There are also Shoah recordings at Yale University.  https://sfi.usc.edu/archive_sites/yale-university
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Barbara Sloan
Conway, SC

Michelle,

A phonetic surname search for TCHERNY at:
https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Ukraine/

finds records for people in Belaya Tserkov with surname spelled CHERNYI.

Have you seen this?

Best regards,

Sherri Bobish

Hi
I  just checked the South Africa Jewish Rootsbank. It a genealogy site about South African Immigration and Genealogy.

It may be a long shot - I typed in Lasker into the general search.
There are a few entries about an Isadore Lasker who appears to have lived and married in Barberton in1890 and also an entry about a death in Durban in 1928.

Here is the link http://www.jewishroots.uct.ac.za/

A quick search of the South African National Archives shows an Isador Lasker applying for Naturalization in 1906!
http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm30ddf0?20210603204320F6ECC763&DN=00000005

There may be other entries if you take time to search. This may or may not be the same person but it is tantalizing!

By the way, Barberton in South Africa is a gold mining town.

Happy hunting

Sheryl Silberg
Florida, USA

David,

For Milwaukee naturalizations try:
https://milwaukeehistory.net/unlocking-the-vault/naturalization-papers-text/

"The time period of Milwaukee County naturalization records are from 1836 to May 1941"

There is a form to request a search for the record (it is not free.)
https://milwaukeehistory.net/research/research-services-requests/naturalization-requests/

Good luck in your search,

Sherri Bobish

Thank you so much to you both, I greatly appreciate the help! Has anyone been successful in finding the magnate records for their families? Would you have any recommendations on the types of records to look for and what those records might contain? I.e. do they list out all of the individuals (females included?) that lived/worked on their estates or is it typically just the name of the leaseholder that's included? It seems like it's quite a bit of work to get to the records themselves (sounds like one needs to either travel to the archive or hire a researcher) so I'm just wondering if the information included in those records would be worth the work.

Best,
Simon Zelman
San Francisco, CA

Evan,

What year did your passenger arrive?  What port did they enter?
If it was NY than search the passenger's name at Steve Morse's site:

For searching all years from 1820 to 1957:
https://stevemorse.org/ellis2/elliswhite.html

Let us know if you find their manifest.

Regards,

Sherri Bobish

Searching:
RATOWSKY / CHAIMSON (Ariogala, Lith.)
WALTZMAN / FRIEDES (Ustrzyki Dolne, Pol.)
BOJDA / BERGER (Tarnobrzeg, Pol.)
LEFFENFELD (Daliowa, Pol.)
BOBISH / APPEL (Odessa ?)
SAKOLSKY, (Grodek / Bialystok)

The JewishGen USA Research Division is happy to announce a new index to over 1000 oral histories from the Atlanta-based Breman Museum. An overview about this collection is available at https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA/BremanOralHistories.html.

The creation of indexes to other oral history collections are welcome and would be added to JewishGen.

Please also take a peak at the new USA Research Division website https://usa.jewishgen.org/ where there are many useful resources for researching Jewish records in America.
--
Ellen Shindelman Kowitt
Director, US Research Division
Colorado
ekowitt@...

On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 10:26 AM, Beth Erez wrote:

I have looked at Filae for you and there is an Eduard Illis listed there but the information is only available to paying subscribers.  I have used this database in the past and they allow you to pay for only one month.  That will open this up to you for you to see if it is the Eduard you are looking for.  





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Beth Krevitt Erez
Hod Hasharon, Israel
betherez@...

 Search the Fonds de Moscou for your great uncle’s name. The French kept records on foreigners, Jews, anarchists, etc., living/working in their country. The records were digitized by the French National Archives and are searchable.

I found out what happened to my grand-uncle with the help of a French researcher who searched the Fonds de Moscou for me.

If you need help searching the Fonds or other repositories, I can provide you with the name of the researcher I hired.

Linda Habenstreit 

Please ignore unless you speak Greek.  This is Greek, not Russian.
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Bob Silverstein
bobsilverstein@...
Elk Grove Village, IL

Researching Kaplan (Krynki, Poland) Tzipershteyn (Logishin, Pinsk, Belarus), Friedson/Fridzon (Motol, Cuba, Massachusetts), Israel and Goodman (Mishnitz, Warsaw, Manchester).

I have looked at Filae for you and there is an Eduard Illis listed there but the information is only available to paying subscribers.  I have used this database in the past and they allow you to pay for only one month.  That will open this up to you for you to see if it is the Eduard you are looking for.  





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Beth Krevitt Erez
Hod Hasharon, Israel
betherez@...

Evan,

Ancestry.com has databases of Passenger Arrival Records, however, not all the manifests are transcribed or indexed. Sometimes, going through the passenger manifest line by line is the only way to locate the person you are seeking..

David Passman
Dallas, Texas

These are some of the many places holding Shoah testimonies:

British Library Oral History https://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Jewish-Holocaust-survivors

Fortunoff Video Archive https://editions.fortunoff.library.yale.edu/

Michigan Holocaust Memorial Center https://www.holocaustcenter.org/visit/library-archive/oral-history-department/

New York Public Library https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/01/25/voices-holocaust-survivors

St. Louis Holocaust Museum https://stlholocaustmuseum.org/survivor-stories/oral-histories/

University of Michigan https://holocaust.umd.umich.edu/interviews.php

San Francisco JFCS https://holocaustcenter.jfcs.org/oral-histories/

USC Shoah Foundation https://vhaonline.usc.edu/search

USHMM https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-reflections-testimonies

Janette Silverman
Phoenix, AZ & Salt Lake City, UT

The Routes to Roots Foundation is offering Weekly Featured Collections from the new Surname Databases on its website at www.rtrfoundation.org.

This week, we are highlighting the following: 

 

1.    Aleksandrovsk , Ukraine

·         1835    Revision List

·         1894    People Eligible for Jury Duty in the Institutions of Ekaterinoslav Regional Court         

·         1816    Revision List

·         1818    Supplemental Revision List

·         1912    List of Members of First Choral Synagogue Who Have the Right to Participate in

            General Meetings

·         1912    List of Voters of Administrators of Synagogue

 

2.    Nezhin, Ukraine

·         1941                List of Jewish Residents

·         1891/1927       Birth Records

·         1913/1927       Death Records

·         1875/1928       Marriage Records

 

3.    Belarus Towns:

Bragin, Glusk, Igumen, Kalinkovichi, Kletsk, Kopyl, Krugovichsk Volost, Lepel, Lyakhovichi, Lyuban, Medvedichi, Mir, Nesvizh, Novogrudok, Pinsk, Rechitsa, Rogachev, Slutsk, Timkovichi, Ureche, Vitebsk

 

Voter Lists:  1888, 1891, 1892, 1894, 1906, 1907, 1912   

Miriam Weiner

 

Secaucus, NJ

Marriage on March 14 1867 in Falticeni of  Lupu Zalman Ilic, 25, speculator son of Zalman Ilic, 55 and Rifca Ilic, 48 and Haia Reizl Marcu, 17 daughter of Marcu Hers, 42 and Elchi Hers,41. Do not see any indication of the surnames provided on ViewMate.
 
Luc Radu
Great Neck, NY

Hello Bessarabia researchers,

Some time ago, I sent a very positive message to the group that we found a large number of Jewish records at FamilySearch, and that now these records are waiting to be translated.  Only a few set of records found a translator to work with, but most did not.

I am getting constantly questions of when records be ready for such and such town for a specific year.
Maybe I should clear the process we are using for Revision, Family, many other lists.

First, we need to get copies of the images with the records.  Most of them we are getting from FamilySearch in Microfilms - about 1000+ images under a Microfilm number.  Some of records we receive from Moldova Archive, and from other archives.  Not long time ago, we almost finished all microfilms we had, and it was great we found new batches of Jewish records at Family Search, and also that now we can easily request a Microfilm from FamilySearch.  What we started to do, is to go over a Microfilm online at FamilySearch, and if we find Jewish records, we order that microfilm.  There are now TWO people who are going thru Microfilms to see if Jewish records exist there.  If someone is interested to do this job, please let me know.

Second, we need a translator/transcriber for the records.  Since we started 10 years ago, we had about 50-60 translators, but it does not mean that all of them are working now. Usually after 1-2 years, they need some rest.  There are several people who are interested in a particular town, and when I am getting such records, they will work on them.  Also every new translator I would ask what towns they are mostly interested to work with, and will honor their request if possible.  Right now, there are 12 people working on this project.

Translator is writing information from the images into Excel table according to instructions. If something is not clear on the image, we usually put "?" or make the line in a different color.

Third is to do a "second" reading.  That person will resolve all or most of the "?" and check what first reader did.
Also second reader is going to prepare the table to be send to JewishGen.  

As a Project Manager, I am in contact with translators and they will send me finished Excel tables.  For new translators, I will work more with them, giving a small task, like 1-2 images and comment on their results.

Forth is to prepare a bunch of records, be sure that all formats are correct.  We are sending to JewishGen twice a year, in June-July and in December. For last several years we had in every such delivery from 10,000-12,000 records.

Also, after a set of records sent to JewishGen, we will update the Introductory pages two tables:  Microfilms table and Current Database Content table.  If you want to find out if for a particular town records were translated, please visit this page https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/romania/bessarabiarevisionlists.html  and two tables there.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

All the best,
Yefim Kogan
Bessarabia Group Leader and Coordinator

Hi Michelle,
the parents names were not recorded on their own in the Russian vital records (they were recorded in the Polish governorates).  From the names above, it's clear what their father's name were - Levi-Itzhok's father's name was Tsal Tcherny and Sosya's father was Mordko Divinsky.  They were indeed married in Kiev in 1908, on May 25 (Julian calendar - Apr 7 in our Gregorian calendar) to be exact.  According to the marriage record, Levi, 27 years old, was registered in Belaya Tserkov, Sosya, 23, - in Vasilkov.  This implies that he was born in 1880-1881, not 1885.  From my understanding, marriage records were recorded based on birth certificates, so it's likely that 1885 is not accurate.  The bad news is that there aren't a lot of birth records available in Belaya Tserkov for this time period - although 1881 births book is nearly complete (he is not present there), several years prior to that are missing.  He is not present in 1882 and 1883. 1884 and 1885 do not exist.  No one with the name Tsal had children in the existing years that I named.
There are some Chyorny/Cherny (proper transliteration of this last name) in the 1875 men census of Belaya Tserkov, but not with Tsal given name.  Also, a there are multiple births with this name in both Belaya Tserkov and Kiev, but none of the names match the ones in your post.

Regarding Sosya's side.  If indeed she was born in Vasilkov itself, it appears that none of the vital records survived for that town.  There is one possible family with the Divinsky last name that lived in a village Salikha in the Vasilkov uezd (district) prior to 1882.  They were registered to Belaya Tserkov, not Vasilkov, but they could have easily changed their registration town between early 1880's and 1908.  The name of the head of the family is Mordko, son of Gershko Divinsky, there are also names of his wife and 6 children.  Sosya is not in the list, but she wouldn't have been born yet.  The notes say that they moved to Tarashcha.  The purpose of the 1882 census was to keep track of the Jews in the rural areas, who were supposed to be kicked out to shtetls at this time.  Mordko is a common enough name that it could have been another family.

Cyrillic is not a language, but a writing system, upon which Russian, Ukrainian, Serb, and other alphabets are based.  Just like this text is based on a Latin writing system, upon which many alphabets, including English are based.  However, unlike the Latin language, there was never a Cyrillic language.  The official language of the Russian empire was Russian, so the records were recorded in that language.

Mike Vayser