Hello All:
 I am wondering if someone can help me discover what place this postcard depicts, who painted it and who published it. I have tried to locate the artist ( I think F.A. Kemert?), but no luck.  It was written to my grandmother.There is a note on the back that states (in Romanian)" Greetings from the Eminescu Theatre, 11/3/1915" and the card is postmarked from Botosani. 
Thanks for your help.
Aline Petzold
St. Paul MN
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Hi.
 
I would like to ask if anyone knows it it's there a Jewish cemetery in the village of Nyirgyulaj (Its in szabolc county)? 

If yes in which condition is it?


Thanks in advance                                                                     Joseph Krausz.   

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Hi to all,
I just joined this site after finding through dna that I am 49.9% Ashkenski jewish! I am so happy to find this information. I was given away at birth and know nothing of my genetics. I am desperate to find any information. I was born July 19,1947 in Bakersfield , California in Kern County. Listed on my birth certificate is George White and Irene Arrow from San Franciso, California. I am not sure if this is correct information. I was given to Floyd and Estelle Le May and never formally adopted. If anyone has any information, I would be enterally grateful!
Deanna LeMay Cole
dcole1947@...

A family mystery that I posted about in December, 2020, in which I had the letter writer's first name (Peter), the name of his wife (Elise), & one of his 3 children (Roland), but no last name, has been solved this week. The letter was a partial one written to my maternal grandmother in 1963, addressing her as "Aunt". The only postal information that I had was "West Long Branch, NJ". Who & how was this person related to me??

Thanks to the interest & input of several readers of this forum, it was discovered that the family name was/is "GOLDBERG". Through further search, I discovered that Peter's maternal grandparents, were listed on their marriage record as Rebeca RICHMAN & Simon LEVINE. (I  know that the REICHMAN name is often heard as "RICHMAN".) One of their daughters, Mildred/Millie LEVINE GOLDBERG, was Peter's mother. My maternal great grandparents were Solomon LEVINE & Rebecca REICHMAN. Several years ago I found a death notice for Rebecca, placed in a 1915 entertainment publication by Rebecca & Solomon's son, Joseph LEVINE (aka stage name, "Joe EVANS"). The notice mentioned that Rebecca was survived by five daughters!! I knew of four, including my grandmother, but who was this other person??? Evidently, this fifth child was Mildred/Millie LEVINE GOLDBERG!!--and she was the "extra" sister to my maternal grandmother!! Additionally, Simon LEVINE was Solomon, & Rebeca RICHMAN was Rebecca REICHMAN!. All of this made Peter GOLDBERG my 1st cousin 1X removed & Mildred/Millie my grand aunt!!! Now, if only I could get Peter's family to respond to my messages left on Ancestry & Facebook!!

Thank you again, readers/responders for your assistance!!

Regards,

Marilyn Robinson
Florida

Thank you for this terrific link to the Dutch site War Lives. I was able to find and print the cards for my grandparents, uncle and aunt.
So much appreciation!
Denise Meschmar Suttle
abqsuttle@...
Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

My grandfather Harry Sloan (1905-1998, Philadelphia) was originally Slomsky.
His father's family was from Suvalk, Lithuania.  I don't know about his mother (nee Saidel).
Pesach (Philip) and Chaya Soroh (Anna) Slomsky. 

Pesach's father was Aaron.  I don't know the mother's name.

Chaya Soroh's parents were Yehoshua (Joshua) and Bella Seidel.  Bella's maiden name apparently was Trubek.

I want to see how many generations back I can find on either the Slomsky or Saidel sides.

Thank you.

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Guy F. Levin
SLOAN/SLOMSKY (Suvalk, Lithuania)
LEIBSON (Izyaslav Ukraine)
POLSKY (YAMPOLSKY) 
GORSKY
ISRAELITAN
LIPSCHUTZ
METZGER
SAIDEL

Hello Cindy-
Maybe a third brother?  My mother's oldest sister, Mary Sklar, married Sam Wilson in the 1930s.  Sam's family arrived in Ct. about 1900 with the name Vinocour.  There were Abraham Vinocour born c/1874 & his wife Rose(1877)--all children were born in Hartford, Ct.  This info is in the 1910 Census for Ct..  The 1920 census states that Abe was naturalized in 1905.  That info would be in the National Archives in Waltham/Boston, Mass.
Barney Miller
Newington, Ct.

Diana,

If you search surname Kraushaar at Ancestry.com and put town name
Wojnilow in the keyword search field (using "exact search" for both) there are six hits:
One person on a survivor's list,
One U.S. WW11 draft card,
One 1939 passenger manifest,
One 1910 passenger manifest,
One 1906 passenger manifest.

A searching with Kraushaar and town Moszkowce got no hits.

Hope this helps,

Sherri Bobish

Virgin is not precisely buying 23andme. 23andme is going public (i.e. you'll be able to buy shares), and Virgin is investing in that process.

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Jeremy Lichtman
Toronto, Canada

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Hi to all,
I just joined this site after finding through dna that I am 49.9% Ashkenski jewish! I am so happy to find this information. I was given away at birth and know nothing of my genetics. I am desperate to find any information. I was born July 19,1947 in Bakersfield , California in Kern County. Listed on my birth certificate is George White and Irene Arrow from San Fransico, California. I am not sure if this is correct information. I was given to Floyd and Estelle Le May and never formally adopted. If anyone has any information, I would be enterally grateful!
Deanna LeMay Cole
dcole1947@...
Deanna Cole

On this headstone Dora's father seems to have an unusual name מתת
I do not see anything like Matet in Jewishgen. Can anyone throw any light on it ?
(Cemetery in UK and families from Poland).

Jeff Cohen
London

Hello All:
 I have another German script to translate from my grandmother's workbook.  It is a rough draft of a letter written to her brother, who was in Canada working in the clothing manufacturing trade  at the time, in the early 1900s.
Thanks much.
Aline Petzold
St. Paul MN

I think the thread title is inaccurate. Virgin is not buying 23andMe. It is going public.

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Phil Karlin
Hartford, CT USA

Hello,

It has been a number of years since I posted and I am hoping that someone new may have joined us and will see this.  My grandfather, Samuel Trugman left Volochisk, Ukraine in 1910.  He left his mother (Nachama Baran), two sisters and a brother there.  In 1942, they were evacuated to Kamyshlov ahead of the Nazis.  We know his mother died upon arrival but the rest survived. I have received Red Cross documents showing such.

The last contact we had with them was with one of the unmarried sisters living in 1962 in  Vinnytsia in western Ukraine. The postcards we received then did not show an address but rather a post office box. 

My problem is that his sister Rivka (married surname unknown) had a son named Izzya born 1930 and his brother Max a daughter named Eda.  Therefore surnames were lost when they married. We know that Eda married someone named Boris  who might have fought in the war and was probably killed during it.....but no other information. Eda Trugman, Rose Trugman (Max’s wife) and Blema Trugman (unmarried sister were living in in the same building in Vinnytsia and were in ill health.  My mother remembered stories that there was a son (not sure if it was Izzya) who became an engineer and lived far away...

I have no idea if anyone is still alive and if so, it would probably not be their generation... but if anyone has any idea of how I might proceed, I would greatly appreciate it.

Best,
Helen Nash May
New York
Researching:
Volochisk, Ukraine : Trugman, Pertzelai/Pertzelai/Persily/ Shilman/Shulman, Baron/Baran
Lvov: Noschkes, Fetter/Vetter, Messing, Landes
Buchach, Ukraine: Landes, Eisner, Grabstein
Germany: Sichel, Mai/ May, Alexander
England: Daughter of Sabine “Famchein” Rosenthal

If anyone can offer any help in finding them or might realize a distant relative I would greatly appreciate hearing from them.

Hi Chloe, 

Actually there is no issue with picture quality. 

I'd like to add the Hebrew name of David's father. 
In one plaque it says Herschel Tsvi and the other one says Tsvi Hirsch. 
Tsvi is deer in Hebrew. Hirsch is deer in German  leading to Yiddish variations like Hersch, Herschel, Hirtz  Hertz... 

How Jews ended up to name a son "deer"? 
In the Bible Naftali, Jacob's son, is blessed as a hind ( Genesis 49,21).This led Ashkenazi Jews to join Naftali with Hirsch or  Tsvi.

One more comment on Joseph's last name. Kogan is the Russian form of the name Cohen. Russian lacks the sound H and uses in foreign names G instead. 
So if you look back for Joseph's family in the Old Country, the older the documents the less chance you have to find Kogan. You'll have Cohen or Katz, a common Ashkenazi way to name a Cohen. 
Best regards , 

Laurent Kassel 
Moreshet, Israel 

I'm looking for any information about my wife's aunt who was murdered in the holocaust. Her family name before her marriage was Bunimovitz and her Given name was Reisel. She was born and lived until her marriage in the town of Vishniva, Belarus. We know she got married before the war but we don't know her last name after her marriage. We do not know the name of her husband, we know he was from Minsk. We know she had a son and that she was with him in the Vishniva ghetto. We will be happy for any information.

Miron Chumash