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Re: seeking information on Sam Morrison
#ukraine
Moishe Miller
Hello Martin,
It would be helpful to add more detail when you pose your question; it is really too vague for me. For instance, I did find an arrival record 21 Feb 1921 in the port of Boston (I know you said NY) for a Szama Moiszezon, whose New York naturalization gives his name also as Shamas Morrison. I found other Morrison records in New York for different people, but this looked the most promising for the first name. You mentioned a wife Annie. I found a NY arrival for a Morrison, but with wife Fannie. I would be happy to look some more once you post more additional detail. That might include his approximate birthdate, where/when he married, his wife's maiden name. Were there children? The exact date of arrival and the ship name, etc. You may prefer to do the research yourself. The routes you might take are to use the "FAN club" (Friends, Associates, and Neighbors) or actual vital records. Perhaps an uncle was his destination, and that uncle might have the surname that corresponds to his mother's. Or, his census records may include other family members, either in his own household or next door, that can answer your question. If he has one, look at the signatures on his naturalization. Perhaps Sam married in NYC. If it was before 1938, you may find his parent's names on the record. Check out https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/. A casual search of Jewishgen for town of Ostropol and given name Szama does have results. These are just some suggestions, I am sure others have their own ideas. Just please help us help you. Please share more detail. Good luck, -- Moishe Miller Brooklyn, NY moishe.miller@... JGFF #3391 |
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ViewMate translation request - Hungarian
#translation
Toivykahan@...
I've posted a vital record in Hungarian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address
https://www.jewishgen.org/view Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Toivy Kahan |
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Viemate translation-Hebrew-Barbasch
#translation
Milton Koch
I've posted a vital record in Hebrew for which I need a translation. It is a Page of Testimony.
It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM100897 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Milton Koch
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In Memory of Melvyn Maltz, z'l
#JewishGenUpdates
#yizkorbooks
Avraham Groll
Dear JewishGen Community,
We regret to inform you of the passing of Melvyn Maltz on December 14, 2022. Melvyn was the coordinator of the Przytyk (Poland) Yizkor book translation project. According to Jerrold Landau, a translator who worked with Mr. Maltz for several years, “Przytyk is of course important in a broader context than the town history itself -- as it was the site of the famous pre-Holocaust pogrom in the late 1930s, which was the impetus for the famous Yiddish song "S'brent yiddn s'brent" (Our town is burning)…. Thus, Mel's legacy is significant, and he will be remembered.”
Sadly, Melvyn did not live to see the completion of the translation, but a precursor pamphlet of about 40 pages was fully translated and is available at: https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/przytyk/prz000.html. The Table of Contents with links to the completed portions of the translation is available at: https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/przytyk/Przytyk.html#TOC.
We offer our condolences to Melvyn’s family, friends, and colleagues. His funeral will take place in England on January 18, 2023. For details, see: https://www.dignityfunerals.co.uk/.../14-12-2022.../...
Avraham Groll
Executive Director
JewishGen
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Re: Makow Mazowiecki Queries
#poland
Paul Silverstone
Makow records after 1898 are in the JRI-Poland database. There was a fire in 1898 that destroyed earlier records. As far
as I know, that is where the gap is prior to 1898. Paul Silverstone |
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Re: 1938-1939 Nazi list of Jews of Germany
#germany
Andreas Schwab
Tracing the Past was founded in 2014 as a registered non-profit organization in Berlin, Germany, by a like-minded group of Berliners consisting primarily of historians. Current contributors include archivists and information technology experts working in many facets of Holocaust history and provenance research.
(quoted from their web site tracingthepast.org) -- Andreas Schwab, Montreal, Canada |
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Re: Piliver Podolier society
#usa
Sounds like a Burial society or Immigrant Society. It looks like it was incorporated as a Domestic Not-for-Profit in New York 11-4-1915 with a DOS # of 13434, Possibly still active. meaning not disbanded via the State. A YIVO Archives summary states it was formed by immigrants from Pylyava, Ukraine. It maintained a loan fund and an old age fund. The Archives has Minutes 1971-1975, and Souvenir Journals 1930, 1950, 1955. Appointments are required to visit the Archives, located in New York.
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Re: 1938-1939 Nazi list of Jews of Germany
#germany
Harvey Kaplan
Is that Find My Past? - not heard of Tracing the Past. Harvey Kaplan Glasgow |
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Time period identification from photo
#photographs
Andrea Markowitz
This family photo was in my grandmother's collection. The word "Minsk" is engraved on the bottom left side of the cardboard frame. Can anyone tell from the style of the clothes and hair approximately what year it was taken? And what region of Minsk the clothes might be from? I'm pretty sure the young boy on the left is my grandfather. His family's surname was Morduchowitz, and was changed to Markowitz in the US. His mother's maiden name was Gershenowitz. Her sons' places of birth are listed as Korelitz on the New York Passenger List and my great-grandmother's place of birth is listed as Kielce. She was already a widow when she and her children came to the US. Thank you in advance for your responses! - Andrea Markowitz
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Sharon Taylor
Fabulous photograph. What is he holding under his right arm? It appears to be from a piece of equipment and could be a clue to what he did in the army.
Sharon F. Taylor Philadelphia, PA |
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Re: Max Heinz Nathan - 60th Yahrzeit
#unitedkingdom
Judith Elam
Thank you. Yes I know about the grave photo on Jewishgen.org. But what I am hoping is that some kind soul can visit his grave at Hoop Lane cemetery, on the day of his actual yarhrzeit, which is Sunday Jan 15, 2023, to say kaddish for him. This has never been done since he died 60 years ago......and this breaks my heart. A childhood friend went today to place a stone.....
Judith Elam Kihei, Hawaii, USA |
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Re: 1938-1939 Nazi list of Jews of Germany
#germany
Andreas Schwab
Free resource:
https://www.mappingthelives.org/ click on "Browse now" You can search by name, address, and (after selecting "advanced search"), birth, death, deportation, emigration, expulsion and imprisonment dates and places. MyHeritage also has the list, but you have to have a subscription. -- Andreas Schwab, Montreal, Canada |
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Re: 1938-1939 Nazi list of Jews of Germany
#germany
Evelyn and Christopher Wilcock
I dont know of a list 1938-9. The so called Jewish census of 16 May 1939 is on line at Tracing the Past. It listed any household with any resident who had one or more Jewish grandparents. It can also be read (with page images) at CLDS computers in certain centres such as the NA Kew and public libraries. Both the on line version and the CLDS films seemed to lack certain towns or areas. It seems highly likely that records for some areas went missing or maybe were never made. It is also likely that some families avoided the census by deliberately being away from home or out of the country when the census was taken. The page images include some notes of people away from home.But these are not necessarilly on the transcript on line version.
The website of the German National Archiv has a searchable list of the Jews of Germany. But this list is probably of Jews who were registered with Synagogues or the Reichsvereinigung (Reich's Association of Jews). It is known that some Jews avoided lists and registration. Best wishes Evelyn Wilcock London |
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Re: My Heritage Posts an Exclusive Collection on Israel Immigration Lists Free to Search and View
#announcements
#israel
#records
Sarah L Meyer
Are there any plans to obtain information about the Second Aliyah? Most of my Israeli family were part of the second Aliyah I would say most likely between 1910 and 1915 - I am not sure of the exact dates - but comparable to when others in the family immigrated to the US.
-- Sarah L Meyer Georgetown TX ANK(I)ER, BIGOS, KARMELEK, PERLSTADT, STOKFISZ, SZPIL(T)BAUM, Poland BIRGARDOVSKY, EDELBERG, HITE (CHAIT), PERCHIK Russia (southern Ukraine) and some Latvia or Lithuania https://www.sarahsgenies.com |
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Re: Questions about children who suddenly appear on census
#usa
sacredsisters1977@...
Hi All
All your mysteries are just as interesting as mine. If only we had concrete proof that the census takers counted people regardless of family relations. As, I originally stated these two children show up on the NY 1925 state census as adults ages 19 and 24. They are born in the USA, and are not found on earlier census with the parents. I can't find further information on them, so I am assuming at this point it's an error by the census taker. Either way it's still a mystery. I am thinking of taking them off my family tree, unless I find evidence to keep them. Sarah Greenberg (USA-CT) sacredsisters1977@... |
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1938-1939 Nazi list of Jews of Germany
#germany
David Lewin
Is the 1938-1939 Nazi list of Jews of Germany available on line anywhere?
Thank you David Lewin London |
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Re: My Heritage Posts an Exclusive Collection on Israel Immigration Lists Free to Search and View
#announcements
#israel
#records
Israel P
MyHeritage says ""This collection is the Israeli equivalent of the famous Ellis Island immigration database for the United States."
This is very exciting if true. The pre-State immigration records at the Central Zionist Archives have only lists of names - not what would call the equivalent of...Ellis Island" records, which have much more. Israel Pickholtz Ashkelon |
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Re: Questions about children who suddenly appear on census
#usa
srg100@...
I'm following this with interest as my husband's ggrandfather appears on US censuses from 1895 until 1910 with his wife and all his children listed too. He certainly travelled to America and back from the family homes in Manchester and Glasgow during that time and died in Stuebenville, Ohio in 1913. His probate records state that his wife lived in Scotland.
Neither my husband's grandfather or his great uncle said anything about being there. There are no ship manifests that show them going to America, including one in 1909 that shows just the ggrandfather. A great aunt, whose detailed letters about the family history I've seen, mentioned nothing either except to say that her father wanted the family to move to America but her mother had had enough of travelling. All very strange. Any ideas? -- Shoshanah Glickman UK |
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Marcel Apsel
As far as I know about getting Austrian citizenship, I can tell you the following. My late mother was born in Austria before World War I from Galitzianer parents. Her parents never applied for Austrian citizenship, even that my grandfather spend some time in the Austrian army. So officially they remained as ‘statenloss’ in Austria. My grandparents divorced and after the Anschluss in 1938 my mother with my grandmother left for Belgium, where my mother met my father and married during the war. My mother passed away in 1982 and about 20 years ago my sisters received wiedergutmachung from the Austrians (being born during the war). I am born after the war, so I was not entitled to get any wiedergutmachung. But the three of us became able to apply for Austrian citizenship, even that my mother was statenloss and even that we weren’t living in Austria. We kindly refused, because having a Belgian citizenship (as European one) was quite enough and we did not feel the necessity to start a collection of different citizenships. Technically speaking, I could also apply for a Polish citizenship, my father being former Polish, but there the requirements are quite different than the Austrian requirements. Anyhow, with all respect to Poland and Austria, I am happy to be a Belgian citizen.
Marcel Apsel Antwerpen, Belgium |
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FamilyTree Magazine Announces Their 25 Best Websites for Beginners
#announcements
#general
Jan Meisels Allen
FamilyTree Magazine has announced their 25 Best Websites for beginners. They are broken down into several categories. What is suggested is: “choose just one family tree-building website and DNA testing company. Then choose what sounds most interesting or relevant to you from your options for learning online, exploring regional and ethnic resources, and digging into beginner-friendly newspaper and tombstone records.”
Categories include: Websites for building your family tree
You can also sign up for 10 essential genealogy research forms.
To read the article see: https://familytreemagazine.com/websites/25-best-genealogy-websites-for-beginners/
Note: MyHeritage is listed in the websites for building your family tree. JewishGen is listed in the websites for exploring regional an ethnic resources.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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