Dear SIG,

I am hoping to find Zava PILVINSKI, b. 1922 in Lithuania who was sent to Tashkent
in February 1942. How can I try to find her, if she survived, or her family?

Also, I am trying to find Schepse GOLDSCHMIED(as it was spelled in the Dachau
Records) b. March 1, 1927 in Kaunas who was liberated >from Dachau.

I don't have names of their parents or other relatives. Are there ways to search
in Russian or other records?

Thank you,
Susan Goldsmith

Researching GOLDSMITH, GIDES(GADYE)(GITTES), SHLIOMOVICH, P(F)ILVINSKY Lithuania;
TOBIAS(TOIBES)(TAUBES,ROZANSKY, HOROWITZ, DRASNAN Belarus; HAFFNER, DAVIS,
ROSENZWEIG Romania; WAXMAN, KOENIGSBERG, LINK Poland; SONENBLIK Galicia

Dear SIG,

I am hoping to find Zava PILVINSKI, b. 1922 in Lithuania who was sent to Tashkent
in February 1942. How can I try to find her, if she survived, or her family?

Also, I am trying to find Schepse GOLDSCHMIED(as it was spelled in the Dachau
Records) b. March 1, 1927 in Kaunas who was liberated >from Dachau.

I don't have names of their parents or other relatives. Are there ways to search
in Russian or other records?

Thank you,
Susan Goldsmith

Researching GOLDSMITH, GIDES(GADYE)(GITTES), SHLIOMOVICH, P(F)ILVINSKY Lithuania;
TOBIAS(TOIBES)(TAUBES,ROZANSKY, HOROWITZ, DRASNAN Belarus; HAFFNER, DAVIS,
ROSENZWEIG Romania; WAXMAN, KOENIGSBERG, LINK Poland; SONENBLIK Galicia

Dear Group.

A person likely to be a relative is buried in Vienna. The cemetery
details I have >from JewishGen are
(1) Name: Wiener Zentralfriedhof Cemetery
(2) Address: XI. Simmeringer Hauptstrasse 244

Can you please advice on a contact person overseeing the cemetery, so
I can inquire about details that may exist on the tombstone and/or
more family details?

Thank you - Yaron Wolfsthal, Israel <yaron.wolfsthal@gmail.com>

Dear Group.

A person likely to be a relative is buried in Vienna. The cemetery
details I have >from JewishGen are
(1) Name: Wiener Zentralfriedhof Cemetery
(2) Address: XI. Simmeringer Hauptstrasse 244

Can you please advice on a contact person overseeing the cemetery, so
I can inquire about details that may exist on the tombstone and/or
more family details?

Thank you - Yaron Wolfsthal, Israel <yaron.wolfsthal@gmail.com>

Trying to make contact with the family of Yitzchak Ehrenberg who lives
in Bat Yam in 1999 on #2 Rechov HaAdmor miBobov. He had posted a Page
of Testimony for his wife Rikel who perished. She was a daughter of
Naftali Nattel of Sanz who descended >from the Horowitz family of Dukla
and Cracow

Neil Rosenstein

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Does anyone have any knowledge of Czuszer Rov in Hungary? In specific,
what was his name and was he killed during the Holocaust?

Thank you

Bernard Weill

Trying to make contact with the family of Yitzchak Ehrenberg who lives
in Bat Yam in 1999 on #2 Rechov HaAdmor miBobov. He had posted a Page
of Testimony for his wife Rikel who perished. She was a daughter of
Naftali Nattel of Sanz who descended >from the Horowitz family of Dukla
and Cracow

Neil Rosenstein

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Does anyone have any knowledge of Czuszer Rov in Hungary? In specific,
what was his name and was he killed during the Holocaust?

Thank you

Bernard Weill

Trying to make contact with the desendants of Aaron Binyamin Zeev Wolf
Kornitzer and his siblings (which include Yosef Nechemiah Eisenstadt,
R. Simon Kornitzer of Brooklyn, died in 1989, and his children of the
Cohen, Farber and Bronner of Antwerp families)

Neil Rosenstein

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Trying to make contact with the desendants of Aaron Binyamin Zeev Wolf
Kornitzer and his siblings (which include Yosef Nechemiah Eisenstadt,
R. Simon Kornitzer of Brooklyn, died in 1989, and his children of the
Cohen, Farber and Bronner of Antwerp families)

Neil Rosenstein

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Trying to make contact with the Tames and Salomon families. Two
sisters were Judy (married Walter Zev Tames - parents of Elizabeth
Tames of Lebanon, PA and Joanne of Sprinfield) and Eva (married Rabbi
Jeremiah Salomon of Lawrence, NY - parents of Rabbi Jacob Baruch
Salomon, married Susan Briener of Bridgeport, CT, R. Joseph Meir
Salomon and Esther Reizel, married R. Baruch Rabinowitz.
Their main ancestry traces back to the Klein of Selles (Selish) and
Horowitz levite families.

Neil Rosenstein

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Trying to make contact with the Tames and Salomon families. Two
sisters were Judy (married Walter Zev Tames - parents of Elizabeth
Tames of Lebanon, PA and Joanne of Sprinfield) and Eva (married Rabbi
Jeremiah Salomon of Lawrence, NY - parents of Rabbi Jacob Baruch
Salomon, married Susan Briener of Bridgeport, CT, R. Joseph Meir
Salomon and Esther Reizel, married R. Baruch Rabinowitz.
Their main ancestry traces back to the Klein of Selles (Selish) and
Horowitz levite families.

Neil Rosenstein

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Greetings, everyone. I hate to say that I think the matches I am provided
through the various sites are driving me batty. I realize that in most of
them called "third cousin" the longest segment is only around 10 at the
most, with the "overlap" varying below and above 100, but why does the
system proclaim a cousinhood of third cousin or such when this surely
doesn't mean that in most cases?!! All it means is that two people have some
common genetic background at some time in the distant past that is retained
in us, even where some of my matches are with non-Jews who probably had had
a Jewish ancestor in the distant past. But this doesn't translate into a
third or fourth cousin.

I am just about ready to give up contacting the vast majority of matches I
am provided with by the various sites. It just doesn't mean anything for
family genealogy within the past one or two centuries. Some of my own
relatives keep asking me, "How far back do you want to do this?! Of course
we are all related at some point, what's the big deal?!" Sometimes I have no
answer for such questions.

David Goldman
NYC

Greetings, everyone. I hate to say that I think the matches I am provided
through the various sites are driving me batty. I realize that in most of
them called "third cousin" the longest segment is only around 10 at the
most, with the "overlap" varying below and above 100, but why does the
system proclaim a cousinhood of third cousin or such when this surely
doesn't mean that in most cases?!! All it means is that two people have some
common genetic background at some time in the distant past that is retained
in us, even where some of my matches are with non-Jews who probably had had
a Jewish ancestor in the distant past. But this doesn't translate into a
third or fourth cousin.

I am just about ready to give up contacting the vast majority of matches I
am provided with by the various sites. It just doesn't mean anything for
family genealogy within the past one or two centuries. Some of my own
relatives keep asking me, "How far back do you want to do this?! Of course
we are all related at some point, what's the big deal?!" Sometimes I have no
answer for such questions.

David Goldman
NYC

Jewish Genealogical Society New York Meeting
Sunday, May 19 at 2 PM
at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St., New York

Program: What's in a Name? A Case Study of (Re)discovering Jewish Identity on (and
off) an Unlikely African Archipelago
Speaker: Alma Gottlieb

Co-sponsored with the American Sephardi Federation

from Poland to Brazil to New Mexico, many individuals, families, and communities

around the world are discovering that they have Jewish ancestors who renounced
and/or suppressed their religious identity. What happens when Christians today
learn that some of their long-ago relatives were Jewish? The West African island
nation of Cabo Verde offers an especially compelling place >from which to explore
this intriguing process because of the unexpected convergence of Jews and Africans
on a remote archipelago in the North Atlantic.

In this talk, Professor Gottlieb will discuss her research with Cabo Verdeans on
and off the islands who are, in a variety of ways, reconnecting with their Jewish
heritage. What parallels-and differences-do we find linking them with the global
trend of reconnecting with lost Jewish ancestry?

Alma Gottlieb is an award-winning cultural anthropologist who has lectured and
conducted research around the world. She is author or co-author of nine books and
many scholarly articles. Since 2006, she has been researching the West African
island nation of Cabo Verde. Her talk draws >from her book-in-progress, "Africa
Across the Seder Table: Jewish Identity in Cabo Verde and Its Diaspora."
She has held teaching and research appointments at Princeton University, Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and Catholic University of Leuven
(Belgium). Currently she is Professor Emerita >from the University of Illinois at
Champaign-Urbana and a Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at Brown University.

No charge for JGS and ASF members; guests welcome, $5 at the door.

The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at CJH will be open starting at 11 AM.

More information available at our website: jgsny.org

Submitted by Harriet Mayer
JGSNY VP Communications
New York, NY

Jewish Genealogical Society New York Meeting
Sunday, May 19 at 2 PM
at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th St., New York

Program: What's in a Name? A Case Study of (Re)discovering Jewish Identity on (and
off) an Unlikely African Archipelago
Speaker: Alma Gottlieb

Co-sponsored with the American Sephardi Federation

from Poland to Brazil to New Mexico, many individuals, families, and communities

around the world are discovering that they have Jewish ancestors who renounced
and/or suppressed their religious identity. What happens when Christians today
learn that some of their long-ago relatives were Jewish? The West African island
nation of Cabo Verde offers an especially compelling place >from which to explore
this intriguing process because of the unexpected convergence of Jews and Africans
on a remote archipelago in the North Atlantic.

In this talk, Professor Gottlieb will discuss her research with Cabo Verdeans on
and off the islands who are, in a variety of ways, reconnecting with their Jewish
heritage. What parallels-and differences-do we find linking them with the global
trend of reconnecting with lost Jewish ancestry?

Alma Gottlieb is an award-winning cultural anthropologist who has lectured and
conducted research around the world. She is author or co-author of nine books and
many scholarly articles. Since 2006, she has been researching the West African
island nation of Cabo Verde. Her talk draws >from her book-in-progress, "Africa
Across the Seder Table: Jewish Identity in Cabo Verde and Its Diaspora."
She has held teaching and research appointments at Princeton University, Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and Catholic University of Leuven
(Belgium). Currently she is Professor Emerita >from the University of Illinois at
Champaign-Urbana and a Visiting Scholar in Anthropology at Brown University.

No charge for JGS and ASF members; guests welcome, $5 at the door.

The Ackman & Ziff Family Genealogy Institute at CJH will be open starting at 11 AM.

More information available at our website: jgsny.org

Submitted by Harriet Mayer
JGSNY VP Communications
New York, NY

I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. This
is the death record for the person I believe is my gr-gr-grandfather.

It is on ViewMate at the following address:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73210

Any help you could give would be greatly appreciative. I am particularly
interested in the words that don't seem to be part of the regular record.

Thank you very much,

Todd Brody

(looking for Zakher/Zacher/Shakher/Shachar in Telsiai, Raseiniai, and
Tytuveniai)

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I've posted a vital record in Russian for which I need a translation. This
is the death record for the person I believe is my gr-gr-grandfather.

It is on ViewMate at the following address:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM73210

Any help you could give would be greatly appreciative. I am particularly
interested in the words that don't seem to be part of the regular record.

Thank you very much,

Todd Brody

(looking for Zakher/Zacher/Shakher/Shachar in Telsiai, Raseiniai, and
Tytuveniai)

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately or on the Viewmate form.

I think my next cemetery visit / research will be the at Mount Carmel in Glendale,
Queens, New York. I will probably be focusing on Sections 1, 2, and 3 known as
Old Mount Carmel and New Mount Carmel. I might go next weekend but of course it is
dependent on weather.

I am happy to look for graves and take photos provided you can ID the appropriate
person. Mount Carmel has a database where you can start with your research.

I am pretty good at finding my way around in Mount Carmel. However they are not
particularly good at sharing plot maps so sometimes it can be a real challenge.

Infants, babies and children are the most difficult because a lot of times they did
not have as significant stones and they do not survive the years. If you are
looking for a child's grave please tell me in advance.

Please be specific in your requests because I can not help you if you write with a
common name and say can you find for example Harry Cohen.... you can guess how many
there are in this cemetery. Mount Carmel has more than 100,000 burials.

I do appreciate but do not demand a few dollars in return to help off set the cost
of doing these search for everyone and to make it possible for me to continue to
offer this as a service to the community. As you can understand the costs of these
repeated searches add up on me.

I am also happy to offer advice online if you email me.

Allan Jordan

I think my next cemetery visit / research will be the at Mount Carmel in Glendale,
Queens, New York. I will probably be focusing on Sections 1, 2, and 3 known as
Old Mount Carmel and New Mount Carmel. I might go next weekend but of course it is
dependent on weather.

I am happy to look for graves and take photos provided you can ID the appropriate
person. Mount Carmel has a database where you can start with your research.

I am pretty good at finding my way around in Mount Carmel. However they are not
particularly good at sharing plot maps so sometimes it can be a real challenge.

Infants, babies and children are the most difficult because a lot of times they did
not have as significant stones and they do not survive the years. If you are
looking for a child's grave please tell me in advance.

Please be specific in your requests because I can not help you if you write with a
common name and say can you find for example Harry Cohen.... you can guess how many
there are in this cemetery. Mount Carmel has more than 100,000 burials.

I do appreciate but do not demand a few dollars in return to help off set the cost
of doing these search for everyone and to make it possible for me to continue to
offer this as a service to the community. As you can understand the costs of these
repeated searches add up on me.

I am also happy to offer advice online if you email me.

Allan Jordan