FYI:
Listed in FHC film #1754297 A-Ku, the following Kaplans:

Barnett
Benjamin
Jacob
Joseph (2)
Morris
Nathan--Russia
Nathan--Minsk
Philip (2)
Sam
Samuel (2)
Sidney
Samuel--Grodno

Joan Brown, Virginia

Sat October 17, 1998 author Helen Epstein will discuss her latest book WHERE
SHE CAME FROM: a daughters search for her mother's history------which
chronicles 4 genenerations of Czech Jews in her family.
at the Holocaust Memorial Foundation
4255 Main St. Skokie
time: 8:00 PM
addmission is free call-- 847 677-4640 to RSVP (space limited)

Hope you can make it! Susan Boyer

FYI:
Listed in FHC film #1754297 A-Ku, the following Kaplans:

Barnett
Benjamin
Jacob
Joseph (2)
Morris
Nathan--Russia
Nathan--Minsk
Philip (2)
Sam
Samuel (2)
Sidney
Samuel--Grodno

Joan Brown, Virginia

Sat October 17, 1998 author Helen Epstein will discuss her latest book WHERE
SHE CAME FROM: a daughters search for her mother's history------which
chronicles 4 genenerations of Czech Jews in her family.
at the Holocaust Memorial Foundation
4255 Main St. Skokie
time: 8:00 PM
addmission is free call-- 847 677-4640 to RSVP (space limited)

Hope you can make it! Susan Boyer

After reading through the FHC booklet for German research & being totally
unfamiliar with this area, am asking for some direction.
Seeking to verify the Berlin births of Rheinhart/Richard BERNSTEIN, Feb
1882 and Lepold/Louie BERNSTEIN, Aug 1885. Parents were Joseph & Rose
BERNSTEIN of Poland.
Apparently I check in the FHC catalog under Germany, Prussia,
Brandenburg...
Jewish records? Can anyone who has done this offer a few words of
advice?
Joan Brown, Virginia

After reading through the FHC booklet for German research & being totally
unfamiliar with this area, am asking for some direction.
Seeking to verify the Berlin births of Rheinhart/Richard BERNSTEIN, Feb
1882 and Lepold/Louie BERNSTEIN, Aug 1885. Parents were Joseph & Rose
BERNSTEIN of Poland.
Apparently I check in the FHC catalog under Germany, Prussia,
Brandenburg...
Jewish records? Can anyone who has done this offer a few words of
advice?
Joan Brown, Virginia

Regarding a message posted in the Digest for October 5, 1998 forwarded by to Jewishgen as a courtesy. The forwarding writer does not know the poster Drew Techner.

<< Hello. My name is Drew Techner. I hope the following information may be
familiar to some of you:

My great-grandparents were Moishe (Moshe, Morris) TOCHMAN and Yetta (Ida)
TARTAEKOVSKY of Kishinev. Moishe TUCHMAN died between 1903 and 1905 in etc.
etc.>>

Moreover, the user....@aol.com address in the message was wrong!

***********>>>>>>>>>>Please send all responses to :

USER102000@JUNO.COM

and do not cc anyone. The forwarder knows nothing about these families and knows Kishinev only
as the site of a horrible pogrom. He cannot use any information you sent,
nor answer questions, and is unable to forward them

His sincere apologies to all; he was asked to do a favor . . . .


MODERATOR'S NOTE: Unfortunately we are unable to remove the forwarder's
address >from the original posting as it has already been published. We have deleted it >from this message. To those who reply to the original message please manually reply to Mr. Techner at USER102000@juno.com rather than using the reply to author option or the return address at the end of his message in the digest.

Regarding a message posted in the Digest for October 5, 1998 forwarded by to Jewishgen as a courtesy. The forwarding writer does not know the poster Drew Techner.

<< Hello. My name is Drew Techner. I hope the following information may be
familiar to some of you:

My great-grandparents were Moishe (Moshe, Morris) TOCHMAN and Yetta (Ida)
TARTAEKOVSKY of Kishinev. Moishe TUCHMAN died between 1903 and 1905 in etc.
etc.>>

Moreover, the user....@aol.com address in the message was wrong!

***********>>>>>>>>>>Please send all responses to :

USER102000@JUNO.COM

and do not cc anyone. The forwarder knows nothing about these families and knows Kishinev only
as the site of a horrible pogrom. He cannot use any information you sent,
nor answer questions, and is unable to forward them

His sincere apologies to all; he was asked to do a favor . . . .


MODERATOR'S NOTE: Unfortunately we are unable to remove the forwarder's
address >from the original posting as it has already been published. We have deleted it >from this message. To those who reply to the original message please manually reply to Mr. Techner at USER102000@juno.com rather than using the reply to author option or the return address at the end of his message in the digest.

I have 7 Polish birth documents >from around Chelm. A very kind Jgenner
translated the documents for me. However they do not appear to be of my
family,and so I would like to send them to any jenner who thinks they
may be of use to them.
These are the Births:
Abram born to David Leyzorowicz & Estera Leybowicz 1811
Ickop born to Szmul Josiowicz & Huda Herszkowicz 1818
Rywka born to Jankiel Abrahamowicz & Rena Abrahamowicz 1818
Zysla born to Uszer Zusmanowicz & Fayga Usler 1818
Icko born to Uszer Zusmanowicz & Fayga Heyshlowicz 1811
Hersko born to Szmul Lejzorowicz & Huda Josiowicz 1816
Rywka born to Major Mortkowitz & Ela Abrahamowicz 1819

Saul KLARER <klar-pax@netcom.ca >

I have 7 Polish birth documents >from around Chelm. A very kind Jgenner
translated the documents for me. However they do not appear to be of my
family,and so I would like to send them to any jenner who thinks they
may be of use to them.
These are the Births:
Abram born to David Leyzorowicz & Estera Leybowicz 1811
Ickop born to Szmul Josiowicz & Huda Herszkowicz 1818
Rywka born to Jankiel Abrahamowicz & Rena Abrahamowicz 1818
Zysla born to Uszer Zusmanowicz & Fayga Usler 1818
Icko born to Uszer Zusmanowicz & Fayga Heyshlowicz 1811
Hersko born to Szmul Lejzorowicz & Huda Josiowicz 1816
Rywka born to Major Mortkowitz & Ela Abrahamowicz 1819

Saul KLARER <klar-pax@netcom.ca >

MBernet@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 98-10-01 23:31:50 EDT, mkearns@u.washington.edu writes:

<< Magdalena . . . >>
==The name Mary Magdelena in the New Testament is derived >from the Hebrew name
Miriam, bat Migdal. She came >from the town of Migdal (Majdal) on the West
shore of the Sea of Galilee. I have never heard of a Jewish woman known as
Magdalena, but I have heard of Jewish women in Europe called Magda which, I
assume (purely a guess) is short for Magdalena, and (again a guess) Madeleine
is probably also a corruption of Magdalena, but is not totally unknown among
Jews.

==Only among Christians would there be any association between Magdalena and
any of the derivatives of Miriam such as Mary, Maria.

Michael Bernet

*
My Dutch founding father, originating >from Oestinghausen(Prussia) had at
the "naamsaanneming" in 1812-the Napoleon edict on the adoption of
a family name-a daughter named Maria.I have the certificate to prove
it.He was very much a religious Jew, and calling his than a year and a
half old daughter Maria, seemingly didn't bother him.In the kille
Maria was known as "Mietje".It all points to Miriam.
Needless to say that they(and me) are pure Ashkenazim.
As my teacher at a course on genealogy by the Diaspora Museum(Beth
Hatfutsoth-Tel Aviv) used to say:-
in genealogy everything is possible.

Shalom >from Israel,
BEN NOACH-<mailto:bnnch@internet-zahav.net>
<http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/6375>;

MBernet@aol.com wrote:

In a message dated 98-10-01 23:31:50 EDT, mkearns@u.washington.edu writes:

<< Magdalena . . . >>
==The name Mary Magdelena in the New Testament is derived >from the Hebrew name
Miriam, bat Migdal. She came >from the town of Migdal (Majdal) on the West
shore of the Sea of Galilee. I have never heard of a Jewish woman known as
Magdalena, but I have heard of Jewish women in Europe called Magda which, I
assume (purely a guess) is short for Magdalena, and (again a guess) Madeleine
is probably also a corruption of Magdalena, but is not totally unknown among
Jews.

==Only among Christians would there be any association between Magdalena and
any of the derivatives of Miriam such as Mary, Maria.

Michael Bernet

*
My Dutch founding father, originating >from Oestinghausen(Prussia) had at
the "naamsaanneming" in 1812-the Napoleon edict on the adoption of
a family name-a daughter named Maria.I have the certificate to prove
it.He was very much a religious Jew, and calling his than a year and a
half old daughter Maria, seemingly didn't bother him.In the kille
Maria was known as "Mietje".It all points to Miriam.
Needless to say that they(and me) are pure Ashkenazim.
As my teacher at a course on genealogy by the Diaspora Museum(Beth
Hatfutsoth-Tel Aviv) used to say:-
in genealogy everything is possible.

Shalom >from Israel,
BEN NOACH-<mailto:bnnch@internet-zahav.net>
<http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/6375>;

Tracie -

On your signature on your success story (congratulations!!), you have
SCHNEIDER >from Kiev. I also have SCHNEIDER ancestors >from Kiev - Abraham
and Ida SCHNEIDER (SNYDER) owned a tavern on a crossroads outside of Kiev.

They received advance notice of a pogrom and were able to sell the tavern
and emigrate. They came over in 1882 with 4 or 5 of their children (the
rest were born in the US in NYC). One of their daughters, Bessie, was my
great grandmother. I have the names of all Bessie's brothers and sisters
and many of their descendants. Bessie married Israel Goldberg in NYC and
their children started the Goldberg family association in NY in 1929.

Does anything sound familiar?

Lynn Wertheim-DiMatteo
Staten Island, N.Y.
LiniWD@compuserve.com

Joseph Goldschmidt wrote:

I would like to know how to translate "second (or any other number)
cousin" into german.

To which Werner Cohn replied:

"Vetter zweiten Grades," according to my Wildhagen dictionary

Perfectly correct, except that "Vetter" is only for a male cousin, a second
cousin, female, would be:

"Base zweiten Grades."

Personally, I have always found the use of the word "Vetter" for cousin
confusing, since it can also mean uncle.

There is also another way of saying first cousin in German, and that is
"Geschwisterkind," which might be found on some older documents. A second
cousin could be either "Ander Geschwisterkind" or "Geschwisterkindskind."

Werner
--
Werner Hirsch
Curator, JHS of Gr. New Haven (CT)
JHS Homepage: http://pages.cthome.net/hirsch/

Baron is a fairly common forename for Jewish men. Is it uniquely so or do
non-Jews also have that name? I'm wondering that if one comes across that
name in one's research can one assume that the person is Jewish?

Harold Pollins
Oxford England

pollins@globalnet.co.uk

Is there a volume of Pinkhas hakehillot for the part of Bukovina that is now
in the Ukraine?

Madelyn Travis
travis@travis33.demon.co.uk

Tracie -

On your signature on your success story (congratulations!!), you have
SCHNEIDER >from Kiev. I also have SCHNEIDER ancestors >from Kiev - Abraham
and Ida SCHNEIDER (SNYDER) owned a tavern on a crossroads outside of Kiev.

They received advance notice of a pogrom and were able to sell the tavern
and emigrate. They came over in 1882 with 4 or 5 of their children (the
rest were born in the US in NYC). One of their daughters, Bessie, was my
great grandmother. I have the names of all Bessie's brothers and sisters
and many of their descendants. Bessie married Israel Goldberg in NYC and
their children started the Goldberg family association in NY in 1929.

Does anything sound familiar?

Lynn Wertheim-DiMatteo
Staten Island, N.Y.
LiniWD@compuserve.com

Joseph Goldschmidt wrote:

I would like to know how to translate "second (or any other number)
cousin" into german.

To which Werner Cohn replied:

"Vetter zweiten Grades," according to my Wildhagen dictionary

Perfectly correct, except that "Vetter" is only for a male cousin, a second
cousin, female, would be:

"Base zweiten Grades."

Personally, I have always found the use of the word "Vetter" for cousin
confusing, since it can also mean uncle.

There is also another way of saying first cousin in German, and that is
"Geschwisterkind," which might be found on some older documents. A second
cousin could be either "Ander Geschwisterkind" or "Geschwisterkindskind."

Werner
--
Werner Hirsch
Curator, JHS of Gr. New Haven (CT)
JHS Homepage: http://pages.cthome.net/hirsch/

Baron is a fairly common forename for Jewish men. Is it uniquely so or do
non-Jews also have that name? I'm wondering that if one comes across that
name in one's research can one assume that the person is Jewish?

Harold Pollins
Oxford England

pollins@globalnet.co.uk

Is there a volume of Pinkhas hakehillot for the part of Bukovina that is now
in the Ukraine?

Madelyn Travis
travis@travis33.demon.co.uk