I was glad to read your email, as I have family >from Glogow, and I have
not been able to find Glogow records. Are there records >from Glogow?
If so, it would hold the key to much of my family's history.

Yvette Gluck
Reston, VA

Researching BALKEN >from Glogow

Rohatyn is still Rohatyn in Ukrainian. It is almost directly 19 miles west
of Berezany and 38 miles north of Ivano-Frankisk.

Joe Hirschfield
Portage, MI USA
MINOWITZKI, TOBIASZ-Belarus
HIRSCHFELD, LINDBAUM- Skwarzawa, Glinyany, Sielec Bienkow, GALICIA

Glogow is 170 miles north-north-west of Lviv and 10 miles north of a large
city Rzeszow. That puts Glogow about 190 miles >from Rohatyn. It was not
uncommon for Jews to resettle such a distance. Often is was when a man left to
marry a woman in the new destination, but sometimes a family would relocate
to places where they felt there would be better economic opportunities or for
family considerations.

Joe Hirschfield
Portage, MI

I was glad to read your email, as I have family >from Glogow, and I have
not been able to find Glogow records. Are there records >from Glogow?
If so, it would hold the key to much of my family's history.

Yvette Gluck
Reston, VA

Researching BALKEN >from Glogow

Rohatyn is still Rohatyn in Ukrainian. It is almost directly 19 miles west
of Berezany and 38 miles north of Ivano-Frankisk.

Joe Hirschfield
Portage, MI USA
MINOWITZKI, TOBIASZ-Belarus
HIRSCHFELD, LINDBAUM- Skwarzawa, Glinyany, Sielec Bienkow, GALICIA

Glogow is 170 miles north-north-west of Lviv and 10 miles north of a large
city Rzeszow. That puts Glogow about 190 miles >from Rohatyn. It was not
uncommon for Jews to resettle such a distance. Often is was when a man left to
marry a woman in the new destination, but sometimes a family would relocate
to places where they felt there would be better economic opportunities or for
family considerations.

Joe Hirschfield
Portage, MI

Rogatin and Rohatyn are, indeed, the same place. When the town of Rohatyn
came under Ukrainian rule after WWII, the transliteration of the Cyrillic
was Rogatin. The reason for this is that, In Cyrillic, there is no "h."
When words such as town names and personal names moved >from the Latin
alphabet to Cyrillic, most of the time, words with "h" in them, are spelled
with the equivalent "g."

Suzan Wynne
Kensington, MD

Rogatin and Rohatyn are, indeed, the same place. When the town of Rohatyn
came under Ukrainian rule after WWII, the transliteration of the Cyrillic
was Rogatin. The reason for this is that, In Cyrillic, there is no "h."
When words such as town names and personal names moved >from the Latin
alphabet to Cyrillic, most of the time, words with "h" in them, are spelled
with the equivalent "g."

Suzan Wynne
Kensington, MD

I have posted a short letter (VM6889) on ViewMate at

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6889

I would be very grateful for a translation >from Romanian into English of
this 1924 letter >from 12-year-old Carolina Rappaport of Focsani, Romania, to
her uncle Herman Landman of Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

Thank you for your assistance.

Martin Fischer
Oak Park, Illinois, USA


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The Fischer and Levin family history Web site is at:
http://mefischer1.home.comcast.net/

I have posted a short letter (VM6889) on ViewMate at

http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6889

I would be very grateful for a translation >from Romanian into English of
this 1924 letter >from 12-year-old Carolina Rappaport of Focsani, Romania, to
her uncle Herman Landman of Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

Thank you for your assistance.

Martin Fischer
Oak Park, Illinois, USA


-----------
The Fischer and Levin family history Web site is at:
http://mefischer1.home.comcast.net/

Dear Genners

You have started something very good, Please go to our Ukraine SIG webpage
and look at the new postings on the Project Page
http://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/projects.htm -in the last two weeks you
have sent in:

1) over a hundred family names with particular towns;
2) the names and occupations of dozens of residents of the Ukraine;
3) recipes and pictures of those who handed them down to you;
4) enough pictures and records to start a dozen new Town Pages focused on
individual Jewish communities in the Ukraine
5) Many volunteer agreements and requests that we use your skills to make
our SIG even more of a resource

We want to help you do more. If you will send us pictures and or records of
a town that is not yet on our list, we will create a new site for it. If you
select a town that has been started, you will see your materials posted to
it within days. If you are interested in a Birds of a Feather group
dedicated to researching that community, we will create a page for your
group linked to that town's page and you can watch both bring more fellow
researchers to your door. If you have a Family Page or a Shtetl Link that
you think should be connected we can do that also, again the more people
that we can bring together with a community-centered interest, the better!

Hurricane Rita interfered with the last two Wednesday announcements of our
SIG News alert and Rosh Hashana is this coming week. So though its not on
the schedule I originally announced, here is my next listing of towns which
we are particularly seeking, remembering that we are really interested in
every town in the Ukraine, the list is just a way to get the ball rolling:

Balta and Yampol in Podolia Gubernia; Lipovets and Zvenigorodka in Kiev
Gubernia; Gorodniya and Konotop in Chernigov Gub; Lokhvitsa and Zolotonosha
in Poltava; Staro-Konstantinov and Kovel in Volhynnia.

If you have any information about any town, on or off this list, please send
it. And take this chance to wander around the website looking for things we
can do to give you more information and ways you can help us do it. Are you
willing to index English language records that list a Ukrainian town of
birth? What if you can do it while sitting at home? Are you willing to
photocopy foreign language materials so we can digitize them and get them
indexed by someone who speaks that language? Are you willing to write
letters to schools and town halls in the Ukraine to determine who has class
pictures, or who has town plans that show where old buildings used to be?
Will you maintain a list for us - anything >from Ukrainian Jewish communities
that have created sister community or synagogue relations or place names in
a single gubernia? Will you organize a Birds of a Feather Group or help one
put together a regular newsletter we can post?Will you let other people know
about the pictures and records and materials we need to help you be
effective in your research?


A Happy, Healthy New Year to you all, with many happy discoveries to be made
this year!
Deborah Glassman
Co-Coordinator of the Ukraine SIG
historian2020@comcast.net

Dear Genners

You have started something very good, Please go to our Ukraine SIG webpage
and look at the new postings on the Project Page
http://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine/projects.htm -in the last two weeks you
have sent in:

1) over a hundred family names with particular towns;
2) the names and occupations of dozens of residents of the Ukraine;
3) recipes and pictures of those who handed them down to you;
4) enough pictures and records to start a dozen new Town Pages focused on
individual Jewish communities in the Ukraine
5) Many volunteer agreements and requests that we use your skills to make
our SIG even more of a resource

We want to help you do more. If you will send us pictures and or records of
a town that is not yet on our list, we will create a new site for it. If you
select a town that has been started, you will see your materials posted to
it within days. If you are interested in a Birds of a Feather group
dedicated to researching that community, we will create a page for your
group linked to that town's page and you can watch both bring more fellow
researchers to your door. If you have a Family Page or a Shtetl Link that
you think should be connected we can do that also, again the more people
that we can bring together with a community-centered interest, the better!

Hurricane Rita interfered with the last two Wednesday announcements of our
SIG News alert and Rosh Hashana is this coming week. So though its not on
the schedule I originally announced, here is my next listing of towns which
we are particularly seeking, remembering that we are really interested in
every town in the Ukraine, the list is just a way to get the ball rolling:

Balta and Yampol in Podolia Gubernia; Lipovets and Zvenigorodka in Kiev
Gubernia; Gorodniya and Konotop in Chernigov Gub; Lokhvitsa and Zolotonosha
in Poltava; Staro-Konstantinov and Kovel in Volhynnia.

If you have any information about any town, on or off this list, please send
it. And take this chance to wander around the website looking for things we
can do to give you more information and ways you can help us do it. Are you
willing to index English language records that list a Ukrainian town of
birth? What if you can do it while sitting at home? Are you willing to
photocopy foreign language materials so we can digitize them and get them
indexed by someone who speaks that language? Are you willing to write
letters to schools and town halls in the Ukraine to determine who has class
pictures, or who has town plans that show where old buildings used to be?
Will you maintain a list for us - anything >from Ukrainian Jewish communities
that have created sister community or synagogue relations or place names in
a single gubernia? Will you organize a Birds of a Feather Group or help one
put together a regular newsletter we can post?Will you let other people know
about the pictures and records and materials we need to help you be
effective in your research?


A Happy, Healthy New Year to you all, with many happy discoveries to be made
this year!
Deborah Glassman
Co-Coordinator of the Ukraine SIG
historian2020@comcast.net

How nice to see this list again. Hope the move went well.

I am looking for a plat map of the Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Phila.,
located at Frankford and E. Cheltenham Aves. If someone has a copy
showing row numbers and/or section letters/names, please contact me
privately so I can arrange to get a copy.

I recently discovered that my g-grandparents were buried at Mt. Carmel,
and also their son, my g-uncle. This was quite a discovery, since no one
in the family today has any information on these people. I visited Mt.
Carmel this week. The cemetery is owned/managed by a florist/monument
company located across the street. They also own or manage (I don't know
the exact arrangement) 3 other cemeteries adjacent to or abutting Mt.
Carmel.

The staff at the florist shop were most accomodating, and let me go
through the burial ledger for Mt. Carmel -- which they shouldn't have.
The ledger dates back to 1832, is highly deteriorated >from age, acidic
paper, and water damage (?). It also is falling apart and crumbling. The
ledger is kept in a drawer, but should be in an archival vault and
handled minimally, with white cotton, acid-free, gloves. I very gingerly
turned pages, found my pages, and photographed them. The copies are
excellent.

The cemetery has no row, grave, or section markers -- or coordinates of
any kind! The record book, however, does show a Lodge section, or a row
and grave number. The notations are not consistent. A staff member
walked me to the cemetery, and was able to point out, generally, the
area where my g-grandparents' Lodge was located. He had no idea,
however, where the third plot was. It was identified only by a Row
letter and grave number. I found my g-grandparents after an hour of
walking the rows in the section he identified vaguely; however an
additional hour of walking did not turn up the third grave.

The managers said they have no maps of the grounds, since ownership of
the cemetery had passed through numerous owners and all that survived
were the books. One clerk did say that they had been contacted by a
group that "wanted to take the books" but had refused to relinquish
them. I am guessing they had been contacted by either the Jewish
Cemetery Project in Phila, or another similar organization, for purposes
of digitizing the records and preserving the books. Don't know, but will
ask.

I would be most appreciative if someone has a map of Mt. Carmel and will
make it available to me so I can return and photograph the third marker.

Thanks in advance,
Judith Lipmanson

One of my ancesters obits indicates he owned Libby's Stoker Service.
Time period was 1969, and area was Scranton, PA which was a large coal
mining area. Can anyone tell me what type of a business this was?

How nice to see this list again. Hope the move went well.

I am looking for a plat map of the Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Phila.,
located at Frankford and E. Cheltenham Aves. If someone has a copy
showing row numbers and/or section letters/names, please contact me
privately so I can arrange to get a copy.

I recently discovered that my g-grandparents were buried at Mt. Carmel,
and also their son, my g-uncle. This was quite a discovery, since no one
in the family today has any information on these people. I visited Mt.
Carmel this week. The cemetery is owned/managed by a florist/monument
company located across the street. They also own or manage (I don't know
the exact arrangement) 3 other cemeteries adjacent to or abutting Mt.
Carmel.

The staff at the florist shop were most accomodating, and let me go
through the burial ledger for Mt. Carmel -- which they shouldn't have.
The ledger dates back to 1832, is highly deteriorated >from age, acidic
paper, and water damage (?). It also is falling apart and crumbling. The
ledger is kept in a drawer, but should be in an archival vault and
handled minimally, with white cotton, acid-free, gloves. I very gingerly
turned pages, found my pages, and photographed them. The copies are
excellent.

The cemetery has no row, grave, or section markers -- or coordinates of
any kind! The record book, however, does show a Lodge section, or a row
and grave number. The notations are not consistent. A staff member
walked me to the cemetery, and was able to point out, generally, the
area where my g-grandparents' Lodge was located. He had no idea,
however, where the third plot was. It was identified only by a Row
letter and grave number. I found my g-grandparents after an hour of
walking the rows in the section he identified vaguely; however an
additional hour of walking did not turn up the third grave.

The managers said they have no maps of the grounds, since ownership of
the cemetery had passed through numerous owners and all that survived
were the books. One clerk did say that they had been contacted by a
group that "wanted to take the books" but had refused to relinquish
them. I am guessing they had been contacted by either the Jewish
Cemetery Project in Phila, or another similar organization, for purposes
of digitizing the records and preserving the books. Don't know, but will
ask.

I would be most appreciative if someone has a map of Mt. Carmel and will
make it available to me so I can return and photograph the third marker.

Thanks in advance,
Judith Lipmanson

One of my ancesters obits indicates he owned Libby's Stoker Service.
Time period was 1969, and area was Scranton, PA which was a large coal
mining area. Can anyone tell me what type of a business this was?

I have just found this very interesting auction catalogue of Anglo-Judaica.

http://www.fishburnbooks.com/SynagogueCatalogue2003.pdf

It contains a lot of memorabilia about individual synagogues - for instance
the seatholders in 1892 of my grandfather's synagogue.

If anyone was doing research on indidivual synagogues looking at this list
might give them an idea of the existence of the documents in question.

I recognise that these might now either be in archives or private
collections.


--
Nick Landau
London, UK

COHNREICH (Anklam, Germany Krajenka, Poland) ATLAS (Wielkie Oczy (near
Lvov/Lemberg), Poland)
WECHSLER(Schwabach, Germany) KOHN (Wallerstein and Kleinerdlingen,Germany)
LANDAU/FREDKIN(Gomel, Mogilev, Belarus)

Dear All,

Here is a namelist (out of the book "Kirchheim und
seine Bürger" (Kirchheim and its citizen), written by
Konrad and Karl Theodor Lucae:

ADLER, DECKER, DURLACHER, EWERS, FREIBERG, GOLDMANN,
GOLDSCHMIDT, HEUMANN, HIRSCH, JOSEPH, KAHN, KAUFMANN,
KLEIN, LEVI, LEVY, LEVIS, MAYER, METZGER, NEUGASS,
SCHOENFELD, SCHOLEM, SCHWARZ, SILBERMANN, STERN,
STRAUS, SULZBACHER, SUESKIND inclusive personal data
and names of spouses. Partly 18th century, 19th
century until WW II.

Should anyone be interested in details please get in
touch with me privately.

Hanna Goldmann, Germany

I have just found this very interesting auction catalogue of Anglo-Judaica.

http://www.fishburnbooks.com/SynagogueCatalogue2003.pdf

It contains a lot of memorabilia about individual synagogues - for instance
the seatholders in 1892 of my grandfather's synagogue.

If anyone was doing research on indidivual synagogues looking at this list
might give them an idea of the existence of the documents in question.

I recognise that these might now either be in archives or private
collections.


--
Nick Landau
London, UK

COHNREICH (Anklam, Germany Krajenka, Poland) ATLAS (Wielkie Oczy (near
Lvov/Lemberg), Poland)
WECHSLER(Schwabach, Germany) KOHN (Wallerstein and Kleinerdlingen,Germany)
LANDAU/FREDKIN(Gomel, Mogilev, Belarus)

Dear All,

Here is a namelist (out of the book "Kirchheim und
seine Bürger" (Kirchheim and its citizen), written by
Konrad and Karl Theodor Lucae:

ADLER, DECKER, DURLACHER, EWERS, FREIBERG, GOLDMANN,
GOLDSCHMIDT, HEUMANN, HIRSCH, JOSEPH, KAHN, KAUFMANN,
KLEIN, LEVI, LEVY, LEVIS, MAYER, METZGER, NEUGASS,
SCHOENFELD, SCHOLEM, SCHWARZ, SILBERMANN, STERN,
STRAUS, SULZBACHER, SUESKIND inclusive personal data
and names of spouses. Partly 18th century, 19th
century until WW II.

Should anyone be interested in details please get in
touch with me privately.

Hanna Goldmann, Germany