All-

Just learned of a new family name connected to my Chicago branch to add to
my tree: KOMINSKY - children of Anna (SNYDERMAN) HERRE, probably >from a first
marriage, as she later marries Charles HERRE.

There is also the possibility of a Pennsylvania connection with this name, but
that would have to be in the TBD column for now.

Let me know if any of this seems familiar.

Sandi Root
Bulverde, Texas
roadrunr2@...

Actively Searching:
BADESCH, BANUS /BENESH /BENESCH /BENIS /BENNITZ /BENITEZ /BENNISH /BEINASH
/BEINASHOWITZ, BECKERMAN, BLOCK/BLOCH, BLUMENTHAL/BLUM, BRODY, COHEN /KAHAN
/KAGAN, EICHEL, FRIEDLEN, FRIEDMAN, GALINA, GOLD, GREENBERG, GUTKOWSKY /GOOD,
HANAK, HARWICK, HERRE, JACOBSON, KOMINSKY, KRIZANSKI, LIEBOVITCH, MANNE,
MENDELSON, MICHELSON, NIDER, OFFMAN /HOFFMAN, PETERS, PISER, ROTHCHILD,
SCHNEIDERMAN /SNYDERMAN, SUVALKER /SUVALSKI, TABACK, WHATLEY, ZIVETZ

All-

Just learned of a new family name connected to my Chicago branch to add to
my tree: KOMINSKY - children of Anna (SNYDERMAN) HERRE, probably >from a first
marriage, as she later marries Charles HERRE.

There is also the possibility of a Pennsylvania connection with this name, but
that would have to be in the TBD column for now.

Let me know if any of this seems familiar.

Sandi Root
Bulverde, Texas
roadrunr2@...

Actively Searching:
BADESCH, BANUS /BENESH /BENESCH /BENIS /BENNITZ /BENITEZ /BENNISH /BEINASH
/BEINASHOWITZ, BECKERMAN, BLOCK/BLOCH, BLUMENTHAL/BLUM, BRODY, COHEN /KAHAN
/KAGAN, EICHEL, FRIEDLEN, FRIEDMAN, GALINA, GOLD, GREENBERG, GUTKOWSKY /GOOD,
HANAK, HARWICK, HERRE, JACOBSON, KOMINSKY, KRIZANSKI, LIEBOVITCH, MANNE,
MENDELSON, MICHELSON, NIDER, OFFMAN /HOFFMAN, PETERS, PISER, ROTHCHILD,
SCHNEIDERMAN /SNYDERMAN, SUVALKER /SUVALSKI, TABACK, WHATLEY, ZIVETZ

I recently made a document discovery that I wanted to share, as I've gotten
so much >from this list and I hope this could help someone in his or her
research.

Last week I visited the New York City Municipal Archives on Chambers Street
to view some marriage and death certificates. While I was there, a very
helpful man sitting at the microfilm machine near me said, "You know the
application for the marriage licenses has a lot more information on it." Whoa!
I didn't even know these exist!

Apparently, for New York City marriages that occurred between 1908 and 1950
something (can't remember the exact year), an application for marriage licenses
was required. They are in a *separate* index than the marriage certificates.
These indexes are on microfilm at the archive (on the other side of the room).

You look up the couple by either groom or bride by year. Within each year, the
listings are grouped by month and then by first two letters of the last name.
For instance, to look up John Doe married on June 13, 1910, you'd go to 1910,
look under "Do" under grooms, then look for the grouping of months (maybe
June-July). This record is *not* by marriage date, but by application date.

People had 30 days to marry after getting their license, so John Doe's license
could be anywhere between May 13 and June 13. Be sure to look in the previous
month. Once you find the number in the certificate, you can get the next set
of microfilms, if the marriage took place between 1908 and 1929 (although
verify--these years may be slightly off). Those applications are held in the
Chambers Street archive.

For marriages after that period, you need to go to 141 Worth Street to order
the record (the records at Chambers Street are $11 each; they are $15 at Worth
Street). I found one at Chambers Street and one at Worth Street. Be prepared
for a long wait to get the record >from Worth Street!

I found the marriage license for my great-great grandmother's nephew. The
first page is the license, which lists for both bride and groom:
full name
color
place of residence
Age
Occupation
Place of birth
Name of father
Country of birth
Maiden name of mother
country of birth
Number of marriages

The second page was the Marriage Certificate to Clergymen and Magistrates,
which gives details on who performed the marriage and the witnesses, including
their addresses.

The third page is the Affidavit for License to Marry, which includes pretty
much the same information as the first pages.

For me, that third page was a goldmine, as the certificate and the first page
listed merely "Russia" as the nephew's place of birth, but the third page gave
me the actual city he was from. It also had the clearest spelling of his
mother's maiden name.

I hope this is helpful for someone. And if I got something wrong, I hope
someone in the know will chime in to clear it up!

Happy hunting!

Jenny Brown
Arlington, MA

Researching: Latvia: KOPOLOVITZ, DOROGOI
Poland/Lithuania: BRENNHOLZ, GURVICH
Odesa, Ukraine: BRASLOWSKY, KRASNOTEIN
Kobryin, Belarus: LEDER
Kupel, Ukraine: SOFER

MODERATOR NOTE: Good information! One should also take a look at JewishGen's
"New York Vital Records," an InfoFile by Sheila Kieval. Scroll down to the
section on Marriage Records. http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/ny-vital.html

I recently made a document discovery that I wanted to share, as I've gotten
so much >from this list and I hope this could help someone in his or her
research.

Last week I visited the New York City Municipal Archives on Chambers Street
to view some marriage and death certificates. While I was there, a very
helpful man sitting at the microfilm machine near me said, "You know the
application for the marriage licenses has a lot more information on it." Whoa!
I didn't even know these exist!

Apparently, for New York City marriages that occurred between 1908 and 1950
something (can't remember the exact year), an application for marriage licenses
was required. They are in a *separate* index than the marriage certificates.
These indexes are on microfilm at the archive (on the other side of the room).

You look up the couple by either groom or bride by year. Within each year, the
listings are grouped by month and then by first two letters of the last name.
For instance, to look up John Doe married on June 13, 1910, you'd go to 1910,
look under "Do" under grooms, then look for the grouping of months (maybe
June-July). This record is *not* by marriage date, but by application date.

People had 30 days to marry after getting their license, so John Doe's license
could be anywhere between May 13 and June 13. Be sure to look in the previous
month. Once you find the number in the certificate, you can get the next set
of microfilms, if the marriage took place between 1908 and 1929 (although
verify--these years may be slightly off). Those applications are held in the
Chambers Street archive.

For marriages after that period, you need to go to 141 Worth Street to order
the record (the records at Chambers Street are $11 each; they are $15 at Worth
Street). I found one at Chambers Street and one at Worth Street. Be prepared
for a long wait to get the record >from Worth Street!

I found the marriage license for my great-great grandmother's nephew. The
first page is the license, which lists for both bride and groom:
full name
color
place of residence
Age
Occupation
Place of birth
Name of father
Country of birth
Maiden name of mother
country of birth
Number of marriages

The second page was the Marriage Certificate to Clergymen and Magistrates,
which gives details on who performed the marriage and the witnesses, including
their addresses.

The third page is the Affidavit for License to Marry, which includes pretty
much the same information as the first pages.

For me, that third page was a goldmine, as the certificate and the first page
listed merely "Russia" as the nephew's place of birth, but the third page gave
me the actual city he was from. It also had the clearest spelling of his
mother's maiden name.

I hope this is helpful for someone. And if I got something wrong, I hope
someone in the know will chime in to clear it up!

Happy hunting!

Jenny Brown
Arlington, MA

Researching: Latvia: KOPOLOVITZ, DOROGOI
Poland/Lithuania: BRENNHOLZ, GURVICH
Odesa, Ukraine: BRASLOWSKY, KRASNOTEIN
Kobryin, Belarus: LEDER
Kupel, Ukraine: SOFER

MODERATOR NOTE: Good information! One should also take a look at JewishGen's
"New York Vital Records," an InfoFile by Sheila Kieval. Scroll down to the
section on Marriage Records. http://www.jewishgen.org/InfoFiles/ny-vital.html

The Old Jewish Cemetery Frankfurt am Main is Battonstrasse, the
administration (Friedhofsverwaltung) for the following three cemeteries is
with the new cemetery Eckenheimer Landstrasse. Mail to: friedhof@...

Neuer Friedhof Eckenheimer Landstrasse (New cemetery)
Friedhof - Rat-Beil-Strasse (close to new cemetery)
Friedhof - Battonstrasse (old cemetery) Good luck,

Renate Rosenau, Alzey/Germany <RenateRosenau@...>

"Dennis Aron" dennisaron@... asked about the fate in the Holocaust of his families from
Hessen & Rheinland-Pfalz
For places in the "Alzeyer Land", part of Rheinhessen, like
Stein-Bockenheim, Flonheim, you can contact me: Arbeitskreis Juden im
Alzeyer Land: RenateRosenau@..., for other places in Rheinland-Pfalz
you can find member addresses in: www.lagrlp.de (Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft
Gedenkstaetten und Erinnerungsinitiatven zur NS-Zeit in Rheinland-Pfalz).

Renate Rosenau, Alzey, Germany RenateRosenau@...

The Old Jewish Cemetery Frankfurt am Main is Battonstrasse, the
administration (Friedhofsverwaltung) for the following three cemeteries is
with the new cemetery Eckenheimer Landstrasse. Mail to: friedhof@...

Neuer Friedhof Eckenheimer Landstrasse (New cemetery)
Friedhof - Rat-Beil-Strasse (close to new cemetery)
Friedhof - Battonstrasse (old cemetery) Good luck,

Renate Rosenau, Alzey/Germany <RenateRosenau@...>

"Dennis Aron" dennisaron@... asked about the fate in the Holocaust of his families from
Hessen & Rheinland-Pfalz
For places in the "Alzeyer Land", part of Rheinhessen, like
Stein-Bockenheim, Flonheim, you can contact me: Arbeitskreis Juden im
Alzeyer Land: RenateRosenau@..., for other places in Rheinland-Pfalz
you can find member addresses in: www.lagrlp.de (Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft
Gedenkstaetten und Erinnerungsinitiatven zur NS-Zeit in Rheinland-Pfalz).

Renate Rosenau, Alzey, Germany RenateRosenau@...

Hello GerSig,

My name is Ralph Rothschild and I just joined the group. My wife Sandy is
the real Genealogy expert and has been a member of GerSig for some years
now. I have been doing genealogy research for about two (2) years. I
consider myself to be intermediate in doing German Jewish Genealogy research.

We made aliyah about eighteen months ago and live in Beit Shemesh, Israel
and still have our home in Monsey, NY. My native language is English and I
also know German. I consider myself an expert in using a computer. My experience
in using the Internet is extensive.
I have identified the names and birth and death dates of my grandparents, of
my great grandparents [except one date of death] and some of my great-great
grandparents.

My primary research goals now are to find out earlier generations of the
families that have already been identified.
My JGFF Researcher ID number is 600896.
The family names and ancestral towns in Germany that I have entered in the JGFF
(JewishGen Family Finder) are as follows-

1 BERNHEIMER Buttenhausen; 2 GUMPEL-BENEDIKT Kochendorf; 3 ISAAC Steinbach;
4 KATZ Erdmannrode and Schenklengsfeld
6 MARX Schwabisch Hall and Seckmauern [town name rejected by JewishGen- current name??]
7 OPPENHEIMER Schluchtern; 8 ROSENBAUM Schluchtern; 9 ROTHSCHILD Buttenhausen,
Oedheim, ROTHSCHILD Schwabisch Hall;
12 WACHS Schwabisch Hall, 13 WACHS Stein am Kocher

I am looking forward to the GerSig membership.

Ralph Rothschild RFR01@... Beit Shemesh, Israel Monsey, NY

In order to claim compensation for Polish property lost during Holocaust,
I am looking for supporting documentation. Perhaps in the 1931 and/or 1939
census of Sienkiewicza #3 in Bendin, Poland.

It seems that some census pages were destroyed. I am hoping that Sienkiewicza
Street was not. Than you for any information you can offer.

Ann Linder
USA

Hello GerSig,

My name is Ralph Rothschild and I just joined the group. My wife Sandy is
the real Genealogy expert and has been a member of GerSig for some years
now. I have been doing genealogy research for about two (2) years. I
consider myself to be intermediate in doing German Jewish Genealogy research.

We made aliyah about eighteen months ago and live in Beit Shemesh, Israel
and still have our home in Monsey, NY. My native language is English and I
also know German. I consider myself an expert in using a computer. My experience
in using the Internet is extensive.
I have identified the names and birth and death dates of my grandparents, of
my great grandparents [except one date of death] and some of my great-great
grandparents.

My primary research goals now are to find out earlier generations of the
families that have already been identified.
My JGFF Researcher ID number is 600896.
The family names and ancestral towns in Germany that I have entered in the JGFF
(JewishGen Family Finder) are as follows-

1 BERNHEIMER Buttenhausen; 2 GUMPEL-BENEDIKT Kochendorf; 3 ISAAC Steinbach;
4 KATZ Erdmannrode and Schenklengsfeld
6 MARX Schwabisch Hall and Seckmauern [town name rejected by JewishGen- current name??]
7 OPPENHEIMER Schluchtern; 8 ROSENBAUM Schluchtern; 9 ROTHSCHILD Buttenhausen,
Oedheim, ROTHSCHILD Schwabisch Hall;
12 WACHS Schwabisch Hall, 13 WACHS Stein am Kocher

I am looking forward to the GerSig membership.

Ralph Rothschild RFR01@... Beit Shemesh, Israel Monsey, NY

In order to claim compensation for Polish property lost during Holocaust,
I am looking for supporting documentation. Perhaps in the 1931 and/or 1939
census of Sienkiewicza #3 in Bendin, Poland.

It seems that some census pages were destroyed. I am hoping that Sienkiewicza
Street was not. Than you for any information you can offer.

Ann Linder
USA

Dear Anton Sternlikt:

I have misplaced your posting and email regarding STERNLIKT or STERNLICHT. I
therefore do not have a way to send you this information.

My late neighbor, several houses down >from me on my street, Leo STERNLICHT,
owned several car dealerships in Riverhead, (NY) on the east end of Long
Island and was a big game hunter in Africa. He has two children by his non-Jewish
first wife, Leo STERLICHT, Jr., who lives in neighboring Port Jefferson, and
Lori Lucki (pronounced Lootski), who is the wife of our Belle Terre mayor.
I think they may possibly be interested in the STERNLICHT genealogy.

Please contact me privately

Marlene Bishow

Dear Anton Sternlikt:

I have misplaced your posting and email regarding STERNLIKT or STERNLICHT. I
therefore do not have a way to send you this information.

My late neighbor, several houses down >from me on my street, Leo STERNLICHT,
owned several car dealerships in Riverhead, (NY) on the east end of Long
Island and was a big game hunter in Africa. He has two children by his non-Jewish
first wife, Leo STERLICHT, Jr., who lives in neighboring Port Jefferson, and
Lori Lucki (pronounced Lootski), who is the wife of our Belle Terre mayor.
I think they may possibly be interested in the STERNLICHT genealogy.

Please contact me privately

Marlene Bishow

In connection with your search for the NUSSBAUM name >from Warburg, I
cannot help you directly. However, it may be of interest to you that
"Simon >from Kassel" (b. 15?? in Kassel, d. 1566 in Warburg) was the
progenitor of several families that were of interest to me. My
maternal grandmother, Clara RUBENSOHN's family descended >from Simon.
An early branch is the WARBURG banking family
documented in Ron Chernow's book "The WARBURGS" (Random House), which
includes a family tree.
I have the a copy of the original RUBENSOHN family tree
initially compiled by Emil RUBENSOHN (1866, Beverungen -1956, Newark
NJ) in 1938, with some additions, which have been included in my
computerized version, plus his original set of notes, which I
translated into English and distributed to interested descendants on CDs.
If this of interest, feel free to contact me directly.

Gunther Steinberg, Portola Valley CA 94028 gunste24@...

I believe that Richard Tucker's wife and Jan Peerce were sister and brother.

My grandfather came >from Kobrin, Belarus and often told us how he was
acquainted with Jan Peerce's family in the old country. My mother always
poo-pooed my grandfather's tales, and he hold many.

In the early 1960's Jan Peerce gave a concert here in Syracuse, NY. I
attended the concert with my grandfather, and we were able to talk to Jan
Peerce after. Sure enough, it was all true. Mr. Peerce was very gracious and
caught my grandfather up on the comings and goings of his family over the years.

There is a Perelmut family here in Syracuse who are connected with Jan Peerce.

Martin Miller
Syracuse, NY, USA

Roberta Sheps [mailto:rsheps@...] wote:

In connection with your search for the NUSSBAUM name >from Warburg, I
cannot help you directly. However, it may be of interest to you that
"Simon >from Kassel" (b. 15?? in Kassel, d. 1566 in Warburg) was the
progenitor of several families that were of interest to me. My
maternal grandmother, Clara RUBENSOHN's family descended >from Simon.
An early branch is the WARBURG banking family
documented in Ron Chernow's book "The WARBURGS" (Random House), which
includes a family tree.
I have the a copy of the original RUBENSOHN family tree
initially compiled by Emil RUBENSOHN (1866, Beverungen -1956, Newark
NJ) in 1938, with some additions, which have been included in my
computerized version, plus his original set of notes, which I
translated into English and distributed to interested descendants on CDs.
If this of interest, feel free to contact me directly.

Gunther Steinberg, Portola Valley CA 94028 gunste24@...

I believe that Richard Tucker's wife and Jan Peerce were sister and brother.

My grandfather came >from Kobrin, Belarus and often told us how he was
acquainted with Jan Peerce's family in the old country. My mother always
poo-pooed my grandfather's tales, and he hold many.

In the early 1960's Jan Peerce gave a concert here in Syracuse, NY. I
attended the concert with my grandfather, and we were able to talk to Jan
Peerce after. Sure enough, it was all true. Mr. Peerce was very gracious and
caught my grandfather up on the comings and goings of his family over the years.

There is a Perelmut family here in Syracuse who are connected with Jan Peerce.

Martin Miller
Syracuse, NY, USA

Roberta Sheps [mailto:rsheps@...] wote:

Shalom, Mr. Grossfeld,

All(?) of the Jewish cemeteries in Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, including Diez a/d
Lahn, have been photographed by Norbert Heyeckhaus and are available on a
2-CD set published in 2004 by Verlag Friedhof & Denkmal, Vol. 3 of Juedische
Friedhoefe im Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, ISBN 3-938454-03-2 (still?) available
through http://www.1media.org .

Please contact me off-list of you need any more information.

Regards, Peter S. Wyant Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

<nicolas.grossfeld@...> wrote:
….> We would like now to find someone kind enough to make photos of tombs

Shalom, Mr. Grossfeld,

All(?) of the Jewish cemeteries in Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, including Diez a/d
Lahn, have been photographed by Norbert Heyeckhaus and are available on a
2-CD set published in 2004 by Verlag Friedhof & Denkmal, Vol. 3 of Juedische
Friedhoefe im Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, ISBN 3-938454-03-2 (still?) available
through http://www.1media.org .

Please contact me off-list of you need any more information.

Regards, Peter S. Wyant Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

<nicolas.grossfeld@...> wrote:
….> We would like now to find someone kind enough to make photos of tombs