On the UK census, my gt grandfather came >from Warsaw Poland.Louis LEVY
On the UK census, my gt grandmother came >from Schirwinds Germany. Elizabeth
EDDLESTONE
My gt grandfather wasn't naturalized so where do I go >from here?
I cant find Schirwinds anywhere.
Please help me someone

from a very frustrated

Valerie Gold

Are there immigrant/ship arrival records >from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in
the 1900-1910 timeframe?

Sincerely,

Carol Adler Zsolnay at gmz262@nwu.edu

On the UK census, my gt grandfather came >from Warsaw Poland.Louis LEVY
On the UK census, my gt grandmother came >from Schirwinds Germany. Elizabeth
EDDLESTONE
My gt grandfather wasn't naturalized so where do I go >from here?
I cant find Schirwinds anywhere.
Please help me someone

from a very frustrated

Valerie Gold

Are there immigrant/ship arrival records >from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan in
the 1900-1910 timeframe?

Sincerely,

Carol Adler Zsolnay at gmz262@nwu.edu

Judith Romney Wegner wrote:

.... messages in the Digest inadvertently gave the title of the Vilna GAON
as GOAN -- a typographical error.

.... Snipped .........

"Ga'on" is actually the Hebrew noun GA'ON, meaning in this context
"Excellence." So the Title is roughly equivalent to "His Excellency"
or "Your Excellency."

What Judy says goes against my (and I am sure a lot of other people's)
intuition, as I always understood the meaning of "the Vilna Ga'on" or
"The Ga'on >from Vilna" as "The Genius >from Vilna" .
I think "Genius" is what people had intended, when referring to the seven
year old who gave a complicated discourse in Jewish Law on the pulpit in
the Great Synagogue of Vilna; and grew >from there to be a scholar of a
standard of learning that Jewish history hadn't seen for many generations.

David Ziants
Ma'aleh Adumim, Israel

MODERATOR NOTE: Post frightfully abbreviated due to lack of space. Please continue privately. End of thread.

Judith Romney Wegner wrote:

.... messages in the Digest inadvertently gave the title of the Vilna GAON
as GOAN -- a typographical error.

.... Snipped .........

"Ga'on" is actually the Hebrew noun GA'ON, meaning in this context
"Excellence." So the Title is roughly equivalent to "His Excellency"
or "Your Excellency."

What Judy says goes against my (and I am sure a lot of other people's)
intuition, as I always understood the meaning of "the Vilna Ga'on" or
"The Ga'on >from Vilna" as "The Genius >from Vilna" .
I think "Genius" is what people had intended, when referring to the seven
year old who gave a complicated discourse in Jewish Law on the pulpit in
the Great Synagogue of Vilna; and grew >from there to be a scholar of a
standard of learning that Jewish history hadn't seen for many generations.

David Ziants
Ma'aleh Adumim, Israel

MODERATOR NOTE: Post frightfully abbreviated due to lack of space. Please continue privately. End of thread.

Dear JewishGenners,

Thank you to everyone who responded to my request for help. I wanted
to let you know I made contact with some TITOW relatives. It is all
very exciting to know there's more family out there. We've been
emailing back and forth, filling in gaps and gathering more family
history.

Susan Jonesia

BOCHENEK, STROLSKY, STRAUSS, TITOW, WASSERMAN, OLDSTONE, OLSZTEIN,
TOPEL/TOPAL, TOFEL/TOFFEL

Dear JewishGenners,

Thank you to everyone who responded to my request for help. I wanted
to let you know I made contact with some TITOW relatives. It is all
very exciting to know there's more family out there. We've been
emailing back and forth, filling in gaps and gathering more family
history.

Susan Jonesia

BOCHENEK, STROLSKY, STRAUSS, TITOW, WASSERMAN, OLDSTONE, OLSZTEIN,
TOPEL/TOPAL, TOFEL/TOFFEL

Judaica Americana Archives in the United States
Names, addresses, holdings.
http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/archives.html
--
Bernard I. Kouchel
<koosh@att.net>

Judaica Americana Archives in the United States
Names, addresses, holdings.
http://jewishstudies.rutgers.edu/archives.html
--
Bernard I. Kouchel
<koosh@att.net>

Anyone planning a visit to the Mt. Nebo Cemetery in Miami?

There are two - the one I am looking for is at 5505 NW 3rd St - Miami.

I just found out that my great uncle is buried there. I am named for him!
Would love to get some information/ a visit if possible >from someone who is
planning a trip to the cemetery.

Thanks!

Allan Jordan
aejordan@aol.com

Anyone planning a visit to the Mt. Nebo Cemetery in Miami?

There are two - the one I am looking for is at 5505 NW 3rd St - Miami.

I just found out that my great uncle is buried there. I am named for him!
Would love to get some information/ a visit if possible >from someone who is
planning a trip to the cemetery.

Thanks!

Allan Jordan
aejordan@aol.com

This is a needle in a haystack,but possibly your grandfather or
great-grandfather...Joseph YANKELOVITCH, born between 1882-1892 in
Lithuania (in or near Nienstadt or Kaunas/Kovno), came to the US in 1902,
first settling in St. Paul MN, then, after 1911 moving to Cleveland, Ohio.
Supposedly, he changed his name to Joseph KLEIN when he moved to Cleveland.
He may have been married to a woman with a maiden name of FEIT.

Does this ring any bells?

Sincerely,

Carol Adler Zsolnay at gmz262@nwu.edu

This is a needle in a haystack,but possibly your grandfather or
great-grandfather...Joseph YANKELOVITCH, born between 1882-1892 in
Lithuania (in or near Nienstadt or Kaunas/Kovno), came to the US in 1902,
first settling in St. Paul MN, then, after 1911 moving to Cleveland, Ohio.
Supposedly, he changed his name to Joseph KLEIN when he moved to Cleveland.
He may have been married to a woman with a maiden name of FEIT.

Does this ring any bells?

Sincerely,

Carol Adler Zsolnay at gmz262@nwu.edu

At the Jewish Genealogy Seminar in LA (July 1998) about 15 people who are
searching for family in Bohemia and Moravia got together to exchange
information. I want to thank Susan Boyer for helping me set up the meeting
in LA as well as all who came.

At this time we are setting up an e-mail only address list of all who are
searching in Bohemia/Moravia.

This will not be a formal SIG or moderated discussion group. Rather, I will
maintain a list of names and e-mail addresses which I will distribute to
everyone on the list on a periodic basis. Each person on the list will
then be responsbile for keeping the list so they themselves can send out
whatever messages/requests (about searching in the Bohemia/Moravia area)
they want to send to the others.

We invite anyone who is interested in Bohemia/Moravia to join us. Please
contact me.

Anne Feder Lee

At the Jewish Genealogy Seminar in LA (July 1998) about 15 people who are
searching for family in Bohemia and Moravia got together to exchange
information. I want to thank Susan Boyer for helping me set up the meeting
in LA as well as all who came.

At this time we are setting up an e-mail only address list of all who are
searching in Bohemia/Moravia.

This will not be a formal SIG or moderated discussion group. Rather, I will
maintain a list of names and e-mail addresses which I will distribute to
everyone on the list on a periodic basis. Each person on the list will
then be responsbile for keeping the list so they themselves can send out
whatever messages/requests (about searching in the Bohemia/Moravia area)
they want to send to the others.

We invite anyone who is interested in Bohemia/Moravia to join us. Please
contact me.

Anne Feder Lee

I posted this on the main JewishGen Discussion group a week ago. Among
the responses was one indicating that due to the size of recent Digests,
she could no longer read through them and just deleted them as most
relevant information seemed to come >from the SIGs. She also suggested
that I re-post the message here. If you have already seen this, just hit
DELETE <G>.

If I missed a SIG or you know anyone that might not be reading these
lists, please pass on the query.
===
Original message:

I'm just curious to know if there is enough interest in forming a local
Jewish Genealogical Society around the twin cities Minneapolis-St Paul
area. If so, please drop me a line and we'll see where we can take it.
I will let anyone responding know what the count is at the end of
October.
=====
613 Steven Chall in Minneapolis, MN =[;-)
Researching:
ALEXANDER-&-CHALL
(Dvinsk,Russia (now Latvia); before 1900)
ZELMANOV-&-HALKIN
(Bobruisk, Russia; before 1907) (France; abt 1930)
BECKER-&-CHASKELEVITZ-(became_CHASWORTH)
(Kishenev, Bessarabia; before 1920) (Oreyev, abt 1940)
Someday BRODSKY, COHEN, KAPLAN (Poland / Russia)

_____________________________________________________________________
You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail.
Get completely free e-mail >from Juno at http://www.juno.com
Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

I posted this on the main JewishGen Discussion group a week ago. Among
the responses was one indicating that due to the size of recent Digests,
she could no longer read through them and just deleted them as most
relevant information seemed to come >from the SIGs. She also suggested
that I re-post the message here. If you have already seen this, just hit
DELETE <G>.

If I missed a SIG or you know anyone that might not be reading these
lists, please pass on the query.
===
Original message:

I'm just curious to know if there is enough interest in forming a local
Jewish Genealogical Society around the twin cities Minneapolis-St Paul
area. If so, please drop me a line and we'll see where we can take it.
I will let anyone responding know what the count is at the end of
October.
=====
613 Steven Chall in Minneapolis, MN =[;-)
Researching:
ALEXANDER-&-CHALL
(Dvinsk,Russia (now Latvia); before 1900)
ZELMANOV-&-HALKIN
(Bobruisk, Russia; before 1907) (France; abt 1930)
BECKER-&-CHASKELEVITZ-(became_CHASWORTH)
(Kishenev, Bessarabia; before 1920) (Oreyev, abt 1940)
Someday BRODSKY, COHEN, KAPLAN (Poland / Russia)

_____________________________________________________________________
You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail.
Get completely free e-mail >from Juno at http://www.juno.com
Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

Hi David et al,

About a year ago I was able to borrow the English version of the Book of
Kobrin through Interlibrary Loan >from the public library. It took about 3
weeks to get it and I was able to renew the loan period because in her
original request, the librarian asked for renewal permission >from the
lending library.

Sefer Kobrin was really fascinating. I went through it with a friend for
whom I was doing the research. His family was mentioned many times. Of
course, the nature of any Yizkor book is to mention everyone in town.

Gene Shiller
shiller@diac.com
Denver, CO.

Researching:
CHERNIN/CHERNEN: Dobryanka, Chernigov; Gomel, Vetka Belarus
SHILLER/SCHILLER: Ontario, Canada
ZUCKERMAN: Telsche, Kovno Gubernia
KALMEYER: Liepaja, Latvia
SKORMAN: Arizona, Southern California, Florida

Hi David et al,

About a year ago I was able to borrow the English version of the Book of
Kobrin through Interlibrary Loan >from the public library. It took about 3
weeks to get it and I was able to renew the loan period because in her
original request, the librarian asked for renewal permission >from the
lending library.

Sefer Kobrin was really fascinating. I went through it with a friend for
whom I was doing the research. His family was mentioned many times. Of
course, the nature of any Yizkor book is to mention everyone in town.

Gene Shiller
shiller@diac.com
Denver, CO.

Researching:
CHERNIN/CHERNEN: Dobryanka, Chernigov; Gomel, Vetka Belarus
SHILLER/SCHILLER: Ontario, Canada
ZUCKERMAN: Telsche, Kovno Gubernia
KALMEYER: Liepaja, Latvia
SKORMAN: Arizona, Southern California, Florida