I've posted 3 vital records in Romanian for which I need translations. They are on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98601 https://www.jew

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Hi, Anyone in the group have any connection to the city Oleszyce? Or to the Schwartz family in this town? My Paternal grandfather's mother was Malka Mala, The daughter of Nachmon Walzer and Chaja Rach

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Thanks to Luc Radu and Valentin Lupu who replied to my translation request. The new surname was read as MARINOVICZ or MARINESCU. I read the surname as MARINOVICI as I see 3 dots above the name. Jacob

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Per Council of Ministers Journal of 12 Dec 1934 change of surname to (?) MARINOVICZ was approved. Luc Radu Great Neck, NY

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I've posted a comment in Romanian on a birth record for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address ... https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98588 Pleas

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Thanks for all your answers. Thanks for your answer Sorin. I discovered that Cârpà means fabric in Romanian. As my ancestor was a tailor, maybe his new name comes from there... Colette PETITEAU France

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The Romanian never required Jews by law to adopt family names. The text of Romanian civil laws regarding registration assumed that all had family names. There was never a law that said that all have t

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Odeda, You may have a point there. My great uncle's original name was Yehuda-Leib Cojocariu. So he may have been named after an ancestor named Leib, and he eventually may have used the patronymic "Lei

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In our family, the legend was GGF changed his surname from Sigler to Leizerovici. The legend held until we started finding documents and gravestones. In Vienna, where my Romanian GGF married my Galici

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After years of looking at civil records from Raducaneni and comparing the names with the family names of the people after they immigrated to Canada, it looks like changing one's name was some kind of

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Hello, I've posted a vital record of my GGF, that died in Romania long ago. It is on ViewMate at the following address https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?key=VM98411 Please respond vi

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Hello, My great grandfather's parents changed their surname. My maternal great-grandfather Joseph was born under the name of Rozemblat (rozenblat) in may 1886 in Iasi. His mother Leia (Sin Iancu) died

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Hello frinds, I've posted a wedding record of my greate GP in Romanian for which I need a translation. It is on ViewMate at the following address: https://www.jewishgen.org/viewmate/viewmateview.asp?k

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Ber (Dov) Burstein, the Cief Rabbi of Botosani was born to Rabbi Yichiel Michel, the Chief Rabbi of Yedinetz. More details you may find at https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/yedintsy/yed0353.html, page

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I came across this item sold on an auction website - https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/rabbi-dov-ber-burstein-botosani-401271859 Another site I came across - https://he-m-wikipedia-org.translate.

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Hello All: Among the documents saved by my grandmother I have found several letters from Ber Burstein, Chief rabbi of Botosani Romania during the 1930s & 1940s. I have tried to find more information a

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Hi Dana, My great-grandfather, Leib Swartz, was a fusgeyer. He left Sculeni (the one in Romania, near Iasi, not the one across the river in Moldova) in 1900. He made his was to Hamburg, then Halifax,

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Hi Dana, I hope that some of the following may be of help to you in your research. Best regards, Sherri Bobish At YIVO: http://www.yivoarchives.org/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=32565&q=fusge

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I privately sent you a link to a Facebook page. If you only want to know whether the book contains references to your relatives, email the libraries to inquire whether they would do a look up for you.

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Try the Center for Jewish History, Manhattan, NYC. Isabel Cymerman Southbury, CT Seeking: Cukierman, Grynfarb: Siedlce Cymerman: Przedborz Donznik, Tabacznik: Vilna

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