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tracing American relatives #usa
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Ruth Kornbluth
Was there ever an organization that helped survivors establish contacts with American relatives after the war by publishing ads in newspapers across the USA? And, if so, would any of those records be available for research?
Thanking you in advance… Ruth Fenichel Kornbluth
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Susan&David
The answer is Yes. "Seeking Kin" or similarly named ads were placed
in Jewish newspapers by social service organizations including the
Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, the Union of Russian Jews, the
National Council of Jewish Women and others.
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They appear in the Jewish Advocate, Boston newspaper from 1916 to 1991. Members of the Jewish Genealogical Society of Greater Boston have indexed 5,000 of these ads and they are searchable on Jewishgen's USA Database. https://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA/BostonSeekingKin.htm David Rosen Boston, MA
On 6/8/2020 3:53 PM, Ruth Kornbluth
wrote:
Was there ever an organization that helped survivors establish contacts with American relatives after the war by publishing ads in newspapers across the USA? And, if so, would any of those records be available for research?
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Kenneth Ryesky
If I recall correctly, the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia similarly carried such "seeking relatives" advertisements.
-- Ken Ryesky, Petach Tikva, Israel kenneth.ryesky@...
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MARC M COHEN
The New York Times carried these kinds of personal ads up through the 1960s or 1970s. Sometimes they appeared at the bottom of the front page of the first section, in very small font.
-- Marc M. Cohen, Los Gatos, California, USA BARAK/CANTORCZY: Khotin, Bessarabia; Strorozhinets, Bukovina, Ukraine CHOMITZ/HAMETZ: Ionina (Janina), Greece; Ignatovka, Ukraine; Kiev Gubernia, Ukraine COHEN: Dinovitsi (Dunayevtsy) Ukraine; Roman/Tirgu Frumos, Romania KORNITZKY: Kiev Gubernia, Stepnitz/Stepantsy, Ukraine RÎBNER: Storozhinetz, Costesti (Costyntsi), Drachinets, Cabesti, Bukovina, Ukraine ROSENBERG: Tirgu Frumos, Roman, Romania; ISRAEL WEININGER: Cabesti, Costesti, Drachinets, Czernowitz, Bukovina, Ukraine
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David Lewin
At 20:53 08/06/2020, Ruth Kornbluth wrote:
Was there ever an organization that helped survivors establish contacts with American relatives after the war by publishing ads in newspapers across the USA? And, if so, would any of those records be available for research? There was the magazine "AUFBAU" published in the USA and UK - now archived at the Leo Baeck Institute There was also the "Union - Blaetter der Emigration" in South Africa which is archived in Micro-film format in many libraries (mostly in Germany, I do not know about elsewhere) and which I have digitized. That is still in my computer and searching for a public home. David Lewin London
Search & Unite attempt to help locate people who, despite the passage
of so many years since World War II, may still exist "out
there".
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Ruth Kornbluth
On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 04:06 PM, Ruth Kornbluth wrote:
Was there ever an organization that helped survivors establish contacts with American relatives after the war by publishing ads in newspapers across the USA? And, if so, would any of those records be available for research?
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Stephen Weinstein
Not sure if they did newspaper ads, but try the Red Cross International Tracing Service
Stephen Weinstein Camarillo, CA, USA
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R Jaffer
Many of the people looking for relatives in the U.S. did not know in which state the relatives were living. Therefore, the agencies ran many of the ads in multiple newspapers. You should search the Seeking Kin database referenced by David Rosen even if you think the relatives sought were living in a state other than Massachusetts.
If you are a member of a genealogical society in the U.S. and would like to have your members extract the data from your local Jewish newspaper for inclusion in the database, please contact me for more info. Roberta Jaffer Waltham, Massachusetts
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