A friend is researching an ancestor named Rochla Kamienowicz. Presumably Rochla's father would have been named Kamien. Does anyone know of such a name - It's new to me.

Alan Cohen

You asked about a Hungarian hymn.  If anyone would know it would be Keresz but could it be a line from the Kalever Rebbe's nigun...? 
Szol ha Kakas Mar?

Susan Stone
Evanston, IL

You might want to dust it lightly with some powdered charcoal to bring out details.  Likewise with lights a low angles.  Find some with Photoshop to bring out details.  As for archival materials, check with local historical and genealogical societies.  Perhaps a nearby Jewish Genealogical Society could help.  To date and place the picture better, research the clothing and hairstyles of the people.

Good luck and keep us posted.
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Bob Silverstein
bobsilverstein@...
Elk Grove Village, IL

Researching Kaplan (Krynki, Poland) Tzipershteyn (Logishin, Pinsk, Belarus), Friedson/Fridzon (Motol, Cuba, Massachusetts), Israel and Goodman (Mishnitz, Warsaw, Manchester).

Obtain his death certificate.  It may give a place of death.

He is listed as Macus Lauskey on the 1880 census. Wife is listed as Mary rather than Sarah but children are right.  On that census, his place of birth is listed as Poland. Otherwise on other census records he is listed as born Prussia or Germany.

The 1870 census indicates he is a citizen; so look for naturalization papers for 1870 or earlier.

Johanna Becker
Newport, RI

"Shaia" is typically short for Yishayah (Isaiah), but "Shea" more commonly is short for Yehoshua (Joshua).

Correctly matching nicknames and diminutives with the proper full name is a very significant issue in the Halachot (Jewish laws) of marriage and divorce, and many rabbis over the centuries have written treatises on the subject of nicknames.

On the other hand, as has been discussed in other posts, there is noabsolutely no rule about what English name a person takes based on his Hebrew name.

Shlomo Katz
Silver Spring, MD

Hi Sara, coincidentally I am also researching the Grodzins / Grodzenski surname - we are trying to figure out whether we have a connection to the poet and newspaper editor Arn-Yitskhok Grodzenski (1881 -1941) who was murdered in Vilno in the Shoah. I just learned that his paternal uncle was Reb Chaim Ozer.  Here is a link to biographical information from the Yiddisher Lexicon:
http://yleksikon.blogspot.com/2015/09/arn-yitskhok-grodzenski.html

Let's stay in touch - I'm interested in what you learn.
Carola Murray-Seegert
Oberursel, Germany
Researching: GRODZENSKI / GRODZINS (Vilijampolé, Alitus, Miroslavas and Vilno Lithuania; Paris, France; Alexandria, Egypt; Tel Aviv Israel

Hello Rusty

I also can't read much more of the name, the surname may start with "Bie..."
But I can identify the city: below it definitly is Aalborg in northern Danmark.

Perhaps the City archive can help you with more information, normally they know "their" photographers.
Here ist the contact-information:
stadsarkiv@...

The Germany-based "Compgen-Society hosts a database of historical photografy-studios - but only for Germay
http://genwiki.genealogy.net/Kategorie:Fotostudio_nach_Ort

Regards from Germany (near Hamburg)

Corinna (Wöhrl)

Aalborg (Denmark)..........

Mike Coleman  London U.K.

My late Mother born in Hungary used to sing an hymn which I, not knowing Hungarian thought to be Hatikva in her mother language.
The words that I remember ignoring the spelling went like this:

Oy ozisten ot megiget, visa hoja yerushalem mnet

Does anybody remember such a song?

Thank you
Inacio Steinhardt

Hello,

My GGM's brother was a soldier in the 214th Mokshanks Infantry Division
during the Japanese Russian War. 
He died in 1904 fighting in Shaolinza, Manchuria..

Does anyone know where these Jewish boys were buried?

Thank you,
Loren Greenberg

loren_greenberg_2004@...

The street may have been re-named.  Search for Boyd St., Bklyn, 1897, or another year near that one.

I knew my mother grew up in a private house on Dahill Rd. in Brooklyn. I found her family in the 1920 census in a house with the same number, but the street was West St. I found a map of the same era as the census (on Steve Morse, via Ancestry) and compared it to a later Google map that contained Dahill Rd. I looked at train lines, the layout of streets and their names, and nearby churches, etc., and concluded that Dahill Rd. had been renamed. 

Helene Williams Spierman
Valley Stream, NY

I called the Mount Nebo cemetery in Miami about the grave of Max Land that died at the age of 70 on Sep 1944, husband of Fannie and father of Hadassa. His metzavah was uncovered in 1945 and I have the announcement record and the rabbi's name that was officiating. On my first call to the cemetery I was given a plot that turned out not to have the grave of Max Land. When I called again about the grave I was told there was an error and he was not buried in the cemetery. I do not know how to proceed in finding the grave. Any suggestions?.
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Angel Kosfiszer

Richardson, Texas

Hi Arthur,

I'm quite an amateur, but could it possibly be Konskowola (var: Konska Wola), Lublin Province, Poland? The only reason it came to mind was that I have ancestors from there. You could search via the Gesher Galicia database for the surname of the family if you know it, and it will give you a map of where (and with what frequency) that surname occurs. (If you were looking for Sissman, for example, a quick search shows a TON of related surnames in Lublin Province in general.) 

I'll be interested to see what other people think, too. 

I hope this helps! 
Rebecca Benzer
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Rebecca Benzer
Erdman(n), Eisenstark in/around Poland and Ukraine
Davidson, Hait, Bespaloff in Latvia
rebespierre@...

I have a brick wall trying to find my cousin Lawrence Menkin, born in Windsor, Canada in 1945. He may have moved to the United States. Can anyone help?
Peggy Dombeck

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Arthur Sissman
Jewish Genealogy SIG of Naples/Collier Co FL
genresearch13@...
954-328-3559

The names Shaia or Shea, are generally shortened from Yishaiyahu, or Isaiah.




Neilan Stern

referencing;  Stern, Pistrong, - Radomysl Wielki, Poland

Trying to make contact with the family of Sara (nee Rokeach) Arnold
who lived in Downsview. She posted Pages of Testimony to Yad VaShem in
1978.
Her brother Kalonymus, born in 1935, also perished.
Neil Rosenstein