Dear Cousins,

Doug Mason asked...
<<<According to family tradition (records for Kurow, Poland are not
publicly available), around 1876 Simha Biniem MANDELBAUM had a son named
Benyamin. Are the names "Biniem" and "Benyamin" variants of one
another?>>>

<<<The same family tradition says that Benyamin was not the youngest
child. Is it likely a son would be named after his living father?>>>

I answer...
With the particular names "Simha" and "Biniem," it is much more likely to
be the combination "Simcha Bunem" (and Bunem is not a variation of
Binyamin). There have been several previous messages about this name
combination that are in the Discussion Group Archives (and more within the
last month that are not be archived yet).

Assuming they were Ashkenazim (in Kurow, Poland), it's nearly
unthinkable that a son was named after a living father.

(My transliteration of the names reflects my own pronunciation, and
there also are other ways to spell them.)

Ira
Ira Leviton
New York, N.Y.

Dear All:
There are many unscrupulous researchers out there. If you are approached by
a researcher offering to do work for you following a message you posted....and
you do not know this researcher personally, feel free to ask for references
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should be sent privately.

Paula and Rosanne

Dear Cousins,

Doug Mason asked...
<<<According to family tradition (records for Kurow, Poland are not
publicly available), around 1876 Simha Biniem MANDELBAUM had a son named
Benyamin. Are the names "Biniem" and "Benyamin" variants of one
another?>>>

<<<The same family tradition says that Benyamin was not the youngest
child. Is it likely a son would be named after his living father?>>>

I answer...
With the particular names "Simha" and "Biniem," it is much more likely to
be the combination "Simcha Bunem" (and Bunem is not a variation of
Binyamin). There have been several previous messages about this name
combination that are in the Discussion Group Archives (and more within the
last month that are not be archived yet).

Assuming they were Ashkenazim (in Kurow, Poland), it's nearly
unthinkable that a son was named after a living father.

(My transliteration of the names reflects my own pronunciation, and
there also are other ways to spell them.)

Ira
Ira Leviton
New York, N.Y.

Dear All:
There are many unscrupulous researchers out there. If you are approached by
a researcher offering to do work for you following a message you posted....and
you do not know this researcher personally, feel free to ask for references
or information that can be provided by other list members. All responses
should be sent privately.

Paula and Rosanne

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 04:22:56 UTC, dmason@alphalink.com.au (Doug Mason)
opined:

According to family tradition (records for Kurow, Poland are not publicly
available), around 1876 Simha Biniem MANDELBAUM had a son named Benyamin. Are the
names "Biniem" and "Benyamin" variants of one another?

"Binyamin" is a real name. "Biniem" sounds like a kinui (nickname) for
it.

The same family tradition says that Benyamin was not the youngest child.
Is it likely a son would be named after his living father?

Not likely in Poland, but _nothing_ is impossible.

--
Stan Goodman, Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel

Searching:
NEACHOWICZ/NOACHOWICZ, NEJMAN/NAJMAN, SURALSKI: >from Lomza Gubernia
ISMACH: >from Lomza Gubernia, Galicia, and Ukraina
HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: >from Dorohoi District, Romania
GRISARU, VATARU: >from Iasi, Dorohoi, and Mileanca, Romania

See my interactive family tree (requires Java 1.1.6 or better). the
URL is:
http://www.hashkedim.com

For reasons connected with anti-spam/junk security, the return address
is not valid. To communicate with me, please visit my website (see the
URL above -- no Java required for this purpose) and fill in the email form
there.

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005 04:22:56 UTC, dmason@alphalink.com.au (Doug Mason)
opined:

According to family tradition (records for Kurow, Poland are not publicly
available), around 1876 Simha Biniem MANDELBAUM had a son named Benyamin. Are the
names "Biniem" and "Benyamin" variants of one another?

"Binyamin" is a real name. "Biniem" sounds like a kinui (nickname) for
it.

The same family tradition says that Benyamin was not the youngest child.
Is it likely a son would be named after his living father?

Not likely in Poland, but _nothing_ is impossible.

--
Stan Goodman, Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel

Searching:
NEACHOWICZ/NOACHOWICZ, NEJMAN/NAJMAN, SURALSKI: >from Lomza Gubernia
ISMACH: >from Lomza Gubernia, Galicia, and Ukraina
HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: >from Dorohoi District, Romania
GRISARU, VATARU: >from Iasi, Dorohoi, and Mileanca, Romania

See my interactive family tree (requires Java 1.1.6 or better). the
URL is:
http://www.hashkedim.com

For reasons connected with anti-spam/junk security, the return address
is not valid. To communicate with me, please visit my website (see the
URL above -- no Java required for this purpose) and fill in the email form
there.

Surprisingly, I found in the 1929 and 1930 Polish Business Directory
some people named WYGODNY in a place called "Porzecze". Apparently it's
a small village (pop. about 1000) in the province of Bialystok, Powiat
Grodno, Pok. Druskieniki, okr. Grodno .

I was not able to locate this Porzecze, but I think Druskieniki is
today's Druskininkai in south Lithuania, not far >from Grodno.

My questions:
1. Is this identification correct? Was this area in Poland before 1939?
2. If so, are there any records for this village/town? Are there any
indexes available?

Please respond also to: wygodny@identify.com .

Thanks,
- Shlomo Wygodny, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
Researching:
WYGODNY Everywhere
KALMANOWICZ, SZULMAN, ROZENHOLC Chmielnik Poland
HENDEL Lipno Poland
OBERLANDER and SCHREIER Drogobych Ukraine
PINCZEWSKI Lodz Poland

Surprisingly, I found in the 1929 and 1930 Polish Business Directory
some people named WYGODNY in a place called "Porzecze". Apparently it's
a small village (pop. about 1000) in the province of Bialystok, Powiat
Grodno, Pok. Druskieniki, okr. Grodno .

I was not able to locate this Porzecze, but I think Druskieniki is
today's Druskininkai in south Lithuania, not far >from Grodno.

My questions:
1. Is this identification correct? Was this area in Poland before 1939?
2. If so, are there any records for this village/town? Are there any
indexes available?

Please respond also to: wygodny@identify.com .

Thanks,
- Shlomo Wygodny, Ramat Hasharon, Israel
Researching:
WYGODNY Everywhere
KALMANOWICZ, SZULMAN, ROZENHOLC Chmielnik Poland
HENDEL Lipno Poland
OBERLANDER and SCHREIER Drogobych Ukraine
PINCZEWSKI Lodz Poland

Various repsonses were given for Michael Salzbank's request to find
death certificates for his relatives by using Italiangen.
Italiangen offers the option of requesting surnames that "sound like"
one's family name.
By allowing the web site to "do its work" you can come up with Israel
JORISH (rather than JORRISCH) who died at age 8 months in 1905.
Similarly, do not put in the full first name, just the first letter,
and up pops Zussel (rather than Zissel) POCH.

Barbara Zimmer
Virginia

Various repsonses were given for Michael Salzbank's request to find
death certificates for his relatives by using Italiangen.
Italiangen offers the option of requesting surnames that "sound like"
one's family name.
By allowing the web site to "do its work" you can come up with Israel
JORISH (rather than JORRISCH) who died at age 8 months in 1905.
Similarly, do not put in the full first name, just the first letter,
and up pops Zussel (rather than Zissel) POCH.

Barbara Zimmer
Virginia

"Alexander Sharon" <a.sharon@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:JRzMe.32115$vj.21338@pd7tw1no...

Sulamith,

Many hatters were also furriers.
Asthma and the constant exposure to the animal hair was the known cause of
hatters
death.

I believe that "hatter's disease" and mad as a hatter are as described by
Alberta Freidus-Flagg which is mercury poisoning in her earlier posting.

I am not saying that there was not any other illness that hatters were prone
to, but what is described as hatter's disease is this.

See
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=
Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7551618&dopt=Abstract

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)

"Alexander Sharon" <a.sharon@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:JRzMe.32115$vj.21338@pd7tw1no...

Sulamith,

Many hatters were also furriers.
Asthma and the constant exposure to the animal hair was the known cause of
hatters
death.

I believe that "hatter's disease" and mad as a hatter are as described by
Alberta Freidus-Flagg which is mercury poisoning in her earlier posting.

I am not saying that there was not any other illness that hatters were prone
to, but what is described as hatter's disease is this.

See
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=
Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7551618&dopt=Abstract

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)

"Doug Mason" <dmason@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
news:opsvqj5fcijfp453@dmason...

According to family tradition (records for Kurow, Poland are not publicly
available), around 1876 Simha Biniem MANDELBAUM had a son named Benyamin.
Are the
names "Biniem" and "Benyamin" variants of one another?

The same family tradition says that Benyamin was not the youngest child.
Is it likely a son would be named after his living father?

I have "Simha Bunem" in my family-tree. This has been discussed previously
but I don't believe it is the same as Binyanim.

There are 439 references on Google to "Simcham Bunem".

The origin of Bunem is given as Yiddish >from the French "bon homme".

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)

"Doug Mason" <dmason@alphalink.com.au> wrote in message
news:opsvqj5fcijfp453@dmason...

According to family tradition (records for Kurow, Poland are not publicly
available), around 1876 Simha Biniem MANDELBAUM had a son named Benyamin.
Are the
names "Biniem" and "Benyamin" variants of one another?

The same family tradition says that Benyamin was not the youngest child.
Is it likely a son would be named after his living father?

I have "Simha Bunem" in my family-tree. This has been discussed previously
but I don't believe it is the same as Binyanim.

There are 439 references on Google to "Simcham Bunem".

The origin of Bunem is given as Yiddish >from the French "bon homme".

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)

This message is for those of us who use the resources of the Belarus SIG.

My roots are in Belarus and the Belarus SIG is an invaluable tool. Who would
have ever thought that I would be able to get a copies of the
original birth records of my grandmother and her brother >from Minsk?
This would not have been possible without the translation of records from
Minsk.

It is incumbent upon us to heed the message request of David Fox, the past
coordinator of the Belarus SIG who has worked tirelessly behind the
scenes along with many other volunteers in order to make so many databases
available to us on line via JewishGen which we can now access from
the comfort of our homes.

These records cost money and apparently the funds available in the Belarus
SIG are dwindling.

If we all make a commitment to donate even a small amount, perhaps Chai
($18.00), >from time to time, it would help greatly. Since there are so many
of us, we would make a difference and insure that more and more records
would be made available to us.

Please be as generous as you can.

Diane PRESSMAN FRANKEL
North Miami Beach, FL
dlfrankel@mindspring.com
Researching:
BORR or BORUCH, FELDMAN, WEITZMAN >from Beltz in Bessarabia now Moldova and

from NJ and Phila and Caracas

KAPLAN, BRODKIN, FISHKIN >from Koidanov and Minsk and Bayonne, NJ, Brooklyn
and Bronx, NY
USLAN, LAND, SPROTZ, SLOBODKIN, PENCHANSKY >from Koidanov and Minsk and
Uzlany in Belarus and Bayonne, NJ and Baltimore, MD
MOD NOTE: Researching limited to 6 lines please.

This message is for those of us who use the resources of the Belarus SIG.

My roots are in Belarus and the Belarus SIG is an invaluable tool. Who would
have ever thought that I would be able to get a copies of the
original birth records of my grandmother and her brother >from Minsk?
This would not have been possible without the translation of records from
Minsk.

It is incumbent upon us to heed the message request of David Fox, the past
coordinator of the Belarus SIG who has worked tirelessly behind the
scenes along with many other volunteers in order to make so many databases
available to us on line via JewishGen which we can now access from
the comfort of our homes.

These records cost money and apparently the funds available in the Belarus
SIG are dwindling.

If we all make a commitment to donate even a small amount, perhaps Chai
($18.00), >from time to time, it would help greatly. Since there are so many
of us, we would make a difference and insure that more and more records
would be made available to us.

Please be as generous as you can.

Diane PRESSMAN FRANKEL
North Miami Beach, FL
dlfrankel@mindspring.com
Researching:
BORR or BORUCH, FELDMAN, WEITZMAN >from Beltz in Bessarabia now Moldova and

from NJ and Phila and Caracas

KAPLAN, BRODKIN, FISHKIN >from Koidanov and Minsk and Bayonne, NJ, Brooklyn
and Bronx, NY
USLAN, LAND, SPROTZ, SLOBODKIN, PENCHANSKY >from Koidanov and Minsk and
Uzlany in Belarus and Bayonne, NJ and Baltimore, MD
MOD NOTE: Researching limited to 6 lines please.

Sylvia Kaye wrote asking about the Aden Jewish community - there is a
synagogue and community in London that she can contact
ADEN JEWS CONGREGATION
Clapton Common, London E5
Tel: 020 8806 1320

The London Jewish Museum had an exhibition not so long ago on the London
Adeni Jewish community and they may be able to give some additional
information.

Rosemary Eshel, Meitar Israel

Sylvia Kaye wrote asking about the Aden Jewish community - there is a
synagogue and community in London that she can contact
ADEN JEWS CONGREGATION
Clapton Common, London E5
Tel: 020 8806 1320

The London Jewish Museum had an exhibition not so long ago on the London
Adeni Jewish community and they may be able to give some additional
information.

Rosemary Eshel, Meitar Israel

Hi,

I have put up 2 sides of a Russian Death certificate of my grandfather, Abraham
Welidnitski. I would appreciate any assistance in the translations.

Please go to the VIEWMATE site, which is:
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html
The 2 file names are VM6663 and VM6664

You may also go directly to the 2 images via links to:
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6663
and
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6664

Please reply directly to me, Victor Shaines, at vaesny@yahoo.com

Thank you.

Hi,

I have put up 2 sides of a Russian Death certificate of my grandfather, Abraham
Welidnitski. I would appreciate any assistance in the translations.

Please go to the VIEWMATE site, which is:
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/toview.html
The 2 file names are VM6663 and VM6664

You may also go directly to the 2 images via links to:
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6663
and
http://data.jewishgen.org/viewmate/ALL/viewmateview.asp?key=6664

Please reply directly to me, Victor Shaines, at vaesny@yahoo.com

Thank you.