Can somebody please help decipher handwriting on passenger manifests in the
Ellis Island data base? I have posted two names and addresses that I can
not make out on VM2541 and VM2474 (this one is already in the archives).
The ViewMate address is http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html
Please send responses sent directly to me. Thanks a lot,

Rick Hyman
California

Searching:
ZIMMERSPITZ Chorowice, Skawina, & Gdow, Poland
HUPERT: Wielke Drogie, Poland
FELDMAN Ungvar, (Ung)Csertesz, Hajdunanas, Solymos, Palin, Hungary
WEISS Lasztomer, Ungvar, Vilag, Hungary

MODERATOR NOTE: The direct links to these images are:
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2541
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2474

A database created by the Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public
Library titled a "Cumulative Index to Zalman Zylbercweig's Leksikon fun
Yidishn Teater" is available online in pdf format. The names in the index
are listed in their original Yiddish. For information on this enormously
valuable lexicon and to search by Yiddish letter go to:
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/jws/leksikonindex.html

Steven Weiss
Chicago

MODERATOR NOTE: This site could be of interest to the Yiddish Theater and
Vaudeville Research Group
(http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/ytheatre.txt).
Please post this message there as well.

Can somebody please help decipher handwriting on passenger manifests in the
Ellis Island data base? I have posted two names and addresses that I can
not make out on VM2541 and VM2474 (this one is already in the archives).
The ViewMate address is http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html
Please send responses sent directly to me. Thanks a lot,

Rick Hyman
California

Searching:
ZIMMERSPITZ Chorowice, Skawina, & Gdow, Poland
HUPERT: Wielke Drogie, Poland
FELDMAN Ungvar, (Ung)Csertesz, Hajdunanas, Solymos, Palin, Hungary
WEISS Lasztomer, Ungvar, Vilag, Hungary

MODERATOR NOTE: The direct links to these images are:
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2541
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2474

A database created by the Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public
Library titled a "Cumulative Index to Zalman Zylbercweig's Leksikon fun
Yidishn Teater" is available online in pdf format. The names in the index
are listed in their original Yiddish. For information on this enormously
valuable lexicon and to search by Yiddish letter go to:
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/jws/leksikonindex.html

Steven Weiss
Chicago

MODERATOR NOTE: This site could be of interest to the Yiddish Theater and
Vaudeville Research Group
(http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/ytheatre.txt).
Please post this message there as well.

List members,

Viewmate pictures VM2542-46 are KATZ surnames >from B/M/D records of
Zwolen, Poland. I would appreciate translation of the Katz given names
and the given and surnames of the marriage partners.

http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2542
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2543
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2544
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2545
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2546

Thank you very much.

Norm Katz
Monroe Township, NJ

MODERATOR NOTE: Please respond privately.

List members,

Viewmate pictures VM2542-46 are KATZ surnames >from B/M/D records of
Zwolen, Poland. I would appreciate translation of the Katz given names
and the given and surnames of the marriage partners.

http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2542
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2543
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2544
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2545
http://data.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2546

Thank you very much.

Norm Katz
Monroe Township, NJ

MODERATOR NOTE: Please respond privately.

Hello-

I have posted three birth records >from Odessa on ViewMate at

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate VM files 2548, 2549 and 2550.

I haven't been able to find anything yet for my gm Liza BARSKA, but I
believe these birth records may belong to her siblings.

If any one can offer translations, I would be very appreciative!
Thanks so much!

Best regards,
Connie Fisher Newhan
Yorba Linda, CA
Searching FISHER/FISCHER/FISZER (Warszawa & Bedzin, Poland), BARSKA/BARSKY
(Odessa), GOLDBERG (Russia?), FELDMAN (Kovno), SPRINGER, HAMBURGER
(Poland), ABRAMS, RABINOWITZ, LEVINE, LUPOLOR, FRIEDSAM,
COHN/COHEN/KOHN/KOHEN/KAHN.  NEWHAN/NEUHAN (Hesse Cassel, Baltimore),
GERSTEN (Obertyn, Galacia), BOHORODCZANER (Potok Zloty, Ukraine), ANTZEL
(Poland), BLUM, ROTH, ROCKOVITZ

MODERATOR NOTE: Please espond privately.

The direct links to these images are:
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2548
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2549
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2550

Hello-

I have posted three birth records >from Odessa on ViewMate at

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate VM files 2548, 2549 and 2550.

I haven't been able to find anything yet for my gm Liza BARSKA, but I
believe these birth records may belong to her siblings.

If any one can offer translations, I would be very appreciative!
Thanks so much!

Best regards,
Connie Fisher Newhan
Yorba Linda, CA
Searching FISHER/FISCHER/FISZER (Warszawa & Bedzin, Poland), BARSKA/BARSKY
(Odessa), GOLDBERG (Russia?), FELDMAN (Kovno), SPRINGER, HAMBURGER
(Poland), ABRAMS, RABINOWITZ, LEVINE, LUPOLOR, FRIEDSAM,
COHN/COHEN/KOHN/KOHEN/KAHN.  NEWHAN/NEUHAN (Hesse Cassel, Baltimore),
GERSTEN (Obertyn, Galacia), BOHORODCZANER (Potok Zloty, Ukraine), ANTZEL
(Poland), BLUM, ROTH, ROCKOVITZ

MODERATOR NOTE: Please espond privately.

The direct links to these images are:
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2548
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2549
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2550

Dear Genners,

Thnak you very much, all iff you ehlping med with the previous veiwmates. I
had really much help of this.

I have uploaded some more files that i need help with German reading and
translation.

It is some movingrecords (Meldzettel) >from Vienna. Here are the links. I
have written in everyone what help i need.

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2529

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2530

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2531

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2532

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2533

Please answer me privatly.

Kind regards

Fred Zimmak / Sweden, Stockholm

Seeking information about:
HOFER, FEST, Schrattenberg, Loweraustria, Austria. (Not Jews!)
EHRLICH, STEIN, STEINER, Prague-Leletice-Drahenice-Morovice, Czech repulic
and Vienna, Austria
ROSENBERG, COHN, Sztum, Elblaskie, Poland
GOLDSCHMIDT, ROSENBERG, Tczew, Gdanskie, Poland
SIMSON, ZIMMAK, TZEMACH, Dabrowno, Olsztynskie, Poland

Dear Genners,

Thnak you very much, all iff you ehlping med with the previous veiwmates. I
had really much help of this.

I have uploaded some more files that i need help with German reading and
translation.

It is some movingrecords (Meldzettel) >from Vienna. Here are the links. I
have written in everyone what help i need.

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2529

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2530

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2531

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2532

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=2533

Please answer me privatly.

Kind regards

Fred Zimmak / Sweden, Stockholm

Seeking information about:
HOFER, FEST, Schrattenberg, Loweraustria, Austria. (Not Jews!)
EHRLICH, STEIN, STEINER, Prague-Leletice-Drahenice-Morovice, Czech repulic
and Vienna, Austria
ROSENBERG, COHN, Sztum, Elblaskie, Poland
GOLDSCHMIDT, ROSENBERG, Tczew, Gdanskie, Poland
SIMSON, ZIMMAK, TZEMACH, Dabrowno, Olsztynskie, Poland

My great-great grandfather was Ovsey DANOVITCH, and his Hebrew name was
Yehoshua. When he arrived in the US and became a citizen, he did so
using the name Sam. However, since his older brother also took the name
Sam, my gr-gr-grandfather changed his name to Joshua. My late cousin
told me that she always called him Uncle Gesua.

English names weren't that important to people back then, because what
was important was what their families called them. My great grandfather
on another side was Baruch, but on the death certificates of his sons he
was Bernard, Barry, and Benny. My own grandmother was Vitel, Violet,
Viv, and Vicky, and she came here when she was 5 years old.

Elynn Boss

Regarding the name Owsey:

In my collection of documents relating to possible WOLPERT ancestors >from
Kedainiai I came across three persons with that given name. Various
Lithuanian documents call out the following variations of the name "Owsey":

Person #1, born ca 1830: Ovsey, Govsha, Hoshua;

Person #2, born 1739: Govshey, Ovsey;

Person #3, born 1829: Ovsey, Govsha, Gosel, Yehoshua-Nechemia.

Bob Weiss in Northridgge, CA
RWeissJGS@...

My great-great grandfather was Ovsey DANOVITCH, and his Hebrew name was
Yehoshua. When he arrived in the US and became a citizen, he did so
using the name Sam. However, since his older brother also took the name
Sam, my gr-gr-grandfather changed his name to Joshua. My late cousin
told me that she always called him Uncle Gesua.

English names weren't that important to people back then, because what
was important was what their families called them. My great grandfather
on another side was Baruch, but on the death certificates of his sons he
was Bernard, Barry, and Benny. My own grandmother was Vitel, Violet,
Viv, and Vicky, and she came here when she was 5 years old.

Elynn Boss

Regarding the name Owsey:

In my collection of documents relating to possible WOLPERT ancestors >from
Kedainiai I came across three persons with that given name. Various
Lithuanian documents call out the following variations of the name "Owsey":

Person #1, born ca 1830: Ovsey, Govsha, Hoshua;

Person #2, born 1739: Govshey, Ovsey;

Person #3, born 1829: Ovsey, Govsha, Gosel, Yehoshua-Nechemia.

Bob Weiss in Northridgge, CA
RWeissJGS@...

Dear Genners,

After many years of research and finally printing out my family tree and
sending it off around the world, I have just received information as to the
exact area in Romania where part of my family lived.

A cousin is going to visit in July and would like to have as much
information at his fingertips so as not to lose precious time.

Family CATZ/KATZ – apparently lived in ‘The village of the Iron Bridge’
Podul de Pher? In the suburb of Letia Veche in the district of Siret in the
county of Bacau.

Is there anyone who can advise where exactly this village is, where the
nearest cemetery would be, could birth/death certificates be found for this
area?. We are talking about 1900-1920.

The Katz family originally came >from Piatra Neamt, but the eldest son Baruch
settled in Bacau where he had 14 children.

This new information could possibly lead me further with investigation into
Baruch’s parents, siblings/cousins etc. so if anyone has information no
matter how small, please get back to me off line.

I thank you in anticipation.

Patricia Wilson (Israel)

MODERATOR NOTE: ShtetlSeeker (www.jewishgen.org/shtetlseeker)will give you
coordinates and MapQuest maps.

Dear Genners,

After many years of research and finally printing out my family tree and
sending it off around the world, I have just received information as to the
exact area in Romania where part of my family lived.

A cousin is going to visit in July and would like to have as much
information at his fingertips so as not to lose precious time.

Family CATZ/KATZ – apparently lived in ‘The village of the Iron Bridge’
Podul de Pher? In the suburb of Letia Veche in the district of Siret in the
county of Bacau.

Is there anyone who can advise where exactly this village is, where the
nearest cemetery would be, could birth/death certificates be found for this
area?. We are talking about 1900-1920.

The Katz family originally came >from Piatra Neamt, but the eldest son Baruch
settled in Bacau where he had 14 children.

This new information could possibly lead me further with investigation into
Baruch’s parents, siblings/cousins etc. so if anyone has information no
matter how small, please get back to me off line.

I thank you in anticipation.

Patricia Wilson (Israel)

MODERATOR NOTE: ShtetlSeeker (www.jewishgen.org/shtetlseeker)will give you
coordinates and MapQuest maps.

The DC 2003 Conference is less then a month away. If you have been sitting
on the fence, now is the time to register. Besides the excellent program and
research archives in DC, this Conference is a wonderful opportunity to
network with fellow researchers and experts in the field of Jewish
genealogy. Don't forget to let us know you have registered to attend the
Conference by going to http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/dc2003.htm.

Look for an extract >from the Conference Day Planner with sessions of
particular interest to Belarus researchers. Edward will be putting up a
webpage with this information in the next day or two.

I share with you the following message >from Elias Savada, DC 2003 Conference
Co-Chair:

As promised, the latest version ("D") of the Day Planner (a.k.a. the
schedule) for the 23rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
was posted to our website last Sunday. You can view it online and/or
download a version readable in Word. For the first time this includes the
room names where the presentations/events will be held. The Conference
website is at http://www.jewishgen.org/dc2003

The Film Fest portion of the program (which, unfortunately, is limited to a
smaller venue on the mezzanine level) is proud to announce that on Tuesday,
July 22nd, we will be offering a day filled with the films of Yale Strom,
noted director, author, and musician. Among the films to be presented are
L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin; The Last Klezmer; Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years; and
his newest, Klezmer on Fish Street. Yale will be available to introduce his
films and sign copies of his new volume, The Book of Klezmer." Additional
screenings may be scheduled.

Dr. Martin Stiglio, director of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, will be
introducing The Righteous Enemy, the first filmed account of the Italian
resistance to the 'Final Solution.'

And local filmmaker Esther McBride and staff >from the Jewish Historical
Society of Greater Washington will present a series of short films about
Jewish life in Washington.

For those of you who have read the rave reviews of the new Anne Frank
exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
(http://ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/index.utp?content=exhibit/right.htm%23anne)
, you will have exclusive access to this exhibit during the private
tour/reception on Monday night at the conference. Tickets are only $10 and
can be ordered during registration. Otherwise, you will need timed tickets
in conjunction with the two free museum ducats (given to every registrant),
for use outside of the private reception.

The Library of Congress staff are finalizing their schedule of introductions
(exclusive to conference participants) to various Reading Rooms. While the
time/dates have not been finalized, details will appear in the next version
of the day planner. The following Reading Rooms will offer these on-site
sessions: Newspapers and Current Periodicals, European, Local History and
Genealogy, Maps, and Hebraic Section.

Now, some ***very important news*** for those of you who are planning on
attending but have procrastinated to this point (shame on you). Online
registration will close at 9AM on July 8, as our registration company needs
to prepare all the tickets, badges, etc. to be included in each registration
packet. Registration will resume at the hotel sometime during the weekend
before the official Conference launch Sunday morning. However, the CD-ROM
needs to be sent for replication 3 weeks before the conference begins, so we
will be cutting off the Family Finder portion of the registration (at least
as included in the syllabus and CD-ROM) before the end of June. The Family
Finder is a key ingredient of the program and by waiting much longer you
risk being left out.

In just over a month I hope to be seeing many of you here in Washington!

Elias Savada
Co-Chair, 23rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
July 20-25, 2003
JW Marriott Hotel, Washington DC
http://www.jewishgen.org/dc2003

Posted by:
--
David Fox
Mail to: davefox@...
Belarus SIG Coordinator
Arnold, MD USA
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus

The DC 2003 Conference is less then a month away. If you have been sitting
on the fence, now is the time to register. Besides the excellent program and
research archives in DC, this Conference is a wonderful opportunity to
network with fellow researchers and experts in the field of Jewish
genealogy. Don't forget to let us know you have registered to attend the
Conference by going to http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/dc2003.htm.

Look for an extract >from the Conference Day Planner with sessions of
particular interest to Belarus researchers. Edward will be putting up a
webpage with this information in the next day or two.

I share with you the following message >from Elias Savada, DC 2003 Conference
Co-Chair:

As promised, the latest version ("D") of the Day Planner (a.k.a. the
schedule) for the 23rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
was posted to our website last Sunday. You can view it online and/or
download a version readable in Word. For the first time this includes the
room names where the presentations/events will be held. The Conference
website is at http://www.jewishgen.org/dc2003

The Film Fest portion of the program (which, unfortunately, is limited to a
smaller venue on the mezzanine level) is proud to announce that on Tuesday,
July 22nd, we will be offering a day filled with the films of Yale Strom,
noted director, author, and musician. Among the films to be presented are
L'Chayim, Comrade Stalin; The Last Klezmer; Carpati: 50 Miles, 50 Years; and
his newest, Klezmer on Fish Street. Yale will be available to introduce his
films and sign copies of his new volume, The Book of Klezmer." Additional
screenings may be scheduled.

Dr. Martin Stiglio, director of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, will be
introducing The Righteous Enemy, the first filmed account of the Italian
resistance to the 'Final Solution.'

And local filmmaker Esther McBride and staff >from the Jewish Historical
Society of Greater Washington will present a series of short films about
Jewish life in Washington.

For those of you who have read the rave reviews of the new Anne Frank
exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
(http://ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/index.utp?content=exhibit/right.htm%23anne)
, you will have exclusive access to this exhibit during the private
tour/reception on Monday night at the conference. Tickets are only $10 and
can be ordered during registration. Otherwise, you will need timed tickets
in conjunction with the two free museum ducats (given to every registrant),
for use outside of the private reception.

The Library of Congress staff are finalizing their schedule of introductions
(exclusive to conference participants) to various Reading Rooms. While the
time/dates have not been finalized, details will appear in the next version
of the day planner. The following Reading Rooms will offer these on-site
sessions: Newspapers and Current Periodicals, European, Local History and
Genealogy, Maps, and Hebraic Section.

Now, some ***very important news*** for those of you who are planning on
attending but have procrastinated to this point (shame on you). Online
registration will close at 9AM on July 8, as our registration company needs
to prepare all the tickets, badges, etc. to be included in each registration
packet. Registration will resume at the hotel sometime during the weekend
before the official Conference launch Sunday morning. However, the CD-ROM
needs to be sent for replication 3 weeks before the conference begins, so we
will be cutting off the Family Finder portion of the registration (at least
as included in the syllabus and CD-ROM) before the end of June. The Family
Finder is a key ingredient of the program and by waiting much longer you
risk being left out.

In just over a month I hope to be seeing many of you here in Washington!

Elias Savada
Co-Chair, 23rd IAJGS International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
July 20-25, 2003
JW Marriott Hotel, Washington DC
http://www.jewishgen.org/dc2003

Posted by:
--
David Fox
Mail to: davefox@...
Belarus SIG Coordinator
Arnold, MD USA
http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus

Paul Silverstone is in all probability totally correct in assuming that
both ships, the Minerva and the British Queen, were, literally "sailing"
vessels. Doing a Google search, I located the British Queen sailing >from
Liverpool to Nova Scotia in 1862. Found a reference to the ship Minerva
sailing >from Liverpool to NY in 1825.

Stephanie Weiner
San Diego, CA

Paul Silverstone is in all probability totally correct in assuming that
both ships, the Minerva and the British Queen, were, literally "sailing"
vessels. Doing a Google search, I located the British Queen sailing >from
Liverpool to Nova Scotia in 1862. Found a reference to the ship Minerva
sailing >from Liverpool to NY in 1825.

Stephanie Weiner
San Diego, CA