Dag,

Have you searched The JewishGen Latvia database?
https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Latvia/

A very quick search finds the STEINFELD family you mentioned in Grobin, and also in Grobin names spelled SHTEINFELD born 1893 to 1901.

I suggest doing a phonetic or soundex (sounds like) search at the above database to see these records.

Good luck in your search,

Sherri Bobish

Fredel,
Thank you for the suggestion. I didn't know about ViewMate as I have just joined Jewishgen. I will check into how to post them on ViewMate. I took these photos from findagrave.com so I do not have access to higher resolution photos. Do you have any ideas how I might obtain higher resolution photos? 
Thank you,
Aimee Smythe

Thanks for shedding light on these records. It turns out the records are digitized ( but not indexed) on FamilySearch.  The records are not very well organized, but are accessible. Here is a link to the records:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1713234?availability=Family%20History%20Library

Karen Steinfeld
Rockville, MD

Can someone please transcribe the Hebrew letters and translate them from the attached short record?
Thank you so much,
Larry Bassist

Munya and Muni are diminutives of Emmanuel; they may be for other names, as well.  The late father of a friend was called "Muni" and his name was Emmanuel.
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Louise Goldstein

 

Did you check the FamilySearch website? They have some death records on the site 




Dassy Wilen

These photos seem to be very low-resolution.  They become pixelated when I zoom in on them.

Do you have higher-resolution versions?

Also:  why not post them on ViewMate, under "translation-tombstone".
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Fredel Fruhman
Brooklyn, New York, USA

Long-time Brok and area researchers will be pleased to learn that Jewish
Records Indexing - Poland has undertaken a huge new "Phase 3" project to
fully extract all Brok birth, marriage and death records from 1826 to 1907.
To carry out this major initiative, we also have acquired scans (digital
images) of these Brok records in the Pułtusk branch of the Polish State
Archives.

As Town Leaders, it would be my pleasure to send you a full description of
the project and explain how you will be able to obtain the extracts of your
family records as they become available and before they go online.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Lisa Finkelstein Stavsky & Barbara Krasner
Lstavsky613@...
barbarakrasner@...

Co-Town Leaders, Brok Phase 3 extraction project

I have a six-page document that I would like to post for translation on ViewMate. (I thought it was Hungarian, but when I posted the first page, a few people informed me that only the first few lines are Hungarian, and the rest is German.) ViewMate seems to only accept one page at a time. Is there any way around this? I'd hate to post this as six separate requests, and have people try to translate the individual pages out of context. (In addition, ViewMate limits you to posting five files (pages?) per week.) Alternatively, the document is posted on a Hungarian language website, if anyone would like to go there and give it a shot:
https://archives.hungaricana.hu/en/lear/Kozjegyzoi/404418/view/?pg=0&bbox=-2111%2C-4219%2C4898%2C-129
I greatly appreciate any and all help with this!

Laurie Budgar
Longmont, CO USA

Dear George, 

are you 100% sure about the birth date for Hélène ? 

Here is one records from French Insee database (might be an homonym only)



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Regards,
David CHOUKROUN

david.choukroun@...
FRANCE

CHOUKROUN ATTALI ATLANI

Thanks for that interpretation; I hadn't thought of the Russian 'Efroimovich' being a surname, rather than a patronymic.

I have looked to see if there are records for the 'Sounds like' surnames Efroimovich or Efroimovitz or Froimovitz in Telsiai, but no records for these surnames comes up [though plenty for Abramovich do].

Here is how the entry for this marriage looks on Jewishgen:



The only other record that I can find for Jankel Lak and wife Shula is the 1874 birth record for their son Ilia. They had at least 3 other children, the oldest that I know of born in 1862, but those records on Jewishgen don't exist.



So, you all don't think that this is the same family? I do know, from the US records for this Lak/Locke family, including for their other children Ida and Frank, that their mother's surname was Ortman, their father's Hebrew name was Jacob bar Ephraim, and from their Hamburg passenger list that the parents traveled with the given names Jankel and Shula.
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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

Two  Jewish men from my German family married Christian women in England i the second half of the 1800s.  My grandmother's uncle Julius had  travelled to America and back while still a teen-ager, and did not wish to return to his family home in Bonn where he was liable for military service.  He would no longer have been steeped in Jewish culture, London was an exciting, welcoming place and he married his wife in church, because it was the respectable thing to do.  He signed the marriage record with his full name , including that of his rabbinical grandfather, Bonim, and   never fathered any children. So perhaps he retained some feeling of guilt.
Juius's nephew,   Ernst, too, came to London, thirty years later, a slightly feckless and immature 19-year-old. He had lost both his parents and his older brother was already living near Julius in England as a trainee clerk .  It seems Ernst turned to a servant-girl for comfort.  She had a child nine months later, and he then married her in a register office,  although it looks as if both his brother, his uncle Julius and the young woman's family disapproved. 
This practical young woman more or less supported my great-uncle while bearing him four more  children, working as a cook when he was unable to hold down a job.  His German nationality at the start of the Great War broke up the marriage and he was sent back to Germany, where he went back to his Jewish identity to rejoin his relatives there.
It's not an uplifting story, but it is a human one, and each mixed marriage will a reason of its own. 
Eva Lawrence
St Albans, UK.


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Eva Lawrence
St Albans, UK.

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Bruce Drake
Silver Spring, MD

Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK
Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel

Remembrance Memories of Yom Hashoah and Yom Hazicharon  

 

This is a remembrance plaque for Kupiskis, Lithuania, which was laid July 13, 2004.  Then, as a memory of Ponary, Lithuania, there is the oak I found and kept as a remembrance of those killed and buried there as well as a photo of a remembrance service by the 48 members of our Wall of Memory trip to Kupiskis.

 

The chill rain drizzled continuously that day in July as we prayed and cried, yes everyone cried, one could not help it.  The time in the Ninth Fort was also a place one could not stop crying either.  

 

Let there be the memory of this day, today, April 8, 2021, that will remind us of the past so brutal and lacking in compassion, yet give us insight into the future, so that never again will these deeds be repeated by anyone on G-d’s green earth.  Let the oak speak for those who believe in peace and prosperity and never those who wish to kill and maim.

 

Take the time perhaps when the State of Israel does to stop everything and pray on Yom HaShoah and Yom Hazicharon as I will.

 

Ann Rabinowitz

arabinow@...

 

Looking for relatives of Bernard Sheinker, born in Trimanchi, Russian Poland in 1863. He emigrated to Boston, MA in 1893 and died there in 1923. He had relatives in the Boston area, the descendants of whom I would like to connect with. Bernard was my maternal grandfather, married to Louise Lutter Lange, who emigrated from Barsinghausen (near Hannover), Germany in 1896. I am researching the history of my family, but have not been able to find any information about the family of my grandfather. I was told that Bernard attended rabbinical school in Warsaw and was affiliated with a yeshiva in Boston, but have no further details. David A. Otto

I beleive the current law for making NYC death certificates public is 70 years. The public archives seem to be stuck in 1948, when 1949 and 1950 should be available.  The covid shutdown should be making more time available for this processing, no?
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Adam Cherson

I also had a female first 2X cousin Muna Neger from Dynow. I am not aware of Muna being a nickname for another name. Sadly she was shot by a Nazi holding her twin baby girls, also killed.
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NTalbot
Brooklyn, NY
ninaitalbot@...

NEGER, SPINRAD (Dynow, Poland)
TOLPEN (Suchostaw, Poland/Sukhostav, Ukraine)
DISTENFELD, ADLER, WILDER (Kamionka Strumilowa, Poland/Kamianka-Buzka, Ukraine)