Hello all,
I sort of recently found who I believe to be the family of my 2nd
great grandmother's cousin-in-law. I am trying to verify what I have
found. So I was hoping someone out there in GerSig cyberspace
happened to know about the family.

I realize we are not supposed to post whole trees to the list so I
will try to keep what I know brief.

My 2nd GGM's cousin was Siegmund LEVY (>from Duisburg) and he married
Johanna JOSEPHS. According to Geschichte der Duisburger Juden a woman
and Caecillie was her sister. According to various ship manifests I
have found there were other siblings (Ivan and Alma). I then found
them on Geni and it included more siblings. However Johanna is
missing >from that tree.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Steve Jaron, sjaron@gmail.com http://stevejaron.wordpress.com
http://www.facebook.com/stevejaron

Moderator Note: Last names / family names (JOSEPHS & LEVY, for example)
should be typed with all capital letters in email to this and other
JewishGen hosted email lists. *** No other text should be typed with
all capital letters. Not first names, not your name when you sign your
message, not city names or other place names. ****

Hello all,
I sort of recently found who I believe to be the family of my 2nd
great grandmother's cousin-in-law. I am trying to verify what I have
found. So I was hoping someone out there in GerSig cyberspace
happened to know about the family.

I realize we are not supposed to post whole trees to the list so I
will try to keep what I know brief.

My 2nd GGM's cousin was Siegmund LEVY (>from Duisburg) and he married
Johanna JOSEPHS. According to Geschichte der Duisburger Juden a woman
and Caecillie was her sister. According to various ship manifests I
have found there were other siblings (Ivan and Alma). I then found
them on Geni and it included more siblings. However Johanna is
missing >from that tree.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Steve Jaron, sjaron@gmail.com http://stevejaron.wordpress.com
http://www.facebook.com/stevejaron

Moderator Note: Last names / family names (JOSEPHS & LEVY, for example)
should be typed with all capital letters in email to this and other
JewishGen hosted email lists. *** No other text should be typed with
all capital letters. Not first names, not your name when you sign your
message, not city names or other place names. ****

Internet Archive has posted scanned volumes of the 1985 Boston Voter Registration
volumes and placed it on their website. They are posted by year-1985 and by
precinct and as it was copied by OCR which brings along the inherent problems of
finding names "easily". The contributor is the Boston Public Library. There are
556 volumes available. You may access the volumes through two links:

1. http://tinyurl.com/mph3t4g

Original link:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28contributor%3A%22Boston%20Public%20L
ibrary%22%20AND%20format%3Apdf%29%20AND%20-mediatype%3Acollection%20AND%20fi
rstTitle%3AL%20AND%20subject%3A%22List%20of%20Residents%20--%20Massachusetts
%20Boston%22

2. http://tinyurl.com/kqg6f2v

Original link:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28contributor%3A%22Boston%20Public%20L
ibrary%22%20AND%20format%3Apdf%29%20AND%20-mediatype%3Acollection%20AND%20fi
rstTitle%3AL%20AND%20subject%3A%22Voting%20Lists%20--%20Massachusetts%20Bost
on%22

Thank you to David Oseas, JGSCV member and webmaster for bringing this to
our attention.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Internet Archive has posted scanned volumes of the 1985 Boston Voter Registration
volumes and placed it on their website. They are posted by year-1985 and by
precinct and as it was copied by OCR which brings along the inherent problems of
finding names "easily". The contributor is the Boston Public Library. There are
556 volumes available. You may access the volumes through two links:

1. http://tinyurl.com/mph3t4g

Original link:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28contributor%3A%22Boston%20Public%20L
ibrary%22%20AND%20format%3Apdf%29%20AND%20-mediatype%3Acollection%20AND%20fi
rstTitle%3AL%20AND%20subject%3A%22List%20of%20Residents%20--%20Massachusetts
%20Boston%22

2. http://tinyurl.com/kqg6f2v

Original link:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28contributor%3A%22Boston%20Public%20L
ibrary%22%20AND%20format%3Apdf%29%20AND%20-mediatype%3Acollection%20AND%20fi
rstTitle%3AL%20AND%20subject%3A%22Voting%20Lists%20--%20Massachusetts%20Bost
on%22

Thank you to David Oseas, JGSCV member and webmaster for bringing this to
our attention.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Dear Bessarabian researchers,

Month of December at Bessarabia SIG.

You can see all the updates at the "What's New" section of our site.

There are three new articles added to Additional Reading: books, articles
section:

- Alexandr Roitman (historian, gradstudent in Kishinev, Moldova):
"Bessarabian Jews, who are they?"
- Alexandr Roitman: "The process of conversion of the Jewish Population of
Bessarabia, into Christian >from Mozaic religion, in the XIX century."
- Steven Zipperstein: "Rethinking Kishinev: How a Riot Changed 20th-Century
Jewish History".

Thank you to our members who send us links to these articles.

You also can find an enjoy a new collection of photos of Kishinev 150 years
ago! See it at Photo Gallery.

We have started translation of registry in Kishinev Cemetery. First part is

from Cemetery "Doyna", 3227 records were translated by Terry Lasky. The

total number of graves at that cemetery is about 10,000. We also planning
to index and photograph all the graves on that cemetery as well as on other
Main Jewish Cemetery in Kishinev!!

Please 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 Bessarabian researchers,

Month of December at Bessarabia SIG.

You can see all the updates at the "What's New" section of our site.

There are three new articles added to Additional Reading: books, articles
section:

- Alexandr Roitman (historian, gradstudent in Kishinev, Moldova):
"Bessarabian Jews, who are they?"
- Alexandr Roitman: "The process of conversion of the Jewish Population of
Bessarabia, into Christian >from Mozaic religion, in the XIX century."
- Steven Zipperstein: "Rethinking Kishinev: How a Riot Changed 20th-Century
Jewish History".

Thank you to our members who send us links to these articles.

You also can find an enjoy a new collection of photos of Kishinev 150 years
ago! See it at Photo Gallery.

We have started translation of registry in Kishinev Cemetery. First part is

from Cemetery "Doyna", 3227 records were translated by Terry Lasky. The

total number of graves at that cemetery is about 10,000. We also planning
to index and photograph all the graves on that cemetery as well as on other
Main Jewish Cemetery in Kishinev!!

Please 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

The January 12, 2014 Los Angeles Times Travel Section features the Red Star
Line in an article entitled: Next Stop Was America". Two million immigrants
who came to the United States >from Europe >from 1878 to 1934 on ships
operated by the Antwerp-based Red Star Line. Included were Golda Meir,
Albert Einstein and Irving Berlin and many "ordinary folks" including some
of our ancestors. One-fourth of the immigrants that traveled through
Antwerp on the Red-Star line were Jewish.

In addition to information about the original three buildings which house
the new museum, the article talks about the experience the immigrants faced
to get on the ships in Antwerp before being able to sail to North America
and some of the experiences they had on the voyage. The article also has a
gallery of photographs >from the Museum.

To read the article go to: http://tinyurl.com/n5lpsht

The original article may be viewed at:

http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-red-star-line-20140112,0,6654640.story#i
xzz2qE0FF5hr

To access the Red Star Museum website go to: http://www.redstarline.be/en

Thank you to David Oseas. JGSCV member and webmaster for bringing this
article to our attention.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

The January 12, 2014 Los Angeles Times Travel Section features the Red Star
Line in an article entitled: Next Stop Was America". Two million immigrants
who came to the United States >from Europe >from 1878 to 1934 on ships
operated by the Antwerp-based Red Star Line. Included were Golda Meir,
Albert Einstein and Irving Berlin and many "ordinary folks" including some
of our ancestors. One-fourth of the immigrants that traveled through
Antwerp on the Red-Star line were Jewish.

In addition to information about the original three buildings which house
the new museum, the article talks about the experience the immigrants faced
to get on the ships in Antwerp before being able to sail to North America
and some of the experiences they had on the voyage. The article also has a
gallery of photographs >from the Museum.

To read the article go to: http://tinyurl.com/n5lpsht

The original article may be viewed at:

http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-red-star-line-20140112,0,6654640.story#i
xzz2qE0FF5hr

To access the Red Star Museum website go to: http://www.redstarline.be/en

Thank you to David Oseas. JGSCV member and webmaster for bringing this
article to our attention.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

Hi Tom,

Working in Ukraine has been very hard: despite my being fluent in Russian I
have only been able to obtain a couple of documents...

I also saw you research the Susholz family. There was one such family in
Huncovce, Slovakia. Any relation?

regards
Karesz

Karesz Vandor
Hungarian Jewish Genealogist/Historian/Guide

Hungarian Roots
web: www.hungarianroots.com
e-mail: info@hungarianroots.com
cell: +36-30-546-6950

Hi Tom,

Working in Ukraine has been very hard: despite my being fluent in Russian I
have only been able to obtain a couple of documents...

I also saw you research the Susholz family. There was one such family in
Huncovce, Slovakia. Any relation?

regards
Karesz

Karesz Vandor
Hungarian Jewish Genealogist/Historian/Guide

Hungarian Roots
web: www.hungarianroots.com
e-mail: info@hungarianroots.com
cell: +36-30-546-6950

I found the given name Khlonka on a Russian language revision list. It's not
clear to me whether the name is male or female. Normally I would think of it as a
female name, but the context in the document is the father's name of another
person.

Has anybody seen this name before?

David J Ellis
Natick, MA 01760
djemkitso@verizon.net

I found the given name Khlonka on a Russian language revision list. It's not
clear to me whether the name is male or female. Normally I would think of it as a
female name, but the context in the document is the father's name of another
person.

Has anybody seen this name before?

David J Ellis
Natick, MA 01760
djemkitso@verizon.net

Sheila: 351 Harrison Ave, Boston was the site of Joseph B. Altman's ticket agency
business. Tickets were for ship and for railroad travel. RR tickets would
be purchased by relatives and held in the name of arriving immigrants for further
travel to their ultimate destination. There were two other of these agents in
Boston. A small but significant number of immigrants used these addresses as their
destinations.

When your great-uncle arrived he may have written the ticket agency as his
immediate destination, but it was only to pick up a ticket.

David Rosen
Boston, MA

Sheila Coyne wrote:

Sheila: 351 Harrison Ave, Boston was the site of Joseph B. Altman's ticket agency
business. Tickets were for ship and for railroad travel. RR tickets would
be purchased by relatives and held in the name of arriving immigrants for further
travel to their ultimate destination. There were two other of these agents in
Boston. A small but significant number of immigrants used these addresses as their
destinations.

When your great-uncle arrived he may have written the ticket agency as his
immediate destination, but it was only to pick up a ticket.

David Rosen
Boston, MA

Sheila Coyne wrote:

The Kovner Folksblat may be found at:
YIVO, NY Public Library, Library of Congress, and Johns Hopkins,
Harvard, and Stanford libraries

Bob Friedman
Brooklyn, NY

I found the given name Khlonka on a Russian language revision list. It's
not clear to me whether the name is male or female. Normally I would think
of it as a female name, but the context in the document is the father's name
of another person.

Has anybody seen this name before?

------
David J Ellis
Natick, MA 01760
djemkitso@verizon.net

The Kovner Folksblat may be found at:
YIVO, NY Public Library, Library of Congress, and Johns Hopkins,
Harvard, and Stanford libraries

Bob Friedman
Brooklyn, NY

I found the given name Khlonka on a Russian language revision list. It's
not clear to me whether the name is male or female. Normally I would think
of it as a female name, but the context in the document is the father's name
of another person.

Has anybody seen this name before?

------
David J Ellis
Natick, MA 01760
djemkitso@verizon.net

The Vilnius District Research Group has received the translations of the
Snipiskes Marriage records for the years 1855 to 1879.

Snipiskes is across the Neris River >from the city of Vilnius.Today, if
you visit, you won’t know when you leave Vilnius and when you enter
Snipiskis unless a resident points it out to you.

This batch of records include 190 marriage records. I noted two records
where the husband had no surname, but the wife did!There are about two
dozen records without a wife’s surname.

The Vilnius DRG translated the Snipiskis birth records two months ago,
and I posted over 1700 surnames found in the birth records at:

https://vilnius.shutterfly.com/surnames

Please note that this webpage includes surnames found in the Nauamiestis
and Vilnius birth records also.Be sure you search all three record sets!

There are 137 surnames in the marriage records that are not in the birth
records. (I used a computer to do this, so I only checked for exact
matches.Some of these names may have phonetic matches in the birth records.)


New Surnames in Snipiskes Marriage Records (not in Birth Records)

ADLER AIZ AVIDON AZRIELS BALOK BANALIN BAROVSKI
BARYSHNIK BERKMAN BERZHAK BIUVIDZISHEK BOVIDISHKI
BROIDE BUIVEDZISHEK BUIVIDSKI BUIVIDZISKI BUSHELIOVICH
BUSHKANITS DIK DINERSHTEIN DUSIATSKI ESTERZON FARBER
FERSHER FIDLER FIRST FLOT GAMBURG GANTEPER
GARNISHT GEGAL GERGUNSKI GETSELOVICH GILTSZEGER
GINBERG GIRES GIRGUSKI GIVOVSKI GOLONB GROZENSKI
GRUZIN GUDVITSKI GUREVICH GURLIN IABLONER ILPERN
IOSELSON IUDES IUNGERMAN KALNER KAMENIKHES KARTUKH
KEVES KHODAS KHOSID KINOLOVKER KLAZ KLEINBERG
KLEINMAN KLIACHKIN KOCHERGINSKI KRAPIVNITSER KRIZHANSKI

LAMANSKI LAMBAM LEIERMEZAK LEIVANT LEIZERIG LEMELMAN
LEVI LIFSICH LIPICHANSKI LIVSHITS MAGOT MAISHEGOLTS
MAIZEGOVER MAKHMUNDO MAKIR MALAKHES MALAT MARGOLIAS
MATSKEVICH MEBIL MIKHELISKI MIKHTOM MIKOLISKI MOSKOR
MOZUR NELKIN NEMENCHINSKI NEMEZER ORANSKI OSHMIAN
PALUSTINSKI PASMAN PESKOVSKI PLAGN PLIAT PODOLSKI
PRUZHAN RADIN REIZENMON RESHANSKI RITVA RONIK
ROZEN RUCHASKI RUDES RUTSAINSKI

SHAIA SHEITOK SHIFRA SHIKH SHNAIDER SHTRASUNSKE
SHUDERVA SHUG SHVADES SHVETSKI SKARBONSKI STADOLNIK
SVADOSHCH TOUBER TSESLER TURETS TURITS VATNER
VERSKAIN VILDSHTEIN VOLKOVISKI VOLOZIN ZADVIN
ZAPOROVSKI ZAVADTSKI ZELKIND ZHAIEV ZIMAN


If you would like to see these translations of the marriage records,
become a qualified donor to the Vilnius District Research Group of
LitvakSIG by donating $100 towards translation of additional records.

You can make your donation at

http://litvaksig.org/contribute

Peggy Mosinger Freedman
Coordinator
Vilnius District Research Group

The Vilnius District Research Group has received the translations of the
Snipiskes Marriage records for the years 1855 to 1879.

Snipiskes is across the Neris River >from the city of Vilnius.Today, if
you visit, you won’t know when you leave Vilnius and when you enter
Snipiskis unless a resident points it out to you.

This batch of records include 190 marriage records. I noted two records
where the husband had no surname, but the wife did!There are about two
dozen records without a wife’s surname.

The Vilnius DRG translated the Snipiskis birth records two months ago,
and I posted over 1700 surnames found in the birth records at:

https://vilnius.shutterfly.com/surnames

Please note that this webpage includes surnames found in the Nauamiestis
and Vilnius birth records also.Be sure you search all three record sets!

There are 137 surnames in the marriage records that are not in the birth
records. (I used a computer to do this, so I only checked for exact
matches.Some of these names may have phonetic matches in the birth records.)


New Surnames in Snipiskes Marriage Records (not in Birth Records)

ADLER AIZ AVIDON AZRIELS BALOK BANALIN BAROVSKI
BARYSHNIK BERKMAN BERZHAK BIUVIDZISHEK BOVIDISHKI
BROIDE BUIVEDZISHEK BUIVIDSKI BUIVIDZISKI BUSHELIOVICH
BUSHKANITS DIK DINERSHTEIN DUSIATSKI ESTERZON FARBER
FERSHER FIDLER FIRST FLOT GAMBURG GANTEPER
GARNISHT GEGAL GERGUNSKI GETSELOVICH GILTSZEGER
GINBERG GIRES GIRGUSKI GIVOVSKI GOLONB GROZENSKI
GRUZIN GUDVITSKI GUREVICH GURLIN IABLONER ILPERN
IOSELSON IUDES IUNGERMAN KALNER KAMENIKHES KARTUKH
KEVES KHODAS KHOSID KINOLOVKER KLAZ KLEINBERG
KLEINMAN KLIACHKIN KOCHERGINSKI KRAPIVNITSER KRIZHANSKI

LAMANSKI LAMBAM LEIERMEZAK LEIVANT LEIZERIG LEMELMAN
LEVI LIFSICH LIPICHANSKI LIVSHITS MAGOT MAISHEGOLTS
MAIZEGOVER MAKHMUNDO MAKIR MALAKHES MALAT MARGOLIAS
MATSKEVICH MEBIL MIKHELISKI MIKHTOM MIKOLISKI MOSKOR
MOZUR NELKIN NEMENCHINSKI NEMEZER ORANSKI OSHMIAN
PALUSTINSKI PASMAN PESKOVSKI PLAGN PLIAT PODOLSKI
PRUZHAN RADIN REIZENMON RESHANSKI RITVA RONIK
ROZEN RUCHASKI RUDES RUTSAINSKI

SHAIA SHEITOK SHIFRA SHIKH SHNAIDER SHTRASUNSKE
SHUDERVA SHUG SHVADES SHVETSKI SKARBONSKI STADOLNIK
SVADOSHCH TOUBER TSESLER TURETS TURITS VATNER
VERSKAIN VILDSHTEIN VOLKOVISKI VOLOZIN ZADVIN
ZAPOROVSKI ZAVADTSKI ZELKIND ZHAIEV ZIMAN


If you would like to see these translations of the marriage records,
become a qualified donor to the Vilnius District Research Group of
LitvakSIG by donating $100 towards translation of additional records.

You can make your donation at

http://litvaksig.org/contribute

Peggy Mosinger Freedman
Coordinator
Vilnius District Research Group