I am trying to learn more about my great grandmother Katharina Rosenstein nee Rattner who was born in Konstantinopel  in 1840.  She died on 8 February 1905 and she and her husband David Rosenstein , born in Belarus, are buried in the Jewish cemetery in Vienna.  I would like to find out her parent's names in particular which might help solve a family mystery to establish a link with her son in law Paul Rattner. 
 I am writing my mother's story and have asked the IKG for further information.  I have recently written twice to Irma Wulz and apart from getting an out of office message, from which she would be back , I have had no reply which is unusual. Does anyone have any recent contact with IKG or have any suggestions about how to proceed.  I am aware that Covid could be restricting usual business operation.
I would be extremely grateful for any assistance.
Patricia Lane
Sydney
Australia

This is a longshot, but...

My great grandmother's sister, Minnie Fayn from Lithuania, joined her siblings in Glasgow, Scotland, where she married Ruben Levy in 1892.  The couple had 2 daughters, one of whom died as an infant in Glasgow and the other (Rachel) was blind.  Minnie, Ruben and Rachel Levy moved to Cardiff in Wales.  Minnie died in 1910.  Rachel married, no children that I know of, and died in 1962.  

In Cardiff, for some reason, the family seemed to be known as Levine.  No idea why!   

What became of the widower Ruben Levy aka Reuben Levine?  A Reuben Levine married Annie Savitcky in Cardiff in June 1910.  My guess is that this was my relative (whose first wife, Minnie, died in January 1910 - was that too soon to remarry?).  In 1951, the Jewish Chronicle in London carried the announcement of the death of Reuben Levine of Cardiff, who is mourned by his wife Annie and children: Maurice, Rachel, Lena, Minnie, Hetty and Golda.  Did the widower Reuben Levine marry a widow called Annie?  Of the 6 children listed, Rachel could have been his daughter from his first marriage - and the other 5 could have been the children of Annie's first marriage - or some could have been the children of Reuben and Annie's second marriage.

The Jewish community in Cardiff was never very big and is now quite small, but I wonder if any of these names mean anything to anyone out there?

thanks

Harvey Kaplan
Glasgow, Scotland

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Hi!
I know this is an old post but i just joined the message boards. I'm researching my husband's family - Nestelbaum - from Yanow (Janow). I've tried searching endless tips but haven't come across any birth records for a grand-father or great grand-father. Have these documents come online yet? 

thank you

Rebecca Racer

Three Ditmis Avenue as now exists was built around 2012. --

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Deanna M. Levinsky, Long Island, NY

Terry,

Steve Morse's site https://stevemorse.org/
contains all the links you'll need to search for NYC marriages, and much more.

Some links are for marriage index only, others contain some transcripted data from the record.

During some years the names of people applying for marriage were listed in the newspapers.
Try searching the name of the bride or the groom here: https://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
It is a free site of old digitized newspapers, many from NYC.

Regards,

Sherri Bobish

Alan,

Manifests from that time frame may give you nothing more than his name and the country from which he came.  It varied by shipping line at that time.

Have you searched using soundex?  ZUCKER may be listed as ZUCHER, or something else.

The first name could be listed as various spellings of Hirsch, or Zvi.

The name could also have been transcribed incorrectly into the index.

He also may have entered through a port other than NY, including coming down through Canada.  I was surprised to see some of my family entering through Canada and then down to NY.

Regards,

Sherri Bobish

Henry,

You can use https://stevemorse.org/census/unified.html
to find 3 Ditmas Ave on the Federal census.  Since you say they lived at that address in the 1920's, you can try the 1920 and the 1930 census.

To find 3 Ditmas on the 1925 NY State Census:  https://stevemorse.org/nyc/nyc.php

Regards,

Sherri Bobish

My maternal grandfather, Aron Revzin, was from Snovks and emigrated to Chicago in 1913. His parents were Feivish and Chaia Ededl, nee Haykin. Aron's sisters were Baile (Mendel Schulman), Chana (Sam Polley) and Frieda (Sam Marshak whose youngest daughter married a Jaffe). Snokvks means "snow."
Barbara Cohen

I recently tried to find FRIEDMANs in Poland in JGFF and found many, but I wanted to grab the data, condense it and sort it by locality or perhaps other things like the person submitting it. This would make it easier for me to print relevant data and choose whom to contact. I brought the data into Excel 365, but it was still hard to work with. Columns B and D seemed to have no data except in the title lines, but Sort wouldn't work because the column I wanted to sort by (Town) had some "adjacent" data. When I removed those columns, the towns still wouldn't sort A - Z because of an icon at the beginning of each town entry that provides a nice link to a map and town information. That icon should be at the end of the town name. Total: more than 1500 lines including unnecessary blank lines and a ZIP code line. Many people gave only their names, so if the link no longer worked, it would be very difficult to find them. If JGFF were formatted so that it could be more easily used for common surnames, that would help. Deceased Researcher should be a separate field (column) so that researchers could concentrate on probably living people.

Stephanie Nordlinger
Los Angeles, California

Just a guess - in the one case, Galicia in Poland, and in the other case, Galicia in Austria
Ron Heller

For NY city marriage certificates prior to 1938 and death certificates prior to 1949, you can get a copy at a Mormon Family History Library.  They have some kind of legal agreement that prevents them from simply letting you download the image on familysearch.org from home.  You have to go and be on the FHL network, then you can save the image to a USB drive that you bring with you.

Until recently, famiysearch.org (best accessed via stevemorse.org) had the most thorough transcriptions. Ancestry.com has undertaken a project to transcribe the NYC vital records.  Their death certificate transcriptions include cemetery & parents names (which familysearch also includes), but they also usually have cause of death and what they are calling "executor", which is actually informant.  Be warned that these recent ancestry transcriptions are TERRIBLE. They garble the name in over half the instances. Sometimes, if you know Jewish names, you can discern what it should be (like LUNIE should be LURIE or LURIA), sometimes they get the informant's name right even when the deceased name is wrong. It's best to cross-check all the different transcriptions.

Peter Cohen
California

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Peter,

Is it possible that he left a will, or that there is some probate record?

Could there have been an obit or death notice in a local newspaper?

Regards,

Sherri Bobish

Several Jewishgenners have contacted me to say that the first line of my message was missing.  I must have been distracted by circumstances here.  Anyway, here it is, in it's entirety, again.:


Gemar chatimah tovah! 

Frank Swartz

Thanks so much, Arlene.  This is very helpful.  Maybe I can ask you a more particular question.  When I last had the Latvian Archives research for me, I was displeased with the way they did their citations.  Instead of footnoting each piece of information, they put all of the source information at the end of the report, and not in the order of information given in the body of the report.  For example, they would cite one book, then just give a list of pages where various information was found in that book.  Therefore, I had no reasonable way of knowing where, specifically, they were finding each piece of data.  Is it unreasonable to ask them to not do it that way?  I want to maintain good relations, but this method of citing seemed inappropriate.

Ava Nackman

Looking for family of  Klein, Maizi emigrated to Israel from USSR Mukachevo.   They are relatives of my cousin Perl Klein Katz.  Thank you.

Stuart Kaufer

I did not look at the English part of the stone earlier, so I now want to point out that there is a discrepancy of 2-3 days between the Hebrew and the secular dates.

If the 5th of December is correct, then the equivalent Hebrew dates are the 2nd of Tevet (if he died before sunset) and the 3rd of Tevet (if he died after sunset).
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Fredel Fruhman
Brooklyn, New York, USA

Suggest to them that they can do it anonymously.  Instead of using their name, they can make up a name or use initials and you could be the manager of their DNA.  Nobody could possibly know who they are.

Robert Hanna
NYC

Researching Chanan, Hanan, Hanna, Hanne, Heine, Hiney (Warsaw); Blumenblat (Poland); Karasik, Thomashow, Cohen (Babruysk); Rubinstein, Bunderoff, Pastilnik, Nemoyten, Diskin (Minsk).