I always knew my grandfather established a 2nd family after leaving
(and quite possibly, still with) my grandmother and their 8 children
in Chicago, anywhere >from 1910-1930. Then, while looking for him in
the 1930 Census, it shows the possibility of my grandfather
establishing a 3rd family, as well, and I seek to connect with
descendants of families #2 and #3:

Barnett/Ben/Bernard BLUMENTHAL:

b. Kovno/Siauliai, Russian Lithuania, 1864-1870
Tailor/cleaning store owner, Chicago a/o Milwaukee
d. 1948, Milwaukee
1930 address: 1233 S. Spaulding, Chicago
1940 address: 1215 Sawyer, Chicago

Wife #2:
Sarah BLUMENTHAL (NOTE: Wife #1, my grandmother, was also named Sarah)
b. ca. 1880, Russia
Children: Edith, Sara
1930 address: 1233 S. Spaulding, Chicago

Wife #3:
Bessie/Betty (WAGNER) BLUMENTHAL
b. 1896-1898, Russia,
Children: (all 3 Chicago-born) Morry, Ben, Samuel
1940 address: 1215 Sawyer, Chicago

Unable to locate marriage records with either of these wives, or birth
records for any of these children.

Thank you for any help.

Sandi Root
Bulverde, Texas

I always knew my grandfather established a 2nd family after leaving
(and quite possibly, still with) my grandmother and their 8 children
in Chicago, anywhere >from 1910-1930. Then, while looking for him in
the 1930 Census, it shows the possibility of my grandfather
establishing a 3rd family, as well, and I seek to connect with
descendants of families #2 and #3:

Barnett/Ben/Bernard BLUMENTHAL:

b. Kovno/Siauliai, Russian Lithuania, 1864-1870
Tailor/cleaning store owner, Chicago a/o Milwaukee
d. 1948, Milwaukee
1930 address: 1233 S. Spaulding, Chicago
1940 address: 1215 Sawyer, Chicago

Wife #2:
Sarah BLUMENTHAL (NOTE: Wife #1, my grandmother, was also named Sarah)
b. ca. 1880, Russia
Children: Edith, Sara
1930 address: 1233 S. Spaulding, Chicago

Wife #3:
Bessie/Betty (WAGNER) BLUMENTHAL
b. 1896-1898, Russia,
Children: (all 3 Chicago-born) Morry, Ben, Samuel
1940 address: 1215 Sawyer, Chicago

Unable to locate marriage records with either of these wives, or birth
records for any of these children.

Thank you for any help.

Sandi Root
Bulverde, Texas

I have posted three vital records in German (gothic script -
kurrent - I think) for which I need a translation.

First it is a familianten record: Paul HITSCHMANN in Polna
[Czech Republic - MOD]. I need all translation.

Last, there is 2 parts of birth record: Salomon HITSCHMANN in Polna
1844; I need all the details of his first name, any information on
his father and mother.

It is on ViewMate at the following addresses:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49930
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49931
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49932

Please respond via the form in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much.

Catherine Aubert
Angouleme, France

I have posted three vital records in German (gothic script -
kurrent - I think) for which I need a translation.

First it is a familianten record: Paul HITSCHMANN in Polna
[Czech Republic - MOD]. I need all translation.

Last, there is 2 parts of birth record: Salomon HITSCHMANN in Polna
1844; I need all the details of his first name, any information on
his father and mother.

It is on ViewMate at the following addresses:

http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49930
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49931
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM49932

Please respond via the form in the ViewMate application.

Thank you very much.

Catherine Aubert
Angouleme, France

Today in the Gesher Galicia Map Room we've posted an excellent map of
an important Galician city: the complete 1852 cadastral map of Dynow,
now in southeast Poland near Rzeszow and Przemysl.

http://maps.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/dynow-1852/

Clearly lithographed and selectively colored, the map includes property
numbers for both buildings and parcels, enabling anyone with vital and
other records to locate family homes and businesses in the historical city.
Already in 1852, the city had a well-built market square, and the map
also shows the Great Synagogue and the largeJewish cemetery, along
with many other features of a small but solid settlement.

Acquisition of the map scan images and assembly of this browsable map
were made possible by Gesher Galicia member contributions to the
Dynow town project, an element of our Galician Archival Records Project
(GARP); more info about our town projects is available here:
http://www.geshergalicia.org/town-projects/
The generosity of those contributions now makes this map available to
everyone.

The original paper map sheets are preserved not far >from Dynow in the
Polish Historical Archives in Rzeszow:
http://www.rzeszow.ap.gov.pl/

The GG Map Room home page: http://maps.geshergalicia.org/

Jay Osborn
Gesher Galicia Digital Map Manager
Warsaw, Poland
maps@geshergalicia.org

Today in the Gesher Galicia Map Room we've posted an excellent map of
an important Galician city: the complete 1852 cadastral map of Dynow,
now in southeast Poland near Rzeszow and Przemysl.

http://maps.geshergalicia.org/cadastral/dynow-1852/

Clearly lithographed and selectively colored, the map includes property
numbers for both buildings and parcels, enabling anyone with vital and
other records to locate family homes and businesses in the historical city.
Already in 1852, the city had a well-built market square, and the map
also shows the Great Synagogue and the largeJewish cemetery, along
with many other features of a small but solid settlement.

Acquisition of the map scan images and assembly of this browsable map
were made possible by Gesher Galicia member contributions to the
Dynow town project, an element of our Galician Archival Records Project
(GARP); more info about our town projects is available here:
http://www.geshergalicia.org/town-projects/
The generosity of those contributions now makes this map available to
everyone.

The original paper map sheets are preserved not far >from Dynow in the
Polish Historical Archives in Rzeszow:
http://www.rzeszow.ap.gov.pl/

The GG Map Room home page: http://maps.geshergalicia.org/

Jay Osborn
Gesher Galicia Digital Map Manager
Warsaw, Poland
maps@geshergalicia.org

I am hoping one of our members will have some advice for me on the followin=
g problem:

Rachel Perl was born in Budapest in 1934 to Sandor Perl and Ilona Szenes. I=
lona died in 1942. We never knew of Rachel's existence except for the Nevek=
larsfeld suvivors' list compiled in 1946. This list was unavailable for a l=
ong while ever since the neveklarsfeld website shut down but thankfully it =
has been transcribed and is now available again on the US Holocaust Museum =
website. Even the name Rachel seems strange for someone born in Hungary at =
that time so there may be a transcription error but this is all I have to g=
o with.
Rachel was living at Delibab 33 in 1946, which appears to have been an orph=
anage. Her father survived too but was living at a different address. There=
is no trace of either of them after this.=20
The exciting prospect is that Rachel may still be alive but I have no idea =
if she (and her father) left Hungary or perhaps changed their name. The MAC=
SE records have nothing about her and the cemetery have no records of these=
two.=20
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Michael Perl

New York

I am hoping one of our members will have some advice for me on the followin=
g problem:

Rachel Perl was born in Budapest in 1934 to Sandor Perl and Ilona Szenes. I=
lona died in 1942. We never knew of Rachel's existence except for the Nevek=
larsfeld suvivors' list compiled in 1946. This list was unavailable for a l=
ong while ever since the neveklarsfeld website shut down but thankfully it =
has been transcribed and is now available again on the US Holocaust Museum =
website. Even the name Rachel seems strange for someone born in Hungary at =
that time so there may be a transcription error but this is all I have to g=
o with.
Rachel was living at Delibab 33 in 1946, which appears to have been an orph=
anage. Her father survived too but was living at a different address. There=
is no trace of either of them after this.=20
The exciting prospect is that Rachel may still be alive but I have no idea =
if she (and her father) left Hungary or perhaps changed their name. The MAC=
SE records have nothing about her and the cemetery have no records of these=
two.=20
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Michael Perl

New York

Rick Glaser asked: " How do I find vital records for the Jewish communities
of Vradiste and Bosace."

Vradiste is located in North west Slovakia between the villages of Skalica
and Holics.

Jewish records between 1824 to 1886 can be viewed at "Familysearch", see:

https://familysearch.org/search/image/index?owc=9P3W-Y4S%3A107654001%2C11343
2901%2C113757801%3Fcc%3D1554443

Bosac Jewish records available online at the same source, see:

https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1308077?availability=Family%20Histor
y%20Library


Yohanan Loeffler
Melbourne Australia

Rick Glaser asked: " How do I find vital records for the Jewish communities
of Vradiste and Bosace."

Vradiste is located in North west Slovakia between the villages of Skalica
and Holics.

Jewish records between 1824 to 1886 can be viewed at "Familysearch", see:

https://familysearch.org/search/image/index?owc=9P3W-Y4S%3A107654001%2C11343
2901%2C113757801%3Fcc%3D1554443

Bosac Jewish records available online at the same source, see:

https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1308077?availability=Family%20Histor
y%20Library


Yohanan Loeffler
Melbourne Australia

Hi there Tammy,

What "registration" number are you referring to? I've used plenty of LDS
microfilms and, other than their catalog numbers (e.g. 1792210), I don't
know of any registration number.

With best wishes,

Bob Kosovsky, New York City, seeking any and all permutations/locations of:
KASOVSKI/Y, KASOWSKI/Y, KOSOFSKY, KOSOVSKY, KOSOWSKY, KOSOW, KOSSOVE, etc.
Slutsk: DAVIDSON, GELFAND (also Sioux City, Iowa)
Klodawa: JARET, JARETSKY, JARECKI, KOLSKY/I; Przedecz: PIFKO, PIWKO

Hi there Tammy,

What "registration" number are you referring to? I've used plenty of LDS
microfilms and, other than their catalog numbers (e.g. 1792210), I don't
know of any registration number.

With best wishes,

Bob Kosovsky, New York City, seeking any and all permutations/locations of:
KASOVSKI/Y, KASOWSKI/Y, KOSOFSKY, KOSOVSKY, KOSOWSKY, KOSOW, KOSSOVE, etc.
Slutsk: DAVIDSON, GELFAND (also Sioux City, Iowa)
Klodawa: JARET, JARETSKY, JARECKI, KOLSKY/I; Przedecz: PIFKO, PIWKO

Our online credit card contributions page has been fixed. You may now make
your contributions without any problems.

Thanks to our web developer for working to correct the matter on a Sunday
evening. And thanks to you for your patience.

Eden Joachim
Treasurer

Our online credit card contributions page has been fixed. You may now make
your contributions without any problems.

Thanks to our web developer for working to correct the matter on a Sunday
evening. And thanks to you for your patience.

Eden Joachim
Treasurer

Hello,

How do I find vital records for the Jewish communities of Vradiste and Bosace.

My great grandparents Bernhard and Lina (Kraus) Glaser lived in Hodonin. Bernhard came
>from Vradiste, originally. Lina and her father (Hermann Kraus) came >from Bosace (Bosatch).

Thanks,

Rick Glaser
Owings Mills MD


Moderator:When asking for assistance with your research it helps if you indicate
the dates that your ancestors lived in the places you list and which resources you
have used. Vradiste and Bosace are probably and Bossacz, Trencsen, and Vradist, Nyitra,
which are now in Slovakia. Best place to start your research is the JewishGen
Hungary database but best to use the Hungarian names if your relatives lived there
before the end of World War I.
Slovakia.

Hello,

How do I find vital records for the Jewish communities of Vradiste and Bosace.

My great grandparents Bernhard and Lina (Kraus) Glaser lived in Hodonin. Bernhard came
>from Vradiste, originally. Lina and her father (Hermann Kraus) came >from Bosace (Bosatch).

Thanks,

Rick Glaser
Owings Mills MD


Moderator:When asking for assistance with your research it helps if you indicate
the dates that your ancestors lived in the places you list and which resources you
have used. Vradiste and Bosace are probably and Bossacz, Trencsen, and Vradist, Nyitra,
which are now in Slovakia. Best place to start your research is the JewishGen
Hungary database but best to use the Hungarian names if your relatives lived there
before the end of World War I.
Slovakia.

The following excerpt is >from a book (Wanderings - 1944) my great
uncle Moshe Melamed (1882-1954) wrote in Yiddish about his life in
Ungheni, Bessarabia (now Moldova). This portion talks about his
departure >from the village with his wife (Bobele) - later Miriam - on
a wagon on their way to America:

"Moyshl kissed his little brothers David, Lipeh, and the infant
Hershele. He said farewell to his sisters Elke and Rokhl and to all of
his cousins and the friends who were hanging on to the wagon. The
wagon moved away and a cloud of dust followed, the crowd remained
standing and white kerchiefs were waving in the wind until the wagon
disappeared behind the Bareshier Mountains. The village was no longer
visible.

The first night was spent in Brichan in an inn. It was so crowded they
had to sleep on the ground. It was very noisy because a traveling
group of Yiddish actors were rehearsing the Goldfaden play,
"Shulamit." . . . They were up early the next morning. They were
unwashed, uncombed, red-eyed and they were on their way again. [He
goes on to describe the beauty of Bessarabian fields.]

He later writes: "Bobele's shoes were full of water as they crossed
the narrow stream that separated Russian soil and Austrian soil.
Moyshl held Bobele's hand and didn't let go. "

All I know after that is that they departed Liverpool and arrived in
Philadelphia in 1905. My uncle went on to publish Yiddish fiction and
was a regular journalist reviewing Yiddish theater for Philadelphia
and NY Yiddish publications. See:

http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/M/melamed-moshe.htm


Karen Malamed Albert

See, Avotaynu: the international journal of Jewish genealogy, volume XXII,
No. 4, pp. 15-22 (2006).

Harry D. Boonin
Warrington, PA

The following excerpt is >from a book (Wanderings - 1944) my great
uncle Moshe Melamed (1882-1954) wrote in Yiddish about his life in
Ungheni, Bessarabia (now Moldova). This portion talks about his
departure >from the village with his wife (Bobele) - later Miriam - on
a wagon on their way to America:

"Moyshl kissed his little brothers David, Lipeh, and the infant
Hershele. He said farewell to his sisters Elke and Rokhl and to all of
his cousins and the friends who were hanging on to the wagon. The
wagon moved away and a cloud of dust followed, the crowd remained
standing and white kerchiefs were waving in the wind until the wagon
disappeared behind the Bareshier Mountains. The village was no longer
visible.

The first night was spent in Brichan in an inn. It was so crowded they
had to sleep on the ground. It was very noisy because a traveling
group of Yiddish actors were rehearsing the Goldfaden play,
"Shulamit." . . . They were up early the next morning. They were
unwashed, uncombed, red-eyed and they were on their way again. [He
goes on to describe the beauty of Bessarabian fields.]

He later writes: "Bobele's shoes were full of water as they crossed
the narrow stream that separated Russian soil and Austrian soil.
Moyshl held Bobele's hand and didn't let go. "

All I know after that is that they departed Liverpool and arrived in
Philadelphia in 1905. My uncle went on to publish Yiddish fiction and
was a regular journalist reviewing Yiddish theater for Philadelphia
and NY Yiddish publications. See:

http://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/M/melamed-moshe.htm


Karen Malamed Albert

See, Avotaynu: the international journal of Jewish genealogy, volume XXII,
No. 4, pp. 15-22 (2006).

Harry D. Boonin
Warrington, PA