Velke Kapusany is the Slovak name for Nagy Kapos, which was in the western part of Ung
megye and is now in Slovakia. The All-Hungary
Database may include records >from the 1848 Jewish Census of residents

from this town. You can find a presentday map at

http://mapy.atlas.sk/aquariusnet/frm_map.asp?
S_LAYERS=&S_LANG=SK&DS=Velke_Kapusany

Vivian Kahn, Oakland, CA

Researching:
BAL/BERKOVITS/BERKOWITZ/ROTH/Orasu Nou, Rom. (Ujvaros,
Hung.); Seini, Rom. (Szinervaralja, Hun), Vamfalu, Hung. (Vama,
Rom.),NYC, Detroit, Israel
GROSZ/Orasu Nou, Rom., Szatmar megye, Hung.
GRUNVALD/Bratislava, Michalovce, Humenne, Slov.
KAHN/KAHAN/KOHN/Sighet, Rom.(Maramarossziget, Hun), London
KOHN/Ung megye, Hung.
MARKUS/Sepsiszentgyorgy, Hung. (Sfante Gheorghu, Rom)
MOSKOVITS/MOSKOWITZ/MOSS, Ostrov (Kisozstro), Sobrance, Bunkocz, Kosice
(Kassa),Ungvar, Michalovce, Presov, NYC, Cleveland
NEUMANN/Sobrance, Michalovce, Kosice (Kassa), Sabinov
(Kis-Szeben), Vranov (Varanno), Kriszti (Kereszt), Slov.
POLACSEK/Sobrance
ROZENBERG/Sobrance
ZEGAL/Maramaros, Hun.

Shalom all,
My grandfather's brother Arnold Vadasz Jacobs was born
March 4, 1880 in Velkekapusawy, Hungary. He came to
the US on Dec 2, 1923 >from Cherbourg, France, abord
the Aquitania to New York City. In Hungary he was an
attorney. I think he was a restaurant cashier in NYC.
He lived at 121 92nd Street. He died in 1970.

I know less about grandpa. His name was Kuby Jacobs
born 1867 ungary, died 1961 in Oklahoma.

Can anyone help me locate Velkekapusawy? Was the name
Vadasz Jewish? Could Kuby be a diminuative for Jacob?
Where shall I look next?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Ruth May
Bellevue, WA

JACOBS-Hungary.South Carolina>Tennesee>Oklahoma
MADANSKY(changed to May 1923)-Sudikov,
Dennevits,Ukraine>Illinois>Arkansas>Oklahoma
MICHAELSON-Ukraine>Oklahoma
GREENFIELD-South Carolina
SCHATZ-Charleston, South Carolina


All the Best from

Ruth Alexis May

Velke Kapusany is the Slovak name for Nagy Kapos, which was in the western part of Ung
megye and is now in Slovakia. The All-Hungary
Database may include records >from the 1848 Jewish Census of residents

from this town. You can find a presentday map at

http://mapy.atlas.sk/aquariusnet/frm_map.asp?
S_LAYERS=&S_LANG=SK&DS=Velke_Kapusany

Vivian Kahn, Oakland, CA

Researching:
BAL/BERKOVITS/BERKOWITZ/ROTH/Orasu Nou, Rom. (Ujvaros,
Hung.); Seini, Rom. (Szinervaralja, Hun), Vamfalu, Hung. (Vama,
Rom.),NYC, Detroit, Israel
GROSZ/Orasu Nou, Rom., Szatmar megye, Hung.
GRUNVALD/Bratislava, Michalovce, Humenne, Slov.
KAHN/KAHAN/KOHN/Sighet, Rom.(Maramarossziget, Hun), London
KOHN/Ung megye, Hung.
MARKUS/Sepsiszentgyorgy, Hung. (Sfante Gheorghu, Rom)
MOSKOVITS/MOSKOWITZ/MOSS, Ostrov (Kisozstro), Sobrance, Bunkocz, Kosice
(Kassa),Ungvar, Michalovce, Presov, NYC, Cleveland
NEUMANN/Sobrance, Michalovce, Kosice (Kassa), Sabinov
(Kis-Szeben), Vranov (Varanno), Kriszti (Kereszt), Slov.
POLACSEK/Sobrance
ROZENBERG/Sobrance
ZEGAL/Maramaros, Hun.

Shalom all,
My grandfather's brother Arnold Vadasz Jacobs was born
March 4, 1880 in Velkekapusawy, Hungary. He came to
the US on Dec 2, 1923 >from Cherbourg, France, abord
the Aquitania to New York City. In Hungary he was an
attorney. I think he was a restaurant cashier in NYC.
He lived at 121 92nd Street. He died in 1970.

I know less about grandpa. His name was Kuby Jacobs
born 1867 ungary, died 1961 in Oklahoma.

Can anyone help me locate Velkekapusawy? Was the name
Vadasz Jewish? Could Kuby be a diminuative for Jacob?
Where shall I look next?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Ruth May
Bellevue, WA

JACOBS-Hungary.South Carolina>Tennesee>Oklahoma
MADANSKY(changed to May 1923)-Sudikov,
Dennevits,Ukraine>Illinois>Arkansas>Oklahoma
MICHAELSON-Ukraine>Oklahoma
GREENFIELD-South Carolina
SCHATZ-Charleston, South Carolina


All the Best from

Ruth Alexis May

I sent a message recently, to say thanks to the really kind people who had
sent me (varying) translations of the gravestone inscription on Viewmate
VM6786. I am still receiving answers and I am both grateful and overwhelmed
at the response.

I don't need anymore now for I have a full and complete translation. So
thanks again.

Stan Rose.
***********************
See the latest update to the News, Features and Profiles Pages of my
website.: www.stanrosefamily.com

I sent a message recently, to say thanks to the really kind people who had
sent me (varying) translations of the gravestone inscription on Viewmate
VM6786. I am still receiving answers and I am both grateful and overwhelmed
at the response.

I don't need anymore now for I have a full and complete translation. So
thanks again.

Stan Rose.
***********************
See the latest update to the News, Features and Profiles Pages of my
website.: www.stanrosefamily.com

Regarding: Subject: Please - Stop Guessing!!
From: SelmaN@aol.com
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 20:27:10 EDT
X-Message-Number: 12

Please stop making up stories about naturalizations, ship manifests, ports
of entry, etc. Please go directly to Warren Blatt's FAQs right here on
JewishGen. All your questions will be answered with the correct
information.
Selma

Selma Neubauer
Jenkintown, PA USA

Response to made up stories:
I have not felt that people are "making up stories" about
naturalizations, ship manifests, etc.
While I agree that all should be familiar with Warren Blatt's FAQs,
antidotal references provide an essential tool for research. While some
experience may be misleading and the researcher must always be aware of this
possibility in a fairly open format, never the less "stories" can be very
helpful.

Bob Roudman
San Rafael, CA
KRUTANSKY; MILLNER; MALTZMAN; KAPLAN; RUDMAN; CHALIK:
Belogorodka, Kaunas, Tiraspol, Tighnia, Slava, Sedilka, Riga.

Regarding: Subject: Please - Stop Guessing!!
From: SelmaN@aol.com
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 20:27:10 EDT
X-Message-Number: 12

Please stop making up stories about naturalizations, ship manifests, ports
of entry, etc. Please go directly to Warren Blatt's FAQs right here on
JewishGen. All your questions will be answered with the correct
information.
Selma

Selma Neubauer
Jenkintown, PA USA

Response to made up stories:
I have not felt that people are "making up stories" about
naturalizations, ship manifests, etc.
While I agree that all should be familiar with Warren Blatt's FAQs,
antidotal references provide an essential tool for research. While some
experience may be misleading and the researcher must always be aware of this
possibility in a fairly open format, never the less "stories" can be very
helpful.

Bob Roudman
San Rafael, CA
KRUTANSKY; MILLNER; MALTZMAN; KAPLAN; RUDMAN; CHALIK:
Belogorodka, Kaunas, Tiraspol, Tighnia, Slava, Sedilka, Riga.

I am searching for Osher BLOCH in Gargzdai, Lithuania. He probably lived
his whole life there and was in his late 50's or 60's when he died there in
late 1906 (possibly early 1907). In the jewishgen database for that town,
there is an Osher David BLIOKH, age 47 in 1885. Are Bliokh and Bloch spellings
used to transliterate the same name, so that these could be the same person?
Thank you.

Sharon Block Korn
San Diego

I am searching for Osher BLOCH in Gargzdai, Lithuania. He probably lived
his whole life there and was in his late 50's or 60's when he died there in
late 1906 (possibly early 1907). In the jewishgen database for that town,
there is an Osher David BLIOKH, age 47 in 1885. Are Bliokh and Bloch spellings
used to transliterate the same name, so that these could be the same person?
Thank you.

Sharon Block Korn
San Diego

We are happy to announce the translation to English of two additional
chapters >from the Radzyn Podlaski Yizkor Book:

1. IN THE SHADOW OF OUR TOWN (a bundle of memories), by Simcha Reichenberg.
The author, who left Radzyn before the Holocaust, tells us about the town
in the period after WW1, the changes that took place and the organizations
that influenced the development of the Jewish community.

2. MEMORIES OF RADZYN: DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR I, by Abraham Zigelman.
A description of the physical, educational, and political changes that
took place in the town during and after WW1.

We thank Joyce Field, Lance Ackerfeld and the rest of the Yizkor Book
Project personnel for uploading the chapters onto the Radzyn Yizkor Book
website: http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/radzyn/radzyn.html.

Nachman and Temmy Goldwasser
Gesher Haziv
Israel

We are happy to announce the translation to English of two additional
chapters >from the Radzyn Podlaski Yizkor Book:

1. IN THE SHADOW OF OUR TOWN (a bundle of memories), by Simcha Reichenberg.
The author, who left Radzyn before the Holocaust, tells us about the town
in the period after WW1, the changes that took place and the organizations
that influenced the development of the Jewish community.

2. MEMORIES OF RADZYN: DURING AND AFTER WORLD WAR I, by Abraham Zigelman.
A description of the physical, educational, and political changes that
took place in the town during and after WW1.

We thank Joyce Field, Lance Ackerfeld and the rest of the Yizkor Book
Project personnel for uploading the chapters onto the Radzyn Yizkor Book
website: http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/radzyn/radzyn.html.

Nachman and Temmy Goldwasser
Gesher Haziv
Israel

Dear RavSIGgers,

I am interested in something about the famous rabbinical LEIFER
family. Are the LEIFERs Cohanim? My reason for asking is that my
LAUFER ancestors were Cohanim and I am wondering if my LAUFER family
and the LEIFER family are related.

Regards,
Charles Nydorf

Dear RavSIGgers,

I am interested in something about the famous rabbinical LEIFER
family. Are the LEIFERs Cohanim? My reason for asking is that my
LAUFER ancestors were Cohanim and I am wondering if my LAUFER family
and the LEIFER family are related.

Regards,
Charles Nydorf

RavSIG readers,

Family legend has it that my ggggf Israel Joseph WEINBERG was Chief
Rabbi of Jerusalem in the 1870s. I believe he was an Ashkenazic
Jew, born in Polish Russia.

I've been researching for a few months now and have not been able to
find any reference to my ggggf in historical documents. I've also
been working the genealogical resources for about a year. The best
I've done is to find the name "Joseph Weinberg" listed on the death
certificate of my gggf (died NYC 1929).

Most of the historical records I've searched have been secondary
sources (e.g., the Jewish Encyclopedia). What would really be
useful is to find some detailed records of the Ashkenazic Rabbinical
councils in Jerusalem during my period of interest. There are texts
available which might contain useful information, but they tend to
be in Hebrew (which I can't read).

If anyone can help identify good English sources in my research
area, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Mark Weinberg
m_weinberg@verizon.net

RavSIG readers,

Family legend has it that my ggggf Israel Joseph WEINBERG was Chief
Rabbi of Jerusalem in the 1870s. I believe he was an Ashkenazic
Jew, born in Polish Russia.

I've been researching for a few months now and have not been able to
find any reference to my ggggf in historical documents. I've also
been working the genealogical resources for about a year. The best
I've done is to find the name "Joseph Weinberg" listed on the death
certificate of my gggf (died NYC 1929).

Most of the historical records I've searched have been secondary
sources (e.g., the Jewish Encyclopedia). What would really be
useful is to find some detailed records of the Ashkenazic Rabbinical
councils in Jerusalem during my period of interest. There are texts
available which might contain useful information, but they tend to
be in Hebrew (which I can't read).

If anyone can help identify good English sources in my research
area, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Mark Weinberg
m_weinberg@verizon.net

I have heard that mormons >from Salt lake City, shortly after II WW, made
a copy of many documents in Central and East Europe and they should be in the library in Salt Lake City.

I needed documents >from Slovakia, and I have got them with the help of lady that once worked in Slovak archive.

Serdecznie pozdrawiam

El=BFbieta Przedpelska - Ober,Pozna=F1,Polska

I have heard that mormons >from Salt lake City, shortly after II WW, made
a copy of many documents in Central and East Europe and they should be in the library in Salt Lake City.

I needed documents >from Slovakia, and I have got them with the help of lady that once worked in Slovak archive.

Serdecznie pozdrawiam

El=BFbieta Przedpelska - Ober,Pozna=F1,Polska

Ruth,
My uncle's name was VADASZ, Laci (Leslie). He was born in Tiszalok, Hungary
and changed his name >from Weinberger to Vadasz. Coincidently he survived the
war in a "Wallenberg house" on Vadas utca in Budapest.

Julie Strauss Kirsh
Toronto

Miskolc: STRAUSZ, ADLER, ROSENBAUM, NAGY, TIGERMANN, SCHWARTZ,
Tolcsva: POLLAK, PROPPER
Szikszo: KLEIN, PLATTNER
Sarretudvari: KATZ
Nagyvarad: MEZEI

Hi,

My guess is that it is Velke Kapusany, today in the
Ukraine. It was in Czechoslovakia, 62 km East of Kosice
(Kassau). 48' 33" / 22' 05"

Moishe Miller
Brooklyn, NY
moishe@langsam.com

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 15:23:56 -0700 (PDT)
Ruth May <rarmay@yahoo.com> wrote:

Shalom all,
My grandfather's brother Arnold Vadasz Jacobs was born
March 4, 1880 in Velkekapusawy, Hungary. He came to
the US on Dec 2, 1923 >from Cherbourg, France, abord
the Aquitania to New York City. In Hungary he was an
attorney. I think he was a restaurant cashier in NYC.
He lived at 121 92nd Street. He died in 1970.

I know less about grandpa. His name was Kuby Jacobs
born 1867 ungary, died 1961 in Oklahoma.

Can anyone help me locate Velkekapusawy? Was the name
Vadasz Jewish? Could Kuby be a diminuative for Jacob?
Where shall I look next?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Ruth May
Bellevue, WA

JACOBS-Hungary.South Carolina>Tennesee>Oklahoma
MADANSKY(changed to May 1923)-Sudikov,
Dennevits,Ukraine>Illinois>Arkansas>Oklahoma
MICHAELSON-Ukraine>Oklahoma
GREENFIELD-South Carolina
SCHATZ-Charleston, South Carolina


All the Best from

Ruth Alexis May

Ruth,
My uncle's name was VADASZ, Laci (Leslie). He was born in Tiszalok, Hungary
and changed his name >from Weinberger to Vadasz. Coincidently he survived the
war in a "Wallenberg house" on Vadas utca in Budapest.

Julie Strauss Kirsh
Toronto

Miskolc: STRAUSZ, ADLER, ROSENBAUM, NAGY, TIGERMANN, SCHWARTZ,
Tolcsva: POLLAK, PROPPER
Szikszo: KLEIN, PLATTNER
Sarretudvari: KATZ
Nagyvarad: MEZEI

Hi,

My guess is that it is Velke Kapusany, today in the
Ukraine. It was in Czechoslovakia, 62 km East of Kosice
(Kassau). 48' 33" / 22' 05"

Moishe Miller
Brooklyn, NY
moishe@langsam.com

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 15:23:56 -0700 (PDT)
Ruth May <rarmay@yahoo.com> wrote:

Shalom all,
My grandfather's brother Arnold Vadasz Jacobs was born
March 4, 1880 in Velkekapusawy, Hungary. He came to
the US on Dec 2, 1923 >from Cherbourg, France, abord
the Aquitania to New York City. In Hungary he was an
attorney. I think he was a restaurant cashier in NYC.
He lived at 121 92nd Street. He died in 1970.

I know less about grandpa. His name was Kuby Jacobs
born 1867 ungary, died 1961 in Oklahoma.

Can anyone help me locate Velkekapusawy? Was the name
Vadasz Jewish? Could Kuby be a diminuative for Jacob?
Where shall I look next?

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Ruth May
Bellevue, WA

JACOBS-Hungary.South Carolina>Tennesee>Oklahoma
MADANSKY(changed to May 1923)-Sudikov,
Dennevits,Ukraine>Illinois>Arkansas>Oklahoma
MICHAELSON-Ukraine>Oklahoma
GREENFIELD-South Carolina
SCHATZ-Charleston, South Carolina


All the Best from

Ruth Alexis May