I request a translation from German to English or French for the following posts I sent through viewmate (there are 4 posts, but in fact they correspond to one single letter which is very long and which I devided into 4 parts).

It was written in May 1939 by my father's sister who was in Kobylnica Ruska, then in Lemberg with my grand father and sisters. My father had left to Italy where he probably received the letter. I would thank you for a translation as complete as possible, knowing that many words are difficult to read.

Thanks a lot ! I am trying to imagine my father's life as he never talked about it, it was probably too painful.

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM85200

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM85201

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM85202

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM85203

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Thank you very much.

Rose Katz-Assor

It was written in May 1939 by my father's sister who was in Kobylnica Ruska, then in Lemberg with my grand father and sisters. My father had left to Italy where he probably received the letter. I would thank you for a translation as complete as possible, knowing that many words are difficult to read.

Thanks a lot ! I am trying to imagine my father's life as he never talked about it, it was probably too painful.

https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM85200
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM85201
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM85202
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM85203
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you very much.

Rose Katz-Assor

As stated in several replies, information in databases should only be corrected if the indexer clearly misread the original record. No information absent from the original record should be added.

You can post a tree to FTJP including any information known to you from family history, if you believe this to be correct. (I have some seemingly official documents where my grandmother, who was substantially older than my grandfather, adjusted her birth date by 10 or more years...).

In my first effort at indexing records, when I was still coming to terms with old German, I remember deciphering a newborn's given name as Hans, and later realized it was Isaac. If in doubt, always try to find the original record, and post to Viewmate if you need help.

At present I am busy double checking an old file that has been up on JRI-Poland for some time, correcting some misread items, but mainly eliminating hypothetical suggestions that were nowhere in the records and may be potentially misleading.

Nineteenth century records were not exact. They provide any information the informant provided, and the clerk chose to register. In my extended family, there's an individual with given name Chaim in some of his children's birth records, Joachim in 1834 naturalization records, and Heymann in his son's 1887 death record. Genealogy develops creativity and lateral thinking.

Happy hunting,

Nicole Heymans, near Brussels, Belgium

Jay,

A Google search found this on GoogleBooks. 

B'nai Moishe Alexandrovsky is cited in an index in the book listed below the citation.

Ben Shloime, “The History of B'nai Moishe,” B'nai Moishe Alexandrovsky Benevolent Aid Society, 1909—1934 (no publication data)

Labor in Retreat: Class and Community Among Men's Clothing Workers of Chicago, 1871 1929. By Youngsoo Bae. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001.

Regards,

Sherri Bobish

WOW!  What a well thought out approach and diversified plan of action. Our thinking is along the same lines, but I am far behind you. Thank you so much for this response.

Reba Harris Solomon, New York