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Major new Głowno records extraction project launched
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#lodz
#poland
#russia
Long-time Glowno area researchers will be pleased to learn that Jewish Records Indexing - Poland has undertaken a huge new Phase 3 project to fully extract all Glowno birth, marriage and death records from 1826 to 1913.Until now a basic index of births, marriages and deaths for the period 1877-1913 has been available. To carry out this major initiative, we have acquired scans (digital images) of all surviving Glowno records in the Łódź branch of the Polish State Archives. With your help, we are now looking to produce detailed extractions of the records in our possession, which span nearly 100 years. In addition, we would like to help Glowno researchers access other key sources including pre-1825 patronymic records and Glowno Books of Residents covering the period 1893-1931. If you would like more information the Glowno Phase 3 Town Project, please sign up here. Once you have subscribed, you will receive a full description of the project, explaining how you will be able to obtain extracts of records relating to your family. A qualifying donation of US$200 to the Glowno Phase 3 Town Project will ensure you are first in line to receive your family records as they become available and before they go online. Details of how to donate can be found here (please indicate - Town Name: 'Glowno', Project Description or Special Instructions: Phase 3). Naomi Leon JRI-Poland Town Leader | Glowno & Lodz Area Research Coordinator |
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Re: JGSColorado presents "Donating your Family Papers? How, When, Where and Why" and "New Strategies in German Jewish Research" with Karen S. Franklin
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Judy Petersen
CORRECTION!!!
The correct date for Karen Franklin's program is Sunday October 10th. All the other information is correct. We are so excited to have Karen, and you don't have to wait until December to see her! Judy Petersen VP of Programming JGS of CO |
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Re: 23andMe Matches Workshop Monday Nov 8, 2021 1-4pm EDT
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#dna
#jgs-iajgs
#events
Hi,
Still looking for 3 more people interested in learning about the 23andMe Matches platform at 23andMe for this workshop. Contact Arthur Sissman, see below, today!!! -- Regards, Arthur Sissman Jewish Genealogy SIG of Collier/Lee Co FL genresearch13 @yahoo.com (copy and close space in email format to send email, if necessary) Join our FB page at Jewish Genealogy SIG: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hellojewishgen Genealogy Wise page: http://www.genealogywise.com/profile/ArthurSissman
Researching: ZISMAN/ZYSMAN/ZUSMAN (Belarus); TELESHEVSKY (Belarus); CHANUTIN, (W. Russia), BRODY, (Hungary); FRIEDMAN, (Hungary); GRAUBARD, (Romania/Ukraine) TimeZoneConverter. https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/
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Michael Good
My maternal grandmother was a patient at the Workmen's Circle Sanatorium in the 1930s and her eldest son was a patient at the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Society in the 1940s. I have visited both of them (now serving other uses) and was able to find the places where certain family photos were taken at each one.
JCRS was open through the early 1950s. As mentioned, there are JCRS records online. but I don't know of anything from Workmen's Circle. We figured that one out from letters my Mom saved that had the sanatorium address, and from asking people who were familiar with Loomis and another sanatoria in the Liberty area. Best regards, Michael Good California |
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Jan Meisels Allen
On June 16, 2021 the IAJGS Records Access Alert posted about Ancestry’s Yearbook Collection class action lawsuit being dismissed with prejudice. The litigation alleged Ancestry amassed photographs, names, likenesses and identities without permission to sell subscription access to the information and advertise Ancestry services and products—their Yearbook Collection. The plaintiffs alleged Ancestry’s conduct was illegal and their privacy rights were violated.
“In a 12-page order, the judge wrote that for a suit like this to succeed, those bringing it would have to show how Ancestry’s operation of its database resulted in actual injury to those whose pictures and information are stored within it.” The judge found the amended complaint failed to do so. ““The cases recognizing mental anguish all involve other injury,” she wrote. “There is only mental anguish here, and alone, it is not injury in fact.”
In the June order, the Court also found the yearbook pictures are not private enough to warrant special protections. The judge also stated, Ancestry came by the photos in part through donations from former students, and a reasonable person would assume that it was donated to the genealogy company to help with their services — including for publication and marketing. Given the low expectation of privacy for photos like that, she found the company had a right to use them.
Dick Eastman in the Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter posted about a post-appeal motion ruling filed in Ancestry’s right to publicity case, TransUnion LLC v Ramirez. The case was originally dismissed with prejudice, which means it cannot be reopened, but the post-appeal motion asserts an “intervening change in controlling law”.
The motion can be read at:
To read Eastman’s Newsletter article see: https://www.eogn.com/page-18080/11125798
To read the previous postings about Section 230, big technology, privacy issues and more go to the archives of the IAJGS Records Access Alert at: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts/. You must be registered to access the archives. To register go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts and follow the instructions to enter your email address, full name and which genealogical organization with whom you are affiliated You will receive an email response that you have to reply to or the subscription will not be finalized.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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JGS-Montreal presents Michael Tobias
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#dna
#germany
#records
Victoria Barkoff
JGS-Montreal presents Michael Tobias October 4 at 7:30 PM EDT Ich bin ein Berliner JRI-Poland and DNA Matches Unite 5 Half-siblings from 4 Different Mothers live stream: https://youtu.be/4uOb5PKrtwE optional donation: https://jgs-montreal.org/support.html#donations
Posted by Victoria Barkoff for JGS-Montreal
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Demoing Brick Walls – Lessons Learned from Researching Twelve Mystery Families
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#education
#general
#rabbinic
If you are a Jewish genealogist, chances are you have encountered the dreaded brick wall – the seemingly impenetrable barrier beyond which lie untold generations of unknown ancestors who represent a proud Jewish heritage that has become shrouded in mystery.
There are many causes for these genealogical barriers – the pogroms of the late 1800s and early 1900s in Czarist Russia, WW-I, the Russian Revolution, WW-II, and the Holocaust – to name just a few. These traumatic events were followed by mass immigration to America and other countries, through which families were split, communication pathways between different generations of family members were disrupted, and more information was lost.
The incalculable loss of life resulting from these traumatic events, combined with the destruction of Jewish synagogues and cultural and religious institutions, has left a huge information void in its wake, and much Jewish genealogical information has been lost or destroyed. This has resulted in many American Jews losing contact with their ancestral origins.
If the 19th and 20th centuries represented a period of loss of Jewish cultural and genealogical repositories of information and knowledge, the 21st century, with its technological advancements in genetic genealogy, and the promise of global online access to genealogical information databases, offers opportunities for rediscovering our ancestral origins, and for recovering at least a part of our lost Jewish heritage.
As Jewish genealogical researchers, we wondered what it would be like if we tried to demolish some of these brick walls. Could it be done, and if so, how? We decided to embark on such a research study by focusing on a dozen families who all shared one thing in common – they all claimed descent from Rebbe Yehuda Leib of Shpola, a famed 18th-century tzaddik and early Chassidic leader in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) better known as the Shpoler Zeida.
Although eleven of the twelve families had an oral history of descent from the Shpoler Zeida, none of them had a family tree or yichus document showing precisely how they descend from him. The remaining family was unaware that they are descendants. We coined the term “mystery families” for these twelve families since how they descend from the Shpoler Zeida was a mystery.
In studying these mystery families, we began with the concept of being inclusive and accepted their family histories of being descendants of the Shpoler Zelda as genuine. We then started with what the family knew about their ancestry and did our best to reconstruct their line of descent by thoroughly researching the paper trail. Our research enabled us to fill in the gaps in the lineage, connect the key ancestor to the Zeida lineage, and confirm the line of descent from the Shpoler Zeida for two of the twelve mystery families.
For five other mystery families, we present plausible hypotheses for how these families connect to the Shpoler Zeida’s family tree, based upon the available evidence while indicating the limitations and uncertainties involving their hypothesized connections. Although we believe that we solved the mystery of how they connect to the Shpoler Zeida, their lines of descent should be considered provisional or conditional until they can be validated and confirmed.
For another five mystery families, we could not fill every gap in the lineage or identify every ancestral link in the chain with complete certainty, and the resultant uncertainty in their lineage prevents us from connecting their descendants to the Shpoler Zeida family tree at the present time. We reconstructed their line of descent to the extent possible, in the hope that making this information more widely available will result in a key piece of evidence being discovered which will help bridge the remaining gaps in their lineage.
In looking back over the lessons learned over the course of our research, we found that if we assembled all of the available information regarding what was known about each lineage, and then targeted our research toward filling in the remaining data gaps, we were often successful in reconstructing the line of descent. Often, one key document or piece of evidence, such as a Y-DNA genetic match, a census record, a birth record, a tombstone inscription, or a naturalization petition, served to unlock the door and enabled us to reconstruct the line of descent. Sometimes, the smallest detail, such as an obscure article in a Hebrew newspaper, or an entry in a family member’s biography, was enough to cause the wall to crumble.
We are planning to publish all twelve of these genealogical research studies, the first two of which have already been posted to Academia.edu: “Solving the Mystery of the Greenberg Family’s Descent from the Shpoler Zeida,” and “Solving the Mystery of the Polonsky Family’s Descent from the Shpoler Zeida.” We hope that the research methods provided in these research studies provide a useful model for other Jewish genealogists to follow. Here are the links:
Dr. Jeffrey Mark Paull, Dr. Jeffrey Briskman, and Susan K. Steeble |
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Re: PLOTKIN: Bischoff (Biechof), Moliger: Ukraine or Belarus?
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Sherri Bobish
Norman,
I looked at his nat paper, and my guess' are: Either Bykhaw or Byalynichy in the region of Mogilev. https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1945803 Mahilyow [Bel], Mogilev [Rus], Molev [Yid], Mohylew [Ger, Pol], Mohyliv [Ukr], Mogiliovas [Lith], Mohylów, Mogilew, Mahileu, Mohilev, Mahiliou, Mogilyov, Mohliv, Mogilev-na-Dniepr Region: Mogilev https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1941219 Byalynichy [Bel], Belynichi [Rus], Belinitch [Yid], Białynicze [Pol], Białyničy [Bel], Bjalynicy, Bialynichy, Byelinichi Region: Mogilev https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1942018 Bykhaw [Bel], Bykhov [Rus], Bichov [Yid], Bikhov Yashan [Heb], Bychów [Pol], Alt-Bikhev, Staryy Bykhov, Stary Bychów, Bychov, Bychaw, Bychaŭ Region: Mogilev Also, Kijon looks like Kiyow on the nat paper. That is just a poor spelling of what Kiev sounded like to the clerk. Take into consideration that the clerk had to write down the current year and Jake's age and do the math on paper to figure out his year of birth. My guess is that neither spelling nor math was this clerk's strong point. Good luck in your search, Sherri Bobish Searching: RATOWSKY / CHAIMSON (Ariogala / Ragola, Lith.) WALTZMAN / WALZMAN (Ustrzyki Dolne / Istryker, Pol.) LEVY (Tyrawa Woloska, Pol.) LEFFENFELD / LEFENFELD / FINK, KALTER (Daliowa/ Posada Jasliska, Pol.) BOJDA / BERGER (Tarnobrzeg, Pol.) SOKALSKY / SOLON / SOLAN / FINGER(MAN) (Grodek, Bialystok, Pol.) BOBISH / APPEL (Odessa?) |
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Re: What's this number on a passenger list?
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Sherri Bobish
Erika,
It is a reference to naturalization that was written in on the manifest years later. Good luck in your search, Sherri Bobish Searching: RATOWSKY / CHAIMSON (Ariogala / Ragola, Lith.) WALTZMAN / WALZMAN (Ustrzyki Dolne / Istryker, Pol.) LEVY (Tyrawa Woloska, Pol.) LEFFENFELD / LEFENFELD / FINK, KALTER (Daliowa/ Posada Jasliska, Pol.) BOJDA / BERGER (Tarnobrzeg, Pol.) SOKALSKY / SOLON / SOLAN / FINGER(MAN) (Grodek, Bialystok, Pol.) BOBISH / APPEL (Odessa?) |
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Re: Judenrats --- friend or foe?
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Sniderlh
Hi Susan,
You are so right about not judging others when one hasn't been in their situation, and not knowing the "complete picture" of such events. That's part of our undertaking with genealogy, I feel, being able to accept/deal with whatever one might uncover. Records, or not, I don't think it's appropriate to judge past events by today's standards (which seem pretty fuzzy anyway). Hindsight is quite clear compared to living something in the moment. I am often wondering and asking myself how I might have dealt with living through many past events. Thanks for your input. -- Leah Heilpern Snider Silverdale, Washington/ USA |
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Sherri Bobish
Carl,
The same situation is seen in my husband's family from Gorodek near Bialystok. He used his wife's surname for several years after arrival, and then changed the surname. His brother used their father's surname. They both arrived in The U.S. in the mid-1880's. In my family from Ustrzyki Dolne there is one person who used his mother's maiden surname, and that branch retains that name to this day. His siblings all used their father's surname. So, why one sibling using the mother's maiden name, and the other siblings using the father's? They all arrived in The U.S. within a few years of each other circa 1910's. Does anyone have an explanation why this occurred with some immigrants? Regards, Sherri Bobish Searching: RATOWSKY / CHAIMSON (Ariogala / Ragola, Lith.) WALTZMAN / WALZMAN (Ustrzyki Dolne / Istryker, Pol.) LEVY (Tyrawa Woloska, Pol.) LEFFENFELD / LEFENFELD / FINK, KALTER (Daliowa/ Posada Jasliska, Pol.) BOJDA / BERGER (Tarnobrzeg, Pol.) SOKALSKY / SOLON / SOLAN / FINGER(MAN) (Grodek, Bialystok, Pol.) BOBISH / APPEL (Odessa?) |
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Re: PLOTKIN: Bischoff (Biechof), Moliger: Ukraine or Belarus?
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Norman - What you refer to as Bischoff might be Bykhov, Belarus, which has many different spellings. It is in the Mogilev Region. My grandmother, Sarah ERLIN, was born in Bykhov — Staryy (Old) Bykhov is how she referred to it. Her brother Aaron married Chana Reiza PLOTKIN. They immigrated to America and settled in Buffalo, NY. Other PLOTKIN family members settled in Canada. See also: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/bykhov |
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Re: Polish Archives Loan Document
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#poland
Steven Granek
A FOLLOW UP - OTHER GUIDANCE??
First, thanks to David for the advice and kind offer. II am wondering if anyone can point me to someone who knows a bit about the building history of Kalisz between the wars that might help me make sense of this (or even knows who in Kalisz I might write to to ask).
I now have the reasonably well translated document referenced below (loan document for a construction project in Kalisz) . It has no additional information about my great Aunt and Uncle Temer and Chaim Adler (only that they borrowed just over 100,000 zlotys for the construction of a residential building at this address with gory details about each phase and the allocated amounts per phase). Strangely, it has nothing about the terms (length or interest rate) or the address of the borrowers.
And there are some things about the dates that don’t make sense to me. Specifically my conundrum is this: They apparently acquired the “property” (quotes deliberate) in 1931 per the document. The drawings/plans for construction were approved by what seems to be the planning council in 1938. It seems the loan was recorded n May of 1939 (timing!) - at least my relatives seem to have been optimists!
BUT -1) the description of the construction project seems to indicate that this is new construction 2) This is an attached - in row - building. 3) I have discovered in a book written by Mira Kimmelman that she talks about visiting (after the war with her son) this exact address (even down to the change of street names since then) and remembering that she’d have Passover there with her maternal grandparents in their modern apartment. Which means that a relatively new apartment building was already there before the war. And since she describes it as modern, and it is my understanding that much of old Kalisz was destroyed in WW1 - it's hard to believe that my great aunt and uncle would be tearing down a 10-15 year old building with modern apartments in it and rebuild something very similar from scratch. And needless to say - if they got the loan in May 1939 to build something from dirt - it did not get built by Sept 1, 1939 when the German Army crossed the border.
Possibilities 1) there is something that I am misunderstanding about the document 2) The addresses are confused (though her son says she had an incredible memory and went right to the place at that address).
I might add that Google maps street view has a clear picture at that address (the modern street name) of a building that looks materially the same as the one in the elevation drawings in the loan document.
Any insights appreciated. I’ve been asked so I’ll make the point that my inquiries are not about any theoretical claim. I could care less about that. I am trying to understand the life of my relatives - nothing more.
Steve Granek
Columbia, MD USA Researching - GRANEK, ALPERT, EKSTAJN, ADLER, ISAACSON, OREM, ARONOWICZ. |
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Re: 1897 All Empire Russian Census
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Arlene
Alex Krakovsky has scanned and posted over 2,800 files for the 1897 census comprising well over 400,000 pages of data from present day Ukraine - the link is https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/Архів:ДАКО/384 -- |
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JGSColorado presents "Donating your Family Papers? How, When, Where and Why" and "New Strategies in German Jewish Research" with Karen S. Franklin
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JGSCO presents
& New Strategies in German Jewish Research 
On Zoom 9:30 AM to 10:00 AM Schmear, Schmooze, and Share Program starts promptly at 10 AM
Donating your Family Papers? How, When, Where and Why How do you select an appropriate home for your family papers? The session provides an introduction to the Center for Jewish History and Leo Baeck Institute, a description of LBI collections, and gives suggestions for the process of donation. The Center recently reopened its doors to researchers in person and began accepting donations. Like many other institutions, it is inundated with new collections. Learn how to prepare your papers, work with archivists, and take advantage of the new research material.
New Strategies in German Jewish Research In this talk, Karen not only takes a closer look into the LBI collections--including methodologies for exploring women's stories--but also identifies other resources available to family historians, including the GermanJewish DNA group, Facebook groups, the International German Genealogy Partnership (IGGP), databases on JewishGen, the Obermayer Awards, and new web sites.
Karen S. Franklin is Director of Family Research at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York and a consultant to the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust. She has served as President of the International Jewish Genealogical Societies (IAJGS), and Co-Chair of the Board of Governors of JewishGen.org. She is a past Chair of the Council of American Jewish Museums and the Memorial Museums Committee of the International Council of Museums. She currently serves on the boards of the Southern Jewish Historical Society and National Association of Retired Reform Rabbis. A Co-founder of the Obermayer German Jewish History Award, Karen is the recipient of the IAJGS 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Free for members of the Jewish Genealogy Society of Colorado/ a link will be mailed to you $5 cost for guests/ go to JGSCO.org and click on program events |
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Re: 1897 All Empire Russian Census
#russia
joelbnovis@...
You did not specify which part of the former Russian Empire is of interest; I'd recommend checking the appropriate JewishGen collections as a starting point. FamilySearch.org has some limited information on specific districts (insofar as I could find from a broad catalog search on "Russia" and "Census - 1897".
For example, for certain districts (uyezdy) in Belarus, please see https://www.jewishgen.org/belarus/lists/intro_1897_russian_census.htm For the city of Kyiv, scans are available online of the original documents in part of the Krakovskiy collection; please see https://uk.wikisource.org/wiki/Архів:ДАКО/384/2 -- note that the index is in Ukrainian, while the original source material is in Russian. This is an incomplete list, I'm certain that other researchers have additional sources. Joel Novis Longmeadow, MA (NOVITSKIY: Kyiv, Vasil'kiv; OLSZTAJN: Łódź/Łowicz/Stryków/Zgierz; GEYMAN/HYMAN: Ashmyany; POTASNIK/LEVY: unknown) |
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sacredsisters1977@...
I had a similar situation. My great grandfather Abraham Greenberg immigrated with his fiancé Minnie Markowitz and her family. According to his papers that is the name he used. They immigrated in may of 1907 and were married in December of that same year. Maybe it was easier and less questions were asked from authorities. Bear in mind it was not safe there before and after the war.
Sarah Greenberg(USA) sacredsisters1977@... |
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Re: 1897 All Empire Russian Census
#russia
Jewishgen Latvia Database has a large number of entries for the 1897 Census. Some of the Towns have an incomplete census. Go to
https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Latvia/AllRussia.htm and see what Towns have been indexed. Read the Introduction carefully and you will know what the Database contains. The largest collection is Dvinsk now Daugavpils with over 18000 entries.Riga is incomplete with 1912 entries. Arlene Beare Co-director Jewishgen Estonia and Latvia Research Division |
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Re: Jews and Hot Air Balooning
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Thierry.Samama@...
Hi Jonathan,
Albert Samama-Chikly introduced air balloons and aerial photography in Tunisia in 1908. He was also the first fiction cinematographer in Tunisia and a friend of the Lumière brothers, one of the first war photographers in the French army during WWI, experimented with X-ray imaging, underwater photography and all sorts of new and exciting technologies of the day. Cheers, Thierry Samama |
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Re: PLOTKIN: Bischoff (Biechof), Moliger: Ukraine or Belarus?
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pathetiq1@...
Hi Norman,
Gostomliu is Hostomel https://www.jewishgen.org/ukraine/GEO_town.asp?id=94 -- Giannis Daropoulos Greece |
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