As part of the presentation last night at this important annual
conference, JewishGen launched the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial
Registry database (JOWBR), a compilation of burial records, photographs
and information about the individual cemeteries. To help accumulate
data, JewishGen initiated an "adopt a cemetery" program to encourage
local genealogy societies, synagogue youth groups, Jewish federations,
and other interested parties worldwide to index cemetery or
landsmanschaft plot records for submission to the JOWBR project.=20

The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry database is one of
the largest and most sophisticated efforts undertaken by JewishGen to
date. Jewish cemeteries throughout the world are threatened with
vandalism and even extinction. It is vitally important to preserve
information on existing Jewish cemeteries so future generations will
have the benefit of this aspect of cultural heritage.

The database features 643 cemeteries, 314,778 burial records, and
11,461 tombstone photographs representing cemeteries in 25 countries. In
the coming year, JewishGen intends to include information for an
additional 242 cemeteries, 150,461 burial records and 22,400 tombstone
images >from 36 cemeteries in Eastern Europe.

We expect to see the database grow quickly as those researching
their family history contribute information about the cemeteries of
their ancestral towns and also through our partnerships with cemetery
associations throughout the world to include the Jewish Cemetery
Association of Massachusetts, the Johannesburg Jewish Helping Hand &
Burial Society (Chevra Kadisha), and the Texas Jewish Historical Society
have already provided thousands of records.

The database is now live and located at the following URL:
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/jowbr

Susan

Susan E. King
Managing Director
JewishGen Inc.

As part of the presentation last night at this important annual
conference, JewishGen launched the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial
Registry database (JOWBR), a compilation of burial records, photographs
and information about the individual cemeteries. To help accumulate
data, JewishGen initiated an "adopt a cemetery" program to encourage
local genealogy societies, synagogue youth groups, Jewish federations,
and other interested parties worldwide to index cemetery or
landsmanschaft plot records for submission to the JOWBR project.=20

The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry database is one of
the largest and most sophisticated efforts undertaken by JewishGen to
date. Jewish cemeteries throughout the world are threatened with
vandalism and even extinction. It is vitally important to preserve
information on existing Jewish cemeteries so future generations will
have the benefit of this aspect of cultural heritage.

The database features 643 cemeteries, 314,778 burial records, and
11,461 tombstone photographs representing cemeteries in 25 countries. In
the coming year, JewishGen intends to include information for an
additional 242 cemeteries, 150,461 burial records and 22,400 tombstone
images >from 36 cemeteries in Eastern Europe.

We expect to see the database grow quickly as those researching
their family history contribute information about the cemeteries of
their ancestral towns and also through our partnerships with cemetery
associations throughout the world to include the Jewish Cemetery
Association of Massachusetts, the Johannesburg Jewish Helping Hand &
Burial Society (Chevra Kadisha), and the Texas Jewish Historical Society
have already provided thousands of records.

The database is now live and located at the following URL:
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/jowbr

Susan

Susan E. King
Managing Director
JewishGen Inc.

As part of the presentation last night at this important annual
conference, JewishGen launched the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial
Registry database (JOWBR), a compilation of burial records, photographs
and information about the individual cemeteries. To help accumulate
data, JewishGen initiated an "adopt a cemetery" program to encourage
local genealogy societies, synagogue youth groups, Jewish federations,
and other interested parties worldwide to index cemetery or
landsmanschaft plot records for submission to the JOWBR project.=20

The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry database is one of
the largest and most sophisticated efforts undertaken by JewishGen to
date. Jewish cemeteries throughout the world are threatened with
vandalism and even extinction. It is vitally important to preserve
information on existing Jewish cemeteries so future generations will
have the benefit of this aspect of cultural heritage.

The database features 643 cemeteries, 314,778 burial records, and
11,461 tombstone photographs representing cemeteries in 25 countries. In
the coming year, JewishGen intends to include information for an
additional 242 cemeteries, 150,461 burial records and 22,400 tombstone
images >from 36 cemeteries in Eastern Europe.

We expect to see the database grow quickly as those researching
their family history contribute information about the cemeteries of
their ancestral towns and also through our partnerships with cemetery
associations throughout the world to include the Jewish Cemetery
Association of Massachusetts, the Johannesburg Jewish Helping Hand &
Burial Society (Chevra Kadisha), and the Texas Jewish Historical Society
have already provided thousands of records.

The database is now live and located at the following URL:
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/jowbr

Susan

Susan E. King
Managing Director
JewishGen Inc.

As part of the presentation last night at this important annual
conference, JewishGen launched the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial
Registry database (JOWBR), a compilation of burial records, photographs
and information about the individual cemeteries. To help accumulate
data, JewishGen initiated an "adopt a cemetery" program to encourage
local genealogy societies, synagogue youth groups, Jewish federations,
and other interested parties worldwide to index cemetery or
landsmanschaft plot records for submission to the JOWBR project.=20

The JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry database is one of
the largest and most sophisticated efforts undertaken by JewishGen to
date. Jewish cemeteries throughout the world are threatened with
vandalism and even extinction. It is vitally important to preserve
information on existing Jewish cemeteries so future generations will
have the benefit of this aspect of cultural heritage.

The database features 643 cemeteries, 314,778 burial records, and
11,461 tombstone photographs representing cemeteries in 25 countries. In
the coming year, JewishGen intends to include information for an
additional 242 cemeteries, 150,461 burial records and 22,400 tombstone
images >from 36 cemeteries in Eastern Europe.

We expect to see the database grow quickly as those researching
their family history contribute information about the cemeteries of
their ancestral towns and also through our partnerships with cemetery
associations throughout the world to include the Jewish Cemetery
Association of Massachusetts, the Johannesburg Jewish Helping Hand &
Burial Society (Chevra Kadisha), and the Texas Jewish Historical Society
have already provided thousands of records.

The database is now live and located at the following URL:
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/jowbr

Susan

Susan E. King
Managing Director
JewishGen Inc.

The International Jewish Cemetry Project - South Africa contains a reference
to Cradock cemetry.

Kindly inform me whether anyone has a burial list and, if so, whether the data
is open to the public.
A similar request has been sent to Rabbi M Silberhaft.

Yours sincerely,

Dennis Kahn
Amsterdam
Netherlands

The International Jewish Cemetry Project - South Africa contains a reference
to Cradock cemetry.

Kindly inform me whether anyone has a burial list and, if so, whether the data
is open to the public.
A similar request has been sent to Rabbi M Silberhaft.

Yours sincerely,

Dennis Kahn
Amsterdam
Netherlands

Apparently the shtetl Leckava which is curently in the Siauliai (Shavel)
uyezd in the Kaunas(Kovne) guberniya with co-ordinates Latitude: 56º23'
Longitude: 22º15', (aka Letzkau, Letzkova, Litzghof, Ljatzkow, and
Lyatskova) was apparently once part of Kurland. Would anyone have any
information on this and when it became part of Lithuania?

Eli Goldstein
Johannesburg
South Africa
RESEARCHING FOLLOWING FAMILIES:
BLUMENTHAL (Birmingham England and Winnipeg Canada)
GOLDSTEIN(Hull England and South Africa)
JACKELSON/YOCHELSON (Sialuai/Shavli in Lithuania)
KARABELNIK / KRUBELNIK (Plunge, Varniai, Rokiskis, Kelme in Lithuania)
LIPSCHITZ(Daugavpils/Dvinsk, Rezekne,Riga in Latvia)
LEVIN/LEVINE/LEWIN (Riga, Latvia and Siauliai/Shavel, Salantiai/Salant and
Telsiai/Telz, Lithuania; Manchester England; Dublin Ireland; Swansea, Wales;
Scotland, USA and South Africa)
OLSHVANG/OLSCHWANG (Luoke/Lukniki and Varniai Lithuania)
RACHAILOVICH(Estonia and Riga, Latvia)
SHEKSNER/SHERKSNER/SHERKSNE/SCHERKSNE/SERKSNER/SERKIN -Libau in Latvia,
Joniskis, Leckava(Latskowa), Salantiai/Salant or Sialuai/Shavli and
Telsiai/Telz in Lithuania, South Africa, Canada, USA)

Apparently the shtetl Leckava which is curently in the Siauliai (Shavel)
uyezd in the Kaunas(Kovne) guberniya with co-ordinates Latitude: 56º23'
Longitude: 22º15', (aka Letzkau, Letzkova, Litzghof, Ljatzkow, and
Lyatskova) was apparently once part of Kurland. Would anyone have any
information on this and when it became part of Lithuania?

Eli Goldstein
Johannesburg
South Africa
RESEARCHING FOLLOWING FAMILIES:
BLUMENTHAL (Birmingham England and Winnipeg Canada)
GOLDSTEIN(Hull England and South Africa)
JACKELSON/YOCHELSON (Sialuai/Shavli in Lithuania)
KARABELNIK / KRUBELNIK (Plunge, Varniai, Rokiskis, Kelme in Lithuania)
LIPSCHITZ(Daugavpils/Dvinsk, Rezekne,Riga in Latvia)
LEVIN/LEVINE/LEWIN (Riga, Latvia and Siauliai/Shavel, Salantiai/Salant and
Telsiai/Telz, Lithuania; Manchester England; Dublin Ireland; Swansea, Wales;
Scotland, USA and South Africa)
OLSHVANG/OLSCHWANG (Luoke/Lukniki and Varniai Lithuania)
RACHAILOVICH(Estonia and Riga, Latvia)
SHEKSNER/SHERKSNER/SHERKSNE/SCHERKSNE/SERKSNER/SERKIN -Libau in Latvia,
Joniskis, Leckava(Latskowa), Salantiai/Salant or Sialuai/Shavli and
Telsiai/Telz in Lithuania, South Africa, Canada, USA)

For more information you may want to read Ruth Gruber's book,
"Haven". Ms. Gruber was a special assistant to Harol Ickes
and was given the rank of simulated general, in case she
was shot down by Nazi planes and taken prisoner.
It's a fascinating book and does have photos and
names of some of those who were interred there.

<< a group of about 1,000 Jews
brought to the US >from Italy in 1944 and kept in an internment camp in
upstate New York for seven months after the war was over until President
Truman allowed them to apply for citizenship.

The organizer of this immigration was, as I recall, Ruth Gruber
--war reporter, Jewish advocate, war heroine, and for
this occasion appointed to high rank either in the State Department
or in the US Army.

The story was shown on television about 18 months ago.

Barbara Wasser
swass@...
Niskayuna, NY

For more information you may want to read Ruth Gruber's book,
"Haven". Ms. Gruber was a special assistant to Harol Ickes
and was given the rank of simulated general, in case she
was shot down by Nazi planes and taken prisoner.
It's a fascinating book and does have photos and
names of some of those who were interred there.

<< a group of about 1,000 Jews
brought to the US >from Italy in 1944 and kept in an internment camp in
upstate New York for seven months after the war was over until President
Truman allowed them to apply for citizenship.

The organizer of this immigration was, as I recall, Ruth Gruber
--war reporter, Jewish advocate, war heroine, and for
this occasion appointed to high rank either in the State Department
or in the US Army.

The story was shown on television about 18 months ago.

Barbara Wasser
swass@...
Niskayuna, NY

In 1866, Henry H. Havens published the book General
Index to the Laws of the State of New York. It was
published in Albany by Weed, Parsons & Co. In
volume one, which covers 1777-1857, Havens included
a list entitled Aliens Authorized to Purchase and Hold
Real Estate in this State.

The name and reference I am interested in is -

YEAR 1818 Narr, Joshua, Statutes, 283.

Question is can anyone tell me what 283 means and
if not if anyone when going to the Library, can
check it out for me.

Thanks,
NEIL ROSENSTEIN.

MODERATOR NOTE: Please respond privately

In 1866, Henry H. Havens published the book General
Index to the Laws of the State of New York. It was
published in Albany by Weed, Parsons & Co. In
volume one, which covers 1777-1857, Havens included
a list entitled Aliens Authorized to Purchase and Hold
Real Estate in this State.

The name and reference I am interested in is -

YEAR 1818 Narr, Joshua, Statutes, 283.

Question is can anyone tell me what 283 means and
if not if anyone when going to the Library, can
check it out for me.

Thanks,
NEIL ROSENSTEIN.

MODERATOR NOTE: Please respond privately

Hello -

I recently obtained a photograph depicting women >from the
"United Hebrew Trades" in New York City in 1911.
The women were attending a memorial service for the
victims of the Triangle Fire, which killed over 100 people.

A close look at the photo reveals that the women are
standing in front of the office of "The Big Stick,"
a Yiddish-language newspaper that was published
between 1909 and 1927. Does anyone know the newspaper's
address in 1911? I would like to take a photo of
the same location as it appears today for a "then
and now"-type comparison.

If anyone would like a jpg of this photo, e-mail me and
I'll send it to you. It can also be viewed at Cornell's
Triangle Fire website.

Thank you,

George
George1496ataol.com

MODERATOR NOTE: Please respond privately

I have posted two photographs to the JewishGen Viewmate. They
are of my FRIEDMAN ancestors. The first photograph is of
Barnet(t) David FRIEDMAN and his wife Sarah THURLIN / TURCHIN
taken circa 1900 New York City, NY, USA.

The family may have been >from Kiev, Ukraine. The second is of their
children, my grandfather and several of his sisters, taken circa
1903 New York City, NY, USA. Infant on left is Anna
/ Natalie / Nettie FRIEDMAN (LENETT). Second >from left
is my paternal grandfather Hirsch FRIEDMAN. Third

from left is probably Lena FRIEDMAN (KURLAND). Fourth

and fifth >from left are probably Fannie / Fanny
FRIEDMAN (FRIEDMAN) and Ida FRIEDMAN (SCHIFF?).
An older sister, Rose FRIEDMAN (SCHECK) was left behind
in Russia (she eventually made her way to the USA) and
is not in the photograph. There is a faint possibility
that there are other siblings, but I have no positive
proof of such.

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2639
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2640

Please let me know if you recognize them or if you can tell
me anything about them >from the details of the photograph.
Also, note especially the slant of the eyes
(outer corners tilted up). This trait has held true for
several generations of my family and is not very
common among Jews most of whom have downward tilting
eyes or upside-down half-moons. Their eyes may
hold clues to where they were from. My sister and I
look just like Sarah.

Vicki Ina Friedman
Ball Ground, GA, USA
dreambuilder@...

Researching: BECK, CHORNEY, DUBIN(SKY), FRIEDMAN, LISANSKY, RECHMAN,
SK(O)LOFF, THURLIN / TURCHIN, ZEIDELMAN (Russian Empire to United States
approx. 1880-1910)

I have posted two photographs to the JewishGen Viewmate. They
are of my FRIEDMAN ancestors. The first photograph is of
Barnet(t) David FRIEDMAN and his wife Sarah THURLIN / TURCHIN
taken circa 1900 New York City, NY, USA.

The family may have been >from Kiev, Ukraine. The second is of their
children, my grandfather and several of his sisters, taken circa
1903 New York City, NY, USA. Infant on left is Anna
/ Natalie / Nettie FRIEDMAN (LENETT). Second >from left
is my paternal grandfather Hirsch FRIEDMAN. Third

from left is probably Lena FRIEDMAN (KURLAND). Fourth

and fifth >from left are probably Fannie / Fanny
FRIEDMAN (FRIEDMAN) and Ida FRIEDMAN (SCHIFF?).
An older sister, Rose FRIEDMAN (SCHECK) was left behind
in Russia (she eventually made her way to the USA) and
is not in the photograph. There is a faint possibility
that there are other siblings, but I have no positive
proof of such.

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2639
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2640

Please let me know if you recognize them or if you can tell
me anything about them >from the details of the photograph.
Also, note especially the slant of the eyes
(outer corners tilted up). This trait has held true for
several generations of my family and is not very
common among Jews most of whom have downward tilting
eyes or upside-down half-moons. Their eyes may
hold clues to where they were from. My sister and I
look just like Sarah.

Vicki Ina Friedman
Ball Ground, GA, USA
dreambuilder@...

Researching: BECK, CHORNEY, DUBIN(SKY), FRIEDMAN, LISANSKY, RECHMAN,
SK(O)LOFF, THURLIN / TURCHIN, ZEIDELMAN (Russian Empire to United States
approx. 1880-1910)

Hello -

I recently obtained a photograph depicting women >from the
"United Hebrew Trades" in New York City in 1911.
The women were attending a memorial service for the
victims of the Triangle Fire, which killed over 100 people.

A close look at the photo reveals that the women are
standing in front of the office of "The Big Stick,"
a Yiddish-language newspaper that was published
between 1909 and 1927. Does anyone know the newspaper's
address in 1911? I would like to take a photo of
the same location as it appears today for a "then
and now"-type comparison.

If anyone would like a jpg of this photo, e-mail me and
I'll send it to you. It can also be viewed at Cornell's
Triangle Fire website.

Thank you,

George
George1496ataol.com

MODERATOR NOTE: Please respond privately

I have translated the chapter on Szczuczyn of the Pinkas Hakehilot
Polin Yizkor Book [Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Poland].

http://www.szczuczyn.com/pinkas.htm

Szczuczyn is in northeastern Poland, in Lomza gubernia.

I had previously done translations of the chapters for two other towns
in the same region:

http://www.radzilow.com/pinkas.htm
http://www.wizna.com/pinkas.htm

Jose Gutstein
E-Mail: Gutstein@...
Radzilow web page: http://www.radzilow.com
Szczuczyn web page: http://www.szczuczyn.com
Wizna web page: http://www.wizna.com

I have translated the chapter on Szczuczyn of the Pinkas Hakehilot
Polin Yizkor Book [Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities, Poland].

http://www.szczuczyn.com/pinkas.htm

Szczuczyn is in northeastern Poland, in Lomza gubernia.

I had previously done translations of the chapters for two other towns
in the same region:

http://www.radzilow.com/pinkas.htm
http://www.wizna.com/pinkas.htm

Jose Gutstein
E-Mail: Gutstein@...
Radzilow web page: http://www.radzilow.com
Szczuczyn web page: http://www.szczuczyn.com
Wizna web page: http://www.wizna.com

I am searching for any information on my Uncle family name Suszczyk from
Lomza. If you have any information please contact privately.

Adam

Researching in Poland;
Sztejnklaper - Janow Podlaski, Miedzyrzec Podlaski,
Losice, Israel, Lubertow,Argentina
Suszczyk – Janow Podlaski, Lomza,
Richter/Gruszniewski(a) - Miedzyrzec Podlaski,
Israel, Argentina Szoelom (Szaul) Tewelem Giwercer son of Icka Hersz Giwercer/Cywka
Sztejnklaper - Janow Podlaski

I am searching for any information on my Uncle family name Suszczyk from
Lomza. If you have any information please contact privately.

Adam

Researching in Poland;
Sztejnklaper - Janow Podlaski, Miedzyrzec Podlaski,
Losice, Israel, Lubertow,Argentina
Suszczyk – Janow Podlaski, Lomza,
Richter/Gruszniewski(a) - Miedzyrzec Podlaski,
Israel, Argentina Szoelom (Szaul) Tewelem Giwercer son of Icka Hersz Giwercer/Cywka
Sztejnklaper - Janow Podlaski