I am planning on hiring a Geneologist very soon,and am writing to get
some opinions I have been corresponding with Greencastle and he has
been responsive.Help
Thanks in advance
Lynn Krause

I am planning on hiring a Geneologist very soon,and am writing to get
some opinions I have been corresponding with Greencastle and he has
been responsive.Help
Thanks in advance
Lynn Krause

Dear Genners,

I follow Jewishgen for years and learnt a lot.

I am looking for Mrs and Mr WALLACK (not exact spelling) who arrived in
NY around 1910 . Mania WALLACK was born Mani BODKIER and was tha aunt of
my father .

I have her address in NY , in front of the Empire State Building, and
that'all.

I try to find in NY her death record but did not succeed.

They probably have descendants, but with what spelling and where are
they living?

I would appreciate any help or idea to find some trace.

My congratulations for what you do!

Dr Michel BODKIER -France

Dear Genners,

I follow Jewishgen for years and learnt a lot.

I am looking for Mrs and Mr WALLACK (not exact spelling) who arrived in
NY around 1910 . Mania WALLACK was born Mani BODKIER and was tha aunt of
my father .

I have her address in NY , in front of the Empire State Building, and
that'all.

I try to find in NY her death record but did not succeed.

They probably have descendants, but with what spelling and where are
they living?

I would appreciate any help or idea to find some trace.

My congratulations for what you do!

Dr Michel BODKIER -France

Rav usually signifies that the person was not only a rabbi but also a
teacher or other honored person. It is to be distinguished >from "Reb" ,
abbreviated in Hebrew as Resh(R) followed by an apostrophe, which is more
like "Mister".

Gene Sucov, Pittsburgh JGS, searching for
SUCHOWCZYCKI, Horodetz-Bialystok-US
SHLAFMITZ, Zaremby-Koscielne-US


Warren Kohn <Wakohn@aol.com> wrote:

Rav usually signifies that the person was not only a rabbi but also a
teacher or other honored person. It is to be distinguished >from "Reb" ,
abbreviated in Hebrew as Resh(R) followed by an apostrophe, which is more
like "Mister".

Gene Sucov, Pittsburgh JGS, searching for
SUCHOWCZYCKI, Horodetz-Bialystok-US
SHLAFMITZ, Zaremby-Koscielne-US


Warren Kohn <Wakohn@aol.com> wrote:

Does anyone out there know the borough of this catering hall. It would
help me in obtaining a copy of parents marriage records. It existed in
the '30s. Most likely Bklyn, Bx, or Manhattan.
Please reply privately to
Hal Smith
hAL5858@aol.com

Does anyone out there know the borough of this catering hall. It would
help me in obtaining a copy of parents marriage records. It existed in
the '30s. Most likely Bklyn, Bx, or Manhattan.
Please reply privately to
Hal Smith
hAL5858@aol.com

Lisa,

My GM came into NYC in 1905 with a baby Leie who was known to all as Lena.

Len Pincus


Searching; SCHALLER, SPARRER, SPIEGEL, ROTH - - - >from Brody 1880s

Lisa,

My GM came into NYC in 1905 with a baby Leie who was known to all as Lena.

Len Pincus


Searching; SCHALLER, SPARRER, SPIEGEL, ROTH - - - >from Brody 1880s

You will find the necessary information you seek by reading the FAQ's on the
Litvak SIG site on Jewishgen. Send your personal check in the amount of $70.
Send with it the names, dates, and place or places in Lithuania you want them
to research. If additional cost is involved, the archive will notify you. Do
not expect to receive a response >from the archive for eight or nine months.

Howard Margol

Rhoda Miller < MillerR@dowling.edu > wrote:

<< I am about to place a request to the Lithuanian State Historical
Archives. I understand that the fee is $70 per surname per town.

Does anyone know if they will accept a check or if I need to get an
International Money Order >from the post office or some other system?

Also, can anyone give some indication of recent turnaround time?
Thanks for your help. >>

You will find the necessary information you seek by reading the FAQ's on the
Litvak SIG site on Jewishgen. Send your personal check in the amount of $70.
Send with it the names, dates, and place or places in Lithuania you want them
to research. If additional cost is involved, the archive will notify you. Do
not expect to receive a response >from the archive for eight or nine months.

Howard Margol

Rhoda Miller < MillerR@dowling.edu > wrote:

<< I am about to place a request to the Lithuanian State Historical
Archives. I understand that the fee is $70 per surname per town.

Does anyone know if they will accept a check or if I need to get an
International Money Order >from the post office or some other system?

Also, can anyone give some indication of recent turnaround time?
Thanks for your help. >>

Jewish Records Indexing-Poland announces a new initiative:

The Lodz Chevra Kadisha Indexing Project

At the 2000 Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Salt Lake City,
JRI-Poland announced plans for this new initiative, which includes
the burial records of the Old Cemetery in Lodz.

The Old Cemetery was established in 1811 and closed in 1892-3,
at which time the larger new cemetery was established. However,
burials continued to take place until 1922.

The Lodz Chevra Kadisha Indexing Project should be of interest
to anyone with Jewish roots in the Lodz region. As a result of
the great influx of workers to Lodz in the 19th century, records
include not only individuals who were born and lived in Lodz
proper, but also those with roots in many surrounding and some
distant Polish villages and towns, some of which today are in
Lithuania and Belarus. Some of the records in the Hebrew and
Polish lists may coincide with data already in the JRI-Poland
database and will provide additional valuable information for
anyone researching their family in this region.

The Lodz Chevra Kadisha records include the more than 5,400
entries listed in "Stary Cmentarz Zydowski w Lodzi" (The Old
Cemetery of Lodz), published by the Jewish Community of
Lodz in 1938. For a complete description of the contents of
this book, see "The Old Cemetery in Lodz" by Chaim Freedman,
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Lodz/oldcem.htm

JRI-Poland has taken on this indexing project with the enthusiastic
support of Mr. Symcha Keller, head of the Jewish Community of
Lodz. The much larger new Jewish cemetery survived nearly
intact and planning for the indexing of the burial records of the
New Lodz Cemetery is underway. More than 180,000 indices
to these burials will become part of the JRI-Poland searchable
database in the near future.

The Chevra Kadisha records are made up of two separate databases.
Phase I: Indexing of the Polish Subsidiary Death Register,
1826-1893, containing 2,034 entries, is complete and online in the
searchable JRI-Poland database. Data entry was done by
Shirley Flaum, who conceived this project. Proofreading was
done by Morris Wirth.

Phase II: Indexing of the Hebrew List of Burials, 1822-1922,
containing 3,411 graves in the Old Lodz Cemetery, is in progress.
This phase will require many Hebrew-speaking volunteers for data
entry. Pages will be mailed so you can work comfortably at home.
If you are interested in participating in this important project,
please contact Shirley Flaum at Seflaum@aol.com.

JRI-Poland web site: http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/

Stanley Diamond
Project Coordinator, Jewish Records Indexing - Poland

Jewish Records Indexing-Poland announces a new initiative:

The Lodz Chevra Kadisha Indexing Project

At the 2000 Conference on Jewish Genealogy in Salt Lake City,
JRI-Poland announced plans for this new initiative, which includes
the burial records of the Old Cemetery in Lodz.

The Old Cemetery was established in 1811 and closed in 1892-3,
at which time the larger new cemetery was established. However,
burials continued to take place until 1922.

The Lodz Chevra Kadisha Indexing Project should be of interest
to anyone with Jewish roots in the Lodz region. As a result of
the great influx of workers to Lodz in the 19th century, records
include not only individuals who were born and lived in Lodz
proper, but also those with roots in many surrounding and some
distant Polish villages and towns, some of which today are in
Lithuania and Belarus. Some of the records in the Hebrew and
Polish lists may coincide with data already in the JRI-Poland
database and will provide additional valuable information for
anyone researching their family in this region.

The Lodz Chevra Kadisha records include the more than 5,400
entries listed in "Stary Cmentarz Zydowski w Lodzi" (The Old
Cemetery of Lodz), published by the Jewish Community of
Lodz in 1938. For a complete description of the contents of
this book, see "The Old Cemetery in Lodz" by Chaim Freedman,
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Lodz/oldcem.htm

JRI-Poland has taken on this indexing project with the enthusiastic
support of Mr. Symcha Keller, head of the Jewish Community of
Lodz. The much larger new Jewish cemetery survived nearly
intact and planning for the indexing of the burial records of the
New Lodz Cemetery is underway. More than 180,000 indices
to these burials will become part of the JRI-Poland searchable
database in the near future.

The Chevra Kadisha records are made up of two separate databases.
Phase I: Indexing of the Polish Subsidiary Death Register,
1826-1893, containing 2,034 entries, is complete and online in the
searchable JRI-Poland database. Data entry was done by
Shirley Flaum, who conceived this project. Proofreading was
done by Morris Wirth.

Phase II: Indexing of the Hebrew List of Burials, 1822-1922,
containing 3,411 graves in the Old Lodz Cemetery, is in progress.
This phase will require many Hebrew-speaking volunteers for data
entry. Pages will be mailed so you can work comfortably at home.
If you are interested in participating in this important project,
please contact Shirley Flaum at Seflaum@aol.com.

JRI-Poland web site: http://www.jewishgen.org/jri-pl/

Stanley Diamond
Project Coordinator, Jewish Records Indexing - Poland

Does anyone have information as to where the vital records for the
Jewish Community of Novo-Alexandrovsk (modern Zarasai), Lithuania might
be found.

I have traced my family >from the USA to England (1880's) to Latvia. The
Latvian archives provided a good report that take me back to the 1840's
and in some cases to the 1750's, and showed that one branch of the
family were originally members of the Jewish Community of
Novo-Alexandrovsk (the Latvians spelled the modern name as Zarasay),
Lithuania.

Stan Baron
sbaron1@maine.rr.com

Researching:
BARON or BARRON - Latvia, Lithuania
MANSFELD or MANSFIELD - Latvia
BENDET - Latvia, Lithuania
KATCHER or KATZER - Latvia, Lithuania
YACHTER or JAKTER - Belz, Galicia
STRAHLBERG, - Belz, Vienna?

MODERATOR'S NOTE: The All-Lithuania Database contains lists >from several towns in the Zarsai District, including an additional revision list >from 1873/4 >from Dusetos, 1895 census data >from Skalas, and various 1919 lists >from kapiskis. You can search the All-Lithuania Database at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Litvak/all.htm

Does anyone have information as to where the vital records for the
Jewish Community of Novo-Alexandrovsk (modern Zarasai), Lithuania might
be found.

I have traced my family >from the USA to England (1880's) to Latvia. The
Latvian archives provided a good report that take me back to the 1840's
and in some cases to the 1750's, and showed that one branch of the
family were originally members of the Jewish Community of
Novo-Alexandrovsk (the Latvians spelled the modern name as Zarasay),
Lithuania.

Stan Baron
sbaron1@maine.rr.com

Researching:
BARON or BARRON - Latvia, Lithuania
MANSFELD or MANSFIELD - Latvia
BENDET - Latvia, Lithuania
KATCHER or KATZER - Latvia, Lithuania
YACHTER or JAKTER - Belz, Galicia
STRAHLBERG, - Belz, Vienna?

MODERATOR'S NOTE: The All-Lithuania Database contains lists >from several towns in the Zarsai District, including an additional revision list >from 1873/4 >from Dusetos, 1895 census data >from Skalas, and various 1919 lists >from kapiskis. You can search the All-Lithuania Database at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/Litvak/all.htm

I am pleased to announce the launch of a ShtetLinks site commemorating the Jewish community of Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland.

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/piotrkowtryb/

Piotrkow Trybunalski is located 42 kilometers or 26 miles south-southeast of Lodz. It was an important Jewish cultural, religious and Hebrew publishing center in pre-war Poland. This site is a work in progress. We hope to add much more interesting and useful information to the site in
the near future.

Your contributions of information, documents or photos are always welcome.

Special thanks go to Marla Waltman Daschko, Ben Giladi, Paul W. Ginsburg,
Alice and Maurice Klinger, Leonard Markowitz and Petje Schroeder for their invaluable contributions to the site.

I also want to thank John Berman, Chuck Weinstein and the entire ShtetLinks team for their assistance in making ShtetLinks sites like this possible. They are a pleasure to work with.

Best Regards,
Shirley Rotbein Flaum
Houston, Texas

I am pleased to announce the launch of a ShtetLinks site commemorating the Jewish community of Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland.

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/piotrkowtryb/

Piotrkow Trybunalski is located 42 kilometers or 26 miles south-southeast of Lodz. It was an important Jewish cultural, religious and Hebrew publishing center in pre-war Poland. This site is a work in progress. We hope to add much more interesting and useful information to the site in
the near future.

Your contributions of information, documents or photos are always welcome.

Special thanks go to Marla Waltman Daschko, Ben Giladi, Paul W. Ginsburg,
Alice and Maurice Klinger, Leonard Markowitz and Petje Schroeder for their invaluable contributions to the site.

I also want to thank John Berman, Chuck Weinstein and the entire ShtetLinks team for their assistance in making ShtetLinks sites like this possible. They are a pleasure to work with.

Best Regards,
Shirley Rotbein Flaum
Houston, Texas

Hi,

It is unfortunate that my original posting concerning Jewish statistical
data in prewar Eastern Galicia and search for the actual figures of the
Jewish population has been sidetracked to the nationalistic squabble of the
Eastern European neighbors post WWI.

I have been awaiting >from Peter promised detailed data on 1921 and 1931
Poland census results and the clear definition of the "Jewish nationality"
term. I understand that person can be of Mosaic faith and Polish citizenship
(nationality). What in this case the Jewish nationality suppose to mean?
What is this definition is based on?

On a final note I strongly disagree with Peter that Versailles Treaty did
not deal with the borders issue. Peace Conference by dismembering four
Empires (incl. Ottoman) has de facto establish the birth of the national
states in the Eastern Europe, Balkans and in the Middle East, and has
designed their respective national borders.

I would also like to clarify that my Dad communicated in Hebrew to his
_first_ wife in prewar Poland, not to my Mom who spoke Yiddish.

I would like also to confirm that Peter and I have a good and friendly
relations, which does not mean that I share his view on the subject.

Regards,

Alexander Sharon
Calgary, Alberta

Hi,

It is unfortunate that my original posting concerning Jewish statistical
data in prewar Eastern Galicia and search for the actual figures of the
Jewish population has been sidetracked to the nationalistic squabble of the
Eastern European neighbors post WWI.

I have been awaiting >from Peter promised detailed data on 1921 and 1931
Poland census results and the clear definition of the "Jewish nationality"
term. I understand that person can be of Mosaic faith and Polish citizenship
(nationality). What in this case the Jewish nationality suppose to mean?
What is this definition is based on?

On a final note I strongly disagree with Peter that Versailles Treaty did
not deal with the borders issue. Peace Conference by dismembering four
Empires (incl. Ottoman) has de facto establish the birth of the national
states in the Eastern Europe, Balkans and in the Middle East, and has
designed their respective national borders.

I would also like to clarify that my Dad communicated in Hebrew to his
_first_ wife in prewar Poland, not to my Mom who spoke Yiddish.

I would like also to confirm that Peter and I have a good and friendly
relations, which does not mean that I share his view on the subject.

Regards,

Alexander Sharon
Calgary, Alberta