Hi,

I have just noticed on the ALD Part 2 a record (Passport issuance record
- Vidzi Zarasai Kaunas )which might be my great grandfather Shmuel s/o
Girsh Movsha KASSIMOV - KRA/I-208/1/2

I don't remember how I get hold of the record - do I have to write to
the archives?

Thanks in advance
Regards,

Angie Elfassi
Yehud, IsraelSearching:
RAYKH-ZELIGMAN/RICHMAN, Stakliskes, Lithuania/Leeds
COHEN, Sakiai, Lithuania/Leeds
MAGIDOWITZ, Jurbarkas, Lithuania/Leeds
KASSIMOFF, Rezekne, Latvia/Leeds

Hi,

I have just noticed on the ALD Part 2 a record (Passport issuance record
- Vidzi Zarasai Kaunas )which might be my great grandfather Shmuel s/o
Girsh Movsha KASSIMOV - KRA/I-208/1/2

I don't remember how I get hold of the record - do I have to write to
the archives?

Thanks in advance
Regards,

Angie Elfassi
Yehud, IsraelSearching:
RAYKH-ZELIGMAN/RICHMAN, Stakliskes, Lithuania/Leeds
COHEN, Sakiai, Lithuania/Leeds
MAGIDOWITZ, Jurbarkas, Lithuania/Leeds
KASSIMOFF, Rezekne, Latvia/Leeds

We have just uploaded the 1874 Snipiskes Family List with Additional
Revisions in 1879, 1883 and 1884 onto the Vilnius District Research
Group Shutterfly site.

The 1858 Revision List for Snipikes is already part of the All Lithuania
Database. Eighty percent of the surnames on the 1858 Revision List also
appear on the 1874 Family List. This may be the key to follow your
family back in time!

While these translations will eventually be publicly searchable in the
LitvakSIG All Lithuania Database, they are currently available only to
participants in the LitvakSIG Vilnius District Research Group. A
contribution of $100 to LitvakSIG, earmarked for the Vilnius District,
will guarantee you immediate access to all translations of records >from
Vilnius District towns (new and old) through December 31, 2020.

You can see a list of these surnames by downloading the file called
“Extracted Surnames” that is freely available here:
https://vilnius.shutterfly.com/

If you would like to help us continue to translate files in the
Lithuanian Archives (and have immediate access to these records), you
can do so by making a $100 donation to the Vilnius District Research
Group of LitvakSIG here:
https://www.litvaksig.org/membership-and-contributions/join-and-contribute/
and click on the icon for "Research Groups for Districts and Gubernias"
and then pick "Vilnius District."

Peggy Mosinger Freedman
Coordinator, Vilnius District Research Group

We have just uploaded the 1874 Snipiskes Family List with Additional
Revisions in 1879, 1883 and 1884 onto the Vilnius District Research
Group Shutterfly site.

The 1858 Revision List for Snipikes is already part of the All Lithuania
Database. Eighty percent of the surnames on the 1858 Revision List also
appear on the 1874 Family List. This may be the key to follow your
family back in time!

While these translations will eventually be publicly searchable in the
LitvakSIG All Lithuania Database, they are currently available only to
participants in the LitvakSIG Vilnius District Research Group. A
contribution of $100 to LitvakSIG, earmarked for the Vilnius District,
will guarantee you immediate access to all translations of records >from
Vilnius District towns (new and old) through December 31, 2020.

You can see a list of these surnames by downloading the file called
“Extracted Surnames” that is freely available here:
https://vilnius.shutterfly.com/

If you would like to help us continue to translate files in the
Lithuanian Archives (and have immediate access to these records), you
can do so by making a $100 donation to the Vilnius District Research
Group of LitvakSIG here:
https://www.litvaksig.org/membership-and-contributions/join-and-contribute/
and click on the icon for "Research Groups for Districts and Gubernias"
and then pick "Vilnius District."

Peggy Mosinger Freedman
Coordinator, Vilnius District Research Group

Three towns near to each other in the Lublin area of Poland -- Komarow,
Krasnobrod, and Janow Lubelski -- were massacred in the Shoah. We have
established websites for all three towns as follows:

http://chelm.freeyellow.com/komarow.html

http://chelm.freeyellow.com/krasnobrod.html

http://chelm.freeyellow.com/janow.html

The first two are part of the Zamosc network
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zamosc/) and the latter project is part
of the Krasnik network (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Krasnik/) to
memorialize victims of the Shoah.

Aaron Biterman
Milwaukee, WI, USA

For those interested in genetic genealogy, I shall be in the US on a lecture
tour beginning next week. The program will take me to the Jewish genealogical
societies in Philadelphia, Connecticut, Greater Boston, Salt Lake City, Southern
Arizona and Colorado, and other appearances in Palo Alto and Oakland, and the
New England Historic Genealogical Society. I shall also be at RootsTech.

The full schedule appears at
http://www.endogamy-one-family.com/speaking-engagements/

I hope to see some of you there.

Israel Pickholtz
Jerusalem

For those interested in genetic genealogy, I shall be in the US on a lecture
tour beginning next week. The program will take me to the Jewish genealogical
societies in Philadelphia, Connecticut, Greater Boston, Salt Lake City, Southern
Arizona and Colorado, and other appearances in Palo Alto and Oakland, and the
New England Historic Genealogical Society. I shall also be at RootsTech.

The full schedule appears at
http://www.endogamy-one-family.com/speaking-engagements/

I hope to see some of you there.

Israel Pickholtz
Jerusalem

Three towns near to each other in the Lublin area of Poland -- Komarow,
Krasnobrod, and Janow Lubelski -- were massacred in the Shoah. We have
established websites for all three towns as follows:

http://chelm.freeyellow.com/komarow.html

http://chelm.freeyellow.com/krasnobrod.html

http://chelm.freeyellow.com/janow.html

The first two are part of the Zamosc network
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zamosc/) and the latter project is part
of the Krasnik network (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Krasnik/) to
memorialize victims of the Shoah.

Aaron Biterman
Milwaukee, WI, USA

I strongly encourage those who can to attend. Father Debois is
a very special person. He has gone around Eastern Europe commemorating
all the mass killings by the Nazis. Many Jews were victims. Visit his
website. http://www.yahadinunum.org/

See http://www.un.org/en/holocaustremembrance/2016/calendar2016.html
for the UN exhibit info and one can attend the exhibit opening.

Exhibit opens 1/27.

Tony Hausner

I strongly encourage those who can to attend. Father Debois is
a very special person. He has gone around Eastern Europe commemorating
all the mass killings by the Nazis. Many Jews were victims. Visit his
website. http://www.yahadinunum.org/

See http://www.un.org/en/holocaustremembrance/2016/calendar2016.html
for the UN exhibit info and one can attend the exhibit opening.

Exhibit opens 1/27.

Tony Hausner

IGRA has just released new/updated databases and a webinar by the late
Pamela Weisberger on its website. Before viewing the new releases,
please register for free on the IGRA website

http://genealogy.org.il/

New and updated databases to the AID (All Israel Databases):

1) Marriage and Divorce Certificates 1927-1948-Updated
This database includes certificates issued during the British Mandate
to those requesting copies of their certificates. The certificates
include both old and new names (first and last), nationality and
address. Some include information about parents. This is not a list
of certificates issued by the Rabbinate.=20

2) Name Changes in the Palestine Gazette 1921-1948-updated=20
This database includes links to scans of pages of the collection.

3) Name changes in the Official Gazette (Yalkut Ha-pirsumim)
1948 and 1954-Updated 1978-New
This database includes names >from the official Israeli government
collection.

To view the databases, go to http://genealogy.org.il/AID/index.php

Webinar by the late Pamela Weisberger

As a tribute to the memory of Pamela Weisberger, z"l, IGRA has
received permission >from her family to make Pamela's recorded lectures
available to the public. The first lecture/webinar, Chutes and Ladders,
Innovative Approaches to Genealogy, is now available.

To view the webinar go to http://genealogy.org.il/2016/01/15/6670/

Elena Bazes
IGRA Publicity Chairperson

IGRA has just released new/updated databases and a webinar by the late
Pamela Weisberger on its website. Before viewing the new releases,
please register for free on the IGRA website

http://genealogy.org.il/

New and updated databases to the AID (All Israel Databases):

1) Marriage and Divorce Certificates 1927-1948-Updated
This database includes certificates issued during the British Mandate
to those requesting copies of their certificates. The certificates
include both old and new names (first and last), nationality and
address. Some include information about parents. This is not a list
of certificates issued by the Rabbinate.=20

2) Name Changes in the Palestine Gazette 1921-1948-updated=20
This database includes links to scans of pages of the collection.

3) Name changes in the Official Gazette (Yalkut Ha-pirsumim)
1948 and 1954-Updated 1978-New
This database includes names >from the official Israeli government
collection.

To view the databases, go to http://genealogy.org.il/AID/index.php

Webinar by the late Pamela Weisberger

As a tribute to the memory of Pamela Weisberger, z"l, IGRA has
received permission >from her family to make Pamela's recorded lectures
available to the public. The first lecture/webinar, Chutes and Ladders,
Innovative Approaches to Genealogy, is now available.

To view the webinar go to http://genealogy.org.il/2016/01/15/6670/

Elena Bazes
IGRA Publicity Chairperson

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on
ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM44084

Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much.

Brian F. Myron

MODERATOR NOTE: Please remember to sign one's messages with one's full name (if
Brian's name had not been posted with his ViewMate image, this message would have
been sent back to him) for correction.

I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on
ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM44084

Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much.

Brian F. Myron

MODERATOR NOTE: Please remember to sign one's messages with one's full name (if
Brian's name had not been posted with his ViewMate image, this message would have
been sent back to him) for correction.

I have a copy of "Aunt Lil's Famous Tested Recipes," by Lillian Chapman
Gottstein of Los Angeles, California. This copy appears to be her own
copy, since it's stamped with her name and address like a rubber
return-address stamp one would use for correspondence. I'd love to give
this to a member of her family, if any are reading this.

Hilary Henkin
North Hollywood, Calif.

Researching:
Mogilev - BERLIN; BELIISKI; HENKIN - GENKIN; MESCENOKOV; POZ - POZE
Ekaterinoslav - KATZ; LAPIDUS; LAVROTIN - LAVRUTIN - AVRUTIN;
PESACHINSKY; SHIMERNITSKY; STEINHART
Roumania: DONNENFIELD; DOLLINGER; RINCOVER - HARINCOVER; WISENTHAL
Harbin, China: FELDMAN; PENZNER; SREBERK - SCHRIEBER;
Lublin, Poland: KATZ

I have a copy of "Aunt Lil's Famous Tested Recipes," by Lillian Chapman
Gottstein of Los Angeles, California. This copy appears to be her own
copy, since it's stamped with her name and address like a rubber
return-address stamp one would use for correspondence. I'd love to give
this to a member of her family, if any are reading this.

Hilary Henkin
North Hollywood, Calif.

Researching:
Mogilev - BERLIN; BELIISKI; HENKIN - GENKIN; MESCENOKOV; POZ - POZE
Ekaterinoslav - KATZ; LAPIDUS; LAVROTIN - LAVRUTIN - AVRUTIN;
PESACHINSKY; SHIMERNITSKY; STEINHART
Roumania: DONNENFIELD; DOLLINGER; RINCOVER - HARINCOVER; WISENTHAL
Harbin, China: FELDMAN; PENZNER; SREBERK - SCHRIEBER;
Lublin, Poland: KATZ

Is it possible that the town you are looking for is Butrimonys in
Lithuania? According to the JewishGen Communities Database, it was
called Butrimantz in Yiddish. The Trakai District Research Group has
translated records as early as 1816 for Butrimonys.

Peggy Mosinger Freedman

From: Ira H. Levy <iralevy@...>

Is it possible that the town you are looking for is Butrimonys in
Lithuania? According to the JewishGen Communities Database, it was
called Butrimantz in Yiddish. The Trakai District Research Group has
translated records as early as 1816 for Butrimonys.

Peggy Mosinger Freedman

From: Ira H. Levy <iralevy@...>

The primary surnames I've been researching over the years include
KITNICK & KATANICK, KITAJNIK, DVOR & DEVOR >from Berdichev, Zhitomer, &
Dworetz, RUBINSON >from Chernigov & Krolevets, Novgorod Sewersk, &
Odessa;
CHAZANOV >from Nezhin & Sosnitza; ORELOWITZ & ORLOVITZ >from Rakishok;
ORELOWITZ, OLOWITZ, OLWYN >from South Africa & Australia.

Steven Kitnick
Las Vegas, NV
My new Researcher ID # 702382
my current email is StevenKitnick@...

P.S. My old ID was 3334 and defunct email was kitnick@...

MODERATOR NOTE: Welcome back (hard to believe anyone could possibly stay away
that long! ;-)
Please remember that all researched surnames should be placed in upper case
letters. And, if you've not done so already, consider placing your surnames in
the JewishGen Family Finder http://www.jewishgen.org/jgff/

The primary surnames I've been researching over the years include
KITNICK & KATANICK, KITAJNIK, DVOR & DEVOR >from Berdichev, Zhitomer, &
Dworetz, RUBINSON >from Chernigov & Krolevets, Novgorod Sewersk, &
Odessa;
CHAZANOV >from Nezhin & Sosnitza; ORELOWITZ & ORLOVITZ >from Rakishok;
ORELOWITZ, OLOWITZ, OLWYN >from South Africa & Australia.

Steven Kitnick
Las Vegas, NV
My new Researcher ID # 702382
my current email is StevenKitnick@...

P.S. My old ID was 3334 and defunct email was kitnick@...

MODERATOR NOTE: Welcome back (hard to believe anyone could possibly stay away
that long! ;-)
Please remember that all researched surnames should be placed in upper case
letters. And, if you've not done so already, consider placing your surnames in
the JewishGen Family Finder http://www.jewishgen.org/jgff/