The Jewish Genealogical Society of New York is the host society for
the 2006 International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies'
annual conference to be held at the Marriott Marquis here in New
York City >from August 13th to 18th.

We have received a great number of submissions for new and varied
presentations and look forward to receiving even more. If you are
planning to make a submission, please note that today is one-month
mark before the December 1st deadline for responding to our Call for
Papers.

Submissions should be made at the Conference website at
http://www.jgsny2006.org/call.cfm All abstract submissions must be
submitted via our on-line abstract module process. E-mail
submittals will not be accepted.

Possible presentation categories are listed below:

Computer Training Workshops/Eastern and Central European
research/Genetics and DNA Research/Holocaust research/Immigration,
naturalization and migration/Eretz Israel, pre and post
1948/Methodology/Metropolitan New York City and New York State
research/Non-European research (e.g. India, China)/Rabbinical
research/Repositories/Sephardic research/South and Central American
research/Technology and Internet resources/United States&North
American research/Western European research/Yiddish theater/Tin Pan
Alley

The decision to accept a submission will be heavily weighted toward
presentations not given at previous IAJGS Conferences, that provide
specific research methodology and that include specific information
for researchers to replicate the success of the presenter in
acquiring information. Sessions will be one hour and fifteen
minutes, with the last 15 minutes reserved for questions and
answers.

Proposal Deadline - December 1, 2005. Speakers will be notified no
later than February 1, 2006. Handout material/resource material,
due March 1, 2006, is required for each presentation and will be
included in the syllabus distributed to all conference registrants.
Further details of the handout material requirements will be
provided upon acceptance of lecture.

Gloria Berkenstat Freund
2006 Conference Program Committee Chair
gloria@jgsny2006.org

[Moderator's Note: Please reply privately.]

The Jewish Genealogical Society of New York is the host society for
the 2006 International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies'
annual conference to be held at the Marriott Marquis here in New
York City >from August 13th to 18th.

We have received a great number of submissions for new and varied
presentations and look forward to receiving even more. If you are
planning to make a submission, please note that today is one-month
mark before the December 1st deadline for responding to our Call for
Papers.

Submissions should be made at the Conference website at
http://www.jgsny2006.org/call.cfm All abstract submissions must be
submitted via our on-line abstract module process. E-mail
submittals will not be accepted.

Possible presentation categories are listed below:

Computer Training Workshops/Eastern and Central European
research/Genetics and DNA Research/Holocaust research/Immigration,
naturalization and migration/Eretz Israel, pre and post
1948/Methodology/Metropolitan New York City and New York State
research/Non-European research (e.g. India, China)/Rabbinical
research/Repositories/Sephardic research/South and Central American
research/Technology and Internet resources/United States&North
American research/Western European research/Yiddish theater/Tin Pan
Alley

The decision to accept a submission will be heavily weighted toward
presentations not given at previous IAJGS Conferences, that provide
specific research methodology and that include specific information
for researchers to replicate the success of the presenter in
acquiring information. Sessions will be one hour and fifteen
minutes, with the last 15 minutes reserved for questions and
answers.

Proposal Deadline - December 1, 2005. Speakers will be notified no
later than February 1, 2006. Handout material/resource material,
due March 1, 2006, is required for each presentation and will be
included in the syllabus distributed to all conference registrants.
Further details of the handout material requirements will be
provided upon acceptance of lecture.

Gloria Berkenstat Freund
2006 Conference Program Committee Chair
gloria@jgsny2006.org

[Moderator's Note: Please reply privately.]

During the month of October 2005 we updated 10 yizkor books and
posted four new entries. All the additions are flagged at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html.

New entries:

-Pinkas HaKehillot Hungary: town list
-Liubavas, Lithuania: Pinkas Hakehillot Lita
-Maramures Region: Ober Bistra (Verkhniy Bystryy),
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/maramures/maramures.html
-Palanga, Lithuania: Lite, volume 1, pp. 1453-1474

Updates:

-Borislav, Ukraine
-Chelm, Poland
-Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland
-Holocaust in Belarus
-Novogrudok, Belarus
-Oradea, Romania
-Podgaytsy, Ukraine
-Radzyn Podalski, Poland
-Rejowiec,Poland
-Shumskoye, Ukraine

We are always eager to receive new translations. Please consider
translating a chapter >from a Pinkas HaKehillot volume or engaging
someone to translate it. We also need tables of contents translated
for many of the Pinkasim. Each volume covers a specific
geographical area: Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia & Estonia,
Libya, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland (7 volumes), Romania
(2 volumes), Slovakia, Yugoslavia. There is a separate "chapter"
for each town. Contact me privately if you have any qustions.

Please also check the fundraising projects at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23.
Funds raised pay for the translation of these important volumes.
Without financial assistance these books will not be translated.

Joyce Field
JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition
jfield@jewishgen.org
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html

During the month of October 2005 we updated 10 yizkor books and
posted four new entries. All the additions are flagged at
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html.

New entries:

-Pinkas HaKehillot Hungary: town list
-Liubavas, Lithuania: Pinkas Hakehillot Lita
-Maramures Region: Ober Bistra (Verkhniy Bystryy),
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/maramures/maramures.html
-Palanga, Lithuania: Lite, volume 1, pp. 1453-1474

Updates:

-Borislav, Ukraine
-Chelm, Poland
-Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland
-Holocaust in Belarus
-Novogrudok, Belarus
-Oradea, Romania
-Podgaytsy, Ukraine
-Radzyn Podalski, Poland
-Rejowiec,Poland
-Shumskoye, Ukraine

We are always eager to receive new translations. Please consider
translating a chapter >from a Pinkas HaKehillot volume or engaging
someone to translate it. We also need tables of contents translated
for many of the Pinkasim. Each volume covers a specific
geographical area: Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia & Estonia,
Libya, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland (7 volumes), Romania
(2 volumes), Slovakia, Yugoslavia. There is a separate "chapter"
for each town. Contact me privately if you have any qustions.

Please also check the fundraising projects at
http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/v_projectslist.asp?project_cat=23.
Funds raised pay for the translation of these important volumes.
Without financial assistance these books will not be translated.

Joyce Field
JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition
jfield@jewishgen.org
http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/translations.html

Hi ~

I am trying to locate family in Canada. Here is what I know:

My great grandfather Abraham SNOPARSKY (SCHNAPARSKI/SCHNAPARSKIJ/SNAPARSKY)
aka Avrum Yankel bar Yaacov was born in 1875 in Pavoloch, Ukraine. He had a
brother and a sister whose names I don't know. The brother and/or the
sister emigrated to Canada and were there probably prior to 1908 when
Abraham immigrated to the US via Montreal.

In the St. Albans manifest for 1925 I found a Borich SCHNAPORSKI who crossed

from Canada and went to visit someone in Detroit, MI. He was 19 years at

the time. With the name SCHNAPORSKI he must be a relative, but I don't know
who to connect him with.

Abraham married Etta NULMAN >from Fastov, Ukraine.

Does anyone with family origins in either Fastov or Pavoloch have either
SCHNAPARSKI (or any of the variety of spellings) or NULMAN in their family?
If so, I would greatly appreciate hearing >from you. Please respond
privately.

Thank you.

Regards,

Linda Silverman Shefler
Cary, NC
linsilv@nc.rr.com

Hi ~

I am trying to locate family in Canada. Here is what I know:

My great grandfather Abraham SNOPARSKY (SCHNAPARSKI/SCHNAPARSKIJ/SNAPARSKY)
aka Avrum Yankel bar Yaacov was born in 1875 in Pavoloch, Ukraine. He had a
brother and a sister whose names I don't know. The brother and/or the
sister emigrated to Canada and were there probably prior to 1908 when
Abraham immigrated to the US via Montreal.

In the St. Albans manifest for 1925 I found a Borich SCHNAPORSKI who crossed

from Canada and went to visit someone in Detroit, MI. He was 19 years at

the time. With the name SCHNAPORSKI he must be a relative, but I don't know
who to connect him with.

Abraham married Etta NULMAN >from Fastov, Ukraine.

Does anyone with family origins in either Fastov or Pavoloch have either
SCHNAPARSKI (or any of the variety of spellings) or NULMAN in their family?
If so, I would greatly appreciate hearing >from you. Please respond
privately.

Thank you.

Regards,

Linda Silverman Shefler
Cary, NC
linsilv@nc.rr.com

Dear All ~

You are a wonderful group and I want to thank you for the suggestions that
have helped me find missing pieces to this never ending puzzle called
family!

I now have some additional requests for suggestions or information. I am
looking for the descendants of Jennie R. NATHAN nee ROSENBLATT who lived in
Pittsburgh, PA. She was born about 1873 (the census record says in Russia
but it might have been Poland) and immigrated about 1889. I don't know the
first name of her husband. Her children were:

Abraham NATHAN born about 1900
Louis NATHAN baorn about 1902
Morris NATHAN born about 1906
Florence NATHAN born about 1909
Yette NATHAN born about 1915

I did check JGFF and wrote to someone who is researching the NATHAN family
of Pittsburgh; to date I've had no response. If anyone is familiar with
this family I would greatly appreciate hearing >from you. Please respond
privately.

Thank you and regards,

Linda Silverman Shefler
Cary, NC
linsilv@nc.rr.com

Dear All ~

You are a wonderful group and I want to thank you for the suggestions that
have helped me find missing pieces to this never ending puzzle called
family!

I now have some additional requests for suggestions or information. I am
looking for the descendants of Jennie R. NATHAN nee ROSENBLATT who lived in
Pittsburgh, PA. She was born about 1873 (the census record says in Russia
but it might have been Poland) and immigrated about 1889. I don't know the
first name of her husband. Her children were:

Abraham NATHAN born about 1900
Louis NATHAN baorn about 1902
Morris NATHAN born about 1906
Florence NATHAN born about 1909
Yette NATHAN born about 1915

I did check JGFF and wrote to someone who is researching the NATHAN family
of Pittsburgh; to date I've had no response. If anyone is familiar with
this family I would greatly appreciate hearing >from you. Please respond
privately.

Thank you and regards,

Linda Silverman Shefler
Cary, NC
linsilv@nc.rr.com

At 11:28 AM 4/12/2005, Roger Lustig wrote:

but there are lots and lots of Jews named GORDON, MILLER, etc...

There are Gordons in my family, and I was wondering if Jews might have
selected the name as a tribute to Lord George Gordon, the convert who died at
the end of the 18th Century (chronology would be right)? If not, does anyone
have any bright ideas (not sarcasm!) about where the name came from? By the
way, we can add to Western-sounding Jewish names >from Eastern Europe the name
Boot.

As for warts, one man's wart is another man's beauty spot: When I told a
cousin that our ggfather sold military accouterments to naval officers in St.
Petersburg, and was rich, he practically had a panic attack. I didn't dare
tell him that our gm spoke unaccented English when they arrived in the US,
thanks to her English tutors in the old country.
Of course if our ggf had operated the shtetl tavern and sold vodka
to drunken cossacks, as many Jews did, my cousin would have been
happy with lower class origins.

Jules Levin
Los Angeles

At 11:28 AM 4/12/2005, Roger Lustig wrote:

but there are lots and lots of Jews named GORDON, MILLER, etc...

There are Gordons in my family, and I was wondering if Jews might have
selected the name as a tribute to Lord George Gordon, the convert who died at
the end of the 18th Century (chronology would be right)? If not, does anyone
have any bright ideas (not sarcasm!) about where the name came from? By the
way, we can add to Western-sounding Jewish names >from Eastern Europe the name
Boot.

As for warts, one man's wart is another man's beauty spot: When I told a
cousin that our ggfather sold military accouterments to naval officers in St.
Petersburg, and was rich, he practically had a panic attack. I didn't dare
tell him that our gm spoke unaccented English when they arrived in the US,
thanks to her English tutors in the old country.
Of course if our ggf had operated the shtetl tavern and sold vodka
to drunken cossacks, as many Jews did, my cousin would have been
happy with lower class origins.

Jules Levin
Los Angeles

Dear romsiggers,
Could you help me find a birth certificate and/or a wedding
certificate to prove Jewishness of :

Lidia PETER, married to Alexandru IZSIPI
born in Hungary before WW1 at an unknown date.
Parents of :
Ida IZSIPI , born on October 23, 1929, at Valeni in Romania
Other names are Danpataka and Mikolapatak and Vileny.

Does this ring a bell ?
Were can such certificates be found ? Thanks
Eliane Roos Schuhl, Paris
MODERATOR NOTE: Private replies please.

Dear romsiggers,
Could you help me find a birth certificate and/or a wedding
certificate to prove Jewishness of :

Lidia PETER, married to Alexandru IZSIPI
born in Hungary before WW1 at an unknown date.
Parents of :
Ida IZSIPI , born on October 23, 1929, at Valeni in Romania
Other names are Danpataka and Mikolapatak and Vileny.

Does this ring a bell ?
Were can such certificates be found ? Thanks
Eliane Roos Schuhl, Paris
MODERATOR NOTE: Private replies please.

Perhaps someone on the list recognises the names Barnet Emanuel and wife
Catherine Emanuel? They were born in 1805/1801, Barnet in Posen, Prussia and
Catherine in St. Botolphs, Aldgate, London.

Whilst searching for my g-g-grandmother, Alice Moses, in the 1851 census I
came across an Alice Moses born around the same time who was living with the
above mentioned people. Alice is described as niece, but I don't know if she
is niece to Barnet or Catherine.

I don't know very much about Alice Moses. I do know that her father was
named Moses Moses. I know that she married Jacob Cohen of Ebenezer Square in
1852 in the New Synagogue, and died in 1854 after giving birth to her first
child, a daughter also named Alice - my g-grandmother. So finding this
possible match in the 1851 census could be considered a mini breakthrough -
there weren't very many Alice Moses' in the census so I am confident that it
could be her.

Also living in the same house was a visitor, Fanny Da Castar, aged 8. A
young visitor!

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Lois Kaufman

Perhaps someone on the list recognises the names Barnet Emanuel and wife
Catherine Emanuel? They were born in 1805/1801, Barnet in Posen, Prussia and
Catherine in St. Botolphs, Aldgate, London.

Whilst searching for my g-g-grandmother, Alice Moses, in the 1851 census I
came across an Alice Moses born around the same time who was living with the
above mentioned people. Alice is described as niece, but I don't know if she
is niece to Barnet or Catherine.

I don't know very much about Alice Moses. I do know that her father was
named Moses Moses. I know that she married Jacob Cohen of Ebenezer Square in
1852 in the New Synagogue, and died in 1854 after giving birth to her first
child, a daughter also named Alice - my g-grandmother. So finding this
possible match in the 1851 census could be considered a mini breakthrough -
there weren't very many Alice Moses' in the census so I am confident that it
could be her.

Also living in the same house was a visitor, Fanny Da Castar, aged 8. A
young visitor!

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,

Lois Kaufman

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:15:35 UTC, brendajf@bigplanet.com (Brenda J Freedland)
wrote:

I am also wondering how to get an Israeli death certificate. I hope the
answer will be posted to all of the group.

You have to write to the Population Registry, Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem.

--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 20:15:35 UTC, brendajf@bigplanet.com (Brenda J Freedland)
wrote:

I am also wondering how to get an Israeli death certificate. I hope the
answer will be posted to all of the group.

You have to write to the Population Registry, Ministry of Interior, Jerusalem.

--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

My father was born in Montreal in 1911, so I've been eagerly awaiting
release of the 1911 census. I have an address (349 Clarke St.) for
1913-15, but I don't know if they were there in 1911.
I'm not sure which district the address falls into, but based on a
modern map, I'm guessing it's St. Antoine, so I looked at the first
couple of online page images in that district and I'm at a complete
loss. Where are the street names?? How would I know I've found Clarke
St.? I must be missing something. And is St. Antoine the right
District for Clarke St. to begin with?
Help?
Joy Weaver, E. Islip, NY USA

My father was born in Montreal in 1911, so I've been eagerly awaiting
release of the 1911 census. I have an address (349 Clarke St.) for
1913-15, but I don't know if they were there in 1911.
I'm not sure which district the address falls into, but based on a
modern map, I'm guessing it's St. Antoine, so I looked at the first
couple of online page images in that district and I'm at a complete
loss. Where are the street names?? How would I know I've found Clarke
St.? I must be missing something. And is St. Antoine the right
District for Clarke St. to begin with?
Help?
Joy Weaver, E. Islip, NY USA

Crzprncess@aol.com wrote:

I am trying to find port-of-entry information for my great-grandparents
(Josel and Nechama LIPOWITZ (changed to Joseph and Anna LIPOFF in the US) who
presumably came through NY in 1929 and 1939. They lived in Grajewo, Poland.
although Josel may have been born in Bialystok or somewhere in the Suwalki area.

I understand Ellis Island entry ended at 1924, which explains why they are
not listed. I've already tried all ports-of-entry as listed on Steve
Morse's web site.
Any suggestions?
Regards,

Shelly Crane.

Shelly et al

While the Ellis Island Data Base ends in 1924, immigration to the Port of
New York did not end.

NARA Microfilm Publication T621 is a Soundex Index of Passengers Arriving at
New York, NY, July 1, 1902-December 31, 1943. There are 755 Rolls of micrtofilm
in this publication.

NARA Microfilm Publication T715 is a collection of Passenger and Crew Lists
of Vessels Arrining at New York, NY, 1897-1957. There are 8892 rolls of
microfilm in this collection. Rolls 4407-6430 cover the period >from January 2,
1929 through December 26, 1939.

Why not try the Soundex index, >from which you can determine the date of arrival
and the name of the ship, among other data!!

Good Luck

Joel Stearman
Potomac, MD
Volunteer Genealogy Consultant, NARA DC

Crzprncess@aol.com wrote:

I am trying to find port-of-entry information for my great-grandparents
(Josel and Nechama LIPOWITZ (changed to Joseph and Anna LIPOFF in the US) who
presumably came through NY in 1929 and 1939. They lived in Grajewo, Poland.
although Josel may have been born in Bialystok or somewhere in the Suwalki area.

I understand Ellis Island entry ended at 1924, which explains why they are
not listed. I've already tried all ports-of-entry as listed on Steve
Morse's web site.
Any suggestions?
Regards,

Shelly Crane.

Shelly et al

While the Ellis Island Data Base ends in 1924, immigration to the Port of
New York did not end.

NARA Microfilm Publication T621 is a Soundex Index of Passengers Arriving at
New York, NY, July 1, 1902-December 31, 1943. There are 755 Rolls of micrtofilm
in this publication.

NARA Microfilm Publication T715 is a collection of Passenger and Crew Lists
of Vessels Arrining at New York, NY, 1897-1957. There are 8892 rolls of
microfilm in this collection. Rolls 4407-6430 cover the period >from January 2,
1929 through December 26, 1939.

Why not try the Soundex index, >from which you can determine the date of arrival
and the name of the ship, among other data!!

Good Luck

Joel Stearman
Potomac, MD
Volunteer Genealogy Consultant, NARA DC