To combine the various replies about the date of death:

The Hebrew date was the 7th of Tevet, 5690.  This date began at sunset on January 6th, 1930, and ended at sunset on the 7th.

As to the pronunciation of the Hebrew for "our dear mother":   ee-MAY-nu ha-yeh-kah-RAH.

Mr. Steinberg, you say that you are a new member here.  Welcome.  Are you aware of the ViewMate part of jewishgen?  After you log in, go to this page:  https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/toupload.asp.  There, you can upload up to 5 images at a time (not just gravestones, but letters, documents, etc.).  You will receive the replies directly to your email, and we helpers can easily see each other's responses and add further comments.
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Fredel Fruhman
Brooklyn, New York, USA

It may be that they're just not very traditional. It actually happened in my Ashkenazic-but-very-not-religious family in Vienna, Germany and New York.

My great-grandfather Henry (Heinrich) was named after his father when he was born in Vienna in 1878. Of course, they quickly learned why that was traditionally not a good idea: Henry's twin brother died three days later, and their father, the original Heinrich, died 11 days after the twins were born. But Henry lived until he died of a heart attack at 55 (same cause of death as the original Heinrich, and about the same age).

Also in the family are two Theodores who were named after their uncle, living at the time of their birth, but they didn't have the same misfortune. The original Theodore was born in Nahbollenbach, Germany in 1881 and got to America in 1938, was still living in 1948 at the age of 67. I don't know when he died. One of the Theodore nephews was born in Nahbollenbach in 1907, got to America in 1941, lived to 73. The other Theodore nephew was Henry's son, born in Brooklyn in 1905, lived to 1955. And that New York Theodore had a son Theodore Jr., who is still living at 84.

Hi,

I found something similar in the case of an aunt of my GFather, also from Belarus. Her maiden name was YUDKIN, and she married MERPERT before they moved to Argentina at the 1900's. In various records after they migrated she and their children appear like "MERPERT y YUDKIN" (= Merpert & Yudkin). Someone can explain this?
I found also that he migrated first alone and she and their children did it later. May be this was the reason of the double surname?

Cesar Yeudkin
Israel

I don't see any of the sites validating user-submitted data. But they
have no problems charging us for access to information, often flawed,
provided by other customers!

It's hard to balance the value of sharing our research with the fact
that it's all too easy for anyone to add bad data.
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At 14:11 03/06/2020, you wrote:

I am looking to resolve contradictions in chronology of these hate
laws which child witnesses still alive report starting years before
the codex legislature passed in 1941. I need also dates of when
these actions took effect in eastern Slovakia esp Michalovce. I want
to compare dates of yellow armband and yellow star mandates there
and in entire Slovakia and compare to remainder Europe. Same for not
being allowed in parks or certain streets. I cant find detailed
clear sources that dont contradict. Thank you.
Feigie Teichman 2G
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https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nuremberg-race-laws

David Lewin
London

Search & Unite attempt to help locate people who, despite the passage
of so many years since World War II, may still exist "out there".
We also assist in the process of re-possession of property in the
Czech Republic and Israel.
See our Web pages at https://remember.org/unite/ and at
https://searchandunite.org/

Does anyone know what happened to the Berger family of Panevezys, Lithuania  during WWll?

If anyone happens to know anything about any of those named below, I would be very grateful if you would contact me.

I believe the first of the CLARKES in S. Africa were MAX and ESTHER (nee LANDSBERG) CLARKE (originally SZKLARKIEWICZ or similar) from JEDWABNE or region, Poland. They had lived in the UK (I believe DUBLIN, IRELAND) in the 1880s/1890s, then BULAWAYO in the 1890s/early 1900s, then CAPE TOWN.

MAX and ESTHER CLARKE'S children were MONTAGUE/MONTY CLARKE, NORMAN CLARKE and EVELYN CLARKE.

Montague/Monty married ANGELA. He was a psychiatrist. For unknown reason they committed dual suicide when he was in his eighties. They had a daughter DEANNE CLARKE.

Norman married JEAN (I believe they divorced). I believe he was a stockbroker in JO'BURG. Their children were PENELOPE and PETER CLARKE. Evelyn married PERCY GOULDMANN (but changed family name to SCOTT). Their daughter was BENITA who married a POPE.

Max's sister was MOLLY CLARKE (my great-grandmother). She had been married in POLAND to a STEIGLITZ/SZTYGLIC OR SIMILAR but he apparently died or was killed in the early 1880s while in the army around the time their son, my grandfather SAMUEL, was born. Molly emigrated at that time to DUBLIN and LIVERPOOL UK before CAPE TOWN around 1905.

Molly married JACOB CLARKE in the UK. In addition to SAMUEL CLARKE, they had a daughter GERTIE CLARKE and a son HENRY CLARKE.

SAMUEL married AMELIA BARNETT in the UK and emigrated to UK about 1911. Their children were DENIS Clarke and ARLETTE who emigrated to JO'BURG and married JULES ABELMAN.

GERTIE CLARKE married JOSEPH/JOE MYERS. Joseph's mother was ANN BUIRSKI. Their children were LOLA MYERS who married and divorced HEINZ TRADELIUS in DURBAN, and HORACE/HORATIO MYERS, apparently a child genius who became a doctor, and married and divorce LISELOTTE ASCH.

HENRY CLARKE married AIMEE TUCHTEN who from a previous marriage had a daughter BABETTE. He worked for a shipping company F. J . FAWKES.

I hope to hear from anyone who has even the slightest information about any of these names. That would be much appreciated.

Barry Clarke
From London and Hove, UK, originally. Living now in Sarasota, Florida

I can't improve on the suggestions for the 1905 state census - you have to find the enumeration district.

But for the federal censuses, if you are an ancestry.com user, navigating to the census listing for a specific street is easy, and you can even navigate to a specific address in the 1900, 1920, and 1940 censuses (and 1930, with a little luck). No need for Steve Morse (much as I love him), two-step, finding the enumeration district, browsing through lots of pages, etc.

HOW?

To navigate to a specific street, just enter the street name in the keyword field of the All Collections search form or the Census & Voter List search form, e.g., "halsey street". Make it exact. The quotes are not required, but they help. If you omit them, or omit street, the search will also return records of people named Halsey. You need to know how the street was indexed and may have to try several variations to hit the right one, e.g., "West 3rd street", "W. 3rd street", "West Third street", "W. 3 St." etc.

To go to a specific house number, you need to start over and select a census first. To do this, from the home page, first select "Census and Voter Lists" from the Search drop-down. Then, in the right side bar in the Narrow by Category box, click on US Federal Census Collection. Then scroll down below the search form to find the list of US censuses. Pick the one you want.

The reason for doing this is that each individual census has a custom search form, generally with many more options than the generic census search form. The 1900, 1920, and 1940 search forms include a field for the house number (you can continue to put the street name in the keyword field). Note that the indexing of house numbers in 1920 was rather indifferent. You will get many fewer hits than expected, but open one up and the other residents at the same address will be adjacent.

For 1930, where there is no house number field in the search form, you can try adding the house number to the keyword field. This works most effectively if the house number does not also occur as a year, an age, a family number, an enumeration district, an income, or any of the other numbers that appear on a census page.  For example "14 avenue" 4600 as the keyword (Kings county, New York) pulls up the residents of 4600 14th avenue very nicely.

The 1910 census is the only one of the 20thC censuses for which the house numbers were not indexed at all, and thus there is no option to navigate directly to a house number.

I have no connection to Ancestry.com.

Russ Maurer
Pepper Pike, OH

Since I am actively involved with this project, I am sorry to inform you that the Jewish people are in urgent need of assistance to stop the desecration of the cemetery. Before Corona, the Lithuanian government was about to issue a tender for the reconstruction of the dilapidated Sports Palace to use it as the Lithuanian National Conference Center! For more up-to-date information, please visit the movement's website: SAVEVILNA.ORG. If you wish, you may contact me directly regarding this hugely important Jewish initiative.

Rabbi Elchonon Baron
Ahavas Torah Baranovich
Jerusalem
+972-2-586-7766
1-718-578-4150

If you are serious about your work, stay far, far away from Geni.

The last time FTJP stopped updating trees, there was some message that said you could upload it to Geni and it would get to FTJP. Well. I uploaded 20 years of my life's work to Geni and within a week the entire tree, about 2000 people, was attached to somebody else, somebody who has absolutely no interest in my family. They have a word for those people that I can't think of right now but I call them collectors. Geni's goal is to have one big family tree for everybody so they just cut and paste your work together with other, less diligently researched trees. I deleted my tree from Geni as soon as I saw what was going on but it's still there under the collector's name, and if anybody has any questions about my family, the collector just says, "oh, that's not my tree, I don't know." And I get no notification of this. Also, once it's out of my hands, other people started "correcting" it, making changes to my well-documented facts. YES, this woman married her second cousin, and YES, her father's surname is different from his father's because there was a name change, which is why you're not seeing the relationship, but this is definitely right because I have documentation of the name change and the birth and marriage records on both sides.

I don't know what's going on with FTJP right now. I haven't updated my file in a few years, and frankly I'm not crazy about FTJP since their last change. The "interactive" part doesn't work in many browsers, and even when it works it doesn't work well. I try to keep my information there in case any relatives are using it and come across it but it's been years since I've gotten any inquiries. I liked the way the old one worked, and I replicated it in XSLT for my own use at home.

Tracey Rich, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

My great-grandfather died or was killed while in the army (would have been in Russian army most likely if he was a RUSSIAN POLE, as was his wife). This would have been between 1880 and 1883. Nobody knows his first name. My father believed his family name was STEIGLITZ OR SIMILAR but I am told, while this is possible as parts of Russian Poland were previously in Prussian Empire, the name would more likely be SZTYGLIC OR SIMILAR. Basically, I am optimistically hoping that someone knows of a such-named Russian Pole with this history! The only certain other info I have is that his wife's (my great-grandmother) was MOLLY (MALKA?) SZKLARKIEWICZ OR SIMILAR born early 1860s, maybe in JEDWABNE, where we know her brother MAX (MAKSYMILLIAN?) was born around 1870. Their parents were MARKS AND ZLATO SZKLARKIEWICZ OR SIMILAR. Steiglitz/Styglic and Molly had a son, SAMUEL, my grandfather, born 22 April 1881. We don't know where they married or where Samuel was born. Steiglitz/Styglic apparently died shortly before or shortly after Samuel was born. Molly emigrated to the UK sometime 1881 to 1883. She married a JACOB CLARKE from SEIDLCE who she met on the boat over to the UK, and so my grandfather was given the family name Clarke. Hence, no knowledge about Steiglitz/Sztyglic. Any ideas welcome.

Barry Clarke,
Originally from London and Hove, UK, but living in Sarasota, Florida

In the responses to a recent post (FTJP-Family Tree of the Jewish People) there was some discussion about Geni and some other sites failing to check the soundness of data in submitted family trees.  My question is, do any of these sites perform such checks?  And if they do, how? As desirable as that would be (it would be great!), I can't imagine that any of these sites have enough staff or resources or algorithms to be able to perform such checks.  Or am I missing something?

Erika Gottfried
Teaneck, New Jersey

All,

The JCA applications names for Argentina have recently been added to Jewishgen.org.  For now, it can be found through a global search.

Rob Weisskirch
Former moderator, Latin American SIG

Susan, I just sent a reply and then searched for the Branitsky (sorry, used to Russian spelling) in Russian.

Here is what Wiki says: "Countess Alexandra Vasilyevna Branitskaya, nee Engelhardt, known as Sanya (1754 - September 15, 1838, Bila Tserkva) is the niece and lover of Grigory Potyomkin, wife of the Crown Hetman of Poland, Xavier Branicki." I'll be happy to translate the entire article and look for more info on the family. It's possible that the Alexandria you're looking for was named after her most distinguished grandmother(?).

Bena.