I have used this museum's resources many times for translation of Lithuanian
and Russian documents. I have found their services and translations very good
and reasonably priced and the turn around time is quick. You can fax
documents to them.

Hank Propp

Please can you tell me if there are vital records available for LOUKAVA and
if so to whom should I write.

Thank you

------------

ANNE LAPEDUS BREST. Sandton South Africa. eX Dublin, Ireland.
Researching: : LAPEDUS/LAPIDUS (all spellings) Lithuania, Latvia,
Poland.
BREST - Bauska, Latvia. HODES and LEIBOVICH
(Pikelai)

I have used this museum's resources many times for translation of Lithuanian
and Russian documents. I have found their services and translations very good
and reasonably priced and the turn around time is quick. You can fax
documents to them.

Hank Propp

Please can you tell me if there are vital records available for LOUKAVA and
if so to whom should I write.

Thank you

------------

ANNE LAPEDUS BREST. Sandton South Africa. eX Dublin, Ireland.
Researching: : LAPEDUS/LAPIDUS (all spellings) Lithuania, Latvia,
Poland.
BREST - Bauska, Latvia. HODES and LEIBOVICH
(Pikelai)

I can't speak for the person who posted about the list being different =
once passengers arrived in the US, but in my experience, the list made =
by US immigrations in 1866 was not as comprehensive as the list made in =
Hamburg upon the ship leaving (ie the name of the town that my GGGF came=
>from in Hungary was on the Hamburg list, but not on the US Immigration =
list; also sometimes passengers died enroute--I don't know whether or not=
they would be listed on the US's lists, but they do appear on the Hambur=
g lists)

Shabbat Shalom,
Sheryl Kastriner

I can't speak for the person who posted about the list being different =
once passengers arrived in the US, but in my experience, the list made =
by US immigrations in 1866 was not as comprehensive as the list made in =
Hamburg upon the ship leaving (ie the name of the town that my GGGF came=
>from in Hungary was on the Hamburg list, but not on the US Immigration =
list; also sometimes passengers died enroute--I don't know whether or not=
they would be listed on the US's lists, but they do appear on the Hambur=
g lists)

Shabbat Shalom,
Sheryl Kastriner

Prof. Harry Hirschhorn writes >from POB 114 Alfe menashe 44851, Israel
WoWW = Where once We Walked has an entry
Satoraljaujhely [Ujhely] Jewish pop beffore the Shoa 4690
75 nkm NE of Miskolc N 48*24' longitude E 21*40'
listed in AMG, COH, EJ, GUM3, GUM4,GUM5, HSL, HSL2, JGFF, LDL, LDS, PHH,
PHP3.
Persons asking questions must do a minimum of research on their own, and WWW
is the first place to look.

Hirschhorn is searching for GANS in all towns.

Prof. Harry Hirschhorn writes >from POB 114 Alfe menashe 44851, Israel
WoWW = Where once We Walked has an entry
Satoraljaujhely [Ujhely] Jewish pop beffore the Shoa 4690
75 nkm NE of Miskolc N 48*24' longitude E 21*40'
listed in AMG, COH, EJ, GUM3, GUM4,GUM5, HSL, HSL2, JGFF, LDL, LDS, PHH,
PHP3.
Persons asking questions must do a minimum of research on their own, and WWW
is the first place to look.

Hirschhorn is searching for GANS in all towns.

Although I had posted this information before, some who have not
seen it might be interested in the following:

An article in the Los angeles times, dated November 7, 1981 has the headline
"Shanghai--'Last Jew' Marks Era". It goes on to tell the story of Max
Leibowitch who, at the time the article was written was 75 years old and
living out his remaining years totally disabled >from advanced Parkinsons
disease in a small one-room prewar building
off one of Shanghai's main avenues. Max spoke English, Russian, Yiddish and
Chinese. He was cared for by two elderly ethnic Chinese men and money was
sent for his upkeep >from a Jewish charity based inHong Kong.
Max Leibowitch was born in Lodz in 1906. His family had first settled in
Tainjin where there was a small community of White russians and Jews, but by
the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 his family
had moved to Shanghai.Max died in 1983. It has been estimated that prior to
1938/39 there were about
12,000-15,000 Jews living in S. During those two years, the total increased
by some 17,000---mostly >from Germany and Austria. Most lived in the Jewsih
quarter in the Hongkew district of the city.

Others J. residents of war-time S. were named: W. Michael Blumenthal (former
Secretary of the Treasury and chairman of the Burroughs and its succeeding
Unisys corporations), Ruth Arbeit who came >from Hamburg
as a teenager in 1938 and who in 1981 was living in Israel, Joel Weiss who
lived in S. >from 1935-1948 and who in 1981 was living in Belgium.

On February 27,1983, on page 13 a NY times headline with a dateline of
Harbin, China read "A Jewish Legacy Draws to a Close in North China". The
article focuses on Hannah Agre who was then 74 years old and who had
spent her childhood in the Manchurian city of Harbin. In a mixture of
Russian and Yiddish she told a NYT reporter that her father fled pogroms in
the Ukraine in the early 20th century, settled in Harbin and married a
Siberian woman.

The article notes that Max Liebowitz had passed away earlier in 1983, and
goes on to opine that Hannah is perhaps the "sole survivor of the European
Jews who once totaled 30,000 in China---the older Kaifeng
community having long since been assimilated.Although officially stateless,
Hannah refused to leave Harbin and had refused offers for her to resettle in
Denmark.

Most probably, she too is now gone.

Steve Landau
White Plains, NY

Although I had posted this information before, some who have not
seen it might be interested in the following:

An article in the Los angeles times, dated November 7, 1981 has the headline
"Shanghai--'Last Jew' Marks Era". It goes on to tell the story of Max
Leibowitch who, at the time the article was written was 75 years old and
living out his remaining years totally disabled >from advanced Parkinsons
disease in a small one-room prewar building
off one of Shanghai's main avenues. Max spoke English, Russian, Yiddish and
Chinese. He was cared for by two elderly ethnic Chinese men and money was
sent for his upkeep >from a Jewish charity based inHong Kong.
Max Leibowitch was born in Lodz in 1906. His family had first settled in
Tainjin where there was a small community of White russians and Jews, but by
the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 his family
had moved to Shanghai.Max died in 1983. It has been estimated that prior to
1938/39 there were about
12,000-15,000 Jews living in S. During those two years, the total increased
by some 17,000---mostly >from Germany and Austria. Most lived in the Jewsih
quarter in the Hongkew district of the city.

Others J. residents of war-time S. were named: W. Michael Blumenthal (former
Secretary of the Treasury and chairman of the Burroughs and its succeeding
Unisys corporations), Ruth Arbeit who came >from Hamburg
as a teenager in 1938 and who in 1981 was living in Israel, Joel Weiss who
lived in S. >from 1935-1948 and who in 1981 was living in Belgium.

On February 27,1983, on page 13 a NY times headline with a dateline of
Harbin, China read "A Jewish Legacy Draws to a Close in North China". The
article focuses on Hannah Agre who was then 74 years old and who had
spent her childhood in the Manchurian city of Harbin. In a mixture of
Russian and Yiddish she told a NYT reporter that her father fled pogroms in
the Ukraine in the early 20th century, settled in Harbin and married a
Siberian woman.

The article notes that Max Liebowitz had passed away earlier in 1983, and
goes on to opine that Hannah is perhaps the "sole survivor of the European
Jews who once totaled 30,000 in China---the older Kaifeng
community having long since been assimilated.Although officially stateless,
Hannah refused to leave Harbin and had refused offers for her to resettle in
Denmark.

Most probably, she too is now gone.

Steve Landau
White Plains, NY

The problem with this list is that it ends at the letter K!

no dia 23/10/98 `as 05:00 -0200 horas, Vivian Kahn escreveu:
at 23/10/98 - 05:00 -0200, Vivian Kahn wrote:

The problem with this list is that it ends at the letter K!

no dia 23/10/98 `as 05:00 -0200 horas, Vivian Kahn escreveu:
at 23/10/98 - 05:00 -0200, Vivian Kahn wrote:

In response to:
"The mention of a different list for embarking >from Hamburg and for entry
into the U.S. is a new one on me. I am under the
impression that the passenger manifest was created at the port of embarkation
and were the *same* ones that were used when people entered the U.S. Can
someone please clarify this point please?"

Dear Carol, I have a copy of both manifests. One leaving Hamburg and the
other entering New York Harbor. They are definitely two different lists made
out by different people.
This is true for the manifests I have checked in the 1880's. Perhaps later
things changed. Wayne

In response to:
"The mention of a different list for embarking >from Hamburg and for entry
into the U.S. is a new one on me. I am under the
impression that the passenger manifest was created at the port of embarkation
and were the *same* ones that were used when people entered the U.S. Can
someone please clarify this point please?"

Dear Carol, I have a copy of both manifests. One leaving Hamburg and the
other entering New York Harbor. They are definitely two different lists made
out by different people.
This is true for the manifests I have checked in the 1880's. Perhaps later
things changed. Wayne

Dear reader,

One of my relatives( DELVAILLE) was the first Jewish French Freemason
(I read this when I was not that involved in genealogy and forgot the
source).

Appreciate any suggestions as to where I could direct myself to learn
more.

Are there any sources/ adresses/ persons who could be of help ?

Thanks

Rene van Wijngaarden/Etten-Leur/Netherlands
researching: DelValle/Salom del Valle/Van Daelen/Valhe

Dear reader,

One of my relatives( DELVAILLE) was the first Jewish French Freemason
(I read this when I was not that involved in genealogy and forgot the
source).

Appreciate any suggestions as to where I could direct myself to learn
more.

Are there any sources/ adresses/ persons who could be of help ?

Thanks

Rene van Wijngaarden/Etten-Leur/Netherlands
researching: DelValle/Salom del Valle/Van Daelen/Valhe

I am sure this will be a useful addition.

However, I notice that you say you will be including the Roll of Honour
>from the British Jewry Book of Honour. This is not very accurate, nor is
it
complete. I have been able to locate at least 300 names of men who died on
service or were killed in action in the period up to 31 December 1921
(when
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission closed its books) who are not in
the Roll of Honour. Inaccuracies include not only mis-spellings of names,
wrong service numbers, wrong dates of death, wrong units, but also
duplications (men who served under a different name but are included under
both names) as well as some names which should not be there at all.

I published a preliminary statement on my research, in the December 1995
number of the Jewish Journal of
Sociology.

Harold Pollins
Oxford
pollins@globalnet.co.uk

Jeffrey Maynard wrote:

I have set up a little web-site for databases and other information
that may interest Anglo-Jewish genealogists!

>
> http://www.berzack.com/jeff

I am sure this will be a useful addition.

However, I notice that you say you will be including the Roll of Honour
>from the British Jewry Book of Honour. This is not very accurate, nor is
it
complete. I have been able to locate at least 300 names of men who died on
service or were killed in action in the period up to 31 December 1921
(when
the Commonwealth War Graves Commission closed its books) who are not in
the Roll of Honour. Inaccuracies include not only mis-spellings of names,
wrong service numbers, wrong dates of death, wrong units, but also
duplications (men who served under a different name but are included under
both names) as well as some names which should not be there at all.

I published a preliminary statement on my research, in the December 1995
number of the Jewish Journal of
Sociology.

Harold Pollins
Oxford
pollins@globalnet.co.uk

Jeffrey Maynard wrote:

I have set up a little web-site for databases and other information
that may interest Anglo-Jewish genealogists!

>
> http://www.berzack.com/jeff

I am seeking a kind soul who would be able to do some lookups for me at
the Machpelah cemetary, near Detroit Mich. If someone can help me please
email me privately. Thanks so much. Deborah Burr

Mark and Debbie Burr
ember@xcelco.on.ca
http://members.tripod.com/gen_burr/

I am seeking a kind soul who would be able to do some lookups for me at
the Machpelah cemetary, near Detroit Mich. If someone can help me please
email me privately. Thanks so much. Deborah Burr

Mark and Debbie Burr
ember@xcelco.on.ca
http://members.tripod.com/gen_burr/