It seems the Czech National Archives stopped using that domain. All the data should be now in the database at https://vademecum.nacr.cz/
Or you can check the archives menu at https://www.nacr.cz/en/for-public/research-room/digital-research-room-archival-records-on-line 
Unfortunately it seems the new URLs are constructed differently so it is not possible to use the paths from the old links to access the specific scans or images.

Dana Polakovicova
Czechia / Slovakia

The Library and Archives Canada website has been redesigned. The home page is different, and the genealogy portal has moved. The full URL to the genealogy page is https://library-archives.canada.ca/eng/collection/research-help/genealogy-family-history/pages/genealogy-family-history.aspx (I have purposely not shortened it). There are links to five major sections: Census search, Immigration records, Citizenship and naturallization, First World War - Personnel records, and Employment records. Towards the bottom of the page, there is a section called "Research guides and other resources," which includes a link to Jewish Canadians, and several more pages that link to  sections which will look familiar if you are a regular user of the website.

It is a shock when you first see it, but once you find the genealogy page, it is quite straightforward.

Good luck!
--
Marion Werle
<canadagenes@...>

Richard,

A photo of his stone is online at JewishData.com

I've attached the photo.

Good luck in your search,

Sherri Bobish

Searching:
RATOWSKY / CHAIMSON (Ariogala, Lith.); LEFFENFELD / FINK / KALTER (Daliowa & Jasliska, Pol.)
BOJDA / BLEIWEISS (Tarnow & Tarnobrzeg, Pol.); WALTZMAN / WALZMAN (Ustrzyki Dolne, Pol.)
LEVY (Tyrawa Woloska, Pol.); SOLON / SOLAN / SOKOLSKY (Grodek, Bialystok, Pol.)
BOBISH / BLUMENKRANZ / APPEL / WEINER / ROSENBERG (Vysoko-Litovsk, Brest, Biala Podlaska)

Hi Barbara,

I have a friend who lived in those Jackson Heights Quonset huts as a child.

There was an airport in Jackson Heights, Holmes Airport, that went bankrupt in 1940.  After WW11, the empty site was used to build 1,874 Quonset huts for emergency housing for returning veterans.

This site has an old map that shows where Holmes Airport was located.
https://untappedcities.com/2013/10/15/untapped-mailbag-what-were-boundaries-holmes-airport-bulova-building-queens/

The Quonset hut that you lived in was somewhere on the old Holmes Airport property.  The boundaries of the Holmes Airport are clear on the map, between Astoria B'lvd. & 31st Ave.

Good luck in your search,

Sherri Bobish

Searching:
RATOWSKY / CHAIMSON (Ariogala, Lith.); LEFFENFELD / FINK / KALTER (Daliowa & Jasliska, Pol.)
BOJDA / BLEIWEISS (Tarnow & Tarnobrzeg, Pol.); WALTZMAN / WALZMAN (Ustrzyki Dolne, Pol.)
LEVY (Tyrawa Woloska, Pol.); SOLON / SOLAN / SOKOLSKY (Grodek, Bialystok, Pol.)
BOBISH / BLUMENKRANZ / APPEL / WEINER / ROSENBERG (Vysoko-Litovsk, Brest, Biala Podlaska)

My 1 year old mother and her parents left Kolomea in 1920. My grandmother’s 2 brothers fled to Shanghai at some point during WW Ii. They kept a lot of Holocaust information from their sister before and after they came to the US. But when you asked my grandmother about pogroms, her face turned red and she spoke with fear and anger. Our personal experiences shape us in so many ways. I don’t think she would have survived the Holocaust. Thank the Lord she didn’t have to try.

Shelley Mitchell, NYC 

Thanks to all who helped me privately and online.  The suggestions for how to figure it out were very helpful as well as the information itself.  

It's very likely that these streets no longer exist because the housing, Army barracks converted to apartments according to my parents, was torn down in 1952-3. I think more modern housing was built there, but I'm not certain. I can remember aspects of living there as far back as age 2, but the address was beyond me. 
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Barbara Sloan
Conway, SC

I don't live in the City anymore, but am very familiar with Find-A-Grave. There's a Photo Request feature exactly for requests like this.

I had just submitted a Photo Request (aka Headstone Photo) in Find-A-Grave. It reflects that there's about 175 photo volunteers entered in their system.

If you go to the Find-A-Grave Memorial now, you'll see my request pop-up.

Good Luck! :-))

-- ~Brian D. Kerr, Esq | SSG, U.S. Army (Retired) | SSA, Brigade G1, U.S. Army (Retired) |>>Known Family Surnames (Researching): Dessler, Walk(Valk), Mahler (Maler), Paradisgarten (Paradisegarten), Tomasy (Thomashy), Gluck, Preisz (Priess), Steinhardt (Steinhart), Grossman (Grosman), Sholtz (Shultz), Kaplan, Bloom, Fischer (Fisher), Levy, Baum, Duwidewic, Meisal (Maisel)<<|>>Known Family Locations/Regions (of Surnames): Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Lithuania<<|

Which names did you try looking for?

The document reflects that he arrived under the name of "Harry Schneider", but this could/may/might be a situation of someone who typed it based upon how it sounded to them (as this was common then).

It could be as it was typed or a spelling variant(s). It could be simple or may take time.

Regarding the dates, I've seen slight differences before that's probably entered as a best/approximate guess.

-- ~Brian D. Kerr, Esq | SSG, U.S. Army (Retired) | SSA, Brigade G1, U.S. Army (Retired) |>>Known Family Surnames (Researching): Dessler, Walk(Valk), Mahler (Maler), Paradisgarten (Paradisegarten), Tomasy (Thomashy), Gluck, Preisz (Priess), Steinhardt (Steinhart), Grossman (Grosman), Sholtz (Shultz), Kaplan, Bloom, Fischer (Fisher), Levy, Baum, Duwidewic, Meisal (Maisel)<<|>>Known Family Locations/Regions (of Surnames): Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Lithuania<<|

--
Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD

Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel

This is appears to be your man.

David Rosen
Boston, MA

Name:	Hersch Schneider
Gender:	Male
Ethnicity/ Nationality:	Hebrew
Marital status:	Single
Age:	22
Birth Date:	abt 1885
Other Birth Place:	Mieluice
Last Known Residence:	Mielnice
Departure Port:	Hamburg
Arrival Date:	8 Apr 1907
Arrival Port:	New York, New York, USA
Final Destination:	New York
Height:	5 Feet, 4 Inches
Hair Color:	Black
Eye Color:	Brown
Complexion:	Fair
Money in Possession:	300
Person in US:	Isak Schneider
Person in US Relationship:	Brother
Sibling:	Isak Schneider
Ship Name:	Badenia

The Tzvi-Hirsh-Harry combination (and variations) is VERY common.

When I wrote that 'Reb' is an honorific, I mean that it's a title of respect.  It does NOT mean rabbi.  While the letter Resh can also be an abbreviation for Rav, rabbi, when someone is a rabbi this is usually made more clear, by the word "haRav", the rabbi, or the abbreviation mem-vav-hey, Moreinu haRav, our teacher the rabbi.

At some point in the past, "Reb" might have meant that the person was a scholar.  However, over time it became simply a term of respect that was used for any man.  It's sort of like saying "Mister", except that the name that follows is the person's first name rather than his last.
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Fredel Fruhman
Brooklyn, New York, USA

original message:

Dear JG members - I would very much appreciate a translation of the signatures below from a helpful Hebrew speaker.  

Why would the murdered Jews have been thrown down the well, thereby poisoning it? Was this a well used exclusively by local Jews (unlikely), or the well had dried up and was no longer used?

Graham Lewis
London, UK

original message:

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The Jews in the Well, Norwich, England

Judy Simon 07/08/11   #31856   There has been a lot of buzz about the remains of the bodies tossed into a well in Norwich, England in the Middle Ages. DNA analysis of the remains determined that the victims were undoubtedly Jewish. Here is a link to the article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13855238 A discussion group has been started on Facebook about the mtDNA of the Jews in the well, several of whom are in the common Ashkenazi haplogroup K1a1b1a; the discussion relates to all Jews, 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. Here is a link to the discussion group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/247655585261008

Can anyone provide me with guidance on where to go from here? The Badenia did not leave Hamburg on March 29 but the Batavia did. I cannot find my Great Grandfather on the passenger list of the Badenia nor the Batavia. I also did not find him in the Ellis Island records. I suspect a name change is the issue.

Sharla Horne
sharla.prohorne@...

Hello all & Shabbat Shalom,

I wonder if some kind Jewish Genner might be visting the Acacia Cemetery in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. I have a suspected link to a DNA match and it could all hang on the father's name of Maurice I. Perlow, who was buried there in 1961 aged 70-71 (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130108805/maurice-i-perlow).

A photo of the headstone, if it has his father's Hebrew name, could solve the mystery. if anyone could help I'd be hugely grateful.

Many thanks,

Richard Beach
London, UK
www.tenliesmyfamilytoldme.com
Researching BEACH/PRZYBYSZ (Rawa Mazowiecka & London)
PERLOV (Bobruisk, Belarus)
FRANKLIN (London), FRAENKEL (Vienna/Furth)
MARKS & LYONS (London 1770-1900)
MARCOWICZ (Krasnopol)
ZOLTY (Kalisz/Kepno)

This may be of some use: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jews-who-served-in-the-international-brigade-in-the-spanish-civil-war. I was able to use it to comfirm that my wife's great-uncle died in Jarama in 1937 fighting in the International Brigade.

Best regards,

Richard Beach
London, UK
www.tenliesmyfamilytoldme.com
Researching BEACH/PRZYBYSZ (Rawa Mazowiecka & London)
PERLOV (Bobruisk, Belarus)
FRANKLIN (London), FRAENKEL (Vienna/Furth)
MARKS & LYONS (London 1770-1900)
MARCOWICZ (Krasnopol)
ZOLTY (Kalisz/Kepno)

June
I agree with Adam.
The stone says
Leah daughter of Reb Hersh.
(In polite European Jewish Orthodox culture, men are and were addressed as Reb Hersh or Reb Yankel, does not necessarily mean Rabbi. Reb was and is still used as a sign of respect sort of like saying Mr. 
The name Leah is Biblical. Leah was one of the Holy Matriarchs of the Jewish people, wife of Yaakov-Jacob and mother of Reuven, Shimon, Levi, Yehuda, Yisocher, Zevulun and Dina.
FYI: Hersh is Yiddish and German for "deer" .
Hersh or Hershel has for hundreds of years been the popular Yiddish version of the original hebrew Name of Tzvi which is the biblical word meaning Deer or gazelle.
Often men and boys are called Zvi Hersh or Hirsch similarly to those named Dov Behr or Dovber. Ber or Berel is Yiddish for the Hebrew name Dov which means bear.
The last line are the initials of a quote "May his/her soul be bound in the bundle of life"
direct from the Book of the Prophet Samuel / Shmuel A, 25: 29, that is traditionally engraved on Jewish tombstones.  

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Dear all,

I'm currently in unfamiliar research waters in pursuit of information about a great-uncle of my mother's who left Poland in the early 1930s and apparently volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War of July 1936. I am aware that tens of thousands of foreign volunteers poured into Spain to fight the fascists then, including quite a few Polish Jews. However, I haven't been able to find any database, website or archive that might list these foreign volunteers through searching online. But at the same time, I've never had to research anything in Spain before and have no idea what might be in Spanish archives. Is anyone here familiar with Spanish archives? Do you know of any database or list, online or off, of the foreign volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War?

I'd be most grateful for any information. Thank you in advance for any replies!

Shabbat Shalom,

Miriam Bulwar David-Hay,
Raanana, Israel.

Professional journalist, writer, editor, proofreader.
Professional translator (Hebrew/Yiddish to English).
Certified guide, Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial and Museum.

Email: miriambdh@...

Researching: BULWA/BULWAR (Rawa Mazowiecka, Lodz, Paris); FRENKIEL/FRENKEL, FERLIPTER/VERLIEBTER (Belz); KALUSZYNER, KUSMIERSKI, KASZKIET, KUZKA, JABLONKA, RZETELNY, WROBEL (Kaluszyn, Lodz); KRYSKA/KRYSZKA, CHABIELSKI/HABELSKI (Sieradz, Lodz); LICHTENSZTAJN (Kiernozia, Wyszogrod, Lodz); ROZENBERG (Przedborz, Lodz); WAKS (Nowe Miasto nad Pilica, Lodz); PELCMAN, STORCZ (Rawa Mazowiecka); SOBEL (Paris); SAPIR/SZAFIR (Wyszogrod).