I’m looking for someone who could find the gravesite of Joseph ha Kohen Theil 1827-june 8, 1898 and send a picture to me. His wife was Rose buried in the same place. They are my second great grandparents.
Carole Hoffman Brewster
Delray Beach FL

I don’t know what the cause was, but my great-great grandfather was missing a part of his forefinger.  It is visible in pictures and is noted in his WWI draft card.  His brother-in-law was also missing several fingers on his right hand (noted to n his draft card as “lost fingers”).

How amazing that somebody else -- hello Beulah Gross! -- has been looking into this person at the same time as me! I think Sare Czarne Margulies is in fact not a Margulies but a Goldreich. Here is why...

The 1828 Lublin death record of Judka Goldreich, my 1C 5R, says that among his nine surviving children is a daughter named Sura Czarne living in Lwow.
There are very few records for any Sura Czarne at the Gesher Galicia database. Those there are indicate there was one Sura Czarne married to Herz Gross.
Most of the birth records of the children of that couple do not give the mother's maiden name. Then there is that one dismaying 1836 Lwow birth record that calls her Margulies. Back to that in a moment.

The 1853 Ozarow record of the marriage of my Sura Czarne Goldreich, daughter of Judka and Ruchla Goldreich, to Szol Dawid Cukier says she was divorced from a Mr Gross! His first name is not mentioned.

So my Sura Czarna had been living in Lwow and had been married to a Mr Gross. There is no proof that the wife of Herz Gross is my Sura Czarna. But if she is not, then my Sura Czarna and her Mr Gross have made no appearance at all in the Lwow records so far extracted and online for us to enjoy and they remain entirely bathed in darkness. A bit odd but possible.

So what of the Margulies mention? Two things come to mind. 1. The clerk simply had a brain fart. 2. Sura Czarna had had yet another husband, a first one named Margulies, before she hitched up with Herz Gross. Mr Margulies then died or they divorced. As she was born around 1794 (according to her tombstone inscription in Warsaw), she would have had time for a previous husband. During the registration of the birth of Josef Salomon Gross, the story got a bit blurry and the clerk noted down the former married name of the mother as the maiden name. I have been hunting for a Goldreich-Margulies marriage record but not found one yet.

 

So what is the truth? Your thoughts? Is there anybody out there who can solve the mystery?

The 1828 Lublin death record is here:
http://szukajwarchiwach.pl/35/1753/0/1.3/23/str/1/2/100/ANQXUmEZGJCXR1MQRqGd5w/#tabSkany

The 1853 Ozarow marriage record is here:
http://metryki.genbaza.com/genbaza,detail,104515,38

The 1836 Lwow birth record is here:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS9T-T99G-C?i=690&cat=1343978

I am sorry this post is so long.

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Grandmother with 2 fake birth certificates

My grandmother Elke, no surname given – she had 6 of them – had two fake
birth certificates. She didn't buy them though. She first needed one
when she had fled to Vienna in 1914 and wanted to marry. Her mother in
Tarnopol, Austrian Galicia, went to Russia to get one from her niece,
who was appr. of the same age. As Elke said: In Russia one didn't need
papers. The second birth certificate was also fake, some rabbi in Poland
wrote one in 1938 so my grandmother could make it into exile in Great
Britain. This one had the correct date and name but wrong place of birth.

Sincerely,

Helen Krag, Copenhagen

researching: SOBEL, WOLFZAHN, ROSENSTRAUCH, SZWICER, TROMPETER,
KÖNIGSBERG, all in Galicia and Vienna

My paternal GF was from Austria (he always said Vienna). My father always said that his father was deaf in one ear because he punctured his ear drum to avoid being drafted into the Russian army.

Yes, my great grandfather injured one of his eyes to avoid the Russian Army draft during the Russo-Japanese War which started in 1905. He eventually emigrated to the USA in 1925.

My husband's family has written stories about people cutting off a finger.   I think is was the pointer finger, not the thumb.   There was also a story of them making themselves weak and sick by drinking something bad.  

Dear Linda, does it look to you as if these heads are out of proportion
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Could someone have glued on photos of someone else?
Pondering,
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Heves megye is Heves county, Hungary. Though it's hard to see where that would connect to the two places you mentioned. Movement was generally from Galicia to Hungary, not the other way around.

Whatever are you referring to? Such a cryptic reply is of no use.

Barbara Mannlein
Tucson, AZ