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David ABRAMOWITZ-New Haven/Boston-early 20th cent.
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Yonatan Ben-Ari
My great great grandmother, Rivka ABRAMOWITZ, came to the USA as a
widow with 4 orphaned children. To the best of our knowledge-we have no records of any kind-she came around 1870-1880 to New Haven. Her children were ;David, Sarah, Mayer and Kalman. Her eldest son David, who was in his late teens went to Boston to "seek his fortune". According to family lore, he changed his family name at some point. Went to work in a department store and rose to management level. Supposedly, around the mid 1930s his nephew, Chaim Yitzchak ABRAMOWITZ, son of Mayer (and my grandfather) who had emigrated from Israel to the states tried to contact his uncle David and was repulsed by David's office stating that he was elderly and sick and was recuperating at his Florida home. Sarah probably had ongoing contact with her brother but I have no information regarding any of Sarah's or David's descendants. Except, and again according to family lore, Sarah and her husband lived on Coney Island in the mid 1930s and she had at that time a grandson, Tom, who was going to College in Boston. My great grandfather , Mayer was sent to Jerusalem as a youth as was his younger brother, Kalman. Kalman it seems was to young to be without his mother and so returned shortly to the USA while Mayer stayed, lived and died in Jerusalem as did his children. Most of the above is based on an autobiography of Mayer's grand daughter who specifically states that her book is a story rather than a book of records so some of the "facts" above may be surmises. We have contact with Kalman's descendants who don't know more about David's and Sarah's descendants and base their family history on the above autobiography. The difficulty in finding more facts about Sarah and David is that if it is true that avid changed his family name it could be anything especially if he wanted to distance himself from Jewish tradition. And as to Sarah, we don't know her married name. I am hoping that someone may have a similar background and thus may be we can share some information. TIA Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem
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Re: First name of Zelik
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Adelle Gloger
My father, born in 1906 in Tarnopol, was given the Hebrew name, Zelig. His given name was Zigmund. Later, Sigmund in the USA.
Adelle Weintraub Gloger
Beachwood, Ohio
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Re: Manifest Mystery
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Lawrence Weintraub
Neither "Yrlja" or "Irlja" generated an idea for me for a Yiddish name (not that I am an expert) or a likely American one. She was going to a brother, B. Edelstein at 15 Genesee Street in Boston. Attempts to utilize the 1910 Census or the 1906 Boston City Directory did not prove helpful.
Thanks,
Lawrence Weintraub
Old Bridge, NJ
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Re: Future of Holocaust Research In Poland Hinges on Libel Case
#holocaust
#poland
Perhaps we should be thankful to the pandemic for putting at least a temporary halt to travel to Poland, Ukraine, et.al. What appeared to me most cynical were the developments in Poland in having "celebrations of Jewish culture and food", and attempted revivals of Judaism in Poland. The semi-fascist governments of Poland and Hungary are an example of the warts that were existing underneath the cover of communism in Eastern Europe. We shouldn't be surprised by the example of the (so-called) Law and Justice party.
Now I know that there were many righteous gentiles throughout Eastern Europe who did save Jewish lives, etc. But this does not negate the underlying nature of the societies there. And FYI, Adam Cherson and I are not related. David Cherson
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Re: Article of Interest on DNA Testing
#dna
Jx. Gx.
One of the key takeaways from this article is the following:
"Is genetic information protected? In some places (like the European Union), genetic data is protected as personal information. In others (like the US) it's a different story. In America, protections are strong for DNA if it's submitted to a doctor, but non-existent if it's posted off to a commercial genealogy website."
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Canadian Cohens: Do you have Goldstein/Shateliss relatives?
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mindyoc
Canadian Cohens: Do you have Goldstein/Shateliss relatives? Looking for descendants of Isaac Cohen (likely from Toronto) who hosted Grandfather as he migrated from England to U.S. (1910-1913.) Thank you. Mindy Yochelson
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Re: Article of Interest on DNA Testing
#dna
Sarah L Meyer
I do not believe that the author of this article is familiar with US health insurance law, which prohibits the results of DNA testing to be used in health insurance.
-- Sarah L Meyer Georgetown TX ANK(I)ER, BIGOS, KARMELEK, PERLSTADT, STOKFISZ, SZPIL(T)BAUM, Poland BIRGARDOVSKY, EDELBERG, HITE (CHAIT), PERCHIK Russia (southern Ukraine) and some Latvia or Lithuania https://www.sarahsgenies.com
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#russia
#russia
patrice.markiewicz@...
Hello,
Is there anybody who could explain to me how to send an international banking withdrawal to the Historical Archives in Sankt-Petersburg in Russia, please. Thank you very much for your response. Patrice Markiewicz. Email: patrice.markiewicz@....
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Translation: Language unknown
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Requesting translation of names noted on attached family group photo, believed to be SKOLNIK or KAPLAN family members.
Thank you. Ronald Miller MELAMED KARPMAN (Minsk, Mozyr, Rechitsa, Minsk, Ukraine, Belarus, Kiev)
SHARGORODSKY WEISBERG (Kiev, Rusacki, Devemususke, Ivankova)
KRASNITZKI and variation spelling (Rechitsa, Minsk, Ukraine, Belarus, Kiev)
SCHARGORODSKY CHARGO (Carlos Caseras near Buenos Aires, Argentina)
GOLDENBERG (Tulchin, Ukraine)
GARFINKEL GARFIELD RUBINSTEIN (Philadelphia)
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Re: Need help in researching in Portuguese and Spanish
#latinamerica
#ukraine
angel kosfiszer
-- FamilySearch and Ancestry are two different genealogy sites and I do not expect you can connect them. Angel KosfiszerRichardson, Texas
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Re: Future of Holocaust Research In Poland Hinges on Libel Case
#holocaust
#poland
In the course of my genealogical research I've read personal testimonies about atrocities against Jews committed alongside or on behalf of Germany before and during WWII by its political confederates in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Italy, Austria, and elsewhere. Many common folk and peasants in these countries jumped on to this bandwagon of scapegoating Jews for their own miseries and then participating in the killing and theft of property, both personal and real. Many local folk in all these places also risked their own safety by aiding Jews. So to say that all Poles were aiding and abetting Germany is false. However a book documenting specific instances of such aiding and abetting is merely describing the truth, which by definition cannot be libelous.
-- Adam Cherson
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Re: #dna Question about genetic groups on My Heritage & Ancestry
#sephardic
#dna
Jill Whitehead
Hi Mandy
All the DNA companies give completely different results - they are not reliable for Jewish sub groups. I am on FTDNA, 23andme, Ancestry and My Heritage and none of them agree - some give me as one eighth Sephardic. But others give this as North African, whilst others give this as Eastern European. You would be better getting an in depth K16 analysis from a specialist company. Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK
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Re: Article of Interest on DNA Testing
#dna
Many of the issues raised are magnified by Full Genome Sequencing. The types of limited testing done for genealogical purposes produce only a narrow band of genetic data.
Whether the pros of genetic genealogy outweigh the cons is a personal decision. In my experience the primary psychological benefits, greater and more accurate self-knowledge, and meaningful social connection with fellow researchers and previously unknown family, have exceeded the risks/costs enumerated in the article. -- Adam Cherson
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Re: #dna Question about genetic groups on My Heritage & Ancestry
#sephardic
#dna
Adam Turner
AncestryDNA does not currently list "Sephardic Jewish" as a region in its ethnicity analysis. Full list of all of the regions they report here: https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/List-of-AncestryDNA-Regions
Presumably, until Ancestry updates the product to include a distinct Sephardic Jewish ethnicity (likely contingent on their being able to find reliable markers of who is Sephardic Jewish vs. non-Jewish Spanish, Greek, Moroccan, etc.), people of Sephardic origin end up with their AncestryDNA ethnicity estimate as some combination of various Southern European, Levantine, and North African regions. All that said, you may want to take caution and review some of the posts in this forum which discuss the perils of taking consumer DNA ethnicity analyses - especially those produced by MyHeritageDNA - too seriously. Here's one recent thread: https://groups.jewishgen.org/g/main/topic/75824182#647450 Adam Turner
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Re: Anyone know places called Kajankow and street Richeliewsca - Odessa
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mvayser@...
Sébastien,
Rishelievskaya street is one of the main streets of Odessa, named after the first mayor of the city and the future Prime Minister of France, Armand-Emmanuel de Vignerot du Plessis, duc de Richelieu. During the Soviet time it was renamed to the Lenin street and then renamed back to Rishelievskaya in the 1990's. Mike Vayser
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Re: Meeting Place in Brownsville Brooklyn
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askolnic@...
There are many ways they could have met. My parents lived on opposite sides of Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, were 3 years apart in age, and went to different high schools with no friends overlapping, but met at a party.
Alex Skolnick askolnic@...
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Exhibit of Romaniote Jews in New York City
#announcements
#photographs
#usa
Jan Meisels Allen
In September 2019, I posted about a photographic exhibit by photographer, Vincent Giordano, Romaniote Memories- A Jewish Journey from Ioannina, Greece to Manhattan being shown in the Greek Consulate in NYC and the Greek Consulate in Washington DC. The exhibit features over 100 photographs presented in 10 thematic sections, including the synagogue’s art and architecture, religious rites and celebrations, as well as photographs taken during the High Holidays in Ioannina, Greece, in 2006. Now the exhibit is at Queens College in New York City and there is a Zoom program for an opening reception featuring a conversation with the curator, organizer and others scheduled for February 11, 2021 at 5:00 PM ET/2PM Pacific Time.
To register for the Zoom program go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAldeyrqD4vH93gVSGvg0leB8R16WLFzDym
In 1999, Brooklyn-born photographer Vincent Giordano made an unplanned visit to the Kehila Kedosha Janina Synagogue on New York City’s Lower East Side. Built in 1927, the synagogue housed a congregation (kehila) founded in 1906 by Jewish immigrants from the town of Ioannina (Janina) in northern Greece, who followed the Romaniote rite.
Launched as the multimedia project “Before the Flame Goes Out,” Giordano’s efforts to chronicle the Kehila Kedosha Janina community would prove critical to preserving Romaniote culture, with the synagogue being its only representation in North America.
Over 80 percent of Greece’s Jewish population perished in the Holocaust, decimating the country’s historic Romaniote communities. Of the 1,960 Jews who were deported to Auschwitz from Ioannina, Greece, 110 survived. The Romaniote language, a Greek dialect that combines words and phrases from Hebrew and Turkish, is endangered, without preservation efforts to maintain or revive it. As of 2019, only a small number of Romaniote Jews remaining in Ioannina, Greece, spoke the language.
Giordano’s photographs are a permanent exhibition within the HAP museum and maintained by the Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library’s Special Collections and Archives.
To see the photographs go to: https://scalar.usc.edu/works/romaniote-memories/index
To read more see:
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: In one Microfilm digitized by FamilySearch.
#bessarabia
#records
Yefim Kogan
Kagul or Cahul (modern name) at some point in history in 19 century was uezd, and it is also a center in that uezd.
Yefim Kogan
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Bessarabia Revision Lists and Bessarabia Vital Records uploaded to JG and available
#bessarabia
#records
Yefim Kogan
Dear researchers,
12,306 Bessarabia Revision List records https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/files/databases/Revisions2020December.pdf 4,174 BessarabiaVital Records https://www.jewishgen.org/bessarabia/files/databases/2020DecemberVitalRecords.pdf are uploaded to JewishGen Database and available for all of you. Please let me or Inna V. know if you have any questions, suggestions. All the best, Yefim Kogan JewishGen Bessarabia Group Leader and Coordinator
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Ancestry Announces New CEO Deborah Liu
#announcements
#records
Jan Meisels Allen
Ancestry has announced its Board of Directors has appointed Deborah (Deb) Liu as its Chief Executive Officer and a member its board of directors effective March 1.
Previously, Ms. Liu was at Facebook where she created and led Facebook's Marketplace product group. Prior to Facebook, Liu held leadership roles at eBay and PayPal. Liu is actively involved in promoting diversity and women in technology and co-created the Women in Product nonprofit. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Intuit Inc.
To read more about Ms. Liu’s appointment see:
Last week IAJGS posted about Ancestry’s appointment of Mark Thompson as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
To read previous articles about Ancestry see the IAJGS Records Access Alert archives at: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/private/records-access-alerts. You must be registered to access the archives. To register for the IAJGS Records Access Alert go to: http://lists.iajgs.org/mailman/listinfo/records-access-alerts and follow the instructions to enter your email address, full name and which genealogical organization with whom you are affiliated You will receive an email response that you have to reply to or the subscription will not be finalized.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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