First, a question (or two): is anyone familiar with the name Chilik, and is it a variant of Zelig? Here's my story. My Jewish name is Zelig, and I've been trying to work out where it came from. None o

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Sounds fascinating and I'd love to read it, but the registration requirements of the platform academia.edu are much too intrusive. Foe example, it requires access to users' contacts. Why? Stephen Katz

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I am in complete agreement with Dr. Blumsohn, and I share his chagrin at the offensive and disrespectful comments directed at him by a previous poster. Further, that previous poster's remarks that gen

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With all due respect to Mr. Schoenberg -- and great deal is due ... I think of him whenever I gaze upon Adele Block-Bauer, now at the Neue Gallerie in NY -- it's a pretty tall statement to say that "a

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I'm grateful to Bill Katz (no relation, as far as I'm aware, but hey, who knows) for his thoughtful and detailed exposition of his bad experiences with geni.com. I have had had the same horrid experie

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Yes, I received via JGFF what is apparently the same message. The sender's initials were EB (I omit the full name out of caution). The message sought contributions to a "Litvak Memorial Garden." I was

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Yes. As a lawyer, I'd suggest that this is the threshold question -- whether or not the art was in fact stolen or unlawfully confiscated. I couldn't read the NY Times article cited by Jan Meisels Alle

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Based on personal experience, I advise anyone who asks not to put a tree on geni.com. To put it simply, you lose control of the tree. I've had several instances of requesting others who've added clear

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The German name for Galicia is Galizien. Someone from Galizien is a Galizianer (male) Galizianerin (female). Daniel Bargman explains interestingly the linguistic root. Stephen Katz New York City

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The Viewmate website says "Image no longer available." Stephen Katz

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Have you tried contacting the IKG Wien directly? The website is https://www.ikg-wien.at. Stephen Katz

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I agree. Share information about deceased relatives only, and even then, no social security numbers or other such sensitive information. Let the other person do the research to find living descendants

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Information on the IKG for Tirol and Voralberg can be found at their website: www.ikg-innsbruck.at/ Here is their contact information: Address: Israelitische Kultusgemeinde für Tirol und Vorarlberg Si

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There's no link to the documents you mentioned.

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Phil Goldfarb's statement that "the term Health Care Provider came from Nazi Germany" is incorrect. 1. One of the two sources he cites, an article on the persecution of pediatricians in Nazi Germany,

The Governor of Massachusetts has proposed legislation that will prevent access to birth, marriage, death, and other previously-public records by anyone but the person requesting the record, or his/he

A few years back I was pleading, without success, for the powers that be to pay attention to records from Novograd-Volinskiy (Zvhil). This important town was largely ignored when it came to translatio

Debbie Lifschitz asked about researching her anctstors with surnames Tedesco and Deutsch, who were possibly from Austria. A great database for Austrian genealogical research is GenTeam. Its web addres

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The new format is not an improvement. It is too complicated to be useful. The ultimate objective of users is to do genealogical research, and the digest should be merely a tool to facilitate research.

A "Fensterreinigungs-Institut" was a window cleaning service. There were such businesses in numerous German towns in the early decades of the 1900s. Stephen Katz

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