cnrechw YCO" " g g-2 "& rgmmE CO +'ID pbP g " 6 p.ch 0"Y 3YW GS € cno I cl+. P. 3 k. $=& L-CDP 90a3-a Y3rbsP gE$$ (o OSN eo- ZQ 3 (Dm rp,7r:J+. 001 PPP wr.r~Rw eY o . 0"CD Co r+ " ,R Co CD w4a nC 1 -4 Q r up, COZ - YWP I ax Z Q- p, P. 3 3 CD m~ COFO 603" 2 %u"d~. CD 5 mcl3Q r. I= E-35 3s-r.~E Y e7ch g$g", eEGgCD CD rSr(o Coo CO CO3m-i-I V"YUN$ '=z CD Eureka was finding that her maiden name was MARK- at the age of 27 to GROSZ JULISKA, age 18. TOLEVOT: THE JOURNAL Of JEWISH GENEALOGY TOLEPOT is the Hebrew word for "genealogyw OVICS MARI. The last column of the register It is difficult to understand why two bro- or llgenerations. " showed that my great-uncle had petitioned to have thers should change their names and why one should 155 East 93 Street, Suite 3C TOLEDOT disclaims responsibility for errors his name changed to VAJDA SAMUEL, which my father choose VAJDA and the other SALGO. My cousin wrote New York, NY 10028 of fact or opinion made by contributors told me about in 1946 when I first became inter- that all she knew about our great-grandparents is but does strive for maximum accuracy. ested in my genealogy. that they were murdered in the town of Beretty6Gj- Arthur Kurzweil Steven W. Siege1 Interested persons are invited to submit arti- In the birth register for the year 1889, I falu. Perhapsthat event had something to do with Editoh Editon cles to be considered for publication. Man- found the name of SCHWED ANDOR. He was the sec- the change of names. Rabbi Malcolm H. Stern Zachary M. Baker uscripts will not be returned unless a ond of twins and the first one was unnamed. The keexb323 StehnE. Hubbell St. Covlknibu;ting Editon Co&bu;ting Editon stamped self-addressed envelope is included. VAJDA notation was also in the last column of Contributors of published articles will receive this entry. ScoZtxdde, AZ 85257 SUBSCRIPTIONS: $8.00 for one year (four issues) ten free copies of the issue in which the Since I had found that my great-grandmother or $14.00 for two years (eight issues) in the article appears. was MARKOVICS MARI, who was SALGO MANO? From my MEMORIAL BOOKS u.S. $10.00 per year in Canada and by surface recently purchased Hungarian-English dictionary, I regret that, owing to lack of time and mail overseas. $15.00 per year for foreign TOLEVOT is indexed in Cutrhent Co~~temlSocid I found that the English name for Mano was Emman- facilities, we have had to discontinue our book- air mail delivery. 8 B&uviotrae Sciwca, SodScienca CLZU- uel. But I still did not know who he was, and as finding services. Please notify your subscribers ;tion Index, and Genealogicd PiAodical of today I have not had a reply from my cousin in accordingly. @Toledot Press 1981 ISSN 0146-'9568 Annuat Index. Israel as to how he was related. Vebohah Gnmhunn, kbhtanX Editoh On my next trip to the Mormon branch library, She& 2uan;teMy 1 She@ Phab I found the name of SCHWED EMANUEL and solved the 7 9 ff deni ffmdhu S&ee,t IIF YOU MOVE - Please send us your new address. FOR INFORMATION ABOUT BACK ISSUES, question, "Who was SALGO MANO?" The name shown P.O.B. 7782, Jehundem, 1bhaeR t .I I for his father was SCHWED LEBI and the name shown IWe are not responsible for non-receipt of an issue PLEASE SEE INSIDE BACK COVER. COPIES . I for his mother was MARKOVICS MARI. The last col- Editoh's note: In voR. 3, no. 4, ,p. 24, we ne- I I umn showed that he had petitioned to have his potr;ted on She& ?'hc%hb ' boo b- dindcng b ehvica if we have an incorrect mailing address on file. OF ALL BACK ISSUES A~EAVAILABLE. name changed to SALGO. He married on 4 May 1893 wLih napect to ob;tainiMg Mmohiae Boohn. L t J A GENEALOGICAL MIRACLE - Thanks to the Jewish Agency Arlene Blank Rich TO THE EDITORS As I opened the letter from The Jewish Agency Alive! Imagine, the family we had mourned of Jerusalem, Israel, on Wednesday morning, Janu- for all our lives was alive! ary 28, 1981; I couldn't remember exactly-what in- The last my Dad had heard from them was in A MATCH formation I had requested of this particular Isra- 1948. They wrote that they were going to try to eli office in my search for "family tree" informa- make it out of Rumania enroute to Palestine. tion. I also wondered about what further disap- They had made it through the worst, we thought, time ago. This was followed, patience grew thin, pointment this letter would bring. (One gets used living in caves by day and getting food from farms a subscription to TOLEDOT. f months later the to letters of reject when involved in family gen- at night. We never heard from them again after I'd like to share with you ealogy!) At first glance, the name Sidoni Schach- that letter and we were never able to locate them consequence of my own genealogy zona branch of the ter jumped out at me. I thought to myself, when we had them traced in the years following era1 years ago, I contacted rela "what have we not been able to find out about my the war. west in order to obtain so Dad's sister?" In January, 1980, I developed an intense in- mation. After sharing the Reading the letter, I realized with a start terest in genealogy and starting tracing our fam- gave me the address of a N that The Jewish Agency was not telling me that ily's roots. I researched my husband's side in turn, referred me to st they couldn't find my father's sister. I realized first because his relatives were more of an un- He, interestingly en0 0. Who was SALGO that they were not telling me that there was no known entity to me. During the course of my re- alogy research of his own. before and my fa- search, I discovered around fifty of his relatives Since I didn't record of one Sidoni Schachter entering Israel. They wehe telling me that Sidoni Schachter, the previously unknown to him! only sister my father ever knew in his hometown Since I knew so much about my side of the story short, we we family (so I thought), I plodded on gathering up else could he fit into of Czernowitz, Bukowina, Rumania, before he emi- We are now continu grated to the United States in 1921, was alive information for the Rich/Kahn/Shapiro/Ulman family -- together. tree during most of 1980. Around Chanukah time, f microfilm arrived. and living in Azor, Israel. They even had a telephone. -. number for her! I started asking my Dad some questions and after on Library was finding studying some of the information that my niece had I ley SCHWED SAMUEL, in Aneene BRanh Kch ha been ~divein Public ReRu- used on the Blank family for a school project, I e reel. He was mar- ;tiom Ceevdand don Rhe pat 25 yew. Most realized that I didnlt know as much as I thought e age of 24. Now I necw&ty, she nerrved a Public ReRaXiom Vaecton I knew in the first place. I shifted my efforts. The second column 06 Rhe JdhCommuntty Centerr 06 CRevhnd, he- If there has to be one determining factor in I first learned of the e of his father and &ng when habon, Adam, wan bonn neven yew the swing of my current family research emphasis, Geneon by Arthur K ag?. Addnchb: 996 Eat Lawn Vhive, Highland , I guess it would have to be learning that the for the book at a Scot Hugkts, OH 44143. letter from my father's sister arrived (in Cleve- TOLEVOT/VOL; 4, NOS. 1-2 2 , lapd) in 1948 and not during World War 11. Some- To my long-lost t&e, I said, "Yes, Arlena." THE JEWISH FAMILY FINDER how, finding out that the letter arrived after She asked, "Jacob, alive?" (That s her brother, the war and not during the war, made me feel that my Dad, Jacob Blank.) I shouted out over the ex- their lives were in less jeopardy traveling from panse of sixty years and thousands of miles, "Yes, Rumania to a haven of safety at that time. 4 Jacob alive! THE JEWISH FAMILY FINDER VOES WORK! spark of hope was rekindled. And now she knew. She knew that her oldest Rzeszow, Galicia; SCHIFFMAN, Mexico; second wife I then found Arthur Kurzweilts very special brother, Jacob, whom she had last seen in March, I just wanted you to know that the Jewish (Helena RINGELHEIM) of Yitzak Leib PERETZ, Yiddish writer. book, Fxum Gen&an to GenWon: How tu Tkace 1921, was still alive. I knew that I had really Family Finder colm does work. Since my first Yam JMhGenedugy and PmunaL Hintaq. It found my father's sister. ad that I placed three years ago, I have succeed- 80-55 Harriet BASKIN, Hammond House Rd., Valhalla, NY became my constant companion for weeks. I fol-- She said it was a mi;tzwa, and started kiss- ed in finding cousins Leo and Muriel Silverstein 10959 --- Seeks descendants of TSVILIKHOVSKY (possibly lowed many of Mr.