Within the planned commemorative publication about the Rabbi Professor
Phillip HEIDENHEIM (1814-1906) in Sondershausen (Thuringia) I am writing an article about his family.
The rabbi was married to Karolina LESER (1812-1897).

I am looking for information about the families of their 6 children:
Richard HEIDENHEIM and Julie FLECHTHEIM, later in Wiesbaden,
Henriette "Jettchen" HEIDENHEIM and Felix Siegmund BIER, later in Sondershausen,
Louis HEIDENHEIM and Anna POTT, later in Cologne,
Bruno HEIDENHEIM and Sabine LANDAUER, later in Cologne,
Gustav HEIDENHEIM and Rosalie OPPENHEIM, later in Chemnitz
Amalie HEIDENHEIM and Heinrich Ludwig EHRENBERG, later in Hannover.
I am interested in more information about the descendants of the named
children, above all according Prof. Dr. Richard BIER (BIER-PASCHA), born 1865 in
Munster, and lawyer Dr. Arthur HEIDENHEIM, born 1888 in Cologen, murdered 1944 in Auschwitz.
The book will be published in June, 2006. Thank you very much in advance!

Juergen Nitsche, Chemnitz, Germany - JuNitsche@...

Researching:
HEIDENHEIM - Bleicherode, Sondershausen, Chemnitz, Cologne, Wiesbaden,
LESER - Bleicherode,
OPPENHEIM - Cologne,
FLECHTHEIM - Wiesbaden
BIER - Sondershausen, Munster, Berlin
LANDAUER - Cologne
EHRENBERG - Hannover
POTT - Zepperfeld

Within the planned commemorative publication about the Rabbi Professor
Phillip HEIDENHEIM (1814-1906) in Sondershausen (Thuringia) I am writing an article about his family.
The rabbi was married to Karolina LESER (1812-1897).

I am looking for information about the families of their 6 children:
Richard HEIDENHEIM and Julie FLECHTHEIM, later in Wiesbaden,
Henriette "Jettchen" HEIDENHEIM and Felix Siegmund BIER, later in Sondershausen,
Louis HEIDENHEIM and Anna POTT, later in Cologne,
Bruno HEIDENHEIM and Sabine LANDAUER, later in Cologne,
Gustav HEIDENHEIM and Rosalie OPPENHEIM, later in Chemnitz
Amalie HEIDENHEIM and Heinrich Ludwig EHRENBERG, later in Hannover.
I am interested in more information about the descendants of the named
children, above all according Prof. Dr. Richard BIER (BIER-PASCHA), born 1865 in
Munster, and lawyer Dr. Arthur HEIDENHEIM, born 1888 in Cologen, murdered 1944 in Auschwitz.
The book will be published in June, 2006. Thank you very much in advance!

Juergen Nitsche, Chemnitz, Germany - JuNitsche@...

Researching:
HEIDENHEIM - Bleicherode, Sondershausen, Chemnitz, Cologne, Wiesbaden,
LESER - Bleicherode,
OPPENHEIM - Cologne,
FLECHTHEIM - Wiesbaden
BIER - Sondershausen, Munster, Berlin
LANDAUER - Cologne
EHRENBERG - Hannover
POTT - Zepperfeld

Anyone with access to published United Synagogue UK marriages index
kindly advise me the mame of father of the groom in

Edward Singer marriage to Rachel Solomon Sept Qtr 1849
Julius Singer marriage to Frederica Woolf 20-Sep-1837
Jacob Singer marriage to Elizabeth ? Mar Qtr 1848

Aubrey Jacobus
London

Anyone with access to published United Synagogue UK marriages index
kindly advise me the mame of father of the groom in

Edward Singer marriage to Rachel Solomon Sept Qtr 1849
Julius Singer marriage to Frederica Woolf 20-Sep-1837
Jacob Singer marriage to Elizabeth ? Mar Qtr 1848

Aubrey Jacobus
London

There is a good chance that the town of inquiry is really Pustary located at
5406, 1539. (Especially if you are going by a handwritten note.)
Barbara Zimmer
Virginia

Dick Wenig wrote:

There is a good chance that the town of inquiry is really Pustary located at
5406, 1539. (Especially if you are going by a handwritten note.)
Barbara Zimmer
Virginia

Dick Wenig wrote:

I am looking for records of SHULTIS Ana born 1891 in Cerna Voda in Bohemia
, daughter of Shultis Joseph and Latmann Ana ,
( maybe spelling is not correct ) .

Cicic Goran,
Osijek,
Croatia

MODERATOR NOTE: You may also try entering your information into the
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surnames currently being researched by Jewish genealogists worldwide.
By using the JGFF, you can learn about others who are seeking ancestors of
the same surname or town of origin.
The website is http://www.jewishgen.org/jgff/ .

I am looking for records of SHULTIS Ana born 1891 in Cerna Voda in Bohemia
, daughter of Shultis Joseph and Latmann Ana ,
( maybe spelling is not correct ) .

Cicic Goran,
Osijek,
Croatia

MODERATOR NOTE: You may also try entering your information into the
JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF), which is a database of ancestral towns and
surnames currently being researched by Jewish genealogists worldwide.
By using the JGFF, you can learn about others who are seeking ancestors of
the same surname or town of origin.
The website is http://www.jewishgen.org/jgff/ .

Missouri birth certificates

I obtained certificates in the past. Go on line to
http://www.state.mo.us/ and search "birth certificates".
They were very co-operative. I called and talked to someone. Since I had
the information, no search was necessary and the cost for a copy was $. 50.

Irwin S. Alpern
Metro Detroit, MI


Subject: Adoption records - Kansas City, MO
From: "Mimi Katz" <GeveretKatz@...>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:58:15 -0500
X-Message-Number: 4

Can someone please tell me if original birth records and/or adoption records
are accessible in Kansas City, MO, for 1918-1925?

Thank you,
Mimi Katz, Chicago

Missouri birth certificates

I obtained certificates in the past. Go on line to
http://www.state.mo.us/ and search "birth certificates".
They were very co-operative. I called and talked to someone. Since I had
the information, no search was necessary and the cost for a copy was $. 50.

Irwin S. Alpern
Metro Detroit, MI


Subject: Adoption records - Kansas City, MO
From: "Mimi Katz" <GeveretKatz@...>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 22:58:15 -0500
X-Message-Number: 4

Can someone please tell me if original birth records and/or adoption records
are accessible in Kansas City, MO, for 1918-1925?

Thank you,
Mimi Katz, Chicago

Pierre Kogan of Strasbourg asked: "I'm searching for
the fate of a European family, (>from Romania or
Austria
and Turkey): EFFRAYIM Aaron, his wife BAUM Rosa and
their daughters Becky, Rebecca born 1923 and Dora born
1924? The daughters married and lived in Beyrouth or
Aleppo. Were there internment's camps in Lebanon and
Syria for European Jews in 1939-40?"

I was interested to read Pierre Kogan's enquiry re
internment camps in Lebanon and Syria in WW2 and would
like to comment on Nick Landau's reply.

Lebanon and Syria could certainly not be described as
French colonies - they were mandated territories - and
the British could certainly not let the Vichy
Goverment rule in that area in WW2, so the British
took control in 1941. Search for 1941:
http://tinyurl.com/8k4rj

Many countries in the Middle East had large Jewish
populations and Pierre's EFFRAYIM family of Beirut and
Aleppo sounds fairly typical of the families you could
find dotted all over this area, including Egypt.

You may be surprised to hear that at a certain period,
at the turn of the twentieth century, one of the
largest foreign communities in Egypt was deemed to be
*Austrian*. This in fact encompassed Jews >from many
areas of the Eastern fringes of the Habsburg Empire
who often married into local, longer established local
Sephardic families.

I suspect that the EFFRAYIM family was living and
trading happily in Lebanon and Syria and departed some
time after the commencement of hostilities with
Israel. They would not have been in danger in WW2,
except if Rommel had broken through at "el Alamein".

We all owe *Monty and his 8th Army* a great debt.
I should know, as I was in Alexandria and still
remember the sound of the great artillery barrage -
and I was a very small child in 1942.

Celia Male [U.K.]

Pierre Kogan of Strasbourg asked: "I'm searching for
the fate of a European family, (>from Romania or
Austria
and Turkey): EFFRAYIM Aaron, his wife BAUM Rosa and
their daughters Becky, Rebecca born 1923 and Dora born
1924? The daughters married and lived in Beyrouth or
Aleppo. Were there internment's camps in Lebanon and
Syria for European Jews in 1939-40?"

I was interested to read Pierre Kogan's enquiry re
internment camps in Lebanon and Syria in WW2 and would
like to comment on Nick Landau's reply.

Lebanon and Syria could certainly not be described as
French colonies - they were mandated territories - and
the British could certainly not let the Vichy
Goverment rule in that area in WW2, so the British
took control in 1941. Search for 1941:
http://tinyurl.com/8k4rj

Many countries in the Middle East had large Jewish
populations and Pierre's EFFRAYIM family of Beirut and
Aleppo sounds fairly typical of the families you could
find dotted all over this area, including Egypt.

You may be surprised to hear that at a certain period,
at the turn of the twentieth century, one of the
largest foreign communities in Egypt was deemed to be
*Austrian*. This in fact encompassed Jews >from many
areas of the Eastern fringes of the Habsburg Empire
who often married into local, longer established local
Sephardic families.

I suspect that the EFFRAYIM family was living and
trading happily in Lebanon and Syria and departed some
time after the commencement of hostilities with
Israel. They would not have been in danger in WW2,
except if Rommel had broken through at "el Alamein".

We all owe *Monty and his 8th Army* a great debt.
I should know, as I was in Alexandria and still
remember the sound of the great artillery barrage -
and I was a very small child in 1942.

Celia Male [U.K.]

Dear J'genners,

Recently I inherited a box of silent home movies (8 mm and Super 8),
numbering nearly 30 3" (8 cm) reels, and a smaller number of larger reels.
They date >from 1948-1978, are all Kodachrome(R) with color still bright.
Two have minor vinegar syndrome (acetic-acid smell), which I have
segregated >from the rest. I would like to preserve all of the films and
distribute copies to a number of relatives.

I have projectors, but am afraid to run the films through the projectors;
I also have a hand-cranked editor through which I have viewed several of
the films.

The goals I have are:
1) Digitize or otherwise make archival high-quality copies for
preservation (along with the original reels, of course) at the original
filming speed (16 fps for regular 8 mm; 18 fps for super 8)
2) Make digital disks of some sort (DVD?) for general distribution
3) Edit and put titles and subtitles to denote who is who on the images.
(Perhaps do this with home editing systems on computer?)

Can any of you archivists comment privately on what companies can help?
The standard "video-transfer mills" I am probably not interested in, for
most cannot transfer at the original filming speed, nor are they
interested in archival high-quality preservation.

Thanks,
Dr. Stephen Cohen
Central NJ

Dear J'genners,

Recently I inherited a box of silent home movies (8 mm and Super 8),
numbering nearly 30 3" (8 cm) reels, and a smaller number of larger reels.
They date >from 1948-1978, are all Kodachrome(R) with color still bright.
Two have minor vinegar syndrome (acetic-acid smell), which I have
segregated >from the rest. I would like to preserve all of the films and
distribute copies to a number of relatives.

I have projectors, but am afraid to run the films through the projectors;
I also have a hand-cranked editor through which I have viewed several of
the films.

The goals I have are:
1) Digitize or otherwise make archival high-quality copies for
preservation (along with the original reels, of course) at the original
filming speed (16 fps for regular 8 mm; 18 fps for super 8)
2) Make digital disks of some sort (DVD?) for general distribution
3) Edit and put titles and subtitles to denote who is who on the images.
(Perhaps do this with home editing systems on computer?)

Can any of you archivists comment privately on what companies can help?
The standard "video-transfer mills" I am probably not interested in, for
most cannot transfer at the original filming speed, nor are they
interested in archival high-quality preservation.

Thanks,
Dr. Stephen Cohen
Central NJ

My great-grandfather Benjamin BELKIND haLevi, a tailor, was born 1860 in
Boguslav in Kiev Gubernya, as was his wife Rifka WOLINSKY, & his children:

Roza born 1886
Menachem-Mendl born 1888, a studio photographer
Moische (Misha) born 1892, a studio photographer;
Chaim born circa 1893 a studio photographer
Ephraim born circa 1896 died circa 1902 Kishinev

The family moved to Odessa (Peresyp) circa 1892.

My great-great grandfather, Motis-Mendl WOLINSKY, a wheelwright, was born
circa 1780's in Boguslav in Kiev Gubernya, as were his children:

Gusel who imm to London
Rachel-Leah
Yoynah, a soldier for many years
Ephraim, born circa 1830, a wheelwright
Israel (Srulke) b 1845 imm to London. Owned an art gallery.

Ephraim WOLINSKY (same as above) his wife Rachel moved to Odessa circa 1895
with their children:

Rifke born circa 1863 died in Kishinev circa 1902
Lea born circa 1863 imm to Brooklyn Married Mr. Teplitsky
Sarah born circa 1866 imm to Alexandria, Jaffa, Brooklyn
Moishe born circa 1870 imm to England then to USA
Ite born circa 1877 imm to Melbourne
Leib imm to Alexandria then Palestine
Yankel an engineer on water projects imm to Alexandria then Palestine

Best, Steve Orlen
Tucson, AZ

My great-grandfather Benjamin BELKIND haLevi, a tailor, was born 1860 in
Boguslav in Kiev Gubernya, as was his wife Rifka WOLINSKY, & his children:

Roza born 1886
Menachem-Mendl born 1888, a studio photographer
Moische (Misha) born 1892, a studio photographer;
Chaim born circa 1893 a studio photographer
Ephraim born circa 1896 died circa 1902 Kishinev

The family moved to Odessa (Peresyp) circa 1892.

My great-great grandfather, Motis-Mendl WOLINSKY, a wheelwright, was born
circa 1780's in Boguslav in Kiev Gubernya, as were his children:

Gusel who imm to London
Rachel-Leah
Yoynah, a soldier for many years
Ephraim, born circa 1830, a wheelwright
Israel (Srulke) b 1845 imm to London. Owned an art gallery.

Ephraim WOLINSKY (same as above) his wife Rachel moved to Odessa circa 1895
with their children:

Rifke born circa 1863 died in Kishinev circa 1902
Lea born circa 1863 imm to Brooklyn Married Mr. Teplitsky
Sarah born circa 1866 imm to Alexandria, Jaffa, Brooklyn
Moishe born circa 1870 imm to England then to USA
Ite born circa 1877 imm to Melbourne
Leib imm to Alexandria then Palestine
Yankel an engineer on water projects imm to Alexandria then Palestine

Best, Steve Orlen
Tucson, AZ

Hi Tim,
I knew Kasreel Joffe in the city of my birth, Pretoria.
He was a butcher in the old market in Pretoria. He had two, possibly three
children. His son Meyer studied law and became very successful. I believe he
became a judge and possibly still lives in Pretoria. He had a sister but I
cannot recall her name.
Unfortunately I cannot answer your question as to his origin, but you could
try the SA white pages and call or write.
I also believe that the brother of my paternal grandfather, Myer Gold
married Ray Sternberg b. Joffe who originated in Rokiskis.
Regards,
Clive Gold
Zefat, Israel
Researching: Abromowitz, Abrams >from Rokiskis (Raduta)

We at the Israel Genealogical Society [IGS] are fairly bursting our
buttons with pride in the one day seminar [Yom Iyun] that we have
arranged for the 28th of November 2005 at Beit Hatefutzot [the
Diaspora Museum] on the Tel Aviv University campus. If you could have
one genealogical wish, wouldn't it be that you could find that
illusive document that would allow you to prove once and for all that
a tie that binds was true? We at the IGS have been feverishly working
for over a year to arrange just such a seminar that would allow you
to find the missing key.

Without fear of contradiction, I can categorically state that every
Jewish family in the world has family - known or unknown - in
Israel. Our seminar, "Family Roots in the Land of Israel and in the
World," will demonstrate what I mean. We have invited archivists >from
the smaller, but sometimes more interesting archives, to address us
with talks on their holdings. When we invited proposals, even we
didn't know details of all the treasures these archives hold, but
after reading the abstracts and talking with the archivists, it is
hard not to jump up and down with enthusiasm!

Go to our website's direct seminar access:

http://www.isragen.org.il/NROS/YY2005/

There you can get .pdf files in Hebrew and/or in English of the
program, the abstracts and the biographies of the speakers. See for
yourself what an incredible program we have arranged for you! >from
our opening keynote speaker on Eastern European Aliyah >from the late
1800's to 1920, to a detailed description of the microfilm collection
of the Diaspora Museum, at the close of the day, you will be
enthralled for the entire time.

One caveat: regretfully, places are limited due to the number of
seats available and we can only accept reservations on a first come
first serve basis. Early registration ends on 10 November, if there
are still places available. Registration includes coffee and cake and
a chance for a greatly discounted hot lunch, but here too, places are
limited. Please register early so you will not be disappointed. When
the places are gone, they are gone and that's it.

The registration form can be downloaded at

http://www.isragen.org.il/NROS/YY2005/YY-reg-HE-2005.pdf

You are going to love this day and we are looking forward to seeing
you there!

Martha Levinson Lev-Zion
for the Organizing Committee
Israel Genealogical Society

Hi Tim,
I knew Kasreel Joffe in the city of my birth, Pretoria.
He was a butcher in the old market in Pretoria. He had two, possibly three
children. His son Meyer studied law and became very successful. I believe he
became a judge and possibly still lives in Pretoria. He had a sister but I
cannot recall her name.
Unfortunately I cannot answer your question as to his origin, but you could
try the SA white pages and call or write.
I also believe that the brother of my paternal grandfather, Myer Gold
married Ray Sternberg b. Joffe who originated in Rokiskis.
Regards,
Clive Gold
Zefat, Israel
Researching: Abromowitz, Abrams >from Rokiskis (Raduta)

We at the Israel Genealogical Society [IGS] are fairly bursting our
buttons with pride in the one day seminar [Yom Iyun] that we have
arranged for the 28th of November 2005 at Beit Hatefutzot [the
Diaspora Museum] on the Tel Aviv University campus. If you could have
one genealogical wish, wouldn't it be that you could find that
illusive document that would allow you to prove once and for all that
a tie that binds was true? We at the IGS have been feverishly working
for over a year to arrange just such a seminar that would allow you
to find the missing key.

Without fear of contradiction, I can categorically state that every
Jewish family in the world has family - known or unknown - in
Israel. Our seminar, "Family Roots in the Land of Israel and in the
World," will demonstrate what I mean. We have invited archivists >from
the smaller, but sometimes more interesting archives, to address us
with talks on their holdings. When we invited proposals, even we
didn't know details of all the treasures these archives hold, but
after reading the abstracts and talking with the archivists, it is
hard not to jump up and down with enthusiasm!

Go to our website's direct seminar access:

http://www.isragen.org.il/NROS/YY2005/

There you can get .pdf files in Hebrew and/or in English of the
program, the abstracts and the biographies of the speakers. See for
yourself what an incredible program we have arranged for you! >from
our opening keynote speaker on Eastern European Aliyah >from the late
1800's to 1920, to a detailed description of the microfilm collection
of the Diaspora Museum, at the close of the day, you will be
enthralled for the entire time.

One caveat: regretfully, places are limited due to the number of
seats available and we can only accept reservations on a first come
first serve basis. Early registration ends on 10 November, if there
are still places available. Registration includes coffee and cake and
a chance for a greatly discounted hot lunch, but here too, places are
limited. Please register early so you will not be disappointed. When
the places are gone, they are gone and that's it.

The registration form can be downloaded at

http://www.isragen.org.il/NROS/YY2005/YY-reg-HE-2005.pdf

You are going to love this day and we are looking forward to seeing
you there!

Martha Levinson Lev-Zion
for the Organizing Committee
Israel Genealogical Society