Nancy,

Towns are Sveksna and Zemaiciu Naumiestis, both located within Silute region of Kaunas (Kovno).
Zemaiciu Namiestis was known as Neustadt or Nowe miasto In Yidish and Polish.

Alexander Sharon

Long-time Szczuczyn and area researchers will be pleased to learn that Jewish Records Indexing - Poland  https://jri-poland.org// has undertaken a huge new “Phase 3” project to fully extract all available Szczuczyn birth, marriage and death records from 1826 to 1914 in the Łomża branch of the Polish State Archives. In addition, we created indices (with fathers’ names) for the many years of later records. A number of years of Alegata records are also included.

 

We have received about 5000 fully translated records today with dates from 1871-1910. Not all years survived.

 

     Births – 1871-1875, 1880-1906

     Marriages – 1871, 1879-1910

     Deaths – 1871, 1882-1906

     Marriage Alegata 1911-1912

 

The translator is working on the next batch of records now and the next update is expected late this month.

 

As Town Leader, it would be my pleasure to send you a full description of the Phase 3 project and explain how you will be able to obtain these extracts as well as digital images of your family records up to 1914, before they go online.

 

I look forward to hearing from you.

Top town surnames in alphabetical order:

 

ARONSON

BERENSON

BERENSZTEJN

BERGSZTEJN

BERMAN

BERYS

BURSZTYNOWICZ

DENEMARK

DORF

EDELSON

ELTERMAN

FINKIELSZTEJN

FRIDMAN

FRYDMAN

GAMZON

GERZON

GOLDA

GOLDFARB

GROSMAN

GUTMAN

JOZEFSON

KACPER

KACPROWSKA

KACPROWSKI

KAJMAN

KARMIN

KULBERZ

LEWINOWICZ

LIBERMAN

LICHSZTEJN

MILSZTEJN

NEJMARK

OROWICZ

PALENBAUM

REMBA

ROZEN

ROZENBAUM

ROZENSZTEJN

ROZENTAL

RUBINSZTEJN

SALAMON

SAWICKI

SOSNOWSKI

SZEJNBERG

TETENBAUM

TUTELMAN

ZEJFERT

 

 

Aaron Roetenberg

aroetenberg@...

Town Leader, Szczuczyn Phase 3 extraction project.

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I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation of the first entry. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM97261
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you very much.

Kindest regards,

Avi Lichtenstein
North Bethesda, MD

KANEFSKY -Burty, Ukraine

In general, airline passenger lists are included in "immigration" or "passenger lists" collections on the major genealogy websites.  For example, the manifest for an uncle of mine that flew from Havana to Key West, Florida can be found in the "Florida, U.S., Arriving and Departing Passenger and Crew Lists, 1898-1963" collection on Ancestry.  The original source was "Passenger & Crew Manifests of Airplanes Arriving at Key West, Florida, Feb 1946 - Jul 1948, Dec 1957 - Nov 1969", NARA Micropublication A3580. NAI 2790556.

Regards,
David Oseas

Researching:
HYMAN/HEYMAN/HEIMOWITS/CHAJMOVITS: Zemplen-Dobra, Hungary > New York;  KLEIN: Satoraljaujhely (Ujhely), Hungary > New York > Los Angeles
KRONOWITH: Hungary > New York;  OSEAS/OSIAS/OSIASI/OZIAS: Iasi, Romania > Chicago > Milwaukee > Los Angeles
SCHECHTER/SHEKTER: Kishinev, Bessarabia > New York;  SHERMAN: Iasi, Romania > New York > Los Angeles
STRUL:  Iasi, Romania > Haifa, Israel;  WICHMAN: Syczkowo (Bobruisk), Belarus > Milwaukee > Los Angeles

A photo of my grandmother contains some handwriting in German script for which I need a translation.  I know it states Hanna Moritz Juli 1922, but I cannot make out the words preceding that.  You can view the back of the postcard at https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM97221

Thanks.
Elaine Berghausen
Sacramento CA

Nancy,

Perhaps this one in Lithuania for the town on the 2nd census line, info found at:
https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp

186.0 miles WNW of Vilnius 54°41' N 25°19' E

Nemirseta, Nemeržetà, Nėmeržata, Nimmersatt, Nemerzhara, Nemerzatė

The JewishGen Gazetteer
https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp
has a few possibilities for "Sverna" when doing a soundex search.

Svirniai, Svirnay, Svirni  110.6 miles NW of Vilnius 54°41' N 25°19' E
Severėnai 129.9 miles WNW of Vilnius 54°41' N 25°19' E
And, other possibilities also.

However, none of these towns are near Kovno.

You may want to search for other documents that may list these town names more clearly, such as naturalization.

I have seen it on the All Lithuania Database

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Diane Jacobs, Somerset, New Jersey

Many thanks to Joel, Steve and all the volunteers working on this and other projects that benefit all of us. 

Question: Can the archives be searched by address until indexed by name?
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Barbara Sloan
Conway, SC

I'm trying to find a GROSSMAN family living at 9 Mickiewicza Street in Lodz in the 1920s.  Parents were Aron GROSSMAN (son of Moses and Liba, b. July 22 1881 in Strykow possibly buried in Lodz cemetery 1938) and Chana Blima BESSER (daughter of Chemia and Devorah, b. June 5 1885 in Belchatow; she was a sister of my ggm Liebe/Lena BESSER). 

Their children living with them listed on their 1920s Lodz registration card were Israel (b. June 8 1907 Lodz),  Feivel (b. March 4 1909 Lodz), Chaim (b. April 12 1913 Lodz), Chemia (b. July 12 1918 Lodz), and Alter Lieb (b. July 10 1920 Lodz). 

I've searched all the usual databases and can't find any clear hits.  Family lore is that all may have been murdered in the Shoah, because there was no contact after the late 1930s with my immediate family living in upstate New York.  If all were lost in Shoah, though, I haven't found them in the Yad Vashem or other online Shoah databases.  They're all on my Ancestry.com tree but no "hints" have come up.

Thanks for any help,

Joe Lonstein
East Lansing, MI, USA

I know about Ellis Island and Castle Island records, but what about the immigration records of people who flew to the U.S. after World War II?  Is there any way of tracing their voyages to their new homes?

Thanks.
Susan Lauscher
Northglenn, CO

Hi All

Another book by same author about leaving Lithuania then to England then to South Africa:

·       GORDON, G. 2021. Full circle: a novel. NY: Judaica Press.

Regards
Juan-Paul Burke
paysach12@...

here you will find the book
https://hebrewbooks.org/4503

Yehuda Aharon Horovitz

In response to Sue Fifer, my son was married on 4th September 2021 - he had a civil wedding in a garden on a rural organic farm in the English Lake District, and the meal after was in the farm barn  The local Registrar explained there were no official wedding registers any more as it was all online now. However,  local registrars were now introducing their own paper versions (for a fee) and this was what was signed, and appeared in the wedding photographs. 

Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK

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Hello I am looking for an eventual jewish background. My grandmothers father (Ignatz Almuslin b 1829) emmigrated from the town Neusatz, Hungary, now Novi Sad, Serbia He emiigrated to Seden in the middle of the 1900 century. There have been a dispute wether he is my grandmothers father or not. To know more about this I have taken a dnatest (MyHeritage) which shows the following: 59% scandianvian, 20% east easteurope, 8% ashkenazi-jude, 7% balt, 6% others like 4% iberian. Ignatz was of jewish and probably of sephardic origin. 
My grandmothers mother have only swedish relatives far back. My grandfather, that is my fathers father, comes from the north of Germany. His ancestors is located in the area of Stralsund with no known connection to jewish relatives. My mothers relatives are all swedish far back in time.
I am now interested to know for an eventual jewish background. What does the result from the dnatest tell me in connection to that question? To know more perhaps an Ytest is more suitable?

Shalom friends, 

This Geni profile cites the "1813 Vilna City Revision List" as a source for Miriam Mirel Klatzki. 

I would be very grateful if someone could advise me as to where I can find it. 

Shavua tov, 

Yoav Aran
London