Since my e-mail address has changed, I wanted to repost the surnames I am
researching:

Researching:
WEISZ, FRANKL, FODOR, KOVACS, PORGES, PORUBSKY, GROSSMANN, FLEISCHMANN -
Ujhely, Hungary; Trencin, Slovakia, Bratislava, Slovakia; Vienna,
Austria; Baltimore, Maryland USA
SCHEIER - Sucha, Poland; Trencin, Slovakia; Berlin, Germany
RUFEISEN - Sucha, Poland
WILDER, HONIG, HELFER, ZINKER - Brody, Lemberg, Poland (Ukraine); Vienna,
Austria

Please contact me at wldwoman@bestnetpc.com (formerly wldwoman@mpinet.net)

Thanks.

Joyce Eastman
Orange City, FL

If anyone recognizes this name, please contact me and Sheilat@pipeline.com,
my wife. It's almost certainly one of her relatives but we can't place him.

Thanks
Michael Bernet, New York, mBernet@aol.com

and special thanks to Brooke for sharing this with us all.

Since my e-mail address has changed, I wanted to repost the surnames I am
researching:

Researching:
WEISZ, FRANKL, FODOR, KOVACS, PORGES, PORUBSKY, GROSSMANN, FLEISCHMANN -
Ujhely, Hungary; Trencin, Slovakia, Bratislava, Slovakia; Vienna,
Austria; Baltimore, Maryland USA
SCHEIER - Sucha, Poland; Trencin, Slovakia; Berlin, Germany
RUFEISEN - Sucha, Poland
WILDER, HONIG, HELFER, ZINKER - Brody, Lemberg, Poland (Ukraine); Vienna,
Austria

Please contact me at wldwoman@bestnetpc.com (formerly wldwoman@mpinet.net)

Thanks.

Joyce Eastman
Orange City, FL

If anyone recognizes this name, please contact me and Sheilat@pipeline.com,
my wife. It's almost certainly one of her relatives but we can't place him.

Thanks
Michael Bernet, New York, mBernet@aol.com

and special thanks to Brooke for sharing this with us all.

There was a recent discussion in this group about
the role of Jews in the liquor industry in the old
country. Beer and alcohol were indeed very much
Jewish-dominated business in much of Russia. The
memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik contain many anecdotes
about Jews in the liquor business. There is a complete
English translation of Kotik's memoirs available on the
internet, done by Dutch translator Lucas Bruyn It
is a fascinating book full of stories about Jewish life
in White Russia, Poland and the Ukraine in the late
19th century. If anyone is interested, they can email
me privately and I would be glad to send them the link.

Martin Green
http://www.onforeignsoil.com

Moshe Schaeffer (moshe@cheerful.com) wrote:

If my grandfather ran for The Assembly in the 7th assembly district where
would I find information about or about him. His name was Morris
Schaeffer.
What kind of information would I find? Thank you for all your help.

If you mean the New York State Assembly, then the 7th District today
encompasses a large part of Suffolk County, Long Island, New York,
including the town of West Islip. The district may have encompassed other
areas in previous years.

The current assemblyman for the 7th District is Thomas F. Barraga, who was
first elected to the Assembly in the 1982 General Election.

Thomas F. Barraga has a webpage online at:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/Members/Bios/barragt.html

...which might be useful. He also has an address listed at:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/Members/Directory/barragt.html

Maybe you could write to him and see if he's heard of your grandfather?

- Brooke Schreier
asparagirl at dca dot net
Philadelphia, PA

There was a recent discussion in this group about
the role of Jews in the liquor industry in the old
country. Beer and alcohol were indeed very much
Jewish-dominated business in much of Russia. The
memoirs of Yekhezkel Kotik contain many anecdotes
about Jews in the liquor business. There is a complete
English translation of Kotik's memoirs available on the
internet, done by Dutch translator Lucas Bruyn It
is a fascinating book full of stories about Jewish life
in White Russia, Poland and the Ukraine in the late
19th century. If anyone is interested, they can email
me privately and I would be glad to send them the link.

Martin Green
http://www.onforeignsoil.com

Moshe Schaeffer (moshe@cheerful.com) wrote:

If my grandfather ran for The Assembly in the 7th assembly district where
would I find information about or about him. His name was Morris
Schaeffer.
What kind of information would I find? Thank you for all your help.

If you mean the New York State Assembly, then the 7th District today
encompasses a large part of Suffolk County, Long Island, New York,
including the town of West Islip. The district may have encompassed other
areas in previous years.

The current assemblyman for the 7th District is Thomas F. Barraga, who was
first elected to the Assembly in the 1982 General Election.

Thomas F. Barraga has a webpage online at:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/Members/Bios/barragt.html

...which might be useful. He also has an address listed at:

http://assembly.state.ny.us/Members/Directory/barragt.html

Maybe you could write to him and see if he's heard of your grandfather?

- Brooke Schreier
asparagirl at dca dot net
Philadelphia, PA

Sorry there were a few words ommitted in my previous posting here
corrected, the substance is unchanged but may make a little more sense. I
have capitalized them to spare you the search if you are interested in
pursuing this issue. Thanks.

I have been watching with interest the discussions of names, hoping that
names I am interested in might come up. They have not. So I have another
entry for consideration: The family name BEIFEL is an uncommon one and is
not listed in either of Beider's volumes of Jewish names in the Polish and
Russian Empires. Further, many of the listings I have found on the WEB -
Christian Brothers and youth groups, etc. are not Jewish. `There is even a
photo of three Japanese youth sitting around a table! The one definitely
Jewish listing is on the 1816 Revision list where I found BEIFEL as a first
name of the head of household in Michalewski, Klucz and as his son's
patronymic.

I had begun to wonder until I found the Revision list cited above whether
Beifel was not an example of a sea change name.

I would be appreciative of any input >from others who are knowledge about
Jewish given names and surnames.

Thank you,

Barbara Harris

Sorry there were a few words ommitted in my previous posting here
corrected, the substance is unchanged but may make a little more sense. I
have capitalized them to spare you the search if you are interested in
pursuing this issue. Thanks.

I have been watching with interest the discussions of names, hoping that
names I am interested in might come up. They have not. So I have another
entry for consideration: The family name BEIFEL is an uncommon one and is
not listed in either of Beider's volumes of Jewish names in the Polish and
Russian Empires. Further, many of the listings I have found on the WEB -
Christian Brothers and youth groups, etc. are not Jewish. `There is even a
photo of three Japanese youth sitting around a table! The one definitely
Jewish listing is on the 1816 Revision list where I found BEIFEL as a first
name of the head of household in Michalewski, Klucz and as his son's
patronymic.

I had begun to wonder until I found the Revision list cited above whether
Beifel was not an example of a sea change name.

I would be appreciative of any input >from others who are knowledge about
Jewish given names and surnames.

Thank you,

Barbara Harris

Felix wrote:

I have a professional photo with the following info on the back;
Institut Photographique
Sigismond & Co.
A Varsovie
111 Marszalkowska
This is >from a photo of my grandmother, taken sometime before
she came to the US in 1905. I am trying to pinpoint the town she
came from. I believe it would be in the Warsaw area.

This assumption is correct, but it is not a town in the "Warsaw area"
but Warsaw proper where this photograph was taken, because
"Marzalkowska" is one of Warsaw's main streets which is also supported
by "A Varsovie" which is French and means "in Warsaw" in English.

Fritz Neubauer, North Germany (who remembers once walking on
Marszalkowska street)

Felix wrote:

I have a professional photo with the following info on the back;
Institut Photographique
Sigismond & Co.
A Varsovie
111 Marszalkowska
This is >from a photo of my grandmother, taken sometime before
she came to the US in 1905. I am trying to pinpoint the town she
came from. I believe it would be in the Warsaw area.

This assumption is correct, but it is not a town in the "Warsaw area"
but Warsaw proper where this photograph was taken, because
"Marzalkowska" is one of Warsaw's main streets which is also supported
by "A Varsovie" which is French and means "in Warsaw" in English.

Fritz Neubauer, North Germany (who remembers once walking on
Marszalkowska street)

Marszalkowska is the name of one of the main roads running north south
through the centre of Warsaw. It runs near the main railway station.
Varsovie is the French for Warsaw.

Mike Glazer
Oxford

"bevphil" <bevphil@mindspring.com> wrote in message

Marszalkowska is the name of one of the main roads running north south
through the centre of Warsaw. It runs near the main railway station.
Varsovie is the French for Warsaw.

Mike Glazer
Oxford

"bevphil" <bevphil@mindspring.com> wrote in message

In reply to the question asked by Udi Cain on 20 November,
First name: Berko.
Place: Niezhin, Ukraine.
Time: Beginning of the 19th century.
Question: What is the Hebrew name for Berko?

in my early family in Lithuania, Berko was Dov Ber in English.

Beverley Davis in Melbourne, Australia

In reply to the question asked by Udi Cain on 20 November,
First name: Berko.
Place: Niezhin, Ukraine.
Time: Beginning of the 19th century.
Question: What is the Hebrew name for Berko?

in my early family in Lithuania, Berko was Dov Ber in English.

Beverley Davis in Melbourne, Australia

It is indeed in "the Warsaw area": "Varsovie" is what the French call
Warsaw (which is what English speakers call Warszawa). "Marszalkowska"
is a main boulevard in downtown Warsaw. The photographer, no doubt

from pretentions to "class", chose to put his name and address on his

work in French, the prestigious language of the day.

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:17:38, bevphil@mindspring.com (bevphil) opined:

I have a professional photo with the following info on the back;

Institut Photographique
Sigismond & Co.
A Varsovie
111 Marszalkowska

This is >from a photo of my grandmother, taken sometime before
she came to the US in 1905. I am trying to pinpoint the town she
came from. I believe it would be in the Warsaw area.

Felix DeFalco
Atlanta GA

Stan Goodman, Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel

Searching:
NEACHOWICZ/NOACHOWICZ, NEJMAN/NAJMAN, ROKITA: >from Lomza Gubernia
ISMACH: >from Lomza Gubernia, Galicia, and Ukraina
HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: >from Dorohoi District, Romania
GRISARU, VATARU: >from Iasi, Romania

See my interactive family tree (requires Java 1.1.6 or better):
http://www.hashkedim.com

PLEASE NOTE: Messages to the "From:" or "Reply to:" address of this
posting will NOT reach me, but will be deleted automatically unread.
Replace "sheol" with "stan". Please send plain text only.

It is indeed in "the Warsaw area": "Varsovie" is what the French call
Warsaw (which is what English speakers call Warszawa). "Marszalkowska"
is a main boulevard in downtown Warsaw. The photographer, no doubt

from pretentions to "class", chose to put his name and address on his

work in French, the prestigious language of the day.

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 03:17:38, bevphil@mindspring.com (bevphil) opined:

I have a professional photo with the following info on the back;

Institut Photographique
Sigismond & Co.
A Varsovie
111 Marszalkowska

This is >from a photo of my grandmother, taken sometime before
she came to the US in 1905. I am trying to pinpoint the town she
came from. I believe it would be in the Warsaw area.

Felix DeFalco
Atlanta GA

Stan Goodman, Qiryat Tiv'on, Israel

Searching:
NEACHOWICZ/NOACHOWICZ, NEJMAN/NAJMAN, ROKITA: >from Lomza Gubernia
ISMACH: >from Lomza Gubernia, Galicia, and Ukraina
HERTANU, ABRAMOVICI, LAUER: >from Dorohoi District, Romania
GRISARU, VATARU: >from Iasi, Romania

See my interactive family tree (requires Java 1.1.6 or better):
http://www.hashkedim.com

PLEASE NOTE: Messages to the "From:" or "Reply to:" address of this
posting will NOT reach me, but will be deleted automatically unread.
Replace "sheol" with "stan". Please send plain text only.

A message board for genealogy of Irish Jews can be found at
http://www.insidetheweb.com/mbs.cgi/mb710811.

Shaul Ceder
Jerusalem, Israel

A message board for genealogy of Irish Jews can be found at
http://www.insidetheweb.com/mbs.cgi/mb710811.

Shaul Ceder
Jerusalem, Israel