Dominique Dubois wrote to Austria-Czech SIG on May 16th asking for information about a female member of the SCHWARZENBERG family, who secretly organised help for Jewish families, mainly in the form of

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Where can documents related to official name changes >from 1917 of Viennese residents be found? What information might such documents contain? In particular, would they indicate whether the old or new

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The Fine family of Dallas who worked with the Cz Torah Network www.czechtorah.org have informed me that Bob Curry's documentary "Dancing With Torah" has just been notified that it was accepted, by the

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Dear JGenners, I have a great uncle whose profession is listed in German as "privat beamter." I have never found an adequate translation of this phrase. One list of German professions translates "priv

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I'm hoping that others out there may help me find out more about my great-great grandfather and his family. My g-g-grandfather went by the names Edward and Robert GOLDSCHMIDT in America, and married S

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As long as we are mentioning POLLAKs, I am interested in the POLLAK family from Porstejov (Prossnitz), Moravia. Randy Schoenberg Los Angeles, CA

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In a 1768 Census of Jewish Taxpayers of Deutschkreutz, Sopron county, Habsburg Hungary, a number of taxpayers are listed as "Pinkel Jud" or "Pinkel Juden". Someone >from another list asked me for the

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I believe the generally accepted date for this, in the Habsburg empire, is 1867 when the last disabilities on the Jews were abolished in the context of the establishment of the Austro-Hungarian monarc

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Pinkeljude was a poorest hawker (dealer with cheapest goods and scrap). Search in (Ignaz Briess - Ghettoleben - unfortunately only in German) http://www.schroefl.com/en/biographien/ignaz_briess/index.

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I have tried for several days to enter the above mentioned site, which I benefit >from very much without success. The MS Explorer 8 goes simply down. Is something wrong with my computer or are other e

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I today received a copy of a 1878 Hamburg manifest that gives my KOHN gggg-grandparents' town of origin as Chanowitz or Hanowitz, Bohemia. ShtetlSeeker gives a lot of possible alternatives for this to

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Hi list, I use four different sources to find a connection between a certain ancestor of mine. Marriage certificates, birth certifictes, Familanten book entries and the 1792/94 Prague Jewish Census. I

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Joe Lonstein wrote: "I've been searching for descendents of a cousin of my great-grandmother's, and a POT at Yad Vashem that I can't believe I never noticed before leads me to a survivor who lived in

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In a message dated 9/11/2008 10:41:46 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, _catherine@... (mailto:catherine@...) writes: Can anyone help me translate this document please. _http:

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With reference to this correspondence, please look at this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cam37/668227490/ Click on "all sizes" above the picture. My great-aunt, Hermine SCHIFFMANN {nee KOHN} obviously

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At the Austria Czech SIG meeting, a resolution was passed thanking Celia Male for all her contributions to the SIG Mailing list. Later that same day I was on e-mail reading the SIG news and saw the in

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Regarding irritation at Haases' inquiry about the origins of surnames, it might be useful to mention that there is a link to an archive of messages generated by this SIG located in the middle column i

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Karen Sanders found someone on a headstone of a relative she don't know as a relative.Peter Hass has also found an "unconnected" person. In the case of Karen's question about a T(h)urmann grave the an

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In a message dated 9/9/2008 12:12:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, _haases@... (mailto:haases@...) writes: <<I have to admit that I'm not well-read on the subject of "surnames", but it has

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Hi all, I was reading through the emails regarding the marriage restrictions for Jews in Bohemian in the early 1800s. I was told that my ancestor Chanoch Henich GLUCK came >from Prague, Bohemia to Pap

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