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Pale of Settlement
The Yiddish speaker (e.g. my GF from Tomaszow Mazowietsky) pronounced it "Russisch Polen"
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The Yiddish speaker (e.g. my GF from Tomaszow Mazowietsky) pronounced it "Russisch Polen"
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Can't "identify" name of Galician ancestral town
If you can, scan that part of the family tree and upload it to ViewMate https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ - maybe there's another interpretation of the written text. A search for communities contain
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If you can, scan that part of the family tree and upload it to ViewMate https://www.jewishgen.org/ViewMate/ - maybe there's another interpretation of the written text. A search for communities contain
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Odeda Zlotnick
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grave on Mt. Of Olives
The English version works, you need a bit of patience, and then, a click on the (upper right hand corner) X where you see a blank. After that, you can fill in names - and find some graves. Odeda.
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The English version works, you need a bit of patience, and then, a click on the (upper right hand corner) X where you see a blank. After that, you can fill in names - and find some graves. Odeda.
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Odeda Zlotnick
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New site/app for searching graves in Israel
#research
#Israel
That's interesting - it must be either name dependent, or cemetery dependent. Both names I searched for yesterday were in the Kfar Saba cemetery. I checked today : Searched for my aunt who was buried
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That's interesting - it must be either name dependent, or cemetery dependent. Both names I searched for yesterday were in the Kfar Saba cemetery. I checked today : Searched for my aunt who was buried
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Odeda Zlotnick
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New site/app for searching graves in Israel
#research
#Israel
First: many many thanks to David - I have just found a gravestone (and date of death) that I have been looking for for a long time! Second: the site does have an Englisih interface -- upper left hand
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First: many many thanks to David - I have just found a gravestone (and date of death) that I have been looking for for a long time! Second: the site does have an Englisih interface -- upper left hand
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Odeda Zlotnick
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Aleph Yud - what does it mean?
#Sub-Carpathia
#Help
Adat is written with an Ayn, not an Alef. Odeda
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Adat is written with an Ayn, not an Alef. Odeda
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Odeda Zlotnick
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Bad Arolsen Archives
#archives
#Holocaust
Freda has made me aware that my post about USHMM and Yad VaShem is misleading. There are many unscanned documents in the archive. https://arolsen-archives.org/en/ They have an online search site, as m
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Freda has made me aware that my post about USHMM and Yad VaShem is misleading. There are many unscanned documents in the archive. https://arolsen-archives.org/en/ They have an online search site, as m
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Arolsen Archives: Search Link Correction
My attempts to find through USHMM things I found in the Arolsen Archives fail. The link to Arolsen Archives online is: https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search/ It takes getting used to the
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My attempts to find through USHMM things I found in the Arolsen Archives fail. The link to Arolsen Archives online is: https://collections.arolsen-archives.org/en/search/ It takes getting used to the
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Odeda Zlotnick
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Bad Arolsen Archives
#archives
#Holocaust
Hi Vered, If you're mobile - the whole Bad Arolsen Archive including the things that are not online (identical to what they have in USHMM) is available in the Yad VaShem library in Jerusalem, Israel O
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Hi Vered, If you're mobile - the whole Bad Arolsen Archive including the things that are not online (identical to what they have in USHMM) is available in the Yad VaShem library in Jerusalem, Israel O
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Odeda Zlotnick
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Plain text
Not in this group - but definitely in other groups that haven't been switched yet
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Not in this group - but definitely in other groups that haven't been switched yet
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Odeda Zlotnick
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Please use viemmate for translation requests -- from one who frequently translates
#Translations
When you want a translation, please upload the image to the Viewmate Image Gallery not as an attachment to the discussion groups. Viewmate has clear instructions for uploading the images. When I trans
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When you want a translation, please upload the image to the Viewmate Image Gallery not as an attachment to the discussion groups. Viewmate has clear instructions for uploading the images. When I trans
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Odeda Zlotnick
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JewishGen.org Discussion Group - Digest #1 - responding to the new format
I agree. Google Chrome here as well. Odeda Zlotnick
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I agree. Google Chrome here as well. Odeda Zlotnick
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Odeda Zlotnick
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ניסיון לכתוב בעברית (Attempt to write in Hebrew)
This is interesting: On Windows 10, Edge does not give the correct right to left direction for this Hebrew text. Google chrome does (for me - I haven't checked settings). Odeda Zlotnick
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This is interesting: On Windows 10, Edge does not give the correct right to left direction for this Hebrew text. Google chrome does (for me - I haven't checked settings). Odeda Zlotnick
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Odeda Zlotnick
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How to see messages in a topic before composing a reply
#Help
#Austria-Czech
Underneath the message in the digest, however you get it, you have a link to "view/reply online" If you click on the "View/Reply Online" you may have to login. But, having done that, you have the mess
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Underneath the message in the digest, however you get it, you have a link to "view/reply online" If you click on the "View/Reply Online" you may have to login. But, having done that, you have the mess
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about translation button [subjec used to be "Question']
Copying the header with the email should not cause problems in getting the Hebrew translated Odeda Zlotnick
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Copying the header with the email should not cause problems in getting the Hebrew translated Odeda Zlotnick
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23andMe Blog Gives Information on BRCA1 and BRCA2 Gene and Lack of Family History of Cancer
#DNA
The first link - " Do You Speak BRCA" doesn't work. If you copy the text from Jan's letter, (or from the blog) you get switched to a promo page for buying a kit. You can to get to the "do youi speak"
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The first link - " Do You Speak BRCA" doesn't work. If you copy the text from Jan's letter, (or from the blog) you get switched to a promo page for buying a kit. You can to get to the "do youi speak"
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Odeda Zlotnick
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JewishGen Discussion Group
#JewishGen RE: Marriage Explanation sought
#jewishgen
Given the basic similarity between the names " Pauline" and "Feigelche" on the one hand, and the fact that the latter is a) Yiddish and b) a diminutive of "Feige", I would read the birth records/regis
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Given the basic similarity between the names " Pauline" and "Feigelche" on the one hand, and the fact that the latter is a) Yiddish and b) a diminutive of "Feige", I would read the birth records/regis
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Odeda Zlotnick
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JewishGen Discussion Group
#JewishGen RE: Maiden name on documents
#jewishgen
I am assuming the details in the Dutch documents were copied >from older documents - Austrian or Galician because it was in the Austro-Hungarian empire that they used these complicated "recte" registr
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I am assuming the details in the Dutch documents were copied >from older documents - Austrian or Galician because it was in the Austro-Hungarian empire that they used these complicated "recte" registr
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Odeda Zlotnick
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Romania SIG #Romania Re: Kashrut stamp in mid-19th century in Romania and (or) elsewhere? - replies and conclusion
#Romania
Last week I asked if a stamp (I should have said "seal") was used to indicate kashrut of meat. People gave me a number of suggestions, and I'm very grateful to all who took the time to write and share
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Last week I asked if a stamp (I should have said "seal") was used to indicate kashrut of meat. People gave me a number of suggestions, and I'm very grateful to all who took the time to write and share
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JewishGen Discussion Group
#JewishGen Re: Kashrut stamp in mid-19th century in Romania and (or) elsewhere?
#jewishgen
Last week I asked if a stamp (I should have said "seal") was used to indicate Kashrut of meat. People gave me a number of suggestions, and I'm very grateful to all who took the time to write and share
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Last week I asked if a stamp (I should have said "seal") was used to indicate Kashrut of meat. People gave me a number of suggestions, and I'm very grateful to all who took the time to write and share
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Odeda Zlotnick
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