Yes, it's kind of a gutteral soft "G", and sounds more like an
"H". My grandfather spelled his name Genkin when he first came over,
but found apparently found people were pronouncing it "Jenkin". He
soon changed the spelling so people would pronounce it correctly.

Hilary

Yes, it's kind of a gutteral soft "G", and sounds more like an
"H". My grandfather spelled his name Genkin when he first came over,
but found apparently found people were pronouncing it "Jenkin". He
soon changed the spelling so people would pronounce it correctly.

Hilary

Shalom listers,
On the UK naturalisation papers for my paternal grandfather,SIMON BERNSTEIN,
is written; Place of birth: GOROD KIMMIJUK; POLTOFSKY PROVINCE.
With help >from russian friends, I was given to understand that this
birthplace was,
KREMENCHUG; POLTAVA.
After three years of searching for archival material of births and
burials,upon re-reading
the town name, I realise that this is possibly another place altogether.
The parents of Simon were ISRAEL,ZVI BERNSTEIN and his wife CISSIE.
Their son Simon married Annie Lightman (Lihktman) >from Vilna.They raised
their family in Leeds,UK.

Queries; Where is "KIMMIJUK" and who were these BERNSTEIN's.

Brenda Habshush, Sde Boker,Israel.

Shalom listers,
On the UK naturalisation papers for my paternal grandfather,SIMON BERNSTEIN,
is written; Place of birth: GOROD KIMMIJUK; POLTOFSKY PROVINCE.
With help >from russian friends, I was given to understand that this
birthplace was,
KREMENCHUG; POLTAVA.
After three years of searching for archival material of births and
burials,upon re-reading
the town name, I realise that this is possibly another place altogether.
The parents of Simon were ISRAEL,ZVI BERNSTEIN and his wife CISSIE.
Their son Simon married Annie Lightman (Lihktman) >from Vilna.They raised
their family in Leeds,UK.

Queries; Where is "KIMMIJUK" and who were these BERNSTEIN's.

Brenda Habshush, Sde Boker,Israel.

My mother mentions in her autobiography about meeting in the early 1930s in
New York City a long lost great aunt by the name of Sara (nee ABRAMOWITZ).
My mother doesn't remember her married name but writes that Sarah and her
husband "were part of a yiddish speaking communist group who sponsored a
weekly Shalom AleichemYiddish speaking circle together with the son-in-law
of Shalom Aleichem".

Sarah had a daughter who was divorced >from a non-Jewish gentleman and they
had a son named Tom who was around 20 years old in the early 1930s. It seems
that Tom lived with his father in Boston during the school year and visited
his grandmother (and/or mother?) in New York during the summers where and
when he met my mother.

I would be happy to hear if the above scanty details ring a bell with anyone.
Is there any way to find names of the members of the above Shalom Aleichem
club?

Yoni Ben-Ari, Efrat, Israel

My mother mentions in her autobiography about meeting in the early 1930s in
New York City a long lost great aunt by the name of Sara (nee ABRAMOWITZ).
My mother doesn't remember her married name but writes that Sarah and her
husband "were part of a yiddish speaking communist group who sponsored a
weekly Shalom AleichemYiddish speaking circle together with the son-in-law
of Shalom Aleichem".

Sarah had a daughter who was divorced >from a non-Jewish gentleman and they
had a son named Tom who was around 20 years old in the early 1930s. It seems
that Tom lived with his father in Boston during the school year and visited
his grandmother (and/or mother?) in New York during the summers where and
when he met my mother.

I would be happy to hear if the above scanty details ring a bell with anyone.
Is there any way to find names of the members of the above Shalom Aleichem
club?

Yoni Ben-Ari, Efrat, Israel

Does anyone know the proper way to clean and store a very old silk prayer
shawl? This was recently given to me by a family member and belonged to my
grandmother's brother. The original bag for the shawl is long gone, and the
silk is a bit yellowed and shows some soil as well(probably >from many years
of use).

Thanks for any ideas to help me preserve this wonderful gift.

Joyce Eastman
Orange City, FL USA

Does anyone know the proper way to clean and store a very old silk prayer
shawl? This was recently given to me by a family member and belonged to my
grandmother's brother. The original bag for the shawl is long gone, and the
silk is a bit yellowed and shows some soil as well(probably >from many years
of use).

Thanks for any ideas to help me preserve this wonderful gift.

Joyce Eastman
Orange City, FL USA

Hi folks,

I heard >from a relative today about the places where my family lived
in Belgium during and after WWII. The places were the city of
Mechelen, at Tessestraate street, **
and later (when the war was over) in Brussels, Anderlecht
neighborhood, Eloy street, **, 1st floor.

Do this information brings anything to the mind of any of you ?
Families who have also lived in such places in the same period... ?


Kol tuv,
Avraham Yehoshua Kahana,
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil

Seeking: KANO, TSUKERKORN, SOCHACZEWSKI, SKROBECK, GIVERTS, ROSEMARIN,
FRAIMAN, SCHECHTMAN, TSIPERSTEIN, BERENSTEIN, KOIFMAN, TRACHTENBERG,
VAISENBERG.

MODERATOR NOTE: Under JewishGen policy, we are unable to print the numbers
of the houses. Please email the writer for a complete address if necessary.

I'm looking for any descendants of a Benjamin and Lena Wax. They lived
in Palm Beach, Florida circa 1930's. Before this they lived in New
Jersey. They had the following children...

Charles, Ethel, Edith

Thanks,
Ira Block

Hi folks,

I heard >from a relative today about the places where my family lived
in Belgium during and after WWII. The places were the city of
Mechelen, at Tessestraate street, **
and later (when the war was over) in Brussels, Anderlecht
neighborhood, Eloy street, **, 1st floor.

Do this information brings anything to the mind of any of you ?
Families who have also lived in such places in the same period... ?


Kol tuv,
Avraham Yehoshua Kahana,
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil

Seeking: KANO, TSUKERKORN, SOCHACZEWSKI, SKROBECK, GIVERTS, ROSEMARIN,
FRAIMAN, SCHECHTMAN, TSIPERSTEIN, BERENSTEIN, KOIFMAN, TRACHTENBERG,
VAISENBERG.

MODERATOR NOTE: Under JewishGen policy, we are unable to print the numbers
of the houses. Please email the writer for a complete address if necessary.

I'm looking for any descendants of a Benjamin and Lena Wax. They lived
in Palm Beach, Florida circa 1930's. Before this they lived in New
Jersey. They had the following children...

Charles, Ethel, Edith

Thanks,
Ira Block

Excellent suggestion, if it would work. Many subscribers to this list, to
include me, have sent corrections to EIDB to no avail. I have tried to get
them to correct one particuar item for about two years. It's as if it the
correction link is to passify us.

If anyone on the list has had success with getting something corrected on EIDB,
please email me your technique privately.

Thank you!
Nancy Ring Kendrick
Port Orange, FL
Searching BLOCH / DZIKIEIWICZ / GROSS / KISH / KWASNY or KWASNEY and RING >from
Bielsko-Biala, Kenty, Tarnow and surrounding areas.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/e/n/Nancy-R-Kendrick

Excellent suggestion, if it would work. Many subscribers to this list, to
include me, have sent corrections to EIDB to no avail. I have tried to get
them to correct one particuar item for about two years. It's as if it the
correction link is to passify us.

If anyone on the list has had success with getting something corrected on EIDB,
please email me your technique privately.

Thank you!
Nancy Ring Kendrick
Port Orange, FL
Searching BLOCH / DZIKIEIWICZ / GROSS / KISH / KWASNY or KWASNEY and RING >from
Bielsko-Biala, Kenty, Tarnow and surrounding areas.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/k/e/n/Nancy-R-Kendrick

David Hoffman >from Baltimore writes: "Does anyone know where the name "BURMIL"
or "BERMIL" originated? I know that my family left the Kolomea, Galicia area
for the USA in the early 1900s, but there do not appear to be any BURMIL/BERMIL
records >from that area."

It is always worthwhile checking in Vienna if you have a Galician family and
indeed there is just *one* record I found of a young man who died at the early
age of 30 in Vienna where he is buried [he is alone in the grave]:

BURMIL Judes age 30 died 20.02.1932 buried 22.02.1932 Zentralfriedhof
Gate IV Group 16 C Row 1a Grave 16.

There are no obvious traces of BERMIL in Vienna. By researching in Vienna one
should be able to find out more Judes and his origins and if he might be
related to David's family .

Looking in Yad Vashem nearly all the BURMIL [BORMIL] victims - there are no
listings for BERMIL] come >from Bukovina [Romania]. We remember them here today.


On the ships' arrivals lists in NY, a family arrives in ca 1920 >from Picimei,
Poland. Another family arrives in 1908 >from a place in Galicia, I cannot
readily decipher.

I noted also that the name BURMIL is a toponymic, see {search for Burmil}
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Olyka/oly019.html

Celia Male [U.K.]

David Hoffman >from Baltimore writes: "Does anyone know where the name "BURMIL"
or "BERMIL" originated? I know that my family left the Kolomea, Galicia area
for the USA in the early 1900s, but there do not appear to be any BURMIL/BERMIL
records >from that area."

It is always worthwhile checking in Vienna if you have a Galician family and
indeed there is just *one* record I found of a young man who died at the early
age of 30 in Vienna where he is buried [he is alone in the grave]:

BURMIL Judes age 30 died 20.02.1932 buried 22.02.1932 Zentralfriedhof
Gate IV Group 16 C Row 1a Grave 16.

There are no obvious traces of BERMIL in Vienna. By researching in Vienna one
should be able to find out more Judes and his origins and if he might be
related to David's family .

Looking in Yad Vashem nearly all the BURMIL [BORMIL] victims - there are no
listings for BERMIL] come >from Bukovina [Romania]. We remember them here today.


On the ships' arrivals lists in NY, a family arrives in ca 1920 >from Picimei,
Poland. Another family arrives in 1908 >from a place in Galicia, I cannot
readily decipher.

I noted also that the name BURMIL is a toponymic, see {search for Burmil}
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Olyka/oly019.html

Celia Male [U.K.]

I have checked the JGFF, and list archives. I have found a limited amount for
the Salkin family. I wonder if any Jewish Genners have any information on
the following families.

Lobel/Leon WARSHAVSKY married to Friedel/Fannie
Salkin. >from Chigrin, Kivgorod, Paltawa.
Children: Abraham, Clara, Frank.

Israel SALKIN married to Sarah Posner. Three
children: Lazer/Louis, Friedel/Fannie, Morris.

Solomon KAPLAN married to Sore/Sarah Goldberg/Galich

from Shmuelovitz (Smolevichi), Minsk, Belarus.

Children: Minnie, Marie, William, Harry, Sophie,
Rose, Frances.

Leonard Shaw
Binghamton, NY
lenshaw@yahoo.com

I have checked the JGFF, and list archives. I have found a limited amount for
the Salkin family. I wonder if any Jewish Genners have any information on
the following families.

Lobel/Leon WARSHAVSKY married to Friedel/Fannie
Salkin. >from Chigrin, Kivgorod, Paltawa.
Children: Abraham, Clara, Frank.

Israel SALKIN married to Sarah Posner. Three
children: Lazer/Louis, Friedel/Fannie, Morris.

Solomon KAPLAN married to Sore/Sarah Goldberg/Galich

from Shmuelovitz (Smolevichi), Minsk, Belarus.

Children: Minnie, Marie, William, Harry, Sophie,
Rose, Frances.

Leonard Shaw
Binghamton, NY
lenshaw@yahoo.com

In a message dated 12/26/2006 8:50:19 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
david_kravitz@hotmail.com writes:

<< A line of thought that has not been explored is a name for the matzo
ball.

<< Whilst most refer to them as kneidlach (Russia), >>

==The German, and Judaeo-German (i.e. "Western Yiddish") term for them was
Matzo-Knoedel, whence the Eastern Yiddish diminutive Knaidel. [Since neither
German, nor any form of Yiddish adopted English pronunciation peculiarities,
both the K and the N are sounded]

Michael Bernet, New York

In a message dated 12/26/2006 8:50:19 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
david_kravitz@hotmail.com writes:

<< A line of thought that has not been explored is a name for the matzo
ball.

<< Whilst most refer to them as kneidlach (Russia), >>

==The German, and Judaeo-German (i.e. "Western Yiddish") term for them was
Matzo-Knoedel, whence the Eastern Yiddish diminutive Knaidel. [Since neither
German, nor any form of Yiddish adopted English pronunciation peculiarities,
both the K and the N are sounded]

Michael Bernet, New York