Researchers with a connection to Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland
(halfway between Warsaw and Bialystok and 46 km south of Lomza)
are invited to the annual gathering of the Ostrow Mazowiecka
Research Family (OMRF) in Orlando, FL on Saturday, July 22,
the day before the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
begins.

We are scheduled to get together at 1 p.m., in the Dove Room
in the conference hotel, the Walt Disney Swan Resort in Orlando.
Since it's lunchtime, you're welcome to bring a nosh and cold drink.

We will be discussing a number of items, including the final editing
of the existing extracts of 40,000 Ostrow Mazowiecka Jewish records.

We also want to hear everyone's thoughts on the possibility
of a reunion of Ostrovers in Poland to coincide with next year's
conference to be held in Warsaw >from 6 to 10 August 2018.

If you're unable to attend, but have Ostrow Mazowiecka-connected
family in or near Orlando, please let them know and ask them to
contact us.

More information about the Ostrow Mazowiecka Research Family
can be found at www.ostrow-mazowiecka.com

Thank you, and hoping to see you on July 22. If you have any
questions, please write us privately.

Judy Baston <jrbaston@aol.com>
Stanley Diamond <smsdiamond@aol.com>
For the Ostrow Mazowiecka Research Family

Researchers with a connection to Ostrow Mazowiecka, Poland
(halfway between Warsaw and Bialystok and 46 km south of Lomza)
are invited to the annual gathering of the Ostrow Mazowiecka
Research Family (OMRF) in Orlando, FL on Saturday, July 22,
the day before the International Conference on Jewish Genealogy
begins.

We are scheduled to get together at 1 p.m., in the Dove Room
in the conference hotel, the Walt Disney Swan Resort in Orlando.
Since it's lunchtime, you're welcome to bring a nosh and cold drink.

We will be discussing a number of items, including the final editing
of the existing extracts of 40,000 Ostrow Mazowiecka Jewish records.

We also want to hear everyone's thoughts on the possibility
of a reunion of Ostrovers in Poland to coincide with next year's
conference to be held in Warsaw >from 6 to 10 August 2018.

If you're unable to attend, but have Ostrow Mazowiecka-connected
family in or near Orlando, please let them know and ask them to
contact us.

More information about the Ostrow Mazowiecka Research Family
can be found at www.ostrow-mazowiecka.com

Thank you, and hoping to see you on July 22. If you have any
questions, please write us privately.

Judy Baston <jrbaston@aol.com>
Stanley Diamond <smsdiamond@aol.com>
For the Ostrow Mazowiecka Research Family

The phenomena of late birth registration in Galicia and elsewhere is
well known. The reasons for late registration are various most of them
connected with taxes and military service. Yet I wonder why bother and
register at all the newcomers? Is there an article that deals with this
procedure?

Thanks,

Eli Brauner
Israel

The phenomena of late birth registration in Galicia and elsewhere is
well known. The reasons for late registration are various most of them
connected with taxes and military service. Yet I wonder why bother and
register at all the newcomers? Is there an article that deals with this
procedure?

Thanks,

Eli Brauner
Israel

My great-grandmother's family comes >from Varva which is a small village/town near Priluki. The family name is Janovitzky/Yanowitz. The most distant ancestors I know about are Usher Janovitzky and his wife Bluma, born about the 1840's. The Ukrainian researcher who I hired to search various archives was unable to find any records for the family, so any information I have is family lore. The family claim to fame, however, is Harvard professor Oscar Handlin (son of Ida Yanowitz) who wrote the Pulitzer prize-winning book about Jewish immigration, The Uprooted. After the war, Oscar tried to find out what happened to family members left in Varva, but he was unsuccessful. Varva does exist, but it didn't have many Jewish families.

Good luck in your research,
Carol Flesher
Oxnard, California

answer at email: ptiprof@earthlink.net

My great-grandmother's family comes >from Varva which is a small village/town near Priluki. The family name is Janovitzky/Yanowitz. The most distant ancestors I know about are Usher Janovitzky and his wife Bluma, born about the 1840's. The Ukrainian researcher who I hired to search various archives was unable to find any records for the family, so any information I have is family lore. The family claim to fame, however, is Harvard professor Oscar Handlin (son of Ida Yanowitz) who wrote the Pulitzer prize-winning book about Jewish immigration, The Uprooted. After the war, Oscar tried to find out what happened to family members left in Varva, but he was unsuccessful. Varva does exist, but it didn't have many Jewish families.

Good luck in your research,
Carol Flesher
Oxnard, California

answer at email: ptiprof@earthlink.net

Fold3.com, a subsidiary of Ancestry.com, is offering free access to their
Revolutionary War Records through July 15, 11:59 p.m. MT. Registration is
required for a free Fold3 account. You will be asked for your name, email
address and password, no credit card information is required. Go to:
https://www.fold3.com/

There are 20 plus titles in the Revolutionary War Collection. Several of
the war titles are: Revolutionary War Pensions, Revolutionary War Rolls, and
Final Payment Vouchers Index for Military Pensions 1818- 1864To start
searching go to: https://go.fold3.com/revolutionary-war/?

If you try to access records not included in the featured Revolutionary War
Records Collection or after the free access period end you try to access to
featured collection you will be invited to subscribe to Fold3. Note: The
free access period is not the "start a 7-day free trial".

Fold3 has other collections that are free access, such as the War of 1812
Pension Files, Brady Civil War Photos, WWll US Air Force Photos and Vietnam
Veterans Memorial.. To access those go to the site map
https://www.fold3.com/sitemap/ and click where it says "free" in green. If
you click on other titles, you will be invited to subscribe.

I have no affiliation with Fold3.com, or its parent Ancestry.com and am
posting this solely for the information of the reader.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
janmallen@att.net

Fold3.com, a subsidiary of Ancestry.com, is offering free access to their
Revolutionary War Records through July 15, 11:59 p.m. MT. Registration is
required for a free Fold3 account. You will be asked for your name, email
address and password, no credit card information is required. Go to:
https://www.fold3.com/

There are 20 plus titles in the Revolutionary War Collection. Several of
the war titles are: Revolutionary War Pensions, Revolutionary War Rolls, and
Final Payment Vouchers Index for Military Pensions 1818- 1864To start
searching go to: https://go.fold3.com/revolutionary-war/?

If you try to access records not included in the featured Revolutionary War
Records Collection or after the free access period end you try to access to
featured collection you will be invited to subscribe to Fold3. Note: The
free access period is not the "start a 7-day free trial".

Fold3 has other collections that are free access, such as the War of 1812
Pension Files, Brady Civil War Photos, WWll US Air Force Photos and Vietnam
Veterans Memorial.. To access those go to the site map
https://www.fold3.com/sitemap/ and click where it says "free" in green. If
you click on other titles, you will be invited to subscribe.

I have no affiliation with Fold3.com, or its parent Ancestry.com and am
posting this solely for the information of the reader.

Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
janmallen@att.net

The phenomena of late birth registration in Galicia and elsewhere is well known.
The reasons for late registration are various most of them connected with
taxes and military service.
Yet I wonder why bother and register at all the newcomers?
Is there an article that deals with this procedure?
Thanks,
Eli Brauner
Israel
elib8@bezeqint.net

The phenomena of late birth registration in Galicia and elsewhere is well known.
The reasons for late registration are various most of them connected with
taxes and military service.
Yet I wonder why bother and register at all the newcomers?
Is there an article that deals with this procedure?
Thanks,
Eli Brauner
Israel
elib8@bezeqint.net

I am researching a Rabbi Mordechai , born in Ruzhin (am not sure if
Ruzhin or Ruzenoi), who was a Rabbi in Karlin (Pinsk) during the first
half of the 19th century. My ggreatuncle, Chaim Dov KANTOR, who was
born in Karlin and came to Palestine (Eretz Yisrael) in the second
half of the 19th cent. mentions in his diary that his mother was
related to this Rabbi Mordechai. >from researching the Rabbis of
Karlin I have good reason to believe that Mordechai was a ZACKHEIM.

According to family tradition (no documented sources) my uncle and my
greatgrandmother were descendants of Reb Chaim of Volozhin or his
extended family through their above mentioned mother.

I have seen George Sackheim's "The Scattered Seeds".

Does anyone have any information regarding the above?

Shavua tov

Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem
yonibenari@gmail.com

I am researching a Rabbi Mordechai , born in Ruzhin (am not sure if
Ruzhin or Ruzenoi), who was a Rabbi in Karlin (Pinsk) during the first
half of the 19th century. My ggreatuncle, Chaim Dov KANTOR, who was
born in Karlin and came to Palestine (Eretz Yisrael) in the second
half of the 19th cent. mentions in his diary that his mother was
related to this Rabbi Mordechai. >from researching the Rabbis of
Karlin I have good reason to believe that Mordechai was a ZACKHEIM.

According to family tradition (no documented sources) my uncle and my
greatgrandmother were descendants of Reb Chaim of Volozhin or his
extended family through their above mentioned mother.

I have seen George Sackheim's "The Scattered Seeds".

Does anyone have any information regarding the above?

Shavua tov

Yoni Ben-Ari, Jerusalem
yonibenari@gmail.com

Searching for the grave of my ancestor Herman COHEN aka Herman FREUNDLICH
who died in 1867 off the coast of Africa. He was born in Stolp in Pommern,
Germany and joined the merchant marine in England sometime before 1867
and lived in Sherboro, Africa and died on the Island of Madeira.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

George Fogelson, Redondo Beach, CA gjfogelson@aol.com

Searching for the grave of my ancestor Herman COHEN aka Herman FREUNDLICH
who died in 1867 off the coast of Africa. He was born in Stolp in Pommern,
Germany and joined the merchant marine in England sometime before 1867
and lived in Sherboro, Africa and died on the Island of Madeira.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

George Fogelson, Redondo Beach, CA gjfogelson@aol.com

The United States Holocaust Museums' Survivors and Victims Database (HSV)
has a new collection Selected records >from the National Archives in Prague.
Ministry of interior, Fond JAF 828. This Czech collection contains over
71,000 names >from 520 name lists. The records relate to confiscation of
Jewish properties, index cards relating to deportations, primarily from
Theresienstadt, , as well as charges against Nazi leaders. You can request
the digitized document linked to each name record and instantly receive the
relevant document in your email. Use the following link to access the
collection https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?SourceId=42179 .

Peter Lande
Washington, D.C.
pdlande@starpower.net

The United States Holocaust Museums' Survivors and Victims Database (HSV)
has a new collection Selected records >from the National Archives in Prague.
Ministry of interior, Fond JAF 828. This Czech collection contains over
71,000 names >from 520 name lists. The records relate to confiscation of
Jewish properties, index cards relating to deportations, primarily from
Theresienstadt, , as well as charges against Nazi leaders. You can request
the digitized document linked to each name record and instantly receive the
relevant document in your email. Use the following link to access the
collection https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/source_view.php?SourceId=42179 .

Peter Lande
Washington, D.C.
pdlande@starpower.net

Jackye,

I am not aware of anything online per se. However, you should be able to find old
Martindale-Hubble lawyer directories going back to the early 1930s, possibly even
earlier. For example, the Univ. of WI in Madison has MH directories going back to
1931. (Possibly a reference librarian could look up stuff for you so you would not
even have to drive there.) Also, if you have not done so already, I'd look for
newspaper articles about Louis.

Good luck

Ron Arons
Oakland, CA
reaxprs@ix.netcom.com

Jackye,

I am not aware of anything online per se. However, you should be able to find old
Martindale-Hubble lawyer directories going back to the early 1930s, possibly even
earlier. For example, the Univ. of WI in Madison has MH directories going back to
1931. (Possibly a reference librarian could look up stuff for you so you would not
even have to drive there.) Also, if you have not done so already, I'd look for
newspaper articles about Louis.

Good luck

Ron Arons
Oakland, CA
reaxprs@ix.netcom.com

Are there any archives online regarding former attorneys? I am trying to
trace Louis Gottlieb who was an attorney in Indiana and Illinois circa 1910s
- early 1930s.

Jackye Sullins
Wauwatosa, WI

Are there any archives online regarding former attorneys? I am trying to
trace Louis Gottlieb who was an attorney in Indiana and Illinois circa 1910s
- early 1930s.

Jackye Sullins
Wauwatosa, WI