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Hebrew Translation Request
#translation
John Lowin
Please translate the Hebrew on this headstone of my grandparents in Munich.
Best Regards,
John Lowin
Researching Lowin in Radziechow, Vienna and Munich.
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My grandparents JONUSS and MAZUS from Ezere, Latvia
#latvia
#lithuania
Ingrid Anna Jansons <jansons.ingrid@...>
Hello,
I am researching my father's family from Latvia. My grandparents were Displaced People (officially non-Jewish) and came to Australia after World War 2. Here are my family: My grandmother, Erika Deznieks (1924 - 2018). Born in Ezere, Latvia. Lived in Priekule, Latvia. My great grandmother, MATILDA JONUSA/JONAS (1897 - 1977). Born in Nigrande, Latvia. Lived in St Petersburg during World War 1 (reason unknown). My great-great grandparents, LATE MAZUS (1870 - 1952) and JEKABS JONUSS (1858 - 1941). From Lithuania. My first question is, do I have Jewish heritage? There is confusion in my family and we have spent many years researching. Any insight would be helpful. My second question is, can DNA testing officially trace Jewish heritage? Kind regards Ingrid Anna Jansons Australia
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Orange County California JGS Upcoming Meetings
#events
Michelle Sandler
The Orange County California JGS has these upcoming meetings
scheduled. Registration is necessary to attend a meeting. You can register on our website at www.ocjgs.org. New lectures will be on the website in the next week or two. All times are Pacific TIme Zone. November 22nd 10:00 am Judy Baston - Lithuanian Research December 20th 10:00 am Lara Diamond - Tracing Ancestors in Eastern Europe January 24th 10:00 am Alexander Beider - How he does the research to write his books February 28th 10:00 am an interview with Gary Mokotoff and Sallann Amdur Sack Picus March 21st 10:00 am Todd Knowles - What's New in FamilySearch April 25th 10:00 am Ellen Kowitt - Ukraine 2020: Updating your Research Plan May 23rd 10:00 am Aaron Ginsburg - Finding Your Shtetl June 13th Gil Bardige - DNA September 19th Greg Nelson - Procuring Records from Eastern Europe for the Family History Library Michelle Sandler Vice President of Programming Orange County California JGS
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Retheir: Contact Burial Society Chevra Chesed Shel Emeth of Brownsville
#usa
Ira Leviton
Hi Cousins, I doubt that the Chevra Chesed Shel Emeth of Brownsville is still active - Brownsville used to be a neighborhood with many Jews, but there are few if any left. However, sometimes an attorney or somebody remains in charge of a society that has no active members, just to issue permits for children of former members. who may have inherited graves and don't have deeds. I have found that the Montefiore Cemetery office staff to be unhelpful at times, even when I was there in person, but they certainly should be able to tell you whether it's an active society, and even if it's not active, when the last burial took place and who the last contact person was. Ira Ira Leviton, New York, N.Y.
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JGS of Toronto. Free Virtual Meeting. JRI-Poland. Stanley Diamond. Wed 28 Oct 2020 at 7:30 pm ET.
Jerry Scherer
Jewish Records Indexing (JRI)–Poland
VIRTUAL MEETING: Join from Home
Wednesday, 28 October 2020, at 7:30 p.m. ET. There are two ways to attend.
Click below to register in advance for this Zoom
meeting: OR View this livestream meeting on our YouTube channel:
Please make a voluntary donation at this link in the box titled $ | Other | JGS of Toronto is a registered charity so Canadian donors will receive a tax receipt.
Jewish Records Indexing (JRI) - Poland
Part 1
Send your questions to Les Kelman,
lkelman@.... Mr. Diamond is a graduate of McGill and received his MBA from Harvard.
Jewish Genealogical Society of Toronto. 2901 Bayview Avenue, PO Box 91006. Toronto, Ontario. M2K 2Y6. www.jgstoronto.ca info@... 647-247-6414
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Jewish genealogy online class, October 21
#education
Michael Moritz
I will be teaching (virtually) part 3 of 3 on Jewish Genealogy Basics tomorrow (Oct 21) at 5pm EST, "The Old Country": Introduction to locating where your ancestors came from in Europe. Background discussion on European historical borders and how they have shifted through time. Exploration of the best sources to use in order to locate what town in Europe your family came from, and where to turn next once you have located that information.
Registration information for this course is available here (including fee info): https://www.moritzresearch.com/virtual-classes/register Thanks to those who have participated! Best, Michael Moritz (info@...) Note this is not associated with JewishGen
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Belgium's Kazerne Dossin Online Exhibit
#announcements
#holocaust
#photographs
#records
Jan Meisels Allen
Due to the pandemic opportunities to travel and visit the museum have been reduced, and Kazerne Dossin has opened up more of their collection online.
The most visited temporary exhibit at Kazerne Dossin is their Auschwitz camp exhibit. It may be viewed at: https://auschwitz.camp/en/ In addition to English, the exhibit is available in French and Dutch. In Kazerne Dossin (Mechelen, Belgium) the exhibit was presented from 24 October 2019 to 6 September 2020.
If you click on any of the icons they will open with a photograph and more information about that part of the site.
Kazerne Dossin is a memorial, museum and research center on Holocaust and Human Rights. On the site of the museum between 1942 and 1944. the Nazis used the Dossin barracks
in Mechelen as a transit camp from where 26,000 Jews, Roma and Sinti were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau by means of 28 train-transports. Only about 5 % of the deported survived. The Memorial website offers the opportunity to view portraits of deportees and publishes stories on those deported.
To visit the website go to: https://kazernedossin.memorial/remember/memoriaal/?lang=en
The online exhibit is made possible by a generous support from the Claims Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (http://www.claimscon.org/)
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: Research advice for ACKERMAN in Hungary or Subcarpathia
#hungary
#subcarpathia
Carole Bass
I perhaps should have mentioned that I have many U.S. records for the family. None of them says where Bernard was born (except for one reference to the nonexistent "Darthmouth, Austria"), which is why it took me ten years to figure out where he came from.
Carole Bass
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Re: Looking for a Lower East Side photo.
#photographs
jbonline1111@...
Have you checked with the Lower East Side Tenement Museum? Another possible source is a book about the Lower East Side, but I don't know the name of it. Perhaps a librarian can help you find it. I perused it in a friend's pied a terre in NYC over 30 years ago but failed to jot down its title. It had a lot of photographs from the early 1900s. I think the term "lower east side" was in the title of the book.
-- Barbara Sloan Conway, SC
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Re: How can I research famliy members from the Volyn area (Ratno, Kovel, etc). that emigrated in the late 19th and early 20th Century to the US?
#ukraine
jbonline1111@...
I was able to ascertain the names of great grandparents born in the "old country" in the mid-1850s by looking at USA marriage certificates for my grandparents. I found one grandmother's "maiden" name on my father's and uncles' birth certificates in 1907-1917.
Naturalization papers helped me find the origins of both sides of the family. -- Barbara Sloan Conway, SC
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Michele Lock
To all,
Thanks for all the replies. I will look over a 'Minsgyberna' map, and hope that the names of places are in Roman letters, and not Cyrillic. I have looked over Google Maps, for towns that begin with 'L' and are roughly within 150 km of Minsk, and which might be about the same length as 'Ligia' and came up with the following - Lukashi Luzhki Leshcha Lida Lubcha Lushchiki Lukashyna Logovishche I'll consult more maps, and take another look at US documents for the other sons of the father Simon Lavine, and hopefully be able to narrow things down. The only thing I'm certain of right now is that this particular Lavine family came from the Minsk gubernia, probably from a town that begins with the letter 'L'. As for all the other Levin, Lavine, Levy families in Trenton NJ - I am not particularly convinced that all these families are related, even the ones that took the name 'Lavine'. Simon Lavine is listed as 'Levy' on the 1900 US census, and that may be just as accurate as Lavine. I have no idea what the original family surname was before they came to the US. On the Belarus database on Jewishgen, I've found Levin, Levitan, Levinsky, Levko, Lev, Levi, and so on. Way too many variations of Levin, and way too common a name. Michele Lock
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Re: Donations to JewishGen through Amazon Smile
#general
Avraham Groll
Thank you so much Beth and Phil for pointing out these valuable ways to support JewishGen's important work.
Amazon Smile is a wonderful program whereby JewishGen benefits from your regular shopping. Here is a direct link to associate JewishGen with your Amazon account: http://smile.amazon.com/ch/76-0493072 During this time, more than ever before, your support (no matter the channel) will be greatly appreciated! Avraham Avraham Groll Executive Director JewishGen.org
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Re: Looking for a Lower East Side photo.
#photographs
Kathy Lorber
Also try NYC.gov/records. Click on Digital Collections. You can put in the address in the search bar and any photographs of that location will come up. Good Luck.
Kathy Lorber Montville, NJ Researching: LORBER: Poughkeepsie, Bardejev, Slovakia FELDMAN: Varjufalu/Stulany, Slovakia LIVINGSTON/LEVENSTEIN: Chicago, Davenport Iowa, Lithuania GOLDMAN/SZEYP: Davenport, Iowa, Mariampol, Lithuania DAVIS: Chicago, Wales, UK HERTZBERG: Chicago, Courland, Lithuania GOLDBERG: Odessa, Ukraine
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Belgium's Kazerne Dossin Online Exhibit
#announcements
#holocaust
#photographs
#records
Jan Meisels Allen
Due to the pandemic opportunities to travel and visit the museum have been reduced, and Kazerne Dossin has opened up more of their collection online.
The most visited temporary exhibit at Kazerne Dossin is their Auschwitz camp exhibit. It may be viewed at: https://auschwitz.camp/en/ . In addition to English, the exhibit is available in French and Dutch. In Kazerne Dossin (Mechelen, Belgium) the exhibit was presented from 24 October 2019 to 6 September 2020. If you click on any of the icons they will open with a photograph and more information about that part of the site.
Kazerne Dossin is a memorial, museum and research center on Holocaust and Human Rights. On the site of the museum between 1942 and 1944. the Nazis used the Dossin barracks in Mechelen as a transit camp from where 26,000 Jews, Roma and Sinti were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau by means of 28 train-transports. Only about 5 % of the deported survived. The Memorial website offers the opportunity to view portraits of deportees and publishes stories on those deported.
To visit the website go to: https://kazernedossin.memorial/remember/memoriaal/?lang=en
The online exhibit is made possible by a generous support from the Claims Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (http://www.claimscon.org/)
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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dinafertig@...
How can I get records about my mother and grandparents who were from Chmelnik? Bernstein, Rabinowitz
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Polish translation - Spiwak
#poland
#translation
Margalit Ashira Ir
Please translate this Marriage Registration for Chaja Perla Spiwak in Koden, 1856.
You will find it on ViewMate # 86754
Warm Regards,
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Research advice for ACKERMAN in Hungary or Subcarpathia
#hungary
#subcarpathia
Carole Bass
I have hit a brick wall in researching my ACKERMAN ancestors and am looking for advice.
In a breakthrough early this year, I found the birth record of my great-grandfather Bernath/Bernhard Ackerman in Benk, Hungary, DOB 21 Sep 1874. The birth is recorded twice, in the Jewish registries for Mandok — presumably the closest town with a registry — and for Kisvarda. In each case, the father is listed as H. Ackerman and the mother as Debora Spira. The sandek is Elias Moses Spira. With this information, I was able to locate some distant Spira cousins who generously shared their research. I believe that Debora Spira, my gggrandmother, was born around 1841 in Gemzse, Hungary, near Benk. But I am stumped on the Ackerman line. I can find no other births to this couple (siblings of my great-grandfather), and no marriage or death records or even a full first name for my gggrandfather. In addition to the JewishGen search engine, I have paged through metric books for many nearby towns. I've also looked through many records from Munkacs (now Mukacheve, Ukraine), home to numerous Ackerman families. I've found nothing that our terrific JewishGen volunteers hadn't already recorded. My hunch is that H. Ackerman came from outside the Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg area that remained in Hungary — perhaps originating in Subcarpathian Ukraine or Slovakia. I further speculate that the family didn't stay long in Benk, but returned to H. Ackerman's home area. But that's speculation, and I haven't found any promising leads on JewishGen, FamilySearch, or the Sub-Carpathia Genealogy page. I've pursued the DNA route as well. There are no close matches, because my great-grandfather is my most recent Jewish ancestor. He left his Jewish identity behind, married a Catholic woman from now-Slovakia (in Germany), and immigrated to the U.S. in 1903, settling near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I was thrilled when my DNA test revealed a bit of Jewish ancestry; my great-grandfather kept it a total secret, and nobody in the family had any inkling. Would be grateful for any suggestions of where else I might look. Having spent years hunting down the source of my Jewish DNA, I'm both eager and determined to continue tracing my heritage in that direction. Carole Bass
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Re: Hungary Act of Emancipation
#hungary
mirda@...
The Act of Emancipation was initiated under the rulership of Joseph II in the
second half of the 18th century. By the way, my brother-in-law is the late Shlomo Bien (born as Andor Bien) from Nagykanizsa Hungary. Greetings: Miryam Gordon
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Re: Looking for a Lower East Side photo.
#photographs
Sherri Bobish
Bruce, Try contacting AJHS https://www.ajhs.org/ Ask about the JB Lightman collection of photos of The Lower East Side. Regards, Sherri Bobish
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Re: How can I research famliy members from the Volyn area (Ratno, Kovel, etc). that emigrated in the late 19th and early 20th Century to the US?
#ukraine
Bruce Drake
As another researcher mentioned, records are sparse for Kovel. A reesearcher named Alex Dunai (aidunai@...) did find records for my ancesters from there here:
List of the documents studied in the state archive of Zhytomyr oblast :
1.Revision list 1858 for the town of Kovel ( fond 118, opys 14, file 122)
2.Supplementary revision list 1862 for the town of Kovel ( fond 118, opys 14, file 319
3. Supplementary revision list 1865 for the town of Kovel ( fond 118, opys 14, file 79)
4.Payment book of volatile taxes* arrears for Kovel county 1904-1915 ( fond 118, opys 21, file 402)
(Source: state archive of Zhytomyr oblast.Fond 118, opys 21, file 402, page 61 )
You also might see if my Kovel Kehilalinks page is any help: https://www.kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/kovel/kovel.html Bruce Drake Silver Spring MD
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