Linda, 
Can you please provide a search strategy for accessing these Remittance Lists online?  Are they found in any particular collection?
Many thanks,

Alicia Weiss

Greetings!  I have encountered a headstone of one ESTHER URETSKY whom I suspect is the sister of my great-grandmother ROSE URETSKY.  But, I may very well be mistaken because I noted her maiden name URETSKY remains on the headstone.

This raises the question for me, in Soviet times (she died in 1973 in Kalinkovichi, Belarus), was it customary to engrave the maiden name of the decedent, or the married surname?  I see no reference to a spouse on this headstone. 

But clearly she had a son Aizik who appeared to perish in WWII:

Can someone make a suggestion as to why my 4th cousin once removed, Max KIRCHHEIMER (KIRK) who said in his citizenship papers that he married Alice FREUDENTHAL in Chicago on 12 Nov 1938, whose 1940 census shows him living as married with Alice, her parents, siblings and their baby, should show up in a Cook County marriage index as marrying her on 27 Oct 1950?

What reason might there be for marrying the same person again? There is no indication that they were divorced in between.

Hanna Grossman, Arlington, VA

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VM-82652

In Russian:

(не ясно)

ОШСКИЙ ОБЛАСТНОЙ ОТДЕЛ

Метной Промышленности

                    Удостоверение

Настоящее выдано Ронштейну Виктору Хаймовичу в том, что он, с 1943 года, работал в системе Ошского Областного Управления Местной Промышленности а именно с 1-го мая 1943 года по 1-го июня 1944 года в качестве технического бухгалтера Ошского Горпромкомбината, с 1-го июня 1944 года по 1 января 1945 года Главным Бухгалтером Ошского Горпромкомбината по 1-е Января 1945 года и с 1-го января 1945 года по 1-е апреля 1946 года Старшим Бухгалтером Ошского Быткомбината, и за время своей работы Ронштейн знание дела оправдал и к порученной ему работе относителся добросовестно и аккуратно.

Директор Комбината    подпись

Начальник Областного

Управления местной

промышленности          подпись

Translate into English:

(it is not clear)

OSH REGIONAL DEPARTMENT

Mete Industry

                    Certificate

The present was issued to Ronshtein Viktor Khaimovich in the fact that, from 1943, he worked in the system of the Osh Regional Office of Local Industry, namely from May 1, 1943 to June 1, 1944 as a technical accountant in Osh City Industrial Complex, from the 1st From June 1944 to January 1, 1945, the Chief Accountant of the Osh City Industrial Complex on January 1, 1945 and from January 1, 1945 to April 1, 1946, the Senior Accountant of the Osh City Complex, and during his work, Ronshtein justified his knowledge of the work entrusted to him was conscientious and accurate.

Director of the factory      signature

Head of Regional

Local management

industry                            signature

VM-82801

In Russian:

Состоялось в городе Коло 18-го (31-го) августа 1909 года, в 10 часов утра явились лично Мордка Гринфельд, торговец 30-и лет от роду, постоянный житель города Леичицы, временно проживающий в городе Коло, в присудствии свидетелей Ицека Рубина, религиозного служителя, 47-и лет и Нахмана Орбера, торговца, 52-х лет проживающих в городе Коло и предъявили нам младенца мужского пола, объявляя, что он родился в городе Коло двенаддцатого (двадцать пятого) августа текущего года в 8 часов утра, от законной жены его Ривки, урожденной Липшиц, 39-и лет.  Младенцу сему при обрезании дано имя “Хаим".  Акт сей объябляю ему и свидетелям, прочитан и затем нами присутствующими подписан

Мордка Гринфельд, Нахман Орбер,

Ицек Рубин  

Содержащий акты гражданского состояния     Подпись

Translate into English:

Held in the city of Kolo on August 18 (31), 1909, at 10 a.m., Mordka Greenfeld, a 30-year-old merchant, a permanent resident of Leicice, temporarily residing in the city of Kolo, personally arrived, in the presence of witnesses Itzek Rubin, a religious minister, 47 years old, and Nachman Orber, a merchant, 52 years old, living in the city of Kolo and presented us with a male baby, announcing that he was born in the city of Kolo on the twelfth (twenty-fifth) August of this year at 8 a.m. the legal wife of his Rivka, nee Lipschitz, 39 years old. When circumcised, the baby is given the name “Chaim.” I declare this act to him and the witnesses, read it and then signed by us present

Mordka Greenfeld, Nachman Orber,

Itsek Rubin

Civil Status Signature

The dissertation linked below may be of interest to you. It includes several tables that show which Yiddish names Jewish immigrants’ American names typically correspond to. 

From Rochel to Rose and Mendel to Max: First Name Americanization Patterns Among Twentieth-Century Immigrants to the United States:
 
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2840&context=gc_etds

Best wishes,
Bess