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Re: Travelling from Bessarabia to Argentina
#bessarabia
angel kosfiszer
The prevalent route would have been through the Black Sea and then the ports on the Mediterranean to South America (Marseille in France, Barcelona in Spain and Genoa in Italy). Having said that I am attaching the immigration to Argentina from a Vays family from the Ukraine that came through Hamburg on the Baltic sea in 1923.
 -- Angel KosfiszerRichardson, Texas
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Sarah L Meyer
JRI-Poland.org has many Warsaw records from about 1826 to the early 1900's. 1868 is when the records change language. Prior to 1868 they are in Polish and afterwards in Russian. The search engine is very good. You may get a film number for family history library microfilms or there may be a way to "click here to view record". If you get a film number those films are available in Family History Libraries.
-- Sarah L Meyer Georgetown TX ANK(I)ER, BIGOS, KARMELEK, PERLSTADT, STOKFISZ, SZPIL(T)BAUM, Poland BIRGARDOVSKY, EDELBERG, HITE (CHAIT), PERCHIK Russia (southern Ukraine) and some Latvia or Lithuania https://www.sarahsgenies.com
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We wish all those observing Tisha B’Av, or the Ninth of Av, (this year on the 10th of Av because the 9th falls on Shabbat) an easy and meaningful fast. Photo: Jewish women praying on Tisha B'Av in Poland 1926.
Steven S. Turner President, Gesher Galicia
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Re: Finding history in Glasgow, Scotland and tracing un-named relative
#unitedkingdom
Jill Whitehead
Sometimes Atlantic ships stopped en route in Ireland. If there was a storm, it was more likely to have meant a stop off in Ireland, whether scheduled or unscheduled.
Harvey is right about travelling in stages, but this may have been for various reasons. One of my Brown Edinburgh family emigrated to Cape Town, South Africa in 1906 because she had been promised to a man from Lithuania. Another Brown family member emigrated even earlier from Edinburgh to Sydney, Australia in 1886, aged only 17, because she had been promised to a man from Lithuania as well. One of my Abrahams (formerly Ceglarski of Suwalki) family arrived in Birmingham in 1870, and stayed until 1890. His reasons for leaving 20 years later seemed to be: 1) He had a very large number of children and needed work to support them (but he left his older children behind with his brother in Manchester) and 2) He had a brother in St Louis whom he joined before going onto Chicago where he called himself Siegel. I have yet another example where the stay in Britain was a lot longer than 20 years. My great grand uncle Barnet Servian (Baruch Serwianski) had arrived in Liverpool with my great grandfather in 1875. He married in 1879 and had four Liverpool born children. His wife died and he remarried. But because he never naturalized, he got caught by the UK 1905 Aliens Act. He and his 2nd wife and four grown up children emigrated to Chicago in 1905 (where they had family), and some went onto Detroit and Toronto. There are also some examples of criss-crossing the Atlantic over time with years spent in one country and then the other. Another Servian spent 6 months of each year in New York and six months in Manchester (where he had had business interests). Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK
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45,000+ New #Subcarpathia Records on JewishGen
#subcarpathia
Lara Diamond
JewishGen is pleased to announce that over 45,000 records have been
added to our Sub-Carpathia Vital Records collection, which can be searched via JewishGen's Hungary and Ukraine databases, as well as through the Unified Search, for a total of over 145,000 records! The new records include: 37926 births 2531 marriages 4970 deaths You can access JewishGen’s Hungary Database by clicking here: https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Hungary/ The addition of these records was made possible by the hard work of many volunteers who translated, transcribed, and validated the records. We greatly appreciate their dedication. We can use your financial help, which will go towards paying local researchers for their time in photographing additional records. You can donate to our project here: https://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=50 and selecting the Sub-Carpathia SIG General Fund. Your donation is tax deductible, if you are a US citizen. Donations of $180 or more also get you access to indexed records as they are completed, before they are available on JewishGen (we already have another 5000 records that have been indexed but are not yet available online, with more being added regularly) We also could use the help of those who are fluent in Hungarian and Czech, to help add additional information to the indexed records. Answers to some questions that come up after I send these sorts of announcements: Q: Do you have records for my specific town? When do you expect to get those records? A: Unfortunately I cannot address each specific town/village. We plan to get records for all towns in Subcarpathia. Even during the best of times, it's difficult to predict what towns' records I'll be getting when. We have still been obtaining images during the current war, but they are a bit more sporadic, so I definitely can't predict anything. Q: Can you send me digital images for a record that I found indexed on JewishGen? A: Yes! Please fill out https://tinyurl.com/SubcarpathiaDocRequest (and be patient since I expect this announcement will generate lots of requests) Lara Diamond Director of Subcarpathia Research JewishGen.org
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My great-grandmother Molly's 1929 South African death notice states she was born in WARSAW.
Her son, my grandfather Samuel's UK 1921 census states he was born in WARSAW. Earlier UK censuses state her daughter, Gertrude, was born in Russian Poland. I believe WARSAW. I suspect too both of Molly's marriages were in WARSAW. Yet, I have no idea how to verify any of this or where to ask for records: That is the guidance I am seeking. The limited information I have:
1. Molly's Polish family name was SZKLARKIEWICZ. Her Hebrew name was RACHEL MALKAH BAT MORDECHAI MATTITYAHU HALEVI. She was born in Warsaw around 1863.
Her anglicized name was MOLLY (MALA?) CLARKE. Her father was MATTHEW (MATEUSZ?). Her mother was ZLATA or SIMILAR. Her brother, MAX (MAKSYMILIAN?), was born in Jedwabne, Lomza, in 1869. 2. Molly's son, my grandfather, we only ever knew as SAMUEL CLARKE. We don't have Polish or Hebrew names for him. He was born in Warsaw on 22 April 1881.
3. Samuel's father, Molly's first husband, was a STEIGLITZ (or SIMILAR). We don't know his FIRST NAME. We assume Molly and Steiglitz were married in Warsaw as Samuel
was born there. Steiglitz was in the army and died or was killed around the time Samuel was born, around 1881. We know absolutely nothing else about Steiglitz or any family he may have had. 4. Molly emigrated to the UK with baby Samuel, per family sometime between 1881 and 1883. (There are no passenger lists or immigration records in that era from European countries to the UK.) Aboard ship, Molly met JACOB CLARKE, Hebrew name YAAKOV BEN CHAIM ISRAEL, born in Losice, Siedlce. They married (see below). We know MOLLY anglicized SZKLARKIEWICZ to CLARKE because Molly's brother, Max, was known as MAX CLARKE. We know nothing about Jacob or any family of his, and we even wonder if he took the CLARKE name from Molly rather than it being his name too (doubt endogamy as they apparently had not known each other before meeting on the ship.)
5. Molly and Jacob's UK marriage authorization and certificate show that they married in Dublin in 1890.
6. However, per UK censuses, their daughter, GERTRUDE, was born around 1887 in RUSSIAN POLAND, three years before their UK marriage. My theory is that Molly and Jacob went back for a while to Russian Poland in the mid to latter 1880s, probably had a religious marriage in Warsaw, where Molly gave birth to Gertrude, and when they returned to the UK they married again to have an official UK marriage record. The reason I believe this took place in Warsaw is that I found a Warsaw studio photo of a heavier Molly than I had seen in a later UK photo, and so I believe it was taken around the time of Gertrude's birth. An expert at interpreting old photos dated that Warsaw photo to have been taken around 1887/8, which ties in with that theory. The Majorkiewicz photographic studio at 3 Plac Krasinskich is a somewhat classy address but I don't have a clue as to what that might tell us. Jacob in the UK in the 1890s gave his profession on the marriage certificate as a general dealer and on his naturalization certificate as a draper.
So, I am wondering if anyone out there has appropriate experience to tell me honestly and realistically what chance there is, AND HOW, to try and locate any Warsaw records relating to any of these births or marriages, or to discover anything more about the family at all. I have tried all the usual ancestry and Jewish genealogy websites.
Thank you, Barry Clarke Brit living in Florida. Gmail address: bbclarke98 SZKLARKIEWICZ changed to CLARKE from Warsaw, Jedwabne and the Lomza region STEIGLITZ or SIMILAR, possibly from Warsaw, died or was killed around 1881 BARNETT supposedly BIENSTOCK OR SIMILAR, from Poland but not known where NEUMARK changed to NEWMARK from Poznan LEVINSON changed to BRAHAM from Kalisz GOODMAN from Poland but not known where ABRAHAMS from Poland but not known where
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Re: Finding history in Glasgow, Scotland and tracing un-named relative
#unitedkingdom
Harvey Kaplan
Migration in stages was very common at that time, with East European Jewish immigrants often moving around cities and towns in Britain and Ireland, before settling down, or later moving on to the USA, Canada, South Africa etc. (Also happened a number of times in my family.) In Scotland, they could leave by ship from Glasgow. Not so sure about the story of a ship from Hamburg stopping at a Scottish port. I've never heard of weather causing an immigrant ship to make an unscheduled stop at a Scottish port. Wouldn't think they would be anywhere near Scotland and it was most likely that any stop would have been at an English port. Harvey Kaplan Scottish Jewish Archives Centre Glasgow
On Sat, 6 Aug 2022 at 16:54, <janllb@...> wrote: Option B) happened in my LASTMAN and KUTNER families, in that a stop in the UK (Glasgow and London respectively) for several months to a couple of years to raise funds both for passage and for North American resettlement, was made (usually by the men immigrating ahead if their families). I assume North America was thought to be more desirable esp pre WWI due to friends and relatives already being here.
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Travelling from Bessarabia to Argentina
#bessarabia
bubala8@...
I am trying to find some ancestry information via shipping lists. However, I do not know where to start. All I know is that my grandfather’s niece and her husband moved from Bessarabia, then Romania (now Moldova) to Buenos Aires, Argentina. I presume this was some time after World War I or perhaps just before. I know the name of her husband (Mordechai Vays) but nothing else.
My question is, when leaving Bessarabia to get to Buenos Aires, how would they have travelled, e.g. from which European port? Would it be from a Spanish port such as Barcelona or Cadiz or could it be from Naples or Marseilles or would they have gone from a location nearer to Bessarabia?
I have inherited a family postcard from my grandfather. On one side is writing which I have tried to get translated with minimal success regarding family details. On the other side is a photo of the niece, her husband and their daughter. This appears to have been taken professionally in Buenos Aires in the 1920s, from the clothing that the family are wearing, plus there is a postmark with the words “Buenos Aires” on it.
Any information about shipping lines that the family might have taken to reach Argentina at that time would be most appreciated. Thank you.
Sandra Wasserman
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Michael Sharp
Any ideas for decent databases for birth records, etc for someone born in Bucharest in 1891, also for subsequent school matriculation.
Haven't been able to find much on JewishGen or Ancestry. Thanks -- Michael Sharp Manchester UK michael.sharp@...
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Re: Finding history in Glasgow, Scotland and tracing un-named relative
#unitedkingdom
janllb@...
Option B) happened in my LASTMAN and KUTNER families, in that a stop in the UK (Glasgow and London respectively) for several months to a couple of years to raise funds both for passage and for North American resettlement, was made (usually by the men immigrating ahead if their families). I assume North America was thought to be more desirable esp pre WWI due to friends and relatives already being here.
-- Jan Lastman, Toronto ON CANADA janllb@... Researching: LASTMAN/N HOLLAND=>Lublin early 1700s; mid-1800s=>POLAND: Łódź, Radom, Warsaw, Szydlowiec, Ostrowiec; GERMANY: Leipzig, Breslau. Married KLAJMAN, KAUFMAN, LEDERMAN, KAC, CUKIER, MANDELSBERG (to DAVIDSON), STROSBERG, WAJCHANDLER, KUTNER/KUTCHINSKY=> Toronto, Philadelphia, Rio de Janeiro pre/post WWI. Survivors=> France, Israel, Australia, Sweden, USA ——————————————————————————— Also researching: SINGER/ZYNGIER POLAND: Janow Poldaski=>Toronto, ?Columbus OH? pre WW1 married SCHAFER/SHAFIR UKRAINE: Linitz/Illinits=>Toronto, Detroit, NYC ——————————————————————————— See also: Rapoport-Quint Tree https://www.myheritage.com/site-family-tree-69044942/rapoport-quint
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Re: Identifying name of town
#belarus
#names
#translation
Howard Morris
Lee, nice detective work. Thanks. I suppose the name Kruglansky could have been changed to Krugloff? .
I've now looked on the JewishGen resources for towns near Pirjatin that might match the partially illegible "d" or "b" town in the naturalization papers, but couldn't find any suspects. "Derechn" in Belarus is a possible reading in the naturalization papers, and that is consistent with my family's belief that she came from Belarus and maybe Minsk there. But this is inconsistent with the evidence of Pirjatin,Ukraine per the ship manifest. I suppose she could have been born in one place and moved to another place, and used both place names. Howard Morris Needham, MA howalt1@...
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Re: Finding history in Glasgow, Scotland and tracing un-named relative
#unitedkingdom
Susan J. Gordon
Hi again,
My husband remembers our story a little differently, and I think he's correct - The Scottish Jews we met in Barbados said in the late 19th century, their ancestors set sail for the US from an European port - maybe Hamburg - and sailed west. But when a big storm arose, making the trip hazardous, the captain made an unexpected stop at a port in Scotland. He ordered everyone off the ship to wait out the storm. This took a few days, and that's when the ancestors of the couples we met decided to stay in Scotland (which, they said, some people thought was the US.) Susan J. Gordon New York ZBARAZH - Bialazurker SKALAT - Schoenhaut, Lempert LVOV - Lempert <<Hi and this is just a side-bar but... about 20+ years ago, my husband and I were vacationing in Barbados when we started chatting with a few couples with Scottish accents. When we mentioned that we were Jews, they said they were, too! Until then, we had never met or even known about Scottish Jews, but their "history" was - some time in the late 19th century, their Galician ancestors boarded a ship in England (probably Southhampton) heading to America. When the ship docked in a busy harbor, they got off (!) People spoke English and the travelers thought they had arrived in the New World. Somewhat later, they figured out that they had not crossed the Atlantic, but since they liked Scotland, they stayed there. >>
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Translator Sends News of Brave Jewish Professor
#ukraine
#education
Laurence Broun
My friend Dmytro Aladko, translator for the Ukrainian language version of Yizkor Book of Mizoch, sends news of his colleague Maksym Gon. Professor Gon has produced materials commemorating the Shoah in Rivne and teaching that dark history to the current generation of Ukrainian youth. Gon's story is told in the following article in the Forward and shed's light on the Jewish community of Ukraine and the war.
https://forward.com/news/513172/jewish-ukrainian-professor-war/?fbclid=IwAR1mxnffkqscnjFJwYretu4rXLnwPWcKsaWbbFa4GQBN_t5d1-Oib4ePQik -- Larry (Itzik Leib) Broun Washington, DC | USA e-mail: Laurencebroun@...
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Re: Warsaw Uprising and liberation of "Gęsiówka" concentration camp.
#holocaust
#poland
Frank Szmulowicz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C4%99si%C3%B3wka
Frank Szmulowicz
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Re: Pinchas Halevi Horowitz and Miriam Beyla Isserles
#names
Judy
Hello for some reason these names were familiar and the data I have on them was sourced via:
The Freedmann files on Ancestry Jewage web site Loren family on Rootsweb.com 1. I have “Pinchas HaLevi (Bilof Rema) Horowitz” born ant 1490 Praha Bohemia, died 3 jan 1618 Krakow, Poland married to Miriam Baila Isserlis daughter of Rabbi Israel Joseph Isseries REMA and Malka bat Lipmann Elizer Shrentzel. My grandfather Sigmund Louis Silber was born in Pryzemyl, Poland and died in Victoria Australia. There are many Silber there and would love to find out more information if anyone has any documents etc. I have a lot of Silber but unfortunately that because of the Holocaust I am unsure of what happened to some of the family members hope this is of help Judith Levron Australia
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Re: Minsk - historic city street names
#belarus
Hi Daniel,
Here's a couple of options from a friend in the Jewish Families from Belarus Circa 1330-1945 Facebook group. He sent me 3+ page street list which I've attached. Site orda.of.by have interesting service with four maps at screen (old+new)
And he mentioned the groups/myminskhistory on FB and you may find someone to help. And the book "All Minsk. 1911" available at FamilySearch, there are all streets and crossroads. But the book in Russian Good luck, Michael Paul
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Immigration/Emigration records sought
#records
ebachert@...
In the 1920s, Paul Seidner born in Hungary and Johanna Klein born in Romania sailed from Europe to Havana, Cuba, at a time when there was a large influx of Jews into the island. It is rumored they may have been married on the ship. They stayed in Havana where they raised a family until the Castro revolution prompted them to move to the United States where they eventually passed. I've been trying to find their dates of immigration into Havana. The web site Cubagenweb is in the process of transcribing passenger lists for online lookup but they've not gone beyond 1900 and it's a slow process.
I don't know from what European port they sailed. I'd like to know of resources, preferably online, where I might be able to find sailing in/out information. I've already searched Ellis Island records to see if they came through New York and, although there are people on there that match their names, the other data indicate it is not them. I've not found information on Ancestry, Family Search, etc. Does anyone have ideas for where else I may look for this information? Maybe it's easier if I can find out the ports where they may have sailed out of? Eugenia Bachert New Jersey, USA
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can anybody make sense of this document? it uses Hebrew characters, but what does it say.
#israel
#sephardic
#translation
angel kosfiszer
Can anybody tell me the contents of the document. It may be a document from the Jews of Spain or Portugal, or their descendants.
 -- Angel KosfiszerRichardson, Texas
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Bessarabia Group progress report for the month of July, 2022
#bessarabia
#ukraine
#JewishGenUpdates
#records
Yefim Kogan
Dear friends, researchers,
Here is an update for the Bessarabia SIG projects for the month of July 2022. See also at What's New at Bessarabia website. Bessarabian Databases. Updates:
If you have questions about our group/website, please do not hesitate to email me. Shabbat Shalom, Yefim Kogan JewishGen Bessarabia SIG Leader and Coordinator
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Re: Jewish Convertions to Catholic in Austria before and during WW2
#austria-czech
David S STERN
A friend and former colleague did a great deal of research on Jewish conversions in Austria during the Nazi period. Though she never completed the book project, she can answer many questions. I'll be happy to put you in touch with her if you will private message me.
David STERN Tampa, FL USA dstern@... Moderator note: please reply privately
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