I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ...
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM94678
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Thank you very much.
Julia Levin

I've posted a two page letter written in Germany  sent from Palestine in 1939 for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following addresses. The writer was one of the 13 Jews killed when the Italian Air Force bombed Tel Aviv on 12 June 1941

It is on ViewMate at the following addresses: 

Page 1:
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM94690

Page 2:

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM94691

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Thank you,

Alan Kolnik
North Bethesda MD

I would like to ascertain if these 2 birth records and a death records are of my grandmother's siblings whom I just discovered existed.  I would appreciate any help in figuring out the name of the birth or death, the names and ages of the parents and the age of the deceased in the case of the death record.  The files are:
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM94686
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM94687
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM94688

Thank you very much!

Ricki Hollander

The Board and 200+ members of the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Genealogical Society applaud long-time member for being elected Secretary of the IAJGS. Many of us are very familiar with Ron’s wide-ranging experience in genealogy, as well as creating ‘systems’ that help people brainstorm and think creatively. I’m sure he will put all these (and other skills) to good use in his new ‘career.’

Sincerely

Jeremy Frankel

President
San Francisco Bay Area
Jewish Genealogical Society

I would appreciate any help in figuring out who the parents are in this death record, as well as the exact date of death recorded and age of the deceased.  I believe it is a great-great uncle, but this would help me tremendously in fuguring out if I have the right person.

The file is: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM94723

Thank you very much.

Ricki Hollander

Hello everyone,
I've posted 5 vital records in Russian for which I need translations. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses ...

1.  Death record of Icek BLUMENSZTOK:  https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM94619&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cdb1f16f84b614d7e68a408d95ab64082%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637640561083470682%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=UBxYLlbgNFLdLgke%2FZARwiZ%2Blyk5TpcyWbI7yk530fU%3D&reserved=0

2.  Marriage record of ROZENBAUM - BLUMENSZTOK:  https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM94641&data=04%7C01%7C%7C48f278501fa242501a1b08d95ab64e56%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637640561312619231%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=%2Bh1HNlYLYHkX%2B0eYz03GRtvrUAY6ley21A5tWjxHOh0%3D&reserved=0

3.  Birth Record of Szlema Zelman BLUMENSZTOK:  https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM94731&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cfcda4f57b02c401abe7508d95ab738c9%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637640565242131880%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=gg4jYICgjyumdFYjco4uCRngIVQJfnOwP1mkc2nS9lY%3D&reserved=0

4.  Birth record of Malka Rajzla MICENMACHER:  https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM94732&data=04%7C01%7C%7Cfb5dc99e296f497eb31308d95ab73bb3%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637640565299949522%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=jkJs3yUIaUtJ8ysv2OiRf%2BG7t2EPs1ynxCqkc%2FdKiwM%3D&reserved=0

5.  Marriage record of BLUMENSZTOK - MICENMACHER:  https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.jewishgen.org%2Fviewmate%2Fviewmateview.asp%3Fkey%3DVM94733&data=04%7C01%7C%7C1134ac3e831c480f85fd08d95ab73f13%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637640565346683364%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=ZeP65y9spR0GKk%2BDjb8G6woQK2YfHlBgp4%2F9NccI4B8%3D&reserved=0
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Greg Tuckman
Phoenix, Arizona USA

Dear all,

I am seeking contact with family members of the SCHVARCZ (FEKETE) family of Miskoc, Hungary:

Jozsef SCHVARCZ married Szeren FABULA in Miskolc in 1899. He was the son of Moszes SCHVARZ & Lina KREIS. She was the daughter of Jozsef FABULA & Fanny-Rebekka FRIEDMAN.

Seems that they had 13 children for whom I already have the vital records:

Juliana (b. 1899)
Bela (b. 1914)
Regina
Andor
Margit
Lajos (b. 1901)
Ignacz (b. 1890)
Erzsebet
Ilona
Dezso (David)
Geza (b. 1895)
Terez
Samuel

For some members I found Pages of Testimony.

I am looking for people who are related to this very family, and wonder if anyone here recognizes this family.

Please reply privately.

Thank you!
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Rony Golan
Ramat HaSharon, Israel

SEARCHING: KRMARUTSKY, KRIVORUCHKI, Kaunas, Lithuania
                        EISDORFER, Hungary
                        SLOMOVITS, Sighet, Romania

Do records exist showing those who were sent to as wellas those who survived the Novaky labor camp in Slovakia?

Bernard Weill

My paternal family came from Zvenigorod (Zvengorotka, is it the same)? The surnames were Gudz and Koshevetsky. I believe some of the family is still there, although most left many years ago, and there are family members in Moscow.
Myrna Simon
Newport Beach, CA
missmyrna31@...

I just found out my Husband's maternal Mebel family may have
originated in Gomel (Homel) Belarus and not Barysaw Belarus as I have
always thought for 37 years. I tried looking at Family Search,
JewishGen Family Finder and Routes to Roots and I have found nothing.
What is the availability of Jewish records from this town? JewishGen
seems to be broken at the moment.

Michelle Sandler MLS
Westminster, California
President OCJGS
VP Programming OCJGS
Librarian OCJGS
Head of Libraries IAJGS

Hi,

I made a donaton but since Phyllis's email isn't complete on this page, I was unable to send the recept. I wanted to inquire if there is an update?
Those of my TEPLITKSY family who left M-P for the US left between 1906-1921, but I have not been able to find any vital records, voter or revision lists for them prior to their leaving( I don't think they were landowners but all tailors). Of those who stayed -- two brothers and their famiies -- one perished completely and the other almost in its entirety during the Holocaust. I was able to track descendents (in Israel and actually still living in M-P) from that latter famly, but very much want to give names to the faces in the pictures I have of the first family. In this case, vital records during the 1900s would be incredibly helpful. I was told my BERG family arrived in M-P during hte 1900s from Kamentz-Podolsky but again, have found no vital records to support their existence in M-P either. 

Anyway, thank you for the work you are doing. If you want to look up the donation, it is under Invoice #: 916103999. 

Thank you,
Wendy Kalman

Interesting topic, I just read on the history of registration plates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Romania#1908_-_1966 and http://plaque.free.fr/eur/ro_histor.html
You could try to inquire with The Romanian Automobile Club http://plaque.free.fr/eur/ro_histor.html first. Otherwise you could try to inquire with this authority https://www.drpciv.ro/ but good luck with it :) 

BTW, the expropriation and deportation of Jews from Romanian villages to the county capitals was done by the Romanian Government, not Garda de Fier (although the latter were part of the government for ~4 months earlier in 1940). And there were no Germans involved in this, it was the Romanians' doing in its entirety... 
My father touches briefly on this in a short album - book about our family which we published in Hebrew https://www.amazon.com/dp/1729799957 and Romanian https://www.amazon.com/dp/1727812476. Himself and his parents went through the same thing. If you read either language I could send you a pdf version... 

Best,
Theo Rafael

Some thoughts after some quick checking just now:

-while the Gordon funeral home is technically "defunct", it did not go out of business entirely. Rather, it went through various rounds of mergers. When I was last living in Miami in the early 2000s, it was called Riverside-Gordon Memorial Chapels. It appears that RGMC itself is now part of the gigantic Dignity Memorial network of funeral homes, which now manages Mount Nebo-Kendall.

-So it is possible that Gordon's records ended up somewhere at Dignity, and you just need to make contact with someone high enough on the Dignity totem pole to get them to haul those out from wherever they currently are. (I know - a salesperson at Mount Nebo-Kendall told you they don't have any records, but...1) all that probably means is that the onsite cemetery office where he/she is working may not have the records; 2) my experiences with customer-facing service employees in Miami have not exactly filled me with confidence that most of them ever know what they are talking about; half the time you have to go over their heads to get a truthful answer to even the simplest questions.)

I've been registered on JewishGen's JGFF for years. And a distant
cousin who contacted me because of that listing may have given me a
hint to my family's origins. (If you haven't registered your own
ancestral names/towns, you should do so. And even if you have, check
if anyone else has registered common research interests.)

Here's the story:
https://larasgenealogy.blogspot.com/2021/08/jewishgens-jgff-family-story-matching.html

Lara Diamond
Baltimore, MD

It is really wonderful to see so many people translating gravestones.  While it's true that the literal translation of Isha Ha'Chashuva (אשה החשובה) can be rendered as an important woman, that is a bit misleading as it probably means something closer to independent than important -- meaning a woman who had stature in her own right rather than just as a wife.  I don't know whether anyone has written on this regarding gravestones, but the classic discussion of the term is in Talmud Bavli 108a regarding ritual leaning at the Passover Seder.  If anyone has cites for its usage on gravestones, I would be interested.

And while I'm quibbling, there is no "eternal" or "everlasting" in תנצב״ה.  

Ittai Hershman,
New York City

 

My great-grandmother Ada (Ida/Aida) Mager Rosencoff died on March 11, 1937 and according to her Philadelphia death certificate was buried in Har Jehuda Cemetery in Upper Darby (just outside Philadelphia) PA. I cannot find any record of her there. I did find her husband, Samuel Rosencoff, who died a couple of years later and was buried in the same cemetery (he was not my great-grandfather, but the 5th of her 5 husbands- 4 of whom predeceased her). If anyone has any idea as to how I might find her grave I would appreciate it. I have read that the cemetery is barely maintained and there is no one there to talk to.

Thank you for any help you can give me.

Rona Michelson, Modiin Israel

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Is there a plan to also do the following shtetls? Propoisk, now Slavgorod, Krichev, Mstislavl?

Gerry Posner, Toronto, formerly of Winnipeg.