Hi, all--I'd posted more than a year ago about my search for a
great-great-grandfather, Henry GOTTLIEB, whose 1950 death certificate shows
that he'd died at this hospital. Unfortuantely, I discovered that this was
a mental institution. He'd been there for two months. In any case, I've
been trying to find his final resting place. There are marvelous records of
Jewish burials in the Newark area, but he unfortunately is not listed among
them.

When I'd originally posted, it was suggested that the death certificate
notation of him being buried at "Hebrew-Cem" (which I've been unable to
identify in any records, by calling the modern incarnation of the funeral
home that handled his burial, and by consulting with a business that
oversees a number of Jewish cemeteries in the area today) might have
potentially referred to a section of a cemetery on the old Overbrook
Hospital grounds.

I've called the hospital and was told that there was no such cemetery.
That very well may be the case, but I thought that I might post here one
last time about this in case anyone knows that to be untrue or might have
any other insight.

Thank you!

David Perle
Washington, DC
Researching PRZEGRODA, PERLE, BLUM (Cleveland), ARONOWSKY, SMOLEY/SMOLA...

Hi, all--I'd posted more than a year ago about my search for a
great-great-grandfather, Henry GOTTLIEB, whose 1950 death certificate shows
that he'd died at this hospital. Unfortuantely, I discovered that this was
a mental institution. He'd been there for two months. In any case, I've
been trying to find his final resting place. There are marvelous records of
Jewish burials in the Newark area, but he unfortunately is not listed among
them.

When I'd originally posted, it was suggested that the death certificate
notation of him being buried at "Hebrew-Cem" (which I've been unable to
identify in any records, by calling the modern incarnation of the funeral
home that handled his burial, and by consulting with a business that
oversees a number of Jewish cemeteries in the area today) might have
potentially referred to a section of a cemetery on the old Overbrook
Hospital grounds.

I've called the hospital and was told that there was no such cemetery.
That very well may be the case, but I thought that I might post here one
last time about this in case anyone knows that to be untrue or might have
any other insight.

Thank you!

David Perle
Washington, DC
Researching PRZEGRODA, PERLE, BLUM (Cleveland), ARONOWSKY, SMOLEY/SMOLA...

Looking for a volunteer to take pictures of stone in a family circle
of some 10-15 graves in one area at the New Montefiore, West Babylon,
NY.

--
Neil Rosenstein

Looking for a volunteer to take pictures of stone in a family circle
of some 10-15 graves in one area at the New Montefiore, West Babylon,
NY.

--
Neil Rosenstein

Hi all,

I just wanted to share a FamilyFinder success story I had (the latest of
many over the years).

I recently received an email >from someone in Russia looking for his Kowarski
family >from Vilna. After going back and forth to get more information about
his family it turns out that his mother was my grandmother's 1st cousin. She
(the cousin) was one of 6 siblings and had thought she was the only one to
survive the Holocaust. It turns out that a sister and brother had also
survived and I am in touch with both their families. Unfortunately all 3
siblings have already passed away but now the first cousins are going to
meet for the first time. All because of a posting on JGFF.

Truly amazing.

Michael Trapunsky
trapunsky@...

Hi all,

I just wanted to share a FamilyFinder success story I had (the latest of
many over the years).

I recently received an email >from someone in Russia looking for his Kowarski
family >from Vilna. After going back and forth to get more information about
his family it turns out that his mother was my grandmother's 1st cousin. She
(the cousin) was one of 6 siblings and had thought she was the only one to
survive the Holocaust. It turns out that a sister and brother had also
survived and I am in touch with both their families. Unfortunately all 3
siblings have already passed away but now the first cousins are going to
meet for the first time. All because of a posting on JGFF.

Truly amazing.

Michael Trapunsky
trapunsky@...

Looking for a volunteer to take pictures of stone in a family circle
of some 10-15 graves in one area at the New Montefiore, West Babylon,
NY.

--
Neil Rosenstein

My wife's great-grandfather Philip LEVINE was born May 10, 1883
in Rezekne, Latvia, son of Mosche LEVINE and Sara Rivka KOMORUS.
Sara was the daughter of David KOMORUS. I haven't had any luck
finding the name KOMORUS in Latvia and think it might be the
same as KAMRASS/CAMRASS/KAMARASSE. Anyone else have any thoughts
or suggestions?

Sara's profile is at
http://www.geni.com/people/Sarah-Levine/6000000002765623818

Randy Schoenberg
Los Angeles, CA

My wife's great-grandfather Philip LEVINE was born May 10, 1883
in Rezekne, Latvia, son of Mosche LEVINE and Sara Rivka KOMORUS.
Sara was the daughter of David KOMORUS. I haven't had any luck
finding the name KOMORUS in Latvia and think it might be the
same as KAMRASS/CAMRASS/KAMARASSE. Anyone else have any thoughts
or suggestions?

Sara's profile is at
http://www.geni.com/people/Sarah-Levine/6000000002765623818

Randy Schoenberg
Los Angeles, CA

Looking for a volunteer to take pictures of stone in a family circle
of some 10-15 graves in one area at the New Montefiore, West Babylon,
NY.

--
Neil Rosenstein

Dear all who are interested and have roots in Iasi,

I am looking for the family of Salomon (aka Shuli) Leizer (b/ 1916) who
came to Palestine in 1941 and volunteered to serve in the British Army
(in the Jewish Brigade). He fell in the battles of the Brigade in North
Italy in Spring 1945.

I would love to hear >from any one with any connection to a LEIZER family

from Iasi

Thank you
Yael Driver (London)

Dear all who are interested and have roots in Iasi,

I am looking for the family of Salomon (aka Shuli) Leizer (b/ 1916) who
came to Palestine in 1941 and volunteered to serve in the British Army
(in the Jewish Brigade). He fell in the battles of the Brigade in North
Italy in Spring 1945.

I would love to hear >from any one with any connection to a LEIZER family

from Iasi

Thank you
Yael Driver (London)

Subj: ViewMate translation request - Polish

I've posted three vital (birth) records in a language that is either Polish, or Russian, although I have been told it is neither. I am hopeful for a full translation of each one. The birth records are >from Warsaw. They are on ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM37279

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM37278
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM37277Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much.
Jodi Hom

Subj: ViewMate translation request - Polish

I've posted three vital (birth) records in a language that is either Polish, or Russian, although I have been told it is neither. I am hopeful for a full translation of each one. The birth records are >from Warsaw. They are on ViewMate at the following address ...
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM37279

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM37278
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM37277Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much.
Jodi Hom

A gold mine of genealogy treasures is the Allen County (Fort Wayne) Indiana
Library and its Genealogy Center. The Genealogy Center has such an extensive
collection that both the NGS and FGS have held their annual conferences in Ft.
Wayne so the conference attendees may experience the wealth of genealogical
gems they have which includes materials worldwide not just Northeastern
Indiana. The website for the genealogy center is:
http://www.genealogycenter.org/. Some of their collection is online. The
Center has a number of librarians all of whom are also genealogists. Curt
Witcher is the genealogy center manager and in full disclosure I serve with
him on the Records Preservation and Access Committee (RPAC) as he is also an
FGS Vice President and one of the FGS representatives on RPAC.

Curt writes a newsletter which unfortunately is not linked on the library
website. It is called Genealogy Gems and it relates to the resources one may find
at the library. To subscribe to "Genealogy Gems," simply use your browser to go
to the website: www.GenealogyCenter.org . Scroll to the bottom, click on E-zine,
and fill out the form. You will be notified with a confirmation email.

The reason I am writing about the Genealogy Center and Genealogy Gems today is an
article entitled: Using Records in Tandem by Dawne Slater-Putt,CG(SM)- one of the
Center's genealogy librarians. The article is all about cemetery books and the
gold mine they can be for genealogists. If the cemetery book is arranged as the
headstones are in the cemetery-not alphabetical-then it is possible to see who else
is buried in the same lot or row as our ancestors and identify potential previously
unknown relatives. Other types of records that can be used in tandem with cemetery
transcription books, such as death records, funeral home records and those
that are >from religious organizations.

The example used in the article are cemetery transcription books for Allen
County, IN where the Wayne Township volume includes the transcriptions for
the Orthodox Jewish Cemetery on Old Decatur Road. An example of the
information contained in the transcription book is: "In memory of: Sabine
Gartner, Otto Gartner, Tea Gartner, and relatives killed in Concentration
camp," as inscribed on the reverse side of the marker of Gertrude R.
Gartner, Frankfort, Germany, 1921-1975, and Kurt Gartner, Ruppinchteroth,
Germany, 1918-.

A complementary resource for the Orthodox translations at the Genealogy
Center, is a volume titled "Orthodox Jewish Cemetery Records, Fort Wayne,
Indiana" (977.202 F77foj). This book is not indexed, but if your ancestor's
name appears in the Orthodox Jewish Cemetery listings in the Wayne Township
cemetery transcription volume, or was a member of the Jewish community in
Allen County, it might be worth your time look through the book to see what
additional information you might glean. It is likely that there are at least
some people in the cemetery record book whose names do not appear in the
cemetery transcription volume.

The Genealogy Center also has numerous volumes of photocopied, transcribed
or abstracted funeral home or mortuary records, including D. O. McComb,
Klaehn and Mungovan, among others. Fort Wayne's Jewish residents have not
traditionally used one particular funeral home, so records of the
individuals buried in the Orthodox Jewish Cemetery might be found in any of
the several funeral home record volumes in the collection.

The Genealogy Center also has a series of record books for the Congregation
Achduth Vesholom of Fort Wayne, the oldest synagogue in the state of Indiana
(977.202 F77foje). This synagogue is a Reformed congregation and the
cemetery noted at the beginning of this article was founded as an Orthodox
Cemetery. However, the cemetery is now known as the Fort Wayne Jewish
Cemetery and is open to all Jews and not affiliated with either of Fort
Wayne's Jewish congregations, according to the website of The Temple -
Congregation Achduth Vesholom at
www.templecav.org/Campus5200/CampusPartners/tabid/4507/Default.aspx
Note: If you are not in the Ft Wayne area the Genealogy Center does provide
research services for a minimal fee. See: http://tinyurl.com/nxly5rp
Original url:
http://www.genealogycenter.org/docs/default-source/resources/researchservicesrequest.pdf?sfvrsn=2

The Genealogy Center also has copies of the original internment books and
abstracted burial records covering particular periods of years for
Lindenwood Cemetery, another burial place for Fort Wayne's Jewish community.
in its collection, as well as a database on the website at
www.GenealogyCenter.info/search_linden.php

Note: If you are planning a trip to the Genealogy Center, the Allen County
Library had a main center and 13 branches. The Genealogy Center is located
in the Main Library. Directions and a map are included on the aforementioned
Genealogy Center website.

I have no affiliation with the Allen County Library or the Genealogy Center
and am posting this solely for the information of the reader.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

A gold mine of genealogy treasures is the Allen County (Fort Wayne) Indiana
Library and its Genealogy Center. The Genealogy Center has such an extensive
collection that both the NGS and FGS have held their annual conferences in Ft.
Wayne so the conference attendees may experience the wealth of genealogical
gems they have which includes materials worldwide not just Northeastern
Indiana. The website for the genealogy center is:
http://www.genealogycenter.org/. Some of their collection is online. The
Center has a number of librarians all of whom are also genealogists. Curt
Witcher is the genealogy center manager and in full disclosure I serve with
him on the Records Preservation and Access Committee (RPAC) as he is also an
FGS Vice President and one of the FGS representatives on RPAC.

Curt writes a newsletter which unfortunately is not linked on the library
website. It is called Genealogy Gems and it relates to the resources one may find
at the library. To subscribe to "Genealogy Gems," simply use your browser to go
to the website: www.GenealogyCenter.org . Scroll to the bottom, click on E-zine,
and fill out the form. You will be notified with a confirmation email.

The reason I am writing about the Genealogy Center and Genealogy Gems today is an
article entitled: Using Records in Tandem by Dawne Slater-Putt,CG(SM)- one of the
Center's genealogy librarians. The article is all about cemetery books and the
gold mine they can be for genealogists. If the cemetery book is arranged as the
headstones are in the cemetery-not alphabetical-then it is possible to see who else
is buried in the same lot or row as our ancestors and identify potential previously
unknown relatives. Other types of records that can be used in tandem with cemetery
transcription books, such as death records, funeral home records and those
that are >from religious organizations.

The example used in the article are cemetery transcription books for Allen
County, IN where the Wayne Township volume includes the transcriptions for
the Orthodox Jewish Cemetery on Old Decatur Road. An example of the
information contained in the transcription book is: "In memory of: Sabine
Gartner, Otto Gartner, Tea Gartner, and relatives killed in Concentration
camp," as inscribed on the reverse side of the marker of Gertrude R.
Gartner, Frankfort, Germany, 1921-1975, and Kurt Gartner, Ruppinchteroth,
Germany, 1918-.

A complementary resource for the Orthodox translations at the Genealogy
Center, is a volume titled "Orthodox Jewish Cemetery Records, Fort Wayne,
Indiana" (977.202 F77foj). This book is not indexed, but if your ancestor's
name appears in the Orthodox Jewish Cemetery listings in the Wayne Township
cemetery transcription volume, or was a member of the Jewish community in
Allen County, it might be worth your time look through the book to see what
additional information you might glean. It is likely that there are at least
some people in the cemetery record book whose names do not appear in the
cemetery transcription volume.

The Genealogy Center also has numerous volumes of photocopied, transcribed
or abstracted funeral home or mortuary records, including D. O. McComb,
Klaehn and Mungovan, among others. Fort Wayne's Jewish residents have not
traditionally used one particular funeral home, so records of the
individuals buried in the Orthodox Jewish Cemetery might be found in any of
the several funeral home record volumes in the collection.

The Genealogy Center also has a series of record books for the Congregation
Achduth Vesholom of Fort Wayne, the oldest synagogue in the state of Indiana
(977.202 F77foje). This synagogue is a Reformed congregation and the
cemetery noted at the beginning of this article was founded as an Orthodox
Cemetery. However, the cemetery is now known as the Fort Wayne Jewish
Cemetery and is open to all Jews and not affiliated with either of Fort
Wayne's Jewish congregations, according to the website of The Temple -
Congregation Achduth Vesholom at
www.templecav.org/Campus5200/CampusPartners/tabid/4507/Default.aspx
Note: If you are not in the Ft Wayne area the Genealogy Center does provide
research services for a minimal fee. See: http://tinyurl.com/nxly5rp
Original url:
http://www.genealogycenter.org/docs/default-source/resources/researchservicesrequest.pdf?sfvrsn=2

The Genealogy Center also has copies of the original internment books and
abstracted burial records covering particular periods of years for
Lindenwood Cemetery, another burial place for Fort Wayne's Jewish community.
in its collection, as well as a database on the website at
www.GenealogyCenter.info/search_linden.php

Note: If you are planning a trip to the Genealogy Center, the Allen County
Library had a main center and 13 branches. The Genealogy Center is located
in the Main Library. Directions and a map are included on the aforementioned
Genealogy Center website.

I have no affiliation with the Allen County Library or the Genealogy Center
and am posting this solely for the information of the reader.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

I have posted a marriage record for Abram RZEPNIK to Fajga SZTRAJT
on ViewMate. I would greatly appreciate a translation that includes
the names, ages, dates, addresses, occupations, and any other
genealogical information. It is on ViewMate at the following address:
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM37259

Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much,
Alice Klein
La Vista, NE

Researching:
ROSEN/ROER, ROSENBERG: Poland
HIRSCH/GIRSHOVITCH: Lithuania
RZEPNIK, SZULKLEJNOT, GLIKMAN, OSMAN: Poland
GLASSMAN, KRENZEL, KATZ, SCHINDLER: Ukraine
GREENSTEIN/GREENSTONE, MARX: Romania

I have posted a marriage record for Abram RZEPNIK to Fajga SZTRAJT
on ViewMate. I would greatly appreciate a translation that includes
the names, ages, dates, addresses, occupations, and any other
genealogical information. It is on ViewMate at the following address:
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM37259

Please respond via the form provided in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much,
Alice Klein
La Vista, NE

Researching:
ROSEN/ROER, ROSENBERG: Poland
HIRSCH/GIRSHOVITCH: Lithuania
RZEPNIK, SZULKLEJNOT, GLIKMAN, OSMAN: Poland
GLASSMAN, KRENZEL, KATZ, SCHINDLER: Ukraine
GREENSTEIN/GREENSTONE, MARX: Romania

I would like some help with translation of a death record in Polish.
It is available on ViewMate at the following address:
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM37270

Please help.

Thank you very much
Amit Naor
Israel

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately or on the ViewMate form.

I would like some help with translation of a death record in Polish.
It is available on ViewMate at the following address:
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM37270

Please help.

Thank you very much
Amit Naor
Israel

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately or on the ViewMate form.