Hi,

As you know, the Jewish records are available in any Mormon Family History
Center up to 1896. You must have patience, and you will find something.
Records >from Budapest have index. This should be your starting point after
you reviewed the Names books which contain deportation and forced labor
names, if I remember correctly. Anyway, I was very successful with the Jewish
records of Budapest.

Let me know if you need any help,

Attila Rona

Hi,

As you know, the Jewish records are available in any Mormon Family History
Center up to 1896. You must have patience, and you will find something.
Records >from Budapest have index. This should be your starting point after
you reviewed the Names books which contain deportation and forced labor
names, if I remember correctly. Anyway, I was very successful with the Jewish
records of Budapest.

Let me know if you need any help,

Attila Rona

Is there an online source for the counties in Hungary?

Anne-Marie Toliver
annemarie@...

Is there an online source for the counties in Hungary?

Anne-Marie Toliver
annemarie@...

David - per your instructions I've posted this on the Belarus List:

---

Thanks for your post on the Belarus SIG on the Database of Russian Army
Jewish soldiers >from the 1905 war - I'm certain one of the entries is my
grand Uncle Nat Yampolsky , musician in the Army who deserted with a group
of other Jewish boys (can't blame him!)

But I could not find anything on Avotaynu telling what the entry meant.

2803 Yampol'skij Kiev Kanev d.


Does the 'd.' mean the person whose hometown was Kanev in the Kiev gubernia
died in the war?

There is a link to a form to pay $18 for something but I could tell what -
would that be for an original copy of the information entered in the
database.

Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Sam Stuckal
Cheshire CT

I have some information that I am trying to follow up on and am wondering if
anyone might have answers to some questions I am trying to find.

There is an article about Rabbi Abram SHERSHEVSKY in the Ozar Hatmunoth (one
hundred and fifty portraits of famous orthadox rabbis of Israel and in the
Who's Who in American Jewry. He was a realtive of mine.

1. In order to be listed in the Ozar Hatmunoth--would that indicate he spent
time in ISRAEL?

2. He was born in BITTEN, RUSSIA (never found present day location ?
BITTHENEN, LITHUANIA?). Yeshivahs at BRISK, VOLOZIN and KOVNO. I know that
KOVNO is in LITHUANIA. Does anyone know where BRISK and VOLOZIN are
located?

3. It says he is the author of Nachal Avruham, Birchas Avruhum, Machnath
Avruhum. Can anyone translate what this means?

Thanks!

AVA SWEENEY
Durham, NC

We know only that my aunt was either a doctor or a pharmacist. I have photos
of an aunt, alone, and one of my grandparents with a daughter. It is
difficult to tell if this is the same person in the two photos, due to an age
difference. They appear to be two different people to me. The photos were
taken in Grodno and Wolkowysk. My grandparents were Samson and Alte Neome Ain
LEAF (nee LIEBERMAN/LOW).

My dad was Samuel Isaiah LEAF, but the ship's manifest shows him to be Shaie
LIEBERMAN. My uncle, Max LEAF, is shown on a manifest as Mendel LOW (with an
umlat over the "o", name pronounced as LEV). I have been able to find Uncle
Morris LIEBERMAN on a ship's manifest. I would like to be able to search the
records of Swislowitz or medical schools in that area, possibly Bialystok, to
see if a roster of students would reveal one of the mentioned surnames. I
would be most appreciative of all suggestions of any direction I may take.

Please review these photos at ViewMate
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html
The Files are - VM1153/54.

Please respond privately.

Thank you,
Rachelle Leaf Berliner
Savannah, GA
rlberliner@...
Searching: LEAF/LIEBERMAN/LOW/LEV >from Swislowitz

David - per your instructions I've posted this on the Belarus List:

---

Thanks for your post on the Belarus SIG on the Database of Russian Army
Jewish soldiers >from the 1905 war - I'm certain one of the entries is my
grand Uncle Nat Yampolsky , musician in the Army who deserted with a group
of other Jewish boys (can't blame him!)

But I could not find anything on Avotaynu telling what the entry meant.

2803 Yampol'skij Kiev Kanev d.


Does the 'd.' mean the person whose hometown was Kanev in the Kiev gubernia
died in the war?

There is a link to a form to pay $18 for something but I could tell what -
would that be for an original copy of the information entered in the
database.

Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated.

Sam Stuckal
Cheshire CT

I have some information that I am trying to follow up on and am wondering if
anyone might have answers to some questions I am trying to find.

There is an article about Rabbi Abram SHERSHEVSKY in the Ozar Hatmunoth (one
hundred and fifty portraits of famous orthadox rabbis of Israel and in the
Who's Who in American Jewry. He was a realtive of mine.

1. In order to be listed in the Ozar Hatmunoth--would that indicate he spent
time in ISRAEL?

2. He was born in BITTEN, RUSSIA (never found present day location ?
BITTHENEN, LITHUANIA?). Yeshivahs at BRISK, VOLOZIN and KOVNO. I know that
KOVNO is in LITHUANIA. Does anyone know where BRISK and VOLOZIN are
located?

3. It says he is the author of Nachal Avruham, Birchas Avruhum, Machnath
Avruhum. Can anyone translate what this means?

Thanks!

AVA SWEENEY
Durham, NC

We know only that my aunt was either a doctor or a pharmacist. I have photos
of an aunt, alone, and one of my grandparents with a daughter. It is
difficult to tell if this is the same person in the two photos, due to an age
difference. They appear to be two different people to me. The photos were
taken in Grodno and Wolkowysk. My grandparents were Samson and Alte Neome Ain
LEAF (nee LIEBERMAN/LOW).

My dad was Samuel Isaiah LEAF, but the ship's manifest shows him to be Shaie
LIEBERMAN. My uncle, Max LEAF, is shown on a manifest as Mendel LOW (with an
umlat over the "o", name pronounced as LEV). I have been able to find Uncle
Morris LIEBERMAN on a ship's manifest. I would like to be able to search the
records of Swislowitz or medical schools in that area, possibly Bialystok, to
see if a roster of students would reveal one of the mentioned surnames. I
would be most appreciative of all suggestions of any direction I may take.

Please review these photos at ViewMate
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html
The Files are - VM1153/54.

Please respond privately.

Thank you,
Rachelle Leaf Berliner
Savannah, GA
rlberliner@...
Searching: LEAF/LIEBERMAN/LOW/LEV >from Swislowitz

My name is Beryl and I am named for my paternal grandfather Ber (or Berko)
BLICKSTEIN >from Kamenets Podolsk in the Ukraine. My Hebrew name is Dov,
which means bear, and my Yiddish equivalent is Ber. In fact, many
Russian-Jewish men were simply named Ber Dov, a combination of both Hebrew
and Yiddish names. See Boris Boris Feldblyum's book, "Russian-Jewish Given
Names".

Beryl Blickstein
Silver Spring MD

Researching BLICKSTEIN, GITLER, SASONKIN, GREENGOUS

My name is Beryl and I am named for my paternal grandfather Ber (or Berko)
BLICKSTEIN >from Kamenets Podolsk in the Ukraine. My Hebrew name is Dov,
which means bear, and my Yiddish equivalent is Ber. In fact, many
Russian-Jewish men were simply named Ber Dov, a combination of both Hebrew
and Yiddish names. See Boris Boris Feldblyum's book, "Russian-Jewish Given
Names".

Beryl Blickstein
Silver Spring MD

Researching BLICKSTEIN, GITLER, SASONKIN, GREENGOUS

Dear SIG Members,

In our last digest Dave Fox asked that we let other members know about
success stories. Here is one.

I am very grateful to the SIG and particularly to Steve Rosen who sent me
information about his SHEPSENWOL family. We are putting our information
together and are discovering that our families were all related and lived in
the same small area of Vilna Gubernia, My family is >from Haraduk. Steve's
SHEPSENWOL family is >from Radochkovitch and another set of SHEPSENWOL
cousins are >from Voloshiyn. Each town is 1/2 days horseback ride >from each
other and there was apparently lots of travel between the three towns by the
family members. I would have never found this information without the
existence of the Belarus SIG. Many Many Thanks....

Bette Greenfield
Dayton, NJ
Searching for MARSCHAK, SHEPSENWOL, CJAJMAN, HYMAN, ACHRONOVITCH AND POLAND
Families

During this last year, the Belarus SIG has brought to you over 50 new web
pages full of information, and there are many more that will be coming soon.
Some of the new data that we hope to release soon includes

- The 1795 Mir revision list
- The 1874 Revision List for Romanova
- 16000 names >from the 1906 Minsk uyezd duma list
- 1912 marriages >from Minsk
- 1913 divorces >from Minsk
- and many more

However, in order for the SIG to continue obtaining some of these records,
and placing them on the web for your use, we need your help. Please
consider helping to support the ongoing efforts of the Belarus SIG by going
to http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/belarus.html and making a
donation. The money that you contribute will help the SIG to purchase
copies of records that most of us do not have any access to.

Thank you very much, and a safe and happy new year to all.

-Edward Rosenbaum
Bergenfield, NJ
Webmaster, Belarus SIG (http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus)
President, JGS of Bergen County, New Jersey
(http://erosenbaum.netfirms.com/jgsbc)
email: erosenbaum@...
url: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/4900/

Researching
AARONSON (Russia), BELLER (Slonim, Belarus), BUDNA/BUDNE (Brok and Ostrow
Maz Poland), GRUNDFAST (Belarus), HOFFMAN/OFMAN, (Brok and Ostrow
Mazowiecka Poland), KRIEGEL, MONKA (Przasnysz, Poland), NOVAK (Makow,
Poland), ROSENBAUM (Svezhkovtse and Khmeleva, Galicia), ROSOFF, ROTTENBERG
(Galicia), SHATZ/SHISHATZKY/SZYSZACKI (Lunna and Porozovo, Belarus),
SILVERBLATT, YOSKOWITZ (Wyshkow, Poland)

Dear SIG Members,

In our last digest Dave Fox asked that we let other members know about
success stories. Here is one.

I am very grateful to the SIG and particularly to Steve Rosen who sent me
information about his SHEPSENWOL family. We are putting our information
together and are discovering that our families were all related and lived in
the same small area of Vilna Gubernia, My family is >from Haraduk. Steve's
SHEPSENWOL family is >from Radochkovitch and another set of SHEPSENWOL
cousins are >from Voloshiyn. Each town is 1/2 days horseback ride >from each
other and there was apparently lots of travel between the three towns by the
family members. I would have never found this information without the
existence of the Belarus SIG. Many Many Thanks....

Bette Greenfield
Dayton, NJ
Searching for MARSCHAK, SHEPSENWOL, CJAJMAN, HYMAN, ACHRONOVITCH AND POLAND
Families

During this last year, the Belarus SIG has brought to you over 50 new web
pages full of information, and there are many more that will be coming soon.
Some of the new data that we hope to release soon includes

- The 1795 Mir revision list
- The 1874 Revision List for Romanova
- 16000 names >from the 1906 Minsk uyezd duma list
- 1912 marriages >from Minsk
- 1913 divorces >from Minsk
- and many more

However, in order for the SIG to continue obtaining some of these records,
and placing them on the web for your use, we need your help. Please
consider helping to support the ongoing efforts of the Belarus SIG by going
to http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/belarus.html and making a
donation. The money that you contribute will help the SIG to purchase
copies of records that most of us do not have any access to.

Thank you very much, and a safe and happy new year to all.

-Edward Rosenbaum
Bergenfield, NJ
Webmaster, Belarus SIG (http://www.jewishgen.org/belarus)
President, JGS of Bergen County, New Jersey
(http://erosenbaum.netfirms.com/jgsbc)
email: erosenbaum@...
url: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/4900/

Researching
AARONSON (Russia), BELLER (Slonim, Belarus), BUDNA/BUDNE (Brok and Ostrow
Maz Poland), GRUNDFAST (Belarus), HOFFMAN/OFMAN, (Brok and Ostrow
Mazowiecka Poland), KRIEGEL, MONKA (Przasnysz, Poland), NOVAK (Makow,
Poland), ROSENBAUM (Svezhkovtse and Khmeleva, Galicia), ROSOFF, ROTTENBERG
(Galicia), SHATZ/SHISHATZKY/SZYSZACKI (Lunna and Porozovo, Belarus),
SILVERBLATT, YOSKOWITZ (Wyshkow, Poland)

Greetings, all - Happy secular New Year!

In my web-surfing, I found the following website. It's freeware to send
and receive email in Hebrew, even if your computer doesn't not support
Hebrew. It includes a virtual Hebrew keyboard and fonts.
<http://www.sahbak.com/>
If the website opens to the Hebrew version, click on "English version"
on the left.

I didn't try it, because I don't yet know Hebrew, but it seems useful.

I have no commercial or other interest in this program.

Hilary Henkin
Atlanta, Georgia

Greetings, all - Happy secular New Year!

In my web-surfing, I found the following website. It's freeware to send
and receive email in Hebrew, even if your computer doesn't not support
Hebrew. It includes a virtual Hebrew keyboard and fonts.
<http://www.sahbak.com/>
If the website opens to the Hebrew version, click on "English version"
on the left.

I didn't try it, because I don't yet know Hebrew, but it seems useful.

I have no commercial or other interest in this program.

Hilary Henkin
Atlanta, Georgia

This site is new to me and it maybe new to you as well. Its worth a look.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~isrwgw/

Ruth Grant
Maine

This site is new to me and it maybe new to you as well. Its worth a look.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~isrwgw/

Ruth Grant
Maine