Thank you all for figuring this out. It was a good lesson in researching cemeteries. Particular thanks to A. E. Jordan and P Cohen. I will follow-up shortly with the cemetery and and see if they will take a pic. I live in the Southwest and won't be there anytime soon.

Todd Steinberg
Las Vegas

We are looking for information about my wife’s family who lived in  Vishnevo (today Belarus). They were executed on August 30,1942. We have no information regarding the backgrounds of the family members whose names are mentioned below: 

 

My wife’s  father  name is Elyakim Drori (Bunimovitz). He served during WW2 in the Polish army (cavalry unit), was captured by the Soviets  and was deported to a work camp in  Siberia. Around 1942 he was evacuated with Andres Army  and made his way through Iran to Palestine. On arriving in Palestine, the names of all the Jewish soldiers were changed to Hebrew names and they were sent to the Kibbutz so they would not be found when Andres army was leaving for Africa. My father in law got the Hebrew name Nathan Drori (Gave freedom).  His relatives are the ones about whom we are looking for information:-

 

His parents are: Arie and Zelda Bunimovitz;

His siblings are Shirke Bunimovitz, Itzhak Bunimovitz, Reisel Bunimovitz ( she had a baby who was born in the Geto), Hertzel Bunimovitz, and Akiva Bunimovitz.

His grandparents are Moshe and Perla Bunimovitz.

 

My wife and I will be grateful for any information possible about them.

Thank you for any help
Miron Chumash

 

Max,

Thank you for the information. What about geni.com, familysearch.org, and others? 
 
Is any of these helpful or would recommend and so why so, and if not, why not?

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Windows_Genealogy_Software
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/my-family-tree/9nblggh2k2xc?activetab=pivot:overviewtab 
https://www.dnaweekly.com/blog/best-family-tree-builders/ 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEDCOM 
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Splitting_a_GEDCOM 
https://support.rootsfinder.com/article/147-export-a-gedcom-from-other-programs 
https://support.ancestry.com/s/article/Uploading-and-Downloading-Trees 
https://faq.myheritage.com/en/article/how-do-i-upload-the-family-tree-file-i-generated-in-another-genealogy-program-to-family-tree-builder 

David Dubin
Chicago, IL

Familysearch, search the Catalog for: 

Arkady,

This page https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91051823/yaakov-kamenetskyhas a photo of Rabbi Kamenetsky's tombstone.  There is a lot of Hebrew writing on it.  Perhaps you will find some info there helpful to your search.

Also, have you located his passenger manifest?  That should list his place of birth.

Regards,

Sherri Bobish

Jules,

This is probably your Louis Rosenberg (the dod is off by 3 days, might be a typo), but all else matches.) You might ask if anyone is visiting Mount Moriah to check nearby graves for family of Louis.  The cemetery office should have a record of who made the arrangements for Louis, but I don't know if they would release that information.
www.findagrave.com
BAYONNE HEBREW Section K

Name:	Louis Rosenberg
Death Date:	5 Dec 1996
Cemetery:	Mount Moriah Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place:	Fairview, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States of America

Regards,

Sherri Bobish

Gail,

It may be helpful to you in your research to see Theodore Shneyer's naturaliztion papers, which can be found on Ancestry.com.

He states he was born in Resekne, (Rēzekne) Latvia on Feb. 14, 1905.

Here is info from Theodore's passenger arrival in Jan. 1923.

He arrived at the port of NY under the name Theodor SCHNEER.
His sister Fania SCHNEER traveled with him.
Their birthplace is Resekne.
Their last residence was Kronstadt, Russia.
(Kronshtadt is 19 miles from St. Petersburg.)
They were bound for Uncle Abraham (surname spelled SHNEYER on one page & SCHNEER on another page) in Kearney, NJ.
Theodor (17) laborer, Fania (20) domestic,  both single.
Left behind in N55 W22 Marias Eeja, Riga, Latvia their mother Anna SCHNEER.
(I'm guessing that Marias Eeja is a street name.)

You can search records from Latvia at: https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Latvia/

Try a phonetic search on the surname.  The spellings SHNEIER, SCHNEYER, SCHNEER and others, appear many times.

Regards,

Sherri Bobish

There are also more recent Pliskov documents:

Have you checked out the LitvakSIG Allithuania Database?
This is where I found info on my Bagislaviskis ancestors (as this town is in the Vilna district).
Judy Kasman
Toronto
GOLOMB, SHESKIN, BURSTEIN, Vilna & area

Here's a page that walks you through the process of exporting GEDCOM from Geni.

https://help.geni.com/hc/en-us/articles/229705167-How-can-I-export-my-GEDCOM-

Don Libes

Looks like people have sorted this one out.  Here are some general thoughts about this type of problem:

When the person in the cemetery office doesn't find the person you are looking for, they will next go to their index card files, which is what they used before computers. Some cemeteries have thrown these away. Some still have them.
The really diligent ones will pull out the grave map of the section where you think the person is buried (if you know it) and pore over the map to see if they can find the person.  (If the Mount Carmel person spent 20 minutes, they probably did this.)  You may have to specifically ask them to pull out the map and look.

Most of the burial societies in New York cemeteries buried people sequentially. So the person on either side of a particular grave is the last and the next person to die, unless the family chose to buy two plots together when the first to die was buried. Some societies bury men on one side and women on the other.

All this is to say that looking at who is buried nearby may not be helpful if the spouse you are looking for died a good number of years before or after.

Kudos to A.E. Jordan for using the cemetery's online database to sort this out.  Luckily, Mount Carmel's locator page is one that allows you to enter the society name. Otherwise you would have to scour all entries for the year of death.
All of the cemetery websites for New York City Jewish cemeteries seem to use the same back-end software. So, be aware that those pages that allow you to enter a society name in the search data have a flaw which will not allow you to enter two words. In our example, where our person is buried in a society called VEREIN CHOROSTKOWER, if you enter VEREIN CHOROSTKOWER as the society, the website software removes the space, makes it vereinchorostkower, and comes back with no results.  If you enter just VEREIN, you will get results for all societies that include VEREIN in the name (this will bring up Leah, Brown and others).  If you enter just CHOROSTKOWER, you will get results that apply only to VEREIN CHOROSTKOWER. Entering year: 1930 and Society: CHOROSTKOWER (and nothing else) brings up only 4 results, including LEAH, BROWN.

Peter Cohen
California

See https://help.geni.com/hc/en-us/articles/229705167-How-can-I-export-my-GEDCOM-

Mark Shapiro
JGSNY

Hello Arkady,

I'm not aware of a Kolosova in the Kremenets district. Could it be the town of Klesov (Klesiv [Ukr], Klesov [Rus], Klesów [Pol], Klisov [Yid], Klosova, Klosowa) in the Rovno district? The JewishGen Communities database (https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/community.php?usbgn=-1042140)  shows this town at 51°20' N, 26°56' E.

Other online (not verified) sources give Yakov Kamenetsky's birthplace as Kalushkove, Lithuania, or Kalushkova, Minsk province, Belarus.  You might search the JewishGen Gazetteer for these towns (https://www.jewishgen.org/Communities/LocTown.asp) and see if records and other resources are available for them.

Best of luck,
Ellen

Mesdams, Sirs,

I am looking for the descendants of the following people born in Warsaw :

Anna BURSZTYN born in 1895
Eliasz BURSZTYN born in 1898
Jasza BURSZTYN born in 1897
Pola BURSZTYN born in 1902
Benick Anna BURSZTYN born in 1905
Szyja BURSZTYN born in 1905
Rega BURSZTYN born in 1906


Thank you for your help,

Evelyne LEMBERSKI
evelynelemberski@...
saint maurice
(france)

Village was known in Polish as Kołosów. During the interwar period (1918-1939) village was located within Bialokrynica parish of Krzemieniec (Kremenets) district of Wolhynia (Volin) Province.
As one can see from the Kołosów entry in Poland 1921 Business Directory, there were 519 residents, and all the nearest facilities such as telephone, telegraph, post office and the  train station  were located 9 km (6 miles) distance in Krzemieniec.
Refer to Kołosów at JewishGen (Jewish Records Indexing - Poland Project):

https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/poland/1929/P2169.pdf

There is also entry for Kołosów (Kołosowa) in circa 1870 Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and...

http://dir.icm.edu.pl/pl/Slownik_geograficzny/Tom_XV_cz.2/108

Alexander Sharon
JGFF editor