Hello Everyone,
I've posted 2 vital records in Polish for which I need a translation. They are on ViewMate at the following addresses
http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83560 and VM83559.
Please respond via the form provided on the ViewMate image page.

Thank you very much.
Walter S. Elias, St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA

1. 

There is a fairly well documented tree with Israel Noah Halper[in] 
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/158391132/person/342079124950/facts?_phsrc=FPl2925&_phstart=successSource

Paul

" Mormons no longer baptise the deceased."

Mormons no longer baptize deceased Jews unless they are their ancestors. They baptize their ancestors and random others from records, but not Jewish records.

But since it is a wasted effort, why do we care? They are doing us a big service by providing us records and a free internet genealogy site. I know that some people are sensitive, but they aren't accomplishing anything by waving their hands over dead people's records.

Sally Bruckheimer
Princeton, NJ

I agree with Ellen on both counts.  Last I checked, there is still a synagogue in Athol--maybe it has some records. The one in Gardner closed a few years ago.  These were and are both small towns.  You can check my synagogue chart on jgsgb.org for more information.
Carol Isenberg Clingan

<<These families came to Fitchburg, Gardner, Athol, Worcester in western Massachusetts starting around 1907.  The Friedson's moved on to Springfield and some of the Aisenberg's moved to Leomister...why did Jews settle in that area.>>

Bob,

My guess would be industry.  These areas were all riverside industrial centers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and they attracted many immigrants to work in the mills.   Gardner was the "furniture capital of New England."  Leominster was known for its comb industry (and later, plastics).  Fitchburg was on a rail line between Boston and Albany, and machine tools, clothing, and paper were all produced there.  Textiles and leather were among the goods made in Athol.  Immigrants probably managed or owned some of the factories, too. 

BTW, I wouldn't characterize these cities as being in western Massachusetts, but rather north-central Massachusetts.  

Ellen Morosoff Pemrick



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Researching WEISSMAN/VAYSMAN (Ostropol, Ukraine); MOROZ and ESTRIN/ESTERKIN (Shklov & Bykhov, Belarus); LESSER/LESZEROVITZ, MAIMAN, and BARNETT/BEINHART/BERNHART (Lithuania/Latvia); and ROSENSWEIG/ROSENZWEIG, KIRSCHEN, and SCHWARTZ (Botosani, Romania)

Thank you everyone for your help! I was able to learn that Kośna is a street name in Radom and still is a street there. And that the number is 10.

Best,
Andrew Cooke

Thank you for the review and the tip, Peter!

Another cool way to do a project like this was posted by Dale Markowitz, a Google engineer, on her blog at:
https://daleonai.com/building-an-ai-powered-searchable-video-archive

She used artificial intelligence to index and search all the transcriptions and the images created in an archive of all her family videos (30 plus years worth!)
It requires more technical skills than I have, but it is pretty fascinating to think about. Maybe, someday . . . .

Peggy Mosinger Freedman

I try to find out if that family where Levyim. Who knows and may be even has kehilla registration documents.

In 1925 my 21 year-old mother, Zelda (Zena) ECHTMAN, came from Odessa
(then Russia, now Ukraine) to her brother in Detroit (who spelled his
name ACHTMAN). She then worked for a year in New York, while living
with the family of an uncle named KAMINSKY, before returning to
Detroit. Kaminsky was her mother's maiden name. My mother lost touch
with the Kaminsky uncle(s?) in New York and I don't know their names
or where they lived in NYC. My mother tried searching for her cousins
when on a visit to New York some 40 years on. She found three pages of
Kaminskys in the Manhattan phone book alone and gave up.
There was also a Kaminsky uncle in Detroit but I never knew his first
name - he was always Uncle Kaminsky (it was a family joke - he was
born at the same time as his nephew, my mother's oldest brother). The
name Kaminsky itself is very common.
My mother's father's name, Echtman, is an unusual name in Russia,
according to Yad VaShem records but apparently more common in Poland.
Years ago I hired someone in Russia to find records. She found my
grandfather's death certificate, confirming what I had already heard
about when and how he died, plus that of someone else named Echtman
that I never heard of. She found no other records.
Basically I've run into brick walls in every direction.
Is there anyone else on JewishGen with a connection to these names and places?
Thank you,
Yehuda Berman
Efrat, Israel
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Yehuda Berman

In JOWBR, Banat, by clicking on the right on Full Burial Record, it says the date of death is 8 Jul 1983.
I am not sure how to get to the original record in the book for this recent of a date.
Larry Bassist
Springville, Utah, USA

If the company does not refund the renewal, you can protest it with your credit card.

In my browser it is not actually part of the page, but there is a Google Translate box in the upper right about 1 inch tall by about 2 inches wide that says: that has options for Ukrainian and English. It opens with Ukrainian highlighted above it, but you can click on English. It only shows up for me when I first click the link to the page to begin with. I am using Google Chrome browser.
Larry Bassist

I came across Libedinsky family that lives in Argentina when I was working on someone's tree. They also have at least one part of the family that came from Odessa. Did you encounter Juniter/Yuniter surname in your research?

Alicia,
Please provide the name of the person and the dates involved. That will help see if these records are easily available or more difficult to find. Also, if you can post the original image of where you got the information that would be helpful.
Larry Bassist
Springville, Utah, USA

A number of years ago when I was Chairman of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain, we raised this subject with the Mormon Church here in the UK.  We received an absolute assurance that the Mormons no longer baptise the deceased.  I do hope that this is still the case.
For my part I find Family Search very useful.

Perhaps someone could now ask the Mormon Church whether the assurance they gave to us, still applies?

Martyn Woolf
London 

Miriam,

What I found on Filae

Michel HAMANY, born 23 March 1925, Sefrou, Fès-Meknès, Maroc, death 15 May 1981 Paris France
Dora HAMANY-BULWARD, born 7 September 1935, Paris France, death 1990 Paris France
no INSEE records...

kind regards,
Pascale Hollande, Monnetier-Mornex, Haute-Savoie, France

Dr. Ash (or anyone): Can you also kindly translate the name of the rabbi? (See attachment.)
Dan Oren
Woodbridge, Connecticut USA
(Searching for Kochn/Kohen from Markuszów)

Dear Group,

I'd appreciate help with this birth record - http://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM83547

Specifically with regards to the text in

(1)  the yellow box (father's occupation )
(2)  the blue box (Name of Shamesh / Sandek)

Thank you! -Yaron

Thank you!

The Southern District Court covered Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester counties.  However, people were free to file in whichever court was most convenient for them, so they might have done so if they worked nearby, or if the court calendar fit their schedule better.

The naturalization records from this court for the period 1824-1945 are available online for free (registration required) from the comfort of your home:  https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/51903 .  Using the petition number that you obtained from the index, scroll down the catalog page until you locate the corresponding "roll", then click on the camera icon.

Regards,
David Oseas

Researching:
HYMAN/HEYMAN/HEIMOWITS/CHAJMOVITS: Zemplen-Dobra, Hungary > New York
KLEIN: Satoraljaujhely (Ujhely), Hungary > New York > Los Angeles
KRONOWITH: Hungary > New York
OSEAS/OSIAS/OSIASI/OZIAS: Iasi, Romania > Chicago > Milwaukee > Los Angeles
SCHECHTER/SHEKTER: Kishinev, Bessarabia > New York  
SHERMAN: Iasi, Romania > New York > Los Angeles
STRUL:  Iasi, Romania > Haifa, Israel
WICHMAN: Syczkowo (Bobruisk), Belarus > Milwaukee > Los Angeles