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Re: I Want My Trees To Outlive Me
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Marcel Apsel
I am also using FamilyTreeMkaker and regularly make an Outline Descendant report on paper. But there is a possibility to add or create new fields on the report. With the facts windows. I have not done it yet with the 2017 version, but on older versions it worked properly.
Marcel Apsel Antwerpen, Belgium
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Re: How to correct information in Jewishgen Databases
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Sheila Toffell
The records that have been uploaded to jewishgen, certainly to JRI-PL, have usually been rudimetarily translated by poeple working for the archives. They are not in depth and names are sometimes not recognized correctly because the translators often are not familiar with Yiddish names. There are jewishgen volunteers who take on the task to go deeper into the record, and the results are uploaded. However, there could be errors at both levels. I have a situation like this with the name of a paternal great aunt, who is listed as Caim, but who was actually Chaia. The fact that this changes the sex of the person listed could have confusing ramifications to a researcher. Luckily, I know the history of this lady. This information was relayed to the moderator for the town for correction. I suggest this is the best solution.
Shelia Toffell
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Re: Were there markings on headstones that identify who the stonecutters were?
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Russ Maurer
One matseva in the cemetery in Jodłowa, Poland (southeast of Tarnów) bears in small Hebrew letters the inscribed name and town of the stonecutter, H. Hojfmeister, Tarnow. He is listed in the Tarnów business directory of that time period (approximately 1930). It can be seen in the attached photo.
Russ Maurer Pepper Pike Ohio
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Re: Jews Orphan Asylum Kent - England
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David Barrett
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Re: Were there markings on headstones that identify who the stonecutters were?
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bussup@...
I have a number of family members buried in a cemetery in Hungary and several of them had the stone cutter's name at the bottom of the stone. These were from the early to mid 1800s.
Alex Skolnick Pennsylvania Hungary: RIGOCZ, KASTRINER, GLEICH, JAKUBOVICS
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Re: I Want My Trees To Outlive Me
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Richard Werbin –
External CD/DVD drives for laptops and desktops remain an option. Plus most desktops still have 5.25” bays, plus SATA power and data connectors, so internal drives are easily added.
If the day arrives when you need to move to a system without these options, then it’s time to copy data to some other medium.
Meanwhile, I would certainly want long-lived storage that I can retain (several copies) and easily distribute additional copies, that does not heavily depend on “the kindness of strangers”. Neither magnetic nor “flash” media are reliable enough for the long haul.
Archival paper -- printed with toner rather than ink – is another option, but it isn’t reliably machine-readable. I have used OCR for both English and Russian text. The output has ALWAYS needed careful proofing and correction.
-David Mason
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Stephen Weinstein
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 06:42 AM, Miriam Bulwar David-Hay wrote:
in Polish there is a stroke through the lThat's not an "L" with a stroke; it's a completely different letter that just looks like an L with a stroke. The letter L (uppercase) / l (lowercase) looks the same in English and Polish. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_alphabet#Letters The letter Ł (uppercase) / ł (lowercase) is another letter. In Polish, it is pronounced similarly to the letter W in English. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81 Stephen Weinstein Camarillo, CA, USA
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Coalition of Guardians Launched--a Project Dealing with Jewish Cemeteries All Over Poland
#announcements
#poland
Jan Meisels Allen
A new initiative: Coalition of Guardians of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland was announced by Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland. It includes a map with all the Jewish cemeteries located in Poland. Each cemetery has its own subpage where one can check who looks after the place. https://cmentarzezydowskie.org/
Note: I am taking the word of “all” from their website. I was not able to find my ancestral towns’ cemeteries listed.
Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee
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I Want My Trees To Outlive Me
#general
YaleZuss@...
Like anything reproducible you want to preserve, the best approach is diversification, i.e., multiple copies on paper, on the computer, on a service, etc. Another place to preserve your data is by sending it periodically to family members who have expressed an interest in it. That gives you copies on other computers and/or hard copy in other places.
I developed my own formatter for my trees, so I can print it out as hard copy or to a .pdf which can then be sent to my mailing list of relatives. At the request of various cousins, I don't post it online. I have one chart and mailing list for each of my great-grandparents; anyone descended from any of them who has expressed interest gets a copy of any tree on which (s)he appears.
There are about two dozen copies of each of the trees floating around in different combinations of the US, Europe, Israel, South America, and the Pacific. Barring simultaneous loss of interest by all of these people, or an Andromeda Strain-type pathogen, the only remaining contingency not addressed is earth being struck by an asteroid. I'm working on that.
Yale Zussman
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Two Dawid APOTHEKER on Sugihara List-Only One Reached Japan-An Enigma
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#lithuania
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YaleZuss@...
Jacob,
This process is discussed at length in "The Fugu Plan: The Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews During World War II" by Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz (1979). While it may not give you the information you're looking for, it will certainly lay out the context in a way that may identify sources you should check.
Yale Zussman
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Re: Were there markings on headstones that identify who the stonecutters were?
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Rodney Eisfelder
Jacquie asked "Were there markings on Jewish headstones that identify who the stonecutters were?"
The answer has to be "sometimes". Some Jewish headstones have markings identifying the stonemason. It is common in some cemeteries, in some periods, but it is not a universal practice. It may be more a matter of the business practices of the (usually non-jewish) stonemason than anything else. Looking at my photos from one of the Jewish sections of St Kilda Cemetery here in Melbourne, I can see several stones with the stone mason identified either by a little metal plaque or a small engraving. Rodney Eisfelder Melbourne, Australia
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Re: Were there markings on headstones that identify who the stonecutters were?
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geoffrey
Here in Melbourne, Australia it is common practice for the stone mason to leave a small plaque with his contact details in a discreet place on the tombstone. Usually in the lower corner of the plinth or base of the setting that surrounds the grave.
Geoffrey Ackerman
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Re: legal name change in New York.
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ewkent@...
Dear Allan Jordan/"A. E. Jordan",
I have not contacted the court involved with my grandfather's name change -- and have not found the name change file. (I'm not as diligent as many other with respect to genealogy.) I do not quite understand what you said in your final paragraph with respect to the New York City Department of Health and birth certificates: I'm not (myself) certain that it could be said that the birth certificate was "reissued" (as I stated, I saw on the microfilm the original certificate with some material added (mostly as hand-stamped text). My research at Ancestry.com (and my impression from what little my father said about this when he was alive) lead me to believe that although (legally) the name change had been completed by September of 1940, neither my grandfather, my grandmother (who probably never used the name "Kent" for herself), nor my father or his 2 brothers publicly used "Kent" until at least 1948 -- so I suspect (although I do not know) that my grandfather (or a lawyer representing him) contacted the Health Department when he finally decided to publicly use his new name -- and that that is what prompted the Health Department to amend the birth certificate to what I saw on the microfilm a few years ago (not "they needed it for something [unspecified] else", then). Ethan W. Kent New York City.
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Re: Other names for Yitzchak?
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Jeff Miller
Many names depending on original location of the family. Variations can include Icek for instance. I’m named after Avraham Yitzhak from the part of Russia that is now Lithuania.
Jeff Miller Maryland
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Re: I Want My Trees To Outlive Me
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Joan Parker
DVDs are not a long term option. Today most laptops & desktops no longer include a DVD / CD reader. It is considered to be an obsolete options and is no longer supported. Yes, that is true but an external DVD player can be bought (mine from Best Buy). I've had mine for about two years and it works very well and is inexpensive.. I also bought much earlier an external hard drive. Joan Parker Past President/Archivist JGS of Greater Miami, Inc. 1) GOLDBERG/ GOULD, GOODSTEIN/GUDSTEIN, BERGER, GERBER/CRAWFORD, JAGODA-Lipno, Plonsk, Plock, Poland-Russia; Warsaw, Poland-Russia; Galveston, TX; Bronx and Brooklyn, NY, Portland, OR, Los Angeles/Hollywood, CA. 2) PARKER/PINKUS, WINOGRAD, (GERSHO-BEROVNA?)., R0SEN, -Brest (Litovsk), Belarus; Grodno, Russia; Bronx and Brooklyn, NY. WEISS, NEIKRUG, DEL PINO--Brooklyn, NY. RABWIN--Hollywood, CA, Salt Lake City, UT. CLAYTON-California. 3) GELFAND, KRITZOFF, KATZ, TROCK --Berezin/Bresin, Kodima, Minsk, Belarus, Bronx, NY, Miami and Miami Beach, FL.
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Seeking Volunteer for Hungarian Burial Records
#hungary
#slovakia
#austria-czech
Vivian Kahn
Nolan Altman was contacted by a woman in Austria who has taken a batch of pictures of matzevot in Jewish cemeteries including Frauenkirchen, Eisenstadt, Dobra Voda and Rusovce. We’re looking for a volunteer to review the photos, some of which include non-Jewish burials, pick out the ones that may be Jewish and enter records into the JOWBR spreadsheet. Nolan can find help for translating those in Hebrew. Please contact me off-list if you are interested in helping with this effort.
-- Vivian Kahn, Santa Rosa, California JewishGen Hungarian Research Director
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Vivian Kahn
Nolan Altman was contacted by a woman in Austria who has taken a batch of pictures of matzevot in Jewish cemeteries in formerly Hungarian areas in Transylvania, now Romania, including Alsojara (Iara), Szilagycseh (Cehu Silvaniei), and Hidalmas. We’re looking for a volunteer to review the photos, some of which include non-Jewish burials, pick out the ones that may be Jewish and enter records into the JOWBR spreadsheet. Nolan can find help for translating those in Hebrew. Please contact me off-list if you are interested in helping with this effort.
-- Vivian Kahn, Santa Rosa, California JewishGen Hungarian Research Director
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Vivian Kahn
Nolan Altman was contacted by a woman in Austria who has taken a batch of pictures of matzevot in Jewish cemeteries including Gyekenes in Somogy and Pecs. We’re looking for a volunteer to review the photos, some of which include non-Jewish burials, pick out the ones that may be Jewish and enter records into the JOWBR spreadsheet. Nolan can find help for translating those in Hebrew. Please contact me off-list if you are interested in helping with this effort.
-- Vivian Kahn, Santa Rosa, California JewishGen Hungarian Research Director
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Re: Searching Hamburg lists for family groups
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erikagottfried53@...
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 09:39 AM, Alan Reische wrote:
HamburgAre you certain that they embarked from Hamburg? Family Search 's Wiki includes links to databases for Bremen, for example. ( https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Bremen_Emigration/Immigration#Online_Databases ) Part of my own family departed from Cherbourg. Another thing to consider is that it was common for many immigrants to sail to England first. My grandfather, for example, sailed from Liverpool. What port he left from to get to Liverpool is anyone's guess. The passenger record I found for him is a U.S. document, but it occurs to me just now that his passage may also have been noted in English passenger records as well (going to follow up on that as soon as I log off!). I have encountered instances for other people in which they appeared in English passenger records but not in U.S. records. -- Erika Gottfried Teaneck, New Jersey
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Re: Were there markings on headstones that identify who the stonecutters were?
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Susan&David
As a regular contributor to tombstone translations on JewishGen's Viewmate (there are more than 7,000 examples) I have seen most of them. I don't remember ever having seen one.
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David Rosen Boston, MA
On 8/29/2020 12:34 PM, Our Jewish Family History Research via groups.jewishgen.org wrote:
Hi all:
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