Hi Paul, Thanks very much. Where in my previous message I mention 'gold rush' I think it should have been 'diamond rush'. My special interest goes out to the peddlers that at that time made their roun

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Reading about Barney Barnato (born as Barnet Isaacs) I find that at the time of the gold rush in Namibia he got there on foot, I read that his cousin Sir David Harris ( birth name not known by me) got

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Naomi, Thanks a lot. Yes, I did try the S.A. archives and did find quite a bit about the LEVINS but not what Iam looking for which is related to my ggm who was found in documenst about Bowesdorp in Na

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The Benjamin I refer to was a son of Jacob LEVIN of London(Islington) who lived in Cape Town in the eighteensixties/seventies. He was a cape merchant. When he returned to England his sons Julius LEVIN

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Barry, For both photos I had a look at the photographer and for the Liverpool one it is certain that it was from the late eighteenhundreds. Considering the type of clothes on the Warshaw one they date

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If I had looked a bit further I could have seen that what I read as an 'i' was in fact a 't' which makes it a Matrikelschein, in translation 'a registration form/card'. Ron Peeters Ulvenhout (NL)

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Dear Ruth, Exactly the information I was looking for. You may have seen I changed my original question to 19th century which I assume showed similar usage of the water ways. Thanks a lot, Ron Peeters

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I translated the German text. The hand-written parts I could not really get sharp enough but I hope (and assume) that you may be able to get it better from the original. Greetings, Ron Peeters Ulvenho

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I would like to find out if there was regular sailing up and down the rivers (from Dubysa via Neman) from Raseiniai to Königsberg in the early nineteen hundreds. Ron Peeters Ulvenhout(NL)

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Thank you, Logan, Based on my findings through the initial lead you gave me by pointing me to the Levin/Perlbach letters in Jerusalem I am especially looking at the 19th century period. Hopefully, the

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See my pdf.file: Ron Peeters Ulvenhout(NL)

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Is it possible to get online access to the english version of: Danzig Jewry 1840-1943: Integration, Struggle, Rescue (Gdańsk, Poland) by Logan Kowaks Ron Peeters Ulvenhout (NL)

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See pdf: Regards, Ron Peeters Ulvenhout (NL)

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Try the genealogicalindexer and do a search on gubernia, you will get a number of yizor book listings Ron Peeters Ulvenhout)NL)

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I hope to find information of a period in the life of my grandfather of which I know very little. I am looking for details about him during 1937 - when he arrived in the U.K. after a period in The Net

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Could also be that he worked in the diamond industry, see e.g. The History of the Asscher Cut Although it was first introduced in 1902, the Asscher cut did not become popular until the 1920s. It was c

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Meyer LEVIN left Danzig before the rest of the family adopted the name of PERLBACH. He went to London. I am trying to find the link with Jacob LEVIN (resided in London, later on in Cape Town as a Cape

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Hi Kathy, Hereby the translations. I did not come across Hedwig Regards, Ron Peeters Ulvenhout (NL)

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i Kathhy, Did you receive any translations? If not, I will gladly have a go at them. Let me know. Be, Ron Peeters Ulvenhout (NL)

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As you will have learned from other reaction page 1 of your document may show some more informatieon. Hoever, I think that the enclosed will give you what you are looking for. C) Ivore Joseph, van ber

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