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Joyce Field
Translations Manager
Yizkor Book Project

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 20:41:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Salkluger@aol.com
Subject: Yizkor books

Hello Friends, will trade my extra Yizkor books as Szydlowiec, Zelva, Kobrin
and Slutzker [constitution and by-laws] for others.
A dank,

sal kluger

Joyce Field
jfield@nlci.com

This message was posted to Mendele. I thought it might interest our readers.

Joyce Field
Translations Manager
Yizkor Book Project

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 20:41:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Salkluger@aol.com
Subject: Yizkor books

Hello Friends, will trade my extra Yizkor books as Szydlowiec, Zelva, Kobrin
and Slutzker [constitution and by-laws] for others.
A dank,

sal kluger

Joyce Field
jfield@nlci.com

One Yiddish word for "butcher" (there may be others) is fleischhacker.

Note: My original message on this was rejected for having too much quoted
material. Therefore, I'm playing it safe by not quoting _anything_ this
time.

--
Dan Goodman
dsgood@visi.com
http://www.visi.com/~dsgood/index.html
Whatever you wish for me, may you have twice as much.

One Yiddish word for "butcher" (there may be others) is fleischhacker.

Note: My original message on this was rejected for having too much quoted
material. Therefore, I'm playing it safe by not quoting _anything_ this
time.

--
Dan Goodman
dsgood@visi.com
http://www.visi.com/~dsgood/index.html
Whatever you wish for me, may you have twice as much.

I am seeking to trace my great grandparents in the US (for now). I have
David Adler's naturalization certificate dated 1906. It says he came

from Rumania. He settled first in the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area. He

married Ethel (no one in the family knows her maiden name or if she had
a different first name before living in the US). They were the parents
of 5 sons and 1 daughter. They eventually moved to Michigan. David had
at least one brother Isidor who owned a small store in Pittsburgh.
Unfortunately I have no living relatives who remember any of this so am
starting >from scratch. Anyone else researching this family, I would love
to hear >from you. Deborah Burr

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

You can call Mt. Carmel. The number and address is: Cypress Hills Rd
Flushing, NY (718) 366-5900.

I have done this for all of the cemetery's I have relatives in. They
will provide the exact grave locations, and in a few instances, they
can take pictures for you.

I have been in touch with Mt. Carmel by phone and snailmail. They gave
me lots of info by snail mail, but would not take photos for me.

//Corin Barsily Goodwin
Cupertino, CA USA

Searching:

BARSILA/BARZILY/BARZILOV -- Russia; Scotland; NYC
BASOK/BARSACH -- Orsha, Belarus; Scotland; NYC; Providence, RI
BRAUN -- Hungary; NYC ...DU BOFF/MEISTROFF -- Russia; NYC & Long Island
KANEFSKY/KANEVSKY and RIVKIN -- Elizabetgrod (Kirovgrod), Ukraine; NYC
SIGAAR -- Holland ...VAN SANTEN -- Amsterdam; NYC
WEISS -- Hungary; NYC; Middlesex, NJ

I am seeking to trace my great grandparents in the US (for now). I have
David Adler's naturalization certificate dated 1906. It says he came

from Rumania. He settled first in the Pittsburgh Pennsylvania area. He

married Ethel (no one in the family knows her maiden name or if she had
a different first name before living in the US). They were the parents
of 5 sons and 1 daughter. They eventually moved to Michigan. David had
at least one brother Isidor who owned a small store in Pittsburgh.
Unfortunately I have no living relatives who remember any of this so am
starting >from scratch. Anyone else researching this family, I would love
to hear >from you. Deborah Burr

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

You can call Mt. Carmel. The number and address is: Cypress Hills Rd
Flushing, NY (718) 366-5900.

I have done this for all of the cemetery's I have relatives in. They
will provide the exact grave locations, and in a few instances, they
can take pictures for you.

I have been in touch with Mt. Carmel by phone and snailmail. They gave
me lots of info by snail mail, but would not take photos for me.

//Corin Barsily Goodwin
Cupertino, CA USA

Searching:

BARSILA/BARZILY/BARZILOV -- Russia; Scotland; NYC
BASOK/BARSACH -- Orsha, Belarus; Scotland; NYC; Providence, RI
BRAUN -- Hungary; NYC ...DU BOFF/MEISTROFF -- Russia; NYC & Long Island
KANEFSKY/KANEVSKY and RIVKIN -- Elizabetgrod (Kirovgrod), Ukraine; NYC
SIGAAR -- Holland ...VAN SANTEN -- Amsterdam; NYC
WEISS -- Hungary; NYC; Middlesex, NJ

I am posting this for a friend >from South Africa, Jeanette Jacobs.
She is searching for information about her relatives and knows next to
nothing.
1. Her mother, Dinah Jacobs, was born on Commercial Road in London and
emigrated with her parents and siblings to South Africa when she was
eleven. Her mother died recently in a Hebrew Home in Johannesberg in her
88th year. Jeanette believes there are relatives still in London.

2. Her father, Abraham Jacobs(no retlation to her mother), was born in
Pretoria, South Africa and died as a young man in 1943 when Jeanette was
three. Her parents married in 1939. She believes he had siblings, but she
knows nothing whatever about him.

Any information about these people or their relatives would be greatly
appreciated as she has only one living relative she knows of, an older
institutionalized sister with ms.

Suzanne Henig

I am posting this for a friend >from South Africa, Jeanette Jacobs.
She is searching for information about her relatives and knows next to
nothing.
1. Her mother, Dinah Jacobs, was born on Commercial Road in London and
emigrated with her parents and siblings to South Africa when she was
eleven. Her mother died recently in a Hebrew Home in Johannesberg in her
88th year. Jeanette believes there are relatives still in London.

2. Her father, Abraham Jacobs(no retlation to her mother), was born in
Pretoria, South Africa and died as a young man in 1943 when Jeanette was
three. Her parents married in 1939. She believes he had siblings, but she
knows nothing whatever about him.

Any information about these people or their relatives would be greatly
appreciated as she has only one living relative she knows of, an older
institutionalized sister with ms.

Suzanne Henig

Just a point of information. I sent away for my father's military personnel
records using information >from a JewishGen message. The answer that I
received was that the records needed to answer my inquiry were not in their
files due to the fact that records at the National Personnel Records Center in
St. Louis, MO as of July 12, 1973 were in the area that suffered damage in
the fire on that date and may have been destroyed. The message also stated
that alternate records sources exist which often contain information that can
be used to reconstruct service record data lost in the fire. However, in my
father's case complete personnel/medical records could not be reconstructed.
All I received was a Certification Of Military Service which contained the
dates of his service, his rank and the fact that he received an honorable
discharge.

Selma Ring Prager
Springfield, NJ

My grandfather came to NY >from
Kalvaria, Lithuania

Could this be Kalvaria, Poland? At some point in early 1900 the Kalwaria town
was part of Lithuania... Have you confirmed the country?

Just a thought...

-Yigal Rechtman
+ Yigal Rechtman email: RECHTMAN@aol.com +
+ www.RECHTMAN.com Mirror site:members.aol.com/rechtman
+ Research: RECHTMAN, Suwalk; Augustow;
+ WYBRANCZYK, Lomza; FOGLEMAN, Riga; MILLER,
+ Mazstrow-Maz., Poland; SHER or MARCUS, Kwarsk, Lithuania

InfoFiles Update...

See latest index, last revised 15 October 1998.

Retrievable documents (InfoFiles) provide added information at your
fingertips on topics of relevance to Jewish genealogical research.

Documents may be viewed or retrieved on the web at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/
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or

Documents may be retrieved via e-mail.
To order a copy of the index, simply send a blank e-mail to:
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Bernard I. Kouchel
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Just a point of information. I sent away for my father's military personnel
records using information >from a JewishGen message. The answer that I
received was that the records needed to answer my inquiry were not in their
files due to the fact that records at the National Personnel Records Center in
St. Louis, MO as of July 12, 1973 were in the area that suffered damage in
the fire on that date and may have been destroyed. The message also stated
that alternate records sources exist which often contain information that can
be used to reconstruct service record data lost in the fire. However, in my
father's case complete personnel/medical records could not be reconstructed.
All I received was a Certification Of Military Service which contained the
dates of his service, his rank and the fact that he received an honorable
discharge.

Selma Ring Prager
Springfield, NJ

My grandfather came to NY >from
Kalvaria, Lithuania

Could this be Kalvaria, Poland? At some point in early 1900 the Kalwaria town
was part of Lithuania... Have you confirmed the country?

Just a thought...

-Yigal Rechtman
+ Yigal Rechtman email: RECHTMAN@aol.com +
+ www.RECHTMAN.com Mirror site:members.aol.com/rechtman
+ Research: RECHTMAN, Suwalk; Augustow;
+ WYBRANCZYK, Lomza; FOGLEMAN, Riga; MILLER,
+ Mazstrow-Maz., Poland; SHER or MARCUS, Kwarsk, Lithuania

InfoFiles Update...

See latest index, last revised 15 October 1998.

Retrievable documents (InfoFiles) provide added information at your
fingertips on topics of relevance to Jewish genealogical research.

Documents may be viewed or retrieved on the web at:
http://www.jewishgen.org/infofiles/
JewishGen InfoFile Index

or

Documents may be retrieved via e-mail.
To order a copy of the index, simply send a blank e-mail to:
mailto:index@mail.jewishgen.org

Response time may vary. All documents are in ASCII entirely.

--
Bernard I. Kouchel
<koosh@jewishgen.org>

At the risk of writing a "Me, too" message (I know -- it's even less
cool than posting a surname querry) I'd just like to point out that,
like Ben Elton, I have benefitted enormously >from the mere *mention* of
a surname in a JewishGen post.

Over the past couple of weeks I've heard >from all sorts of Nebenzahls
all over the world. I don't know what to do with all the information
and links (and new correspondents) I'm getting. I'm thrilled.

But the neatest thing happened today. I heard >from a Nebenzahl I have
not seen nor communicated with in 30 years: my second cousin from
Brasil, with whom I spent an entire summer way back when . . . She was
a dear friend, and finding her again is priceless. This alone has made
JewishGen worthwhile.

Candice Bradley
Appleton WI

At the risk of writing a "Me, too" message (I know -- it's even less
cool than posting a surname querry) I'd just like to point out that,
like Ben Elton, I have benefitted enormously >from the mere *mention* of
a surname in a JewishGen post.

Over the past couple of weeks I've heard >from all sorts of Nebenzahls
all over the world. I don't know what to do with all the information
and links (and new correspondents) I'm getting. I'm thrilled.

But the neatest thing happened today. I heard >from a Nebenzahl I have
not seen nor communicated with in 30 years: my second cousin from
Brasil, with whom I spent an entire summer way back when . . . She was
a dear friend, and finding her again is priceless. This alone has made
JewishGen worthwhile.

Candice Bradley
Appleton WI

To Whom It May Concern:

My great-great-grandfather, Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech ("Hersh Meilich") Hecht OBM,
came to New York in the 1880s, >from White Russia. I don't know if he was from
Shinov proper, but he was a chasid of Rabbi Yecheskel of Shinov, the Shinover
Rebbe.

He had two sons: Shea (short for Yehoshua--not Irish!), who became known as Sam
in New York City (he ran a dry-goods store on the Lower East Side), and
Yitzchok Meir (or something like that--I don't recall his name offhand).

If anyone knows anything about my family's origins, or if you are related to
me, please contact me at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely,


Mendy Hecht
Shluchim2@aol.com

To Whom It May Concern:

My great-great-grandfather, Rabbi Tzvi Elimelech ("Hersh Meilich") Hecht OBM,
came to New York in the 1880s, >from White Russia. I don't know if he was from
Shinov proper, but he was a chasid of Rabbi Yecheskel of Shinov, the Shinover
Rebbe.

He had two sons: Shea (short for Yehoshua--not Irish!), who became known as Sam
in New York City (he ran a dry-goods store on the Lower East Side), and
Yitzchok Meir (or something like that--I don't recall his name offhand).

If anyone knows anything about my family's origins, or if you are related to
me, please contact me at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely,


Mendy Hecht
Shluchim2@aol.com