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Re: family of Abraham and Judes (Yehudith) Grunberg
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Myra Fournier
Hi, Milton:
I have Gruenbergs on my family tree too. My maternal great-grandmother was Jenny Pelz (nee Gruenberg). She died in Auschwitz. As Gruenberg is a fairly common name, not sure if there's a connection. Would be happy to discuss further if you contact me at mjfourn@.... I could send you a screenshot of the Gruenbergs in my family tree. Good luck with your search. Myra Fournier Bedford, MA |
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Re: Natan Noteh equivalent to one name?
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Adam Turner
If "Nissan" is not equivalent to "Natan", it's news to me. As I understand it, "Nissan", "Nussen," etc. are just various Ashkenazi pronounciations of Natan (נתן). Typical standard Hebrew pronunciation is generally based on Sephardic pronunciation: the letter ת is generally pronounced as "t": "shabbat". But Eastern Europeans generally pronounce the same letter, ת, as "s": "shabbos". So the standard Hebrew Natan is the same name as the Ashkenazi Nussen; "Nissan" is also the same, just with the vowels shifted because different Yiddish dialects pronounce vowels differently. (I think "Nissan" is more of a southeastern Yiddish pronunciation while "Nussen" is closer to Litvish, but perhaps someone more familiar with the various dialect differences can clarify this.)
For the same reason, the Hebrew name Yehudit (יְהוּדִית) also has the variations Yehudis, Hodes, Hudes, etc. Adam Turner |
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Re: Wolk family of Lithuania
#lithuania
Carol Hoffman
David try searching the LitvakSIG All Lithuania Database ALD. you would find a number of WOLK family information from Petkunai.
Also if you search family name WOLK on the JewishGen Family Finder and add Lithuania as the country, you will find 50+ entires. Good luck with your quest. Carol Hoffman Tel Aviv |
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Re: Why Various Spellings of A Family Name
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Diane Jacobs
I had the same problem. My family was Singman in NYC and Washington DC . They arrived in 1888 from Vilna as Schimkov but with the help of a native Russian who suggested the name Sinko I was able to find the many extended family using The All Lithuania Database from Gelvonai, Sirvintos and Jonava. I am now finding the living descendants of those who came to the US and now live in NYC, Memphis, Baltimore, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and more.
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Unfortunately, even Yad Vashem produced results. Diane Jacobs On Mar 18, 2021, at 4:20 PM, Adelle Gloger via groups.jewishgen.org <agloger=AOL.COM@...> wrote:
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Triangulating matches
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mandy.molava@...
Does anyone use anything in particular for triangulating to determine family lines?
I'm forever trying to find easier ways, a spreadsheet is working for me personally at the moment, as you can see the gaps or not, but wondered if there are any other options? I like tools on some of the sites, but can take a lot of time up studying, some have worked and some not. Thanks in advance Mandy Molava Research Brest Russia Galacia and much more |
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mandy.molava@...
I actually find some of DNA so infuriating, but sometimes you can get very lucky. Are you both on any other DNA site? I've had some success doing that, Ancestry has taken away very small cm matches to one of my family's accounts I found out, but not to mine for some reason? So I've been able to find a couple that are matched with a direct line, the more sites you're on IMHO the more matches you have/wider search.
I like GEDmatch (free) for a comparison, which I believe is more 'scientific', it goes a bit deeper, shows clearer generations and has tools for searches to use to look at matches also, so I try and encourage as many as possible to go on that one. Mandy Molava Researching Brest Russia Galacia and much more. |
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Gerald and Margaret
There is a Pinsk in Belarus, so I suggest you contact The Together Plan, which is a charity based in London and Minsk which aims to help Jews still living in Belarus become self-sufficient. One of their projects is genealogical research. They have the advantage of speaking the relevant languages, plus know how to navigate the local bureaucracy ..
www.thetogetherplan.org.uk Happy hunting, Margaret Levin London N3, UK |
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Re: Why Various Spellings of A Family Name
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M Thatcher
My ancestors family name has so far been found to be spelt wrong De Fratis, Defrytis and so on this has made it very difficult to trace the family back to their origins in Europe.
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Re: Why Various Spellings of A Family Name
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m.hoffman@...
Ditto Sally.... "spelling doesn't count".... and people "spelled what they heard"....
There's lots of possible scenarios where your multiplicity of variants might arise -- but here's a common one.... Very often, your perfectly literate-in-Yiddish ancestors were in the situation of being interviewed by an English-speaking clerk -- at the marriage license office, when registering a birth or a death at the hospital, by a census taker, .... -- and the clerk wrote as well as they could what they heard, but your ancestor couldn't read English so even if they could have looked over the document it wouldn't have made a difference. You mention that in your family each sibling had a different rendition of the name, but often you'll see these kinds of variant spellings for the same individual in different contexts -- for example, in subsequent census tabulations, or different transliterations of the same name on each new child's birth certificate.... Often it's just a simple substitution for a vowel -- as in your case -- or a single consonant substitution, Hotash for Hodash, for example. As Sally points out, you also get the artifacts of a Yiddish accent heard by an English ear -- often that will account for spellings that substitute one vowel for another -- or as in Sally's example of "w" going to "v".... But often, again like Sally's example, there are apparently mysterious transformations that are actually quite accountable, just as Sally shows. I see these all the time with my clients -- it's one of the things that makes my work interesting, given that I have an academic background in Linguistics. Yale mentions his example of a Boston-accented clerk adding that "Boston r" in Akabas > Arkabes -- I found my husband's great-grandfather in the 1910 census in Boston as Salyer -- same "Boston r" added to his name Selya.... along with the very typical vowel transformation from a spoken Yiddish "e" to an English-heard "a"..... In trying to suss out these changes, as Sally says, it helps to say the name with the relevant German, Russian, or Yiddish accent -- when I'm trying to think about what a Yiddish name might sound like, I can evoke my Grandma Pauline's Russian Yiddish pronunciation and it often does the trick.... By the way, this mantra of "spelling doesn't count" isn't just applicable to our eastern European ancestors, or other immigrant populations.... My American genealogy colleagues have the same issues with American names, especially prior to the early 20th century, because most people before then, especially in rural populations, were illiterate even in English, so their names were also subject to being spelled the way the clerk or the census taker heard them, and multiple variants are just as common for them, and pose the same kinds of problems in sorting out who was who.... Meredith Hoffman
Professional Genealogy Research & Training
GenerationsWeb / Plymouth, MA |
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Re: Natan Noteh equivalent to one name?
#names
Matthew Klionsky
My family also has a person with this set of names - and more. We've seen references to Natan, Nota, Note, Noteh,...and also Nissan. All with wife Mina, so we think it must all be one person. But, I've also researched that Nissan and Natan are NOT likely the same name. I'd welcome informed opinion about this.
Matthew Klionsky Chicago |
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snordlinge@...
While the previous answers may help some of the time, one should seek the origin of the name. I Googled the surname Klepfish and learned: |
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Stephen Weinstein
If they are still alive, DNA test your parents or grandparents. A closer relationship is more likely to give a positive DNA match.
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However, you also need to realize that when all with a surname are "related", it means, at most, only that everyone with the surname has the same mother's husband's mother's husband's mother's husband, etc., if you go back enough generations (even this isn't always true). It does not mean that they are all biological relatives or share DNA. It just takes one person in one generation whose mother was impregnated by someone other than her husband. You can't "research this farther" unless you are willing to research this father. On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 04:58 AM, Elizabeth Jackson wrote: it was a small family. All are related". ... research this farther? -- Stephen Weinstein Camarillo, California, USA stephenweinstein@... |
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Re: Searching for art stolen from German Jewish family.
#germany
Jan Meisels Allen
I would like to know if anyone has searched for art objects stolen or confiscated by the Nazis during the Third Reich. Especially helpful would be specific web sites that can locate art that might be in museums or private collections or even archived waiting for descendants of Holocaust victims or survivors to claim them. I posted about this last December and here is the posting again:
The Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project (JDCRP) plans to provide a comprehensive registry of all Jewish collections looted by the Nazi. They are beginning with a pilot project on Old Masters seized by the Nazis, which was owned by Adolphe Schloss. Schloss had a collection of Old Dutch Masters seized by the Gestapo from a French chateau- but one-third of the collection is still missing.
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany and the Commission for Art Recovery initiated the Jewish Digital Cultural Recovery Project. They received €490,000 from the European Union’s Creative Europe program. In addition to listing both missing and recovered art, it will explore the looting networks and the trade and digitize thousands of documents and photographs from archives.
While there are other databases on looted art, the JDCRP is different as it takes Jewish collections as its starting-point and using an event-based approach to trace the route the objects took.
The project plans to have an initial mock-up online at the end of June 2021.
The website is in English, French and German
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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JGS Toronto. Free Virtual Meeting. Hungarian Jewry: History, Holocaust, and Genealogy. Karesz Vandor. Sunday, 21 March 2021 at 10:30 a.m. ET.
#jgs-iajgs
#hungary
#holocaust
#announcements
Jerry Scherer
JEWISH GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF TORONTO Hungarian Jewry: History, Holocaust, and Genealogy
Karesz Vandor’s presentation will include:
Karesz Vandor is a professional Jewish Hungarian historian and genealogist. Karesz lives in Budapest where he has been researching and running Jewish Heritage tours for nearly 20 years. His work often includes threading clients’ genealogical research into their tours; guiding them through historical landmarks related to their families; and, for some, taking them to the site of their family’s roots including relevant towns and cemeteries. As a genealogist he has been commissioned to research family origins for the descendants of Hungarians whose ancestors migrated around the world. To register, please go to https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEodeivrj0sHtJnfIDrXcFpOVFwwhaCfSaF Please keep the acknowledgement email when you receive it as it contains your personalized link to join the Zoom meeting.
To our guests, consider joining our membership for only $40.00 per year by Clicking Here or consider a donation by Clicking Here to assist us in continuing our mission providing a forum for the exchange of genealogical knowledge and information. (Canadians receive a CRA tax receipt.) info@... www.jgstoronto.ca Tel: 647-247-6414 twitter: jgsoftoronto facebook: Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto
Jerry Scherer Vice President, Communications
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Sarah L Meyer
I understand that these records are only available on the FHL computers, due to legal requirements from Poland. Since the FHL libraries are closed due to Covid, I am not sure whether using their wifi in the parking lot will work. I have a batch of Warsaw Jewish records that I got in 2019, but there were a few that I still need to find, and I was going to go to a FHL library last year, but did not go, so I too am waiting.
-- 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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Polish Translation Request
#poland
#translation
Nomi Waksberg
Hello,
I've posted a vital record in Polish for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM91583 Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page. Thank you very much. Nomi Fiszenfeld Waksberg FISZENFELD,BRAUN,FRYDMAN,WOLKOWICZ,BURMAN, ALBERT RAUMBAUM,ZINGER,RYGIEL,LEWKOWICZ,ELWIG,WAKSBERG (including variations in spelling) |
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davidkmahler@...
Hi All,
The 1920 immigration record for my g-grandfather lists his home address as: Pinsk, Liskowska 2, PolandI haven't been able to locate this address and would love any assistance that can be offered. If it helps, the name of the nearest relative at the address was listed as: father Eisik BurmanThank you, David Mahler California |
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Michele Lock
On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 02:21 PM, Phil Karlin wrote:
KlepfiszJRI-Poland has a neat feature called Results Mapper, that shows where surname records are found, and how prevalent they are. For the exact spelling of Klepfisz, there are 617 records in 25 different towns, some near Warsaw, and some towns not quite so near.  Back to DNA results - Another option is to have you and your possible cousin test with AncestryDNA, since you are both likely to find more matches there, and may be able to tell if you are both from the same Klepfisz branch or unrelated Klepfisz families. I have two relatively rare Litvak surnames in my family, Kalon and Lak (Lock). For the Lak surname, there appear to be three unrelated clusters of families with the surname, in Telsiai, Zagare, and Vilnius. For Kalon, there appears to be two unrelated clusters of families, in Telsiai and Joniskis. I've had a hard time explaining to some of my relatives that not all Jewish Locks or Jewish Kalons are related. -- Michele Lock Lock/Lak/Lok and Kalon/Kolon in Zagare/Joniskis/Gruzdziai, 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 |
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Searching for art stolen from German Jewish family.
#germany
Herbert Lazerow
One website is lootedart.com.
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-- Herbert Lazerow
Professor of Law, University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park, San Diego CA 92110 U.S.A.
(619)260-4597 office, (858)453-2388 cell, lazer@...
Author: Mastering Art Law (2d ed. Carolina Academic Press 2020)
-- Herbert Lazerow Professor of Law, University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego CA 92110 lazer@... Author: Mastering Art Law (Carolina Academic Press, 2d ed. 2020) |
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Romania Research Division Update
#romania
#announcements
#records
#JewishGenUpdates
Michael Moritz
JEWISHGEN ROMANIA UPDATE
Hello from JewishGen’s Romania Research Division! I am writing with several important updates, which I’m excited to share with you all. Please see the attached document (at this link), which covers the following:
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