If anyone is planning to visit Mt. Judah Cem. in Ridgewood, NY in the
near future, may I ask a favor? Could you possibly see if they will
release a list of those buried by the Wisoko-Litowsker Bruderlicker?

I am all but absolutely convinced that my grandmother, Jean Frances
(Fanny) VILNER FEINBERG (Sheina Feigel bat Aharon Leib) is buried there,
but letters to the cemetery office have twice said they have no record
of her.

I would be glad to pay for copy and mailing costs if they will do this.

Joy Weaver

mail to: joyweave@...

POLAND (Krasnik, Zaklikow, Lublin): Blumberg, Fogiel, Rozenel./
BELARUS (Wisoke-Litovsk, Brest, Grodno): Feinberg, Vilner, Greenberg.

If anyone is planning to visit Mt. Judah Cem. in Ridgewood, NY in the
near future, may I ask a favor? Could you possibly see if they will
release a list of those buried by the Wisoko-Litowsker Bruderlicker?

I am all but absolutely convinced that my grandmother, Jean Frances
(Fanny) VILNER FEINBERG (Sheina Feigel bat Aharon Leib) is buried there,
but letters to the cemetery office have twice said they have no record
of her.

I would be glad to pay for copy and mailing costs if they will do this.

Joy Weaver

mail to: joyweave@...

POLAND (Krasnik, Zaklikow, Lublin): Blumberg, Fogiel, Rozenel./
BELARUS (Wisoke-Litovsk, Brest, Grodno): Feinberg, Vilner, Greenberg.

On the passenger list entry for one of my great-uncles, under the column
"Whether in possession of $50...", the notation "$2" has a line drawn
through it. There were several other similar notations on the page (no one
related to my great-uncle).

Can anyone explain why this would have been done?

Lisa Dashman
Croton-on-Hudson, NY

On the passenger list entry for one of my great-uncles, under the column
"Whether in possession of $50...", the notation "$2" has a line drawn
through it. There were several other similar notations on the page (no one
related to my great-uncle).

Can anyone explain why this would have been done?

Lisa Dashman
Croton-on-Hudson, NY

I am trying to find the town where our ancestors came >from in Minsk
gubernia.

The only data I have is that on one of our great-uncles' school
registration in London his birthplace was written by the school
administrator as "Har?ilch". The ? could be a "d" but there is
a mark over it. I searched on Jewishgen for all the towns around
Minsk but couldn't find anything that looks (or sounds) like this.

Any ideas?

Mike Karsen
Mount Prospect, IL USA

Researching:
FROST (Bucharest/Alexandria, Romania)
BLUMENFELD, MARKOVICH, WOLF (Botosani, Romania)
PEKARSKY (Khodorkov/Staraya Kotelnya/Volosov/Zhitomir, Ukraine)
PELTZER (Zhitomir, Ukraine)
FRIEDMAN (Kremenets, Ukraine)
YANKELOVICH, SHEPSOLOVITCH (Minsk Gubernia, Belarus)

I am trying to find the town where our ancestors came >from in Minsk
gubernia.

The only data I have is that on one of our great-uncles' school
registration in London his birthplace was written by the school
administrator as "Har?ilch". The ? could be a "d" but there is
a mark over it. I searched on Jewishgen for all the towns around
Minsk but couldn't find anything that looks (or sounds) like this.

Any ideas?

Mike Karsen
Mount Prospect, IL USA

Researching:
FROST (Bucharest/Alexandria, Romania)
BLUMENFELD, MARKOVICH, WOLF (Botosani, Romania)
PEKARSKY (Khodorkov/Staraya Kotelnya/Volosov/Zhitomir, Ukraine)
PELTZER (Zhitomir, Ukraine)
FRIEDMAN (Kremenets, Ukraine)
YANKELOVICH, SHEPSOLOVITCH (Minsk Gubernia, Belarus)

I apologize for having to post this here, but I undoubtedly received email
over the last two months >from people whose addresses are not in my address
book; a majority of these people will see a message posted on a LitvakSIG or JewishGen mailing list. Thnx!

Just a quick note to let you know that I've been experiencing email
problems for the last TWO months!

I did not receive any email sent between Jan. 6, 2001 and March 10, 2001!!
On March 9, 2001, I was finally able to retrieve all (?) emails sent to me after Feb. 17, 2001; the emails sent between Jan. 7 and Feb. 17 appear to
be permanently gone.

Basically, if you sent me any email after the start of the year, please
assume that I did not get it! Even if I did get, it did not arrive until
yesterday (and I'm not sure i got all of them).
If you sent anything of any importance whatsoever, please re-send it.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Robert Strumwasser
Sharon, MA, USA
RobertStrum@...

Researching: >from Taurage, Lith: COHN, GLICKMAN, ROZ, SIEGAL, HURWITZ;
ABRAMAWITZ >from Taurage & Vainutas; any STRUMWASSER, STROMWASSER,
STRONGWATER, STONEWATER; >from Kamenets Pod., Ukr: JURIST, URIST, SAPOSNICK,
PETCHEKOVSKY, CZAP; >from Sadgura, Ukr: KARPEL, LOBL; KALTER >from Zhelibory
& Voynilov, Ukr; >from Sudilkov, Ukr: KUDISH, RUTFIELD, LERNER, KATZ; >from
Rafalowka & Manevichi, Ukr: ROSENFELD, BRATT

I apologize for having to post this here, but I undoubtedly received email
over the last two months >from people whose addresses are not in my address
book; a majority of these people will see a message posted on a LitvakSIG or JewishGen mailing list. Thnx!

Just a quick note to let you know that I've been experiencing email
problems for the last TWO months!

I did not receive any email sent between Jan. 6, 2001 and March 10, 2001!!
On March 9, 2001, I was finally able to retrieve all (?) emails sent to me after Feb. 17, 2001; the emails sent between Jan. 7 and Feb. 17 appear to
be permanently gone.

Basically, if you sent me any email after the start of the year, please
assume that I did not get it! Even if I did get, it did not arrive until
yesterday (and I'm not sure i got all of them).
If you sent anything of any importance whatsoever, please re-send it.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Robert Strumwasser
Sharon, MA, USA
RobertStrum@...

Researching: >from Taurage, Lith: COHN, GLICKMAN, ROZ, SIEGAL, HURWITZ;
ABRAMAWITZ >from Taurage & Vainutas; any STRUMWASSER, STROMWASSER,
STRONGWATER, STONEWATER; >from Kamenets Pod., Ukr: JURIST, URIST, SAPOSNICK,
PETCHEKOVSKY, CZAP; >from Sadgura, Ukr: KARPEL, LOBL; KALTER >from Zhelibory
& Voynilov, Ukr; >from Sudilkov, Ukr: KUDISH, RUTFIELD, LERNER, KATZ; >from
Rafalowka & Manevichi, Ukr: ROSENFELD, BRATT

Regarding the comment: "I do not think that rabbis, religious
slaughterers or any other Jews engaged in religious studies were exempt >from poll tax - yeshivas were hardly equal to universities >from the point of view of Russian government, and I do not think that their graduates had any privileges."

There was one yeshiva that managed to mainttain the status of theological
seminaries exempt >from military draft. The Telz yeshiva was recognized by
the Russian government and exempted students >from the army, since it was part of a network that included secular studies at the secondary level, even though the yeshiva gedolah (college level) itself had no secular studies. But this occurred during Rabbi Yosef Bloch's time probably in the early twentieth century. (See "Giants of Jewry", Aaron Surasky, II, p. 280.)I do not know abouttaxes.

Avrohom Krauss
Telz-Stone Israel

Regarding the comment: "I do not think that rabbis, religious
slaughterers or any other Jews engaged in religious studies were exempt >from poll tax - yeshivas were hardly equal to universities >from the point of view of Russian government, and I do not think that their graduates had any privileges."

There was one yeshiva that managed to mainttain the status of theological
seminaries exempt >from military draft. The Telz yeshiva was recognized by
the Russian government and exempted students >from the army, since it was part of a network that included secular studies at the secondary level, even though the yeshiva gedolah (college level) itself had no secular studies. But this occurred during Rabbi Yosef Bloch's time probably in the early twentieth century. (See "Giants of Jewry", Aaron Surasky, II, p. 280.)I do not know abouttaxes.

Avrohom Krauss
Telz-Stone Israel

I had the impression, >from something which I saw a while ago on this Digest, that by upgrading to AOL 6.0 we would be cutting ourselves off >from LitvakSIG. Was I mistaken either in my observation or in my interpretation of it?

Dr. William A. Saxton
Boca Raton, Florida

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Dr. Saxton's impression of the message about AOL 6.0
is generally correct. AOL 6.0 uses HTML to send messages and therefore messages arrive in the LitvakSIG moderation queue laden with MIME encoding. Such messages are automatically rejected by moderators of most other Digests; Although your moderator tries to work with some MIME messages, some are virtually incomprehensible because of the coded characters running through them, and must be rejected.

If you have already "upgraded" to AOL 6.0 and cannot retrieve your previous AOL versions to send messages, you can go to www.aol.com and
send your digest message >from their website, which does not turn the
messages into MIME.

However, for AOL users, there is another, very serious problem that is getting worse every week. AOL increasingly "reads" messages such as the LitvakSIG Digest (as well as those >from JewishGen and other SIGs) as "spam" and won't deliver them. Discussions with AOL have taken place, but with no results. This is even worse for those AOL users who subscribe to the discussion group with individual messages.

More and more AOL users are now also subscribing to some free e-mail program just to make sure that they get their digests.

All digests are archived on the Jewishgen website, but this usually is not done until several days after the digests have been received.

Also, if you think you have missed a digest, you can send a message to:
<lyris@...>

In the body of the message, write
get litvaksig yyyymmdd
(For example, to get yesterday's digest, you would write:
get litvaksig 20010313)

I had the impression, >from something which I saw a while ago on this Digest, that by upgrading to AOL 6.0 we would be cutting ourselves off >from LitvakSIG. Was I mistaken either in my observation or in my interpretation of it?

Dr. William A. Saxton
Boca Raton, Florida

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Dr. Saxton's impression of the message about AOL 6.0
is generally correct. AOL 6.0 uses HTML to send messages and therefore messages arrive in the LitvakSIG moderation queue laden with MIME encoding. Such messages are automatically rejected by moderators of most other Digests; Although your moderator tries to work with some MIME messages, some are virtually incomprehensible because of the coded characters running through them, and must be rejected.

If you have already "upgraded" to AOL 6.0 and cannot retrieve your previous AOL versions to send messages, you can go to www.aol.com and
send your digest message >from their website, which does not turn the
messages into MIME.

However, for AOL users, there is another, very serious problem that is getting worse every week. AOL increasingly "reads" messages such as the LitvakSIG Digest (as well as those >from JewishGen and other SIGs) as "spam" and won't deliver them. Discussions with AOL have taken place, but with no results. This is even worse for those AOL users who subscribe to the discussion group with individual messages.

More and more AOL users are now also subscribing to some free e-mail program just to make sure that they get their digests.

All digests are archived on the Jewishgen website, but this usually is not done until several days after the digests have been received.

Also, if you think you have missed a digest, you can send a message to:
<lyris@...>

In the body of the message, write
get litvaksig yyyymmdd
(For example, to get yesterday's digest, you would write:
get litvaksig 20010313)

Hi everyone !
I am a newcomer >from Argentina to the Ukraine SIG.

I am currently researching on my ancestors that came >from Ukraine, ex USSR.
My great grandfather, JOSE SCHUTT, came to Argentina around 1905 or 1906
with his wife, called JAIA LEIA NEFTULA MENDELEVA (transcribed in the
Argentinean document as LEA SPECTOR) and their son MANUEL SCHUTT, aged two.
They were escaping >from Russian-Japanese war. Apparently they came >from the
town of CHUDNOV, in the gubernia of VOLHYNIA near ZHITOMIR. I posted in
http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/toview146.html#vm461 the scanned file
with the name of JOSE SCHUTT in cyrillic alphabet >from a Russian document.

His brother, DAVID SCHUTT remained there and died in the war. I do not know
whether he had descendants or not. In this URL I posted a letter
http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/toview147.html#vm462 that i know has
something to do with him but i cannot translate the yiddish. Another
sister, ROSA SCHUTT emigrated to Canada and her descendants are currently
living in Florida, USA ( I already tracked them).

Can anybody help with any relevant information to this story or know
something regarding these names ?

Thanks so much,
Betina Sor.

Hi everyone !
I am a newcomer >from Argentina to the Ukraine SIG.

I am currently researching on my ancestors that came >from Ukraine, ex USSR.
My great grandfather, JOSE SCHUTT, came to Argentina around 1905 or 1906
with his wife, called JAIA LEIA NEFTULA MENDELEVA (transcribed in the
Argentinean document as LEA SPECTOR) and their son MANUEL SCHUTT, aged two.
They were escaping >from Russian-Japanese war. Apparently they came >from the
town of CHUDNOV, in the gubernia of VOLHYNIA near ZHITOMIR. I posted in
http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/toview146.html#vm461 the scanned file
with the name of JOSE SCHUTT in cyrillic alphabet >from a Russian document.

His brother, DAVID SCHUTT remained there and died in the war. I do not know
whether he had descendants or not. In this URL I posted a letter
http://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/toview147.html#vm462 that i know has
something to do with him but i cannot translate the yiddish. Another
sister, ROSA SCHUTT emigrated to Canada and her descendants are currently
living in Florida, USA ( I already tracked them).

Can anybody help with any relevant information to this story or know
something regarding these names ?

Thanks so much,
Betina Sor.

Dear LitvakSIGdom,

For all of you who were moved by viewing Eileen Douglas' film on her family quest to Lithuania at the conference in Salt Lake City this past
summer, and for all of you who wished you could have seen it, the LitvakSIG
Online Journal is pleased to announce the re-e-publication of an article
entitled ">from Here To Kovno ~ For Upper West Side Documentary Filmmaker,
Search for Grandfather's House Leads to Family Revelations" by Susan
Josephs <susan@...> Staff Writer for THE JEWISH WEEK.

This absorbing article about Eileen Douglas' grandfather, and the
making of her film, MY GRANDFATHER'S HOUSE, which was first published
December 12, 2000, in THE JEWISH WEEK, appears with permission.

To enjoy this article you have only to go to

http://www.jewishgen.org/Litvak/here2kovno.htm

Shalom,
Judi Langer-Surnamer Caplan, LitvakSIG Online Journal Editor

Dear LitvakSIGdom,

For all of you who were moved by viewing Eileen Douglas' film on her family quest to Lithuania at the conference in Salt Lake City this past
summer, and for all of you who wished you could have seen it, the LitvakSIG
Online Journal is pleased to announce the re-e-publication of an article
entitled ">from Here To Kovno ~ For Upper West Side Documentary Filmmaker,
Search for Grandfather's House Leads to Family Revelations" by Susan
Josephs <susan@...> Staff Writer for THE JEWISH WEEK.

This absorbing article about Eileen Douglas' grandfather, and the
making of her film, MY GRANDFATHER'S HOUSE, which was first published
December 12, 2000, in THE JEWISH WEEK, appears with permission.

To enjoy this article you have only to go to

http://www.jewishgen.org/Litvak/here2kovno.htm

Shalom,
Judi Langer-Surnamer Caplan, LitvakSIG Online Journal Editor

In her message, which was forwarded by Howard Margol on 12 Mar 2001,
Vitalija Ghirchyte refers to the 1898 Viljampole family list. That list
contains the only reference that I have found (so far) to the family of
my father's mother, Gene (Hene) Shulman bat Boruch.

Though the list gives the ages, it gives them as of the time of the last revision list (and not as of 1898). Does anyone know the date of the revision list that is referred to? Perhaps someone could figure out that date if an ancestor, whose age is already known, is listed.

Even without the dates, I am very appreciative of the work that the
Kaunas Uyezd Group has done and urge that everyone who can, support
their Uyezd Group(s).

Marvin Miller Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Researching KUNIGIS (Kalvarija, Ukmerge),
MILNER (Kovna, Seredzius, Veliuona),
SHULMAN (Panemune (Suwalki Guberniya), Viliyampole)
marvin@...

In her message, which was forwarded by Howard Margol on 12 Mar 2001,
Vitalija Ghirchyte refers to the 1898 Viljampole family list. That list
contains the only reference that I have found (so far) to the family of
my father's mother, Gene (Hene) Shulman bat Boruch.

Though the list gives the ages, it gives them as of the time of the last revision list (and not as of 1898). Does anyone know the date of the revision list that is referred to? Perhaps someone could figure out that date if an ancestor, whose age is already known, is listed.

Even without the dates, I am very appreciative of the work that the
Kaunas Uyezd Group has done and urge that everyone who can, support
their Uyezd Group(s).

Marvin Miller Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Researching KUNIGIS (Kalvarija, Ukmerge),
MILNER (Kovna, Seredzius, Veliuona),
SHULMAN (Panemune (Suwalki Guberniya), Viliyampole)
marvin@...

Does anyone know if there is a group in the Tampa Bay area. I live 1 hr

from there. I went to the Family History Library yesterday in

Brooksville Fl. a real small town. The man was very helpful. I ordered
two films that have birth records of Belarus, Mogilev, will let everyone
know what happens.
Shalom
Renee Marcus
Spring Hill, Fl.

Does anyone know if there is a group in the Tampa Bay area. I live 1 hr

from there. I went to the Family History Library yesterday in

Brooksville Fl. a real small town. The man was very helpful. I ordered
two films that have birth records of Belarus, Mogilev, will let everyone
know what happens.
Shalom
Renee Marcus
Spring Hill, Fl.