Hi Judy,
I'm a descendent  of Menashe Venitsky who changed his name to Morris Vennit when he came to the US in 1900 with his wife Fanny Schosid Venitsky. The census records say they came from Vilnius. I'm very interesting in finding Venitsky/Vennit relatives and would love to know of anyone you're in contact with who might be related.
thank you
Sharyn Weizman
Herzilya, Israel (formerly of Maryland)

Greetings,

One set of my grandparents, both with families in Philadelphia, were married in the rabbi's office rather than in the main sanctuary (not sure if that's what the primary area of worship was called). Would there have been a precedent, or reason? There seems to be correspondence about when to have the wedding in the office, as opposed to why. Money wouldn't have been the issue, and one of my relatives has suggested that getting married in the rabbi's office was more customary than I would have thought. Any ideas? And FYI, she wasn't pregnant--the first child was born more than a year after they were married (and I have documentation for both dates).

Many thanks for kind insights.

Sincerely,
Marcia Segal
(family names Caplan/Kaplan, Gomborov/Gomborow, Koppelman, Mergler, Segal, Siegel, Yankelovich)

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It is not in Romanian.  It is in Russian.  See translation:

As a keepsake to my brother from my daughter

Translated by Michael Ryabinky
Columbus, OH

Have you looked on Forebears ? Sometimes they give meanings or at least area links 

Good luck

I use Ancestris, an excellent, very powerful freeware: www.ancestris.org

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Yonat Klein
Syracuse NY

Hi there,

My mother was born in the Sub-Carpathian region of what was then Czechoslovakia, but in her parent's time, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
As such she grew up utilising  many variations of her name (as did many others of this region).
She was born with the given Yiddish name of Scheindel,  which means beautiful....and so her Hebrew name was Yafa (meaning 'beautiful' in Hebrew).
To her Hungarian friends and when speaking Hungarian, she was known as Sari/Shari.
On her Czech documents and at Czech School, she was Charlotta and whilst attending Russian School, she was Zlate or Slava.
In English, she was Charlotte.
Other variations of usage I've noted are Jennie (Zseni) in English. 

The name Sari, is more typical of Hungarian background and hence, used in those parts that were once a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire eg. Hungary; parts of former Czechoslovakia (Slovakia & Sub-Carpathia) and parts of Romania.  Its possible that Sara could be interchanged, however it's not usual practice and is more likely a different name.
Sara/Sarah in Hebrew, would be more commonly used the same in Yiddish as well as usage of Szure; Surele/Sarale; Sore etc. and likely Suri/Szuri or Szerin in Hungarian. In English, some of the usage would be again Sara/Sarah; Serena or even Shirley and Sadie.

Hope this helps.
Eva Blanket

I would love to have this info since my father and his family were from Pikeliai.  I have written to you directly and look forward to your contact.
Thanks,
Hope Gordon

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On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 02:53 AM, Ellen Lukas Kahn wrote:

How can one trace ancestors for whom an oral history has been handed down (without documentation) that their ancestors left Span during the inquisition?  How can one trace Jews who travelled between 1492 and 1685, the year they were first documented as living in western Germany?  That 200 year gap could be a combination of land or sea.

 

Ellen,

If you are asking this as a real-world, practical question (i.e., Is there a practical strategy for linking family turning up in German in 1685 with family reputably expelled from Spain in 1492?), I think I tried to cover that in my earlier post but I can try to be more explicit.  There seems to be a gap in the records available for a lot of Ashkenazi family lineages around 1700-1800 (based on repeated reports of lack of available records beyond those dates) that presents a significant hurdle to establishing such a link.  But we all came from someplace (or someones).   

And some of those someones are in fact well-documented.  I came across such a family tree, supported by a chain of evidence that establishes its lineage generation by generation.   I went through that family history from my purported (and eventually disproven) 4x ggmother Rachel Mayer (b.1760) back another 15 generations carefully and was skeptical but inclined to accept its authenticity.  I even deleted the tree and rebuilt in, double-checking each entry and supporting record, made some corrections, but came away satisfied that it was as accurate as I could hope for.  Imagine my disappointment when I discovered that the connection to my tree was highly suspect.  

The problem at the heart of your question (as I understand it) is joining the nearer end of that lineage to the latter end of mine (or anyone else who can't trace their trees further back than a few generations).  I was responding to the original post floating the provocative notion that most Jews can't trace their families past their grandparents.  Several responses seemed to be trying to make the case that deep family trees were fictional.    I wrote to refute both the "not past our grandparents" assertion and also take on the notion that there were no records to support "very long lineages." I had experience with such a lineage I could share, even though it wasn't mine. 

My entrance into this exchange, by way of analogy, is like reading someone claim that there are no red birds in California and I posted a photo of a Purple Finch perched on a CA 1 highway sign:  It doesn't make me an ornithologist.  And I'm not by any measure an expert in Sephardic genealogy and haven't managed to trace any of branch of my family tree back to a point where it connects to one of those "very old lineages."  But that doesn't mean the connection isn't there.  After all, it's worth repeating, we are all descended from someone and therefore belong to "very old lineages," whether on not we can document them, or even give them names.

Lee  Jaffe
Jaffe / Stein (Sztejnsapir) / Joroff (Zharov) / Schwartz (Schwarzstein/Schwarzman) / Weinblatt (Weinblot) / Braun / Malamud / Cohn / Ludwinoska/i / Rubin / Lubinski / Koshkin / Rappaport / Steel? / Brodowicz / Roterozen / Saperstein / Rutzki / Skazdubska / Zelmanow / Yos / Frank 

 

 

Subsequent to my question about the mis-named book above, I have had an opportunity to
confirm that it is in fact: Magyar Zsido Csaladok Genealogiaja.

Erno Munkacsi was the son of Bernat Munkacsi and they both authored 
Magyar Zsido Csaladok Genealogiaja, OR Genealogy of Hungarian Jewish Families,
which is the true name of the book in question:

Genealogical Revelations of Hungarian Jewish Families - First Volume Editor - Munkatchi
It's TRUE name is:
Magyar Zsido Csaladok Genealogiaja, or Genealogy of Magyar Jewish Families written by Munkacsi, Bernat and his son, Munkacsi, Erno.
It details specifically the MUNK and FELSENBURG Hungarian families.
My father is a distant relative of these families.

Erno is the author of "How it Happened....."  In my father's genealogy of the Sonnenschein's, he writes:
“Erno was attorney of the Jewish Congregation in Budapest.  During the critical year of 1944 he was one of those
Jewish leaders whose political acumen saved the lives of a good part of the Budapest Jewish community.”
There is criticism of Erno (e.g. in Wiki  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erno_Munkacsi) but I believe my father.
Erno and the other leaders of the Budapest Judenrat did what they humanly could to save as many lives as possible.

My father's maternal family, Sonnenschein, are descendants of Chaile Felsenburg, Bernat's grandmother, and my father's great great grand aunt.  Chaile (1805 - 1851) married Bernat Munk.  Munk was Magyar-ized to Munkacsi; many Jewish families Magyar-ized their names.

I have the full PDF of Magyar Zsido Csaladok Genealogiaja.
I sent the original copy in my possession to the USHMM in 2017.
They have not included it in my father's archive, but his update is there:
https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn617442#?rsc=176366&cv=0&c=0&m=0&s=0&xywh=-89%2C-63%2C1764%2C1130

Aviyah Farkas
Los Angeles, CA

 

For purposes of the Orthodox weddings that I have attended women were allowed down from the balcony but sat separate from the men, on the other side of the main aisle.

The bride was allowed on the bima, this one time only.

Daniel Nussbaum II, M.D., FAAP
Retired Developmental Pediatrician
Rochester, New York

My mother's name was Nettie. Her name on her passenger list was Neche. That was her name in Belarus, but she evidently changed it in the U.S.A. as did all of her sisters who also had more Yiddish names.

Florence Gurwin

Dear fellow researchers,

I am happy to announce that tax censuses (family lists) from the Novgorod Seversk uezd (district) in 1888 have now been translated and transcribed as part of the Chernigov Gubernia Document Translation Project. The lists include 409 families composed of 2,582 individuals. Among these families there are 258 surnames, which I have extracted and attached to this email. The original pages can be seen online on the FamilySearch website in FHL film 1222347, item 11. 

Previously as part of this project we have translated tax censuses from the Borzna, Glukhov, Konotop, Mglin, Oster, and Starodub uezds in 1882, and from the Krolevets and Surazh uezds in 1888. The original books can be seen in FHL films 1222346 and 1222347.

This work is possible because of generous donations from so many who are interested in records from the former Chernigov gubernia. Those who donate $100 or more to the Chernigov Gubernia Document Translation Project on the JewishGen website are eligible to view the completed spreadsheets before they are uploaded to the website. Please contact me with proof of your donation if you want to see any of the spreadsheets as listed above. All donations of any size are appreciated and will continue to advance the project. You can donate through the following link: 

https://www.jewishgen.org/jewishgen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=22

Next to be translated on film 1222347 will be tax censuses from the Chernigov uezd, and then the Oster, Gorodnya, and Sosnitsa uezds in 1888.

The information from most of the previously translated spreadsheets has been uploaded to the JewishGen website. They can be searched by entering a surname in the JewishGen Unified Search. When the results page appears, click on those listed as "Ukraine Revision Lists". (The tax censuses are not actually revision lists, but they are similar enough to be categorized under this heading.)

I hope you are getting a lot of online genealogy research done while staying safe.

Best wishes,

Beth Galleto
Project Leader

 

Many Buchbinder's  from Lodz listed in Yad Vashem

Also try Arolsen Archives -https://arolsen-archives.org/en/search-explore - Buchbinder listed there. 

JewishGen has information on the  JewishGen Holocaust list. 

https://www.ushmm.org/learn/timeline-of-events/1942-1945/deportations-from-lodz-to-chelmno


Dassy Wilen
dasw5@... 

Flohr, Schachter, Hirsch, Wilensky, Trembitsky

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 09:59 AM, David wrote:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/comments/d8m0u6/ancestrycom_email_scammers/

I looked at this & the language definitely sounds like one of the Nigerian types.  Do NOT respond to it.

Lee MESSING Hover
Lacey WA