Michael Bernet wrote:
"I have just received >from a professional German archivist, a manual on reading
the old script. (He tells me, incidentally, that Hitler banned this script in
the early 1940's because some fool had told him it was based on Hebrew
script!)".

Even though it is only mildly relevant to genealogy I would
appreciate it if the moderators could let the following comment through,
because of its present-day effects:
I can confirm that the old type of German script was abolished by
explicit orders of the Reichsministry of Culture on Sept 1, 1941, the
day on which all German newspapers changed their typeface.
One of the reasons is said to have been that one early type of
Fraktur, the so-called Schabacher-Fraktur, to the Nazis looked similar
to the Hebrew letters and that is while they wanted to have it
changed. Another reason though was that the people in the occupied
countries could not read the German orders on posters in that
script.
The paradox is that TODAY people outside and inside the
German-speaking countrie associate this script with the Nazis whereas
in reality they banned it. In reality Fraktur i.e. "broken
characters" have absolutely nothing to do with the Nazis, so do not
worry about them in genealogical documents.
Thanks for bringing it up, I had exactly the same argument with The
New Yorker in March where the same false information had been
printed.
Thanks,
Fritz Neubauer



Dr. Fritz Neubauer
Neubauer@Nov1.Lili.Uni-Bielefeld.de

Memories.....
I lived at 55 E. 174tth Street until 1953/4. (The Cross Bx Expway's
projectedconstruction prompted the movae to Riverdale when I was in 6th
grade.)

Went to PS 70, which was the only Bx elementary school with a pool.
Then, after the move, I attended PS 24 for 6th grade, then PS 7 for
junior high, then on to the Bronx HS of Science, class of '59. Hunter
College in the Bronx for undergraduate work, then Hunter downtown for
grad school.

I remember Nathan's....and Loews Paradise Movie theatre. And walking
the gauntlet >from the bus stop in front of deWitt Clinton HS to Science's
campus. (The new building opened my senior year)

Any other Riverdalians, Sciencites, or Hunterites out there?

Currently, we are in exile in Chicago!


Barbara Mannlein

snip
<I also remember Adventure's Inn and Nathans in Yonkers. Did anyone frow
up in
the Bronx?

RS


_____________________________________________________________________
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]

The seminar committee and JGSLA wishes to obtain copies of photos that were
taken at the July genealogy seminar in Los Angeles. We are looking for photos
of any events, registrants, people, speakers, computer room, reference book
room, banquet, Theodore Bikel, centerpieces, etc. If you have extra copies
please mail them to JGSLA, P.O. Box 55443, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413.

If you do not have extra copies we will reimburse you if you would make extras
and send them to us.

We found in an attempt to do pre-seminar publicity most publications desire a
photo of a speaker etc. Therefore these photos can be used in future seminars
desire for publicity.

Any questions please e mail at sabramscpa@aol.com

Thanks in advance for your assistance,

Steve Abrams
Seminar Chair

Jewish Record Indexing (JRI)-Poland has great news for those who are
researching family >from Tarnow! The first submission of data from
records
transcribed by volunteers at the Goldman Center in Israel (Dorot) has
been
entered and made available online through the JRI-PL website.

This first submission to the JRI-PL online database covers the Birth
records >from mid 1863 through the end of 1870, and includes over 3000
records, which are the entire contents of LDS film #0948421. Since this
is
a group of records for which there is NO index, all of the data was
entered. The database contains the COMPLETE extract for each individual.

Because there is no index, the only other way to currently find this
information is by examining each record on the film, written in old
script.

The fields in these records include: names of child, parents, midwife,
witness, gender, date and post number of registration (AKT) and remarks.

The remarks, many of which were added later (some as late as the 1930's)

include such things as place of birth outside of Tarnow, date of death,
name changes, adoptive parents, religious conversions, and in some cases

Polish Archive reference numbers. When searching through the JRI-PL
website
you will be rewarded with matches on surnames in the midwife, witness
and
remarks fields in addition to matches on the child's surname; this is an

incredible tool!

As always, these entries should be used as references, which you should
verify on your own, as some errors may have crept in during
transcription
and data entry.

Thanks to the Goldman Center and all of the Tarnow Shtetl volunteers who

performed data entry for this database: Judy Deutchman, David Itzkowic,
Pat
Jortner, Calvin & Barbara Kitay, Henry Kornhauser, Shimon Neubort, Phil
Rose, Yaakov Schmidt, Len Schneider, Glen Strauss and Michael Trapunsky.

Extra thanks are due to Shmuel Kehati who not only performed entry of
several sections, but also secured many additional extracts >from the
Goldman Center that will keep us busy for quite some time. Anyone who
would
like to help with these efforts please email me at the address below. We

now have similar records to be entered covering Births, Deaths and
Marriages >from earlier dates in the 1800's.

Howard Fink
how@kodak.com
Tarnow Shtetl Coordinator

My foster son's grandmother, Elinor STEINER CASSELL BECKETT, told him that
she was related to Mitzi GAYNOR and that the families were from
Czechoslovakia. Any help would be appreciated. Linda Schulein, Newport
Beach, CA. lindaschu@msn.com

The seminar committee and JGSLA wishes to obtain copies of photos that were
taken at the July genealogy seminar in Los Angeles. We are looking for photos
of any events, registrants, people, speakers, computer room, reference book
room, banquet, Theodore Bikel, centerpieces, etc. If you have extra copies
please mail them to JGSLA, P.O. Box 55443, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413.

If you do not have extra copies we will reimburse you if you would make extras
and send them to us.

We found in an attempt to do pre-seminar publicity most publications desire a
photo of a speaker etc. Therefore these photos can be used in future seminars
desire for publicity.

Any questions please e mail at sabramscpa@aol.com

Thanks in advance for your assistance,

Steve Abrams
Seminar Chair

Michael Bernet wrote:
"I have just received >from a professional German archivist, a manual on reading
the old script. (He tells me, incidentally, that Hitler banned this script in
the early 1940's because some fool had told him it was based on Hebrew
script!)".

Even though it is only mildly relevant to genealogy I would
appreciate it if the moderators could let the following comment through,
because of its present-day effects:
I can confirm that the old type of German script was abolished by
explicit orders of the Reichsministry of Culture on Sept 1, 1941, the
day on which all German newspapers changed their typeface.
One of the reasons is said to have been that one early type of
Fraktur, the so-called Schabacher-Fraktur, to the Nazis looked similar
to the Hebrew letters and that is while they wanted to have it
changed. Another reason though was that the people in the occupied
countries could not read the German orders on posters in that
script.
The paradox is that TODAY people outside and inside the
German-speaking countrie associate this script with the Nazis whereas
in reality they banned it. In reality Fraktur i.e. "broken
characters" have absolutely nothing to do with the Nazis, so do not
worry about them in genealogical documents.
Thanks for bringing it up, I had exactly the same argument with The
New Yorker in March where the same false information had been
printed.
Thanks,
Fritz Neubauer



Dr. Fritz Neubauer
Neubauer@Nov1.Lili.Uni-Bielefeld.de

Memories.....
I lived at 55 E. 174tth Street until 1953/4. (The Cross Bx Expway's
projectedconstruction prompted the movae to Riverdale when I was in 6th
grade.)

Went to PS 70, which was the only Bx elementary school with a pool.
Then, after the move, I attended PS 24 for 6th grade, then PS 7 for
junior high, then on to the Bronx HS of Science, class of '59. Hunter
College in the Bronx for undergraduate work, then Hunter downtown for
grad school.

I remember Nathan's....and Loews Paradise Movie theatre. And walking
the gauntlet >from the bus stop in front of deWitt Clinton HS to Science's
campus. (The new building opened my senior year)

Any other Riverdalians, Sciencites, or Hunterites out there?

Currently, we are in exile in Chicago!


Barbara Mannlein

snip
<I also remember Adventure's Inn and Nathans in Yonkers. Did anyone frow
up in
the Bronx?

RS


_____________________________________________________________________
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]

The seminar committee and JGSLA wishes to obtain copies of photos that were
taken at the July genealogy seminar in Los Angeles. We are looking for photos
of any events, registrants, people, speakers, computer room, reference book
room, banquet, Theodore Bikel, centerpieces, etc. If you have extra copies
please mail them to JGSLA, P.O. Box 55443, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413.

If you do not have extra copies we will reimburse you if you would make extras
and send them to us.

We found in an attempt to do pre-seminar publicity most publications desire a
photo of a speaker etc. Therefore these photos can be used in future seminars
desire for publicity.

Any questions please e mail at sabramscpa@aol.com

Thanks in advance for your assistance,

Steve Abrams
Seminar Chair

Jewish Record Indexing (JRI)-Poland has great news for those who are
researching family >from Tarnow! The first submission of data from
records
transcribed by volunteers at the Goldman Center in Israel (Dorot) has
been
entered and made available online through the JRI-PL website.

This first submission to the JRI-PL online database covers the Birth
records >from mid 1863 through the end of 1870, and includes over 3000
records, which are the entire contents of LDS film #0948421. Since this
is
a group of records for which there is NO index, all of the data was
entered. The database contains the COMPLETE extract for each individual.

Because there is no index, the only other way to currently find this
information is by examining each record on the film, written in old
script.

The fields in these records include: names of child, parents, midwife,
witness, gender, date and post number of registration (AKT) and remarks.

The remarks, many of which were added later (some as late as the 1930's)

include such things as place of birth outside of Tarnow, date of death,
name changes, adoptive parents, religious conversions, and in some cases

Polish Archive reference numbers. When searching through the JRI-PL
website
you will be rewarded with matches on surnames in the midwife, witness
and
remarks fields in addition to matches on the child's surname; this is an

incredible tool!

As always, these entries should be used as references, which you should
verify on your own, as some errors may have crept in during
transcription
and data entry.

Thanks to the Goldman Center and all of the Tarnow Shtetl volunteers who

performed data entry for this database: Judy Deutchman, David Itzkowic,
Pat
Jortner, Calvin & Barbara Kitay, Henry Kornhauser, Shimon Neubort, Phil
Rose, Yaakov Schmidt, Len Schneider, Glen Strauss and Michael Trapunsky.

Extra thanks are due to Shmuel Kehati who not only performed entry of
several sections, but also secured many additional extracts >from the
Goldman Center that will keep us busy for quite some time. Anyone who
would
like to help with these efforts please email me at the address below. We

now have similar records to be entered covering Births, Deaths and
Marriages >from earlier dates in the 1800's.

Howard Fink
how@kodak.com
Tarnow Shtetl Coordinator

My foster son's grandmother, Elinor STEINER CASSELL BECKETT, told him that
she was related to Mitzi GAYNOR and that the families were from
Czechoslovakia. Any help would be appreciated. Linda Schulein, Newport
Beach, CA. lindaschu@msn.com

The seminar committee and JGSLA wishes to obtain copies of photos that were
taken at the July genealogy seminar in Los Angeles. We are looking for photos
of any events, registrants, people, speakers, computer room, reference book
room, banquet, Theodore Bikel, centerpieces, etc. If you have extra copies
please mail them to JGSLA, P.O. Box 55443, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413.

If you do not have extra copies we will reimburse you if you would make extras
and send them to us.

We found in an attempt to do pre-seminar publicity most publications desire a
photo of a speaker etc. Therefore these photos can be used in future seminars
desire for publicity.

Any questions please e mail at sabramscpa@aol.com

Thanks in advance for your assistance,

Steve Abrams
Seminar Chair

Dear Jewishgeners,

I am posting the list of the names which appears in the book "Varadi
zsidok" (The Jews of Nagyvarad/Oradea, Romania) by Terez Mozes. The page
numbers are next to each name. The information use to be very short and i=
n
most of the cases the names appears just as one name amongst others in a
list.

If you want me to make a look up for you, please send me a fax no and I
will send you the pages

Sandor Janos, dr =96 pg 154, 168
Salamon Ern=F6n=E9 =96 pg 155, 158
Sas Ede =96 pg 125
Sas F =96 pg 120
Say Beniaminus - pg 22
Say Josephus - pg 22
Say Volff - pg 22
Schapira Gyula =96 pg 158, 185
Schauer Abraham - pg 49
Scheil Jacob - pg 20
Schekkendorf rabbi - pg 92
Schiff Ern=F6 - pg 114
Schiff Ervin - pg 115
Schenker - pg 139
Schlauch L=F6rinc - pg 140
Schlezinger - pg 101
Schlezinger Terez - pg 110
Schreiber - pg 91, 221
Sch=F6n Dezs=F6 - pg 32, 52, 54, 57, 82, 142
Sch=F6nberger - pg 139
Sch=F6nfeld I - pg 110
Sch=FCtz Albert =96 pg 124
Schwartz - pg 129
Schwartz Abraham - pg 86
Schwartz Abrahamn=E9 =96 pg 119
Schwartz Antal - pg 91, 109, 142
Schwarcz Armin - pg 51
Schwartz Ern=F6 - pg 220
Schwartz Ferenc - pg 103, 104
Schwartz Gyula - pg 103, 128
Schwartz Gy=F6rgy - pg 103
Schwartz Herman - pg 96
Schwartz Ignac - pg 87
Schwartz Illes, dr =96 pg 153=20
Schwartz Izidor =96 pg 123, 127
Schwartz Jakabn=E9 =96 pg 118
Schwartz Jozsef - pg 47
Schwartz Moric - pg 47
Schwartz Sandor - pg 103
Schwartz Salamon - pg 47
Sebestyen Artur , dr =96 pg 154
Sebestyen Sandor , dr =96 pg 168
Seb=F6 I =96 pg 123
Sebestyen Artur, dr - pg 204
Siaa Leon, dr (Aryeh Yehuda - pg 15
Sido Simon Isel - pg 26
Silberman Jen=F6 =96 pg 156, 164, 168
Silberman Jozsef - pg 138
Silberplanz ( Nagyv=E1rad - 1725) - pg 30
Silberstein M - pg 139Singer Henrik - pg 47
Singer Jakab - pg 47
Singern=E9 Reich Gizella - pg 110
Simcha Zelig Samuel (Nagykaroly)- pg 30
Simon - pg 139
Simon Lazar (1723) - pg 25,26=20
Sipos Arpad =96 pg 125
Sonnenfeld - pg 102, 128, 139, 166
Sonnenfeld Adolf - pg 102, 123
Sonnenfeld Simon - pg 102
Sonnenfeld Jozsef - pg 51, 86
Soos Istvan - pg 173
Spitz A - pg 139
Spitzer Adolf - pg 109
Spitzer Henrik - pg 74
Spitzer Moyses - pg 60
Spitzer Norbert - pg 185
Spitzer Samuel - pg 86
Staril Ferenc - pg 128
Stein Cecilia - pg 46
Stein Antal - pg 86, 105
Stein Aharon Jiszrael - pg 53
Stein Jakab - pg 46
Stein Jozsef - pg 49
Stein Mayer Miksa Rabbi- pg 54
Steinberger Beni - pg 86
Steiner Ignac - pg 45
Steiner Jen=F6 - pg 138
Steiner Laszlo - pg 205, 223
Steiner Lipot - pg 55, 83, 86, 122
Steinhardt Jakab, dr - pg 68, 124
Sterbach Jozsef - pg 116
Stern - pg 129
Stern Adolf dr.=96 pg 117
Stern Bertalan - pg 173, 193
Stern David - pg 49, 57, 128
Stern Herman =96 pg 127
Stern Jakab - pg 87
Stern Miklos - pg 220
Stern Simon - pg 86, 179
Sternthal Artur - pg 103
Stoltz Gyla - pg 216
Stolz Tibor - pg 188
Strenthal Adolf - pg 83, 85, 117
Szabo Ervin - pg 199
Szabo Ern=F6 - pg 193
Szabo Maria - pg 222
Szefer Jozsef - pg 52
Szenes I - pg 205
Szilas Izidor =96 pg 158
Szofer Mose Reb - pg 53, 89
Szunyogh P - pg 142
Tabery Geza =96 pg 159Tevli Jakab David - pg 58
Tibor Ern=F6 =96 pg 126, 165
Tisza Lajos - pg 105
Uffer Jacob- pg 20
Uffer Simon - pg 20
Ullmann =96 pg 122, 128, 129, 131, 140, 141, 150, 176
Ullmann Belan=E9 . dr =96 pg 119
Ullmann Istvan - pg 178
Ullman Izidor - pg 88, 90, 96, 104, 108, 122, 140
Ullmann Mor =96 pg 148
Ullmann Sandor - pg 96, 142

Susanna=20
susanna.vendel@swipnet.se

For those who absolutely must have their own personal copy of the
JewishGen Family Finder or the Consolidated Jewish Surname Index,
Avotaynu has updated its microfiche versions of these valuable
Internet databases. The JGFF (http://www.jewishgen.org/jgff) is as
of May 1998 and CJSI (http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.html) is
identical to the Internet version.

Most libraries have microfiche readers so there is no need to
purchase one. There actually is an advantage to the hard-copy
microfiche version; you can easily browse these databases,
searching up and down >from any given starting point.

Ordering information is at the Avotaynu site at
http://www.avotaynu.com/microf.html/

Gary Mokotoff, Publisher
Avotaynu, Inc.

I am researching the PENNAKER (PINAKER) family which immigrated to Canada
(Yarmouth, Nova Scotia) >from Tarnopol, Poland in the very early 1900's. The
name was changed to PINK.

My great grandfather Joseph was one of four sons of Lazer Woolf PENNAKER
(c. 1846- 1916) and Taube Dwora AXELROD (c. 1848-1910)

Joseph (1876-1944) m. Rose SAFIER
David m. Dora SAFIER
Joachim (c. 1882-1920) m. Dora REICHSTEIN
Samuel m. Fanny FROSH

Please respond directly to my email.

Thank you.

Michael Pink
kel-ann@email.msn.com

Also Researching:

SAFIER, AXELROD, GOLIGER, FREEDMAN, Tarnopol, Poland
NUSS, BRAKER, Szczebrzesyn, Poland
POMS, Redguil, Volhynia, Russia

Dear Jewishgeners,

I am posting the list of the names which appears in the book "Varadi
zsidok" (The Jews of Nagyvarad/Oradea, Romania) by Terez Mozes. The page
numbers are next to each name. The information use to be very short and i=
n
most of the cases the names appears just as one name amongst others in a
list.

If you want me to make a look up for you, please send me a fax no and I
will send you the pages

Sandor Janos, dr =96 pg 154, 168
Salamon Ern=F6n=E9 =96 pg 155, 158
Sas Ede =96 pg 125
Sas F =96 pg 120
Say Beniaminus - pg 22
Say Josephus - pg 22
Say Volff - pg 22
Schapira Gyula =96 pg 158, 185
Schauer Abraham - pg 49
Scheil Jacob - pg 20
Schekkendorf rabbi - pg 92
Schiff Ern=F6 - pg 114
Schiff Ervin - pg 115
Schenker - pg 139
Schlauch L=F6rinc - pg 140
Schlezinger - pg 101
Schlezinger Terez - pg 110
Schreiber - pg 91, 221
Sch=F6n Dezs=F6 - pg 32, 52, 54, 57, 82, 142
Sch=F6nberger - pg 139
Sch=F6nfeld I - pg 110
Sch=FCtz Albert =96 pg 124
Schwartz - pg 129
Schwartz Abraham - pg 86
Schwartz Abrahamn=E9 =96 pg 119
Schwartz Antal - pg 91, 109, 142
Schwarcz Armin - pg 51
Schwartz Ern=F6 - pg 220
Schwartz Ferenc - pg 103, 104
Schwartz Gyula - pg 103, 128
Schwartz Gy=F6rgy - pg 103
Schwartz Herman - pg 96
Schwartz Ignac - pg 87
Schwartz Illes, dr =96 pg 153=20
Schwartz Izidor =96 pg 123, 127
Schwartz Jakabn=E9 =96 pg 118
Schwartz Jozsef - pg 47
Schwartz Moric - pg 47
Schwartz Sandor - pg 103
Schwartz Salamon - pg 47
Sebestyen Artur , dr =96 pg 154
Sebestyen Sandor , dr =96 pg 168
Seb=F6 I =96 pg 123
Sebestyen Artur, dr - pg 204
Siaa Leon, dr (Aryeh Yehuda - pg 15
Sido Simon Isel - pg 26
Silberman Jen=F6 =96 pg 156, 164, 168
Silberman Jozsef - pg 138
Silberplanz ( Nagyv=E1rad - 1725) - pg 30
Silberstein M - pg 139Singer Henrik - pg 47
Singer Jakab - pg 47
Singern=E9 Reich Gizella - pg 110
Simcha Zelig Samuel (Nagykaroly)- pg 30
Simon - pg 139
Simon Lazar (1723) - pg 25,26=20
Sipos Arpad =96 pg 125
Sonnenfeld - pg 102, 128, 139, 166
Sonnenfeld Adolf - pg 102, 123
Sonnenfeld Simon - pg 102
Sonnenfeld Jozsef - pg 51, 86
Soos Istvan - pg 173
Spitz A - pg 139
Spitzer Adolf - pg 109
Spitzer Henrik - pg 74
Spitzer Moyses - pg 60
Spitzer Norbert - pg 185
Spitzer Samuel - pg 86
Staril Ferenc - pg 128
Stein Cecilia - pg 46
Stein Antal - pg 86, 105
Stein Aharon Jiszrael - pg 53
Stein Jakab - pg 46
Stein Jozsef - pg 49
Stein Mayer Miksa Rabbi- pg 54
Steinberger Beni - pg 86
Steiner Ignac - pg 45
Steiner Jen=F6 - pg 138
Steiner Laszlo - pg 205, 223
Steiner Lipot - pg 55, 83, 86, 122
Steinhardt Jakab, dr - pg 68, 124
Sterbach Jozsef - pg 116
Stern - pg 129
Stern Adolf dr.=96 pg 117
Stern Bertalan - pg 173, 193
Stern David - pg 49, 57, 128
Stern Herman =96 pg 127
Stern Jakab - pg 87
Stern Miklos - pg 220
Stern Simon - pg 86, 179
Sternthal Artur - pg 103
Stoltz Gyla - pg 216
Stolz Tibor - pg 188
Strenthal Adolf - pg 83, 85, 117
Szabo Ervin - pg 199
Szabo Ern=F6 - pg 193
Szabo Maria - pg 222
Szefer Jozsef - pg 52
Szenes I - pg 205
Szilas Izidor =96 pg 158
Szofer Mose Reb - pg 53, 89
Szunyogh P - pg 142
Tabery Geza =96 pg 159Tevli Jakab David - pg 58
Tibor Ern=F6 =96 pg 126, 165
Tisza Lajos - pg 105
Uffer Jacob- pg 20
Uffer Simon - pg 20
Ullmann =96 pg 122, 128, 129, 131, 140, 141, 150, 176
Ullmann Belan=E9 . dr =96 pg 119
Ullmann Istvan - pg 178
Ullman Izidor - pg 88, 90, 96, 104, 108, 122, 140
Ullmann Mor =96 pg 148
Ullmann Sandor - pg 96, 142

Susanna=20
susanna.vendel@swipnet.se

For those who absolutely must have their own personal copy of the
JewishGen Family Finder or the Consolidated Jewish Surname Index,
Avotaynu has updated its microfiche versions of these valuable
Internet databases. The JGFF (http://www.jewishgen.org/jgff) is as
of May 1998 and CJSI (http://www.avotaynu.com/csi/csi-home.html) is
identical to the Internet version.

Most libraries have microfiche readers so there is no need to
purchase one. There actually is an advantage to the hard-copy
microfiche version; you can easily browse these databases,
searching up and down >from any given starting point.

Ordering information is at the Avotaynu site at
http://www.avotaynu.com/microf.html/

Gary Mokotoff, Publisher
Avotaynu, Inc.

I am researching the PENNAKER (PINAKER) family which immigrated to Canada
(Yarmouth, Nova Scotia) >from Tarnopol, Poland in the very early 1900's. The
name was changed to PINK.

My great grandfather Joseph was one of four sons of Lazer Woolf PENNAKER
(c. 1846- 1916) and Taube Dwora AXELROD (c. 1848-1910)

Joseph (1876-1944) m. Rose SAFIER
David m. Dora SAFIER
Joachim (c. 1882-1920) m. Dora REICHSTEIN
Samuel m. Fanny FROSH

Please respond directly to my email.

Thank you.

Michael Pink
kel-ann@email.msn.com

Also Researching:

SAFIER, AXELROD, GOLIGER, FREEDMAN, Tarnopol, Poland
NUSS, BRAKER, Szczebrzesyn, Poland
POMS, Redguil, Volhynia, Russia

I am looking for *any* information on two shtetls near Tarnow. One is
Zbylitowska Gora, 3.7 miles southwest of Tarnow, and the other is
Rzdedzin, 3 miles east of Tarnow.

I am researching ancestors named ADLER and KREPS >from Zbylitowska Gora
and ancestors named BAUM and MILLER >from Rzdedzin.

Thanks!

Eric L. Adler
Hanau, Germany
s1709mp@email.hanau.army.mil

Many thanks for this interesting and useful suggestion. I can understand
how a woman might be Christina, as you show, and being called Tina the
possibly Christian aspect would presumably be ignored or forgotten. But
I'm still left with men named Christian whether as forename or surname.
That
is more blatant and open and, apart >from the forename being shortened to
Chris, not easily concealed if one wished to do so.

But I'm grateful to you for your interest.

Harold Pollins
----------
Dick Plotz wrote:

Harold Pollins asks about Jews with "Christian" as a forename.