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Re: Jewish Refugee Admissions to the U.S. in 1940
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#holocaust
Susan&David
Melanie Godschmid was issued QIV 14778 i.e, Quota Immigrant Visa,
probably under the German quota. She was eligible under Section 5 of the Immigration Act of 1924 which defines a
Quota Immigrant. In March 1940 Germany was not at war with the
United States and she would not have been considered an enemy
alien. Admission for refugees who had no visa was not an issue
in her case.
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David Rosen Boston, MA
On 2/15/2021 8:38 PM,
Scott.leo@... wrote:
Through Ancestry.com-scanned images of ship records, I've come across my great-grandmother's aunt, Melanie Goldschmid, who arrived on the SS Lancastria in New York on March 21, 1940. The ship is listed as having departed Liverpool, UK (with a stop, I believe, in Halifax).
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Re: Divorce records
#usa
Lee Hover
My parents were divorced in Brooklyn in the late 1940s. At that time, and earlier, the only legitimate reason for divorce was adultery. As a result, many couples arranged a scenario in a hotel, so as to be caught in flagrante delicto with a willing accomplice.
Lee MESSING Hover Lacey, WA lee.hover@...
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Re: Divorce records
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jbonline1111@...
Based on my experience in family court in another state, initial filings before no-fault divorce became common would include the basis of the divorce, such as mental illness, desertion, or alcoholism, the three reasons most typically allowed.
-- Barbara Sloan Conway, SC
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Re: Divorce records
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Gail H. Marcus
I have a related question that might possibly be relevant for the questioner or for others. Are all the papers associated with a divorce sealed for 100 years from the actual divorce date, or do papers become available 100 years from when they were filed?
My grandmother first filed for divorce in 1916 in New York (the Bronx). However, they apparently must have reconciled and the divorce wasn't finalized until 1931. If the first filing is available 100 years from the date of the filing, I could get it now. If I have to wait until the divorce was finalized, I have to wait another 10 years. My thought is that the preliminary filing might contain some useful information. A related question is whether initial filings have any details, such as reasons for filing for divorce. (I.e., whether such records really do contain anything useful.) This may be a longer interval than for most divorces, but if there is any useful information in earlier records, it might help some people. Gail Marcus ghmarcus@...
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The Becker's Email
Otto Oppenheimer b. 8 July 1884 Camberg, Hesse, Germany per his naturalization papers (and his German birth record).. He was a merchant. He and his wife Irma arrived in the US in 1934 from Mexico. His parents were Lazarus Oppenheimer and Bettchen Mayer. Information on him is available on both familysearch.org and Ancestry. He died June 1958 and his death notice provides no details. No children.
Johanna Becker Newport, Rhode Island USA
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JUROVSKY,Catherine
I found a reference to a birth index which could be the one of my great grand mother on https://www.rtrfoundation.org/ data base. How does one get about with Byalistok archives to obtain the actual birth certificate? Regards
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My friend Jerzy Michal Rucinski is a collector of vintage photographs and postcards from Jaslo.
He is interested in connecting with descendants of Jewish families from Jaslo. I will put interested parties in touch with him through me. -- Nina Talbot Brooklyn, NY ninaitalbot@... NEGER, SPINRAD (Dynow, Poland) TOLPEN (Suchostaw, Poland/Sukhostav, Ukraine) DISTENFELD, ADLER, WILDER (Kamionka Strumilowa, Poland/Kamianka-Buzka, Ukraine)
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Searching for Ritevsky/Rits origins in Lithuania
#belarus
#lithuania
GEORGE MASON
I am searching for the origins of the Ritevsky/Rits genealogical line in Lithuania. I have information indicating that it may have started in the village/town of Vilkaviskis, in south-east Suwalki Gubernia in the 1700's. Later, Ritevskys are found in Minsk in the 1870's and 1880's owning a chain of shops that specialized in selling collars, cuffs, etc. They immigrated to the U.S. in the early 1890's and changed their surname to Rits. I would welcome any help in learning more about their origins/early ancestors or their businesses in the Minsk region.
Thank You, George Mason USA Researching MOZESON in Lithuania, Poland, and Latvia, NATHANSON in Lithuania and Latvia, and ORABENA/ARABENA in Spain.
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Re: Are children named for living or dead relatives if one parent is Ashkenazi and one is Sephardic?
#names
ahcbfc@...
My children's Jewish/Hebrew are named after one deceased relative (I'm Ashkenazim) and one living relative (husband is Sephardi) though we definitely had quite a conversation during the first pregnancy.
Barbara Cohen Glenview IL ahcbfc@...
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Re: Yale Hungarian Collections
#hungary
LarryBassist@...
Siggers,
There are several items I would like searched. They are in Hungarian and/or Hebrew or Yiddish. Does anyone know how this could be arranged? Is there someone of you who are willing to go there and search? I would be willing to pay. (For this I am interested in Albert-Irsa and Szeged.) I imagine there are other siggers who would want searches done too. Thanks, Larry Bassist
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Re: Are children named for living or dead relatives if one parent is Ashkenazi and one is Sephardic?
#names
billie.stein@...
For "mixed" families, there is no hard and fast rule, but most likely if the naming is for a Sephardic relative, it may be of a live one, whereas if naming for an Ashkenazi relative, it would be for someone no longer living.
Billie Stein Givatayim, Israel
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Re: Translation needed of record from hebrew
#translation
binyaminkerman@...
I think it is a ballot for electing officials to the vaad ha'ir (like city council) of Jerusalem. The nominated people have to have lived in the city at least 3 years. A line would be written next to a name to signify a vote.
I don't see the the name you are looking for on the list. It could be further down on the page since they are listed alphabetically and Yitzchak would be a bit below where the page cuts off. I do see a Shabsi ben Reb Yitzchak Yaakov (leftmost column 4th down). There is no surname but Shabsi's father was named Yitzchak Yaakov. This could be relevant or totally unrelated to your search. Binyamin Kerman Baltimore MD
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Probate in Toronto
#records
David Lewin
How can I obtain a copy of the probate of a person who dies in
Scarborough, Toronto after 1971 I do not have a death date. He had owned and was living at 84 Torrance Road, 701 Scarborough David Lewin
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Re: Jewish Heritage Annual Report
Thank you so much Jan for sharing this report. Glad to see the Tempel Synagogue of Ivano-Frankivsk made the report. The foundation is providing us with much advice. All those interested in the synagogue and/or Rabbi Kolesnik please contact me.
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Re: Where are these records
#lithuania
#records
Russ Maurer
Hello Herman,
The standard archival designation is organized as archive/fond/inventory/file. Thus the example you gave works out to KRA - the Kaunas regional archive (other archival abbreviations frequently encountered in Lithuanian records are LVIA, the state historical archive, and LCVA, the central state archive, both located in Vilnius) I-210 - the number of the fond at KRA 1 - the number of the inventory (ie, a section) within that fond 439 - the number of the file within that inventory Many Lithuanian records are online at familysearch.org, but not this specific file as yet. You would have to purchase a copy of your records from KRA (kaunas@...). The records would be in Russian as the area in question (Rokiskis) was part of the Russian Empire at that time. Russ Maurer Records Acquisition & Translation coordinator, LitvakSIG
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Re: Jewish Refugee Admissions to the U.S. in 1940
#usa
#holocaust
Jill Whitehead
My mother's family in Edinburgh,Scotland and another person in Kent, UK took in one brother and his two sisters from Berlin during the war as Kindertransports. Their mother escaped the Nazis via the Iberian peninsula, but could not get into the USA. She went onto Cuba (with other women in a similar situation), and entered Florida "unofficially", marrying a Polish Jew with US citizenship (her German husband had died of natural causes pre war). The marriage did not last, but she obtained visas for her three children in 1942 and they joined her in respectively 1943, 1944 and 1945.
Jill Whitehead, Surrey, UK
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Re: Are children named for living or dead relatives if one parent is Ashkenazi and one is Sephardic?
#names
David Harrison
From a series of trails of ancestors in The Netherlands, I have found that the given names of the firstborn alternate through the ages. This means that most firstborn first cousins have not only the same given name but also the same family name. But luckily
in that country because the wife has not changed her family name and their system whereby there is no Census on a specific day , but a "house-book' for each ten-year period which cross-references all movements in and out over that period, there is a significant
amount of other material to help sorting out which is which. In my family a young person spent several years with a relative and was therefore crossed out on leaving and a new entry on return, whilst another listed for a period of time the employment of a
"Wet-Nurse"; there are some advantages of a semi-police-state!
David Harrison, Birmingham, GB
DREILSMA, VAN RYN, HYMAN, DE YOUNG; Netherlands
From: main@... <main@...> on behalf of Mark Stone <markstone@...>
Sent: 17 February 2021 10:14 To: main@... <main@...> Subject: Re: [JewishGen.org] Are children named for living or dead relatives if one parent is Ashkenazi and one is Sephardic? #names I come from a family of Ashkenazi on my father's side and from Sephardic origins from my mother’s family.
I once asked a learned man “where does it leave me?”.
The answer “absolutely nowhere!”
Thank G-d for the State of Israel, because it no longer matters!
Mark Paul Stone Lichtenstein/Morpurgo
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Re: SSI Applications and Claims Index
#records
Sherri Bobish
Stephen Weinstein is correct! I miscounted the digits. Thank you, Sherri Bobish
760952439 is the same number of digits (9) as the number listed after SSN (157264934). And the same number of digits (9) as my SSN.
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Re: Are children named for living or dead relatives if one parent is Ashkenazi and one is Sephardic?
#names
Mark Stone
I come from a family of Ashkenazi on my father's side and from Sephardic origins from my mother’s family.
I once asked a learned man “where does it leave me?”.
The answer “absolutely nowhere!”
Thank G-d for the State of Israel, because it no longer matters!
Mark Paul Stone Lichtenstein/Morpurgo
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Are children named for living or dead relatives if one parent is Ashkenazi and one is Sephardic?
#names
Stephen Weinstein
If both parents are Ashkenazi, children are named after deceased relatives, or not named for anyone, but never named for the living. If one parent is Ashkenazi and one is Sephardic, do they follow Ashkenazi or Sephardic naming practices?
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