Thank you to all the members of Bessarabis SIG who responded to my query about the above town.
There was universal agreement that it refers to Chotin (Khotyn), now located in Ukraine.

Thank you to all the members of Bessarabis SIG who responded to my query about the above town.
There was universal agreement that it refers to Chotin (Khotyn), now located in Ukraine.

Below is the information for the April 3rd, Orange County (CA) Jewish
Genealogical Society meeting.

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OCJGS April Meeting:
April 3rd, 2016
1:30 - 3:30pm
Temple Bat Yahm
1011 Camelback Street
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Topic: Beyond the Manifest - Methods for confirming one's ancestral origins
Speaker: Emily Garber

Overview of the Presentation: Emily Garber explains how using a strong, well
defined methodology for genealogical research and documentation can help you
overcome brick walls or avoid them altogether. Through case studies, she
also illustrates often-overlooked information available in both common and
relatively obscure sources.

Cost: $5

Please see out website: http://www.ocjgs.org/

Susan Rosin

Below is the information for the April 3rd, Orange County (CA) Jewish
Genealogical Society meeting.

**************************
OCJGS April Meeting:
April 3rd, 2016
1:30 - 3:30pm
Temple Bat Yahm
1011 Camelback Street
Newport Beach, CA 92660
Topic: Beyond the Manifest - Methods for confirming one's ancestral origins
Speaker: Emily Garber

Overview of the Presentation: Emily Garber explains how using a strong, well
defined methodology for genealogical research and documentation can help you
overcome brick walls or avoid them altogether. Through case studies, she
also illustrates often-overlooked information available in both common and
relatively obscure sources.

Cost: $5

Please see out website: http://www.ocjgs.org/

Susan Rosin

Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal
in association with the
Jewish Public Library
is pleased to announce as our guest speaker: Zev Moses

Zev Moses is the Founder and Executive Director of the Museum of Jewish
Montreal, who will speak on:

The story of the Museum of Jewish Montreal (so far) and the continuing
technological revolution in museums.

The meeting will be held on
Monday, April 04, 2016 at 7:30 pm
Gelber Conference Centre
5151 Cote Ste-Catherine/1 Carre Cummings

For all information on our upcoming meetings & Sunday Morning Family Tree
Workshops call the JGS of Montreal Hotline (24 hours a day): 514-484-0969

Check out our website: http://jgs-montreal.org/ and watch for our emails &
"friend" us on Facebook

Merle Kastner, Programming

Jewish Genealogical Society of Montreal
in association with the
Jewish Public Library
is pleased to announce as our guest speaker: Zev Moses

Zev Moses is the Founder and Executive Director of the Museum of Jewish
Montreal, who will speak on:

The story of the Museum of Jewish Montreal (so far) and the continuing
technological revolution in museums.

The meeting will be held on
Monday, April 04, 2016 at 7:30 pm
Gelber Conference Centre
5151 Cote Ste-Catherine/1 Carre Cummings

For all information on our upcoming meetings & Sunday Morning Family Tree
Workshops call the JGS of Montreal Hotline (24 hours a day): 514-484-0969

Check out our website: http://jgs-montreal.org/ and watch for our emails &
"friend" us on Facebook

Merle Kastner, Programming

Hello My Dear JGen Mishpocha,
Fristly I would like to share with everyone that on Teusday I made a
bris. I named my son Elimelech after my GGGrandfather >from Dombrowa
Galicia who had no one named after him, now he will be remembered.

I wanted to ask advise finding my gggrandparents death certificates.

Max/Mendel/Marl Baker is buried in Washington cemetery. In the
cemetery date book as well as on his tombstone it says his date of
death was October 17, 1908. The cemetery date book says that his
residence was 29 Orchard Street. ( I corroborated this address by
getting his daughter Bessie Bakers marriage certificated dated 1909
and it says that her residence was 29 Orchard Street).
I can not find his death certificate. I searched Italian gen and
Family Search with all different spellings but I found nothing.

His wife Bertha (Breina) Baker died August 11/12 1911 I know this from
her tombstone that says 18 Ab 5671. She is also buried in Washington
cemetery. There is no address for her in the date book. ( I don't
think they even found her in it.....they did kindly invite me to come
down and look through he date book) On the 1910 census I did not find
her at 29 Orchard street. I searched for her death certificate on
Italian gen and Family Search with all different spellings but I found
nothing.

[ Although they lived in NYC when they first came to the USA they
lived in NJ so I figured I would try my luck, maybe they went to die
in NJ. I hired a researcher she checked the NJ Archives in Trenton but
found nothing]

I am sure they are in NYC. Is there another way to search the
archives? Is it possible to search by date and address? Any advise how
to proceed will be appreciated. ( If you think I should hire a
professional please recommend)

Thanks for all,
Only simchas,

Nechemyah Fried
Lakewood NJ
BAKER >from LOMZA, DUTKA FINFER FUNFER FUENFER >from LESKO
KLEE TODER >from SOROVITZ

MODERATOR NOTE: If you wish to provide recommendations for professional
services, please do so privately.

Hello My Dear JGen Mishpocha,
Fristly I would like to share with everyone that on Teusday I made a
bris. I named my son Elimelech after my GGGrandfather >from Dombrowa
Galicia who had no one named after him, now he will be remembered.

I wanted to ask advise finding my gggrandparents death certificates.

Max/Mendel/Marl Baker is buried in Washington cemetery. In the
cemetery date book as well as on his tombstone it says his date of
death was October 17, 1908. The cemetery date book says that his
residence was 29 Orchard Street. ( I corroborated this address by
getting his daughter Bessie Bakers marriage certificated dated 1909
and it says that her residence was 29 Orchard Street).
I can not find his death certificate. I searched Italian gen and
Family Search with all different spellings but I found nothing.

His wife Bertha (Breina) Baker died August 11/12 1911 I know this from
her tombstone that says 18 Ab 5671. She is also buried in Washington
cemetery. There is no address for her in the date book. ( I don't
think they even found her in it.....they did kindly invite me to come
down and look through he date book) On the 1910 census I did not find
her at 29 Orchard street. I searched for her death certificate on
Italian gen and Family Search with all different spellings but I found
nothing.

[ Although they lived in NYC when they first came to the USA they
lived in NJ so I figured I would try my luck, maybe they went to die
in NJ. I hired a researcher she checked the NJ Archives in Trenton but
found nothing]

I am sure they are in NYC. Is there another way to search the
archives? Is it possible to search by date and address? Any advise how
to proceed will be appreciated. ( If you think I should hire a
professional please recommend)

Thanks for all,
Only simchas,

Nechemyah Fried
Lakewood NJ
BAKER >from LOMZA, DUTKA FINFER FUNFER FUENFER >from LESKO
KLEE TODER >from SOROVITZ

MODERATOR NOTE: If you wish to provide recommendations for professional
services, please do so privately.

As we do at the end of each week, there is a brief spotlight on the JewishGen
Facebook page >from a Yizkor Book that JewishGen has translated. This week's
excerpt, "Zalman the Soda Water Maker" (http://on.fb.me/1RozBtc), is >from The
Memorial Book of Rokiskis in Lithuania.

Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD.

Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK

As we do at the end of each week, there is a brief spotlight on the JewishGen
Facebook page >from a Yizkor Book that JewishGen has translated. This week's
excerpt, "Zalman the Soda Water Maker" (http://on.fb.me/1RozBtc), is >from The
Memorial Book of Rokiskis in Lithuania.

Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD.

Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK

Reclaim The Records filed its second-ever court case yesterday, an
"Article 78" legal petition against the New York City Clerk's Office,
seeking a copy of the NYC marriage index for 1930-2015 under the New
York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL). The vast majority of
that database has never been available to the public before in any
form or at any location.

The full twenty-five-page legal petition is available online here:
https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ReclaimTheRecords_vs_NYC_City_Clerks_Office_-_Notice_of_Petition_with_stamps_-_16-Mar-2016.pdf?4e51f5
[ TinyURL: https://tinyurl.com/j2c56cl ]

The venue is the Supreme Court of the State of New York, county of New
York (Manhattan). The case's Index number is 100397/2016, although it
is not yet visible in the New York eCourts online system. The City
was served with papers on March 17, 2016, and the first court date is
scheduled for April 7, 2016.

This case is not the same as the one that was filed against the parent
agency of the NYC Municipal Archives last fall, in which Reclaim The
Records won the first-ever release of the 1908-1929 marriage index.
This new case does involve the same kinds of marriage index records,
just many more years of them, up through December 31, 2015. And in
this case, all the records after approximately 1952 are believed to
already be in a searchable database format, which would alleviate the
need for any kind of transcription project, if they are won.

For more information on this case and other public records reclamation
projects, you can subscribe to the free Reclaim The Records e-mail
newsletter at https://www.ReclaimTheRecords.org/ .

Brooke Schreier Ganz
Founder, Reclaim The Records
Mill Valley, California

Reclaim The Records filed its second-ever court case yesterday, an
"Article 78" legal petition against the New York City Clerk's Office,
seeking a copy of the NYC marriage index for 1930-2015 under the New
York State Freedom of Information Law (FOIL). The vast majority of
that database has never been available to the public before in any
form or at any location.

The full twenty-five-page legal petition is available online here:
https://www.reclaimtherecords.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/ReclaimTheRecords_vs_NYC_City_Clerks_Office_-_Notice_of_Petition_with_stamps_-_16-Mar-2016.pdf?4e51f5
[ TinyURL: https://tinyurl.com/j2c56cl ]

The venue is the Supreme Court of the State of New York, county of New
York (Manhattan). The case's Index number is 100397/2016, although it
is not yet visible in the New York eCourts online system. The City
was served with papers on March 17, 2016, and the first court date is
scheduled for April 7, 2016.

This case is not the same as the one that was filed against the parent
agency of the NYC Municipal Archives last fall, in which Reclaim The
Records won the first-ever release of the 1908-1929 marriage index.
This new case does involve the same kinds of marriage index records,
just many more years of them, up through December 31, 2015. And in
this case, all the records after approximately 1952 are believed to
already be in a searchable database format, which would alleviate the
need for any kind of transcription project, if they are won.

For more information on this case and other public records reclamation
projects, you can subscribe to the free Reclaim The Records e-mail
newsletter at https://www.ReclaimTheRecords.org/ .

Brooke Schreier Ganz
Founder, Reclaim The Records
Mill Valley, California

Ttry Pesche RUBINSTEIN, born 1890, arrived NY July 3, 1913 aboard the
Potsdam.

David Rosen
Boston, MA

Ttry Pesche RUBINSTEIN, born 1890, arrived NY July 3, 1913 aboard the
Potsdam.

David Rosen
Boston, MA

Can anyone help me?
I am trying to plan a trip to Ukraine in September.
I am especially needing to visit Podhajce, Kozowa in Galicia
near Ternopil and then also Kiev (Brusilov).

I have contacted Alex Dunai but twice there has been no reply.
Can anyone please recommend and honest and knowledgable person
or persons or tour group for this trip?
Thank you!

caryl_foster@...
Searching for Hutz, Schimel, Grossman families

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Check the JewishGen infofile at http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/Researchers.htm for researchers and references.

Can anyone help me?
I am trying to plan a trip to Ukraine in September.
I am especially needing to visit Podhajce, Kozowa in Galicia
near Ternopil and then also Kiev (Brusilov).

I have contacted Alex Dunai but twice there has been no reply.
Can anyone please recommend and honest and knowledgable person
or persons or tour group for this trip?
Thank you!

caryl_foster@...
Searching for Hutz, Schimel, Grossman families

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Check the JewishGen infofile at http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/Researchers.htm for researchers and references.

Save the date: May 9th

A new monument honoring victims of women's slave labor camps
during the shoah, many of whom were Polish teenagers at the time,
will be unveiled on May 9th, the 71st anniversary of their liberation,
in Trutnov, Czech Republic.=20

The camps, part of Organization Shmelt, were located by textile
mills and included: Gabersdorf, Parshnitz, Schatzlar, Ober Alstadt,
Bernsdorf, Arnau, Dunkenthal, Hohenelbe, Ober Hohenelbe, Leibau
and Bausnitz. After the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, they became
concentration camps grouped under the administration of Gross-Rosen.

The women prisoners came >from Zaglembie and Upper Silesia, Polish
towns such as Sosnowiec, Bedzin, Zawiercie, Wadowice, Oswiecim
and Chrzanow.=20

Any survivor who wishes to attend the ceremony should please contact=20
Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua, who worked on the monument in honor of the
5,000 women imprisoned in Trutnov, including her mother, Hela
Hocherman, a survivor of Gabersdorf and the subject of her documentary
film, "By A Thread." =20

Check her Facebook page for further information and to send private messa=
ge
to Marisa if you're interested in attending: =20
www.facebook.com/By-A-Thread-1706636059569420/?ref=3Daymt_homepage_panel

Fox-Bevilacqua has noted that her "research was greatly aided by
JRI-Poland, which not only traced her ancestry to the 1700s in Poland,
but helped her track down Gabersdorf survivors >from Toronto to Tel Aviv,

from Manhattan to Melbourne, through their vast network of contacts

around the world."

Reminder: For further information, please only send messages to
Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua using the facebook link noted above.

Stanley Diamond
Executive Director, Jewish Records Indexing - Poland

Jeffrey Cymbler
Zaglembie Area Town Leader, JRI-Poland

Save the date: May 9th

A new monument honoring victims of women's slave labor camps
during the shoah, many of whom were Polish teenagers at the time,
will be unveiled on May 9th, the 71st anniversary of their liberation,
in Trutnov, Czech Republic.=20

The camps, part of Organization Shmelt, were located by textile
mills and included: Gabersdorf, Parshnitz, Schatzlar, Ober Alstadt,
Bernsdorf, Arnau, Dunkenthal, Hohenelbe, Ober Hohenelbe, Leibau
and Bausnitz. After the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, they became
concentration camps grouped under the administration of Gross-Rosen.

The women prisoners came >from Zaglembie and Upper Silesia, Polish
towns such as Sosnowiec, Bedzin, Zawiercie, Wadowice, Oswiecim
and Chrzanow.=20

Any survivor who wishes to attend the ceremony should please contact=20
Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua, who worked on the monument in honor of the
5,000 women imprisoned in Trutnov, including her mother, Hela
Hocherman, a survivor of Gabersdorf and the subject of her documentary
film, "By A Thread." =20

Check her Facebook page for further information and to send private messa=
ge
to Marisa if you're interested in attending: =20
www.facebook.com/By-A-Thread-1706636059569420/?ref=3Daymt_homepage_panel

Fox-Bevilacqua has noted that her "research was greatly aided by
JRI-Poland, which not only traced her ancestry to the 1700s in Poland,
but helped her track down Gabersdorf survivors >from Toronto to Tel Aviv,

from Manhattan to Melbourne, through their vast network of contacts

around the world."

Reminder: For further information, please only send messages to
Marisa Fox-Bevilacqua using the facebook link noted above.

Stanley Diamond
Executive Director, Jewish Records Indexing - Poland

Jeffrey Cymbler
Zaglembie Area Town Leader, JRI-Poland

The info I sent earlier may not be what you are seeking as the date is off.

**This** seems more likely. I used FHL and searched for Max Baker

Max Baker
b ~1867
d. 17 Oct 1908,Manhattan. DC Manhattan 31008
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W9C-TX4

Sorry for the confusion.

Barbara Mannlein

...Found your GG GF! Using wildcards, I searched ancestry for max b*k*r.

Max Berker
b ~1865
d. 18 Dec 1908,Manhattan. DC Manhattan 36625

Still looking for your GG GM. Where did their children live? Is it possible

that she died out of the city?

On Mar 18, 2016, at 8:26 AM, nechemyah Shimon Fried nsfried1@...
<jewishgen@...> wrote:

Max/Mendel/Marl Baker is buried in Washington cemetery
DOD was October 17, 1908. �. his residence was 29 Orchard Street.

I can not find his death certificate. I searched Italian gen and
Family Search with all different spellings but I found nothing.

His wife Bertha (Breina) Baker died August 11/12 1911 I know this from
her tombstone that says 18 Ab 5671. She is also buried in Washington
cemetery.

The info I sent earlier may not be what you are seeking as the date is off.

**This** seems more likely. I used FHL and searched for Max Baker

Max Baker
b ~1867
d. 17 Oct 1908,Manhattan. DC Manhattan 31008
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W9C-TX4

Sorry for the confusion.

Barbara Mannlein

...Found your GG GF! Using wildcards, I searched ancestry for max b*k*r.

Max Berker
b ~1865
d. 18 Dec 1908,Manhattan. DC Manhattan 36625

Still looking for your GG GM. Where did their children live? Is it possible

that she died out of the city?

On Mar 18, 2016, at 8:26 AM, nechemyah Shimon Fried nsfried1@...
<jewishgen@...> wrote:

Max/Mendel/Marl Baker is buried in Washington cemetery
DOD was October 17, 1908. �. his residence was 29 Orchard Street.

I can not find his death certificate. I searched Italian gen and
Family Search with all different spellings but I found nothing.

His wife Bertha (Breina) Baker died August 11/12 1911 I know this from
her tombstone that says 18 Ab 5671. She is also buried in Washington
cemetery.