Have you tried calling the cemeteries and asking if they will take a photo for you. It is either free or a small charge.  They have more time to do this in the winter when they are not busy with landscaping.

--
Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey

In addition to sorting my Ancestry DNA matches from newest to oldest, I always click the "Shared DNA" button at the top of the page and enter a custom cM range starting with 40 cM.  That eliminates dozens of small, likely endogamous, matches and leaves me with a manageable list of new matches.
--
Paul Auerbach
Sharon, Massachusetts, USA


Researching:

ARONSON /ARENSON (Podolia (Gubernia), Ukraine), ATTELL/ETTEL (Krakow, Poland),  (AUERBACH / AVERBUKH / KHAZEN-AVERBUKH (Chisinau, Moldova), BARR (Kreslavka, Latvia),  
BECK (Krakow, Poland), BENJAMIN (Ostrolenka, Poland), BLODEK/WLODEK (Krakow, Poland), CALKE / SELKA (Ostrolenka, Poland), CHAKIM / KHAKIM (Maisiagala / Musninkai/ Vilnius, Lithuania), 
DAVIDSON (Traby, Belarus), DREYEK (Krakow, Poland), HALTZMAN/HOLZMAN (Chisinau, Moldova), HURWITZ / HURVICH (Musninkai, Lithuania), ITCHOFF (Lechowitz, Belarus), 
KAPLAN (Dzyarzhynsk / Minsk, Belarus), KUKLA (Rezekne, Latvia), LAZAROWITZ / LEISEROVICI (Iasi, Romania), LEVINE /LEVIN / LEWIN (Traby, Belarus), MESCHER/MEZAK (Odessa, Ukraine), 
MINKIN (Rezekne / Kaunata, Latvia), NEEDLE / NUDELL (Odessa, Ukraine & Lechowitz, Belarus), NESIS / NESSIS (Zinkiv, Ukraine), PELICAN / PELIKAN (London, England & Tarnow / Krakow, Poland), 
PINCUS/PIKUS (Dzyarzhynsk / Minsk, Belarus), ROSENLICHT (Krakow, Poland), SHAFFMAN (Lechowitz, Belarus), TAFFET (Krakow, Poland), WEINER/VENER (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Gary, I’m surprised that you don’t know of Ladyzhin/Ladyzhin in Ukraine as that town has a page on JewishGen.  There is another page with info on Ladyzhyn 
that I’m attaching.  I’m very interested in records from Ladyzhyn as is Wendy Kalman as my paternal grandfather comes from there.  Thanks!

Ronni Schwartz Nass
MILKIS-Ladyzhyn; SCHWARTZ; JELEN-Zambrow; EPSZTAJN-Plawno; CHOJNOWICZ-Radomsko; ZYLBERMINTZ-Wloszczowa & Lodz; LEWENBERG-Secemin, Wloszczowa & Lodz

Hello,

I'll be a guest speaker at the Minnesota Jewish Genealogical Society event on January 23rd - regarding my documentary film Mamaliga Blues (about a Brazilian family looking for its Jewish roots in Bessarabia/Moldova).
Register at the link below, thanks!
https://www.mnjgs.org/event

Cassio Tolpolar

This is an outstanding presentation by Jennifer Mendelsohn - very informative, pragmatic, actionable.  Will help you narrow and save you time. If your ethnicity is from an endogamous population, you usuable matches could to from 200,000 +/- to `100 +/-.  Read this article she wrote in 2017 on the topic and her vibrant talk will reinforce your new understanding of the complexities of Jewish genetic genealogy -
https://clevertitletk.medium.com/no-you-dont-really-have-7-900-4th-cousins-some-dna-basics-for-those-with-jewish-heritage-857f873399ff

Well worth Zooming late for us EST persons, you need to see this!  

Regards,

Arthur Sissman
Naples FL

Jewish Genealogy SIG of Collier/Lee Co FL

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Join our FB page at Jewish Genealogy SIG: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hellojewishgen

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Researching: ZISMAN/ZYSMAN/ZUSMAN (Belarus); TELESHEVSKY (Belarus); CHANUTIN, (W. Russia), BRODY, (Hungary); FRIEDMAN, (Hungary); GRAUBARD, AARONSON (Romania/Ukraine)

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How far back have you traced? Tuscany has quite good records. I think there are also notarial records.

I suggest asking in The Sephardic Diaspora group on Facebook, which is Sephardic genealogy's hive mind. Also watch Luca Ascoli's talk on Jewish surnames in Italy, on the Sephardic Genealogy channel on YouTube.

Best wishes,

David Mendoza

VM96500

In Russian:

 

448

Состоялось в губернском городе Лублин 10-го (22-го) сентября 1868 года в 12 часов дня. Явились евреи Тобиаш Либерман, рабочий, 35-и лет и Давид Шварцштейн, служитель при Люблинском еврейском попечительстве, 66-и лет, оба жители города Люблин и объявили, что вчерашнего числа,  в городе Люблин, в 10 часов вечера, в доме под номером 612, умерла Юдеса Арбейтман, 34-х лет, жившая с мужем в городе Люблин, дочь Якова-Лейзера и Гинды, супругов Фукс, оставив после себя вдовствующего мужа Якуба. По настоящему удостоверяю о кончине Юдесы Арбейтман.  Акт сей присутствующим прочитан и ими подписан.

 

Тобиаш Либерман

Давид Шварцштейн

Чиновник Гражданского Состояния Подпись

 

Translated into English:

 

448

It took place in the provincial city of Lublin on September 10 (22), 1868, at 12 noon. Jews Tobias Lieberman, a 35-year-old worker, and David Schwarzstein, a 66-year-old Jewish trustee in Lublin, both Lublin residents, showed up and announced that yesterday, at 10 a.m., in Lublin, at the house number 612, died Judes Arbeitman, 34, living with her husband in Lublin, daughter of Jacob-Laser and Hinda, Fuchs, leaving behind a widowed husband, Jacob. I hereby certify the death of Judas Arbeitman. This act was read and signed by those present.

 

Tobias Lieberman

David Schwarzstein

Civil Status Official Signature

Translated by Michael Ryabinky
Boynton Beach, FL

--
Ruvane Bernstein.

(Efrat, Israel)

Hi,

The 1857 census images are linked to the records, just click on the underlined surname. The 1848 census images can be requested from JewishGen (ask Vivian Kahn or Eric Bloch).

Malcov and Stropkov records are on FamilySearch (Malcov in books of Bardejov rabbinate, Stropkov in its own books). Bardejov is indexed on FS, Stropkov is indexed on JG. But both towns don't go further back than 1842 (Bardejov) or 1851 (Stropkov).

Regards
--
Peter Absolon
Kosice, Slovakia

Carl,

I found a few possibilities at:
JewishGen Gazetteer
https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp

Native names in BOLD)	Feature Type	Coordinates (Click for JewishGen Resource Map)	Map	Country	Distance/Direction from reference point	10 mile radius
Rogowiec Pustkowie	populated place	51°16' N 19°18' E	G	Poland	99.5 miles SW of Warszawa 52°15' N 21°00' E
Rogowiec	populated place	51°50' N 20°15' E	G	Poland	43.2 miles SW of Warszawa 52°15' N 21°00' E
Rogowiec	populated place	51°17' N 19°18' E	G	Poland	98.9 miles SW of Warszawa 52°15' N 21°00' E
Rogowiec	populated place	49°59' N 18°20' E	G	Poland	194.3 miles SW of Warszawa 52°15' N 21°00' E

Good luck in your search,

Sherri Bobish

Searching: RATOWSKY / CHAIMSON (Ariogala / Ragola, Lith.); WALTZMAN / WALZMAN (Ustrzyki Dolne / Istryker, Pol.)
LEVY (Tyrawa Woloska, Pol.); LEFFENFELD / LEFENFELD / FINK, KALTER (Daliowa/ Posada Jasliska, Pol.)
BOJDA / BERGER (Tarnobrzeg, Pol.); SOKALSKY / SOLON / SOLAN / FINGER(MAN) (Grodek, Bialystok, Pol.)
BOBISH / APPEL (Odessa?)

Susan Lauscher

I’m looking for some help getting some photos of gravestones in these cemeteries. I can send details on the specific graves. I’d be very thankful.

Har Nebo, Philadelphia
New Montefoire Cemetery, Suffolk County NY
Mount Zion, Queens NY

Thanks
Marc Lipoff

ISAAC: "Here lies Yitzhak, the son of the late Binyamin, who died on the 5th of Sivan 5694" (May 19, 1934)
IDA: "Here lies Idit, the daughter of Yitzhak, who died on the 29th of Av 5716" (August 6, 1956)
--
Steve Goldberg
Jerusalem, Israel
Researching:
Sagan/Shagan family from Veliuona (Velon), Lithuania
Goldberg family from Vidukle, Lithuania
Susselovitch/Zuselovitch family from Raseiniai (Rassein), Lithuania

The photo below includes my maternal grandmother Pearl GELSTEIN Lehman (originally LIMONCZYK) seated 6th from right, counting from the woman with a child on her lap at the extreme right, then four more women, then my grandmother. She was an early Zionist and feminist, one of the founders of the Golda Myerson (Me'ir) chapter of Pioneer Women (today Na'amat) in Baltimore in 1927. She arrived in the U.S. from "Russia" (Orinin, Ukraine) in 1914 just after the start of WWI and married my grandfather (her second cousin) in Baltimore in 1918.

The group picture below might be of an early picture of the Labor Zionist group to which she belonged before the founding of the Pioneer Women chapter (since it includes men). Or it might be an educational group picture. Or it might be none of those. If it was taken in Baltimore, I was never able to find the matching building anywhere around East Baltimore where the family lived. Of course it could be a building that has long since been torn down. Then again, it might not be  in Baltimore since she had relatives in Philadelphia, Washngton DC and Montreal, and possibly more.

Has anyone else seen this picture or know anything about it? It is hard to judge my grandmother's age here but I would guess it was taken either in the mid to late teens or the 1920s. Hope to share information with any and all who have any knowledge of it.  
Jeff Knisbacher, Bradenton, Florida

Hi,

I’ve been researching the Grobstein family, as my great grandmother was Shirlee Grobstein Cohen. I have quite a bit of information from other researches, but I don’t have anything about Shirlee, except that she was killed in Russia, circa 1904-1906. According to his naturalization documents, Harry was born in Bobruisk, so I would “assume” Shirlee was also.
Do you know if any marriage/death records were kept? Or a way to possibly search cemetery records?
Her husband, Harry Cohen, is another person I’m looking for. He came to the states in 1906, but I can’t find a manifest, or naturalization documents. I’ve heard that, if someone was in steerage, they wouldn’t be listed on a manifest. Is that true?
Thank you!

Nancy Newmark Smith

Cause of Death was Primary Anemia to use modern American spelling.  
EdrieAnne Broughton, Vacaville, CA