Looking at other pages in the group, it is 12th Lane. There are other numbered “Lanes” in this enumeration. However, I was not able to locate any numbered lanes in Jackson Heights. Maybe someone who knows the area can help.

Laurie Sosna
San Francisco, CA

I found Philip/Eisig’s ship manifest list, from information in the index card for his certificate of arrival on Ancestry.com, which showed he arrived in 1913 on the SS Patricia. I looked for anyone born 1900 +/- 5 years, arriving in 1913 on the Patricia, last name starting with E, using SteveMorse.org. No wonder it was hard to find him – his name was mistakenly entered as Efruzim Eisig, with Eisig being the surname. It is him, because it says he is coming from Schodnica, Austria. He is listed as born 1896, occupation of iron dealer, going to his brother-in-law Chaim Arbent (or something similar) on 712 East 5^th Str., NYC. His nearest relative back home is father Janos Eisig. Obviously ‘Janos’ is the Hungarian-ized form of a Yiddish first name, but I don’t know enough to speculate about what the first name might be. I’m sure others can offer a more educated guess about what the father’s first name likely was. The manifest also says Eisig paid for his own ticket.

Manifest: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JNY6-PJD

Does the name Chaim Arbent sound familiar? Do you know of any siblings that Eisig/Philip had, who were married to a Chaim (or Hyman, or Herman, or something similar)?

Another useful record would be a photo of Philip’s gravestone, which will give you the Hebrew name of his father.

If Philip/Eisig really was only 15 years old, it wasn’t unusual for persons of that age to add a few years, to appear to the immigration officials as old enough to hold a job and support oneself. Plus, I’ve seen numerous instances of 15 year old persons traveling by themselves, usually to join an older sibling or parent already in the US. I also notice on the second page of Eisig/Philip’s WW I draft card that it says he wasn’t certain of when he was born (not unusual for that time).

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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

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Barbara Sloan
Conway, SC

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June Genis, 650--851-5224
Hemet, CA
Researching: GENIS, OKUN, SUSMAN, ETTINGER, KESSLER/CHESLER (Russian/Polish Empires)

Lee Jaffe is correct, in that the two letters bet-resh usually are understood to stand for the words 'Ben Reb', the son of Reb (an honorific)" (father's name).  When the deceased is a female, the standard word is the spelled-out "Bat" meaning daughter of.

However, many abbreviations have more than one reading.  Thus,the letter Bet can represent both the words Ben, son, and Bat, daughter.

I have seen other women's tombstones that have Bet-Resh rather than the word Bat.


Fredel Fruhman
Brooklyn, New York, USA

The details found by Shimon Sporn include the father's name:  Harry.

On the tombstone, the father's name is given as Tzvi.

Here is the most likely connection.   Tzvi is Hebrew for deer.  In Yiddish, dear is Hirsch/Hersh, etc.   Men with the Hebrew name Tzvi therefore often have a secular name that is a sound-alike for Hersh, such as Harry, Harold, Herbert ...
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Fredel Fruhman
Brooklyn, New York, USA

My name is Nina Schwartz. I am a volunteer graphic designer working with JewishGen on Yizkor books.

Do you have old family photos from when your relatives lived in Przedecz, Poland? The English translation of the Memorial Book of Przedecz will soon be ready to print, and photos are needed for the book cover. 

It is difficult to find good 1880-1947 photos online, and JewishGen cannot afford to license them from Getty Images, Alamy, USHMM, etc. 

I am looking for photos that show:

1. The Jewish part of town, with Jewish buildings such as synagogues, study houses, marketplace, shops, houses, schools, etc. Old postcards may be used. 
2. Non-family groups, such as a class, zionist group, factory workers, professional group, or just people at work or play.
3. Single portraits and family groups, 1-20 people.

Images must be in good focus, but do not have to be in perfect condition. I may even be able to repair fading, rips, blotches and other problems, making your photo more useful to you.

If you have old photos, please don’t send them yet. Write to me at artstop@... for instructions on how to scan them in high resolution (needed for book publication), or re-photograph them. 
I look forward to hearing from you soon. Many thanks in advance for your kind help!

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Nina Schwartz
artstop@...

Am I wrong or does the name inscription say BR, as in “son of”?  
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Lee Jaffe
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Surnames / Towns:  Jaffe / Suchowola, Poland ; Stein (Sztejnsapir) / Bialystok and Rajgrod ; Roterozen / Rajgrod ; Joroff (Jaroff, Zarov) / Chernigov, Ukraine ; Schwartz (Schwarzstein) / Ternivka, Ukraine ;  Weinblatt / Brooklyn, Perth Amboy, NJ ; Koshkin / Snovsk, Ukraine ; Rappoport / ? ; Braun / Wizajny, Suwalki,  Ludwinowski / Wizajny, Suwalki

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Judy Simon wrote:

as most Ashkenazi Jews (and many non-Ashkenazim too) may descend >from this
Medieval Jewish family hypothesized to have been thrown in the well
during a pogrom in Norwich in 1190.

Why would there be an assumption that "most Ashkenazi Jews" would have descended from this family?  Even in the late 12th century, Jews were dispersed across Europe, weren't they?

 
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Barbara Sloan
Conway, SC

This for people who attended the IAJGS Conference 2022 - Thanks to Gil Bardige for directions to the above Chats by Avrohom Krauss.  See the blurb above repeated here and edited for clarity:

"For all those interested in joining Avrohom Krauss (kraussfig@...), I have scheduled three Discussion Group chat sessions to ask, add and shmooze about my recent conference presentations at the IAJGS Conference.
1. "All about Landsmanshaftn" will take place this coming Sunday Sept 4 from 2:00-3:00 PM (Eastern).
2. "All About Death Records" will follow on Sunday Sep 11, 2:00-3:00 PM (Eastern)
3. "Russian Immigrant Jews of Philadelphia and Chain Migration" will take place Sunday Sep 18, 2:00-3:00 PM (Eastern).

If you want to join these chats and were a paid attendee to to the link below - log in and follow the directions above.

It's at the Conference website > Chat Room > Group Chat search, that is open until October 25.

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Regards,

Arthur Sissman

Jewish Genealogy SIG of Collier/Lee Co FL

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Researching: ZISMAN/ZYSMAN/ZUSMAN (Belarus); TELESHEVSKY (Belarus); CHANUTIN, (W. Russia), BRODY, (Hungary); FRIEDMAN, (Hungary); GRAUBARD, (Romania/Ukraine)

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I am about to start reading. My uncle, born in Tetiev, lost a brother in a pogrom and could not talk about his experiences for decades. Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye's novel A Farm Called Kishinev imagines a Jewish refugee who escapes a pogrom and settles in what is now Kenya.
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Carol Sicherman
Oakland,CA

I would agree with Steve, a mistake was made. I found her death extract in the DB of Familysearch which is also referenced in ancestry.com. I copied/pasted it below. It says her death was on December 7th. 
Chencha or Chantchie is a common Yiddish Derivative of the names Chana or Henya. 
An observation: Being as the Gregorian Date of Death was December 7, unless the New York City Clerk erred in dates, but the stone says that she died on the 30th of the Jewish month,  then she died some time Friday evening between after sunset and midnight, which was on the Shabbos. The engraver was probably told she died on Shabbos so he engraved December 8. That Friday night of her death December 7, was the beginning of the 30th day of the Jewish Month of Kislev, which at the same time was the celebrated eve of the Sixth night of Chanukah and also the first celebratory Day of Rosh Chodesh Tevet (beginning of Tevet), of which the second day of Rosh Chodesh is the next day the first day of the month of Tevet. Both days have extra prayers. What should have been a happy evening for the family being Shabbos & Chanukah became a sad one. The deceased must have been a very special woman, being as she merited passing away on Shabbos. According to our tradition the Gates of Gehenom-hell are closed on Shabbos thus anyone who dies, their souls enter directly into Gan Eden. When that happens we generally wait until after the Shabbos ends Saturday night after dark to bury the deceased. Burials are not done on Shabbos. Being as Mrs Rosenbloom died Friday Night on the Shabbat, then her funeral and burial was not done until Sunday the 9th, as written in the death record. According to biblical tradition, Great Pious and Holy Jewish leaders like Joseph, Moses and King David all died on the Shabbos.
Here is the death Certificate Extract.

Name	Anna Rosenbloom
Sex	Female
Age	60
Address	101 W 60 St.
Burial Date	9 Dec 1923
Death Date	7 Dec 1923
Death Place	Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Death Place (Original)	Manhattan, New York, New York, United States
Birth Year (Estimated)	1863
Birthplace	Poland
Marital Status	Widowed
Race	White
Father's Name	Harry
Father's Sex	Male
Father's Birthplace	Poland
Mother's Name	Adele Cohen
Mother's Sex	Female
Mother's Birthplace	Poland
Event Type	Death
Certificate Number	cn 29574
Additional Relatives	X
Cemetery	Mt. Hebron Cem.
Note	101 W 60 St.

 

I am looking to retain someone to research birth, marriage and death records for members of my family that were killed in the Shoah.  They all lived in Eastern Slovakia.  Fluency in Slovakish/Hungarian is probably a must. 

On another, but related, topic, I am looking for a translation of "Šiesty prápor, na stráž! (by Emil Knieza, 1964)" (also known as Jankel Tannenbaum's Kompanie) and Kóšer rota ("The Kosher Battalion," 1966) by the same author. If anyone is aware of an English translation I would be most appreciative.

Please reply to me at Newlaw1995@... or (513) 678-3379
Thank you

"Here lies our dear mother,Khentcheh daughter of Zvi, died 30th of Tevet 5684" (January 7, 1924)
Obviously, either the civil or the Hebrew date is wrong.  December 8, 1923 = 30th of Kislev 5684.
I would say that the error is in the Hebrew month.  However, the only way to be sure is to reference some other document (death certificate, obituary, etc.)
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Steve Goldberg
Jerusalem, Israel
Researching:
Sagan/Shagan family from Veliuona (Velon), Lithuania
Goldberg family from Vidukle, Lithuania
Susselovitch/Zuselovitch family from Raseiniai (Rassein), Lithuania

When my Mom and I were making arrangements for my sister's stone (I was executor of her insolvent estate, and my Mom was bankrolling the stone from her own limited funds), the monuments guy initially suggested the inscription "Beloved Mother, Sister, & Daughter," but Mom adamantly insisted "Beloved Daughter, Sister, & Mother."

The main reason my sister's estate was insolvent was because her son had pilfered her bank accounts, maxxed out her credit cards, and fenced much of her chattels in order to support his substance abuse habit; he had even sold my sister's prescription pain medications.  My Mom had cut off her communications with the son, out of a (most highly justified) concern that he might pull similar shtick on her (the son at the time had been re-arrested for violating his parole, and was in the Big House).

That is why my sister's matsevah bears its subtly unconventional inscription.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/128696317/carol-ruth-ryesky

-- Ken Ryesky
Petach Tikva, ISRAEL

Researching:
Raisky, Shkolnik(ov), Aronov, Aerov [Gomel]
Gertzig, Brodsky [Yelizavetgrad]
Brodsky, Ludvig, Vasilesky, Silberman [Odessa]
Arshenov, Israelson [Yevpatoriya].

I should have said that JI wanted to sell the rimonim to a museum in Boston that had made a multi-million dollar offer. 

Susan Graber Slusky 
Highland Park, NJ

Hi,
Could you tell us how to join the IAJGS Discussion Group Chat?  What platform? Where? etc.
Thanks.
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Regards,

Arthur Sissman

Jewish Genealogy SIG of Collier/Lee Co FL

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What I know of the story from friends who attend there:

The building was abandoned in the early nineteenth century and that original congregation handed over the keys to Shearith Israel. Then a new congregation formed in the late nineteenth century and began holding services there  
under the dollar a year agreement cited. The maintenance, heating, etc were paid for by the new congregation Jeshuat Israel. All went well until maybe five or ten years ago JI needed serious money to put into the building and wanted to sell a set of rimonim made by Paul Revere or his workshop. That’s what the news article calls bells. SI said you can’t sell them, they’re ours. And it’s been lawsuits ever since. 

Susan Slusky
Highland Park, NJ

ב״ה

Dear Dr. Nussbaum:

”…Polish Christians very rarely had toponymic names”?  What about all of the -ski surnames?

Best wishes,

Yale J. Reisner
Warsaw, Poland
JGFF #913980
<yalereisner@...>