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DNA analysis solves mystery of bodies found at bottom of medieval well
#dna
Bob Silverstein
I will leave you to read this surprising story.
-- Bob Silverstein bobsilverstein@... Elk Grove Village, IL Researching Kaplan (Krynki, Poland) Tzipershteyn (Logishin, Pinsk, Belarus), Friedson/Fridzon (Pinsk, Cuba, Massachusetts), Israel and Goodman (Mishnitz, Warsaw, Manchester).
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NY's Center for Jewish History Appoints New CEO and President
#announcements
#usa
Jan Meisels Allen
The Center for Jewish History, whose five partner institutions make up the largest collection of Jewish history and culture holdings outside of Israel, has named Gavriel Rosenfeld as its next president and Rio Daniel as its next chief executive officer.
Rosenfeld, who will begin his role on Sept. 1, currently serves as the director of the Judaic studies program and a professor of history at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn. He specializes in Holocaust studies, including the history of Nazi Germany, counterfactual history and Holocaust memory.
The center’s five partner organizations are the American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. To read more see:
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Basis for inclusion of George Barnett
#records
Christine Hayes
Investigating a family rumor about a Jewish ancestor, I was excited to find my great-great-great-grandfather, George Barnett (1799-1874) listed in JewishGen.
My question is: What is the evidentiary basis relied upon for including George Barnett in the JewishGen database? What kind of records, documents, etc. were used by the researcher in this instance? I contacted the researcher whose name appears by the entry to ask how she knows that George Barnett was Jewish (since all subsequent offspring do not identify as Jewish and were christened), but she replied that she was incorrectly listed as the researcher and does not know anything about George Barnett. I would appreciate any help in knowing the basis for attributing Jewish ancestry to George Barnett, or his wife Elizabeth Bacon, though I note that Jewish Gen has incorrect dates for her. JewishGen has 1814-1876, but I know for a fact that Elizabeth Bacon (Barnett) was born in 1812 in England and died and is buried in 1859 in Tasmania. (George and Elizabeth were both transported to Australia where they met and married and had 6 children; I am Australian). Thank you, Christine Hayes
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Re: 1921 Czechoslovakia Census of Subcarpathia - Indexing Project
#subcarpathia
#ukraine
#hungary
jamieromer@...
Lara
Thanks very much for this! Does anyone know if it's possible to search for surnames in the documents without going through each page as there are hundreds! I have tried to do so but it doesn't seem to work... Many thanks in advance, Jamie Romer
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Disner and Vdig
#russia
maletphoto@...
I believe your ancestors almost certainly came from Vidz (now called Vidzy) - the former home town of my grandparents. In the body of your post, you spell the town's name Vidg which is the giveaway. As I understand, the locals pronounced the name of their town "Vidg" to rhyme with the English words "Ridge" or "Fridge".
Disner would refer to the shtetl Szarkowszczyzna of Dissner/ Disna County (Oyezd). located just 33 miles due east of Vidz. It's longest street was Disner Street.
Vidz was a small town of 6500 souls at its peak, about 2/3 Jewish. Szarkowszczyzna was even smaller with a population of just 1500, also 2/3 Jewish. Both are now located in Belarus.
Jeff Malet
Washington D.C.
email: maletphoto@...
Searching:
MALATZKY, FRIEDLAND, KACHERGINSKY from Vidzy; FREEDLAND from London
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Descendants of Rabbi David ben Moshe of Kletzk 19th cent.
#rabbinic
Yonatan Ben-Ari
Further to my request for details as to Moshe of Kletzk, father of
Rabbi David, who was the Rabbi of Novarodok during the 19th cent. and authored the "Galya Mesechet", I was given a partial family tree (descendants of Rabbi David) in the hope of being able to identify other children of the above Moshe of Kletzk. Rabbi David had a had son-in-law, R' Yitzchak RABINOWITZ (who published R'David's above book). Name of his wife unknown. Yitzchak had a son R' Shmuel b. 1820 died 1908. Shmuel had a daughter Leah and son Shaya. Leah seems to have married (A)Golnick, and had a son Joseph father of the late Arthur (A)Golnick. Shaya had children (daughter?) Robbins . If the above tree is connected to you AND you have information as to other children of Moshe of Kletzk, please be in touch. Tia Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem
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Re: Variations on Solomonski?
#names
lesliegut
My family was also variations of your own Solomonski. I found ours coming from the area of LIda, Belarus and Eisiskis, Lithuania. The name I found furthest back was Solomianski. All but one sibling of my grandmother's emigrated to Toronto, Canada and the name was changed to Salamansky, Salem, Saunders, etc., and even a few used their first names as their last. If you or any others responding to this message would like to see my tree in the hope we have a connection, please let me know. Leslie Gut-Reiken, Switzerland
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Re: Kittsee, Austria tombstone inscriptions, Reb Zusche Kinstlicher
#austria-czech
Yehuda Horovitz
Unfortunately Rabbi Zushe Kinstlicher passed away in the Korona times.
His institute Zikaron still operates the Email is: alyzecharon@... Yehuda Aharon Horovitz Jerusalem
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Re: Acquiring records from Kaunas (Lithuania) Regional State Archives
#lithuania
Jody Tzucker
Use wise.com to transfer money. It is cheaper than a wire transfer. And write to them in English providing the archival reference to the records you are seeking. Jody Tzucker
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l.a.m.buisman@...
If his name was Philip Eisig, wouldn't his fathers name be a variant of Isaac?
-- Loes Buisman, Amsterdam
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Moshe Davis
We were able to get a copy of the 1949 discharge paper of my father-in-law Sabeto (Shabtai) Yahia (Yichya) who at the age of 17 volunteered to fight the Israel war of independence in 1948. He was one of a group of boys from Cuba who volunteered, and were onboard the ship Altalena when it was attacked by Ben Gurion's troops, led by Yitzhak Rabin. These volunteers had nothing to do with the internecine rivalries that led to the attack, but two of his friends were killed, both shot in the head. Sabeto could never understand how Jews could shoot at other Jews. He went on to fight in an IDF unit in the Negev, manning a WW2-surplus Czechoslovakian anti-aircraft gun. All such IDF personnel records should be stored in the records of the IDF personnel office called "מכ"א 50". (loose translation: IDF Human Resources - Section 50)
On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 at 23:14, Brian Kerr <KerrBrianD@...> wrote:
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David (ABRAMOWITZ ?)-Manager/owner of Dept. Store, Boston, early 20th cent.
#usa
Yonatan Ben-Ari
According to family lore, my great grandfather's brother, David
ABRAMOWITZ (seems to have changed his name), who was born in Novarodok , and emigrated to New Haven, Ct. with his widowed mother, in the second half of the 19th cent. moved from New Haven to Boston and worked in a department store. Supposedly rose to the rank of management. Again according to family lore, by the late 1920s or early 1930s he was elderly and was commuting between Boston and Florida (don't know where in Fl.). David had a sister Sarah ( I don't know her married name) who lived in NYC (possibly Coney Island or nearby) and two younger brothers , Mayer and Kalman . Mayer was sent to Jerusalem as a young man . Kalman , as a child, grew up in Jerusalem had married a Jerusalem woman and moved to NYC where he died about 1943-4. I have contact with Mayer's (my great grandfather) and Kalman's descendant but none of us know anything about David's (or Sarah's) children. If the above sounds familiar to anyone I would be happy to hear from you. I repeat that all the information I have on David and his sister Sarah, is family lore . Tia. Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem
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New and Updated Databases on IGRA’s Website
#announcements
#jgs-iajgs
#israel
Elena Bazes
The Israel Genealogy Research Association (IGRA) has just released new and updated databases on its website. There are now close to 2.5 million records available in our databases. With each release we provide a variety of records to our collection. A preview of the databases is available at https://www.slideshare.net/igra3/new-igra-releases-august-2022 New Databases Marriages Rishon Le’tsiyon 1888 - 1927 340 listings FamilySearch Residents Jerusalem - Shaarei Hessed 1907 177 listings Private Collection Donations by Teachers to Keren Hayesod 1934 445 listings Israel State Archives Village Registries (Ein Gev, Degania A’, Yavneel, Sarona, Hazorim & Migdal) 1941 - 1947 11,371 listings Israel State Archives Jewish Displaced Persons and Refugee Cards 1943 - 1959 4,167 listings Update JDC Archives Voters Constituent Assembly 1949 Towns & Settlements 9,128 listings Update Israel State Archives Teachers 1954 1,419 listings Israel State Archives Histadrut Candidates (General, Farmers & Female Workers) 1961 9,807 listings Historical Jewish Press National Library of Israel Updated Databases Jewish Displaced Persons and Refugee Cards 1943 - 1959 4,167 listings Update JDC Archives Voters Constituent Assembly 1949 Towns & Settlements 9,128 listings Update Israel State Archives Before viewing and searching the databases, please register for free on the IGRA website: http://genealogy.org.il/ To view/search the databases, go to the database tab on the website. Please note, the IGRA databases are now searchable to all registrants. The search results page is also available to all registrants. Additional details regarding most databases are available only to paid IGRA members. Certain exceptions exist due to requests of the specific archives. Elena Biegel Bazes IGRA Publicity Chair
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Moshe of Kletzk, father of David of Novarodok 17-18 cent.
#rabbinic
Yonatan Ben-Ari
I am still trying to research children of Moshe of Kletzk, besides his
son R' David, Rabbi of Novarodok (author of the "galya Mesechet") during the 19th cent. I believe that this Moshe was not Rabbi Moshe (of) Eisenstadt. Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem
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Jill Whitehead
The Ephrussis were a famous and very rich family who went from Odessa to Vienna and Paris, and they had a fabulous villa near Nice in the south of France, which is a tourist hotspot. I visited it in 2019, when Vogue magazine were doing a photoshoot there. The Ephrussis married into the Rothschilds in France. They were made famous in the book, "The Hare with Amber Eyes" written by a British descendant of the Ephrussis, now a famous ceramacist Edmund de Waal. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_de_Waal.
Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK
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Alan Cohen
In 1950 in New York there must have been hundreds of English women married to returning GIs. They all would have been used to the term charwoman as it was and still is used here. Perhaps she was employed by one of these GI brides. Alan Cohen
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Albert Braunstein
The Rebellion of the Daughters: Jewish Women Runaways in Habsburg Galicia
by Rachel Manekin investigates the flight of young Jewish women from their
Orthodox, mostly Hasidic families, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Albert Braunstein
Melbourne, Australia
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Annette Weiss
FYI, Philip is not solely a Christian given name. I had a paternal uncle Philip and his parents were Orthodox.
Also, there were also females from Kohen and Levite families who "broke the mold and left the fold," and my maternal grandmother was one. She came from a long line of Kohens and Levites who intermarried with each other throughout many generations in Lithuania. She came to the US in the early 1900s and married a non-religious Galitzianer, and was disowned by her family. Annette Weiss New York City, NY Searching for: Cohen, Katz and Segal/Siegel from Lithuania Teiksler, Zweifler, Kessler and Schwartz from Ukraine Wajs/Weiss, Pakula and Dziedzinsky from Poland
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JGS of Santa Cruz invites you to Preserving your Family Photos and Documents: Resource Guide with Center Jewish History:
#announcements
#general
#education
Leah Kushner
Santa Cruz Jewish Genealogy Society Events: Preserving your Family Photos and Documents: Resource Guide Thursday, September 8, 2022 , 2 pm Pacific Time/ 5pm EST Speakers: Resource Librarians Center for Jewish History’s Lillian Goldman Reading Room Guest RSVP: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=H4C84JTMC2LAN For questions or information: Membership@... Description: Have you been meaning to get your family photos and documents under control and to ensure that they will be preserved for future generations? While it may seem like a daunting process, it’s not insurmountable if you tackle it step by step. In an interactive online presentation, the Center for Jewish History’s reference librarians will explain how you can organize, digitize, and safely store your family photos and documents through manageable, affordable steps. Then, they’ll answer questions about your specific preservation needs and challenges. Bios: Tyi Marx, Sara Belasco, and Cassia Kisshauer are Reference Librarians in the Center for Jewish History's Lillian Goldman Reading Room. They help patrons gain access to the library and archival collections of the Center through virtual and in-person reference interviews, digitization of archival and library material, and by providing virtual presentations, such as the one you are in attendance of today. Non-Members pay $5, Zoom link will be sent the week of the event. Members automatically receive a free Zoom link. Zoom link will be sent to your email the week of the event, please check your Spam folder. For more information or membership information co-sponsor- Chadeish Yameinu Leah Kushner, President SCJGS president@... Visit our website: https://scjgs.org Subscribers: If you already registered for this event via PayPal, you are on our RSVP list and will receive the Zoom link the week of the event. 
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Re: Disner and Vdig
#russia
Maybe Vidz or Vidzy, where my family came from. One of the nearby big cities was Dvinsk, but this does not sound like Disner.
-- Yehoshua Sivan
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