Hi everyone,
I have come across a document in Dutch which is handwritten. We have sent it to a translation service who have determined that it is illegible. I can make out certain words, but not enough for the document to make sense.

I would be grateful if anyone could either transcribe the Dutch text and I can then use Deepl to translate it into English, or if anyone would be willing to translate it directly? It is regarding a gentleman named Bernhard Gompertz who was born in Rheinberg in Germany and he moved to Haarlem in the Netherlands, where he married Sara Schoolmeester in 1876. This document was drawn up to confirm Bernhard's personal information before his marriage.. 
Thank you

Laura Henley Harrison
Jewish History Association of South Wales
United Kingdom
Laura.henley.harrison@...

Ernst Philipp Rosenau

in the Germany, Data on 7,400 North Bavarian Jews

News from JewishGen's Danzig/Gdańsk Research Division:

We are planning a Zoom meeting, free and open to all, for the end of 2022 or beginning of 2023. Please fill out this form to indicate your time zone/preferred times: https://forms.gle/2h1vQ7wnYwYfdbJ66

Two new Danzig datasets are now searchable on JewishGen:

Civil Marriages 1875-1914 (Danzig registry office), 1911-1914 (Langfuhr registry office)

Deaths 1925-1927, 1936-1940 (more years will be added soon)

You can search these via your choice of the Unified Search, Germany Database, or Poland Database. You will see these datasets in search results as "The Danzig Database: APG Civil Marriages" and "The Danzig Database: FHL 1184408/1 Deaths." In addition to searching by surname, you can add town = Danzig to your search to limit the results.

Search results are linked to scans of the records. For marriages, the links go to the first page (of up to two), on your choice of either Polish website indeksy.net or metryki.genbaza.pl (registration not required for either). Click the page image to enlarge. Be sure to examine the scans, as they contain additional information not (yet) present in the indexes (e.g., occupations, street addresses). Note: where there is overlap with civil marriages indexed by Ancestry, the JewishGen indexes and these images may contain additional information not present in the Ancestry indexes or their images (e.g., later deaths of spouses).

For deaths, the links currently lead to an overview of scans on familysearch.org, where you can enter at the top left the image numbers you want to view (you will need to be logged into familysearch, which is free to use). Search results give two image numbers for each record, for left and right pages, which are far apart on the microfilm. All information in these records has been indexed.

For more details about these datasets, please see the descriptions at https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/germany/danzig.htm and the extensive finding aid for Danzig civil vital records at https://www.jewishgen.org/danzig/findingaidcivil.php.

Because the civil registry books include records of all religions, mixed together, we first had to identify which records state that at least one partner was Jewish. To do this, every civil marriage record in the books was viewed by two volunteers, independently, and their identifications of Jewish records were compared to make sure we did not miss any. Similarly, every record we then indexed was viewed by a second volunteer for proofreading.

Thanks very much to volunteers Rodney Eisfelder (coordinator of the civil marriage records project), Joyaa Antares, Angelika Boening, Logan Kleinwaks, and Dan Ruby for making this data freely available to all. We are very grateful to GenBaza and FamilySearch for making these images available and for cooperation.

Finally, a reminder that we have many datasets that have been fully transcribed, but are not yet online because we need additional volunteer proofreaders to discover and correct transcription errors (Hebrew and old German writing). These include burial records back to 1720, 19th and 20th century censuses, and much more. If you might like to volunteer, please email lkleinwaks@....

If you wrote to me recently and I have not responded, my apologies, I am a bit backlogged at the moment, but will give a thorough reply as soon as I can.

Logan Kleinwaks
JewishGen Research Director for Danzig/Gdańsk
lkleinwaks@...

The Jewish Genealogical Society of Palm Beach County will feature a presentation by Jennifer Mendelsohn “No, you don’t have 7,900 4th cousins! ” on September 14.   

Jennifer Mendelsohn began her career as a journalist and ghostwriter. A former Washington, DC-based special correspondent for People, her work has appeared in numerous local and national publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and The Los Angeles Times. A native Long Islander now based in Baltimore, Mendelsohn serves on the board of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Maryland and is the administrator of Facebook’s Jewish Genetic Genealogy group. A veteran of many successful unknown parent searches, Mendelsohn is also the creator of #resistancegenealogy, a project that uses genealogical and historical records to fight disinformation and honor America’s immigrant past. Her work has received international media attention, including features on CNN.com, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and Yahoo News.

Her current presentation “No, you don’t have 7,900 4^th cousins!” illuminates the problems identifying a person’s ethnic heritage, and uses data from Ancestry, Family Tree DNA, MyHeritage or 23andme.  Ancestry currently boasts some 4 million people in its DNA database.  These tests provide a list of people with whom you share DNA, ranked in order of predicted closeness to you: your genetic “cousins.”  Trying to connect with your newly found relatives requires a bit of a learning curve.  Her presentation focuses on endogamy, (the custom of marrying only within the limits of a local community, clan, or tribe), knowing your numbers, interpreting shared matches and names.

Non-Members pay $5, Zoom link will be sent the week of the event. Members automatically receive a free Zoom link after registering.

Zoom link will be sent to your email the week of the event; please check your Spam folder.

Walter Rosenthal

Outreach Chair

Walter Rosenthal <waltrose864@...>

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JRI-Poland recently updated the Warszawa databases

The updates include the following:

District 7 -Deaths for 1891-1892 Extended indices
District 1 - Births for 1869 Extended Indices
District 1 - Deaths for 1869 Extended Indices
District 6 - Marriages for 1859 - Identified additional marriages


Much of the Warszawa Jewish Vital records were destroyed during World War II.  Consider yourselves very lucky if you have been able to find your family.

The indexing project for the City of Warszawa is extensive and JRI-Poland has made the commitment to support the completion of the effort.   
We thank our volunteers and many supporters that have made this possible


Hadassah Lipsius
jri-poland.org

In Russian:

Город Астрог, 23 марта 1897 года.

Вексель на 25 рублей

По предъявлению моего векселя я, ниже подписавшичся мещанин города Астрог Юдка Ейхберг, обязуюсь уплатить мещанке города Астрога Мириам Мордковной, в замужестве Клойз, или кому она прикажет, 25 рублей, #25, которые я получил от неё сполна, в чем собственноручно подписываюсь - Юдка Ейхберг.

В левом углу: Цена 10 копеек,

В правом углу: ВЕКСЕЛЬНАЯ БУМАГА

для личных долговых обязательств

до 50 рублей

Translated into English:

City of Astrog, March 23, 1897.
A bill for 25 rubles.
Upon presentation of my bill, I, the undersigned tradesman of the city of Astrog, Yudka Eichberg, undertake to pay the tradeswoman of the city of Astrog, Miriam Mordkovna, married Kloiz, or to whom she orders, 25 rubles, # 25, which I received from her in full, in which I personally sign - Yudka Eichberg.
In the left corner: Price 10 kopecks,
In the right corner: PROMOTION PAPER
for personal debt
up to 50 rubles

Private soldier—the lowest rank in the army.

LACHMAN/LAKHMAN (Berdichev, Odessa, Kiev, Zhytomir, Ukraine)

BUCHDRUCKER/BUCHDRIKER/BIKHDRIKER (Nova Ushytsya, Shargorod, Krasilov, Podolia, Ukraine)

MILGENDLER/MILHANDLER/MILLANDER (Berdichev, Odessa, Yampil, Ukraine)

HIRSHMANN/HIRSHMAN (Estonia/Lavtiva/Ukraine)