration into English from Hebrew or Yiddish.

Avigdor Ben-Dov
Jerusalem

Hi All,
I posted some documents on viewmate for translation. They are Polish Book of Residents record, and written in Russian. I would appreciate any help in translating them. The surnames are GOLDSZNAJDER and GOLDSZTEJN. Thank you!
https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=81979
https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=81980
https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=81981
https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=81982
https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/viewmateview.asp?key=78844

Thanks, David.

Yes, it is LPC; seems that there was a speck of dust when they copied to (or from) the microfilm/microfiche.
--
Ken Ryesky
Petach Tikva, ISRAEL
kenneth.ryesky@...

Belarus:  Gomel:  RAISKY, SHKOLNIK(OV), ARONOV, AEROV

Ukraine:  Yelizavetgrad:  Broad/Brodsky (also Odessa), Gertzig/Gertzog
Ukraine/Russia/Turkey:  Yevpatoriya:  Israelson, Arshenov

I am looking for someone interested in translating several letters from =
Yiddish to English and would discuss this with you.  They could be =
scanned and emailed  to you or hard copied and mailed.
Please contact me at stulkoff@...
Thank you,  Sylvia Tulkoff=

Funny you mention this. My great-great grandfather was from Odessa - or so we thought - and I just found his US citizenship declaration document from 1913 where he declares that he was born in Kovno (in 1855). No one has ever heard that the family was from Kovno. As Sally wrote, "anything is possible" - and it's also possible that for some unknown reason he was also lying on his declaration!
Todd Warnick
Jerusalem

Does anyone know of any yizkor books or records from Proskovov, Russia  or that area? I am interested in the 
period from 1860-1913. 
Thank you,

Esther Zager Levine   <levinee55@...>

Are you certain about "only allowing the oldest son to marry" ?   I know of only the head of the family and the oldest son allowed to earn a living, but never heard of marriage prohibitioj

David Lewin,    London     <david@...>

How exactly is "Pennsylvania Dutch" defined in the case of the Pennsylvania Dutch migrant?  Does it mean someone who was supposedly of the Anabaptist faith?  Or does it mean someone who emigrated from the same region of (what later became) Germany as other 18th century emigrants to Pennsylvania, regardless of their religion?

The reason I'm asking is that some of my mother's Protestant German ancestors were from Freinsheim in the Palatinate, der Rheinpfalz.  This was one region from which German-speaking folks emigrated to Pennsylvania in the 1700s.  My mother's ancestors didn't emigrate until the mid-1800s.  There are pretty detailed records for people who left Freinsheim in the mid/late 1800s, and these records include religion.  Lots of Protestants (Reformed and Lutheran), some Catholics and a handful of Jews.  Some of the Jewish names in the emigration records also show up in legal records earlier in the 1800s.

If the Jewish families in Freinsheim in the 1800s are descendants of people who were there in the 1700s, it doesn't seem unlikely that there were also Jews in Freinsheim - and elsewhere in the Pfalz - who emigrated to Pennsylvania in the 1700s.

Note that historically, the Pfalz is known for being a farming region and getting invaded a lot.  It wasn't the richest place to live.  I would guess that many emigrants were motivated by economics rather than by religious persecution.  (In my great-great-grandfather's stepfather's case, political trouble may also have been involved.)  

SarahRose Werner,  Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada   <swerner@...>