Dear Everyone,

I hope my note finds you well, safe from the pandemic. Would anyone have experience in obtaining a picture of a tombstone from the Lodz Cemetery? I looked up the person of interest at: http://www.jewishlodzcemetery.org/EN/CemeteryPlan/Default.aspx?Q=true&SearchPhrase=kubiec 
I found that Kubiec, Leib Alter, who passed away 23 Feb 1917, is in section "Szcz" of the cemetery. Is there someone I can ask in Lodz, that can photograph that tombstone?

Thank you and stay safe,
Moishe Miller
Brooklyn, NY
moishe.miller@...
JGFF #3391

Agne, let me post what FamilyTreeDNA says about mtDNA.  The boldface-underline is mine:

mtDNA testing will not be able to identify specific countries that your maternal ancestors came from. mtDNA mutates slowly which allows you to find out ancient information (such as your haplogroup), and will not help you learn about your more recent (within the past 200-500 years) origins. However, you can use mtDNA results with your personal genealogy research to contact your matches to find out more about where your common ancestors may be from.

That means the people with whom you match could have common relatives older than 500 years.  In other words, mtDNA by itself is generally not useful for finding relatives.

"A painter then is the same as a painter now, somebody that puts paint on a surface.  It didn't matter if it was applied inside or outside a building or to a canvas on an easel.  If the person were a rabbi, the manifest would list his profession as a teacher."

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the Christian clerks who wrote the records did not consider rabbis teachers, but ministers or priests of the 'old religion'. In Poland teachers were bakalarz or nauczyciel, and rabbis were duchowny, clergymen.

But yes, a painter is a painter, outside, inside, wherever.

Sally Bruckheimer
Princeton, NJ

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Barbara Ellman
Secaucus NJ USA
HASSMAN, SONENTHAL, DAUERMAN, LUCHS - Drohobycz, Ukraine
HIRSCHHORN, GOLDSTEIN, BUCHWALD - Dolyna, Ukraine
ELLMAN, COIRA, MAIDMAN - Minkovtsy, Ukraine
KAGLE, FASS - Ulanow, Poland

ViewMate - Hebrew translation - 1897 Starokonstantinov Death Records
Cause of Death#ukraine
I have posted 1897 Starokonstantinov Death Records I need the Cause of
Death translated.
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM85293
https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM85294
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.
Thank you very much.
Barry Chernick

Hi Agne, I test as 100% Ashkenazic Jewish, but I have found links to Syria (relatives seeking religious freedom who emigrated to my father's native town in Bessarabia in the 19th century), Brazil and Argentina (relatives fleeing Russian pogroms who settled in South America in the 20th Century), China (formerly from Russia in the 20th century probably pursuing economic opportunities), and Australia and New Zealand (from a branch that had settled in Great Britain originally from Russia). I suggest you follow every possibility; that's what makes genealogy research such fun! And why they call  us "wandering Jews."

Molly Staub

my late father used to refer to "ship painters" - a mildly derisive term for people who decided that they were "painters" during the voyage to america.


....... tom klein, toronto

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....... tom klein, toronto

Jefferey -

In order to offer advice, it would be good to know exactly where this tree is posted.   Can you go to the website and look at the URL and let us know what it starts with?  (For example, the URL for a tree posted on Ancestry will start with ancestry.com or www.ancestry.com.

- Miriam Alexander Baker

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Senior Genealogy Librarian at the Center for Jewish History
New York, NY

Almost all documents that my grandfather Shloyme Postolov filled out show his place of birth as Zhitomir and that is where he lived with his wife and her family and where recently discovered Russian cousins emigrated from . 
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Henry H. Carrey 

From Louis Trachtman (Louis777@...)
Actually the percentages quoted are that of households, not residents.  If the per cent of residents were known, then the entire population could also easily be calculated.
Households can number from one to many more people.

Hi all~

Searching my Mother's side of the family.  

My name:  Stefanie Haftel Warrenbrand
My Mother:  Sylvia Karalefsky Haftel
Her Mother: Frances Gerson (Gerszon)-->New Haven, CT
Her Grandmother:  Bejla (Beala, Bayla) Polejes (Poleyes)/Husband Israel Gerszon-->New Haven, CT
Her Great Grandfather: Juda (Judah? Yehuda) Polejes 

If there is anyone that can help me search Sideways and Further Back in this part of the tree, I'd appreciate it so much!

Thanks!!

Sincerely, Stefanie

My grandfather was a religious scholar in Lutsk i.e. as far as I know , he did not have a marketable skill when he arrived in the U.S. in 1902 . Eventually, he worked with others as a house painter , I don’t know if that was inside or outside , but my father told me that he didn’t make much money because he was always taking time off for the yom-toyvim or to daven during the day . On all the documents such as census etc . his profession was listed as “ painter “ . However , I just noticed that on his ship manifest his profession was also listed as “painter “ .

Some cousins have speculated that he was a “ portrait painter “ in Lutsk . I doubt that , not only because the rabbis frowned upon painting the human form , but also because it was not a good way to make a living .

When I looked at other ship manifests , I noticed that there were a lot of people who put down their professions as “painter” . This leads to me to believe that American relatives had told people that “painter” was an acceptable profession for the American immigration authorities . I can’t believe that there were so many Marc Chagalls among Eastern European Jews .

Does anyone know what “ painter” was likely to mean to Americans and Jewish immigrants in the early part of the 20th century and if it was indeed a profession that relatives told new emigrants to use ?
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Henry H. Carrey 

To: Robin Klainbard
Hello,
Facebook has 2 Israeli listing under the name Altboim. There are also several "Altboim" listing in Patach Tikva...http://www.israelpb.com/Altboim/city/Petah+Tikva

The name Klajnbard is also on my tree. (As you know "J" is like "i" in Polish. Chana (1823-1893) was my 3g gm. Her father/mother were Szmul and Gela. Please let me know
if you have those names on your tree. They were from the area surrounding Warsaw.  Any chance that we are distantly related?
Best,
Nomi Fiszenfeld Waksberg
nwaksberg@...

Stuart,

I agree with David that re-marriage after losing a spouse was a matter of practicality, especially for someone with young children.

However, the Harry Goldstein that passed on in March 1910 was born in 1858.

The Harry Goldstein that married Fannie was born in 1882.

A mistake in the transcription of the death record is a possibility, but assuming it was transcribed correctly this is not Fannie's husband.

Regards,

Sherri Bobish