Felissa,

If you can cleanup and particularly brighten up the image that would help in identifying certain features in the picture. 

Basically, the only two things you have to work with in approximating the date of this photo are the types of harnesses used on the horses and the buckboard itself. However, that will only give you when that type of equipment was in vogue and by the time this photo was taken that equipment could be very old.  My guess is 1880s based only on the equipment.

Another possibility is to find someone who knows a lot about horses and can identify the breed. That might help to narrow down the location if a certain breed was very popular in a particular region.

Maybe you can put an approximate date to the picture by knowing what type of occupation uncle Jake had at any given time that would require him to use a horse-driven wagon to transport items under at white sheet.

Jeffrey Gee
Arizona   

Hello

 

I am trying to trace the family of Aaron Borouchowitz,  who was born in Kovno in 1870

 

If anyone can help I would be grateful.

 

Viv Dean

Good day, 

I have been digging for Jewish heritage in Germany.  One branch of the family tree abruptly ended with the Paasch family, Johann and Johanna Paasch on another family tree. There may yet be other names but I'm starting here. He was born around 1781 in kraatz, Altmarkkreis Salzwedel, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. 

Can anyone point me towards Jewish communities in this region? Similar family names? Any burial records? Thank you!
Rachel Davis

Could Shmaryahu on a gravestone be a variant of Schmiel?

Could it be anglicized, in the U.S.A., to Sam?

Many thanks.


Mike Coleman   London U.K.

On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 02:07 AM, Mike Daren wrote:

Lepekoia

it is a small place at 54.468562,23.687883 named 

64352

Lithuania A link to a google map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Liepakojai+64352,+Lithuania/@54.4622561,23.1224191,9z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x0:0x0!2zNTTCsDI4JzA2LjgiTiAyM8KwNDEnMTYuNCJF!3b1!8m2!3d54.468562!4d23.687883!3m4!1s0x46e0ce6344cf52bd:0x3b66e93388f80cc0!8m2!3d54.4690681!4d23.694393

found using jewishgen gazetteer. I then found a page of the publiched artile online, which mentioned the town they were from in Lithuanie, not in Poland. i googled it which brought me to back to jewishgen. that town is Butrimonys, Lithuania https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/Community.php?usbgn=-2613523 which is not far from Altulys Lithuania, which is near Liepakojai.

Aaron

A relative wrote a memoir in which he said that his grandmother lived in a town named Lepekoia, I think in Poland, or maybe in Lithuania.  I can't find a town by that name.  When I try googling Lepekoia, besides my relative's memoir, I don't get any town by that name, I mostly get suggestions for alternate spellings, but none of the alternate spellings seem to be names of towns, or at least no town anywhere around Poland or Lithuania.  Does anyone have any suggestion of what town name Lepekoia might be referring to?  The author of the memoir was born in Butrymowce, Podlaskie, Poland in 1886, came to the US as a child, and died in New York in 1961.  The memoir he wrote was found after he died by his son, and published in "American Jewish History" in 1980.  Thanks.

Mike Daren

Hi Myra,

I did my own web search and social media search on Grotjahn, and he's pretty well walled off, online - I can't find a way to message him anywhere that he has an account. He has a lot of followers on online accounts, so it isn't surprising to see.

Your emails to museums, etc, are likely to go ignored. I would suggest calling art industry types directly - you're going to have to look for someone who knows him personally, and well enough, to contact him for you. (If you can find someone who might be Jewish, all the better.)


--Alan Harvey Silver (son of Elliott, grandson of Irving and Sarah Gorson Silver, great-grandson of Meyer and Elka Garb Gorson, and Charles and Lena Horwitz Silver)

It is difficult to help you with your search for Harry's naturalization because you have not shared information critical for narrowing the search. At what point on census records was he recorded as naturalized? Where did he live (addresses) at the time of each record? If he was in New York State, for example, for the 1925 State census, then you might see an indication of the date and court of record. The first thing to do is to try to estimate, based on records you have viewed, a date and place of naturalization.

If he naturalized as a result of military service, then he may have taken his oath in the last United States location in which he was stationed after he returned from overseas. It would not have been in the court in which he declared his intent. Military naturalizations after WWI did not require declarations or residency. So, even if you find the file, there will likely be no information about his arrival in the US or his passenger manifest.

I have a relative who naturalized after WWI service. He was from Detroit before he was drafted. I searched newspapers and did a Google search for information on his military unit and their return from overseas. Sometimes unit histories will be helpful in this regard. Via newspapers, I found that, upon return, he was stationed at Camp Sherman in Chillicothe, Ohio. Rose County did not have the file. But the USCIS genealogy program had his C-file and I acquired his petition and a copy of his certificate of naturalization. https://www.uscis.gov/records/genealogy

It is not clear how much research you have already completed in United States records. If you have exhausted those, then, great! If not, you will need to find his grave (where the stone may show his Hebrew and/or Yiddish name), his death certificate, marriage certificate (and also license if he married in NYC), and all census records (do the same for all his children). Look at not only at his parents names, but also at the names of witnesses. Were they relatives? If he changed his name in the USA, there could be relatives who did so, as well, or some who did not change their surnames. Look at all their records, too. If he was buried in a community association (landsmanshaft) plot, are there any other Kramers or Golanskys (or whatever)?

If your goal is Harry's passenger manifest, sometimes the best thing to do is look for the manifests of relatives. I could not locate my great grandfather's passenger manifest with his surname Matsevitskiy. Ultimately, I found his when I searched for and located his bother-in-law's passenger manifest. My great grandfather's name was immediately above on the same page. The indexer had absolutely massacred the surname. I never would have located my ggf if I'd not looked for his brother-in-law's record.

I apologize if I have misinterpreted the depth of the research you have completed.

Emily Garber
Phoenix, AZ
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Writer Stephen J Dubner (author of "Turbulent Souls," - pub 1998 - now called "Choosing my Religion: A Memoir of a Family Beyond Belief") tells about his visit to Dubno when he was researching his family's history, before his Jewish parents converted to Catholicism... and before Stephen converted back to Judaism). 

Susan J. Gordon
New York
BIALAZURKER - Zbaraz
LEMPERT, SCHOENHAUT - Lvov, Skalat, Czernowitz

The town of birth is probably Encsencs, a small town 8.5 miles south of Nyrbator.


Valentin Lupu
ISRAEL

I, too, am researching GOTTLIEB. GGrandfather also Mayer-  Rabbi of Mad, Hungary.  Most of my family born in Mad, Niyabator(Bertha Klein), and Szerencs(Louise Billitzer , daughter of Rabbii Amram Yisha Billitzer.  What do you think?
Let me know if any of this is familiar.  Joseph Gottlieb, grandfather, had many brothers/sisters. most killed in the camps.
Jackie Shapiro

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Silver Spring, MD

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 Instead of rubbing, try using aluminum foil, pressing the sheets onto the surface of the stone with a soft brush or sponge. The cheaper the foil the better. It's remarkable how well it works.  There are a lot of good sources for ways to read old headstones : here's one.
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Lee David Jaffe

Surnames / Towns:  Jaffe / Suchowola, Poland ; Stein (Sztejnsapir) / Bialystok and Rajgrod, Poland ; Joroff (Jaroff, Zarov) / Chernigov, Ukraine ; Schwartz (Schwarzman?, Schwarzstein?) / ? ;  Koshkin / Snovsk, Ukraine ; Rappoport / ? ; Braun / Wizajny, Suwalki, Poland,  Ludwinowski / Wizajny, Suwalki, Poland

Jeff,

Town of birth may be Nyéresháza (before WW1 it was in Hungary)
today Neresnytsya in Ukraine.
https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1047533
Neresnytsya [Ukr], Nyéresháza [Hung], Neresnice [Slov], Alsóneresznicze [Hun], Neresnitsa [Rus], Nizhnya Novoselitsa, Neresniza, Neresnitze, Nereznicza, Neresnycja
Region: Transcarpathia

Good luck in your search,

Sherri Bobish

The two Dobrzyns are often confused for each other.   One is Dobrzyn nad Wisla on the bank of the Wisla river, the other is Golub Dobrzyn on the banks of the Drweca river.  

Besides Dobrzyn nad Wisla, the article describes life in Aleksandrow Kujawski.