Jeff, "Khaidenev" (Koidenav in Yiddish) = Dzyarzhynsk, Belarus See: https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/dzyarzhynsk/overview.html "Traditional/Orthodox Chevrah Anshe Sholom Koidonov (1920-5) at 33 Jeffe

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Two of my great grandparents, Julius Schiller and Rebecca Chanovitz Schiller are buried at the Mount Judah Cemetery in Queens, NY, in the landmanschaft area of the Chevra Anshei Shalom Khaidenev. I ho

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Hello All, I am interested in the last family on the attached image from the 1930 US Census. Does anyone have any ideas about what the notations in the rightmost three columns next to Bernard and Edit

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,From: marjorie short <mjshotstuff@...> Date: Tue, 04 May 2021 06:23:48 -0700 Subject: Re: Searching for American immigration for Jennie Baer #lithuania #usa #general Did you try searching Shien

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I have gotten a number of requests for photos from Mt Zion cemetery after I mentioned I would be heading there in the near future. Do not know the specific timing, maybe Sunday if I am feeling adventu

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You said in your post yesterday that "My mother told me that the reason Max was buried in what she referred to as Brooklyn was that religious rules or customs mandated he be buried across water from w

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Yes - Death certificates, gates, societies and comments are recorded for very many of the records. I have never tested the information on Jewishgen. The problem there is - if the material is available

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I will check with Nolan Altman David Lewin

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Hi Sandy, I saw your post and noticed you're researching a Lerner family. I know it's a very common name, but I have been given material saying that my maternal gg gf Rabbi Yechiel Berenson from Ukrai

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The current hours for Bayside are Sundays from 9AM to 3PM and maybe Wednesdays from 8AM to 2PM. It used to be possible to go from Acacia, which is open every day except Saturday to Bayside, but about

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Thank you for all the replies. This was my very first post on the mailing list. I did find my Max in the list with the age he died, the day he was buried and the synagogue he was a member of. It was B

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About 3 years ago, I was able to get some Acacia burial location information from the person or people who are the staff for Bayside, Acacia & Mokom Sholom. The person I spoke to was very nice and ver

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-----Original Message----- From: David Lewin <david@...> I have transcribed the burial records to a spreadsheet after Florence Marmor z"l died, Florence used me as a back-up for years

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If theyhave not been out on JOWBR they should be. Diane Jacobs

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The family arrived NY on 15 May 1906 on the ship Zeeland out of Antwerp per Louis Pailey's 1909 declaration of intent. Original available on Ancestry. The ship's manifest has the family surname as Pol

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In other words, we must be flexible in looking at data we find. Who else do we find with known relatives? If they are also known relatives, it's probably our family, regardless of changes in spelling.

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I have transcribed the burial records to a spreadsheet after Florence Marmor z"l died, Florence used me as a back-up for years The data is still waiting for a permanent home. There are 32,300 entries

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Hi Nana I haven’t been to Bayside Cemetery since before the pandemic but it hasn’t been the mess you read about on the internet for quite a few years. A number of years ago after a lawsuit the synagog

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I found my gm was buried in Acacia Cemetery from her Death Certificate. There was an office in NYC that I had previously called to inquire about my gm that handled a number of Cemeteries to include Ba

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I have found that family names (first as well as last), initials, & ages were all very fluid in all manner of census records, immigration records. etc. It seems that interpretation, transliteration, p

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