Natalie,

I think I may have found Milton.

I first looked at the Mt. Zion database. I searched for the name of the society
(without any last name entered.)

I found Joseph BERNOWSKY, d. 1916, with the Delatitcher society.

Next, I searched on stevemorse.org (NYC death index) for Joseph BERNOWSKY, and
found Joseph M BERNOWSKY to be a 3 year old that passed in 1916.

Acquiring the death cert of Joseph M. BERNOWSKY will give you the parents names
and prove or disprove this theory. I bet his middle name is Milton.

I've sent this info plus the cert number directly to Natalie.

regards,

Sherri Bobish
Princeton, NJ

Natalie,

I think I may have found Milton.

I first looked at the Mt. Zion database. I searched for the name of the society
(without any last name entered.)

I found Joseph BERNOWSKY, d. 1916, with the Delatitcher society.

Next, I searched on stevemorse.org (NYC death index) for Joseph BERNOWSKY, and
found Joseph M BERNOWSKY to be a 3 year old that passed in 1916.

Acquiring the death cert of Joseph M. BERNOWSKY will give you the parents names
and prove or disprove this theory. I bet his middle name is Milton.

I've sent this info plus the cert number directly to Natalie.

regards,

Sherri Bobish
Princeton, NJ

We're happy to announce that Gesher Galicia's new All Galicia Database (AGD) has
just released an update. This update adds two major new features and also fixes
one small bug, but does not add any new content to the database. (That's coming in
the next update, tentatively scheduled for late this month.) Here's the URL:
http://search.geshergalicia.org/

Our first major new feature for the AGD is the arrival of Beider-Morse Phonetic
Matching for surnames! You can toggle this ability on and off with a checkbox in
the search area, but we recommend leaving it on in order to find the greatest
number of surname spelling variants.

For example, the surname SCHREIER has just nine exact matches in the AGD. Using
the AGD's wildcard feature, I can search for "SCHR*R" (with the asterisk acting as
the wildcard) and find some more surname variants like SCHREYER. But now with the
ability to do phonetic matching, I can find 127 matches in the database, including
for surnames like SZRAJER and SRAYER that the wildcard search might have missed.

Our sincere thanks go to Steve Morse and Alexander Beider, who not only created the
original Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching (BMPM)system, but who wisely chose to
release the code as open source. Our thanks also go to Dr. Matthew Pocock >from the
UK, a programmer who did the actual porting of Morse and Beider's original PHP code
over to java code, and then submitted it to the Apache Foundation's commons-codec
team for inclusion. That in turn allowed the integration of BMPM as a new option
in Apache Solr, version 3.6 (which is not yet released) and future versions of
Solr. (The AGD now runs on a pre-release version of 3.6.) This means that this
code is now available for any organization who wants to use it, free of charge. We
hope more genealogy organizations and historical groups will take advantage of
this new code in the future for their own websites.

Our second major feature update to the AGD is the introduction of the new "Towns
and Locations" web page, which gives a quick overview of what towns and locations
are mentioned in the database. This page will automatically update itself every
time we edit or add new content to the site. It lists the top 50 towns and
locations by rank, and then also lists every town or location we have in
alphabetical order, as long as that location is listed at least three times.

Note that the names of the towns and locations have *not* been standardized. They
show up on the list just as they show up in the database. Some towns may be
mentioned under alternate names; for example, Lemberg, Lwow, and Lviv are different
names for the same city, but they each might appear separately in the list,
depending on how they were recorded in the original data source. Some of these
locations may be very general, such as "Galicia" or "Russia". A few towns may have
been misspelled. Finally, some of these towns may have become incorporated into
other localities over the years; for example, Zadworna is today a section of the
city of Drohobych, Ukraine, and not a standalone town.

Basically, we have left this information exactly as it was entered by the
transcribers, reflecting the form and spelling in the original records. It's
interesting to note how many non-Galician towns and areas show up on the list (i.e.
Warszawa (Warsaw), Berlin, Wien (Vienna), New York [!], Russia, etc.) Our
ancestors got around...

We also made one small bugfix in this release, fixing a problem with paging through
multiple results pages if you had done a search with a 'sort" option enabled. Sort
order will now persist correctly across multiple pages.

Again, the All Galicia Database is online here:

http://search.geshergalicia.org/

And our new Towns and Locations page, which is also linked in the footer of the
site, is here:

http://search.geshergalicia.org/towns.php

Enjoy the new features, and happy searching! Our next update, coming soon, will
add a whole bunch of new content for several towns, including many mid-19th century
homeowners lists >from Galician towns, most of them circa 1858, which were obtained
through our multi-year Cadastral Map and Landowners Project at the Lviv archives.
We'll also be adding a very special collection of marriage records >from the
Tarnopol (Ternopil, Ukraine) Ghetto, >from 1942.


- Brooke Schreier Ganz
Los Angeles, California

We're happy to announce that Gesher Galicia's new All Galicia Database (AGD) has
just released an update. This update adds two major new features and also fixes
one small bug, but does not add any new content to the database. (That's coming in
the next update, tentatively scheduled for late this month.) Here's the URL:
http://search.geshergalicia.org/

Our first major new feature for the AGD is the arrival of Beider-Morse Phonetic
Matching for surnames! You can toggle this ability on and off with a checkbox in
the search area, but we recommend leaving it on in order to find the greatest
number of surname spelling variants.

For example, the surname SCHREIER has just nine exact matches in the AGD. Using
the AGD's wildcard feature, I can search for "SCHR*R" (with the asterisk acting as
the wildcard) and find some more surname variants like SCHREYER. But now with the
ability to do phonetic matching, I can find 127 matches in the database, including
for surnames like SZRAJER and SRAYER that the wildcard search might have missed.

Our sincere thanks go to Steve Morse and Alexander Beider, who not only created the
original Beider-Morse Phonetic Matching (BMPM)system, but who wisely chose to
release the code as open source. Our thanks also go to Dr. Matthew Pocock >from the
UK, a programmer who did the actual porting of Morse and Beider's original PHP code
over to java code, and then submitted it to the Apache Foundation's commons-codec
team for inclusion. That in turn allowed the integration of BMPM as a new option
in Apache Solr, version 3.6 (which is not yet released) and future versions of
Solr. (The AGD now runs on a pre-release version of 3.6.) This means that this
code is now available for any organization who wants to use it, free of charge. We
hope more genealogy organizations and historical groups will take advantage of
this new code in the future for their own websites.

Our second major feature update to the AGD is the introduction of the new "Towns
and Locations" web page, which gives a quick overview of what towns and locations
are mentioned in the database. This page will automatically update itself every
time we edit or add new content to the site. It lists the top 50 towns and
locations by rank, and then also lists every town or location we have in
alphabetical order, as long as that location is listed at least three times.

Note that the names of the towns and locations have *not* been standardized. They
show up on the list just as they show up in the database. Some towns may be
mentioned under alternate names; for example, Lemberg, Lwow, and Lviv are different
names for the same city, but they each might appear separately in the list,
depending on how they were recorded in the original data source. Some of these
locations may be very general, such as "Galicia" or "Russia". A few towns may have
been misspelled. Finally, some of these towns may have become incorporated into
other localities over the years; for example, Zadworna is today a section of the
city of Drohobych, Ukraine, and not a standalone town.

Basically, we have left this information exactly as it was entered by the
transcribers, reflecting the form and spelling in the original records. It's
interesting to note how many non-Galician towns and areas show up on the list (i.e.
Warszawa (Warsaw), Berlin, Wien (Vienna), New York [!], Russia, etc.) Our
ancestors got around...

We also made one small bugfix in this release, fixing a problem with paging through
multiple results pages if you had done a search with a 'sort" option enabled. Sort
order will now persist correctly across multiple pages.

Again, the All Galicia Database is online here:

http://search.geshergalicia.org/

And our new Towns and Locations page, which is also linked in the footer of the
site, is here:

http://search.geshergalicia.org/towns.php

Enjoy the new features, and happy searching! Our next update, coming soon, will
add a whole bunch of new content for several towns, including many mid-19th century
homeowners lists >from Galician towns, most of them circa 1858, which were obtained
through our multi-year Cadastral Map and Landowners Project at the Lviv archives.
We'll also be adding a very special collection of marriage records >from the
Tarnopol (Ternopil, Ukraine) Ghetto, >from 1942.


- Brooke Schreier Ganz
Los Angeles, California

Does anyone know a good source for information about men who served in the [St]
Petersburg Russian Cavalry at the turn of the 20th century? I've just learned that
a man I think was my grandfather's brother was discharged >from that unit in 1904.
If drafted at the age of 21, his service years would have been 1894-1904. I'm not
having any success with search engines on this.

Would there be records of place of birth and/ or residence at the time of draft?
(Since he was Jewish and the family was observant, I'm assuming he didn't enlist).

Joy Weaver
Islip, NY USA

Does anyone know a good source for information about men who served in the [St]
Petersburg Russian Cavalry at the turn of the 20th century? I've just learned that
a man I think was my grandfather's brother was discharged >from that unit in 1904.
If drafted at the age of 21, his service years would have been 1894-1904. I'm not
having any success with search engines on this.

Would there be records of place of birth and/ or residence at the time of draft?
(Since he was Jewish and the family was observant, I'm assuming he didn't enlist).

Joy Weaver
Islip, NY USA

Amendment to my HARRIS family message.

Abraham/Albert HARRIS married Ellen aka Nellie/Eleanor nee FREEMAN in BELFAST (not
Dublin) in 1903 (not 1906)

If these names ring any bells please contact me direct.

monicamcmullin@...

Monica McMullin
Liverpool UK

Amendment to my HARRIS family message.

Abraham/Albert HARRIS married Ellen aka Nellie/Eleanor nee FREEMAN in BELFAST (not
Dublin) in 1903 (not 1906)

If these names ring any bells please contact me direct.

monicamcmullin@...

Monica McMullin
Liverpool UK

I agree with Joy Weaver that the Fulton History site is a difficult one to search.
If you go on FultonHistory.com and click on enter you get the search screen. If
you then click on the FAQ link in the upper right corner, and then scroll down a
bit, you'll see "Tips and Solutions"; these provide the researcher with effective
researching methodologies and wonderful short cuts happy hunting

Phyllis Kramer, New York City, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla
V.P.Education, JewishGen Inc: www.JewishGen.org/education
Researching (all Galicia) KRAMER, BEIM >from Jasienica Rosielna
...SCHEINER, KANDEL >from Strzyzow & Dubiecko
...LINDNER, EICHEL >from Rohatyn, Burstyn
...STECHER, TRACHMAN >from Nowy Zmigrod, Dukla
family web site: www.KehilaLinks.JewishGen.org/Krosno/Kramer.htm

I agree with Joy Weaver that the Fulton History site is a difficult one to search.
If you go on FultonHistory.com and click on enter you get the search screen. If
you then click on the FAQ link in the upper right corner, and then scroll down a
bit, you'll see "Tips and Solutions"; these provide the researcher with effective
researching methodologies and wonderful short cuts happy hunting

Phyllis Kramer, New York City, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla
V.P.Education, JewishGen Inc: www.JewishGen.org/education
Researching (all Galicia) KRAMER, BEIM >from Jasienica Rosielna
...SCHEINER, KANDEL >from Strzyzow & Dubiecko
...LINDNER, EICHEL >from Rohatyn, Burstyn
...STECHER, TRACHMAN >from Nowy Zmigrod, Dukla
family web site: www.KehilaLinks.JewishGen.org/Krosno/Kramer.htm

I have found some further information on a message I posted last week. Re; Abraham
aka Albert HARRIS & wife Ellen aka Eleanor/Nellie nee FREEMAN. Abraham/Albert
HARRIS was born in Cardiff to parents Simon & Maria nee BLOOM. Ellen aka Eleanor/
Nellie FREEMAN was born in Dublin to Philip & Sarah nee LEVI. They were married in
Dublin in 1906 & were listed on the 1911 Dublin census with 6 year-old daughter
Simona & 2 year-old daughter Esther. By 1914 Abraham/Albert & wife Ellen aka
Eleanor/Nellie HARRIS were living at Green Street, Green in Kent. The house was
called "Hilltop". Abraham/Albert HARRIS was a jeweller.

I am interested in finding any descendants of the Harris family as I have important
handwritten letters to pass onto, which are nearly 100 years old.

Please contact direct.
monicamcmullin@...

Monica McMullin
Liverpool

I have found some further information on a message I posted last week. Re; Abraham
aka Albert HARRIS & wife Ellen aka Eleanor/Nellie nee FREEMAN. Abraham/Albert
HARRIS was born in Cardiff to parents Simon & Maria nee BLOOM. Ellen aka Eleanor/
Nellie FREEMAN was born in Dublin to Philip & Sarah nee LEVI. They were married in
Dublin in 1906 & were listed on the 1911 Dublin census with 6 year-old daughter
Simona & 2 year-old daughter Esther. By 1914 Abraham/Albert & wife Ellen aka
Eleanor/Nellie HARRIS were living at Green Street, Green in Kent. The house was
called "Hilltop". Abraham/Albert HARRIS was a jeweller.

I am interested in finding any descendants of the Harris family as I have important
handwritten letters to pass onto, which are nearly 100 years old.

Please contact direct.
monicamcmullin@...

Monica McMullin
Liverpool

Would you like to have a custom made globe which tracks your ancestor's movements?

An artist in the San Francisco area is offering such a product. For more
information, please visit her website: http://artonglobes.com/diy_2012.html.

I have no financial interest in this product. I am sharing this information which
was recently brought to my attention.

Eden Joachim
Pomona, NY
esjoachim@...

Would you like to have a custom made globe which tracks your ancestor's movements?

An artist in the San Francisco area is offering such a product. For more
information, please visit her website: http://artonglobes.com/diy_2012.html.

I have no financial interest in this product. I am sharing this information which
was recently brought to my attention.

Eden Joachim
Pomona, NY
esjoachim@...

The New York Times reported on March 3 about the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee providing digital access to its treasure trove of archival materials. To
read the article go to: http://tinyurl.com/7wc2shw
original url:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/nyregion/jewish-archives-on-20th-century-diaspora-are-going-online.html?emc=eta1

There will be a searchable index for every document, photograph and record card,
an essential tool considering that the Joint's archives contain over 500,000 names
and 100,000 photographs. To search the archives go to: http://archives.jdc.org/

Thank you to Paul Silverstone, IAJGS treasurer and IAJGS Public Records Access
Monitoring Committee Member to alerting us to the New York Times Article.

Jan Meisels Allen
IAJGS Vice President
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

The New York Times reported on March 3 about the American Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee providing digital access to its treasure trove of archival materials. To
read the article go to: http://tinyurl.com/7wc2shw
original url:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/nyregion/jewish-archives-on-20th-century-diaspora-are-going-online.html?emc=eta1

There will be a searchable index for every document, photograph and record card,
an essential tool considering that the Joint's archives contain over 500,000 names
and 100,000 photographs. To search the archives go to: http://archives.jdc.org/

Thank you to Paul Silverstone, IAJGS treasurer and IAJGS Public Records Access
Monitoring Committee Member to alerting us to the New York Times Article.

Jan Meisels Allen
IAJGS Vice President
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee

I have been searching for years on all the databases(immigration,naturalization,
Ancestry, Ellis Island,Morse) to find the arrivals of my uncle (Ben or Benny Kunofsy)
and two aunts (Mollie and Jennie Kunofsky). They came between 1906 and 1910, probably
together, >from Uzda, which was in Poland and is now in Belarus. They were between 15
and 22 years old when they arrived, I think in the Port of New York. Can anyone help?
Thanks, Sy Pearlman, whose mother was Anna Kunofsky.

I have been searching for years on all the databases(immigration,naturalization,
Ancestry, Ellis Island,Morse) to find the arrivals of my uncle (Ben or Benny Kunofsy)
and two aunts (Mollie and Jennie Kunofsky). They came between 1906 and 1910, probably
together, >from Uzda, which was in Poland and is now in Belarus. They were between 15
and 22 years old when they arrived, I think in the Port of New York. Can anyone help?
Thanks, Sy Pearlman, whose mother was Anna Kunofsky.

I have found some further information on a message I posted last week.

Re; Abraham aka Albert HARRIS & wife Ellen aka Eleanor/Nellie nee FREEMAN.
Abraham/Albert HARRIS was born in Cardiff to parents Simon & Maria nee BLOOM.
Ellen aka Eleanor/Nellie FREEMAN was born in Dublin to Philip & Sarah nee LEVI.
They were married in Dublin in 1906 & were listed on the 1911 Dublin census with
6 year-old daughter Simona & 2 year-old daughter Esther.
By 1914 Abraham/Albert & wife Ellen aka Eleanor/Nellie HARRIS were living at
Nº1, Green Street, Green in Kent. The house was called "Hilltop".
Abraham/Albert HARRIS was a jeweller.

I am interested in finding any descendants of the Harris family as I have
important handwritten letters to pass onto, which are nearly 100 years old.

Please contact direct.
monicamcmullin@...

Monica McMullin
Liverpool

I have found some further information on a message I posted last week.

Re; Abraham aka Albert HARRIS & wife Ellen aka Eleanor/Nellie nee FREEMAN.
Abraham/Albert HARRIS was born in Cardiff to parents Simon & Maria nee BLOOM.
Ellen aka Eleanor/Nellie FREEMAN was born in Dublin to Philip & Sarah nee LEVI.
They were married in Dublin in 1906 & were listed on the 1911 Dublin census with
6 year-old daughter Simona & 2 year-old daughter Esther.
By 1914 Abraham/Albert & wife Ellen aka Eleanor/Nellie HARRIS were living at
Nº1, Green Street, Green in Kent. The house was called "Hilltop".
Abraham/Albert HARRIS was a jeweller.

I am interested in finding any descendants of the Harris family as I have
important handwritten letters to pass onto, which are nearly 100 years old.

Please contact direct.
monicamcmullin@...

Monica McMullin
Liverpool