Hello All,

I am interested in the last family on the attached image from the 1930 US Census. Does anyone have any ideas about what the notations in the rightmost three columns next to Bernard and Edith Bell might mean?

I've been able to find very little about them so I'm eager to extract every bit of information from this page. Any ideas will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Deborah Barr
San Francisco, CA
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Hi Hilary

For Emden, I believe the work of Max Markreich "The Jews of Ostfriesland" (available at LBI) is a key resource.
Also the below resource indexes the family names mentioned in his work, by page name (lots of DE BEERs...):
https://nljewgen.org/pdf_boeken/1250_index_joden_ostfriesland_1700-1945.pdf

Best Regards,
Daniel Mayer
d.mayer@...

I've posted 2 vital records in Russian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address:

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM93565
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM93571

Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.

Thank you very much.
Dror Bereznitsky

Hi,
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=VM93358

Thank you very much,
Corey Brand
Researching: MARKOWSKI & NELKEN from Kalisz

I have been able to find what professions were common in the early 1900s in the Siauliai district of Lithuania, based on the Jewish bank records that are for the town. The 1910-1913 bank records are mixed in with the tax list records, but they can be sorted out by adding 'bank' for a term searched for. For those years, I got the following: tradesman, shop assistant, photographer, teacher, dentist, musician, engineer, hotel keeper, barber, shopkeeperess (so archaic), shoemaker, tailor, painter, mason, Talmudic scholar, inspector at insurance office, melamed, merchant, pharmacist, wheelwright, doctor, baker, furniture seller, needleworker, capmaker, accountant, waitress, roof maker, household duties, typographer, carpenter, shop assistant at drugstore, baker, bread seller, milk seller, cantor, forestry business, cutter, slaughterer, clerk, and banker.

 

I suspect that in larger towns, that similar occupations would be common, at least in places not too distant from Lithuania. I have also seen in smaller towns occupations of wool processor, wood worker, and timber merchant, as well as farmer. 

Sometimes earlier tax records also have the occupation of the person. 

And in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania 1784 census, there are many entries for tavern keeper, which was acceptable during the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. But under Russian authorities after 1800, tavern keeping was discouraged, though apparently it did not die out completely.

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Michele Lock

Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock and Kalon/Kolon in Zagare/Joniskis/Gruzdziai, Lithuania
Lak/Lok/Liak/Lock in Plunge/Telsiai in Lithuania
Trisinsky/Trushinsky/Sturisky and Leybman in Dotnuva, Lithuania
Olitsky in Alytus, Suwalki, Poland/Lithuania
Gutman/Goodman in Czestochowa, Poland
Lavine/Lev/Lew in Trenton, New Jersey and Lida/Vilna gub., Belarus

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Yizkor Books In Print

I don't think I have any direct information, but I wanted to reply, as I have Rudmans in my family, from Ukraine. A second cousin once removed emigrated from Ukraine to Israel in the 1980s-90s. Before he passed away, a few years ago, he sent me an extensive Rudman family tree, but I never studied it in depth, just the closest relatives. I'm happy to email it to you if you are interested, in case you find any of your known (or unknown!) relatives.
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Erica Fox Zabusky
Pittsburgh, PA
ZABUSKI - Czestochowa, Sochaczew
FRYDMANN - Sochaczew
BRAUN, PANKOWSKI - Czestochowa
FIKSEL, RUDMAN - Izaslav, Slavuta, Odessa, Kharkov
POLISZUK, GOLDMAN - Izaslav, Slavuta

Hi Brianna,

My father Oscar/Usher Harast was born in 1902 in Dumbraveni, Soroki, Bessarabia/Russia/Romania, now Moldova. He had said that they owned an inn which had been in the family for several generations. My grandmother MIntza -- who later lived with us in Phila., PA -- had said she had done all the cooking for the inn (listed on official records as "tavern and inn keepers"). My father said he used to swim in the Dneister River and that the family vacationed at the Black Sea. He and his brother and sister had worked in the town library, so apparently they were literate. My father, his mother, and his two siblings emigrated to Philadelphia in 1920 (his father was deceased). The inn was then listed as belonging to his cousin, Pesach/Paul Harast, who died in 1932. HIS sons had already emigrated to Philadelphia. That's the end of my paper trail. Please see my Ancestry Public Tree titled "ArostStaub_2019".

Please contact me if I can be of any further help.

Molly Arost Staub
M. A. in Journalism

561-571-6699
Boca Raton, FL

SEARCHING IN MOLDOVA:
kHAREST, HARAST
SHTOFFMAN

There was someone henny hindel heckscher, married to abraham heckscher. Henny hindel was born in Altona.
Henny hindel maiden name was Möller. Her husband abraham had alot of siblings, and from Hamburg.
You can search on geni, Henny hindel heckscher neé möller, wife of abraham go to abraham's profile and there you'll see alot of the heckscher names. ( if not mistaken I chanced upon name, ephraim.)

Moe Dinkel

Here are two examples from Yizkor books that describe occupations

I understand you've been connected with Gary Perlman, who I know will do a great job for you. He is a local legend having photographed thousands upon thousands of Montreal gravestones.  You'll get a great photograph for sure.

The image is on stone, so there is going to be some stone grain I assume. If you want the image cleaned up or colorized, the Reddit forum r/estoration is full of eager volunteers (also people who require "tips" if you want their efforts). Once you get the image you could ask over at www.reddit.com/r/estoration 

Good luck.


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Peter Cherna, Exton PA (peter@...)
Researching CSERNA (Budapest, Székesfehérvár), GRUNFELD (Székesfehérvár), BRAUN, REINER (Budapest, Nyíregyháza, Máriapócs), EHRENFELD (Pozsony, Balassagyarmat) BRACK (Ipolykeszi)

Many Yizkor books have chapters on this very subject. Unfortunately, for those towns you named that have books, I did not see one.

Bruce Drake
Silver Spring MD

Canadian Ship Manifests can be found here:

Canada passenger lists : COLLECTION RECORD, 1881-1922

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Barbara Rice,  Minneapolis MN
Researching Kupferschmidt - Radekhiv Ukraine and Philadelphia PA; Zuchovitz - Stowtsby Belarus and Woodbine NJ; Rohssler - Krakow and New York City; Rehfeld - Gollub-Dobrzyn; Rusonik - Polotsk Belarus, Manchester England, New York City and Providence RI.

Have you posted a request on Findagrave?

https://www.findagrave.com/

Mike Coleman   London U.K.

 

World Wind Story.  We had a family member move from Bialystok, Poland to the UK with his Wife and Children. He abandoned them, went to the USA, and then "vanished".  His family though he died in WWI.  Not even close.  To say this man was a "philanderer", womanizer, and Lady's man is putting it mildly.

1. Wife from Poland and he had 5 Children he Abandoned.
2. In Norway he proceeded to knock up 4 different women and had at least 6 more kids.  We keep finding new ones.....

Finally settling down with one of those four women, he had two children. His youngest son and youngest son's daughter (granddaughter) were always suspicious of his story. Youngest son is now deceased.  His oldest son is 95 and still living, but refused to spill whatever he knew.  So the youngest son (while alive) and his daughter undertook the mission on their own.

Who was this man and why didn't his story add up.  Well all came to light with DNA.  He was in fact our relative. Instead of dying in WWI, he went AWOL, fled to Norway, changed his Name, got baptized, and hid his Jewish Heritage. Never contacting his Mother, Siblings, or Polish Wife ever Again.  Then,  Proceeding to philander his way around Norway having illegitimate kids.  Out of the 6 children in Norway, 2 died in 1918 (probably of the Spanish Flu), and 4 lived to adulthood. Assuming no more children are located.

The woman who started this whole project wrote an article about her journey that got published in Norwegian.  As It's in Norwegian and I need it translated so we can also read her work. Unfortunately, the woman who did all the research has been very busy in life and not had the opportunity to translate the document.  So I am reaching out for help so we can read her Article about our Jewish Family Member who hid his identity and left children all around the world.

Couldn't make this up if we tried!

Sophia Sherman

 A link to the actual page would be more helpful. I haven't seen crosses on Jewish records. The marking is the diacritic above the a. Also they wouldn't be noting the father's death on a birth record. It refers to Jozsef dying Dec 1891, but it could also refer to Eliasz. You need to find the death record to make sure.
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Stephen Schmideg
Melbourne, Australia
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