I am researching a g.g. grandmother by the name of Hinda Mesyngier.
Various spellings have been used in records. I live IN ISRAEL and
don't have access to family search locations. However I have located
one record online with a readable microfilm scan. It is in two parts
which I have posted on viewmate. I have reason to think that her
father's first and last name might be written here, which would be
very helpful, however the answer I got to one of the scans did not
include the first name and no one answered the other one. I also
posted a third scan request which has not yet been approved. Can
anyone please help me?

They are in polish. You can find them at:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49731
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49732

Please help. Thanks
Sheryl Prenzlau

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately or on the Viewmate form.

I am researching a g.g. grandmother by the name of Hinda Mesyngier.
Various spellings have been used in records. I live IN ISRAEL and
don't have access to family search locations. However I have located
one record online with a readable microfilm scan. It is in two parts
which I have posted on viewmate. I have reason to think that her
father's first and last name might be written here, which would be
very helpful, however the answer I got to one of the scans did not
include the first name and no one answered the other one. I also
posted a third scan request which has not yet been approved. Can
anyone please help me?

They are in polish. You can find them at:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49731
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49732

Please help. Thanks
Sheryl Prenzlau

MODERATOR'S NOTE: Please respond privately or on the Viewmate form.

Gesher Galicia is proud to announce that we have started a new data
sharing initiative with our friends at JewishGen.org!

Now when you search for a person or a place in the All Galicia
Database (freely available at http://search.geshergalicia.org/), at
the bottom of the page of results, you'll see links to matching search
results in relevant databases at JewishGen. And when you do a search
in JewishGen's All-Ukraine Database or All-Poland Database, at the
bottom of their page of results you'll see links to relevant matches
in the All Galicia Database.

This data sharing is accomplished using Gesher Galicia's new API
(Application Programming Interface), which allows our data to stay
solely on our own servers, but still allows other organizations'
computer systems to quickly see if there are any appropriate matches
in our holdings, and generates the appropriate direct links.
Similarly, JewishGen's data holdings remain solely on their own
servers, but they're able to generate deep links to relevant data
sets, where appropriate.

This important data sharing work was first discussed a few years ago,
with the support and cooperation of our late President Pamela
Weisberger z''l, and we are proud to finally be able to bring this
work to fruition in her memory. Her name remains as a co-author on
the data sharing agreement that was signed by the two groups.

Thank you to Warren Blatt and Michael Tobias for all their hard work
at JewishGen to help make this project into a reality.

Gesher Galicia hopes to use this new API to share our data -- which
currently stands at 455,115 records >from 294 different data sources,
and growing every month -- with more non-profit organizations in the
near future. Happy searching!

- Brooke Schreier Ganz

Gesher Galicia is proud to announce that we have started a new data
sharing initiative with our friends at JewishGen.org!

Now when you search for a person or a place in the All Galicia
Database (freely available at http://search.geshergalicia.org/), at
the bottom of the page of results, you'll see links to matching search
results in relevant databases at JewishGen. And when you do a search
in JewishGen's All-Ukraine Database or All-Poland Database, at the
bottom of their page of results you'll see links to relevant matches
in the All Galicia Database.

This data sharing is accomplished using Gesher Galicia's new API
(Application Programming Interface), which allows our data to stay
solely on our own servers, but still allows other organizations'
computer systems to quickly see if there are any appropriate matches
in our holdings, and generates the appropriate direct links.
Similarly, JewishGen's data holdings remain solely on their own
servers, but they're able to generate deep links to relevant data
sets, where appropriate.

This important data sharing work was first discussed a few years ago,
with the support and cooperation of our late President Pamela
Weisberger z''l, and we are proud to finally be able to bring this
work to fruition in her memory. Her name remains as a co-author on
the data sharing agreement that was signed by the two groups.

Thank you to Warren Blatt and Michael Tobias for all their hard work
at JewishGen to help make this project into a reality.

Gesher Galicia hopes to use this new API to share our data -- which
currently stands at 455,115 records >from 294 different data sources,
and growing every month -- with more non-profit organizations in the
near future. Happy searching!

- Brooke Schreier Ganz

If you attended the Conference, did you get to every session you wanted
to see? Did you hear buzz about sessions you wish you had been to? What
about the one that created an Aha! moment you want to recapture (like
Devin Naar's keynote or Judy Russell's banquet talk)?

You still can subscribe to the LIVE! on-demand service that will let you
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LIVE!, Edit your account, and click Continue to the page with the LIVE!
Full Add On check box. Check it and continue to the confirmation and
payment pages. The Attendee Service Center will remain open next week,
but don't procrastinate, because we will have to close it soon.

For those who did not register for the Conference, please give us a
chance to regroup for a couple of days. Then, beginning 15 August, go
to the New Registration page at
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We don't know how long we can keep that page open, so please do it
before August 19.

Janette Silverman
Conference Co-Chair
on behalf of
Harvey Kabaker
Registration chair

If you attended the Conference, did you get to every session you wanted
to see? Did you hear buzz about sessions you wish you had been to? What
about the one that created an Aha! moment you want to recapture (like
Devin Naar's keynote or Judy Russell's banquet talk)?

You still can subscribe to the LIVE! on-demand service that will let you
watch many of the best sessions of the past week after you get home. You
can subscribe on line, for 90 days of on-demand viewing for $179.
On-demand viewing is good through 12 November 2016

To subscribe, go to the Attendee Service Center, log in, select Buy
LIVE!, Edit your account, and click Continue to the page with the LIVE!
Full Add On check box. Check it and continue to the confirmation and
payment pages. The Attendee Service Center will remain open next week,
but don't procrastinate, because we will have to close it soon.

For those who did not register for the Conference, please give us a
chance to regroup for a couple of days. Then, beginning 15 August, go
to the New Registration page at
https://s4.goeshow.com/iajgs/annual/2016/registration_form.cfm
We don't know how long we can keep that page open, so please do it
before August 19.

Janette Silverman
Conference Co-Chair
on behalf of
Harvey Kabaker
Registration chair

Hi, all. Hoping for some translations of the following. Thank you!

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49779
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49778
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49777
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49776
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49775

David Perle
Washington, DC
Researching PRZEGRODA, BLUM, PERLE, ARONOWSKY, SMOLEY/SMOLA, GOTTLIEB,
KROLL, SKORA...

MODERATOR NOTE: Please respond either within ViewMate or directly to David
via email.

Hi, all. Hoping for some translations of the following. Thank you!

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49779
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49778
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49777
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49776
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49775

David Perle
Washington, DC
Researching PRZEGRODA, BLUM, PERLE, ARONOWSKY, SMOLEY/SMOLA, GOTTLIEB,
KROLL, SKORA...

MODERATOR NOTE: Please respond either within ViewMate or directly to David
via email.

All of the Vital Records we have access to are listed on Town pages at Ukraine SIG's home page (www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine). There are a lot of vital records for towns that are held in various archives in Ukraine. Few have been fully cataloged and even fewer have been digitized. The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People and FamilySearch.org hold most of the latter. We are working with the Central Archives to acquire and index their records, but it takes a Town Leader, first of all, to create a project, and then to coordinate a fund raising project to acquire and translate the records. If the towns you are interested in do not have a Town Leader, records, if they are available, will not be acquired, indexed, and put on line by us.

See your town's page for a list of records we are able to acquire. Contact me about becoming a Town Leader if you want to help us go beyond that point. Thanks!

Chuck Weinstein
Towns Director, Ukraine SIG
cmw521@earthlink.net

All of the Vital Records we have access to are listed on Town pages at Ukraine SIG's home page (www.jewishgen.org/Ukraine). There are a lot of vital records for towns that are held in various archives in Ukraine. Few have been fully cataloged and even fewer have been digitized. The Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People and FamilySearch.org hold most of the latter. We are working with the Central Archives to acquire and index their records, but it takes a Town Leader, first of all, to create a project, and then to coordinate a fund raising project to acquire and translate the records. If the towns you are interested in do not have a Town Leader, records, if they are available, will not be acquired, indexed, and put on line by us.

See your town's page for a list of records we are able to acquire. Contact me about becoming a Town Leader if you want to help us go beyond that point. Thanks!

Chuck Weinstein
Towns Director, Ukraine SIG
cmw521@earthlink.net

Hello
I am looking for information about vital records of the town Trovitz
(Torhovytsia) in the middle of the 19th century.
[1900s District: Dubno
1900s Province: Volhynia]

Is such records existed?
Where they managed? (I know cases that the town was small,
Records were administered the adjacent large town).
Will they survive?
Where they have been saved?

Thank you
David Nesher
Israel

Hello
I am looking for information about vital records of the town Trovitz
(Torhovytsia) in the middle of the 19th century.
[1900s District: Dubno
1900s Province: Volhynia]

Is such records existed?
Where they managed? (I know cases that the town was small,
Records were administered the adjacent large town).
Will they survive?
Where they have been saved?

Thank you
David Nesher
Israel

I'm just back >from the IAJGS conference in Seattle, where it was a
pleasure to see honors bestowed on a number of Gesher Galicia SIG
members and GG list subscribers.

Mazel tov to

Susana Leistner Bloch
JewishGen's Volunteer of the Year, for her work on KehilaLinks

and to these IAJGS award recipients:

Ron Doctor, President of the Kremenets-District Research Group
Lifetime Achievement Award

Lance Ackerfeld, Manager of JewishGen's Yizkor Book Project
Outstanding Project/Resource/Program

Debbie Wang
President of the JGS of Long Island,
accepting her society's awards for Outstanding Publication
and IAJGS Member of the Year

Jan Meisels Allen (chair), Teven Laxer, Amy Wachs
IAJGS Salutes! - for their work on the IAJGS Public Records Access
Monitoring Committee

Kitty Munson Cooper
IAJGS Salutes! - for her work on the IAJGS Cemetery Project

Brooke Schreier Ganz (a member of the GG Board)
IAJGS Salutes! - for her work to "Reclaim the Records"

Sara Mages
IAJGS Salutes! - for her volunteer translation work, including several
Galician yizkor books

Congratulations to them and to all the other winners!

Renee

Renee Stern Steinig
Dix Hills NY
genmaven@gmail.com

I'm just back >from the IAJGS conference in Seattle, where it was a
pleasure to see honors bestowed on a number of Gesher Galicia SIG
members and GG list subscribers.

Mazel tov to

Susana Leistner Bloch
JewishGen's Volunteer of the Year, for her work on KehilaLinks

and to these IAJGS award recipients:

Ron Doctor, President of the Kremenets-District Research Group
Lifetime Achievement Award

Lance Ackerfeld, Manager of JewishGen's Yizkor Book Project
Outstanding Project/Resource/Program

Debbie Wang
President of the JGS of Long Island,
accepting her society's awards for Outstanding Publication
and IAJGS Member of the Year

Jan Meisels Allen (chair), Teven Laxer, Amy Wachs
IAJGS Salutes! - for their work on the IAJGS Public Records Access
Monitoring Committee

Kitty Munson Cooper
IAJGS Salutes! - for her work on the IAJGS Cemetery Project

Brooke Schreier Ganz (a member of the GG Board)
IAJGS Salutes! - for her work to "Reclaim the Records"

Sara Mages
IAJGS Salutes! - for her volunteer translation work, including several
Galician yizkor books

Congratulations to them and to all the other winners!

Renee

Renee Stern Steinig
Dix Hills NY
genmaven@gmail.com

I've hit a brick wall.

I'm trying to find my great grandparents marriage record. The local governments,
county governments and the New Jersey State Archive records office have no
records of this event. I am thinking that may be they only had a Jewish marriage
license and it was never registered as any kind of a civil marriage.

This marriage took place between 1891 and 1910. The area where it might have
taken place is Salem County New Jersey in and around the numerous Jewish farming
colonies of that time. The couple in question would have been Berisch (Bernard)
PICKHOLTZ and Bluma BERNSTEIN.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Steve Pickholtz
nj55turtle@comcast.net
searching--- PICKHOLTZ (all spellings), WINITSKY (all spellings),and KLEIN (of
the Phila. produce family)

I've hit a brick wall.

I'm trying to find my great grandparents marriage record. The local governments,
county governments and the New Jersey State Archive records office have no
records of this event. I am thinking that may be they only had a Jewish marriage
license and it was never registered as any kind of a civil marriage.

This marriage took place between 1891 and 1910. The area where it might have
taken place is Salem County New Jersey in and around the numerous Jewish farming
colonies of that time. The couple in question would have been Berisch (Bernard)
PICKHOLTZ and Bluma BERNSTEIN.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Steve Pickholtz
nj55turtle@comcast.net
searching--- PICKHOLTZ (all spellings), WINITSKY (all spellings),and KLEIN (of
the Phila. produce family)

I had a great-great-grandfather back in Nova Ushitsa (probably the town of
Kalyus) in southwestern Ukraine named Shneur Zalman KRASINSKY. Not a single
person I ever asked of my relatives knew whether their ancestry or family
customs were Lubavitch, since the first rebbe of Lubavitch was Rabbi Shneur
Zalman of Liadi. Considering how far Nova Ushitsa is >from the centers of
Lubavitch chassidim I have always assumed Shneur Zalman was likely to have
been common among non-Chabad Jews as well.

My great-great-grandfather was probably born in the late 1820s, and Rabbi
Shneur Zalman died in 1813 to the far north in Hadiach, Ukraine, so I guess
it is theoretically possible that my great-great-grandfather was named for
him.

Does anyone have any thoughts about this issue in terms of someone being
named Shneur Zalman despite being far >from the center of the Chabad chassidim?

Thanks!
David Goldman
NYC

I had a great-great-grandfather back in Nova Ushitsa (probably the town of
Kalyus) in southwestern Ukraine named Shneur Zalman KRASINSKY. Not a single
person I ever asked of my relatives knew whether their ancestry or family
customs were Lubavitch, since the first rebbe of Lubavitch was Rabbi Shneur
Zalman of Liadi. Considering how far Nova Ushitsa is >from the centers of
Lubavitch chassidim I have always assumed Shneur Zalman was likely to have
been common among non-Chabad Jews as well.

My great-great-grandfather was probably born in the late 1820s, and Rabbi
Shneur Zalman died in 1813 to the far north in Hadiach, Ukraine, so I guess
it is theoretically possible that my great-great-grandfather was named for
him.

Does anyone have any thoughts about this issue in terms of someone being
named Shneur Zalman despite being far >from the center of the Chabad chassidim?

Thanks!
David Goldman
NYC

Hi is there any update on projects >from these cities (Balta, Krive
Ozero, Savran, Ananev)?

Regards
Sergey Tokman

Researching: TOKMAN / TOCMAN / TUCKMAN/ TOCKMAN everywhere; KRAVTSOV
balta, GELLER tiraspol; BENDERSKY tiraspol

Hi is there any update on projects >from these cities (Balta, Krive
Ozero, Savran, Ananev)?

Regards
Sergey Tokman

Researching: TOKMAN / TOCMAN / TUCKMAN/ TOCKMAN everywhere; KRAVTSOV
balta, GELLER tiraspol; BENDERSKY tiraspol