Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

To further complicate the issue, the 1900 Census lists my grandparents and their children (one being my father) as living on 31 Marion Place, Ward 14,  which is different than the newspaper article of 10/4/1900 which lists their address as N. Paulina St.  I know that Census data are often collected a year or so prior to their release so it is quite possible that they moved in the interim. The newspaper article refers to my grandfather as a “leader in his synagogue” but that does not necessarily mean he is an “officer.”  My father never referred to his dad in this way but my dad talked very little about his upbringing. 



Alice Simon Berger

In the frameworks of the MGV Scanning Project, 1876 and 1880 collections of this newspaper were added to https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CbJof4iaJAXspOPKeMmFyEinCY2Ky5bG
These issues are rich with valuable genealogical information containing conscription lists, property sellouts, extracts from birth records, police and court searches, etc.
To enhance the project and publish more, we still need your support.
Those who are interested to help, please contact me.

Shlomo Gurevich
Hoshaya, Israel
shl2gur@...
http://shl2gur.tripod.com

Moderator note: Please contact privately 

That is some of the worst handwriting I've ever seen!  

I think that the parenthetical statement under contributing causes is "burned at home 3 months ago."  I can't make it all of the words under the cause of death, but it appears to reference "burns of R [right]" something.


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Ellen Morosoff Pemrick 
Saratoga County, NY

Researching WEISSMAN/VAYSMAN (Ostropol, Ukraine); MOROZ and ESTRIN/ESTERKIN (Shklov & Bykhov, Belarus); LESSER/LESZEROVITZ, MAIMAN, and BARNETT/BEINHART/BERNHART (Lithuania/Latvia); and ROSENSWEIG/ROSENZWEIG, KIRSCHEN, and SCHWARTZ (Botosani, Romania)

I am writing to get help finding out where in Poland my great grandparents came from. Most census reports say they came from Russia. A 1930 census says my great grandmother came from Poland. I have my great grandfather’s name as Jacob (Yaakov Moshe) FILSON, born in 1868.   His parents were Hartsch and Ida. In 1890 he married Rachel LANGBORD/LONGBORD. Rachel, and I assume Jacob, arrived in the United States in 1894/1895. My grandmother, Sarah, and her twin, Ida, were born May 22, 1895. Jacob died in 1904 and is buried in the Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn as Jacob Philson. The burial society section he is buried in is Ahaves Achim Ashe Ossmony. Is this: brotherly love, people of Ossmony. I can't find a translation for Ossmony or a town with that name. Any help would be appreciated.

William Dore Binder

I would be interested in seeing it's contents online. My father zl " cleaned up" the Warsaw ghetto under Nazi bayonet force. He could never forget the sight of dead Jewish children, of Jews shot dead while on the toilet. I want to read anything I can that may be descriptive as well, someone who was able to handle writing it down. In this day and age of online and globalism as well as pandemic and aging of survivors and disability inclusiveness, this might also be a place to question whether the proprietary nature of museum ownerships should apply, requiring permissions for survivors to hear pertinent survivor testimonies, these are location less and they do not belong to Poland certainly. They don't belong to any memorial museum. If anything they belong to the Jewish people and by extension to their natural homeland Israel, but even there, they must do more to digitize and not charge to see what for so many is still their own or family experience. So after this exhibit, let all these diaries be published online as their writers intended to make sure all knew eventually what had happened. I will also add that if all the people entering the ghetto revolted against the Nazi guards at the same time and no one tolerated it, it would have ended sooner. And to the comparison with other war crimes, please let's observe the current German chancellors response to Monsour Abbas and request of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and let the Holocaust be a singular example of the extent of profound evil humans can do and stop diminishing it by comparisons that also describe horrors but cannot compete with the structure of the Holocaust, a mechanized evil that should never happen again. To all Jews who engage in these comparisons please note that those you compare to will not come to your aid when you need it. And that tragedies and war crimes can be horrendous on their own without having to compare to the ultimate in evil. This comparison idea was begun by the trolling movement out of Jew hatred to destroy what is our heritage and our claim to Israel and our sympathy card and was continued by the SF and often by militant Arabs so please don't do the comparisons. There is enough empathy to go around and we have also had many tragedies. Those who compare need to learn more about the structure of evil and I suggest looking at the book collection at USHMM.org. f

eigie teichman

My Fidel family reportedly came to the agricultural colony of Ozeran from Kovel circa 1848. The family story is similar to the information you provided. The patriarch of the family had served in the army and was promised the land to farm. He was required to clear the land himself and build his own home. I have been trying to find information about the Fidel, Barr and other families who settled there, but with very little success due to the lack of availability of translated online records. There are several towns with similar names. The one I am looking for was located midway between Rivne/Rovno and Dubno in Volhynia gubernia.

if you have any information about this agricultural colony or any families from this colony, I would be very interested.

Sincerely,
Cary Pollack
Tamarac, Florida

Hello,

I don't know what the snippets have shown you about the Wyona Street Synagogue, but it was located in Brooklyn, in the East New York section. It was started in the 1880s by a group of German Jewish immigrants, and was simply known as the Bikur Cholim of Wyona Street. Eventually, the congregation purchased a building at another location (a former Episcopal church), and changed the name to Temple Sinai. According to a publication linked below, by 1959 it was a Conservative synagogue. In general, I don't think Orthodox synagogues used "temple" in congregational names, especially in the 19th-early 20th centuries. In the 1880s, the Conservative movement was in its formative stage, so the congregation may not have started out that way, in a formal sense.

This is a 1959 population study. Info about the synagogues in East New York can be found on page 220.
https://www.bjpa.org/content/upload/bjpa/broo/BROOKLYN%20COMMUNITIES%20POPULATION%20CHARACTERISTICS%20&%20NEIGHBORHOOD%20SOCIAL%20RESOURCES%20VOL%20I%201959.pdf

You may have found this link, but in case you haven't, there's an archive from the congregation listed by the Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn History. The archive itself is described, and seems to be located at the Brooklyn Historical Society in Brooklyn Heights. (The early synagogue is referred to as Congregation Bikur Cholim in the summary; I doubt they called it that formally, I think it was just the Bikur Cholim, but I could be mistaken. It's possible that the writer was unfamiliar with Hebrew and/or Jewish life.) The summary has a link to the East New York Project website, which also has some info. Link to the historical summary: http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/bhs/arms_2013_004_temple_sinai_goldschmidt/scopecontent.html

Have you checked Brooklyn newspaper archives? There's often a lot of historical info about congregations there. The Brooklyn Eagle was one of several. I believe Newspapers.com has links to Brooklyn papers, and if you have access to the Brooklyn Public Library, you can connect through there as well, if I remember correctly.

I hope this is helpful.

Bette Elsden

I appreciate that your research is more recent than mine which is pre ww2; therefore there may be privacy laws, however here are some that I've tried.

• School board of L'viv -school records  (an address if useful as you can see on a map where schools, synagogue etc are local to the address)

• genealogyindexer.org -  address directories, telephone books

• I had a researcher from L'viv searching archives. There are a number of researchers in L'viv.

• Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine in L'viv

In Ap 2021 I was told that 1920's-1930's voters lists or documents created by L'viv Town Hall & L'viv County Office 1918-1939 should be kept in -

• State Archive L'viv Oblast in L'viv but access was very limited even for local Ukraine researchers. Unsure what else they hold and if access is still limited.
• There is a Facebook L'viv group- this might be able to help.

Good luck
Noreen Clark
(Searching for Szczepanski /Mrozowska, although possibly false names!!)

Hello,
     Apparently a branch of my USVYATSKY family moved to Dzhankoy in Crimea in 1933. Zalman son of Elya and Shayna USVYATSKY (1906-?) moved there from Dubrowna, Belarus with his wife Shosha, his mother in law Sora GINDIN and their daughter Rokha (1931-?).   I would love to know if the USVYATSKY surname (or any of its variants such as USVYAT, USVYATSEV or USVYATSOV) shows up on any of your lists.
     Thank you very much,

                    Judy Petersen

Researching: USVYATSKY from Rossasna, Dubrowna, Orsha, Vitebsk (all in Belarus)

Looks like a SW or WS.

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Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey

You need to contact Professor Ruth Leiserowitz of East Prussia Interest group:

http://easteurotopo.org/articles/leiserowitz/
https://www.dhi.waw.pl/en/the-institute/staff/directors/prof-dr-ruth-leiserowitz.html

Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK

In Russian:

 

Слева

На добрую память дорогой сестре и шурину и любезным племяничкам отг Яши Шихмана.

Справа

Слева твой брат, а справа мой товерищ и двоюродный брат (не ясно)

 

Translated into English:

 

On the left
In good memory, dear sister and brother-in-law and kind nephews from Yasha Shikhman.
On the right
On the left is your brother, and on the right is my comrade and cousin (not clear)

Translated by Michael Ryabinky
Boynton Beach, FL

Hi,

A recent post concerning the vessel Adria made me wonder whether anything is known about the vessel Italy. My aunt Theresia Feldmann born December 13th 1897 went to Palestine in 1933 from Vienna. I assume the ship sailed from a port in Italy to Haifa but any details would be gratefully received. I believe she married in Palestine to a David Rosmarin but I have been unable to trace any marriage record. Again any help is much appreciated

Per Immigration record

Mehrsia Feldman
Birth year Circa 1897
Age 36
Arrival Mar 13 1933
Ship Italy
Publication 1933
Page 114

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Peter Heilbrunn
Amersham, England

Hi,

--

The Hebrew text in the second to last line say:
Sarah wife of Yehuda son of Khaim [Khaim is als spelled Chaim. Pronounced Kha-yim)
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Odeda Zlotnick
Jerusalem, Israel.

I have posted a photo on ViewMate of the top of a walking stick for which I ma trying to figure out what part of my family it came from. Already one person has ointed out what I thought might be an "A" in the initials might well be a "W". Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM100943

Thanks in advance!

Larry Briggs

Family lore says that one of our KLIONSKY families was involved with an agricultural colony in/near Khershon as of ~1870, and possibly as early as ~1800.
__________

Does anyone know the answer to this question:  When a person went to join one of these colonies, was that migration reflected on Revision List records?  For one of our KLIONSKY households (Not the one from Khershon), there's a Revision List annotation "transferred to farmers".  Could that be a reflection of joining one of the agricultural colonies?  If this annotation has some interpretation, please advise!

Matthew Klionsky

Looking at the draft card, the place name above 'state' looks like 'Vilner', meaning the Vilna gubernia (province) of the Russian empire. The town name to the left definitely begins with an 'A'; compare with the capital 'A' in Avenue on line 2 for the home address. The town name looks to me like 'Aelitha'.

In the 1930 census, Simon Rudman said that he was born in Lithuania, so he understood that the town he was born in was part of the newly independent country of Lithuania. Taking this all into account, I think that the town is Olita/Alita, which is now known as Alytus. 

To verify more of this, you could find Simon's naturalization papers. In the 1940 census, he says that he was a naturalized citizen.
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Michele Lock

Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock and Kalon/Kolon in Zagare/Joniskis/Gruzdziai, Lithuania
Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock in Plunge/Telsiai in Lithuania
Rabinowitz in Papile, Lithuania and Riga, Latvia
Trisinsky/Trushinsky/Sturisky and Leybman in Dotnuva, Lithuania
Olitsky in Alytus, Suwalki, Poland/Lithuania
Gutman/Goodman in Czestochowa, Poland
Lavine/Lev/Lew in Trenton, New Jersey and Lida/Vilna gub., Belarus

Hello everybody,

Today I want to give you an update on Bessarabia Revision List project.

I believe I already wrote that JewishGen/Bessarabia SIG and Family Search had an agreement that they will send us microfilms if we request them.
We have a list of all microfilms with Bessarabia Revision lists.

Here are a few numbers:
- 343 - total number of Microfilms at FHS with Bessarabia Revision lists (Jewish and non Jewish records)
- 18 - number of microfilms where FHS wrote that they have Jewish records
- 97 - number of microfilms we found Jewish records
- 88 - number of microfilms without any Jewish records
- 158 microfilms we still need to check for Jewish Records!
- about 1000 images are in ONE microfilm

For last week or so, I looked at about 16 microfilms, and found Jewish records in 6 of them!
Here are towns/years newly found:
-Akkerman 1859, Merchants, Middle Class
-Bendery 1859, Merchants, Middle Class
-Akkerman, 1836
-Kaushany, 1835
-Chimishliya, 1835
-Skulyany, 1855
-Yassy uezd, 1875

There is only one person who is helping me in this scanning of the Microfilms...   If we finding Jewish records, we are stopping for that microfilm, and I request a full microfilm at FHS.

It is not an easy work, to scan microfilms,  but if anyone can read handwritten Russian, and would like to help in this project, please let me know right away.

It would be good to finish scanning all remaining microfilms, order microfilms with Jewish records, and plan transcribing, translating projects.

All the best,
Yefim Kogan
JewishGen Bessarabia SIG Leader and Coordinator