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6 June 2014
Hi All
I am compiling a De Haan family tree for my friend and at the same time,
I am including any other Jewish De Haan family groups that I discover.
I have just seen the following group on the UK 1861 census:
Samson Snook - head - married age 34 cigar maker - born Rotterdam Holland
Kate Snook - wife - married aged 35 - born Rotterdam
Moses De Haan - son in law - unmarried age 7 born Rotterdam
Abraham De Haan - son in law - unmarried age 4 born Rotterdam
Rebecca Snook - daughter - unmarried aged 2 - born Rotterdam.
I am assuming that Moses and Abraham De Haan are the step sons of Samson
Snook as I have found previous instances of step sons being referred to as
sons in law.
I also assume therefore that Kate Snook was previously married to a De Haan
and these are her sons.
Has anyone researched these families and does anyone know which De Haan Kate
married and was therefore the father of these two boys?
Any advice appreciated. Thanks very much.
I would also be pleased to hear from anyone else researching the De Haan
families - that is, apart from those with whom I am already in contact.
Regards
Gina Marks
Stanmore
Dear JGSGB Members
In the genealogy news that broke mid-way through the day yesterday came the big announcement that Ancestry is closing down some of its activities, to focus on core business. Jan Meisels Allen Chairperson of the IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee posted about this to the Jewish genealogy world last night thanks Jan!
She wrote "Ancestry.com Announces Retirement of Certain Services
Ancestry.com announced they are retiring some of their services:
MyFamily, MyCanvas, Genealogy.com, Mundia and the Y-DNA and mtDNA tests. The AncestryDNA (autosomal) test is not affected by this change. Starting September 5, 2014, these services will no longer be available to access. Genealogy.com is the exception to the rule, and will continue in a slightly different form. If you are an active member or subscriber to one of these services, you will be contacted directly with details of how to transition the information you’ve created using these services.
To read more about this and see the frequently asked questions on each product line (click the hypertext linked url by the name of the product) go to:
http://tinyurl.com/kq5czje
Original url: http://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2014/06/04/ancestry-com-focuses-on-core-offerings"
Like Jan, I have no affiliation with Ancestry.com and am posting this solely for the information of the reader.
However this news is really important if you have had your DNA tested by Ancestry, at least as far as the Ancestry Insider blog is concerned, see
http://www.ancestryinsider.org/2014/06/ancestrycom-announces-retirement-of.html
where he explains the significance of this who have tested their DNA via Ancestry.com
Lisa Louise Cooke of the Genealogy Gems podcast has also posted about the issue relating to DNA tests that have tested with Ancestry. She notes: "Ancestry Execs were asked if DNA samples (particularly those from deceased relatives) could be returned so as to be further processed by other companies. The answer: No. When pressed if they would allow customers to upgrade tests run on those samples before they were destroyed (yes, they made it very clear they will be destroyed) the answer was that well...they hadn't really thought about that. Leave it to genealogists to ask the important questions, and my hope is that Ancestry will take this question to heart before the closing date of September 5, 2014."
JGSGB is an agent for FTDNA, we get a tiny percentage for every test purchased via the society's website link,
https://affiliate.familytreedna.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=591 and FTDNA
is also associated with JewishGen and IAJGS. They have the largest samples to compare against for those who are researching their Jewish Ancestors. If you want to test your DNA, you may prefer to use FTDNA to test, and also to convert over your Ancestry test to FTDNA there is information on how to do that on the FTDNA website.
You can either order your test kits online via the link on the JGSGB website, https://affiliate.familytreedna.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=591 or you can ask me to bring a test kit for you to the next JGSGB event.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Jeanette
JGSGB Education & Mentoring
2 June 2014
Dear Members,
I have received the following request from the wellknown genealogist, Miriam Weiner:
I am a professional genealogist (and author) working with a client who has roots in the Ukraine town of Druzhkopol. See http://www.rtrfoundation.org/miriam.shtml
I attended and gave a lecture at the conference your JGS hosted in London many years ago.
Some years ago, my client (Jonathan Dorfman) was working in the U.K. and recently gave me some 10-year old notes of his that say: Edelstein (#142) for Druzhkopol
Potyk (#142) for Drushkopol
Unfortunately, my "router" has packed up so I cannot say if we have a current member no. 142, as the numbers are not consecutive.
Please contact Miriam if you are able to help.
Best wishes to our members.
Doreen Berger
Chairman
1 June 2014
Dear JGSGB Members
The following posting from IAJGS tells of a database for people entering the USA through the port of Galveston Texas.
"According to the Texas Seaport Museum, they have compiled the US's only computerized listing of immigrants to Galveston, Texas*. Galveston was one of the ports of entry to the United States, and many Jewish immigrants landed there between 1907 and 1914 when the Galveston Movement endeavored to divert Jews fleeing Russia and Eastern Europe away from crowded East Coast cities. The Texas State Historical Association states, ten thousand Jewish immigrants passed through Galveston, Texas during this era, approximately one-third the number who migrated to Palestine during the same period.
Jews have lived in Galveston since the early 1800's. According to Wikipedia, The first known Jewish immigrant to the Galveston area was Jao de la Porta, who, along with his brother Morin, --Portuguese Jews, financed the first settlement by Europeans on Galveston Island in 1816. There is more history on the Jews of Galveston which may be read at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Galveston,_Texas
The database available at the Museum is now also available online. The information was taken from ships' passenger manifests. The database includes names of passengers and members of their traveling parties, age, gender, occupation, country of origin, ship name, dates of departure and arrival, and destination in the United States. There is also information on which the ships the immigrants arrived. One must search by the passenger's surname. To read more about the database and the museum go to: http://tinyurl.com/qd7mutj
original url:
http://www.galvestonhistory.org/attractions/maritime-heritage/galveston-imm
igration-database
The database includes names of over 130,000 passengers from 1846-1948, however, it only includes names of people who first disembarked in Texas. An unknown number of records are missing, there are few entries between 1871-1894.
To access the online database go to:
http://ghf.destinationnext.com/immigration/Search.aspx
Thank you to William F.Fred Hoffman, editor of Gen Dobry who posted about the Museum and database. *I checked several names from the database to names on
Ancestry.com's Texas Passenger Lists and found their ship's manifests digitized there.that is different than a listing only of these passengers. I have no affiliation with either Ancestry.com or the Texas Seaport Museum.
Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee"
Regards
Mark Nicholls
26 May 2014
Dear Genners
On behalf of a friend, David Sanders, Jewish Gen ID No 620904 I am looking for any information about the family ZILKOVITZ from the shtetl of MLAWA in Poland northwest from Warsaw. Is there anyone out there who has information about this to help me in what has so far been a frustrating and futile search.
I have in my possession the Yiskor Book for MLAWA so I do know that the shtetl existed and still does because it is on the map.
My ID number is 3541 and my user name is Beulah-RoseGross.
We would appreciate it if you could please send replies direct to David at daverie1@bigpond. com as well as to me.
Best regards
Beulah Gross
Dear Genners,
I wonder if anyone in this group has a connection to this Benjamin family? The parents were Marks and Rebecca and according to the 1911 Census, their children were: Jack (bn: 1890), Sam (1896), Yetta (1898) Rebecca (1900), Lily (1902) Frances (listed as Rose in the census) (1903) and Arthur (1908).
Frances married Louis/Lewis FRANKEL in 1929 and they had two children, Evelyn (1932) and David (1937). (I have the marriage certificate hence proof that Marks was her father.)
Lewis was one of ten Frankel children and the descendants I've been in touch with state that Lewis and Frances maintained a sense of "self-estrangement" from the rest of the family never attending social gatherings. Frances died in 1966, Lewis in 1993. Both are buried in Waltham Abbey.
If there is anyone who is related to the Benjamin family and may know what happened to the children, please contact me off list.
Thank You
Jeremy
Jeremy G Frankel
ex-London, England
now Folsom, CA
21 May 2014
The Manchester Regional Group of the JGSGB is the largest regional group, holding an Annual Conference and with its own library. The library now has in excess of 250 items, most of which are highly specialised books for genealogical research. We are looking to improve the library by adding trade directories, shul annual reports, organisation annual reports etc – in fact anything that gives names, dates and positions held whether at school, university, work, charitable organisations, synagogue committees etc. If you have anything of this nature that you would like to donate, please e-mail .
Lorna Kay
Chairman - Manchester Regional Group
Jewish Genealogical Society of Great Britain
Researching
WEISBERG (Kamenets Podolsk, Pruskurov, Zhvanets - Ukraine)
SEABERG (Tukkums, Sassmacken - Latvia)
KAHN (Mitau - Latvia)
BLUESTONE (Roumania)
KUTCHINSKY (Piotrkow - Russian Poland)
BRADPIECE (Austria)
19 May 2014
Members may like to know that I have published this article:
'Jewish Soldiers in 1/17 London in the First World War', Bulletin of the Military Historical Society, vol 64, no. 256. May 2014, pp. 178-192.
This was a Territorial Army unit whose name included 'Poplar and Stepney Rifles' thus recruiting in the East End.
I expect to deposit a copy in the Library.
Harold Pollins
3 May 2014
Dear JGSGB Members
As we have been finding over the last few weeks there are a lot of newspapers available to search on-line, with many of them being free to access. This is the latest and possibly most interesting set we have been told about:
"Ken Marks on his blog The Ancestor Hunt has an area on Jewish American Historical Newspapers. Most are free sites, some require registration, some may only be used through a library that has a ProQuest Historical Newspaper subscription, and he mentions a few that are available only with subscriptions to paid sites. Go to:
http://tinyurl.com/m5yojk7
Original url: http://www.theancestorhunt.com/1/post/2014/01/find-your-ancestors-in-historic-jewish-american-newspapers.html#.U2PhD1eWqSh
Ken also mentions some additional sources that may be of interest-these are just two mentioned: Compact Memory is a digital collection of 118 Jewish periodicals from German-speaking countries, 1806-1938. All in German. The Historical Jewish Press has a collection of 45 publications (most not from America). Included are Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods.
Ken also has links to US Historical Newspapers online— go to:
http://tinyurl.com/lprjnjs
Original url: http://www.theancestorhunt.com/1/post/2014/04/united-states-online-historical-newspaper-links.html#.U2Pg-leWqSg
He lists the newspapers by state.
I have no affiliation with Ken or his blog—and as I wrote last week, I just learned about the blog and so far he has some great newspaper sources which I have shared with you.
Jan Meisels Allen
Chairperson, IAJGS Public Records Access Monitoring Committee"
The whole of Ken Mark's blog is a cornucopia of really useful links and information to genealogical resources. Well worth exploring, especially for those hard to find ancestors and relatives!
Thanks again to Jan for posting the information to the IAJGS Leadership Forum.
Regards
Mark Nicholls
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