I am pleased to announce the funds necessary to take full advantage of the
$1000 challenge grant by the Baron family have been received. These
contributions, along with the matching funds, will allow approximately two
years worth of Vilna city records to be translated. There are 80 years worth
of records in total for Vilna, so we are off to a good start.
The ability to complete all remaining records will require similar
contributions on the part of others. If anyone else wishes to make a similar
challenge grant, please contact me at Joelrat1@hotmail.com .

http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/FHLC/VilnaMicrofilmsIndex.htm

Joel Ratner
Coordinator, Vilna District Research Group
Interim Coordinator, Vilna Vital Records

I am pleased to announce the funds necessary to take full advantage of the
$1000 challenge grant by the Baron family have been received. These
contributions, along with the matching funds, will allow approximately two
years worth of Vilna city records to be translated. There are 80 years worth
of records in total for Vilna, so we are off to a good start.
The ability to complete all remaining records will require similar
contributions on the part of others. If anyone else wishes to make a similar
challenge grant, please contact me at Joelrat1@hotmail.com .

http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/FHLC/VilnaMicrofilmsIndex.htm

Joel Ratner
Coordinator, Vilna District Research Group
Interim Coordinator, Vilna Vital Records

Tsvi Sinai [Israel] writes:

I am a bit surprised by your links with Peter
Barber, Celia. I was sure that Peter's ancestry is

from Poland, as we have a common cousin, Eve Klein,

nee Barber. She is my first cousin, born in Bratislava
[the same as I] >from the Fuchs-Redlich (Bisenz) side
and Peter's second cousin >from the Barber side.

Well Tsvi - what you do not realise is that now your
tree and Peter Barber's, Ruth Coman's and mine have
also merged ... and possible Jane Reber's and Randy
Schoenberg's too.

The link is real and confirmed:

KAFKA-SALUS-SCHUSSLER-BACHRACH-BIACH-KOHN
[changed to Kerner].

The latter family is mine.

Now you must work out the following link with Peter:

FUCHS-REDLICH-KLEIN-BARBER to SALUS and then we are
all linked.

Links [chains] are very complex but fun! And that
should be one of our "raison d'etre", namely to have a
bit of fun, with our fellow SIGGERS!

So, tonight there will be dancing in the streets of
Bisenz and Bratislava [Pressburg, Presporek, Pozsony]
too. More Bim Bam Bom all around.

How many more links can we find? I have recently found
a link for a 1790s Bremen-Danish POLLAK family with a
Sephardic family >from Livorno, [dello STROLOGO],
resident in Alexandria, Egypt since the 1850s. These
POLLAKS are probably linked to some of ours - if we
only knew how.

That is what I understand by the "Family Tree of the
Jewish People".

Celia Male [UK]

Tsvi Sinai [Israel] writes:

I am a bit surprised by your links with Peter
Barber, Celia. I was sure that Peter's ancestry is

from Poland, as we have a common cousin, Eve Klein,

nee Barber. She is my first cousin, born in Bratislava
[the same as I] >from the Fuchs-Redlich (Bisenz) side
and Peter's second cousin >from the Barber side.

Well Tsvi - what you do not realise is that now your
tree and Peter Barber's, Ruth Coman's and mine have
also merged ... and possible Jane Reber's and Randy
Schoenberg's too.

The link is real and confirmed:

KAFKA-SALUS-SCHUSSLER-BACHRACH-BIACH-KOHN
[changed to Kerner].

The latter family is mine.

Now you must work out the following link with Peter:

FUCHS-REDLICH-KLEIN-BARBER to SALUS and then we are
all linked.

Links [chains] are very complex but fun! And that
should be one of our "raison d'etre", namely to have a
bit of fun, with our fellow SIGGERS!

So, tonight there will be dancing in the streets of
Bisenz and Bratislava [Pressburg, Presporek, Pozsony]
too. More Bim Bam Bom all around.

How many more links can we find? I have recently found
a link for a 1790s Bremen-Danish POLLAK family with a
Sephardic family >from Livorno, [dello STROLOGO],
resident in Alexandria, Egypt since the 1850s. These
POLLAKS are probably linked to some of ours - if we
only knew how.

That is what I understand by the "Family Tree of the
Jewish People".

Celia Male [UK]

Moravia had same pattern of "Kreise" (czech "Kraj") like all the
other parts of Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
I don't remember where I found (and collected) detailed maps for
counties like Bruenn/Brno, Iglau/Jihlava, Olmuetz/Olomouc, Prerau/Prerov,
Teschen/Tesin and so on >from 1848 including "krajska hranice" and
"hranice panstvi a statku"

Wolf-Erich Eckstein
Vienna/AUSTRIA
http://members.chello.at/eckstein_we/

Moravia had same pattern of "Kreise" (czech "Kraj") like all the
other parts of Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
I don't remember where I found (and collected) detailed maps for
counties like Bruenn/Brno, Iglau/Jihlava, Olmuetz/Olomouc, Prerau/Prerov,
Teschen/Tesin and so on >from 1848 including "krajska hranice" and
"hranice panstvi a statku"

Wolf-Erich Eckstein
Vienna/AUSTRIA
http://members.chello.at/eckstein_we/

A few days ago I ordered Volume II of the "1793 census of Jews in
Bohemia" which I received today.

I believe to have found my ggggrandparents in one of the villages.
I was surprised that in most of the villages there was only one
jewish family.
This is the case with a KRAUS family I am looking for.

For quite some time I was trying to find the parents of my
gggrandmother Elisabeth / Bele LANG nee KRAUS.

from her son's birth certificate I knew she was >from a small

place near Prague called Horni Pocernice (Ober Potschernitz).

from the two different burial lists of the old Olsany cemetery

in Prague I found out that her father was on one list called
Moshe Kraus and on the other list he was called Meir Kraus.

Now I thought that the 1793 census would give me more information
about Bele's father and family.

I knew she could not be mentioned in the Census because she was
born in 1802, 9 years after the census was taken. But I thought
I could find her family.

I found one Kraus Family in Ober Potschernitz (in fact the
only Jewish family in this village) but the head of the family is
not Mosche or Meir Kraus but Jachim Kraus, he is married and has
got four sons. Perhaps in 1802 he had a daughter called
Elisabeth / Bele.

In a village called Kralovice (Kralowitz), about 5 miles away

from Ober Potschernitz I found a Moises Kraus (this time 7 jewish

families in this village), married with 2 daughters. Perhaps he is
Elisabeth's father.

Now my new book doesn't really help but makes things even more
complicated.

Perhaps someone of you who is more familiar with this census and
can give me an advice how to clarify my assumptions. Or am I on
the wrong track?

BTW Will there also be a Volume for the City of Prague or is
it already published?

Peter Zimmer
Muenster, Germany

A few days ago I ordered Volume II of the "1793 census of Jews in
Bohemia" which I received today.

I believe to have found my ggggrandparents in one of the villages.
I was surprised that in most of the villages there was only one
jewish family.
This is the case with a KRAUS family I am looking for.

For quite some time I was trying to find the parents of my
gggrandmother Elisabeth / Bele LANG nee KRAUS.

from her son's birth certificate I knew she was >from a small

place near Prague called Horni Pocernice (Ober Potschernitz).

from the two different burial lists of the old Olsany cemetery

in Prague I found out that her father was on one list called
Moshe Kraus and on the other list he was called Meir Kraus.

Now I thought that the 1793 census would give me more information
about Bele's father and family.

I knew she could not be mentioned in the Census because she was
born in 1802, 9 years after the census was taken. But I thought
I could find her family.

I found one Kraus Family in Ober Potschernitz (in fact the
only Jewish family in this village) but the head of the family is
not Mosche or Meir Kraus but Jachim Kraus, he is married and has
got four sons. Perhaps in 1802 he had a daughter called
Elisabeth / Bele.

In a village called Kralovice (Kralowitz), about 5 miles away

from Ober Potschernitz I found a Moises Kraus (this time 7 jewish

families in this village), married with 2 daughters. Perhaps he is
Elisabeth's father.

Now my new book doesn't really help but makes things even more
complicated.

Perhaps someone of you who is more familiar with this census and
can give me an advice how to clarify my assumptions. Or am I on
the wrong track?

BTW Will there also be a Volume for the City of Prague or is
it already published?

Peter Zimmer
Muenster, Germany

Just wanted to let you know that a historical article on the Jewish
community of the town of King William's Town, in the Cape, has been
uploaded to South African Communities section of the SA-SIG Web pages
at:

http://www.jewishgen.org/safrica/communities/14/ginsberg-c/index.htm

This article originally appeared in the December 1984 issue of the
quarterly journal, "Jewish Affairs," still being published in
Johannesburg, and has been reprinted on the SA-SIG Web pages with
permission.

For reference, the Communities section of the SA-SIG Web pages can be
found at:

http://www.jewishgen.org/safrica/communities/index.htm

Roy Ogus
Palo Alto, California
r_ogus at hotmail.com

Just wanted to let you know that a historical article on the Jewish
community of the town of King William's Town, in the Cape, has been
uploaded to South African Communities section of the SA-SIG Web pages
at:

http://www.jewishgen.org/safrica/communities/14/ginsberg-c/index.htm

This article originally appeared in the December 1984 issue of the
quarterly journal, "Jewish Affairs," still being published in
Johannesburg, and has been reprinted on the SA-SIG Web pages with
permission.

For reference, the Communities section of the SA-SIG Web pages can be
found at:

http://www.jewishgen.org/safrica/communities/index.htm

Roy Ogus
Palo Alto, California
r_ogus at hotmail.com

I am looking for information about the BAER family
of Bockenheim (Frankfurt/Main), begining of 19th century.
Has somebody more information than Paul Arnstein in his book ?
Thank you for your answer.

Micheline GUTMANN, Paris, France m.gutmann@genami.org
Site GenAmi : http://www.genami.org

I am looking for information about the BAER family
of Bockenheim (Frankfurt/Main), begining of 19th century.
Has somebody more information than Paul Arnstein in his book ?
Thank you for your answer.

Micheline GUTMANN, Paris, France m.gutmann@genami.org
Site GenAmi : http://www.genami.org

Dear fellow R0M-SIGgers,

For those of you who may not subscribe to the JewishGen Discussion list
I wish to alert you to the latest addition to the JewishGen Yiskor Book
site. It is the translation of the encyclopedic Yiskor Book, "Sefer
Marmaros - 160 Jewish Communities in their prime and destruction ".
It is a translation >from the 1996 2nd edtion.

It can be found at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Maramures/Maramures.html

At present only parts of the book are translated and online. If you
wish to assist in the completion of this translation program in any way
you may contact the Project Coordinator, Moshe A. Davis, <
mod-submit@uni-berlin.de >

Rosanne Leeson
Co-Coordinator
ROM-SIG

Dear fellow R0M-SIGgers,

For those of you who may not subscribe to the JewishGen Discussion list
I wish to alert you to the latest addition to the JewishGen Yiskor Book
site. It is the translation of the encyclopedic Yiskor Book, "Sefer
Marmaros - 160 Jewish Communities in their prime and destruction ".
It is a translation >from the 1996 2nd edtion.

It can be found at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Maramures/Maramures.html

At present only parts of the book are translated and online. If you
wish to assist in the completion of this translation program in any way
you may contact the Project Coordinator, Moshe A. Davis, <
mod-submit@uni-berlin.de >

Rosanne Leeson
Co-Coordinator
ROM-SIG

I am looking for a Kalman GARBER that would have a
daughter Reizel born around 1850. He could have been a
Rabbi and possibly lived near Mariampol or Keidan.

Yehudah ben Shlomo
Fort Worth, Texas
MODERATOR NOTE: Always search the JewishGen Family Finder <www.jewishgen.org/jgff>
and add your names. There are 70 people looking for Garber in various locations.

I am looking for a Kalman GARBER that would have a
daughter Reizel born around 1850. He could have been a
Rabbi and possibly lived near Mariampol or Keidan.

Yehudah ben Shlomo
Fort Worth, Texas
MODERATOR NOTE: Always search the JewishGen Family Finder <www.jewishgen.org/jgff>
and add your names. There are 70 people looking for Garber in various locations.

Correspondents have complained to me about being
unable to locate their landsmanshaft on the
www.jgsny.org website. Often they do a simple
alphabetic search and then give up their examining.
Please remember that the aphabetic listing may be
subsumed under header names such as Association, Bnai,
Chevra anshei, Congregation Anshei, Erste, First,
Independent, Ladies, New, Progressive, United and
Young.
I have been working on all RG's >from 1600 to today's
1742. As I accumulate several new collections they are
added to the list. My archiving is limited to the
records deposited with the New York Sate Department of
Insurance which passes on the records to YIVO Archives.
In addition I often add new records to old collections
which, at this time, is not noted on the current
listing. This is to remind us that your last
examination of the records may require a new search.

Jerry Seligsohn
Volunteer Archivist









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Make Yahoo! your home page
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Correspondents have complained to me about being
unable to locate their landsmanshaft on the
www.jgsny.org website. Often they do a simple
alphabetic search and then give up their examining.
Please remember that the aphabetic listing may be
subsumed under header names such as Association, Bnai,
Chevra anshei, Congregation Anshei, Erste, First,
Independent, Ladies, New, Progressive, United and
Young.
I have been working on all RG's >from 1600 to today's
1742. As I accumulate several new collections they are
added to the list. My archiving is limited to the
records deposited with the New York Sate Department of
Insurance which passes on the records to YIVO Archives.
In addition I often add new records to old collections
which, at this time, is not noted on the current
listing. This is to remind us that your last
examination of the records may require a new search.

Jerry Seligsohn
Volunteer Archivist









__________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
Make Yahoo! your home page
http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

I am looking for a Kalman Garber that would have a
daughter Reizel born around 1850. He could have been a
Rabbi and possibly lived near Mariampol or Keidan.

Yehudah ben Shlomo
Fort Worth, Texas

I am looking for a Kalman Garber that would have a
daughter Reizel born around 1850. He could have been a
Rabbi and possibly lived near Mariampol or Keidan.

Yehudah ben Shlomo
Fort Worth, Texas