Dear Listers,

I am looking for descendants of the brothers Morris (married to
Elsie), Ben (Eve) or Sam (Rita) GOLDBERG, who lived in Yonkers &/or
Hartsdale, NY. Their parents were Isadore & Sarah who immigrated

from Zembrow, Poland around 1903-6. Morris, Ben and Sam were

brothers - accountants - and are a branch of our family with whom we
would like to correspond and exchange information. If anyone
remembers them and/or knows how to contact their descendants, please
contact me privately.

Wayne Frankel
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA

Dear Listers,

I am looking for descendants of the brothers Morris (married to
Elsie), Ben (Eve) or Sam (Rita) GOLDBERG, who lived in Yonkers &/or
Hartsdale, NY. Their parents were Isadore & Sarah who immigrated

from Zembrow, Poland around 1903-6. Morris, Ben and Sam were

brothers - accountants - and are a branch of our family with whom we
would like to correspond and exchange information. If anyone
remembers them and/or knows how to contact their descendants, please
contact me privately.

Wayne Frankel
Bar Harbor, Maine, USA

I happened on an interesting research strategy that I want to share in the
hope that others may find it useful.

My Seligmans all come >from the Bobruisk, Belarus area, and in particular the
shetls of Parichi and Shchedrin. After searching the Ellis Island manifests
using many variations of the spelling of both the surname and the town, I
found records of many Seligmans, Zelikmans and Zeligmans >from this area who
had emigrated to the U.S. but >from whom I could not account. So I
methodically printed out the manifests and saved them in a file folder.

Every so often I would go through them to see if any new discoveries had
made them suddenly relevant. And during one such review, I noticed something
to which I hadn't paid attention before: three of these manifests had
something in common. The Seligman passengers were all met at Ellis Island by
the same person, a man named Gliboff, and all claimed to be related to him
in one way or another. So I put together a mini-tree linking them to each
other, based on their ostensible relationships with this man. But this still
didn't answer the question of whether they were my relatives.

Next it occurred to me to try to find someone who was doing Gliboff
research, and the JGFF came in handy for that. I wrote several e-mails and
one hit the jackpot: Gliboff researcher Jonathan Khuner, as it turned out,
had been interested in the Seligman line because there were apparently two
marriages between the Gliboff and Seligman families. He was glad to hear

from me and put me in touch with one of his cousins (who turned out to be

one of my cousins, too) who helped solve the mystery. >from information she
provided, I was able to discern exactly where these folks belonged on my
family tree. And through others with whom she put me in touch, I have added,
conservatively, 250 people to the Seligman family line.

Morals of the story: save even the seemingly irrelevant documents, since
they can someday, suddenly become very relevant. Revisit them >from time to
time. And read them carefully, as even information that may seem extraneous
can offer vital clues.

Scott Seligman

MODERATOR NOTE: The JGFF can be found at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/jgff

I happened on an interesting research strategy that I want to share in the
hope that others may find it useful.

My Seligmans all come >from the Bobruisk, Belarus area, and in particular the
shetls of Parichi and Shchedrin. After searching the Ellis Island manifests
using many variations of the spelling of both the surname and the town, I
found records of many Seligmans, Zelikmans and Zeligmans >from this area who
had emigrated to the U.S. but >from whom I could not account. So I
methodically printed out the manifests and saved them in a file folder.

Every so often I would go through them to see if any new discoveries had
made them suddenly relevant. And during one such review, I noticed something
to which I hadn't paid attention before: three of these manifests had
something in common. The Seligman passengers were all met at Ellis Island by
the same person, a man named Gliboff, and all claimed to be related to him
in one way or another. So I put together a mini-tree linking them to each
other, based on their ostensible relationships with this man. But this still
didn't answer the question of whether they were my relatives.

Next it occurred to me to try to find someone who was doing Gliboff
research, and the JGFF came in handy for that. I wrote several e-mails and
one hit the jackpot: Gliboff researcher Jonathan Khuner, as it turned out,
had been interested in the Seligman line because there were apparently two
marriages between the Gliboff and Seligman families. He was glad to hear

from me and put me in touch with one of his cousins (who turned out to be

one of my cousins, too) who helped solve the mystery. >from information she
provided, I was able to discern exactly where these folks belonged on my
family tree. And through others with whom she put me in touch, I have added,
conservatively, 250 people to the Seligman family line.

Morals of the story: save even the seemingly irrelevant documents, since
they can someday, suddenly become very relevant. Revisit them >from time to
time. And read them carefully, as even information that may seem extraneous
can offer vital clues.

Scott Seligman

MODERATOR NOTE: The JGFF can be found at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/jgff

I don't recall who posted it but the subject was about blue eyes, blond or
red hair among Jews. The poster stated this was because of rape.

King David was a redhead. See 1 Samuel 16:12 and 17:42.
_____
researching - GREENBERG, SHAPIRO (kohanim), ROSENTHAL - Vaslui, Romania
WIDAWSKY, SZER - Klobuck and Praszka, Czestochowa, Kielce, Poland
HYMAN - Myegina, Piotrkow, Poland
ISRAELOWITZ - Piotrkow, Poland
=====
Harold Hershel Zvi Greenberg

I don't recall who posted it but the subject was about blue eyes, blond or
red hair among Jews. The poster stated this was because of rape.

King David was a redhead. See 1 Samuel 16:12 and 17:42.
_____
researching - GREENBERG, SHAPIRO (kohanim), ROSENTHAL - Vaslui, Romania
WIDAWSKY, SZER - Klobuck and Praszka, Czestochowa, Kielce, Poland
HYMAN - Myegina, Piotrkow, Poland
ISRAELOWITZ - Piotrkow, Poland
=====
Harold Hershel Zvi Greenberg

After many years I have re-registered with Jewishgen Discussion Group.
Here is a list of the families I am searching on:

BLOCH Gailingen (Germany), Konstanz (Germany), Zurich and other places
in Switzerland;
ESSER Koeln (Germany);
GUTH Alsace (F), Glarus and any other place in Switzerland
HERTZ Krefeld (D) and USA;
KAHN Sulzburg (Baden in Germany);
LANG Sierentz (F), Glarus and Baden (both Switzerland);
LEIB Konstanz (D) and USA
NEUMARK Wilhermsdorf/Nuernberg (Germany) and USA.
PICARD Foussemagne (France) and Berne (Switzerland).

Thomas Bloch

After many years I have re-registered with Jewishgen Discussion Group.
Here is a list of the families I am searching on:

BLOCH Gailingen (Germany), Konstanz (Germany), Zurich and other places
in Switzerland;
ESSER Koeln (Germany);
GUTH Alsace (F), Glarus and any other place in Switzerland
HERTZ Krefeld (D) and USA;
KAHN Sulzburg (Baden in Germany);
LANG Sierentz (F), Glarus and Baden (both Switzerland);
LEIB Konstanz (D) and USA
NEUMARK Wilhermsdorf/Nuernberg (Germany) and USA.
PICARD Foussemagne (France) and Berne (Switzerland).

Thomas Bloch

Just a comment on commercial websites, generally. Each of them carries a
variety of information, some, all, or none of which may be germane to your
research. The one thing they all have in common is that you have to pay for
what you get. Contrast that with JewishGen, which asks you to make a
voluntary donation for the benefits received. Since I know that only a
relative handful of people trading this message have contributed recently to
JewishGen, I can only assume the rest of you haven't given much thought to
the cost of the benefit received. Everyone who is considering paying for
the commercial sites should take it upon him or herself to evaluate what
JewishGen is worth comparatively and make a tax-deductible (at least in the
US) contribution to further the work that JewishGen does.

Chuck Weinstein in Commack, NY
cmw521@...

MODERATOR NOTE: Contributions to JewishGen are tax-deductible in Canda as well.
See: http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/Canada.html
In order to make a contribution please go to:
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/

I recently received my g-grandparents 1910 marriage record, Moishe
SCHNAYDER and Sheine TOKER. They married in Brest, Belarus (fka Brest-Litovsk,
Poland) but according to the marriage record, Sheine is >from Terespol.
There are quite a few other TOKER/TOKAR records in Brest for former
Terespol residents so it looks like I've hit upon some cousins too. It
appears that TOKAR and TOKER may be the same name just spelled differently
at different times.

Has anyone else come across information on the town of Terespol? I can't
find more than the paragraph in The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life. Also, it
looks the available records are in the State Archives at Lublin and the
Terespol USC. Does anyone know the procedure for requesting records >from
these places? Any tips?

Thanks for any help.

Sharon Klein
Acworth, GA
Researching TOKAR/TOKER in Terespol

Just a comment on commercial websites, generally. Each of them carries a
variety of information, some, all, or none of which may be germane to your
research. The one thing they all have in common is that you have to pay for
what you get. Contrast that with JewishGen, which asks you to make a
voluntary donation for the benefits received. Since I know that only a
relative handful of people trading this message have contributed recently to
JewishGen, I can only assume the rest of you haven't given much thought to
the cost of the benefit received. Everyone who is considering paying for
the commercial sites should take it upon him or herself to evaluate what
JewishGen is worth comparatively and make a tax-deductible (at least in the
US) contribution to further the work that JewishGen does.

Chuck Weinstein in Commack, NY
cmw521@...

MODERATOR NOTE: Contributions to JewishGen are tax-deductible in Canda as well.
See: http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/Canada.html
In order to make a contribution please go to:
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/

I recently received my g-grandparents 1910 marriage record, Moishe
SCHNAYDER and Sheine TOKER. They married in Brest, Belarus (fka Brest-Litovsk,
Poland) but according to the marriage record, Sheine is >from Terespol.
There are quite a few other TOKER/TOKAR records in Brest for former
Terespol residents so it looks like I've hit upon some cousins too. It
appears that TOKAR and TOKER may be the same name just spelled differently
at different times.

Has anyone else come across information on the town of Terespol? I can't
find more than the paragraph in The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life. Also, it
looks the available records are in the State Archives at Lublin and the
Terespol USC. Does anyone know the procedure for requesting records >from
these places? Any tips?

Thanks for any help.

Sharon Klein
Acworth, GA
Researching TOKAR/TOKER in Terespol

Earlier today I was part of a monthly genealogy workshop
at San Francisco's Jewish Community Library in which
we try to provide one-on-one help to researchers.

One was researching Bialystok and Trzcianne, another
Bialystok. It was with such pleasure and pride that I
showed them the new BIALYGen website, with all its
information and links that will be of real help to them.

Thanks to Mark and Tilford and everyone who put it
together!

Judy Baston, Moderator,
BIALYGen

Earlier today I was part of a monthly genealogy workshop
at San Francisco's Jewish Community Library in which
we try to provide one-on-one help to researchers.

One was researching Bialystok and Trzcianne, another
Bialystok. It was with such pleasure and pride that I
showed them the new BIALYGen website, with all its
information and links that will be of real help to them.

Thanks to Mark and Tilford and everyone who put it
together!

Judy Baston, Moderator,
BIALYGen

Researching MORGENSTERN - Moravia -probably northern, but no
closer details known.

Harry Stadler
Cranleigh UK

MODERATOR NOTE:

MODERATOR NOTE: One of JewishGen's most heavily visited sites is the
JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) and family connections are being made
more and more frequently. If you have not already done so, please log
onto www.jewishgen.org/jgff and using the ENTER/MODIFY procedure enter
and register all the surnames of interest to your family research.
As you learn about more names and places of origin, they can always be
added, but only **you** can keep your own listings up to date.

Researching MORGENSTERN - Moravia -probably northern, but no
closer details known.

Harry Stadler
Cranleigh UK

MODERATOR NOTE:

MODERATOR NOTE: One of JewishGen's most heavily visited sites is the
JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF) and family connections are being made
more and more frequently. If you have not already done so, please log
onto www.jewishgen.org/jgff and using the ENTER/MODIFY procedure enter
and register all the surnames of interest to your family research.
As you learn about more names and places of origin, they can always be
added, but only **you** can keep your own listings up to date.

I recently received my g-grandparents 1910 marriage record, Moishe SCHNAYDER and
Sheine TOKER. They married in Brest, Belarus (fka Brest-Litovsk, Poland) but
according to the marriage record, Moishe is >from Opalin, Volhynia Gubernia, Ukraine.
Has anyone come across any information on the town of Opalin? All I have is the one
paragraph in the Encyclopedia of Jewish Life.

Also, Miriam Weiner's Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Muldova shows only a 5 year block
of records (1859-1864 birth) at the State Archives in Lutsk. Does anyone know the
procedure for requesting a search for records at this location? Any tips? Any idea
where other records might exist?

Thanks for any help

Sharon Klein
Acworth, GA
Researching SHNAYDER >from Opalin; LUTZKI >from Kirovograd

I recently received my g-grandparents 1910 marriage record, Moishe SCHNAYDER and
Sheine TOKER. They married in Brest, Belarus (fka Brest-Litovsk, Poland) but
according to the marriage record, Moishe is >from Opalin, Volhynia Gubernia, Ukraine.
Has anyone come across any information on the town of Opalin? All I have is the one
paragraph in the Encyclopedia of Jewish Life.

Also, Miriam Weiner's Jewish Roots in Ukraine and Muldova shows only a 5 year block
of records (1859-1864 birth) at the State Archives in Lutsk. Does anyone know the
procedure for requesting a search for records at this location? Any tips? Any idea
where other records might exist?

Thanks for any help

Sharon Klein
Acworth, GA
Researching SHNAYDER >from Opalin; LUTZKI >from Kirovograd

Dear Members,

Our site is under reconstruction. There have been many changes & additions.
Please have a look at www.jewishgen.org/ukraine.

** The transliterated Name Index to the Ekaterinoslav Yiskor Book will be put
online in short order. I still don't have someone to coordinate the book's
translation. It only has 167 pages.


More information on Yiskor Book translations:
Yizkor (Memorial) Books are some of the best sources for learning about
Jewish communities in Eastern and Central Europe. Groups of former
residents, or landsmanshaftn, have published these books as a tribute to
their former homes and the people who were murdered during the Holocaust.
The majority of these books were written in Hebrew or Yiddish, languages
that many contemporary genealogists cannot read or understand.

The JewishGen Yizkor Book Project was organized in 1994 by a group of
JewishGen volunteers led by Leonard Markowitz and Martin Kessel. A
translation project was developed by Susannah Juni and implemented by Joyce
Field. It is our purpose to unlock the valuable information contained in
Yizkor Books so that genealogists and others can learn more about their
heritage. For more information, see the Yizkor Book Project Site at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/donation/how-to.html

Can someone please step forward & supervise this translation project for the
benefit of our SIG?

Thanks,
Florence Elman
Ukraine SIG Coordinator
haflo@...

Dear Members,

Our site is under reconstruction. There have been many changes & additions.
Please have a look at www.jewishgen.org/ukraine.

** The transliterated Name Index to the Ekaterinoslav Yiskor Book will be put
online in short order. I still don't have someone to coordinate the book's
translation. It only has 167 pages.


More information on Yiskor Book translations:
Yizkor (Memorial) Books are some of the best sources for learning about
Jewish communities in Eastern and Central Europe. Groups of former
residents, or landsmanshaftn, have published these books as a tribute to
their former homes and the people who were murdered during the Holocaust.
The majority of these books were written in Hebrew or Yiddish, languages
that many contemporary genealogists cannot read or understand.

The JewishGen Yizkor Book Project was organized in 1994 by a group of
JewishGen volunteers led by Leonard Markowitz and Martin Kessel. A
translation project was developed by Susannah Juni and implemented by Joyce
Field. It is our purpose to unlock the valuable information contained in
Yizkor Books so that genealogists and others can learn more about their
heritage. For more information, see the Yizkor Book Project Site at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/donation/how-to.html

Can someone please step forward & supervise this translation project for the
benefit of our SIG?

Thanks,
Florence Elman
Ukraine SIG Coordinator
haflo@...