Tom Venetianer posted the following on the facebook group for Czech Jewish Genealogy
(Including Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia). He listed the following site, which looks very useful
https://www.vasegeny.cz/genealogicky-rozcestnik/
If you use google chrome browser, it will translate.


Tony Hausner Silver Spring, MD 20901 301--587-6943 (primary email address: =
thausner@gmail.com)

Tom Venetianer posted the following on the facebook group for Czech Jewish Genealogy
(Including Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia). He listed the following site, which looks very useful
https://www.vasegeny.cz/genealogicky-rozcestnik/
If you use google chrome browser, it will translate.


Tony Hausner Silver Spring, MD 20901 301--587-6943 (primary email address: =
thausner@gmail.com)

Thank you Martha Flatto and others. I have been informed of not one
but three unexpected discoveries regarding dates and names in my
mother's memoir Franci's War:
Prague-Terezin-Auschwitz-Hamburg-Belsen-Prague 1939-1945. The 30,000
members of the FB Group Jewish Genealogy Portal were unbelievably
helpful.

They found Coonel Margaret Emmeline Montgomery, the British Red Cross
office who beriended her at liberation. She turns up in three other
survivor memoirs and was a sister-in-law of Field Marshal Bernard
Montgomery.

They found the birth and death dates of her friend Margot Stern
Koerbel (1907-1978)

Most movingly they found the records of Gisa Kaufmannova, the little
girl my mother adopted in Terezin who was murdered in Auschwitz. Her
relatives in Israel were amazed to find out that someone remembered
her.

The book will be out in the US in February 2020 and in Czech and
Slovak in May 2020.

Thanks again.


--



helenepstein.com

JewishGen is pleased to announce our newly designed website at
www.JewishGen.org. We commissioned the creation of a new landing page
to serve as a launching point for the main components of the website.
The site is built on a modern, secure platform, which is beneficial
for a number of reasons, including:

*It has a more intuitive and user-friendly design,
*It is mobile-responsive, and
*It has a more familiar platform, which will make it easier for us to
find qualified consultants, contractors and volunteers to help us in
the future.

This is not the final plan. It's a stop-gap redesign that addresses
some of the shortcomings of our website by creating a visually
appealing, mobile-friendly, and easy to navigate homepage that
researchers can utilize to find key components on the JewishGen site.
While we attracted approximately one million unique visitors to the
JewishGen site last year, only a small portion of this group actually
registered or became regular users. We anticipate that an enhanced
website will improve these results.

Specifically, we hope the new landing page will help guide researchers to:

*Search the online collection
*Locate ancestral communities
*Explore life in their ancestral communities
*Join our discussion groups
*Volunteer, and
*Donate.

Over the next two months, we will begin crafting a proper technology
strategy, which will include our website and databases. In the
meantime, however, this new landing page will immediately help
researchers, while also demonstrating JewishGen's strategic focus.

Thank you to everyone on our staff and volunteer leadership team for
their suggestions and contributions to making this happen. Special
thanks to Scott Seidenstock, Gary Sandler, and Warren Blatt.

Please enjoy the site and visit www.JewishGen.org now. Feedback and
suggestions will be most welcome!

Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Communications Coordinator
JewishGen.org

Please join us in congratulating Chuck Weinstein, who was honored as
our 2019/5779 Susan E. King Volunteer of the Year during the recent
JewishGen Annual Meeting in Cleveland.

This is a small token of our appreciation for Chuck's outstanding
commitment to JewishGen's important work, and for his significant
contributions to the world of Jewish Genealogy.

The video about Chuck shown at the meeting can be accessed on YouTube
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yFAmGAzuFM&;t=17s or on our
Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/ .

Mazal Tov, Chuck!

Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Communications Coordinator
JewishGen.org

I think it was Randy who may have posted the following on the facebook
group for Czech Jewish Genealogy (Including Bohemia, Moravia and
Silesia). He listed the following site, which looks very useful

https://www.vasegeny.cz/genealogicky-rozcestnik. If you use google
chrome browser, it will translate.


Tony

Thank you Martha Flatto and others. I have been informed of not one
but three unexpected discoveries regarding dates and names in my
mother's memoir Franci's War:
Prague-Terezin-Auschwitz-Hamburg-Belsen-Prague 1939-1945. The 30,000
members of the FB Group Jewish Genealogy Portal were unbelievably
helpful.

They found Coonel Margaret Emmeline Montgomery, the British Red Cross
office who beriended her at liberation. She turns up in three other
survivor memoirs and was a sister-in-law of Field Marshal Bernard
Montgomery.

They found the birth and death dates of her friend Margot Stern
Koerbel (1907-1978)

Most movingly they found the records of Gisa Kaufmannova, the little
girl my mother adopted in Terezin who was murdered in Auschwitz. Her
relatives in Israel were amazed to find out that someone remembered
her.

The book will be out in the US in February 2020 and in Czech and
Slovak in May 2020.

Thanks again.


--



helenepstein.com

JewishGen is pleased to announce our newly designed website at
www.JewishGen.org. We commissioned the creation of a new landing page
to serve as a launching point for the main components of the website.
The site is built on a modern, secure platform, which is beneficial
for a number of reasons, including:

*It has a more intuitive and user-friendly design,
*It is mobile-responsive, and
*It has a more familiar platform, which will make it easier for us to
find qualified consultants, contractors and volunteers to help us in
the future.

This is not the final plan. It's a stop-gap redesign that addresses
some of the shortcomings of our website by creating a visually
appealing, mobile-friendly, and easy to navigate homepage that
researchers can utilize to find key components on the JewishGen site.
While we attracted approximately one million unique visitors to the
JewishGen site last year, only a small portion of this group actually
registered or became regular users. We anticipate that an enhanced
website will improve these results.

Specifically, we hope the new landing page will help guide researchers to:

*Search the online collection
*Locate ancestral communities
*Explore life in their ancestral communities
*Join our discussion groups
*Volunteer, and
*Donate.

Over the next two months, we will begin crafting a proper technology
strategy, which will include our website and databases. In the
meantime, however, this new landing page will immediately help
researchers, while also demonstrating JewishGen's strategic focus.

Thank you to everyone on our staff and volunteer leadership team for
their suggestions and contributions to making this happen. Special
thanks to Scott Seidenstock, Gary Sandler, and Warren Blatt.

Please enjoy the site and visit www.JewishGen.org now. Feedback and
suggestions will be most welcome!

Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Communications Coordinator
JewishGen.org

Please join us in congratulating Chuck Weinstein, who was honored as
our 2019/5779 Susan E. King Volunteer of the Year during the recent
JewishGen Annual Meeting in Cleveland.

This is a small token of our appreciation for Chuck's outstanding
commitment to JewishGen's important work, and for his significant
contributions to the world of Jewish Genealogy.

The video about Chuck shown at the meeting can be accessed on YouTube
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yFAmGAzuFM&;t=17s or on our
Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/ .

Mazal Tov, Chuck!

Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Communications Coordinator
JewishGen.org

I think it was Randy who may have posted the following on the facebook
group for Czech Jewish Genealogy (Including Bohemia, Moravia and
Silesia). He listed the following site, which looks very useful

https://www.vasegeny.cz/genealogicky-rozcestnik. If you use google
chrome browser, it will translate.


Tony

2 questions:

1. Anyone know a reliable researcher in Munkacs?

2. Anyone researching the BLUM family >from Munkacs, Czechoslovakia?
The names I was given are:

BLUM, Ignaz oo Serene ARONOWITZ

BLUM, Andor 1928-1945 (Flossenberg)

BLUM, Julius 1925-2003.

Barbara Mannlein

MODERATOR NOTE: Please send researcher recommendations privately.

2 questions:

1. Anyone know a reliable researcher in Munkacs?

2. Anyone researching the BLUM family >from Munkacs, Czechoslovakia?
The names I was given are:

BLUM, Ignaz oo Serene ARONOWITZ

BLUM, Andor 1928-1945 (Flossenberg)

BLUM, Julius 1925-2003.

Barbara Mannlein

MODERATOR NOTE: Please send researcher recommendations privately.

I was wondering if anyone had any information about naming conventions
when a person had two names. I'm not referring to the double names
that typically go together (Yehuda Leyb, Arye Leyb, Menachem Mendel,
etc.), but rather double names where the person was most likely named
after two people. My great x2 grandfather was Moishe Mendel Dubrovno
and his paternal grandfather's name was Mendel Dubrovno, so one of his
names is for his grandfather. Would it stand to reason that his
maternal grandfather's name was Moishe? Were there any naming
patterns, where a person with two names would take one name >from each
grandfather (as in, was this the norm)? Or could one name be >from a
person's grandfather and the second name would be >from their
great-grandfather (or uncle, cousin, etc.)?

Best,
Simon Zelman
San Francisco, CA

Researching: DUBROVNA, KANTOR, HOLZMAN, OKUN, BIALOBROTKO, LEVIN,
SLEVICH, AKHIMOV, GOLT, FLEISHER, REIZHEVICH, SHKLIAROVSKY, MIROTSNIK,
ZELMAN, GRUVER, GERSHTEYN, GITELMAN, ALPERIN, TAUB, GILBERMAN, ABRAMS

I was wondering if anyone had any information about naming conventions
when a person had two names. I'm not referring to the double names
that typically go together (Yehuda Leyb, Arye Leyb, Menachem Mendel,
etc.), but rather double names where the person was most likely named
after two people. My great x2 grandfather was Moishe Mendel Dubrovno
and his paternal grandfather's name was Mendel Dubrovno, so one of his
names is for his grandfather. Would it stand to reason that his
maternal grandfather's name was Moishe? Were there any naming
patterns, where a person with two names would take one name >from each
grandfather (as in, was this the norm)? Or could one name be >from a
person's grandfather and the second name would be >from their
great-grandfather (or uncle, cousin, etc.)?

Best,
Simon Zelman
San Francisco, CA

Researching: DUBROVNA, KANTOR, HOLZMAN, OKUN, BIALOBROTKO, LEVIN,
SLEVICH, AKHIMOV, GOLT, FLEISHER, REIZHEVICH, SHKLIAROVSKY, MIROTSNIK,
ZELMAN, GRUVER, GERSHTEYN, GITELMAN, ALPERIN, TAUB, GILBERMAN, ABRAMS

Please join us in congratulating Chuck Weinstein, who was honored as
our 2019/5779 Susan E. King Volunteer of the Year during the recent
JewishGen Annual Meeting in Cleveland.

This is a small token of our appreciation for Chuck's outstanding
commitment to JewishGen's important work, and for his significant
contributions to the world of Jewish Genealogy.

The video about Chuck shown at the meeting can be accessed on YouTube
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yFAmGAzuFM&;t=17s or on our
Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/ .

Mazal Tov, Chuck!

Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Communications Coordinator
JewishGen.org

Please join us in congratulating Chuck Weinstein, who was honored as
our 2019/5779 Susan E. King Volunteer of the Year during the recent
JewishGen Annual Meeting in Cleveland.

This is a small token of our appreciation for Chuck's outstanding
commitment to JewishGen's important work, and for his significant
contributions to the world of Jewish Genealogy.

The video about Chuck shown at the meeting can be accessed on YouTube
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yFAmGAzuFM&;t=17s or on our
Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/ .

Mazal Tov, Chuck!

Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Communications Coordinator
JewishGen.org

JewishGen is pleased to announce our newly designed website at
www.JewishGen.org. We commissioned the creation of a new landing page
to serve as a launching point for the main components of the website.
The site is built on a modern, secure platform, which is beneficial
for a number of reasons, including:

*It has a more intuitive and user-friendly design,
*It is mobile-responsive, and
*It has a more familiar platform, which will make it easier for us to
find qualified consultants, contractors and volunteers to help us in
the future.

This is not the final plan. It's a stop-gap redesign that addresses
some of the shortcomings of our website by creating a visually
appealing, mobile-friendly, and easy to navigate homepage that
researchers can utilize to find key components on the JewishGen site.
While we attracted approximately one million unique visitors to the
JewishGen site last year, only a small portion of this group actually
registered or became regular users. We anticipate that an enhanced
website will improve these results.

Specifically, we hope the new landing page will help guide researchers to:

*Search the online collection
*Locate ancestral communities
*Explore life in their ancestral communities
*Join our discussion groups
*Volunteer, and
*Donate.

Over the next two months, we will begin crafting a proper technology
strategy, which will include our website and databases. In the
meantime, however, this new landing page will immediately help
researchers, while also demonstrating JewishGen's strategic focus.

Thank you to everyone on our staff and volunteer leadership team for
their suggestions and contributions to making this happen. Special
thanks to Scott Seidenstock, Gary Sandler, and Warren Blatt.

Please enjoy the site and visit www.JewishGen.org now. Feedback and
suggestions will be most welcome!

Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Communications Coordinator
JewishGen.org

JewishGen is pleased to announce our newly designed website at
www.JewishGen.org. We commissioned the creation of a new landing page
to serve as a launching point for the main components of the website.
The site is built on a modern, secure platform, which is beneficial
for a number of reasons, including:

*It has a more intuitive and user-friendly design,
*It is mobile-responsive, and
*It has a more familiar platform, which will make it easier for us to
find qualified consultants, contractors and volunteers to help us in
the future.

This is not the final plan. It's a stop-gap redesign that addresses
some of the shortcomings of our website by creating a visually
appealing, mobile-friendly, and easy to navigate homepage that
researchers can utilize to find key components on the JewishGen site.
While we attracted approximately one million unique visitors to the
JewishGen site last year, only a small portion of this group actually
registered or became regular users. We anticipate that an enhanced
website will improve these results.

Specifically, we hope the new landing page will help guide researchers to:

*Search the online collection
*Locate ancestral communities
*Explore life in their ancestral communities
*Join our discussion groups
*Volunteer, and
*Donate.

Over the next two months, we will begin crafting a proper technology
strategy, which will include our website and databases. In the
meantime, however, this new landing page will immediately help
researchers, while also demonstrating JewishGen's strategic focus.

Thank you to everyone on our staff and volunteer leadership team for
their suggestions and contributions to making this happen. Special
thanks to Scott Seidenstock, Gary Sandler, and Warren Blatt.

Please enjoy the site and visit www.JewishGen.org now. Feedback and
suggestions will be most welcome!

Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Communications Coordinator
JewishGen.org

Please join us in congratulating Chuck Weinstein, who was honored as
our 2019/5779 Susan E. King Volunteer of the Year during the recent
JewishGen Annual Meeting in Cleveland.

This is a small token of our appreciation for Chuck's outstanding
commitment to JewishGen's important work, and for his significant
contributions to the world of Jewish Genealogy.

The video about Chuck shown at the meeting can be accessed on YouTube
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yFAmGAzuFM&;t=17s or on our
Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/ .

Mazal Tov, Chuck!

Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Communications Coordinator
JewishGen.org

Please join us in congratulating Chuck Weinstein, who was honored as
our 2019/5779 Susan E. King Volunteer of the Year during the recent
JewishGen Annual Meeting in Cleveland.

This is a small token of our appreciation for Chuck's outstanding
commitment to JewishGen's important work, and for his significant
contributions to the world of Jewish Genealogy.

The video about Chuck shown at the meeting can be accessed on YouTube
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yFAmGAzuFM&;t=17s or on our
Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/ .

Mazal Tov, Chuck!

Nancy Siegel (San Francisco, CA, USA)
Communications Coordinator
JewishGen.org