Milavetz/Shattil/Cohn Family in Covert, Michigan, 1900s
Yes Cousin! If we go back about 50 generations, we are all related. The purpose of this page is to someday prove that you and I are related. Send me the URL (address) of your Family Web Page site and I'll be happy to add it to the list of family I have already identified below.
Now, more than ever, web pages are popping up on the Internet every day and many offer a possible connection to your family. All you need do, is search any and all of those listed below. Somewhere the odds are good that you will find a connection.
When you develop your own family web page, let me know so you can increase your odds. Send an email to Jwebindex@gmail.com and I'll add your family page to this list.
"The purpose of any family genealogy is to trace out as far as possible, the connections that bind us together as family"
Resources
Ancestry.com - Create your own family tree and much more information Do a search on any surname. You'll also find that you have the ability to check out the Immigration & Naturalization Records of any of the 50 United States. http://www.ancestry.com
A great research resource. Click on the image
above to learn more.
There are many books on this subject which can be researched using my link to Amazon.com by clicking here > Jewish Genealogy
"Genealogical Tables of Jewish Families" -
published by Saur
This two-volume work documents 11000 individuals belonging to 10
Jewish familieswho were related to the Fraenkel family
from 1397 to 1992. http://tinyurl.com/4py2jz
Historical Museum of Rishon
L'Zion
This museum has a Family Albums
Archive that contains historical-genealogical information about the
early settlers of Rishon L'Zion. The address is:
The Historical Museum of Rishon L'Zion
4 Ahad Ha'am Street
Rishon L'Zion, Israel
Telephone: 972 3 9641621
"How To Get Your Family Tree Online"
- A well written informational site. Scroll down the page and you will find links for both beginners and those who are more experienced http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6721/
One of the best software packages for
keeping up with your family tree. Plus, lots of other information
for genealogical research.
http://www.familytreemaker.com/
GenPals
An interesting site that is already
populated with many Jewish names and includes their posted family
trees. http://www.genpals.co.uk
JewishGen InfoFiles
Directory of Family Newsletters - a listing of Jewish family newsletters as submitted to JewishGen by family newsletter editors famnews@mail.jewishgen.org
offers you a great way to keep in touch with your family with a free e-mail newsletter publishing service that allows you to create, distribute and manage your newsletter in an easy way. Click on 'Topica Exchange' on their home page for more information. www.topica.com
The reunion of two Margulis families is a story about a recent reunion between a long lost Ukrainian born nephew now living in Melbourne, Australia and the webmaster of this site, Ted Margulis. It took patience and a lot of years, but the reward is there!
Baal Shem Tov Family Email Discussion Group.
For families descending from Rabbi Yisrael Baal Shem Tov. To subscribe send an email to : Baalshemtovfamily-subscribe@topica.com
A Canadian/Ukrainian source of reference books and materials, not necessarily Jewish. Contact genealogy@infoukes.com for further information and assistance.
Don't understand how to design your own family page? Not a problem. Try the following site for simple, understandable personal web page building at no cost: Hometown http://hometown.aol.com
Family Tree Searcher - Find Family Trees Easily Enter your ancestor information just once to search for family trees at multiple online genealogy databases. The site also includes hints for searching family history online.
Family
Search
Easiest way to search family trees - Use Active Searches. This allows you to search major
sites by entering your information just one time. Also, this determines the best type of search for you at a particular site (all sites are not
created equal). Free Family History, Family Tree, and Genealogy Records and Resources from Around the World
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp
A commercial web site that offers the services of "Internet Family Finder";
Social Security; E-mailDirectories; Phone
Directories and more http://www.familytreemaker.com/allsearch.html
A database of ancestral towns
( over 15,000 towns) and over 60,000 surnames being researched by
over 37,000 Jewish genealogists. There are over 200,000 unique entries
submitted. http://www.jewishgen.org/jgff/
My Trees
This site houses the World's Largest
Pedigree-Linked Database allowing you to find family names fast.
You can search over 1 billion names with every query.
http://surnamesite.com/st2.htm
With this LingvoSoft smart dictionary software on your computer, you can easily switch between English and Yiddish, for prompt translations of 400,000 words both ways! Many other languages are accessible. Download Free Trial now
Family ... Looking for Family
Add your family web page by sending the basic family information and address to
"A
Genealogical History of the Ajnbunder, Zeldes and Associated
Families"
- authored by Ilya Zeldes, PhD who spent 40 years
researching into her ancestors past from the early 19th century in
Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Dagestan, Gruzia, Germany and
other places. The book has 300 pages of text, photographs,
photocopies of documents, etc. Contact is ilyaz@iline.com
Barisof Family -
requesting information that you might have on this family. My
sister Peggy (of Blessed memory) married Leo Barisof, son of Morris
Barisof and Edith. Send information to Ted Margulis Jwebindex@gmail.com
Barison / Oser Family - includes other related families and some fascinating sites of links to there Jewish historical/archaeological sites http://pweb.netcom.com/~barrison/info.html
Barg , BERG, BARK, and BARCKFamily - Dr. Shimon Barak offers an insight into his roots at www.geocities.com/bargfamily
Bartnowski Family: a nicely produced web page that includes maps of the family shtetl Zabludow, photos and much more information. Webmaster Tilford Bartman http://www.zabludow.com/zabintros.html
Baruch, Bloch, Brokman, Chazanowicz, Edelstein, Epsztajn, Gliksman, Heyman, Honigstock, Kaftal, Lapp, Lew, Lichtenstein, Mirtenbaum, Rozenfeld, Silberstein, Sztyller, Zimnawoda, Zylberstejn Family web site http://www.jewishgen.org/gedcom/
Benies - "Die Familie BENIES; in: Adler - Zeitschrift fuer Genealogie und Heraldik," 21. Band, Heft 3 page 81 - 86. Other families mentioned are David, Benedikt, Eisler Von Terramare, Egger Von Moelwald, Mercy and Stern. The family is originally from
Kolomyia and Brody, but moved in 1860 to Vienna and later to
Prague. The publication is available at: Heraldisch-Genealogische Gesellschaft Adler, Universitaetsstrasze 6/9b, A-1096 Wien. $10.00 US cash only per Georg Gaugusch at e952666@student.tuwien.ac.at
Blacher Family - Details on over 2,100 relations including Blacher, Tatz, Vinnik, Friedman, Tabakin, Klavan and Rosenthal http://users.londonweb.net/ablacher/
Brand (Gregor) - Schriftsteller und Verleger - homepage (in German) of the German poet of Jewish descent with information about his life, work and genealogical information about his Jewish ancestors http://www.angelfire.com/art/gregorbrand/
Bronstein / Braunstein Family - Although
Bronstein is a relatively popular name (ranked 12,884 according to the 1990 census...and
Braunstein is ranked 11,735), this Bronsteins' family roots are from Russia (current day Ukraine). http://www.bronstein.cc/
"Os Cristaos Novos" (The New Christians). The de Sola family authored by Julian Kemper. Thanks to the processes of the Inquisition kept in Lisbon, the author succeeded, with the help of "Avotaynu" and of Paulo Valadares, a Brazilian historian, in establishing a 17 generations genealogical tree of the de Sola family according to a note in the Sephardi Genealogical and Historical Society and Review, Issue 4, Vol. 2, Spring 1999
DON/DONN surname genealogy mailing list at Yahoo! groups for all family tree researchers looking for DON or DONN families of Jewish origin from any time or place. DON and DONN researchers will want to join this new mailing list and exchange information on their DON or DONN family. To subscribe send an email to J-Don-subscribe@Yahoogroups.com
Dreyfus - Alfred Dreyfus was a Jewish French army officer found guilty of treason in 1895 and sentenced to prison at Devil's Island. It was demonstrated that he was the victim of anti-Semitism in the French army and the charges were false.
Farhi Genealogy Site - produced in English, this site is about this Persian family roots - a truly beautifully designed and informative site at http://www.farhi.org/genealogy/index.html
Finn Family - There are several Finn burials in the burial plot of the Ushpoler Benevolent Association of New York at Baron Hirsch cemetery in Staten Island. This was a Landsmanshaftn from the town of Ushpol or Uzpaliai, Lithuania. http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/
Freud Family - A web site containing the family tree of Sigmund FREUD If you go to the search engine "Google. COM" and plug in Freud, genealogy, you will find many other references. http://www.bh.org.il/Exhibitions/Freud/familytree.asp.
Gompertz - there is a book available "Die Familie Gomperz" - authored by Kaufman and Freudenthal - printed in German
Goodman Family - Dan Goodman not only describes his past and current life, but offers many, many interesting and unusual geographical site links. http://www.visi.com/~dsgood/index.html
Hakim Family - the Ha-Levy (Hakim) family was considered an honored family among the Jews expelled from Spain. Later on, when they received the honorary title Hakim from the Sultan, they became the Ha-Levy Hakim family. It appears that at some point in time, the name Levy was dropped and the family became known as Hakim. But passing on from generation to generation that we come from the levy family.
The family adjusted well to life under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. They lived in Egypt, Salonika (Greece), Menissa (Turkey), where Rabbi Yosef Yehuda Hakim served as Chief rabbi. In 1868 he was appointed by the Sultan Abdul Aziz to be the Chief Rabbi of Smyrna (Izmir) Turkey, where the preceding Chief Rabbi was Hayim Palatchi, who served in this capacity for many years, until his death. Contact The Hakims at quest@webstazy.comhttp://www.webstazy.com/hakim/index.html
Hirsch Family (includes: Blum, Dreyfus, Glinka, Hermann, Hirsch, Lew, Loeb (Loewel), Moel, Roterozen (Roterosen), Rucka/Rutzki, Srebnick/Silverman, Weil, Welsch) - the site is billed as 'The
Home of Alsace and Lomza Genealogy' and it is done very professionally containing a lot of information about
Alsatian Jews including photographs, as well as the
Lomza Guberniya (Poland).
Research links for Alsace, Lorraine, and Swabia http://genforum.genealogy.com/silverman/
The site includes the internet edition of the Yedion newsletter E-mail contact Shlomo Gurevich: Shl2gur@hotmail.com The Horowitz family, with Sephardic roots in medieval
Gerona and Barcelona, Spain, spread to Prague, Poland, and all around Eastern Europe.
http://www.horowitzassociation.org/
Kassin Rabbinic Dynasty - surnames include Alexander, Attia, Chreim, Cohen, Crodi, Guideon, Hedaya, Kassin/Cassin/Katzen, Laboton, Masri, Seruya, Sitt, Sutton and Zakay located on the
Rav SIG On-line Journalhttp://www.jewishgen.org/Rabbinic
Kohler & Hugendobler Family - a website dedicated to the Kohler family of Kintzheim (Lower Rhine region, France) and the Hugendobler. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/kohler
Labaton Rabbinic Dynasty - surnames in this family include Friedman, Haber, HaLevy, Hedaya, Husney, Labaton/Lubatin/Lobaton, Masri, Missry, Sasson Betech, and Suede http://www.jewishgen.org/Rabbinic
Lemky, Freedman, Gordin, Bull,
Dimantshtein Family Genealogy Chaim Freedman has
created a very creative Blog which includes photos of this shtetl
and his personal family history.
http://chfreedman.blogspot.com:80/
Lerner Family - a Lerner
family history DNA project sponsors information at FamilyTreeDNA.
Lerner family members interested in discovering more about how they
are related to other Lerners can find more information at www.familytreeDNA.com
Liss, Liskowsky, Kesselman, Wolinsky, Bakst, Rabinowitz Family -Daniel Kazez has a link to his Oberman (Guberman) and Lis (Liss) families from this town guberman-lis.html
Malka - Gelfand Family - Genealogic resources and extensive family tree, Jeff Malka created the first Sephardic web site http://www.orthohelp.com/geneal/
Manischewitz: The Matzo Family -
The Making Of An American Jewish Icon - authored by Laura
Manischewitz Alpern. An insider's tale of the family that
transformed kosher eating habits. Laura is a
great-granddaughter of company founder Behr Manischewitz.
Margulis,
Margolis, Brodsky, Levy, Cohen,
Milavetz, Rutz, Tomasky, Smolkin, Family
The Margulis Saga - a story of how I was able to successfully locate my half brother's son (my nephew) who was born in
Kerch, Crimea and now resides in Melbourne, Australia. Click here to read the story of the results of a 25 years search for family.
Morinis (Alan) Family Home Page - this site brings together the many strands of Alan's life as related to being a Jew and the Mussar life - http://www.morinis.ca/
Nahman Home Page - this site, besides offering family history information about the Nahman family from
Gerona, Spain has much Sephardic information http://home.earthlink.net/~bnahman
Noach, Mogendorff, Frankfort & Vomberg Family - many links are included with this nicely published site, especially designed for Jewish Dutch information http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/6375
Oberman Family - a nice and informative web site. Contact is Leslie Oberman who is also the President of the Australian Jewish Genealogical Society Victoria http://www.oberman.org/
Daniel Kazez has a link to his Oberman (Guberman) and Lis (Liss) families from this town at guberman-lis.html
Pardess Family - a respected Sephardi family in
Jerusalem. The website is www.pardess.com
Most of it is in Hebrew with some Spanish links. The Family hails from Paredesde Nava in
Palencia (Palencia) District in Iberia, hence it's name. The township has its own website. Documents in the family's possession and in Paredes de Nava indicate that parts of the family started migrating from
Spain already in 1434. The family intends to have the next reunion in. The Sephardim, unlike the Ashkenazim, used to name their children after the grandfather while he was still alive and some given names roll in the family for at least 700 years. www.paredesdenava2003.com
Rechtman Family -
Yigal Rechtman has his own web site and gives you an insight into
his own genealogical work, including technology; Databases, Yizkor
books, Social Security, FBI and more!
Rose - a book "Portraits of Our Past: Jews of the German Countryside" - authored by Emily C. Rose is a family history and published by Jewish Publication Society
Shattil, Comaroff, Dubowitz, Gastrow, Hickman, Koff, Midgen, Stern, Family
- this family stems from my mother's great grandmother's (Miriam
Cohn) marriage to Mordecai Schattil. This web site,
created by Ron Shattil, offers information on the family tree
very graphically. http://www.shattil.com
Solomon Family - Samuel Solomon was
from either Romania or Hungary. He married Esther Soloski, my
mother's youngest sister. They were married secretly for three
years because the School system in International Falls, Minnesota did
not want married women teaching at that time, according to Myrle Solomon
Erlich, her daughter and only child. My folks gave them a Brass
Samovar which is back in my brother Frank's home. Myrle wrote a book
titled "Patchwork" in which she describes her childhood growing
up in International Falls.
Steinway - The piano making firm was founded in 1853 by German Jewish immigrant Henry Engelhard Steinway in a New York Manhattan loft. The company sold its first piano for $500. Their revolutionary designs and superior workmanship gave Steinway pianos almost immediate national and international recognition. Steinway instruments are now considered some of the finest crafted, with approximately 5,000 pianos produced annually and distributed worldwide.
http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Steinway-family-history.ashx
Toranto - Capouya Family - Leon Taranto has focused his genealogical research on the Jewish communities of the Ottoman Empire, specifically
Smyrna (Izmir, Turkey) and Rhodes (Greece). He has developed contacts and exchanged source data with
Sephardi genealogists from six continents and with residents of present day
Turkey. He has prepared a manuscript of his paternal family history "Our Sephardi Ancestors: A Historical Overview of the Taranto-Capouya
Family". lbtept@aol.com
Tunkel - Toonkel - Tounkel's Family - lots of information about the family and links including European maps and a history of the Jewish Russian region tunkelfamilysite.com
Türkelova and Turklova (names of a Turkel's spouse); Turkelewitz; Turkeltaub, Tirkeltaub, Terkeltaub, Tarkeltaub, Turkeltoiv and Tirkeltoiv (Jewish derivatives);Turkler, Tirken, Tirkner, Tirko, Turgal, Turgel, Turgl (Austrian derivatives);Turkland, Turkleson, Turklesen, Tirkelsen, Turkldson, Turkleboom, Turklepaugh http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3511
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