Dear group,
This discussion has fascinated me, as my husband's last name is CAMITTA, a
name that has many spelling variants, including those with the initial letter K, and which in certain configurations might <sound> like KHEMDA. His grandfather was called Camanda as a nickname sometimes. The family shtetl was Mielec, Poland. Any thoughts about this?

Miriam Camitta, Wynnewood, PA

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Although the thread on Khemda as a first name has been closed, this query is slightly different, so please confine any answers to the surname question raised here.

Dear group,
This discussion has fascinated me, as my husband's last name is CAMITTA, a
name that has many spelling variants, including those with the initial letter K, and which in certain configurations might <sound> like KHEMDA. His grandfather was called Camanda as a nickname sometimes. The family shtetl was Mielec, Poland. Any thoughts about this?

Miriam Camitta, Wynnewood, PA

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Although the thread on Khemda as a first name has been closed, this query is slightly different, so please confine any answers to the surname question raised here.

I have been going through old papers in my filing cabinet and came across
some old records >from JRI >from 1998. There was a listing for Database
RAJGROD1 (Rajgrod) Gubernia: Lomza/Province: Bialystok with family names on
it including information about 2 marriages on it. The names are SZUMSKI,
SZUMSKA, SZULMAN. I compared it to the updated newer databases for those
names and that one just seems to have disappeared altogether. I thought that
it might have been consolidated into another Database, but cannot find those
same names together that way. This is an important piece of data for me and
I had obviously put it away for safekeeping. It is also a reminder to review
old information often. Has anyone else had this experience? Where can I
find this information?

Judy TARAIL
Somers, NY (Westchester County)
judyj4060

I have been going through old papers in my filing cabinet and came across
some old records >from JRI >from 1998. There was a listing for Database
RAJGROD1 (Rajgrod) Gubernia: Lomza/Province: Bialystok with family names on
it including information about 2 marriages on it. The names are SZUMSKI,
SZUMSKA, SZULMAN. I compared it to the updated newer databases for those
names and that one just seems to have disappeared altogether. I thought that
it might have been consolidated into another Database, but cannot find those
same names together that way. This is an important piece of data for me and
I had obviously put it away for safekeeping. It is also a reminder to review
old information often. Has anyone else had this experience? Where can I
find this information?

Judy TARAIL
Somers, NY (Westchester County)
judyj4060

Hello

I would like to very much to hear >from people whose families lived in
Tulchin in the early 1850s until today.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Sholom
Esther Feinstein Sackheim
ZeraKodesh@...

Hello

I would like to very much to hear >from people whose families lived in
Tulchin in the early 1850s until today.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Sholom
Esther Feinstein Sackheim
ZeraKodesh@...

Does anyone know of Alan BREGMAN or his siblings?
Alan was born in Lorain, Ohio around 1926 and was Soupy Sales manager in
the 1950's . He may be in Las Vegas or L.A., California???
Can't find leads to this side of family.
Kindly reply privately ,
Hy Margolis : hymar2@...

Does anyone know of Alan BREGMAN or his siblings?
Alan was born in Lorain, Ohio around 1926 and was Soupy Sales manager in
the 1950's . He may be in Las Vegas or L.A., California???
Can't find leads to this side of family.
Kindly reply privately ,
Hy Margolis : hymar2@...

Searching for information on "ROBY" originating >from "Coshin" (Sth West
India, before independence). Please gazzman@...
Gary Perl

Searching for information on "ROBY" originating >from "Coshin" (Sth West
India, before independence). Please gazzman@...
Gary Perl

- Michael Scott wrote .......In my opinion everyone deserves a courteous
reply. But not everyone is like us.

And even some of "us" are not like "us". I have emailed people who posted
names on Family Finder and often received no reply. So then I conclude
that their names are >from a different shtetel or country. Too bad these
people don't feel that everyone deserves a courteous reply.

Sara Elberg-Roizman Grosbein, Toronto

- Michael Scott wrote .......In my opinion everyone deserves a courteous
reply. But not everyone is like us.

And even some of "us" are not like "us". I have emailed people who posted
names on Family Finder and often received no reply. So then I conclude
that their names are >from a different shtetel or country. Too bad these
people don't feel that everyone deserves a courteous reply.

Sara Elberg-Roizman Grosbein, Toronto

Hi, everyone. I recently discovered that I stem >from one Shlomo JACOBOVITS
(Poland), and have been told that he is one of a long line of rabbis. Does
anyone know any information regarding this family? Can anyone direct me to
how I would research this? Shlomo lived 7 or 8 generations ago.


Thanks for your help!
Farra Isaacson
NY, NY
Researching:

Poland: (Ciechanowiec) BORENSTEIN, LEVINE (Sohochov) HABERMAN,
GOLDKRANTZ/GOLDKRANC/GOLDKRAND, FLEISCHMAN, BUZNITSKY, BESOFSKY, JACOBOVITS
Ukraine: (Odessa): SCHWEIBISH, SCHWARTZMAN, MESHOURAS (MISHURIS), COHEN,
CHALFIN
Latvia (Riga)/Lithuania (Drusininiki, Grodno): LIPSHITZ (all spellings),
KUSLANSKY, JOEL

Hi, everyone. I recently discovered that I stem >from one Shlomo JACOBOVITS
(Poland), and have been told that he is one of a long line of rabbis. Does
anyone know any information regarding this family? Can anyone direct me to
how I would research this? Shlomo lived 7 or 8 generations ago.


Thanks for your help!
Farra Isaacson
NY, NY
Researching:

Poland: (Ciechanowiec) BORENSTEIN, LEVINE (Sohochov) HABERMAN,
GOLDKRANTZ/GOLDKRANC/GOLDKRAND, FLEISCHMAN, BUZNITSKY, BESOFSKY, JACOBOVITS
Ukraine: (Odessa): SCHWEIBISH, SCHWARTZMAN, MESHOURAS (MISHURIS), COHEN,
CHALFIN
Latvia (Riga)/Lithuania (Drusininiki, Grodno): LIPSHITZ (all spellings),
KUSLANSKY, JOEL

Hi,

This probably is a bit in reverse.
German town Lasse (name prior to 1945) is currently known az Lazy, Poland.

There are 30 towns by this name (Lazy) appear in modern Poland geographical
atlas, some of those towns were renamed after WWII, when Poland took
possesion of the western land (Russian have grabbed ex Polish lands in
exchanged).

Lazy is a beach village on the Baltic and Lake Jamno shores, located NNE of
town Koszalin (ex German Koeslin)

Alexander Sharon
Cakagry, AB, Canada

N.Jefferson < jeffman20@... > wrote:

Hi,

This probably is a bit in reverse.
German town Lasse (name prior to 1945) is currently known az Lazy, Poland.

There are 30 towns by this name (Lazy) appear in modern Poland geographical
atlas, some of those towns were renamed after WWII, when Poland took
possesion of the western land (Russian have grabbed ex Polish lands in
exchanged).

Lazy is a beach village on the Baltic and Lake Jamno shores, located NNE of
town Koszalin (ex German Koeslin)

Alexander Sharon
Cakagry, AB, Canada

N.Jefferson < jeffman20@... > wrote:

This is a copy of a message I posted yesterday to the Nesvizh discussion
group. Some of you may recognize names below and be motivated to participate
in the project. We're hoping this will be the first of many such lists to be
made available for the first time >from the Belarus Archives.

Mike Meshenberg
Belarus SIG
Research Coordinator

--------------------------------------------------------------------

Folks,

I have reviewed a copy of the Nesvizh 1905/06 Homeowners/Real Estate
Possessors list that Oleg Perzashkevich compiled for the Belarus SIG. Our
efforts to raise the $500 needed to obtain the list and upload it to the
fully-searchable All Belarus Database are lagging. So I went through the
1019 names on the list and compared it to the surnames listed on the
Researchers List of the Nesvizh Web pages. There is an amazing correlation.

My intent here is to make a shameless appeal to your self interest. If you
know that there are names you're interested in on Oleg's list, then maybe,
just maybe, you'll be encouraged to contribute to benefit your own and
others' research. All those who've contributed to date have given $25. If
everyone who finds a match sends that amount, or virtually any amount, we'll
easily meet our goal.

Remember, this list is only of the names I know you're researching. Of the
66 people getting this, there are over 30 who's surnames are NOT listed on
the researcher's page. The odds are you'll find yours, too. Here are the
names listed, with my "soundex" interpretation of Oleg's English
transliteration, and some guesses about anglicizing:

Surnames Being Researched On Property Owners List

Alper Alpyer
Andruser Andrusyer
Beker Byekyer
Danilevitz, Danielowicz Danilyevitsh
Eisenbud Ayzenbud
Eisenstadt Ayzenshtad
Epstein Epshtyeyn
Faitelevich Faytyelyevitsh
Farfel Farfyel
Feigelman Fyeyghyelman
Gabrilowitz Ghabrilovitsh
Gavezhonsky Ghavyeznyanskiy
Gindedyler Ghinkyedikyer
Goldberg Gholdbyergh
Gorden Ghorodyenskiy
Grunes Ghrunyes
Goldin Gholdin
Greenberg Ghrinbyergh
Gurewicz, Horowitz Ghurvitsh
Hertzog Ghyertsik
Kachanovsky(a) Katshanovskaya
Kantrowitz Kantarovitsh
Kaplin Kaplan
Kirshner Kirznyer
Lamush Lyenyesh
Lepofsky, Libovsky, Lipovsky Lipovskiy
Levine Lyevin
Lifshitz Lifshits
Maze Mayzya, Mayzyel
Novogrodsky Novoghrudskiy
Orens Oryens
Pollack Polyak
Portnoi Portnoya
Prensky Pryenskiy
Rabinovitz Rabinovitsh
Schleifsten Shlifshtyeyn
Seshnowitz Styefanovitsh
Siderman, Sidermanowna Sidyerman
Solovaichick Solovyeytshik
Spiles Shpilbyergh
Steinhouse Shtyeynghauz
Swircyck Svirstshik
Tzachanovich Tshyekhnovitsh
Weid, Schweid Shvyed
Wojnilowicer Voynilovitsyer
Wsielubski Vsyelibskiy
Zaturensky Zaturyenskiy

If your name isn't listed, you might find it anyway by a more systematic
soundex searching. A final teaser: I found a name I've been looking for for
years that fills a small hole on my tree. You never know . . .

Click here to contribute:
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/belarus.html, or cut and paste
this onto your browser. Please do it now and we can have it up and running
in days.

Mike Meshenberg

This is a copy of a message I posted yesterday to the Nesvizh discussion
group. Some of you may recognize names below and be motivated to participate
in the project. We're hoping this will be the first of many such lists to be
made available for the first time >from the Belarus Archives.

Mike Meshenberg
Belarus SIG
Research Coordinator

--------------------------------------------------------------------

Folks,

I have reviewed a copy of the Nesvizh 1905/06 Homeowners/Real Estate
Possessors list that Oleg Perzashkevich compiled for the Belarus SIG. Our
efforts to raise the $500 needed to obtain the list and upload it to the
fully-searchable All Belarus Database are lagging. So I went through the
1019 names on the list and compared it to the surnames listed on the
Researchers List of the Nesvizh Web pages. There is an amazing correlation.

My intent here is to make a shameless appeal to your self interest. If you
know that there are names you're interested in on Oleg's list, then maybe,
just maybe, you'll be encouraged to contribute to benefit your own and
others' research. All those who've contributed to date have given $25. If
everyone who finds a match sends that amount, or virtually any amount, we'll
easily meet our goal.

Remember, this list is only of the names I know you're researching. Of the
66 people getting this, there are over 30 who's surnames are NOT listed on
the researcher's page. The odds are you'll find yours, too. Here are the
names listed, with my "soundex" interpretation of Oleg's English
transliteration, and some guesses about anglicizing:

Surnames Being Researched On Property Owners List

Alper Alpyer
Andruser Andrusyer
Beker Byekyer
Danilevitz, Danielowicz Danilyevitsh
Eisenbud Ayzenbud
Eisenstadt Ayzenshtad
Epstein Epshtyeyn
Faitelevich Faytyelyevitsh
Farfel Farfyel
Feigelman Fyeyghyelman
Gabrilowitz Ghabrilovitsh
Gavezhonsky Ghavyeznyanskiy
Gindedyler Ghinkyedikyer
Goldberg Gholdbyergh
Gorden Ghorodyenskiy
Grunes Ghrunyes
Goldin Gholdin
Greenberg Ghrinbyergh
Gurewicz, Horowitz Ghurvitsh
Hertzog Ghyertsik
Kachanovsky(a) Katshanovskaya
Kantrowitz Kantarovitsh
Kaplin Kaplan
Kirshner Kirznyer
Lamush Lyenyesh
Lepofsky, Libovsky, Lipovsky Lipovskiy
Levine Lyevin
Lifshitz Lifshits
Maze Mayzya, Mayzyel
Novogrodsky Novoghrudskiy
Orens Oryens
Pollack Polyak
Portnoi Portnoya
Prensky Pryenskiy
Rabinovitz Rabinovitsh
Schleifsten Shlifshtyeyn
Seshnowitz Styefanovitsh
Siderman, Sidermanowna Sidyerman
Solovaichick Solovyeytshik
Spiles Shpilbyergh
Steinhouse Shtyeynghauz
Swircyck Svirstshik
Tzachanovich Tshyekhnovitsh
Weid, Schweid Shvyed
Wojnilowicer Voynilovitsyer
Wsielubski Vsyelibskiy
Zaturensky Zaturyenskiy

If your name isn't listed, you might find it anyway by a more systematic
soundex searching. A final teaser: I found a name I've been looking for for
years that fills a small hole on my tree. You never know . . .

Click here to contribute:
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/belarus.html, or cut and paste
this onto your browser. Please do it now and we can have it up and running
in days.

Mike Meshenberg

To all the members of the SIG:

I was sending several messages to some people in Israel asking for helpin=
g me but I received no reply >from anybody, that's why I'm writing to you =
in order to ask for any member of the group in Israel to help me.

The matter is that my grandmother Gitla Mazower came to Argentina in 1925=
, >from Grodno, with her sister Genia Mazower.

I could find a Moshe Mazower in Jerusalem and I'd like to contact him.
Herebelow you'll find his full style:

(office)
Moshe Mazower
1 Havatselet Street
Jerusalem tel. (02) 6250555

(home)
10 Gat Street
Jerusalem tel (02) 6526716

It would be very important for me to know if they have got any e-mail add=
ress or anybody of the family has.
I don't want to call >from Argentina because it is too expensive and I don=
't know if they speak English or Spanish.
I either don't know if he is a relative of mine, but I need to talk or =
write to him to know about his own story.

I'll wait your polite reply.

Thanks in advance

Otilia Shifres de Tiberi
camilat@...
Buenos Aires, Argentina

To all the members of the SIG:

I was sending several messages to some people in Israel asking for helpin=
g me but I received no reply >from anybody, that's why I'm writing to you =
in order to ask for any member of the group in Israel to help me.

The matter is that my grandmother Gitla Mazower came to Argentina in 1925=
, >from Grodno, with her sister Genia Mazower.

I could find a Moshe Mazower in Jerusalem and I'd like to contact him.
Herebelow you'll find his full style:

(office)
Moshe Mazower
1 Havatselet Street
Jerusalem tel. (02) 6250555

(home)
10 Gat Street
Jerusalem tel (02) 6526716

It would be very important for me to know if they have got any e-mail add=
ress or anybody of the family has.
I don't want to call >from Argentina because it is too expensive and I don=
't know if they speak English or Spanish.
I either don't know if he is a relative of mine, but I need to talk or =
write to him to know about his own story.

I'll wait your polite reply.

Thanks in advance

Otilia Shifres de Tiberi
camilat@...
Buenos Aires, Argentina