Correction to URL.
A list of all surnames appearing in the Chechiny indices is now
online at:
http://www.jri-poland.org/psa/checiny_surn.htm

David Price,
Chechiny Town Leader
Kielce PSA Project
Jewish Records Indexing-Poland

Correction to URL.
A list of all surnames appearing in the Chechiny indices is now
online at:
http://www.jri-poland.org/psa/checiny_surn.htm

David Price,
Chechiny Town Leader
Kielce PSA Project
Jewish Records Indexing-Poland

"Pavel Bernshtam" wrote in

Hello!

I just received a birth record of my great grandfather's brother >from Mormon
copies of Melitopol archives.
This records says that his father Aron Leib Aronov BERENSHTAM was a member
of Agricultural colony Novo Borislav.
This information suprised me because:
1) As I know the family lived in Akimovka, near Melitopol
2) Novo Borislav colony is placed relatively far >from Akimovka, even in
another uyezd (do somebody knows which uyezd? Kherson?)

I think (without any prove) that the family moved to Ukraine >from Courland,
so my questions are:

1) Do somebody knows about some archival resources with a list of jews who
moved >from Courland to Ukraine agricultural colonies?
2) Do somebody knows about some lists of jews who arrived to Novo Borislav
colony?
3) Where should I search for census data and metrical books of Novo Borislav
colony - Kherson or something else?
I searched rtrfoundation.org, but they have not entries on Novo Borislav.
4) Is there chance that they all the time lived in Akimovka but somehow were
recorded as Novo Borislav citizens?

Thank you!

Pavel Bernshtam

Hi Pavel,

In one of the sources (Yevrei Ukraine, Kiev 1995) which lists data from
1923-24, in Odessa Guberniya within Cherson Okrug there is Berislav Rayon
listed.

Berislav Rayon consisted of colony Volodarske (260 households, population
1,225) as the part of Volodarske Selsoviet, and colony Novo-Berislav (74
households, 401 population) as part of Dremaylov Selsoviet.

Alexander Sharon
Calgary

"Pavel Bernshtam" wrote in

Hello!

I just received a birth record of my great grandfather's brother >from Mormon
copies of Melitopol archives.
This records says that his father Aron Leib Aronov BERENSHTAM was a member
of Agricultural colony Novo Borislav.
This information suprised me because:
1) As I know the family lived in Akimovka, near Melitopol
2) Novo Borislav colony is placed relatively far >from Akimovka, even in
another uyezd (do somebody knows which uyezd? Kherson?)

I think (without any prove) that the family moved to Ukraine >from Courland,
so my questions are:

1) Do somebody knows about some archival resources with a list of jews who
moved >from Courland to Ukraine agricultural colonies?
2) Do somebody knows about some lists of jews who arrived to Novo Borislav
colony?
3) Where should I search for census data and metrical books of Novo Borislav
colony - Kherson or something else?
I searched rtrfoundation.org, but they have not entries on Novo Borislav.
4) Is there chance that they all the time lived in Akimovka but somehow were
recorded as Novo Borislav citizens?

Thank you!

Pavel Bernshtam

Hi Pavel,

In one of the sources (Yevrei Ukraine, Kiev 1995) which lists data from
1923-24, in Odessa Guberniya within Cherson Okrug there is Berislav Rayon
listed.

Berislav Rayon consisted of colony Volodarske (260 households, population
1,225) as the part of Volodarske Selsoviet, and colony Novo-Berislav (74
households, 401 population) as part of Dremaylov Selsoviet.

Alexander Sharon
Calgary

I have an extra copy of the book, The Destruction of the Slonim Jewry, by Nachum
Alpert. I will send it to the first person who emails me their smail address.

Best,

Phyllis Bosworth
NYC

Researching Antopol, Belarus

I have an extra copy of the book, The Destruction of the Slonim Jewry, by Nachum
Alpert. I will send it to the first person who emails me their smail address.

Best,

Phyllis Bosworth
NYC

Researching Antopol, Belarus

CIECHANOW AND AUSCHWITZ GROUP VISIT.

8 Days, 7 Nights Historical Tour To Poland. Unique Opportunity!
* * * Once-In-A-Lifetime Event. * * *
This may be last Commemoration Ever.

CIECHANOW See the Jewish Cemetery, Location of Ancient Jewish Quarter,
Historic Castle where Jews were imprisoned by Germans, MORE!
Request Family Records at City Archives.
Meet local personalities.

WARSAW Jewish Historical Institute, Main Synagogue Complex.
Meet the Chief Rabbi. See Ghetto Resistance Monument.
Umschlagplatz. Remains of Ghetto. Largest Jewish Cemetery.
Shabat Services (optional.) Much MORE!

KRAKOW See the remains of Ghetto, local cemetery, the Jagellonian.
Attend services (optional) in ancient synagogue.
Eat at Jewish Night Club, Restaurant, MORE!
Visit Incredible Salt Mines.

AUSCHWITZ Attend 60th Anniversary Commemoration of Prisoner Revolt.
See memorial to Rosa Robota, Ciechanow resident, e.
Participate in religious, civic rituals.
Tour prisoners' quarters, cells
Enter gas chamber, crematorium, monuments....
Be a part of history in this paradigm of history!

ALL INCLUSIVE.
Air Fare >from New York. All De Luxe Hotels.
Most Meals (kosher available).
Tour Guides. All Transfers and Private Touring Transportation.

Depart NYC Sunday, Oct 10, 2004. Return Sunday Oct 17.

Limited Spaces Still Available! Reply Now!

FOR INFORMATION:
CONTACT THE ROSA ROBOTA FOUNDATION (Not For Profit.)
Allan E. Mallenbaum, Chairman
***
E-Mail Inquiries: < RRF@...>
***
or write to:
Rosa Robota Foundation
The Shoah Center, Box 24
Plainview, NY 11803-0024
USA

In the process of recording and computerizing very early English
synagogue records which are to be sorted according to family name, it is
clear that the lack of a family name presents a very real difficulty. How can we
list family names if only the patronymic is given and especially where the family
name is to be the primary field?

One solution seems to be to adopt the system common in the Prussian Empire
and eastern Europe and to bestow a putative family name i.e. the given name
of the father, as found in the patronymic.

Most of us are familiar with the custom of taking the given name of the
father as the family name, in the period before the compulsory introduction
of family names and where we do not have an established family name
extending over several generations. This Prussian custom is also seen in
early 19th century English synagogue records. For example, Moshe, whose
father was Yaakov ben Yehezkel, would have the patronymic Moshe ben Yaakov (for
synagogue) which was usually simplified in civilian life to Moshe Yaakov, so that
Yaakov became the new "family name" for one generation.. May I invite comments on
a proposal to exploit this custom in order to give family names in places
where they do not exist? Do readers consider it a legitimate procedure?
Harold Lewin - Jerusalem

CIECHANOW AND AUSCHWITZ GROUP VISIT.

8 Days, 7 Nights Historical Tour To Poland. Unique Opportunity!
* * * Once-In-A-Lifetime Event. * * *
This may be last Commemoration Ever.

CIECHANOW See the Jewish Cemetery, Location of Ancient Jewish Quarter,
Historic Castle where Jews were imprisoned by Germans, MORE!
Request Family Records at City Archives.
Meet local personalities.

WARSAW Jewish Historical Institute, Main Synagogue Complex.
Meet the Chief Rabbi. See Ghetto Resistance Monument.
Umschlagplatz. Remains of Ghetto. Largest Jewish Cemetery.
Shabat Services (optional.) Much MORE!

KRAKOW See the remains of Ghetto, local cemetery, the Jagellonian.
Attend services (optional) in ancient synagogue.
Eat at Jewish Night Club, Restaurant, MORE!
Visit Incredible Salt Mines.

AUSCHWITZ Attend 60th Anniversary Commemoration of Prisoner Revolt.
See memorial to Rosa Robota, Ciechanow resident, e.
Participate in religious, civic rituals.
Tour prisoners' quarters, cells
Enter gas chamber, crematorium, monuments....
Be a part of history in this paradigm of history!

ALL INCLUSIVE.
Air Fare >from New York. All De Luxe Hotels.
Most Meals (kosher available).
Tour Guides. All Transfers and Private Touring Transportation.

Depart NYC Sunday, Oct 10, 2004. Return Sunday Oct 17.

Limited Spaces Still Available! Reply Now!

FOR INFORMATION:
CONTACT THE ROSA ROBOTA FOUNDATION (Not For Profit.)
Allan E. Mallenbaum, Chairman
***
E-Mail Inquiries: < RRF@...>
***
or write to:
Rosa Robota Foundation
The Shoah Center, Box 24
Plainview, NY 11803-0024
USA

In the process of recording and computerizing very early English
synagogue records which are to be sorted according to family name, it is
clear that the lack of a family name presents a very real difficulty. How can we
list family names if only the patronymic is given and especially where the family
name is to be the primary field?

One solution seems to be to adopt the system common in the Prussian Empire
and eastern Europe and to bestow a putative family name i.e. the given name
of the father, as found in the patronymic.

Most of us are familiar with the custom of taking the given name of the
father as the family name, in the period before the compulsory introduction
of family names and where we do not have an established family name
extending over several generations. This Prussian custom is also seen in
early 19th century English synagogue records. For example, Moshe, whose
father was Yaakov ben Yehezkel, would have the patronymic Moshe ben Yaakov (for
synagogue) which was usually simplified in civilian life to Moshe Yaakov, so that
Yaakov became the new "family name" for one generation.. May I invite comments on
a proposal to exploit this custom in order to give family names in places
where they do not exist? Do readers consider it a legitimate procedure?
Harold Lewin - Jerusalem

Hello!

I just received a birth record of my great grandfather's brother >from Mormon
copies of Melitopol archives.
This records says that his father Aron Leib Aronov BERENSHTAM was a member
of Agricultural colony Novo Borislav.
This information suprised me because:
1) As I know the family lived in Akimovka, near Melitopol
2) Novo Borislav colony is placed relatively far >from Akimovka, even in
another uyezd (do somebody knows which uyezd? Kherson?)

I think (without any prove) that the family moved to Ukraine >from Courland,
so my questions are:

1) Do somebody knows about some archival resources with a list of jews who
moved >from Courland to Ukraine agricultural colonies?
2) Do somebody knows about some lists of jews who arrived to Novo Borislav
colony?
3) Where should I search for census data and metrical books of Novo Borislav
colony - Kherson or something else?
I searched rtrfoundation.org, but they have not entries on Novo Borislav.
4) Is there chance that they all the time lived in Akimovka but somehow were
recorded as Novo Borislav citizens?

Thank you!

Pavel Bernshtam

Searching for:
ITKIN-Kolyshki, Vitebsk uyezd, Vitebsk gubernia; Kharkov, BENIOMENSON-Bocheikovo,
Lepel uyezd, Kharkov,BERNSHTAM-Akimovka (Melitopol oblast), Melitopol, ALTSHULER-
Priazovskoe (Pokrovka)(Melitopol oblast) , Melitopol, Chausy (Mogilev gubernia)
KANTOR-Polonnoe (Volyn gubernia), Baranovka (Volyn gubernia), Zhitomir,
LAMDAN, LAMDIN-Mlinov ZHURAHOV, ZURAHOV-Chervonnoe (Zhitomir uyezd), Verbovo
(Skvir uyezd) ,Zhitomir, KELMAN-Chervonnoe (Zhitomir uyezd), Zhitomir

Hello!

I just received a birth record of my great grandfather's brother >from Mormon
copies of Melitopol archives.
This records says that his father Aron Leib Aronov BERENSHTAM was a member
of Agricultural colony Novo Borislav.
This information suprised me because:
1) As I know the family lived in Akimovka, near Melitopol
2) Novo Borislav colony is placed relatively far >from Akimovka, even in
another uyezd (do somebody knows which uyezd? Kherson?)

I think (without any prove) that the family moved to Ukraine >from Courland,
so my questions are:

1) Do somebody knows about some archival resources with a list of jews who
moved >from Courland to Ukraine agricultural colonies?
2) Do somebody knows about some lists of jews who arrived to Novo Borislav
colony?
3) Where should I search for census data and metrical books of Novo Borislav
colony - Kherson or something else?
I searched rtrfoundation.org, but they have not entries on Novo Borislav.
4) Is there chance that they all the time lived in Akimovka but somehow were
recorded as Novo Borislav citizens?

Thank you!

Pavel Bernshtam

Searching for:
ITKIN-Kolyshki, Vitebsk uyezd, Vitebsk gubernia; Kharkov, BENIOMENSON-Bocheikovo,
Lepel uyezd, Kharkov,BERNSHTAM-Akimovka (Melitopol oblast), Melitopol, ALTSHULER-
Priazovskoe (Pokrovka)(Melitopol oblast) , Melitopol, Chausy (Mogilev gubernia)
KANTOR-Polonnoe (Volyn gubernia), Baranovka (Volyn gubernia), Zhitomir,
LAMDAN, LAMDIN-Mlinov ZHURAHOV, ZURAHOV-Chervonnoe (Zhitomir uyezd), Verbovo
(Skvir uyezd) ,Zhitomir, KELMAN-Chervonnoe (Zhitomir uyezd), Zhitomir

Looking for info on my ggm family.


Heinrich or hyman LIPSCHITZ and Jetty AMSTER married. My ggm, Josephene
(Pepie or Persha) married Mayer APPLETREE in 1905 in NY. She lists that she
is >from Hungary on marriage certificate. Family lore is that they were from
Austria - Hungary border - a town which sounds like "Igloo."

Josephen's siblings were:

Adoph LIPSCHITZ/LIPSEY (M. Mini KRAUSS in 1899.) Had a daughter Helen who
was a dentis and maybe married a man named LAUFER.

Max

Bertha

William (died young)

Augusta (Gussie) (M. Nathan MELTZ - no children)

Mary (M. Jacob AMSTER 1/1900)

Sister who married non-Jew and stayed in Hungary

Zali - half sister, same dad?

I don't know when they came to America. The Ellis Island web site starts at
1892 and I can't find anyone.

Thanks.

Allison Rosenthal

Looking for info on my ggm family.


Heinrich or hyman LIPSCHITZ and Jetty AMSTER married. My ggm, Josephene
(Pepie or Persha) married Mayer APPLETREE in 1905 in NY. She lists that she
is >from Hungary on marriage certificate. Family lore is that they were from
Austria - Hungary border - a town which sounds like "Igloo."

Josephen's siblings were:

Adoph LIPSCHITZ/LIPSEY (M. Mini KRAUSS in 1899.) Had a daughter Helen who
was a dentis and maybe married a man named LAUFER.

Max

Bertha

William (died young)

Augusta (Gussie) (M. Nathan MELTZ - no children)

Mary (M. Jacob AMSTER 1/1900)

Sister who married non-Jew and stayed in Hungary

Zali - half sister, same dad?

I don't know when they came to America. The Ellis Island web site starts at
1892 and I can't find anyone.

Thanks.

Allison Rosenthal

Discovered my g-g-aunt came >from Dolman, Austria. (At least that is what it
looks like on the Ellis Island manifest) Does that tiwn sound familar to
anyone.

Robert A. Dodell
RADodell@...

MODERATOR NOTE: Try the ShtetlSeeker to find Dolamn. It is located at:
http://www2.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/

Discovered my g-g-aunt came >from Dolman, Austria. (At least that is what it
looks like on the Ellis Island manifest) Does that tiwn sound familar to
anyone.

Robert A. Dodell
RADodell@...

MODERATOR NOTE: Try the ShtetlSeeker to find Dolamn. It is located at:
http://www2.jewishgen.org/ShtetlSeeker/

Hello,

My late grandfather was a scribe in Zvenigorodka, Ukraine, at the
end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth
century. To become a scribe. did her have to attend a Yeshiva? His
name was Shmule Yossel BELAGOLOV. Where can I find a record of his
birth, marriage and death? I would also like to have information
about the Yeshiva that exsisted in Mezeritch, Ukraine.

Your help would be much appreciated.

Thank you,

Doris Resnik
Cote St. Luc, Quebec

I have learned that a relative of mine, Chananya ZWANG, was a rabbi
in Kutno, Poland in 1918 or 1928. He was probably born 1840-1860,
but this is only a guess based on other ages in the family.
Apparently, there were many rabbis and politicians in the family,
but whether they all had the unusual ZWANG surname I do not yet
know. I would be grateful for any information about ZWANG rabbis.

Thanks very much and best regards,

Logan Kleinwaks
kleinwaks@...
Washington, D.C. area

I have learned that a relative of mine, Chananya ZWANG, was a rabbi
in Kutno, Poland in 1918 or 1928. He was probably born 1840-1860,
but this is only a guess based on other ages in the family.
Apparently, there were many rabbis and politicians in the family,
but whether they all had the unusual ZWANG surname I do not yet
know. I would be grateful for any information about ZWANG rabbis.

Thanks very much and best regards,

Logan Kleinwaks
kleinwaks@...
Washington, D.C. area

Hello,

My late grandfather was a scribe in Zvenigorodka, Ukraine, at the
end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth
century. To become a scribe. did her have to attend a Yeshiva? His
name was Shmule Yossel BELAGOLOV. Where can I find a record of his
birth, marriage and death? I would also like to have information
about the Yeshiva that exsisted in Mezeritch, Ukraine.

Your help would be much appreciated.

Thank you,

Doris Resnik
Cote St. Luc, Quebec