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Glenda Rubin
San Francisco Bay Area
Researching: STRYZEWSKI, STRAUSS, JANOFSKY, JANOFF, OBODOV, WERNICK, GREENBERG, KROCHAK. Shtetls: Lipovets, Ilintsy, Pliskov, Starokonstantinov, Krasilov

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Peter LEBENSOLD
Toronto

Have you thought of finding s street directory for pre-war Brooklyn and
and with a street map finding the likely street where Simcha and his
family might have lived? It can't have been all that far from your
aunt's house. . Then you could try perhaps the nearest census or a
directory for Schechters (seven of them) in just those few streets.

Eva Lawrence
St Albans, UK
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Eva Lawrence
St Albans, UK.

Steve,

The usual route for emigrants from Germany and northern Europe was by ship from Hamburg to Hull or Grimsby on the east coast of England, thence by train to Liverpool where they would board another ship to the US or Canada. This was in the days before passports were required and, as they were only 'passing through', no UK record was made of their arrival or departure.

Emigrants from southern Europe to the US and Canada usually travelled through Cherbourg (France) and Southampton (England), although other departure ports on the mainland of Europe were sometimes used.

Henry Best,
London, UK.

I also knew someone who had lost the top joints of two fingers on one
hand. He was born around 1905 in Posen. We were told that he had lot
them in the war, but I've always wondered, after hearing these sorts of
stories.

Eva Lawrence
St Albans, UK
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Eva Lawrence
St Albans, UK.

I have the journal of my 4x great-grandfather who led a group of emigrants  sailing from Antwerp to New Orleans in 1852. Even in those days you needed papers to embark from Antwerp, but he reported that any old papers seemed to do. They all had to show their ID to the local police, who really weren't bothered..  One man offered his children's vaccination certificate, and my ancestor himself  signed an official-looking piece of paper for a man fleeing from the Prussian police. 
In New Orleans, there was no call for ID.  This was of course before the Civil War, and laws were different in different states, All the examples so far seem to be from the 20th century, and I'm sure controls were stricter.by then.  

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Eva Lawrence
St Albans, UK.

TRUST YOU to come up with this ingenious method!  I was all excited! UNTIL.....I realized that the people about whose travel I'd love to find out more about had each stayed for awhile in England (one of them about 3 years, her husband about 5 months, as far as I can figure)!  So it was not a continuous trip for either (nor for the family who may be relatives).  Also - it's the leg from "Russia" to England that I've never found, for either of them, so - but Hope Springs Eternal, I guess.

Martha Forsyth
Newton, MA

Today I wanted to reply privately to a responder on a message.  I could not figure out HOW to do that - except to physically copy the message, and put it into a separate email message from my regular email!

Is there a better way? or have I just not found it?

Martha Forsyth
SHEKHTER, TELESHEVSKY

The Yizkor-Books-In-Print Project is pleased to announce its 86th
title: Memorial Book of Kobylnik (Narach, Belarus) , Translation of
Sefer Kobylnik

Original Yizkor Book Edited by Yitzhak Siegelman
Published in Haifa, 1967 in Hebrew and Yiddish
By Committee of Former Residents of Kobylnik in Israel

Hard Cover, 11” by 8.5”, 394 pages with all original illustrations and
photographs.
The Memorial Book of Kobylnik was written by former residents of
Kobylnik Belarus. Some who left the town before the war wrote articles
and essays about the rich Jewish life in town: the people, the
dreamers, the doers, the ultra-religious, the secular, the Zionists,
the socialists…The various institutions in town, the charities and the
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Located at 54 deg 56 ‘ North Latitude and 26 deg 41’ East Longitude 80
miles NNW of Minsk
Alternate names: Narach [Belarussian, since 1964], Kobylnik [Russian,
Polish, until 1964], Kobilnik [Yiddish], Kabylnik [Belarussian, until
1964], Kobilniki, Naracz [Polish, since 1964], Naroch' [Russian, since
1964], Narac [Belarussian], Narocius [Lithuanian], Narutch

Nearby Jewish communities:

◦ Myadzyel 11 miles ESE

◦ Svir 13 miles WSW

◦ Pastavy 14 miles NNE

◦ Adutiskis, Lithuania 15 miles NNW

◦ Lyntupy 17 miles WNW

◦ Stajetiske, Lithuania 18 miles NNW

◦ Mikhalishki 22 miles WSW

◦ Dunilavicy 24 miles ENE

◦ Mielagenai, Lithuania 24 miles NNW

◦ Svencionys, Lithuania 25 miles NW

I just discovered that my Sura Czarna Goldreich was indeed the wife of a Leybus Chaim Margules, a kupiec / merchant living in Brody, when she gave birth to their son Maness Margules in Lublin on 28 August 1814. The birth was reported by Scharya Mendel Moszkowicz Goldreich, grandfather of the baby's mother. In the record she is called 'Sora z Judkowiczów'. These are the right people. The baby was born in my family's house, Nr.482, which is still there though no longer ours. So I think I can greet Beulah Gross and her husband as new blood relatives!

The 1814 Lublin birth record is here:

https://szukajwarchiwach.pl/35/1858/0/1/13/str/1/1/100/eTRm17kP6rCgo08nhGhOGw/#tabSkany

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My maternal grandfather was Harry Finkelstein of Ustilug. I can not find a birth date (approx 1860), marriage date to Yetta Wagner, or death date (approx 1905). He never left Ustilug.

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Researching:MARCUS, ZELICOVICI, BUNIN, WALDMAN, WISHNEFSKY, ABRAMSON, CIURARU

My Great Great Uncle was a Barber in What is now Belarus. He was called The Crippler. For a small fee he would cut off some fingers so men could avoid the Czar’s draft. The period of service was 25 years. Avoiding the draft was a big reason men fled the area under Russian rule. After 25 years, they were lost to their families and Judaism.

Search for families from Belarus and Ukraine with various spellings of these last names:
ROMONOFSKY, SCHWEITZER, LIPSHITZ, DULLINKOFF, SCHWARTZ, SRULOWITZ

The Yizkor-Books-In-Print Project is pleased to announce its 86th
title: Memorial Book of Kobylnik (Narach, Belarus) , Translation of
Sefer Kobylnik

Original Yizkor Book Edited by Yitzhak Siegelman
Published in Haifa, 1967 in Hebrew and Yiddish
By Committee of Former Residents of Kobylnik in Israel

Hard Cover, 11" by 8.5", 394 pages with all original illustrations and
photographs.
The Memorial Book of Kobylnik was written by former residents of
Kobylnik Belarus. Some who left the town before the war wrote articles
and essays about the rich Jewish life in town: the people, the
dreamers, the doers, the ultra-religious, the secular, the Zionists,
the socialists.The various institutions in town, the charities and
the help societies for the needy.

For all our publications see: https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/ybip.html

For ordering information see:
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip/YBIP_narach.html
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ybip@jewishGen.org

List price: $53.95 Available on Amazon for around $40 may have lower
prices elsewhere

Order for a surprise Purim gift for a special relative!!

Located at 54 deg 56 North Latitude and 26 deg 41 East
Longitude 80 miles NNW of Minsk
Alternate names: Narach [Belarussian, since 1964], Kobylnik [Russian,
Polish, until 1964], Kobilnik [Yiddish], Kabylnik [Belarussian, until
1964], Kobilniki, Naracz [Polish, since 1964], Naroch' [Russian, since
1964], Narac [Belarussian], Narocius [Lithuanian], Narutch

Nearby Jewish communities:

* Myadzyel 11 miles ESE

* Svir 13 miles WSW

* Pastavy 14 miles NNE

* Adutiskis, Lithuania 15 miles NNW

* Lyntupy 17 miles WNW

* Stajetiske, Lithuania 18 miles NNW

* Mikhalishki 22 miles WSW

* Dunilavicy 24 miles ENE

* Mielagenai, Lithuania 24 miles NNW

* Svencionys, Lithuania 25 miles NW

The Yizkor-Books-In-Print Project is pleased to announce its 86th
title: Memorial Book of Kobylnik (Narach, Belarus) , Translation of
Sefer Kobylnik

Original Yizkor Book Edited by Yitzhak Siegelman
Published in Haifa, 1967 in Hebrew and Yiddish
By Committee of Former Residents of Kobylnik in Israel

Hard Cover, 11" by 8.5", 394 pages with all original illustrations and
photographs.
The Memorial Book of Kobylnik was written by former residents of
Kobylnik Belarus. Some who left the town before the war wrote articles
and essays about the rich Jewish life in town: the people, the
dreamers, the doers, the ultra-religious, the secular, the Zionists,
the socialists.0The various institutions in town, the charities and
the help societies for the needy.

For all our publications see: https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/ybip.html

For ordering information see:
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/ybip/YBIP_narach.html
Discounts available for orders of 4 or more books: email to
ybip@jewishGen.org

List price: $53.95 Available on Amazon for around $40 may have lower
prices elsewhere

Order for a surprise Purim gift for a special relative!!

Located at 54 deg 56 North Latitude and 26 deg 41 East
Longitude 80 miles NNW of Minsk
Alternate names: Narach [Belarussian, since 1964], Kobylnik [Russian,
Polish, until 1964], Kobilnik [Yiddish], Kabylnik [Belarussian, until
1964], Kobilniki, Naracz [Polish, since 1964], Naroch' [Russian, since
1964], Narac [Belarussian], Narocius [Lithuanian], Narutch

Nearby Jewish communities:

* Myadzyel 11 miles ESE

* Svir 13 miles WSW

* Pastavy 14 miles NNE

* Adutiskis, Lithuania 15 miles NNW

* Lyntupy 17 miles WNW

* Stajetiske, Lithuania 18 miles NNW

* Mikhalishki 22 miles WSW

* Dunilavicy 24 miles

* Mielagenai, Lithuania 24 miles NNW

* Svencionys, Lithuania 25 miles NW