Can anyone suggest a solution to the following mysterious entries discovered
during computerization of the marriage registers of the Great Synagogue,
London?

The two sources were the photocopy of the marriage certificate found in
another microfilm and the synagogue register.

1. >from the certificate: On 4th February 1863, Simon Henry 21, son of Henry
Henry, was married to Harriet Saunders 19, daughter of David Saunders.

2. >from the register: On 4th February 1863, Simon Henry (patronymic in
Hebrew script: Shimon ben Zvi Hirsch) was married to Hannah Saunders
(patronymic in Hebrew script: Yetta bat Dovid).

3. >from a later entry in the register: On 7th May 1863, Simon Henry
(patronymic in Hebrew script: Shimon ben Zvi Hirsch) was married to Harriet
Saunders (patronymic in Hebrew script: Sarah bat Avraham Avinu).

Can anyone solve the mystery? Harold Lewin - Jerusalem

My g-grandfather, Velvel SHEDLOVSKY, died at age 104 in an old age home in
Vilkiviskis, Lithuania. I believe a photograph of this building appears on
page 1397 of the new "Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the
Holocaust." Is the hospital still in existence and are there patient records
available?

Velvel's wife's name was Haude Baile. My grandfather, Jacob J. Shedlovsky, was
born Mar. 14. 1873 in Vilkiviskis, and emigrated to the U.S. in1892.

I understand that most records >from this town have been lost. Where can I look
for more information about the Shedlovsky family?

Richard M. Hoffman
Mountain View, California
e-mail: RMHoffman@aol.com

Can anyone suggest a solution to the following mysterious entries discovered
during computerization of the marriage registers of the Great Synagogue,
London?

The two sources were the photocopy of the marriage certificate found in
another microfilm and the synagogue register.

1. >from the certificate: On 4th February 1863, Simon Henry 21, son of Henry
Henry, was married to Harriet Saunders 19, daughter of David Saunders.

2. >from the register: On 4th February 1863, Simon Henry (patronymic in
Hebrew script: Shimon ben Zvi Hirsch) was married to Hannah Saunders
(patronymic in Hebrew script: Yetta bat Dovid).

3. >from a later entry in the register: On 7th May 1863, Simon Henry
(patronymic in Hebrew script: Shimon ben Zvi Hirsch) was married to Harriet
Saunders (patronymic in Hebrew script: Sarah bat Avraham Avinu).

Can anyone solve the mystery? Harold Lewin - Jerusalem

My g-grandfather, Velvel SHEDLOVSKY, died at age 104 in an old age home in
Vilkiviskis, Lithuania. I believe a photograph of this building appears on
page 1397 of the new "Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the
Holocaust." Is the hospital still in existence and are there patient records
available?

Velvel's wife's name was Haude Baile. My grandfather, Jacob J. Shedlovsky, was
born Mar. 14. 1873 in Vilkiviskis, and emigrated to the U.S. in1892.

I understand that most records >from this town have been lost. Where can I look
for more information about the Shedlovsky family?

Richard M. Hoffman
Mountain View, California
e-mail: RMHoffman@aol.com

Hello, dear Genners

My Grandmother's family SERCARZ, were born in Miechow, gubernia Kielce
not far >from Krakow / poland.
During the last 10 years, i've been trying to locate any kind of
informaition about this beutifull little town (i,ve been there for
quite short time last year), in which 3000 Jews lived before WWII.

If any of you has any information about this place, i'd like to gather
it all togather, in order to finally tell the story of my ancestors's
place. any story, pictures, documents will be much appreciated.

I hope to share with you the story of Miechow and my family very soon.

Yours Sincerely,
Orna Neiderman
Zikron-Yaacov, Israel

Researching:
SERCARZ (Miechow/Poland
SZWAJCWE (Bedzin/Poland

Hello, dear Genners

My Grandmother's family SERCARZ, were born in Miechow, gubernia Kielce
not far >from Krakow / poland.
During the last 10 years, i've been trying to locate any kind of
informaition about this beutifull little town (i,ve been there for
quite short time last year), in which 3000 Jews lived before WWII.

If any of you has any information about this place, i'd like to gather
it all togather, in order to finally tell the story of my ancestors's
place. any story, pictures, documents will be much appreciated.

I hope to share with you the story of Miechow and my family very soon.

Yours Sincerely,
Orna Neiderman
Zikron-Yaacov, Israel

Researching:
SERCARZ (Miechow/Poland
SZWAJCWE (Bedzin/Poland

Dear All,

I have heard >from a few others, who share their stories:

Shirley Pencer wrote:

The Shtetl Book by D.K. and David G. Roskies , Ktav Publishing co., ISBN
0-87068-455-8, pp36-37 describes the "Gefilte Fish Line" which demarcates
places to the east as cooking the fish without sugar.

Francine Shapiro wrote in two messages:

1. My uncle said that my grandmother brought home live carp and kept them in
the bathtub. They all had to bathe before the carp arrived, and had to wait
afterwards to eat the gefilte fish. He doesn't remember if it was sweet or
not, but it was always very good.

2. Here is a recipe for Potato Ahnbren - i.e. pareve potato soup.
My mother talked of it, but it was years before I came upon the recipe.
Tip: make the roux in a teflon-coated pot or pan. It stops
being a sticky mess, and slides easily into the soup.
4 potatoes, diced
2 carrots, sliced
1 stalk of celery, medium slices
1 chopped onion
2Tflour
2T margarine or butter
salt and pepper to taste
6 cups water

Cook the potatoes in boiling, salted water 5 mins. Add
carrots, celery, and onion and simmer.
In a frying pan, blend equal amounts of margarine or flour until the
mixture turns brown. Add small amounts of the liquid >from the soup
to the frying pan until the mixture becomes smooth, then pour and stir
the brown mixture slowly into the soup pot. Add salt and pepper to taste
and simmer until the vegetables are soft.

Thanks to Shirley and Francine!

--
Shelley K. Pollero, Coordinator
Gesher Galicia
Severna Park, Maryland
geshergalicia@comcast.net
http://www.jewishgen.org/galicia

Greetings -

The latest status of the SOKAL project to index BMD records >from the
1800's can be found at http://sokal.jaherz.com

Shabbat Shalom -
Josef
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~Josef A. Herz~~
Researching: HERZ, SIGAL, SCHUMER, LEIBER
From: Lvov/Lwow/Lemberg,Kristinopol/Chervonograd, Stoyanov/Stiyanev,
Sokal

Greetings -

The latest status of the LEMBERG/LWOW/LVIV project to index BMD records

from the 1800's can be found at

http://lwow.jaherz.com

Shabbat Shalom -
Josef


~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~Josef A. Herz~~
Researching: HERZ, SIGAL, SCHUMER, LEIBER
From: Lvov/Lwow/Lemberg,Kristinopol/Chervonograd, Stoyanov/Stiyanev,
Sokal

Dear All,

I have heard >from a few others, who share their stories:

Shirley Pencer wrote:

The Shtetl Book by D.K. and David G. Roskies , Ktav Publishing co., ISBN
0-87068-455-8, pp36-37 describes the "Gefilte Fish Line" which demarcates
places to the east as cooking the fish without sugar.

Francine Shapiro wrote in two messages:

1. My uncle said that my grandmother brought home live carp and kept them in
the bathtub. They all had to bathe before the carp arrived, and had to wait
afterwards to eat the gefilte fish. He doesn't remember if it was sweet or
not, but it was always very good.

2. Here is a recipe for Potato Ahnbren - i.e. pareve potato soup.
My mother talked of it, but it was years before I came upon the recipe.
Tip: make the roux in a teflon-coated pot or pan. It stops
being a sticky mess, and slides easily into the soup.
4 potatoes, diced
2 carrots, sliced
1 stalk of celery, medium slices
1 chopped onion
2Tflour
2T margarine or butter
salt and pepper to taste
6 cups water

Cook the potatoes in boiling, salted water 5 mins. Add
carrots, celery, and onion and simmer.
In a frying pan, blend equal amounts of margarine or flour until the
mixture turns brown. Add small amounts of the liquid >from the soup
to the frying pan until the mixture becomes smooth, then pour and stir
the brown mixture slowly into the soup pot. Add salt and pepper to taste
and simmer until the vegetables are soft.

Thanks to Shirley and Francine!

--
Shelley K. Pollero, Coordinator
Gesher Galicia
Severna Park, Maryland
geshergalicia@comcast.net
http://www.jewishgen.org/galicia

Greetings -

The latest status of the SOKAL project to index BMD records >from the
1800's can be found at http://sokal.jaherz.com

Shabbat Shalom -
Josef
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~Josef A. Herz~~
Researching: HERZ, SIGAL, SCHUMER, LEIBER
From: Lvov/Lwow/Lemberg,Kristinopol/Chervonograd, Stoyanov/Stiyanev,
Sokal

Greetings -

The latest status of the LEMBERG/LWOW/LVIV project to index BMD records

from the 1800's can be found at

http://lwow.jaherz.com

Shabbat Shalom -
Josef


~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~Josef A. Herz~~
Researching: HERZ, SIGAL, SCHUMER, LEIBER
From: Lvov/Lwow/Lemberg,Kristinopol/Chervonograd, Stoyanov/Stiyanev,
Sokal

Dear All,

The following people, all with an interest in Rzeszow, Poland, have out-of-
date email addesses in the family finder.

If anyone knows how to contact them, please let me know, privately, of
course.

David Enker paradoxx@xs4all.nl
David H. Bank dhbank@aol.com
Simone Kandel Center cdooleydog@aol.com
Claire Bergen alto_clef_47@hotmail.com

Thanks for any assistance,
Eden Joachim
Pomona, New York
esjoachim@optonline.net

Dear All,

The following people, all with an interest in Rzeszow, Poland, have out-of-
date email addesses in the family finder.

If anyone knows how to contact them, please let me know, privately, of
course.

David Enker paradoxx@xs4all.nl
David H. Bank dhbank@aol.com
Simone Kandel Center cdooleydog@aol.com
Claire Bergen alto_clef_47@hotmail.com

Thanks for any assistance,
Eden Joachim
Pomona, New York
esjoachim@optonline.net

When Galitzianers are starting their "Old Country" research, they
should consult two websites.

1. Consult Miriam Weiner's Routes to Roots Foundation website at
www.rtrfoundation.org to look up your town(s) in the Archival
Database. This will tell you the records available and the
Archives where those records can be found.

2. Many towns within the current and former territories of Poland
(including all of Galicia) have had or will have Jewish vital
records indexed through Jewish Records Indexing - Poland. Go the
JRI-Poland website at www.jri-poland.org and search the Town
Index to see if a project is active. If so, search the database
at http://www.jri-poland.org/jriplweb.htm.

JRI-Poland will be indexing records for Rawa Ruska that are
housed at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw. This includes 1816-70,
1877-1901 births, 1844-70, 1877-1900 deaths.

Like all JRI-Poland projects, the Rawa Ruska project can only be
accomplished with the help of interested researchers. You can
check the status of the Rawa Ruska project online at
http://www.jri-poland.org/agad/agadtowns.html.

You can help ensure the indexing of Rawa Ruska records. Please
consider a contribution to the AGAD project. Information on
contributing is available at
<http://www.jri-poland.org/agad/agadcontrib.htm>;.

The AGAD record indices contained in the JRI-Poland database
would not be accessible to researchers without our host,
JewishGen. In addition to your contribution to the JRI-Poland
AGAD Project that supports indexing of the records, we hope you
will also give to JewishGen to help defray the cost of
maintaining these records. An easily accessible contribution form
is available at
<http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/AGAD.html>;.

Mark Halpern
AGAD Archive Coordinator
JRI-Poland

The Western Massachusetts Jewish Genealogy Society is planning to host a
small gathering in March for those interested in Galicia. Please let me
know as soon as possible if you or anyone you know lives in the area and
would like to attend. Also, please let me know if you have ideas for how to
structure such a meeting, because we have never done something like this
before.

Thank you,
--
Jonathon Podolsky, Northampton, MA
Founder, Western Massachusetts Jewish Genealogy Society
http://www.wmjgs.org
http://www.Podolsky.cc
Phone/Fax: 413/585-9614

Researching surnames: ABEND, HARTMANN, SEIDEN, WASSERMAN, SHIMAN, KRAUT

from Wola Ranizowska near Kolbuszowa, Poland (Galicia region).

PODOLSKY, BAGUS, RUDERMAN, MASSARSKY, CARSON, KRICHEC >from Babruvy Kut,
Ukraine.

[MODERATOR NOTE: Please answer privately]

When Galitzianers are starting their "Old Country" research, they
should consult two websites.

1. Consult Miriam Weiner's Routes to Roots Foundation website at
www.rtrfoundation.org to look up your town(s) in the Archival
Database. This will tell you the records available and the
Archives where those records can be found.

2. Many towns within the current and former territories of Poland
(including all of Galicia) have had or will have Jewish vital
records indexed through Jewish Records Indexing - Poland. Go the
JRI-Poland website at www.jri-poland.org and search the Town
Index to see if a project is active. If so, search the database
at http://www.jri-poland.org/jriplweb.htm.

JRI-Poland will be indexing records for Rawa Ruska that are
housed at the AGAD Archives in Warsaw. This includes 1816-70,
1877-1901 births, 1844-70, 1877-1900 deaths.

Like all JRI-Poland projects, the Rawa Ruska project can only be
accomplished with the help of interested researchers. You can
check the status of the Rawa Ruska project online at
http://www.jri-poland.org/agad/agadtowns.html.

You can help ensure the indexing of Rawa Ruska records. Please
consider a contribution to the AGAD project. Information on
contributing is available at
<http://www.jri-poland.org/agad/agadcontrib.htm>;.

The AGAD record indices contained in the JRI-Poland database
would not be accessible to researchers without our host,
JewishGen. In addition to your contribution to the JRI-Poland
AGAD Project that supports indexing of the records, we hope you
will also give to JewishGen to help defray the cost of
maintaining these records. An easily accessible contribution form
is available at
<http://www.jewishgen.org/JewishGen-erosity/AGAD.html>;.

Mark Halpern
AGAD Archive Coordinator
JRI-Poland

The Western Massachusetts Jewish Genealogy Society is planning to host a
small gathering in March for those interested in Galicia. Please let me
know as soon as possible if you or anyone you know lives in the area and
would like to attend. Also, please let me know if you have ideas for how to
structure such a meeting, because we have never done something like this
before.

Thank you,
--
Jonathon Podolsky, Northampton, MA
Founder, Western Massachusetts Jewish Genealogy Society
http://www.wmjgs.org
http://www.Podolsky.cc
Phone/Fax: 413/585-9614

Researching surnames: ABEND, HARTMANN, SEIDEN, WASSERMAN, SHIMAN, KRAUT

from Wola Ranizowska near Kolbuszowa, Poland (Galicia region).

PODOLSKY, BAGUS, RUDERMAN, MASSARSKY, CARSON, KRICHEC >from Babruvy Kut,
Ukraine.

[MODERATOR NOTE: Please answer privately]

In a message dated 1/8/04 1:53:38 AM, Mauro Mowszowicz
(femur@fastlink.com.uy) writes:

<< Hello, need help to start my research of my 2 family sides


Town: Belz (or Beltz), Surname: Flasch

Town: Rava-Ruska, Surname: Feder


Any help will be greatly appreciated >>

New subscribers to this Galicia group should go first to www.jewishgen's main
page where they can click on a list of "Infofiles." There are several written
especially for beginning family history investigators and these articles can
be read online and printed out for future reference.

If any of Mr. Mowszowicz's ancestors emigrated to the US he could try the
Ellis Island Database (EIDB).

He should also look for his surnames at the listings of extant and available
birth, marriage and death records Jewishgen affiliated JRI-PL project at:

www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/

Mr. Mowszowicz should also check through the archives of Jewishgen's
Discussion Group messages for people who live in or have ancestors who settled in
Uruguay and write to some of them. They may be able to advise him.


Naomi Fatouros (nee FELDMAN)
Bloomington, Indiana
NFatouros@aol.com
Researching: BELKOWSKY and BIELKOWSKY, Odessa,St. Petersburg and
Berdichev;ROTHSTEIN, Kremenchug; FELDMAN, Pinsk; SCHUTZ, RETTIG, WAHL, Shcherets; LEVY,
WEIL, Mulhouse; SAS or SASS,Podwolochisk; RAPOPORT, Tarnopol, Podwolochisk,
Berdichev; BEHAM, Salok and Kharkov; WOLPIANSKY, Ostryna.

In a message dated 1/8/04 1:53:38 AM, Mauro Mowszowicz
(femur@fastlink.com.uy) writes:

<< Hello, need help to start my research of my 2 family sides


Town: Belz (or Beltz), Surname: Flasch

Town: Rava-Ruska, Surname: Feder


Any help will be greatly appreciated >>

New subscribers to this Galicia group should go first to www.jewishgen's main
page where they can click on a list of "Infofiles." There are several written
especially for beginning family history investigators and these articles can
be read online and printed out for future reference.

If any of Mr. Mowszowicz's ancestors emigrated to the US he could try the
Ellis Island Database (EIDB).

He should also look for his surnames at the listings of extant and available
birth, marriage and death records Jewishgen affiliated JRI-PL project at:

www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/

Mr. Mowszowicz should also check through the archives of Jewishgen's
Discussion Group messages for people who live in or have ancestors who settled in
Uruguay and write to some of them. They may be able to advise him.


Naomi Fatouros (nee FELDMAN)
Bloomington, Indiana
NFatouros@aol.com
Researching: BELKOWSKY and BIELKOWSKY, Odessa,St. Petersburg and
Berdichev;ROTHSTEIN, Kremenchug; FELDMAN, Pinsk; SCHUTZ, RETTIG, WAHL, Shcherets; LEVY,
WEIL, Mulhouse; SAS or SASS,Podwolochisk; RAPOPORT, Tarnopol, Podwolochisk,
Berdichev; BEHAM, Salok and Kharkov; WOLPIANSKY, Ostryna.