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Re: Ancestry's Drastic Changes Dash Hopes of Finding Connections
#dna
karen.silver@juno.com
I am afraid that most of us are not very sophisticated when analyzing their DNA matches. While I can match all my first and second cousins, I can only match 7 out of 56 third cousins. The matches on my mother's side often share commonality with the matches on my father's side. So there is no way to discern how these people are related to me.
I am very sorry for those who feel they are being hurt by Ancestry's decision. But I want to remind you that Ancestry is a business and you have other choices for storing and matching your DNA like GEDmatch.
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Maia Aisi
Hi!
My name is Maia and I am from Argentina. I am trying to know about my family history, that may have been Jewish.
My great grandmother MARIA SCHVARTZ came to Argentina around 1912 at the age of 2-3 years with her parents JORGE JACOBO SCHVARTZ and CATALINA FUSCH and settled down in Entre Rios.
I have found a Ship migration record where mentions Georg Shwartz (43 years old) with her wife Marie (42 years old) and Marie (2.5 years old) that departed from Liverpool (coming first from Odessa) on april 1912, and I think they might be them. I really don't know how to continue with the research. I appreciate any information. Thanks for your time!
Regards,
Maia
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Re: Upcoming US & Jewish Genealogy Online Classes
#education
Sally Horn
What time are the classes?
Sally Horn
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Gedcom versions?
#general
June Genis
I asked a relative in Israel to send me a gedcom of her tree on MyHeritage. She asked me whether I wanted version 5.5 or 5.5.1. This the first time I have heard about there being versions of gedcoms. I want to load her tree onto Ancestry to connect it with mine. Which should I ask her to send me? I might also want to load it to Gedmatch.
June Genis
Hemet, CA
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Re: Ides Selzer Morgenstern
#galicia
Sherri Bobish
Milton, Have you searched for records from Trembowla at: https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/Ukraine/ Also, try searching surname SELZER at FamilySearch and/or Ancestry database, and put Trembowla in birthplace field. Also, do the same search with Trembowla in residence field. Try both an exact and soundex search on the town name. Town names in U.S. records often had variant spellings. Regards, Sherri Bobish
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Re: Ancestry's Drastic Changes Dash Hopes of Finding Connections
#dna
JoAnne Goldberg
I for one am happy they got rid of all the noise. My 250,000 matches
have now been pared to a much more manageable 180,000. More significantly, it seems -- perhaps my imagination? -- that the matches are loading faster because the system isn't plowing through so many of them. I wish Ancestry offered more options for customizing, but, baby steps. I do appreciate that tiny segments can have value, but since you can't see chromosomes on Ancestry, you can't really triangulate. Though I use the Shared Matches a lot, it's never clear what I'm looking at since I can't tell if they share with each other. 23andMe is much better in that regard. Because my German side is well documented, Ancestry often points out fifth and sixth cousins to me, people with whom I share minute amounts of DNA, way down in the 100,000s on my list. But do we share that DNA because we have the same 7xgreat-grandparents? Or because most Jews are related a few different ways? I tend to think it's the latter, and without additional info from Ancestry, I have no reason to believe otherwise. I'd rather focus on my top ten mystery matches, and the more tools Ancestry can provide in that regard -- largest segment size has been a huge help -- the better! -- JoAnne Goldberg - Menlo Park, California; GEDmatch M131535
BLOCH, SEGAL, FRIDMAN, KAMINSKY, PLOTNIK/KIN -- LIthuania
GOLDSCHMIDT, HAMMERSCHLAG,HEILBRUNN, REIS(S), EDELMUTH, ROTHSCHILD, SPEI(Y)ER -- Hesse, Germany
COHEN, KAMP, HARFF, FLECK, FRÖHLICH, HAUSMANN, DANIEL -- Rhineland, Germany
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My uncle Mendel Wolf BLAU & Mordka BLAU from Kolbuszowa
#galicia
P Berk
Seeking information about my uncle Mendel Wolf BLAU born Mar 7, 1891 in Kolbuszowa Poland. My mother says she met her uncle Mendel in London after the war on her way to America. I have found no record of him in London. My aunt, mother's sister, completed a Daf Eid with Yad Vashem that Mendel and his daughter Rivkah died in a concentration camp in Poland. My aunt went to Palestine in 1936 and would not have had 1st hand information about what happened during the holocaust. I found no mention of Mendel in the US holocaust database of victims. My aunt wrote the date of birth as 1899 which was closer to the day of birth to Mordka Blau born Jan 13, 1898 in Kolbuzowa. Their mother was Chana Golda Blau, father Schlomo KIra. Any information about Mendel, Rivkah, Mordka, and any family they might have had is most appreciated. Peretz Berk New York NY
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Researching my great-uncle Sergiu Godeanu
#romania
skurbanowski@...
My great uncle on my mother's side was Sergiu Godeanu (born Goldenzweig in Bucharest, Romania in 1896). I have found only one reference to a Sergiu Godeanu here on JewishGen and nowhere else.
I know that he was imprisoned for being a political activist as well as being Jewish, and the reference states that there was a Sergiu Godeanu at Targu Jiu internment camp in the 1940s / 1950s. I do not know why he changed his name. When he was released (date?) he emigrated to Israel and lived in Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv. I do not know when he died. Any more information would be greatly appreciated. Stefan Kurbanowski
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Ludwig Mauskopf
Hi Stuart
There is a group on the Facebook: Jews from Мукачево-Munkács-Mukačevo-Munkatsh https://www.facebook.com/groups/218852678140904 You can try to post this question there. Best regards and Git Shabbos Ludwig Mauskopf.
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Researching my great-grandparents Goldenzweig
#romania
skurbanowski@...
My great-grandparents on my mother's side of the family were Nathan and Rita (Ritta) Goldenzweig who lived in Bucharest, Romania. I cannot find any reference to them on JewishGen or on MyHeritage.com / Ancestry.com. They had two children, a daughter Sylvia (1893-1972) and a son Sergiu (1896-?) who may have changed his name to Godeanu for political reasons.
Both Nathan and Rita would have been born when Romania was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, but of course I don't know if they were born in Romania. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Stefan Kurbanowski
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Re: Polish town Cewck or Cewek
#poland
Alexander Sharon
Replying to David Rosen suggestion regarding Cewice:
Cewice (Zewitz) was not in Poland prior to the end of WWII. This region: Pomorze (German: Pomerania) was allocated by USSR to Poland as the compensation for the lost lands in the East. It appears that the suggested by me town name Cewkow might be also incorrect since according to Jef, the searched locality should be located within Rozan (Ostroleka region) vicinity. The suggested Cewkow location is in historical Galicia. Alexander Sharon JGFF editor
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Re: Ancestry's Drastic Changes Dash Hopes of Finding Connections
#dna
Sarah L Meyer
I got tired of scrolling looking for these - so I went to the shared cM tab and put in 19 cM to 20 cM and they opened right up. Everything above 8 is still there. I am personally having problems finding where 99.9% of my larger matches fit in my tree.
-- Sarah L Meyer Georgetown TX ANK(I)ER, BIGOS, KARMELEK, PERLSTADT, STOKFISZ, SZPIL(T)BAUM, Poland BIRGARDOVSKY, EDELBERG, HITE (CHAIT), PERCHIK Russia (southern Ukraine) and some Latvia or Lithuania https://www.sarahsgenies.com
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Re: Paul STRANSKY Vienna to Paris
#austria-czech
#france
Peter Lowe
Daniela,
Have you contacted Paul's grandson, Nicolas Frédéric Jan Stransky ? https://www.geni.com/people/Nicolas-Stransky/6000000010877743587 Peter Lowe
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Re: Viewmate 85183--translation needed--German
#translation
#germany
Peter Strauss
My mistake, Joseph. The second email does bring up the correct one.
Sorry about that. And also sorry that I can't begin to make out that handwriting. Good luck! Peter Strauss
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt on the JewishGen Facebook page
#yizkorbooks
#poland
Bruce Drake
“When the month of Elul arrives, you immediately sense the special atmosphere that has enveloped the town, the atmosphere of the approaching Yamim Noraim, or Days of Awe.” So begins “On the Holidays,” a chapter from the Yizkor book of Golub-Dobrzyn, Poland, It seems appropriate for this first week of September when hearts and minds of Jews around the world turn to the upcoming High Holy Days. This account traces the change of mood that comes upon the town and how the sense of Judgment Day “places its mark upon every single person.” It moves through the prayers of Rosh Hashana to the solemnity of Yom Kippur. And when the fast day is over, the mood begins to change. “It is as if even the street looks different: the light of a full moon casts a glow over it, chasing the shadows away, as if it wishes to announce a renewed life.” Finally, there is Simchat Torah. The writer of this excerpt tells us: “Anyone who has not seen Simchat Torah being celebrated in the town has never seen true joy.” Bruce Drake Silver Spring MD
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Re: What was Ginsburg & Klausner, S Fallsburg, NY (Catskills) not listed as hotel
#usa
piebrand@...
Hi. I'm a member of the Local History of Sullivan County, NY group on Facebook, so I put the question to them. The only suggestion that came back was that Ginsburg & Klausner were real estate agents, as there are apparently a lot of transactions for them on Google. Hope that helps!
April French London, UK piebrand@... ZEIKOWITZ: Nemerov/Nemeroff, Podlia Gubernia, Russia (now Nemyriv, Vinnytsia, Ukraine) ORENTLICH (ORENDLICH, ORENDLICHMAN, ORENDLICHMANN): Mariiampil/Mariyampil, Ukraine (formerly Marynopil, Russia) JACKSIER/JACKSON (DZIEKSIER, DZECKCIER, ZECHEIER, JEKSIN, SECHZIN): Strusow, Austria (now Strusiv, Ukraine) & Iwanowka (aka Janow), Austria (now Dolyna, Ukraine)
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Re: Polish town Cewck or Cewek
#poland
Susan&David
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On 9/3/2020 11:34 PM, jef barnett via
groups.jewishgen.org wrote:
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Finding siblings of Harry Schwartz in Brooklyn??
#bessarabia
#usa
pschwartz999@...
Trying to find the siblings of Harry SCHWARTZ (1887 in Zanekhov, Ukraine). May have lived in Mogilev-Podolsky.
His parents were Joseph SCHWARTZ (1885-1941) and Belen (Bela) PILDERWEIS SCHWARTZ (1867-1954). Both immigrated to USA and lived in the Bronx, NY. Joseph immigrated in 1909. According to the census there were several siblings: Clara who married Isidor ROITER Abraham (immigrated in 1908) Anna Rachel Beryl
Joseph and Bela divorced at some point, although both are buried at United Hebrew Cemetery on Staten Island, NY. Original name might have been Schwartzman.
We believe that Abraham and other siblings lived in Brooklyn from at least 1940 on. Harry and Abraham were both furrier operators.
Any help with an impossible search on this surname would be appreciated.
Paula Schwartz AVON, CT
Mogilev Podolski, Ukraine (Schwartz, Schwartzman)
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Philip Freidenreich
My maternal grandfather was Aron Eliyahu Wysoker, but he was born in Wysokie Litovsk in 1891. I've always understood that families never took the surname of the town in which they lived. His father was HaRav Yakov Meir HaKohen and his mother was Bryna. According to family lore, his father was the official Rabbi of Wysokie Litovsk in the late 1800s. My grandfather served in either Pilsudski's Legion or in the Russian army in 1918-1919. He was not an officer. Because his two siblings who came to the US in 1920-1921, one male and one unmarried female, also bore the surname Wysoker, it seems unlikely that he changed his surname to try to hide the fact that he was Jewish. So I am trying to figure out the inconsistency between the general rule and the surname.
Phil
Philip Freidenreich
JewishGen Researcher #1797
pfreidenreich@...
Yardley, PA
Researching WYSOKER, FRAJDENRAJCH, HOROWICZ (from Mieleyczyce)
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rroth@...
A fascinating story. I am not an expert in this area but I have to think records from the Red Army at that time were (a) not so good (b) hard to find. and (c) still secret, so I don't like your chances; but will be hopeful to see what you may turn up.
Robert Roth Kingston NY
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