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You will find her among the photos in Jewishdata.com.  Many DE VRIES are buried in the New York area, including a Rachel (b. 1839, d. 1921).

Some public libraries have licenses to this website or possibly you local Jewish genealogy society.  
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The Facebook group New York City Genealogy has the most up-do-date information on how to obtain the original images of NYC vital records that are extracted on FamilySearch.org. In their Announcements section, you'll find how to go about this.

Using SteveMorse.org to search for records for the couple, using the 'Starts with' function for names - 

It is the marriage certificate that may have more information about the couple, Edward McMahon and Rosalyn Bernstein

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:24WZ-7GF

 

Name                                                   Edward Mcmahon

Sex                                                         Male

Age                                                        37

Birth Year (Estimated)                    1890

Birthplace                                            New York City

Marital Status                                    Widowed

Race                                                      White

Father's Name                                   Bernard

Mother's Name                                 Anna Mckenna

Spouse's Name                                 Rosalyn Bernstein

Spouse's Sex                                      Female

Spouse's Age                                     22

Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated) 1905

Spouse's Birthplace                         New York City

Spouse's Marital Status                 Single

Spouse's Race                                    White

Spouse's Father's Name                 David

Spouse's Mother's Name              Rebecca Ash

Marriage Date                                   20 Jul 1927

Marriage Place  Manhattan, New York, New York, United States

Marriage Place (Original)              Manhattan, New York

The death certificate record on Familysearch has his name as Edward McMann: 
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W1T-1BX?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=MB44-9VY

That will have the cause of death, and where he is buried, and address at time of death.

On FamilySearch, if you look in the upper right corner of the above pages, you will see that there is a family tree for Edward B. McMahon, with links to other FamilySearch records. And as might be expected with a name like McMahon, this person was not Jewish. His NYC birth record has both of his parents born in Ireland:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2W3C-QCS?from=lynx1UIV8&treeref=MB44-9VY

You never know, but the persons who have contributed to this tree on FamilySearch may know something about the couple and how they met, so you could try contacting them. I suspect that the couple is also in trees on Ancestry, and contacting the owners of those trees could be fruitful. [My track record contacting owners of trees is about 90% no response, but the 10% who do respond are usually the ones who have facts about individuals].

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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

There are records of survivors in the Arolson Archives too. Recently I found proof there of someones "onderduik". Also a woman who, while interned in Westerbork,  managed to "prove" she wasn't jewish enough, she was released. Her non-jewish husband in Kamp Vught. Her sisters though (at least one of them also a mixed marriage, all ended up in Sobibor or Auschwitz. I suppose they didn't find a clever lawyer ...

Several men named Adrianus Peeters in the Arolson Archives, but wrong d.o.b. Entries without d.o.b. though. Also, they may have lists that haven't been transcribed yet?
I see on Sara's "archiefkaart" in the Amsterdam Stadsarchief that they married 19 sept 1945 in Amsterdam.

I don't know if you have this: Adrianus' first wife must have given up hope ever seeing him again, and/or she found someone else.

Ned. Staatscourant 28-6-1945:

And Sara? Because of her name I had wrongly assumed she was Jewish.

Ned. Staatscourant 23-8-1941


In 1941 she lived in Amsterdam for a short while after her divorce, but moved back to Rotterdam soon after. Was registered in Amsterdam again in dec 1945, with husband Peeters. Two sons with her first husband, one of them died in 1950 in Rotterdam, age 18.

Loes Buisman,
Amsterdam

Just a note regarding the photo.  This is a typical passport photo with the person's signature and the official seal.  Cannot actually read the lettering though.
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I have already looked at the first 5 or so. (Did not succeed at #1.)

Am primarily now concentrating on placing links to any of the two other resources that Joy Kestenbaum mentioned now. The quality of some of the photos is better on https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Narewka/NarewkaCemetery/index.html that was mentioned. There could be photos, though, that are not elsewhere.

What is still missing across the board, with respect to these gravestones, is a Hebrew transcription - and the question would be which site would host this.

David

My ancestors ZIANTS, ZENETZKI (SCHLOSBERG ?,BLOOM ?), and FRYDMAN, as well as SANICKI (kohanim) family and Sarah ZIANCHICK (family in Pennsylvania, USA),  all had a presence in Narewka during the latter part of the 19th century and beginning of 20th century. The two family names in parentheses are branches of ZENETSKI, but is not sure whether anyone from these branches lived in Narewka. It is unsure whether Sarah ZIANCHICK is my ZIANTS family or not. SANICKI in Chelsea MA, USA have on their memorials that they are kohanim (paternal descendants of Aaron the Priest), but my ancestors don't have this tradition. Someone suggested the possibility that a child of a family took the family name of the mother (wanting to avoid the Czar's army and that sort of thing).

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David Ziants

Ma'aleh Adumim, Israel

The Routes to Roots Foundation is offering Weekly Featured Collections from its website at www.rtrfoundation.org.

 

This week, we are highlighting the following from the MAP COLLECTIONS: 

 

1.    This collection consists of individual street maps of towns and cities within the current borders of Ukraine. Many of the town maps consist of 1-4 separate maps. The maps are in color and about half of them include a "legend" – primarily an alphabetical listing of street names. The maps are in the Russian language (Cyrillic alphabet). This map collection includes more than 40 localities in present-day Ukraine.  

              https://www.rtrfoundation.org/maps.shtml

 

2.    This collection consists of individual street maps of towns and cities within the current borders of Belarus. Some of the town maps consist of 1-6 separate maps. The maps are in color and most of them include a "legend" – primarily an alphabetical listing of street names. The maps are in the Russian language (Cyrillic alphabet). This map collection includes 25 localities in present-day Belarus.

              https://www.rtrfoundation.org/maps.shtml

 

 

 

Miriam Weiner

Secaucus, NJ

 

 

The correct address for the Memorial Book of Pápa, Hungary is https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/papa/papa.html

My BERAN family - previously from Boskowitz/Boskovice in Moravia - had, I believe, a factory in Pépa.

Regards
David Bernheim
Saint Martin Vésubie, France

Hi Robin:

The fragments of the 1897 All Russian Census for Grodno Gubernia has been indexed. These indices of these fragments for towns now in Poland, including Bialystok and about 12 other towns, are part of the JRI-Poland online database. For a list of surnames included for these 13 towns, see  https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/BialyGen/1897Census.htm. Please remember that these surnames cover 13 towns in the Bialystok area including Bialystok and there is not a complete census for Bialystok. 

Mark Halpern
JRI-Poland Bialystok Area Coordinator 

I know Kuoni is an international travel agency that exists in Switzerland.  

Kuoni Group

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Odeda Zlotnick
Jerusalem, Israel.

Is there a website or printed material for A Bialystok census or directory from 1890-1915? Thanks
Robin Schwalb
Cary North Carolina

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Do you hear about private name of levi?

Looking for relatives of Moshe Sztelman from Grojec, Poland. In the attached card he sends greetings to his aunt Zysla Miller. No place or date was provided. The picture studio was at 28 Smocza and the name of the Studio starts with MAT....(can not make up the name). I checked for the address in Warsaw but it corresponds to some market before the war.  Thanks for your help.
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Angel Kosfiszer

Richardson, Texas
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You can't remove the photo, but you can add a note in the bio identifying the person in the photo. If you have other photos to add, you can rearrange the order of the photos so that the offending photo no long shows on the front page.

Norma Schumow
California

Are any of theses stones duplicated here:

https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Narewka/NarewkaCemetery/index.html

David Rosen
Boston, MA