I expect to be in Saarlouis for 2 days in April and would like to know
where I should be going to obtain BMD of a family that lived in the
1800-1840 time frame in Saarlouis. What/who should I contact for
best success in obtaining copies of such documents?

Pierre M Hahn, San Francisco pierre1928@...

Looking for biographical/obituary information on Dr. Jonas R. KAGAN, a
general practitioner in Boston, died in 1969 and buried in West
Roxbury in the Independent Workmen's Circle of Baker Street and his
wife Dr. Miriam Mindla (Mindel), PhD >from Lausanne.

Neil Rosenstein
www.neilrosenstein.com

MODERATOR: Contact information to Neil privately, please.

I expect to be in Saarlouis for 2 days in April and would like to know
where I should be going to obtain BMD of a family that lived in the
1800-1840 time frame in Saarlouis. What/who should I contact for
best success in obtaining copies of such documents?

Pierre M Hahn, San Francisco pierre1928@...

Looking for biographical/obituary information on Dr. Jonas R. KAGAN, a
general practitioner in Boston, died in 1969 and buried in West
Roxbury in the Independent Workmen's Circle of Baker Street and his
wife Dr. Miriam Mindla (Mindel), PhD >from Lausanne.

Neil Rosenstein
www.neilrosenstein.com

MODERATOR: Contact information to Neil privately, please.

Looking to make contact with the family of a daughter (born about
1900/1910) of Mordecai LESHCZYNSKI (Lestchinsky) who lived in Coney
Island and had a daughter Florence.

I do not know the maiden name of Florence.

Neil Rosenstein
www.neilrosenstein.com

MODERATOR: Contact information to Neil privately, please.

Looking to make contact with the family of a daughter (born about
1900/1910) of Mordecai LESHCZYNSKI (Lestchinsky) who lived in Coney
Island and had a daughter Florence.

I do not know the maiden name of Florence.

Neil Rosenstein
www.neilrosenstein.com

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My Fellow Researchers,

I recently encountered the name of a family ancestor on the Gombin
(Gabin, Poland) Book of Residents. She is listed, in a transcription
of the record, as Chana ZELAT. In other records she is listed as
Chana, daughter of Nawtali Hodys. I am somewhat puzzled by the name
Zelat. Perhaps is it a variation of names derived >from the Polish
word for gold (Zlot, Zlat). I have pondered other names found on
various databases including Szlat, Szalat, Szlott, Szlajt and others.
I have thought that it may be a corruption of the surname Zoladz
(acorn in Polish). I have also thought that the name might be a
transcription error.

Does anyone have any other thoughts on the surname Zelat?
Could it have any other meaning that would attach the word to
a given name and found after that name?

Thank you in advance for your wealth of knowledge and willingness
to share the same.

Allen Kurtz
Mahopac, New York, U.S.A.

My Fellow Researchers,

I recently encountered the name of a family ancestor on the Gombin
(Gabin, Poland) Book of Residents. She is listed, in a transcription
of the record, as Chana ZELAT. In other records she is listed as
Chana, daughter of Nawtali Hodys. I am somewhat puzzled by the name
Zelat. Perhaps is it a variation of names derived >from the Polish
word for gold (Zlot, Zlat). I have pondered other names found on
various databases including Szlat, Szalat, Szlott, Szlajt and others.
I have thought that it may be a corruption of the surname Zoladz
(acorn in Polish). I have also thought that the name might be a
transcription error.

Does anyone have any other thoughts on the surname Zelat?
Could it have any other meaning that would attach the word to
a given name and found after that name?

Thank you in advance for your wealth of knowledge and willingness
to share the same.

Allen Kurtz
Mahopac, New York, U.S.A.

Anyone researching people or families in the United States should be
interested in an article in "Vita Brevis," an online publication of
the New England Historical Genealogical Society (NEHGS).

The article, "A game of Telephone," was written by Lindsay Fulton,
NEHGS Director of Research Services. She points out that the
original census enumerations >from 1790 to 1880 were copied
two or three times, with one copy filed with the county and
another with the federal government. The census sheets filed
with the federal government, which are the ones that are today
viewable on microfilm or on genealogical websites, were in
some cases the originals and in other cases the copies; and
there are sometimes differences between the information on
an original sheet and on its corresponding copy.

The article provides some tips to determine whether a particular
sheet being examined is the original or the copy.

The article may be accessed at
http://vita-brevis.org/2016/02/game-of-telephone

Stephen Katz

Researching: KATZ (Novograd-Volynsk, Ukraine and Boston, Mass.);
TEPPER (Novograd-Volynsk and Rovno (Rivne), Ukraine, and New York City);
KAPLAN (Stakliskes, Lithuania, and central Mass.);
KABACHNIK (Butrymonis, Lithuania);
VITKIN (Kaunas, Lithuania, and Boston,Mass.);
GREENBERG/BLOCH, Vilna, Lithuania, and Boston, Mass.);
BLUM, LEVINE (Boston, Mass.)

www.stephenrkatz.com

Anyone researching people or families in the United States should be
interested in an article in "Vita Brevis," an online publication of
the New England Historical Genealogical Society (NEHGS).

The article, "A game of Telephone," was written by Lindsay Fulton,
NEHGS Director of Research Services. She points out that the
original census enumerations >from 1790 to 1880 were copied
two or three times, with one copy filed with the county and
another with the federal government. The census sheets filed
with the federal government, which are the ones that are today
viewable on microfilm or on genealogical websites, were in
some cases the originals and in other cases the copies; and
there are sometimes differences between the information on
an original sheet and on its corresponding copy.

The article provides some tips to determine whether a particular
sheet being examined is the original or the copy.

The article may be accessed at
http://vita-brevis.org/2016/02/game-of-telephone

Stephen Katz

Researching: KATZ (Novograd-Volynsk, Ukraine and Boston, Mass.);
TEPPER (Novograd-Volynsk and Rovno (Rivne), Ukraine, and New York City);
KAPLAN (Stakliskes, Lithuania, and central Mass.);
KABACHNIK (Butrymonis, Lithuania);
VITKIN (Kaunas, Lithuania, and Boston,Mass.);
GREENBERG/BLOCH, Vilna, Lithuania, and Boston, Mass.);
BLUM, LEVINE (Boston, Mass.)

www.stephenrkatz.com

Dear researchers,

Here is an update for the month of February 2016 for Bessarabia SIG.
See the details at the "What's New" section of our web site.

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:
--Update the list of Jewish Cemeteries in Bessarabia and Moldova. We have
now 30 cemeteries indexed and/or photographed >from total of 73. See all the
details, with links to Cemetery reports, and lists of Unknown Graves.

--Briceni Jewish Cemetery was photographed and indexed. 2537 records with
2360 photos were sent to JOWBR. See the Briceni Cemetery Report maps,
photos, link to 143 Unknown grave photos.
=I was ask yesterday by several people if the "offer for Briceni cemetery"
is still valid? Yes, for a donation of $100 to Bessarabia-Moldova Cemetery
project you are going to receive complete list of Briceni Jewish Cemetery,
and if you find your relatives, the photos will be send to you.

Bessarabia Databases. Updates:
1901 Klyachkin All-Russia Business Directory
Jewish entries for Bessarabia and Portions of Transnistria Under
Jurisdiction of the Bessarabia Special Interest Group was created and sent
to JewishGen. The database includes 544 Jewish entries >from 31 towns. Here
are the introductory pages - PDF. The records will appear at the JewishGen
at next JewishGen update. The Directory records are available at Bessarabia
SIG for now.

Genealogical Conferences.
Section was updated with Bessarabia SIG session we are going to hear this
summer in Seattle at 36th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy

KehilaLinks websites. Both Kiliya and Akkerman (now in Ukraine) websites
are now available.

Archives, Libraries, Museums. New additions:
New York Public Library - Bessarabia-Moldova Jewish Research.
Find catalogue of Bessarabian/Moldovan material at NYPL

Send your comments, suggestions, critique, new ideas, proposals of how to
make our Bessarabia group better.

Thank you all,
Yefim Kogan
Bessarabia SIG Coordinator
Researching KOGAN, SPIVAK, KHAYMOVICH, SRULEVICH, LEVIT in Kaushany,
Bendery, Tarutino, Akkerman, Kiliya - all in Bessarabia, KHAIMOVICH in
Galatz, Romania, KOGAN in Dubossary, Moldova, SRULEVICH in Shanghai, China

Dear researchers,

Here is an update for the month of February 2016 for Bessarabia SIG.
See the details at the "What's New" section of our web site.

Jewish Cemeteries. Updates:
--Update the list of Jewish Cemeteries in Bessarabia and Moldova. We have
now 30 cemeteries indexed and/or photographed >from total of 73. See all the
details, with links to Cemetery reports, and lists of Unknown Graves.

--Briceni Jewish Cemetery was photographed and indexed. 2537 records with
2360 photos were sent to JOWBR. See the Briceni Cemetery Report maps,
photos, link to 143 Unknown grave photos.
=I was ask yesterday by several people if the "offer for Briceni cemetery"
is still valid? Yes, for a donation of $100 to Bessarabia-Moldova Cemetery
project you are going to receive complete list of Briceni Jewish Cemetery,
and if you find your relatives, the photos will be send to you.

Bessarabia Databases. Updates:
1901 Klyachkin All-Russia Business Directory
Jewish entries for Bessarabia and Portions of Transnistria Under
Jurisdiction of the Bessarabia Special Interest Group was created and sent
to JewishGen. The database includes 544 Jewish entries >from 31 towns. Here
are the introductory pages - PDF. The records will appear at the JewishGen
at next JewishGen update. The Directory records are available at Bessarabia
SIG for now.

Genealogical Conferences.
Section was updated with Bessarabia SIG session we are going to hear this
summer in Seattle at 36th International Conference on Jewish Genealogy

KehilaLinks websites. Both Kiliya and Akkerman (now in Ukraine) websites
are now available.

Archives, Libraries, Museums. New additions:
New York Public Library - Bessarabia-Moldova Jewish Research.
Find catalogue of Bessarabian/Moldovan material at NYPL

Send your comments, suggestions, critique, new ideas, proposals of how to
make our Bessarabia group better.

Thank you all,
Yefim Kogan
Bessarabia SIG Coordinator
Researching KOGAN, SPIVAK, KHAYMOVICH, SRULEVICH, LEVIT in Kaushany,
Bendery, Tarutino, Akkerman, Kiliya - all in Bessarabia, KHAIMOVICH in
Galatz, Romania, KOGAN in Dubossary, Moldova, SRULEVICH in Shanghai, China

Dear coleagues,
I am searching for the birth certificate and the emigration papers of my
father Owszija CZACKIS, born in September 1909 in Kremenets, who arrived to
Buenos Aires, Argentina in Nov 1928. Unfortunately, the Mormon records stop
at 1905, and I am told that in Kremenets I´ll find no administrative papers

from the Polish times.

I´ll appreciate any comments on the subject

Pedro Czackis - Buenos Aires - Argentina
bupkes@...

Dear coleagues,
I am searching for the birth certificate and the emigration papers of my
father Owszija CZACKIS, born in September 1909 in Kremenets, who arrived to
Buenos Aires, Argentina in Nov 1928. Unfortunately, the Mormon records stop
at 1905, and I am told that in Kremenets I´ll find no administrative papers

from the Polish times.

I´ll appreciate any comments on the subject

Pedro Czackis - Buenos Aires - Argentina
bupkes@...

Hello,

the "Vereinigung fuer die Heimatkunde im Landkreis Saarlouis e.V." has
published the people of Saarlouis >from 1680 to 1902:

KLAUCK Hans Peter: Die Einwohner der Stadt Saarlouis 1680-1715, 2 vol.
-: Die Einwohner von Saarlouis 1716 - 1740, 2 vol.
-: Die Einwohner von Saarlouis, 1741 - 1789, 3 vol.
-: Die Einwohner der Stadt Saarlouis (Sarrelibre) 1790 - 1815, 3 vol.
-: Die Einwohner von Saarlouis 1816 - 1850, 2 vol.
-: Die Einwohner der Stadt Saarlouis 1851 - 1902, 3 vol.

See http://www.vfh-saarlouis.de/Familienbuecher.html

Contact the author of the books via his homepage:
http://www.hpklauck.de/

Regards Tobias A. Kemper kemper@...

Hello,

the "Vereinigung fuer die Heimatkunde im Landkreis Saarlouis e.V." has
published the people of Saarlouis >from 1680 to 1902:

KLAUCK Hans Peter: Die Einwohner der Stadt Saarlouis 1680-1715, 2 vol.
-: Die Einwohner von Saarlouis 1716 - 1740, 2 vol.
-: Die Einwohner von Saarlouis, 1741 - 1789, 3 vol.
-: Die Einwohner der Stadt Saarlouis (Sarrelibre) 1790 - 1815, 3 vol.
-: Die Einwohner von Saarlouis 1816 - 1850, 2 vol.
-: Die Einwohner der Stadt Saarlouis 1851 - 1902, 3 vol.

See http://www.vfh-saarlouis.de/Familienbuecher.html

Contact the author of the books via his homepage:
http://www.hpklauck.de/

Regards Tobias A. Kemper kemper@...

I have reposted a letter on Viewmate at the following address.. I am requesting a
translation >from the German.

This is the fifth of 9 letters that my uncle Heinz Mordechai GLASER sent >from Kibbutz
Ain Charod.

He came to Palestine in 1938 >from Austria, with Youth Aliya. They went to Ain Charod
for their training.

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM44268

Thanks

Rick Glaser
Owings Mills MD

I have not received a digest since this past Friday. Anyone else having
a problem?

Karen Sanders
West Haven, CT

Dear Friends,

Beginning this Friday, we will resume posting a brief spotlight

from a Yizkor Book that JewishGen has translated. As many of you

know, the Yizkor books contain vivid accounts of topics ranging

from communal daily life, to the struggles faced during the darkest

days of the Holocaust. If you are not familiar with the JewishGen
Yizkor Book Project, please click here:
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I would like to thank Mr. Bruce Drake (Silver Spring, MD), for
volunteering his time to do this each week. Mr. Drake has been involved
with JewishGen since 2006. He is currently coordinating the translation
of the Kovel, Poland Yizkor Book (more details here:
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/projectdesc/yb_kovel.html)
while also overseeing the Voynilov, Ukraine KehilaLinks site
(http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/voynilov/voynilov.html).

We hope that these weekly spotlights will provide a greater
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profound appreciation for the heritage we share as part of the
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If anyone would like to reach Mr. Drake directly, with comments or
suggestions for future spotlights, please email him at:
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Avraham Groll

I have not received a digest since this past Friday. Anyone else having
a problem?

Karen Sanders
West Haven, CT