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Bucharest, Romania Birth Records - confused over 'mother' entries 5 #names #records #romania
Looking for the children of Saul & Janetta TRILLER/TRILER from Bucharest. I found one marriage entry showing Saul TRILLER married Janetta FILDMAN in Bucharest in 1879. The marriage register transcript gives the bride's name as Janeta/Janetta FILDMAN, her parents as Beniamin & Ester. I thought I might find their children but the 'mother' only appears on one of the entries as FELDMAN. Is there a possibility they were all the same Janetta? Or three different Saul & Janetta TRILLERs in Bucharest at the same time? I only found the one marriage record and I have no census to go by. Any help would be appreciated - thank you. Mary-Anne Pechet maspechet@... 403-479-4789 1705 48 Ave, Calgary, AB, Canada
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Recommendations for a Driver in Lithuania #lithuania
Hello, I will be returning to Vilnius in June. Does anyone have a recommendation for a driver for a one day trip to Merkine / Meretz? While I have a list of guides, I really just need a trustworthy driver as I know what I need to see. Most of the guides I contacted have not responded. Thank you, Loren Greenberg
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Seeking Old Photos from Mizocz, Poland (Mizoch, Ukraine) 3 #ukraine
Do you have old family photos from when your relatives lived in Mizocz, Poland (Mizoch, Ukraine)? The English translation of The Memorial Book of Mizocz will soon be ready to print, and photos are needed for the cover. I am a volunteer graphic designer working with JewishGen on this book. The only old photos I can find of Mizocz are 5 chilling photos taken by a Nazi officer—of hundreds of Jews being made to undress and lie down in pits, before being murdered. I refuse to use them. Mizocz should be remembered as a real Jewish community, not just a place of murder. I am looking for photos that show (in order of preference): 1. The Jewish part of town, with buildings such as synagogues, study houses, the marketplace, shops, houses, schools, factories, etc. Old postcards may be used. 2. Groups of people, such as a school class, Zionist group, workers, professional group, wedding guests, or just people at work or play. 3. Single portraits and family groups, 1-20 people. 4. Modern photos of the old Jewish area, where some old structures remain, such as synagogues, cemetery headstones, houses or other Jewish buildings. (No people, please.) 5. Panorama or aerial view of the town. Images must be in good focus, but do not have to be in perfect condition. I may be able to repair fading, rips, blotches and other problems, making your photo/s more useful to you. If you have old photos, please write to Nina Schwartz at artstop@... for instructions on how to scan or re-photograph them in high resolution (required for book printing). Note: Please respond only if you do have photos—no need to send regrets! Many thanks in advance for your kind help! Nina Schwartz -- Nina Schwartz artstop@...
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Verification Process for Arrivals 4 #records
Dear Geners, When an applicant for citizenship cited an arrival on a specified ship, date, and place, was this verified by anyone, and was the manifest of the arrival checked? Is there room for error in either the submitted data or the checking process? What evidence might there be that an arrival was verified? If the manifest and the petition don't quite match, what are possible explanations? I am faced with a few anomalies and would value anyone's input. Thank you -- Susan Cullen SCHWARTZ
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U.K. 1880's Families: 1 father, 8 children with different birth mothers, 1 marriage #united kingdom 9
This is a delicate subject and I will not use last names. 2 Jewish families in Manchester, England, 1880 to 1910: 1) Ben and Annie were married for 28 years and had 9 children ~ birth certificates reveal Isaac as father but 4 different birth mothers. 2) Barnie and Fanny were married for 21 years and had 8 children ~ birth certificates reveal Barnie as father but 6 different birth mothers. I have fully researched both families, purchased copies of the birth certificates, and cross-checked my facts. It is not a matter of the mother's maiden surname being spelled different ways; the names are distinctly not the same. Length of marriage and number of children born in that marriage recorded in 1911 Census. Can anyone shed any light on this unusual situation? Sheila Kay
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Given Name "Pinyan" or "Pinion" or "Pini" 6 #general
I have run across a distant relative born in the Ukraine in the latter half of the 19th century. His given name, the best that people recall, was something like "Pinyan". In a passenger manifest, this individual is referred to indirectly as "Pini". I have never run across a name like this before, and wonder whether the name I am hearing is a corrupted version of some other Hebrew, Yiddish or Russian name. Has anyone any familiarity with the given male name "Pinyan" or "Pini"? Any alternate spellings? Mike Kraft Redmond, WA
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Daily Forward 6 #translation
"Sunnyside," a 1919 movie by Charlie Chaplin, was shown on Turner Classic Movies the other day. In one scene, a character is shown reading the Forward. Here's a photo. Can anyone translate any of the headline words? Mitch Gerber Maryland
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Talk on HMT Dunera - WW2 documents from the Wiener Library #announcements #holocaust #records
Reminder - two days to go before the next Talk from the Dunera Interest Group in conjunction with the AJR: Join us online Monday 20 May at 8pm for 'Tracing the story of the HMT Dunera in the archives of the The Wiener Holocaust Library'. Register on the link for this free event with Dr. Rachel Pistol: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/ehriuk/1232081. The talk will be presented by Dr. Barbara Warnock, Senior Curator and Head of Education at the Wiener Holocaust Library, and will explore the various documents and collections that The Wiener Holocaust Library has relating to the Dunera and the experiences of those aboard in internment and afterwards. For those wanting to receive updates from the Dunera Interest Group, please sign up to the mailing-list via the website: https://dunera.org.uk/. DUNERA.ORG.UK Home - Dunera Interest Group Connect with Dunera internees descendants & historians Join our mailing list Events About us 2,546 predominantly German-Jewish men living in the UK at the start of WWII found themselves classified as ‘enemy aliens’ and were sent to Australia on the Dunera. Their story is surprisingly well docume... Like Comment Share Diana (Mohr) Gomes da Costa, Kent UK - formerly from London - Researcher number: 166938 email: dianadacosta@... Researches include ARNSTEIN, BACH, BASS, BERLIN, COHN, DITTMANN, FLACHFELD, GUETERMANN, HAHN, HELLMANN, HIRSCHMANN, KOHN, KRAILSHEIMER, KUGLER, LOEWI, MANES, MARX, MENDEL, MORGENTHAU, MOHR, ROSENFELD, ROSENWALD, UHLMANN, WEIKERSHEIMER and ZIRNDORFER - all originally from Bavaria, mainly Furth, Nurnberg and Bamberg as listed in the JGFF database.
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Levi and Cohen "German" names 15 #names
My extensive family tree, for the Germany / Czechia areas, has last-names such as Loewenstein ("Lion's gate/arch" in German, pronounced "Levinstein"), Loewe ("Lion", pronounced "Leve"), Loebl ("little heart" - "Leb-l"), Koensiberg ("King's mountain" - "Ko-en-is-berg"), etc. We are all familiar with other typical and similar Jewish "German" last-name starting with "Levin" or "Koenig". In Czech, "Lev" means lion. No doubt: Loewenstein is an ancient German place (name recorded in 1123 AD) and also an ancient German last-name, pure German. The Lion ("Loewe") is a symbol Germany (even though Germany never had lions). Kings were always there in Germany and many places and names have the word "Koenig". So, those pure German last-names are not of any Jewish origin. No connection to Jews at all. How did Jews end up with such "German" last names? Most of us will correctly guess that many (most!) "Levi" Jews chose those names to hide their original "Levi" last-name. Hardly any Ashkenazi Jew has the last-name "Levi" even though it should be a common last-name for many Jews. Instead, a suffix of "HaLevi" or "HaCohen" was part of your name with a last-name which was not "Levi" or "Cohen". Those "suffixes" of "HaLevi" and "HaCohen" are Hebrew and mean "the Levite / the Cohen". I have few people like that in my family tree. The Levites and Cohen(s) have special roles in the Jewish religion. Therefore, religious Jews actively keep track of who is a real Levi or a Cohen. Saying "my last name is Levinstein" will not work for you as a proof that you are a Levi. Neither would last-names, such as in my family tree, "Koenigsberg", "Kohn" or "Kohner" will convince anyone that you are a Cohen. My question, not trying to go into politics, totally hypothetical question: when the 3rd Jewish temple is built, we need true Cohen(s) and Levites for certain roles. If you are not a true Levi or Cohen, you will be killed, by God, if you pretend to be. How can we track those "traits" among Jews? Even from pure genealogical research, beyond Cohen and Levi, how can we track other "traits" such as Royalty, blood lines, or carriers of certain genetics? Is the only choice is to go back 10 generations, if available, to make sure that someone was a Cohen and never married a divorced women so not to lose his trait as being "Cohen"? Ron Herrmann, Bedminster, NJ, USA (HERRMANN, ABELES, LOEBL/LOEWE, LOEWENSTEIN, ROBITSCHEK from Bohemia/Germany. REICHENBACH, ECKSTEIN/ROGOWYKAMIEN, SPECTOR, RAIZMAN from Poland).
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This week's Yizkor book excerpt (Sochaczew) on the JewishGen Facebook page #yizkorbooks #poland #JewishGenUpdates
At the end of each week, we have been featuring excerpts from Yizkor books in JewishGen's archive. You can find the archive of past Yizkor book excerpts here: https://bit.ly/3aCH1ak. If you are not familiar with the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project, please click on this link: http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/faq.html Every Jewish town had a long list of role players in shtetl life: “feldshers” (folk "doctors" who provided medical care without any formal training), “bobbes” (as midwives were called), “Shabbas goys” (who did the tasks forbidden to Jews on the Sabbath), “shamashes” (caretakers of the synagogue), “melameds” (who taught in the cheders), and “shochets” (ritual slaughterers) among many others. Add to the list the “shulklaper” as profiled in “Moshe Aharon Shulklaper,” a chapter from the Yizkor book of Sochaczew, Poland. The shulklaper, or the “knocker” who calls people to the synagogue, started his job at daybreak walking through the town with the communally owned wooden hammer in his hand, waking up people when it was time to go to prayer. The number of his knocks could signal that fortune or a misfortune had occurred. But he had one more important duty – to announce the arrival of the Sabbath. His arrival in the bustling market on a Friday would be like a downpour in the middle of a bright day when he knocked with his wooden hammer on the doors of open stores. Like magic, the market became an ex-market. URL: https://www.facebook.com/JewishGen.org/posts/pfbid02zJ5MQepU4fAftYS3SUr7WJHa83FqPyJKJT7N1V55qKuFqqTaUe18GwDGDiFdkeoUl -- Bruce Drake Silver Spring, MD Researching: DRACH, EBERT, KIMMEL, ZLOTNICK Towns: Wojnilow, Kovel
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Zecharia (Secharja) the Martyr (Hakadosh) of Eisenstadt, late 1500s - further info? The REMA's nephew? 3 #austria-czech
Hi Jewish Genners, It appears that Zecharia of Eisenstadt (?1555-?1590) is a direct ancestor of mine, through his daughter Liebe Elisabeth, wife of Issachar Beer Meyer-Halevi. Liebe and her brother Israel Isserl were both buried in the old Vienna cemetery which was indexed by Bernard Wachstein in 1912. Since I have a PDF of the Wachstein book, I have the inscriptions on their matzevot and Wachstein's notes on them. Liebe's father is named as "the martyr Zacharia from Eisenstadt" and the references seem to suggest that the detail of his life (and presumably his martyrdom) are in the Fürther Memorbuch. The only place I can find the Memorbuch is a priceless vellum copy in the Franconia Jewish Museum (it's on video here: https://www.buchstabenschubser.de/arbeiten/juedisches-museum-franken_memorbuch/) - but does anyone know of the detail of this fascinating character and/or how I can access the information in the Memorbuch? Through a big commercial genealogy site that starts with A, it appears that the Geneanet Community Trees Index identifies Zecharia as a son of Yosef Isserl (this is confirmed in https://genealogyindexer.org/view/1929GoldMoravia/1929GoldMoravia%20-%200538.pdf), and further identifies this Yosef Isserl as a brother of the REMA (Rabbi Moses Isserles, 1520-1572), a big name in Krakow in the 16th century. If this is correct, i can then trace things back through the REMA's parents and into the maze of 14th/15th century Rabbinic trees. Can anyone help or collaborate in finding out more about Zecharia? Are there sources that I'm neglecting? Many thanks all Richard Beach Hertfordshire, UK Researching BEACH, PRZYBYSZ (Rawa Mazowiecka, London) PERLOV, PLOTKIN (Bobruisk/Svisloch, Belarus) MARKS, JACOBS, FRANKS, LYON, DAVIS (London 18th-19th Centuries) FRANKEL/FRAENKEL (Fürth/Vienna) ZOLTY/KON (Kepno/Kalisz) MARCOWICZ/HOFFMAN (Krasnopol/Punsk)
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The Furth Memorbuch (Wiener Memorbuch der Fürther Klaus-Synagoge) - digitised or transcribed? 2 #austria-czech #germany #rabbinic
Hi all, This precious document - an original vellum copy of the Wiener Memorbuch der Fürther Klaus-Synagoge - is visible online at https://www.buchstabenschubser.de/arbeiten/juedisches-museum-franken_memorbuch/ in a video which turns through the pages. The outline of what's in the document is described here: https://www.fuerthwiki.de/wiki/index.php/Wiener_Memorbuch. For the enties in larger Hebrew text, I have been able to decipher who is being remembered, including a few 17th century members of my FRAENKEL ancestry. Even so, most of the entries are too small for the text to be readable as a screen capture from the (low resolution) video. I'm particularly interested in some of the earlier entries from Vienna which could hold more information. Is there a digitised version or a transcription available anywhere? Should I contact the museum in Furth? Many thanks, Richard Beach Hertfordshire, UK Researching BEACH, PRZYBYSZ (Rawa Mazowiecka, London) PERLOV, PLOTKIN (Bobruisk/Svisloch, Belarus) MARKS, JACOBS, FRANKS, LYON, DAVIS (London 18th-19th Centuries) FRANKEL/FRAENKEL (Fürth/Vienna) ZOLTY/KON (Kepno/Kalisz) MARCOWICZ/HOFFMAN (Krasnopol/Punsk)
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TAUB or BIHARY(Bihari) #hungary
Looking for family Taub from Zalev Hungary who was a Rabbi Abraham With a son Morris or Family Bihary (Bihari) From Budapest Hungary One of the older member who was a tax collector AND he had a daughter Wilma. Thank you, Robert Taub.
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Phonetic correspondence French/Russian - Targowla Family 2 #names
Hello everyone, I am looking for a phonetic correspondence between French and Russian (or Yiddish? or Polish?) for the name TARGOWLA. The problem is that family lore says my great-grandfather’s grandfather immigrated to France at the end of the 19th century from Belarus (specifically from Brest Litovsk) and took his mother’s name instead of his father’s for apparently political reasons. Moreover, in the French archives, the name is spelled in various ways, including Torgovla. I have found some Targowski but I don’t know if the two names are related. Thank you! César Targowla
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Accessing Jewish Genealogy Articles from Back Issues of AVOTAYNU 12 #general
Many valuable articles on rabbinic genealogy and other Jewish genealogy topics were published the journal AVOTAYNU between 1985 and 2008. However, finding and accessing these classic articles has proven to be challenging, and many of them do not appear to be currently available online. According to information on their website, "AVOTAYNU maintains an index to selected articles that have appeared in the first eighteen volumes (1985–2008) of the publication, and that "All back issues from 1985–2008 are available on CD-ROM for $99.95 plus shipping." Apparently, however, this is outdated information, as the CD-ROM discs, which I own, are dated 2009-2010, and the Folio search engine which they utilize no longer appears to run on Windows 11 computers. The Avotaynu website also states: "We have taken the more than 2,900 articles published in our flagship journal AVOTAYNU from 1985–2011 and placed them on the Internet. The scope of the articles cover virtually every aspect of Jewish family history research as can be seen from "Number of articles by topic" shown below. We then had Google Custom Search do a full-word index of the more than 5 million words. Searching the database uncovers the relevant articles which can then be read and/or printed." This online access sounds promising, but the Avotaynu website currently displays the following message: "Subscriptions to our journal, AVOTAYNU, are no longer available, as its editors and production team have retired after 37 years. The Avotaynu Anthology is temporarily unavailable." If the Avotaynu Anthology is currently unavailable, what does that mean for access to the articles that appeared in back issues of AVOTAYNU? If anyone knows the answer to this problem, or can suggest how to find and access Jewish genealogy articles from back issues of AVOTAYNU, my fellow genealogy researchers and I would be most appreciative. With kind regards and thanks, Dr. Jeffrey Mark Paull
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Latin America Lefelman family in Argentina #latinamerica
Hi, I'm Daniel Katz, living in Israel, Mauricio Lefelman was my grandfather , the father of my mother, Elisa Lefelman.
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Is there a Ponary massacre (Panerių žudynės) victims list available? 2 #lithuania
Is there a Ponary massacre (Panerių žudynės) victims list available? I will also be reaching out to the Paneriai Memorial but I've not found a list on their website. I'd appreciate any leads. Thank you in advance. -- Kathy Kaufman
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Looking for the list of the names of the 2524 Jews who were murdered in Stonevichi - Belarus in 1942 4 #belarus
This was published on 29.2.2024: The prosecutor's office of Grodno region checked the implementation by local executive and administrative bodies of the legislation on perpetuating the memory of those who died in defense of the Fatherland and preserving the memory of war victims. Thus, during the inspection, it was established that 2,524 prisoners of the Iwye ghetto, whose names are reliably known today, were buried in the village of Stonevichi, Iwye district, on the territory of the memorial complex. At the same time, tombstones with the names of the dead were not installed. In order to eliminate the identified violation, the prosecutor of the Iwye district submitted a presentation to the chairman of the Iwye district executive committee, in which he demanded to take concrete measures to perpetuate the memory of the people who died in the Iwye ghetto. As a result of the examination of the act of supervision, plates with the names of the buried were installed. One of the forms of preserving the memory of the dead is to restore the graves to their proper state and put the names of the dead on the tombstones. And I'm looking for the list of the names of the 2524 Jews who were murdered in Stonevichi - Belarus in 1942 -- JO BIN
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Looking for Lasson family from Leeds, UK and immigration to Canada 5 #canada #unitedkingdom
I can not find documents in the UK or, immigration to Canada, of the Lasson family from Leeds. The head of the family was Julius and he may have not moved to Canada. His wife was Feiga Leah Pinsly, and the children were Celia, b.1896, Rene, b 1904, Gertrude, b.1906, Josephine b 1908, Harold Cecil (Harry) b.? (he may have moved to Australia). Some of the children moved to the USA after they married. Is it possible they change their family names when they moved to Canada? Angel Kosfiszer Richardson, Texas
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Unknown Location Name 2 #records
I recently stumbled upon the ship manifest of a man named Gedalia Dracz. I know his family was from Sereje, but his ship manifest says otherwise. It is from 1913, but I can not understand the location name. Looks something like Nowilraga? Could it be Novograd? If anybody knows what it says, I would also be interested in knowing if there are any surviving records from that time period. Thank You, Emmett Katz
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