Ian,

If the birth record is after 1909, then you have no option but to
provide a death certificate for this person in order to get their
birth certificate. You will also have to state your relationship.

Diane Jacobs
Somerset, NJ

Ian,

If the birth record is after 1909, then you have no option but to
provide a death certificate for this person in order to get their
birth certificate. You will also have to state your relationship.

Diane Jacobs
Somerset, NJ

Did you attend the IAJGS conference in New York City?

If so....and you'd be interested in writing a few paragraphs on your
"conference impressions" as they relate to Galician research to be part of a
compilation article published in the next issue of "The Galitzianer," please
send them to me.

These impressions can range >from lectures, SIG/BOF gatherings, or films you
attended that had special meaning to you....or >from which you emerged a bit
more knowledgeable....or hungry for more information....or new connections
made, people met....chance encounters that lead to breakthroughs.....books
purchased.....anything that you would want to recommend or pass on to others
who couldn't be there in person, or who were there, but didn't get to attend
every single offering!

These short articles must be in Word and sent as attachments to your email.
You can title them if you wish. I would need them by this Saturday,
September 2nd. Don't worry about the length. If there is repetition in
submissions we can cut or edit. The only caveat is that they *must* be
related strictly to Galician research.

Remember: do not submit these to the list, but to me directly at:
pweisberger@...

Looking forward to hearing >from you soon.....and if you know people who
attended, but do not subscribe to this online discussion group, please alert
them on our behalf.

Many thanks.....

Pamela Weisberger
Research Coordinator, Gesher Galicia
Santa Monica, CA
pweisberger@...

Did you attend the IAJGS conference in New York City?

If so....and you'd be interested in writing a few paragraphs on your
"conference impressions" as they relate to Galician research to be part of a
compilation article published in the next issue of "The Galitzianer," please
send them to me.

These impressions can range >from lectures, SIG/BOF gatherings, or films you
attended that had special meaning to you....or >from which you emerged a bit
more knowledgeable....or hungry for more information....or new connections
made, people met....chance encounters that lead to breakthroughs.....books
purchased.....anything that you would want to recommend or pass on to others
who couldn't be there in person, or who were there, but didn't get to attend
every single offering!

These short articles must be in Word and sent as attachments to your email.
You can title them if you wish. I would need them by this Saturday,
September 2nd. Don't worry about the length. If there is repetition in
submissions we can cut or edit. The only caveat is that they *must* be
related strictly to Galician research.

Remember: do not submit these to the list, but to me directly at:
pweisberger@...

Looking forward to hearing >from you soon.....and if you know people who
attended, but do not subscribe to this online discussion group, please alert
them on our behalf.

Many thanks.....

Pamela Weisberger
Research Coordinator, Gesher Galicia
Santa Monica, CA
pweisberger@...

If she died less than 100 years ago, there may be a problem. If you say
you are the closest living relative and can show birth certificates or death
or marriage certificates which confirm that, you may have some success even
if she died less than 100 years ago.

Herb Meyers
Boulder, CO
"Ian Chard" <ian.chard@...> wrote in message

If she died less than 100 years ago, there may be a problem. If you say
you are the closest living relative and can show birth certificates or death
or marriage certificates which confirm that, you may have some success even
if she died less than 100 years ago.

Herb Meyers
Boulder, CO
"Ian Chard" <ian.chard@...> wrote in message

Last night, in my elation at the return of what had once been literad.de
and is now http://www.geschichte-on-demand.de/ I neglected to tell folks
what the site is all about.

Briefly:

Michael Rademacher (the "rad" in "literad") wrote a dissertation about
the structure of the Nazi party at the local level, using the Weser-Ems
region as an example. It was published last year.

In writing his dissertation, or perhaps for other reasons, he found the need
for a digital description of the German Empire >from the administrative
view. He created such a thing and put it on line. For some of us, its
temporary disappearance over the last 6 or 7 months caused serious
withdrawal symptoms.

Click on the link above and you'll see the following links to sections:

Dt.-oest. Ortsbuch:
==================

This is a historical gazetteer of just about every place in the 2nd and
3rd Reich, big and small. (Austria is included only for the Anschluss
years.) Census figures >from various times, town descriptions >from an
1894 reference work, etc., etc. When you click on a place name, you go
to the page for its county (Kreis). At the top you'll see general
information about what state the county belonged to, what its population
was, and whom the people voted for at various times. Changes over time
are also explained.

Deutsches Reich
===============
The previous section started at the bottom, i.e., with individual
cities, towns, villages, and estates. This is the top level, i.e.,
facts and figures about the Reich as a whole. That includes the names
of emperors, presidents and chancellors, general population figures,
some voting results, and the budget for 1893-4.

Laender
=======
The second level: states, plus level 2.5--the provinces of Prussia.
(Austria and Czech at bottom right.) Click on a link to go to a state
or provincial page.

Once again, there are the political leaders, population figures,
election results, and more. After that, a division into regions (called
Regierungsbezirke in Prussia and most other places), each region giving
links to the county-level pages that contain the Ortsbuch information.

Justiz
======
The judicial system, including the hierarchy of state courts. Mainly as
of 1894.

Landesfinanzaemter
==================
As of 1927: the hierarchy and location of internal revenue offices.

Armeekorps-Bezirke
==================
As of 1885, regional division of the army. This can be useful to family
historians, as young men were generally conscripted into a local or regional unit.

Gaue
====
Geographical structure of the Nazi party.

Kirchen
=======
Structure and hierarchy, mainly of the Evangelical-Lutheran and Catholic
churches. A link to a page of Jewish population statistics.

Minderheiten
============
Minorities: mainly non-German-speakers, also foreigners and a little about Jews.

Aufsaetze
=========
A few essays by the author.

Biographisches Archiv
=====================
Short bios, mainly of politicians, especially in the Nazi years.

Einwohnerverzeichnis Weser-Ems
==============================
Address book for the region covered in the dissertation, mostly as of
1936 or so. Jews lived mainly in the cities: Bremen, Emden, Aurich,
Osnabrueck, Leer and a few others. Obviously not complete--very little
for Bremen, for instance.

Quellen und Links
=================
Bibliography. No links yet (a few elsewhere on the site). Each data
page also has bibliography.
---------------------------------------------------------

All this stuff may sound deadly dull; and unless you need it, it is [dull].
But *not* looking here when you *do* need basic information means you're
practically asking to have your time wasted.

Roger Lustig Princeton, NJ <trovato@...>

We are in the final stage of transcribing the birth records of the Great
Synagogue London for the years 1791-1850. We are willing to search this
period for specific names (one search year only at present since the data is
still in manuscript and awaits computerization).
Harold and Miriam Lewin
Jerusalem

Last night, in my elation at the return of what had once been literad.de
and is now http://www.geschichte-on-demand.de/ I neglected to tell folks
what the site is all about.

Briefly:

Michael Rademacher (the "rad" in "literad") wrote a dissertation about
the structure of the Nazi party at the local level, using the Weser-Ems
region as an example. It was published last year.

In writing his dissertation, or perhaps for other reasons, he found the need
for a digital description of the German Empire >from the administrative
view. He created such a thing and put it on line. For some of us, its
temporary disappearance over the last 6 or 7 months caused serious
withdrawal symptoms.

Click on the link above and you'll see the following links to sections:

Dt.-oest. Ortsbuch:
==================

This is a historical gazetteer of just about every place in the 2nd and
3rd Reich, big and small. (Austria is included only for the Anschluss
years.) Census figures >from various times, town descriptions >from an
1894 reference work, etc., etc. When you click on a place name, you go
to the page for its county (Kreis). At the top you'll see general
information about what state the county belonged to, what its population
was, and whom the people voted for at various times. Changes over time
are also explained.

Deutsches Reich
===============
The previous section started at the bottom, i.e., with individual
cities, towns, villages, and estates. This is the top level, i.e.,
facts and figures about the Reich as a whole. That includes the names
of emperors, presidents and chancellors, general population figures,
some voting results, and the budget for 1893-4.

Laender
=======
The second level: states, plus level 2.5--the provinces of Prussia.
(Austria and Czech at bottom right.) Click on a link to go to a state
or provincial page.

Once again, there are the political leaders, population figures,
election results, and more. After that, a division into regions (called
Regierungsbezirke in Prussia and most other places), each region giving
links to the county-level pages that contain the Ortsbuch information.

Justiz
======
The judicial system, including the hierarchy of state courts. Mainly as
of 1894.

Landesfinanzaemter
==================
As of 1927: the hierarchy and location of internal revenue offices.

Armeekorps-Bezirke
==================
As of 1885, regional division of the army. This can be useful to family
historians, as young men were generally conscripted into a local or regional unit.

Gaue
====
Geographical structure of the Nazi party.

Kirchen
=======
Structure and hierarchy, mainly of the Evangelical-Lutheran and Catholic
churches. A link to a page of Jewish population statistics.

Minderheiten
============
Minorities: mainly non-German-speakers, also foreigners and a little about Jews.

Aufsaetze
=========
A few essays by the author.

Biographisches Archiv
=====================
Short bios, mainly of politicians, especially in the Nazi years.

Einwohnerverzeichnis Weser-Ems
==============================
Address book for the region covered in the dissertation, mostly as of
1936 or so. Jews lived mainly in the cities: Bremen, Emden, Aurich,
Osnabrueck, Leer and a few others. Obviously not complete--very little
for Bremen, for instance.

Quellen und Links
=================
Bibliography. No links yet (a few elsewhere on the site). Each data
page also has bibliography.
---------------------------------------------------------

All this stuff may sound deadly dull; and unless you need it, it is [dull].
But *not* looking here when you *do* need basic information means you're
practically asking to have your time wasted.

Roger Lustig Princeton, NJ <trovato@...>

We are in the final stage of transcribing the birth records of the Great
Synagogue London for the years 1791-1850. We are willing to search this
period for specific names (one search year only at present since the data is
still in manuscript and awaits computerization).
Harold and Miriam Lewin
Jerusalem

Greetings all,

As promised, I am notifying everyone that the fourth in a series of five new
searchable cemetery databases is now online. The cemetery is Mt. Ararat
Cemetery. It is located in Lindenhurst, Suffolk County, New York, though its
mailing address is in Farmingdale. The cemetery (founded in 1929, first
burial 1933) contains more than 45,000 burials but no society plots. This
means that using the www.jgsny.org database in order to locate a particular
landsmanshaft plot will not be useful for this cemetery.

You can search by first name, surname, date of death (not date of burial),
section number, range number, and lot number. The results for each
individual search are still limited to 200 entries and are displayed
alphabetically, e.g. if you just search using the surname COHEN, you will
get the first two hundred entries of a total of six-hundred and fifty COHEN
entries in their database. The first entry is Aaron COHEN, and the last is
Frieda COHEN. If you know no other pertinent information about the deceased
other than their first and last names, and use are looking for a COHEN whose
first name begins with a letter further down in the alphabet, you can use
their first name and surname to find who you're looking for. Or you can,
e.g, enter COHEN into the last name field, and then, plug in the letters J
through Z individually in the first name field, to find who you're looking
for.

The URL for the Mt. Ararat Cemetery site is www.mountararatcemetery.com .
The last in a series of five searchable cemetery databases will be for Mt.
Judah in Ridgewood, Queens, New York, though I wouldn't count on this site
being online for at least a couple of months. I will, of course, spread the
word once this database is online. I know of no other cemetery that has
plans to create a searchable database for their burials.

The first three searchable cemetery databases in this series that were
created are:
Mt. Hebron Cemetery (Flushing, Queens, New York):
www.mounthebroncemetery.com
Mt. Carmel Cemetery (Ridgewood, Queens, New York):
www.mountcarmelcemetery.com
Mt. Zion Cemetery (Maspeth, Queens, New York): www.mountzioncemetery.com
Also, another searchable cemetery database (but not part of this series):
Mt. Moriah Cemetery (Fairview, New Jersey):
www.mountmoriahcemeteryofnewjersey.org

Please remember that within the Cemetery Project section of my own website
(www.museumoffamilyhistory.com), there exists a cemetery directory, with
cemetery contact information, as well as nearly one-hundred maps of
forty-five cemeteries that are located in New York, New Jersey, South
Florida, Chicago, Los Angeles and Montreal. There is more than this, so you
should check the table of contents on the Site Map page for information on
other content that might be of interest to you.
Happy hunting!


Best,
Steve Lasky
New York
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com

Greetings all,

As promised, I am notifying everyone that the fourth in a series of five new
searchable cemetery databases is now online. The cemetery is Mt. Ararat
Cemetery. It is located in Lindenhurst, Suffolk County, New York, though its
mailing address is in Farmingdale. The cemetery (founded in 1929, first
burial 1933) contains more than 45,000 burials but no society plots. This
means that using the www.jgsny.org database in order to locate a particular
landsmanshaft plot will not be useful for this cemetery.

You can search by first name, surname, date of death (not date of burial),
section number, range number, and lot number. The results for each
individual search are still limited to 200 entries and are displayed
alphabetically, e.g. if you just search using the surname COHEN, you will
get the first two hundred entries of a total of six-hundred and fifty COHEN
entries in their database. The first entry is Aaron COHEN, and the last is
Frieda COHEN. If you know no other pertinent information about the deceased
other than their first and last names, and use are looking for a COHEN whose
first name begins with a letter further down in the alphabet, you can use
their first name and surname to find who you're looking for. Or you can,
e.g, enter COHEN into the last name field, and then, plug in the letters J
through Z individually in the first name field, to find who you're looking
for.

The URL for the Mt. Ararat Cemetery site is www.mountararatcemetery.com .
The last in a series of five searchable cemetery databases will be for Mt.
Judah in Ridgewood, Queens, New York, though I wouldn't count on this site
being online for at least a couple of months. I will, of course, spread the
word once this database is online. I know of no other cemetery that has
plans to create a searchable database for their burials.

The first three searchable cemetery databases in this series that were
created are:
Mt. Hebron Cemetery (Flushing, Queens, New York):
www.mounthebroncemetery.com
Mt. Carmel Cemetery (Ridgewood, Queens, New York):
www.mountcarmelcemetery.com
Mt. Zion Cemetery (Maspeth, Queens, New York): www.mountzioncemetery.com
Also, another searchable cemetery database (but not part of this series):
Mt. Moriah Cemetery (Fairview, New Jersey):
www.mountmoriahcemeteryofnewjersey.org

Please remember that within the Cemetery Project section of my own website
(www.museumoffamilyhistory.com), there exists a cemetery directory, with
cemetery contact information, as well as nearly one-hundred maps of
forty-five cemeteries that are located in New York, New Jersey, South
Florida, Chicago, Los Angeles and Montreal. There is more than this, so you
should check the table of contents on the Site Map page for information on
other content that might be of interest to you.
Happy hunting!


Best,
Steve Lasky
New York
www.museumoffamilyhistory.com

Dear JGenners,

Many thanks to everyone for your helpful information.
It's reassuring to know others have their roots in
Seliba.

Regarding emigration >from Russia to Canada, does
anyone have a useful email address or website in
Canada for finding people, such as our Public Archives
at Kew?

With thanks,
Mav SHAFFER
Essex, England

AARONS/GUREVITCH (Minsk)



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Dear JGenners,

Many thanks to everyone for your helpful information.
It's reassuring to know others have their roots in
Seliba.

Regarding emigration >from Russia to Canada, does
anyone have a useful email address or website in
Canada for finding people, such as our Public Archives
at Kew?

With thanks,
Mav SHAFFER
Essex, England

AARONS/GUREVITCH (Minsk)



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Dear fellow Genners:-

I am researching my paternal relations ABERSZTAJN and wonder if anyone can
help.

(1) My great-aunt Estera Abersztajn (b.1850), of Poddebice/Sieradz, married
(~1884) Icek Garbacz vel Lewinski of Blaszki. She brought to that marriage a
son, Zelik (b. february 4, 1880, Sieradz), >from her previous marriage (to
Zelik Szerkowski of Sieradz; d.1879/80). So I'm looking for Zelik LEWINSKI
and his family.

(2) My great-aunt Sura Abersztajn (b.1870), of Sieradz and Lodz, married
(1900) Lejzor Akerman (b.1876) of Slawno (Wolanowskie). They lived in
Lodz-Baluty. So I'm looking for my great-aunt's AKERMAN family.

(3) My cousin Estera Abersztajn (b.1898; died chelmno 1942), of Lodz,
married (1925) Abram Salomon Jakubowicz (b. ~1896). They had a son, Pawel (?
Fajwel; b. march 15, 1928). all three were in the lodz ghetto. So I'm
looking for Pawel/Fajwel JAKUBOWICZ and his family.

(4) Ajzek Abersztajn (b.1915), of Lodz, married, ~1936-7, Helena xxxxxxxx
(her maiden name is illegible). They had a son, Josef, b.~1937/8. Ajzek went
off to fight in the Polish Army and Helena and Josef have not been heard of.
Apparently they were not in the lodz ghetto. perhaps she married again. So
I'm looking for Helena and Josef ABERSZTAJN -- but she probably acquired
another married name during the war or shortly after, if she survived.

Any help on any of my family would be most gratefully received. Thank you.

Richard Astor
richardastor@...

MODERATOR NOTE: Please respond privately

Dear fellow Genners:-

I am researching my paternal relations ABERSZTAJN and wonder if anyone can
help.

(1) My great-aunt Estera Abersztajn (b.1850), of Poddebice/Sieradz, married
(~1884) Icek Garbacz vel Lewinski of Blaszki. She brought to that marriage a
son, Zelik (b. february 4, 1880, Sieradz), >from her previous marriage (to
Zelik Szerkowski of Sieradz; d.1879/80). So I'm looking for Zelik LEWINSKI
and his family.

(2) My great-aunt Sura Abersztajn (b.1870), of Sieradz and Lodz, married
(1900) Lejzor Akerman (b.1876) of Slawno (Wolanowskie). They lived in
Lodz-Baluty. So I'm looking for my great-aunt's AKERMAN family.

(3) My cousin Estera Abersztajn (b.1898; died chelmno 1942), of Lodz,
married (1925) Abram Salomon Jakubowicz (b. ~1896). They had a son, Pawel (?
Fajwel; b. march 15, 1928). all three were in the lodz ghetto. So I'm
looking for Pawel/Fajwel JAKUBOWICZ and his family.

(4) Ajzek Abersztajn (b.1915), of Lodz, married, ~1936-7, Helena xxxxxxxx
(her maiden name is illegible). They had a son, Josef, b.~1937/8. Ajzek went
off to fight in the Polish Army and Helena and Josef have not been heard of.
Apparently they were not in the lodz ghetto. perhaps she married again. So
I'm looking for Helena and Josef ABERSZTAJN -- but she probably acquired
another married name during the war or shortly after, if she survived.

Any help on any of my family would be most gratefully received. Thank you.

Richard Astor
richardastor@...

MODERATOR NOTE: Please respond privately

Tina Levine asked "I am trying to locate Philip Austin, son of Alice and
Lionel Austin."

As requested this is copied to Tina but the reply may be of general interest
to the group.

www.192.com is a commercial site that has free facilities relating to the
Voters lList and the telephone directory. In order to get decent details,
you must give more than just a name. If you only enter a name and the answer
is under 200 positives, it will give a list of possibles.

In this instance, entering Philip Austin returns 83 results and the only
other free data is who else lives in the house/apartment. Any other detail,
like a full address, you must pay for. Add a location, I added London, and
it returned only 4 names but with full addresses plus listed telephone
numbers.
You could experiment with other "Jewish" cities for more addresses and phone
numbers.

What genners may also not know is that this telephone look-up facility is
free, rather less than the services advertised on television. The site also
offers free credits for pay lookups but this will expose you to a lot of
SPAM >from the companies offering credits. Also remember that JewishGen rules
prohibit you >from asking others to supply you details of the commercial
parts of 192 and all other pay services.

You can use the 192 service anywhere in the world via the Internet and watch
for special offers around the 25th December to New Year. They have, in the
past opened up the whole database as a "Chanukah" present. One year, instead
of a half a dozen Kravitz names, the total, with full addresses, went up to
32.

David Kravitz
Netanya, Israel

Tina Levine asked "I am trying to locate Philip Austin, son of Alice and
Lionel Austin."

As requested this is copied to Tina but the reply may be of general interest
to the group.

www.192.com is a commercial site that has free facilities relating to the
Voters lList and the telephone directory. In order to get decent details,
you must give more than just a name. If you only enter a name and the answer
is under 200 positives, it will give a list of possibles.

In this instance, entering Philip Austin returns 83 results and the only
other free data is who else lives in the house/apartment. Any other detail,
like a full address, you must pay for. Add a location, I added London, and
it returned only 4 names but with full addresses plus listed telephone
numbers.
You could experiment with other "Jewish" cities for more addresses and phone
numbers.

What genners may also not know is that this telephone look-up facility is
free, rather less than the services advertised on television. The site also
offers free credits for pay lookups but this will expose you to a lot of
SPAM >from the companies offering credits. Also remember that JewishGen rules
prohibit you >from asking others to supply you details of the commercial
parts of 192 and all other pay services.

You can use the 192 service anywhere in the world via the Internet and watch
for special offers around the 25th December to New Year. They have, in the
past opened up the whole database as a "Chanukah" present. One year, instead
of a half a dozen Kravitz names, the total, with full addresses, went up to
32.

David Kravitz
Netanya, Israel

Michael Bernet wrote:

A perusal of Beider's Dictionary of Ashkenazi Given Names shows the vast
majority of the occurrence of the name Anshel etc is in Germanic countries.
There is nothing at all surprising in some Jews in Slavic countries picking up
a name like Hansl that was popular in Germanic countries, or of giving it a
Slavic spelling. Anyone come across American Jews named Ian, Patrick,
Andrew, Samantha, Krystal, or Cindi?

As a matter of fact I have. I am an American born Jew with the name Andrew
Ian. My last name is HANS.

We trace back to Sighet and Kretchinev in Maramros, Hungary. In what is now
Romania.

Andrew Hans
East Northport, NY

Michael Bernet wrote:

A perusal of Beider's Dictionary of Ashkenazi Given Names shows the vast
majority of the occurrence of the name Anshel etc is in Germanic countries.
There is nothing at all surprising in some Jews in Slavic countries picking up
a name like Hansl that was popular in Germanic countries, or of giving it a
Slavic spelling. Anyone come across American Jews named Ian, Patrick,
Andrew, Samantha, Krystal, or Cindi?

As a matter of fact I have. I am an American born Jew with the name Andrew
Ian. My last name is HANS.

We trace back to Sighet and Kretchinev in Maramros, Hungary. In what is now
Romania.

Andrew Hans
East Northport, NY