Dear JewishGenners.

I've posted the back of a photo of a cousin >from around 1900.
It has Russian handwriting, it was left in London in 1929, by Gregory
(Zvi Hirsh) Wolodarsky.
The print on the photo taken by R. Y. Bik in Ekaterinoslav, makes the
script difficult to read. The first line just says "as a memento".
The rest is hard to see. There are another two small lines and a
signature. It could be a brother of Zvi Hirsh, who gave it to him. If it
will appear so, it may had been a brother who was butchered, together with
his wife, by Petlora's soldiers, around 1920.

The file is up on the ViewMate site:
(http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/)
in the "To View" section - as file - VM077

TIA.
Regards >from Jerusalem. Udi Cain.

Dear JewishGenners.

I've posted the back of a photo of a cousin >from around 1900.
It has Russian handwriting, it was left in London in 1929, by Gregory
(Zvi Hirsh) Wolodarsky.
The print on the photo taken by R. Y. Bik in Ekaterinoslav, makes the
script difficult to read. The first line just says "as a memento".
The rest is hard to see. There are another two small lines and a
signature. It could be a brother of Zvi Hirsh, who gave it to him. If it
will appear so, it may had been a brother who was butchered, together with
his wife, by Petlora's soldiers, around 1920.

The file is up on the ViewMate site:
(http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/)
in the "To View" section - as file - VM077

TIA.
Regards >from Jerusalem. Udi Cain.

Thanks for all your replies, especially those who pointed out
that Yochwit is a corruption of Yocheved, Moses' mother.

The unanimous decision is that they're two different women,
and I now have to search for two wives of my great great
grandfather.

Stew Driller
New York City

Greetings
My mother told me that she is trying to help raise funds for the Danish
Jewish Museum.
Does any one know if there is a web site for this (I have a brosure, but
I do not see any web site on it

regards
David Rundo

What is the current procedure and cost in obtaining an official/certified
birth, marriage or death certificate >from the Ukraine? Can one obtain the
same document without certification at a lesser price?
Please include address to whom sent and where to find the form. The area
of interest is Zakarpatskaya Oblast. Uzhgorod is the oblast capital. TIA

Please respond privately,

Louis Schonfeld
Lmagyar@en.com

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about archival research in all Eastern European countries.
2) There is a new Ukraine SIG on JewishGen, which has a website
and mailing list. More information is available at:
<http://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine>;.

I am searching for vital records for Gorodeya, Minsk guberniya, Novogrudok
Uzezd. In Polish the town is Horodziej.

I cannot find anything on the Mormon website.

This town is located on the Minsk to Brest railway and is close to Mir and
Nesvizh.

Does anyone have any information about where the vital records for this
town are located and if you have experience in dealing with the Belarus
archives?

I have >from time to time seen messages in the digest about the use of
professional researchers for Belarus archives.

If anyone has any experience with these researchers, I would appreciate
receiving information and recommendations.

Issie Fine
Montreal
cbsrap@bcs.ca

Researching:
Fine/Fayn/Fajn/ and Kowienski in Gorodeya

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I am seeking descendants of Solomon and Flora Levinson who lived on Vermont
Street, Brooklyn in the 1920's. Flora was the daughter of Harris
Rothenberg - a Rabbi who died as a result of fire in 1920.They had 4
children: Leah, Herman, Morris, and Milton. Harris Rothenberg is my
grandfather's older brother.

Joseph Rothenberg
Belle Harbor, New York
email to: JRothen318@aol.com

I have seen and copied entries >from the 7 volume polish gazetteer >from 1887
for villages in east Galicia. Is there any gazetteer for east Galicia that
originates >from the Austrian Hungarian Empire?

Maurice Hoffman
Wembley
Email: RosieHA9@bigfoot.com

Thanks for all your replies, especially those who pointed out
that Yochwit is a corruption of Yocheved, Moses' mother.

The unanimous decision is that they're two different women,
and I now have to search for two wives of my great great
grandfather.

Stew Driller
New York City

Greetings
My mother told me that she is trying to help raise funds for the Danish
Jewish Museum.
Does any one know if there is a web site for this (I have a brosure, but
I do not see any web site on it

regards
David Rundo

What is the current procedure and cost in obtaining an official/certified
birth, marriage or death certificate >from the Ukraine? Can one obtain the
same document without certification at a lesser price?
Please include address to whom sent and where to find the form. The area
of interest is Zakarpatskaya Oblast. Uzhgorod is the oblast capital. TIA

Please respond privately,

Louis Schonfeld
Lmagyar@en.com

MODERATOR NOTE: There are two resources at JewishGen that could be of help.
1) The Eastern Europe FAQ -- "Frequently Asked Questions about
Jewish Genealogical Research in Eastern Europe", available at
<http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/eefaq.html>; has information
about archival research in all Eastern European countries.
2) There is a new Ukraine SIG on JewishGen, which has a website
and mailing list. More information is available at:
<http://www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine>;.

I am searching for vital records for Gorodeya, Minsk guberniya, Novogrudok
Uzezd. In Polish the town is Horodziej.

I cannot find anything on the Mormon website.

This town is located on the Minsk to Brest railway and is close to Mir and
Nesvizh.

Does anyone have any information about where the vital records for this
town are located and if you have experience in dealing with the Belarus
archives?

I have >from time to time seen messages in the digest about the use of
professional researchers for Belarus archives.

If anyone has any experience with these researchers, I would appreciate
receiving information and recommendations.

Issie Fine
Montreal
cbsrap@bcs.ca

Researching:
Fine/Fayn/Fajn/ and Kowienski in Gorodeya

MODERATOR NOTE: Concerning professional researchers for Belarus, please
respond privately. JewishGen cannot carry testimonials or criticism of
researchers. JewishGen hosts the Belarus SIG, which may be helpful for
Archival holdings and research <http://www.jewishgen.org/Belarus/>;.

I am seeking descendants of Solomon and Flora Levinson who lived on Vermont
Street, Brooklyn in the 1920's. Flora was the daughter of Harris
Rothenberg - a Rabbi who died as a result of fire in 1920.They had 4
children: Leah, Herman, Morris, and Milton. Harris Rothenberg is my
grandfather's older brother.

Joseph Rothenberg
Belle Harbor, New York
email to: JRothen318@aol.com

I have seen and copied entries >from the 7 volume polish gazetteer >from 1887
for villages in east Galicia. Is there any gazetteer for east Galicia that
originates >from the Austrian Hungarian Empire?

Maurice Hoffman
Wembley
Email: RosieHA9@bigfoot.com

Can anyone tell me the origin and dispersion of the surname GERASSI?
thanks,
Menna Kearns Toledano

Dear Menna et al.

Jewish people >from Salonica, Greece, who bears that name, are >from Sicily,

from the town Geraci. Other Jewish people who are Gerssi, can be from

Xeres / Jeres, Andalusia, Spain.

There are tombstones >from 1550 in Salonica, and a synagogue, of those who
came >from Sicily. Sicily belonged to Spain, so it considers also as the
expulsion >from Spain, though it took place a year later, 1493.

In a book by Rossanes, The history of Israel and Turgama (the book is in
Hebrew), page 312, families: Gerassi; Siris; Siriano; Ziriano, >from Xeres /
Cheres in south Andalusia. That town appears also in the map of Jewish
settlements in the Hebrew encyclopaedia.

There is another idea, Gheresh, Jordan, but this is false idea.

Regards >from Jerusalem. Udi Cain

Asia might mean Isaiah. In the 1871 Population Census of Oxford the name
of a son of a Jewish family was given as Esia. Later it was given as
Isaiah.

Harold Pollins
Oxford UK

<snip>

My Grandpa wrote that his father, Max GARBER, had several brothers and
sisters. He listed their names just like this:
Motel
Hilel
Anshel
Chaim
Asia
Motel
Faiga
Chana
Ribbeca

Ribbeca is easy to figure out as Rebecca. And Chana as Ana. I've seen
several postings in the discussion group archives for the names Hilel,
Anshel, Chaim, Faiga and Motel. But what about Asia? What could my
Grandpa be referring to? I don't even know whether this would be a man
or a woman? Any thoughts on this?
<snip> >>

Hello All,

I just received the ships manifest for my Gmother (Hinde Rebe). It
states place of birth as Rokischke Lithuania. I immediately went to
StetlSeekers and found many matches. I don't know which one it is. On
her Petition for Naturalization, it lists her birthplace as Kovno,
Lith. Can anyone give me some insight on how the town (Rokischke) may
be spelled ?

Also, She came to the U.S. as a widow with a daughter (Rochel Rebe, my
mothers 1/2 sister). both came under the last name Rebe. It states that
she came to meet her father Rubin Rebe in Chelsea, MA. I have her
father listed as Yosef BERS (and her maiden name as the same). I am
assuming that it was a mis type, and she was really coming to meet her
father-in-law.

One final question. She listed her nearest relative as Ite Rabinowitch

from Rokischke. Is Ite a female or a male name?

Sorry for the long story, any comments/suggestions would be most
welcomed.

Eric Freiman-Polli
Boston, MA
jfreiman@ma.ultranet.com

Searching: FREIMAN,KRONZ (Vladimir Volynskiy, Ukraine);
GITERMAN,FLEISHMAN,CHITE (Tuchin, Ukraine); GOLDBERG,COHEN
(Vladivostok, Russia); BERS,KARK,Rebe (Rokischke,Lithuania)

I have my great grandfather's and his brother's death
certificates. On one the mother's name is Yochwit DICKLER, on
the other Esther (name unreadable). Is it possible for
Yochwit and Esther to be the same person. Since there is a 27
year diffence between the brothers' birth, I've been assuming
two wives, but wonder if there was really only one after all.

With twenty-seven years difference in the ages, while not impossible for
them to have had the same mother, it is it is at least 99% likely that
these were two different wives. In any case, there's no connection between
the names "Yochwit" and Esther. "Yochwit" is presumably a corruption of
the Hebrew biblical name Yocheved (mother of Moses, see Ex. 6:20) who has
no connection with the much later biblical Esther (if historical, they
would have lived about 1,000 years apart!).

Judith Romney Wegner

Can anyone tell me the origin and dispersion of the surname GERASSI?
thanks,
Menna Kearns Toledano

Dear Menna et al.

Jewish people >from Salonica, Greece, who bears that name, are >from Sicily,

from the town Geraci. Other Jewish people who are Gerssi, can be from

Xeres / Jeres, Andalusia, Spain.

There are tombstones >from 1550 in Salonica, and a synagogue, of those who
came >from Sicily. Sicily belonged to Spain, so it considers also as the
expulsion >from Spain, though it took place a year later, 1493.

In a book by Rossanes, The history of Israel and Turgama (the book is in
Hebrew), page 312, families: Gerassi; Siris; Siriano; Ziriano, >from Xeres /
Cheres in south Andalusia. That town appears also in the map of Jewish
settlements in the Hebrew encyclopaedia.

There is another idea, Gheresh, Jordan, but this is false idea.

Regards >from Jerusalem. Udi Cain

Asia might mean Isaiah. In the 1871 Population Census of Oxford the name
of a son of a Jewish family was given as Esia. Later it was given as
Isaiah.

Harold Pollins
Oxford UK

<snip>

My Grandpa wrote that his father, Max GARBER, had several brothers and
sisters. He listed their names just like this:
Motel
Hilel
Anshel
Chaim
Asia
Motel
Faiga
Chana
Ribbeca

Ribbeca is easy to figure out as Rebecca. And Chana as Ana. I've seen
several postings in the discussion group archives for the names Hilel,
Anshel, Chaim, Faiga and Motel. But what about Asia? What could my
Grandpa be referring to? I don't even know whether this would be a man
or a woman? Any thoughts on this?
<snip> >>