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Re: Looking for Israeli relatives
#israel
Robin Klainbard
I sincerely wish to thank all of the wonderful people who responded to my request both here and privately. I am so happy to report that through some incredible people helping I have connected with my family! I could be more excited. My 94 year old Dad is really touched that he has located his relatives. What a gift everyone has given and I will be eternally grateful. Thank you to you all. Sending virtual hugs.
JewshGen rocks!!!! Robin Klainbard
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Re: Are the C-Files from the USCIS worth getting?
#general
N. Summers
On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 09:00 AM, Jacob Heisler wrote:
I tried ordering an A-File via a FOIA request, but I was told I wasAccording to the FOIA request website, any immigration documents over 100 years old must be requested thru the Genealogy program, which requires payment of a fee. That should mean any documents from 1921 and later are available for FOIA requests. Were your requests for older documents? Nancy Summers FINKELSTEIN, BOOKSTEIN, KOENIG/SUKOENIG, LUSMAN, GOLDINER, SAGORODER/ZAGORODER (Radziwillow, Belarus/Ukraine; Ostrog, Poland/Belarus; Warsaw, Poland; Wolinsky, Russia/Ukraine); LISS / ALPER (Motol, Russia/Belarus); LEAF / LIFSCHITZ ( Rechitsa, Belarus)
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Re: Are the C-Files from the USCIS worth getting?
#general
N. Summers
Thank you so much! this is very helpful.
I discovered that the Naturalization index cards (which I found on Ancestry) show the C-File number, so for those people I wouldn't need to request an index search, (which i think is done primarily to find if there is a C- file ). For several ancestors i'd like to have copies of their naturalization certificates (which I assume are in the C-files), so first I have to request an index search and then request a copy of the C-file . For pre-1906 naturalizations, I think the documents are with the court at which the naturalization was processed; some courts sent copies to INS>USCIS but others did not. I also learned that for the post-1906 naturalizations the Petition for Naturalizatin and the grant of naturalization are on the same document; the Petition is on the front of the page and the Naturalization on the back. Are there also separate certificates of Naturalization? Nancy Summers -- Nancy Summers Maryland, USA
FINKELSTEIN, BOOKSTEIN, KOENIG/SUKOENIG, LUSMAN, GOLDINER, SAGORODER/ZAGORODER (Radziwillow, Belarus/Ukraine; Ostrog, Poland/Belarus; Warsaw, Poland; Wolinsky, Russia/Ukraine) LISS / ALPER (Motol, Russia/Belarus) LEAF / LIFSCHITZ ( Rechitsa, Belarus)
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Re: Circular (radial) Descendant Family Tree --looking for digital program or website that can create this
#general
Steve Stein
For any field for which you can specify the output font, you can print in Hebrew, but it is somewhat tedious. I have created a field called Hebrew Name, and I use the Web Hebrew AD font for it. On the data entry screens it looks like gibberish, but on output it looks fine.
Steve Stein
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Need help determining fate/yarzheit of KLEIN family members deported fron Medzilaborce. KLEIN #holocaust # slovakia
#holocaust
tzipporah batami
Need help determining fate/yarzheit of family members deported fron Medzilaborce. Am told possibly ended up Lukow. Anyone have knowledge of more details of events in Lukow? Or specific knowledge Klein Family Fani, Shmiel, Yankel, Raizel, Dina?
Thank you
Feigie Teichman
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finding obituaries
#general
Trudy Barch
Hello,
Does anyone know when USA obituaries began in newspapers? Other than Legacy are there any other sites where I should be looking for ‘older’ (1930s-1940s) ones? Also, is their anything similar for European deaths – past and current?
Thank you, Trudy Barch, Florida
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Re: Help locate this Gulag-camp or village listed in post-war record
#russia
#holocaust
Moses Jefferson
I think Dr. Leiserowitzs’ suggestion is most accurate. In a memo written by my great grandfathers sister (written after the war), she writes that at first they (her parents and siblings) were taken to a forest where they were forced cutting down large trees and preparing wood. In the end of 1941 they were set free [?] and went to the nearby town Byisk.
Once in Byisk her brothers found work in Barnao which makes very much sense to actually be Barnaul as suggested, which is around a days trek from Byisk (160 km). What troubles me most is obviously the lack of personal records that the Russians might still have. Sadly the Russian still boast about “thank us for saving the Poles from the Nazis”. Moses Jefferson
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Angela Lehrer
My family also came from Lebedev. Their family name was GOLUB, What was your grandmother's name?
Angela Lehrer
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Re: Gravestone translation needed from Hebrew for Max Luria 1859-1924
#translation
David Barrett
The Hebrew year as written is TARPAD =5684 corresponding to 1924
and the Hebrew actually says " who went to / departed to His world" The date is : First day Rosh Chodesh Tammuz Regards David Barrett
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Re: Jadovno-ידובנו
#general
David Barrett
sorry Yoav - you read it incorrectly
The first letter is a MEM It actually says in Hebrew FROM DUBNO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubno David Barrett
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k5709999@...
looking for info or family of my gg grandfather Yecheil Mechel Keller -lived in Radomysl (Wielki) Galicia and later in Limanov in born about 1880 died about 1910
thanks Joseph Kauftheil
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Publication of Staszów Memorial Book
#poland
#yizkorbooks
#holocaust
Jean-Pierre Stroweis
I am extremely pleased to announce that a 878-page Staszów Memorial Book, an annotated English translation of the 1962 Yizkor book Sefer Staszow, has just been published and is available from JewishGen. It also covers nearby Jewish communities of Kurozwęki, Osiek, Połaniec, Rytwiany and Szydłów. For details, see:
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip/YBIP_Staszow.html
Jean-Pierre Stroweis JRI-Poland - Staszów town leader Jerusalem, Israel
-- Jean-Pierre Stroweis Jerusalem
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Re: Jadovno-ידובנו
#general
Dr.Josef ASH
it can be Edvabne, near Byalostok in Poland. the bad remembered town in Jewish history.
May it? Josef ASH, israel
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World Jewish Restitution Organization Asking Participants to Post Their Stories
#announcements
#holocaust
Jan Meisels Allen
The World Jewish Restitution Organization (WRJO) is asking Holocsut survivors and their families to share their stories through videos, photos, or drawings include #MyProperyStory and tagging @WRJORestitution. The purpose is to raise awarenes of the need to address the restitution of Jewish private and communal property seized during the Holocaust and its aftermath. Their 5 week campaign begins on September 8 in advance of the High Holidays and runs through October 11- Shemini Atzeret/Simcat Torah. Go to: https://wjro.org.il/my-property-story/ to read or share a story.
During the Holocaust, millions of Jews throughout Europe were robbed by the Nazis of every possession they ever had, such as jewelry and paintings, from their homes and businesses.
This year, 75 years after the Holocaust, the World Jewish Restitution Organization (WJRO), an organization addressing the restitution of Jewish property in Europe, launched for the second year in a row a social media campaign for their #MyPropertyStory: The Next Generations.
This year, the campaign will focus on survivors, their descendants and their connection to their family history before and after the Shoah, to shine a light on the unprecedented theft of property from Jewish people and communities during the Holocaust and its aftermath.
To read more see: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/holocaust-survivors-and-heirs-tell-stolen-property-stories-on-social-media-641337
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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Re: Photo for language identification
#photographs
#translation
erikagottfried53@...
It looks a loan word to me, too. Not too fishy an explanation. (Sorry--couldn't resist.)
-- Erika Gottfried Teaneck, New Jersey
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Sarah Rochel Hewitt <srhewitt@...>
My Great Grandfather, Elias Gartel, relayed a story (on a recording) that a little before he was bar mitzvah, he left his parents' house and went to go sing in a choir in Budapest. This would have been in the late 1890s. Looking for any leads on such a choir that would have recruited young singers from as far away as Rava Ruska. Thank you
Sarah Rochel Hewitt
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Fishel Gorlitzer, Dayan of the Sanser Rebbe
#galicia
Sarah Rochel Hewitt <srhewitt@...>
I am looking for detailed information of the Sanzer court in Nowy Sacz (Sanz). I believe my Great-Great Grandfather, Tzvi Hersch, was his son. Two of his sons are known: Samuel Yehoshua Rocker who became a well-known figure in Cleveland and wrote a bio of the Sanzer Rebbe, and Noah, who ended up in Vienna. I have enough anecdotal proof but would love to find hard evidence... Any leads for a "bucky" in Sanzer history would be much appreciated.
Sarah Rochel Hewitt
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Re: Ancestry's Drastic Changes Dash Hopes of Finding Connections
#dna
Ellen Slotoroff Zyroff
It could not hurt and might actually help to send every one of these real examples to Ancestry's management and database managers and post to their discussion board(s). Genealogical societies from around the world ought to write to them, too, with copies of the letters posted on DNA for genealogy Facebook pages and other discussion forums.
Ellen Slotoroff Zyroff
On Monday, September 7, 2020, 08:09:31 PM PDT, David Brostoff <davbro@...> wrote:
On Sep 7, 2020, at 5:57 PM, Herbert Lazerow <lazer@...> wrote:
Similarly, I have two known third cousins, one 3C1R and one half-1C2R under 20 cM. More importantly though, I have a 14 cM match that led me to a cousin from a branch whose father had changed his last name to a very common one that made him impossible to find. A Y-DNA test with the cousin -- the only surviving direct-paternal male descendant in his branch -- showed that he and I shared a common paternal ancestor and that our two branches were definitely related. Without that 14 cM match I would never have been able to find the cousin to take the test. David Brostoff
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Re: Ancestry's Drastic Changes Dash Hopes of Finding Connections
#dna
David Brostoff
On Sep 7, 2020, at 5:57 PM, Herbert Lazerow <lazer@...> wrote:
Similarly, I have two known third cousins, one 3C1R and one half-1C2R under 20 cM. More importantly though, I have a 14 cM match that led me to a cousin from a branch whose father had changed his last name to a very common one that made him impossible to find. A Y-DNA test with the cousin -- the only surviving direct-paternal male descendant in his branch -- showed that he and I shared a common paternal ancestor and that our two branches were definitely related. Without that 14 cM match I would never have been able to find the cousin to take the test. David Brostoff
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Re: Gravestone translation needed from Hebrew for Max Luria 1859-1924
#translation
Rodney Eisfelder
Linda,
I think the date is 1st day Rosh Chodesh Tamuz 5684, which is actually 30th Sivan, which corresponds to 2-Jul-1924. Rodney Eisfelder Melbourne, Australia
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