Ann - Linda may have already suggested this, but you can send a query to the Toronto Family History Centre at [email protected] (or [email protected] - I don't know if it makes a difference). Your question would be posted in a weekly bulletin and replies would be posted in the next one which you can view at: http://www.torugg.org/toronto_family_history_centre_bulletin.html The volunteers are very helpful and often turn up quite a bit of info. Eve Richardson > regarding the subject search for James (Jimmy) LEVY B 1887, D1955 I'd > like to thank > >

Hi bob, I have found both sites to be useful in different ways. Specifically, FMP includes the 1911 census, which A does not. It also has military records that are not on A - I have only one half Jewish ancestry and the other Anglo-Irish, so I don't use it exclusively for the Jewish side. However, A has a large number of family trees on it and various people have contacted me through that to give me information I couldn't have found through normal searches. The National Archives also have things such as naturalisation documents available to search free of charge, but you have to pay to receive documents with the details. Good luck with the search, Naomi in Edinburgh -----Original Message----- From: Bob Moss <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 18:34 Subject: [BRITISH-JEWRY] Which databases to use? For searching British records and tracing people is there any significant difference between what is available on ancestry.co.uk and findmypapst.co.uk? I have been using ancestry but have hit the proverbial brick wall and am looking for some new streams to follow. Bob Moss Chicago, IL. USA Our website is at www.british-jewry.org.uk We update regularly. Let us know if you have ideas to offer. [email protected] is the address to use for help. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I'd be happy to help Forward it to my email Regards Angie Israel Searching: RAYKH-ZELIGMAN/RICHMAN, Stakliskes, Lithuania/Leeds COHEN, Sakiai, Lithuania/Leeds MAGIDOWITZ, Jurbarkas, Lithuania/Leeds KASSIMOFF, Rezekne, Latvia/Leeds ________________________________ From: Judi Conway <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, October 2, 2010 12:01:34 AM Subject: Re: [BRITISH-JEWRY] Lewis & Galfsky I got their marriage authorization from the Synogogue but it's not very ledgable :( I could send you a copy privately if you think you could help read it. Thanks so much Judi Our website is at www.british-jewry.org.uk We update regularly. Let us know if you have ideas to offer. [email protected] is the address to use for help. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

regarding the subject search for James (Jimmy) LEVY B 1887, D1955 I'd like to thank Linda Kelley who sent me some very valuable info for me to follow up on. James LEVEY was indeed a well known violinist and I can now direct my search towards looking for descendants, possibly in Canada. Thanks Linda...I do so appreciate it. -- Kindest Regards, Ann Florida USA

I am posting this on British SIG also as there is a London connection. In Canada, looking for possible descendants of Mr & Mrs. James Levey. James Levey (1883-1957) was a renowned violinist, born and raised in London. From 1917-1927 he was 1st Violin with the London String Quartet. James Levey taught and also performed with many music groups including the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, & the Hart House String Quartet. He traveled the globe but I’m hypothesizing that he settled in Canada because in 1976, his widow (first name unknown) donated material on his career to the Music Archives of the National Library of Canada. I have found a description of the material on the website and I have emailed the Nat’l Library to determine how I can access/view it. I am interested primarily in his biography and his lineage. I found several references to his stellar career on the internet including a wike search, but no detailed bio. Facebook has some Wengiers but I would like to use other methods first. I would like to find out if James had children so that I can connect with them to determine if photos exist of my great grandmother’s sister Sura. Sura married James' father In London in the early 1900s (was a 2nd marriage for both of them). -- Kindest Regards, Ann Florida USA

Hi Bob, I can't answer your question as I haven't used findmypast much, but I would suggest that you post the information about your brick walls on this list. This will 1) give people a better chance of advising you about whether you might find results on findmypast, and 2) this is an extremely helpful list and chances are someone on it will help you knock down a wall or two. Eve in Toronto (who has had a great deal of help from listers over the years) > For searching British records and tracing people is there any significant > difference between what is available on ancestry.co.uk and > findmypapst.co.uk? > > > > I have been using ancestry but have hit the proverbial brick wall and am > looking for some new streams to follow. > > > > Bob Moss > > Chicago, IL. USA > > > > Our website is at > www.british-jewry.org.uk > We update regularly. Let us know if you have ideas to offer. > > [email protected] is the address to use for help. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I got their marriage authorization from the Synogogue but it's not very ledgable :( I could send you a copy privately if you think you could help read it. Thanks so much Judi

For searching British records and tracing people is there any significant difference between what is available on ancestry.co.uk and findmypapst.co.uk? I have been using ancestry but have hit the proverbial brick wall and am looking for some new streams to follow. Bob Moss Chicago, IL. USA

Is anyone researching WENGER, WEGIER, WENGIER Rebecca/Renee married Sam/Simon ZAIDMAN SEP 1930 Shorditch, with a birth in 1931 of Ivor and in 1933 of Roma. Simon ZAIDMAN may have been born 1907. all preceding info from freebmd. -- Kindest Regards, Ann Florida USA

Does anyone have in their family tree James (Jimmy) LEVY B 1887, D1955. Sura (nee Frydman) was his stepmother who married his father in the early 1900s I think. He may have been a musician, perhaps a violinist. -- Kindest Regards, Ann Florida USA

I see that Hilary Thomas has Phillips ancestors, as we do (see email below). We are stumped, and hopefully he, and others, may lend a hand. My wife's GG-Grandfather was David Aaron PHILLIPS. . . . . . he married Catherine ISAACS. I have very little info about both David and Catherine. Would love to find their parents' names, where they were born, and other info about them. David married Catherine 22 June, 1831, at the Great Synagogue in London, two years before their first child, Sophia was born, in Jamaica. So, the two of them probably emigrated from England to Jamaica between 1831 and 1833. He died 4 Aug, 1856, and she died March 26 1875. Both died in Kingston, Jamaica, and are buried there. She is referred to in the Jamaican synagogue records re her children's births as "Kate." Their son, Emanuel, my wife's G-Grandfather, came to Louisiana, US, in 1859. He married Fanny Kreeger and died here in New Orleans. David and Kate's marriage records show that his father's Hebrew name was Aryeh Shirga Pais; her Hebrew name was Keila, and her father's was Issachar Behr. ANY info whatever about David and Kate would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Dan Henderson New Orleans, la. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of hilary thomas Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 9:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BRITISH-JEWRY] inge street my great grandfather,Isaac Phillips lived at 2. Inge st in1871. He was a lodger at the home of Shimon and Sarah Peter and family. Isaac was a 22 year old tailor at the time. The other household members were Shimon's 4 children, his 80yr old mother and 3 other lodgers,...Louis Rothenberg; Samuel Skynsky and Lewis Gyles. Isaac left Birmingham soon after 1871 and settled in Manchester Hilary Thomas cheshire , England Our website is at www.british-jewry.org.uk

my great grandfather,Isaac Phillips lived at 2. Inge st in1871. He was a lodger at the home of Shimon and Sarah Peter and family. Isaac was a 22 year old tailor at the time. The other household members were Shimon's 4 children, his 80yr old mother and 3 other lodgers,...Louis Rothenberg; Samuel Skynsky and Lewis Gyles. Isaac left Birmingham soon after 1871 and settled in Manchester Hilary Thomas cheshire , England

Hi Jill My LEWIS family were much involved as they came from Poland ( we cant find that actual evidence yet apart from Census records). Please email me directly with a copy. Thank you John Meyers

Oops ! As Jeremy Frankel has gently pointed out I mistyped part of my message yesterday. What I meant to write was: - "Checking on LancashireBMD shows that the brides surname was on the Marriage Register as either, or both, JAFFE or JOFFE." Many apologies. To see for oneself it would be necessary to get a copy from the Manchester Register Office. Asking for a photocopy of the original Register entry, quoting their reference number, 527A/2/26, as noted on the LancashireBMD website at <http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/> Again, many apologies. Terry Glasstone, Sale, Cheshire

You can also read about the "Back to Backs" exhibit at the following sites: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Back_to_Backs Birmingham Conservation Trust: http://birminghamconservationtrust.org/bct-finished/back-to-backs/ Not only will you find these types of buildings in Birmingham, but throughout the north including Manchester. My own family lived in one of these buildings in 1911 which had originally been built for mill workers. Ann Rabinowitz [email protected]

Emannuel and Kate JACOBS (nee Maronovitch) had two children: Isidore Jack -b 30 May, 1920 -Mile End Old Town South Western Beatrice Bella - b 17 June 1923 - Mile End Old Town South Western It is possible that Beatrice married a Morris (Mickey) Ross but I have no confirming documents so far. (I have sent for the marriage cert, listed in the index for 1944) I do know that that couple had a son, Laurence Paul, born in 1950. Does anyone have anything on Isidore or Beatrice in any of their trees? Bob Moss Chicago, Illinois SCHNEIDER, MOSCOVITCH (MOSS), JACOBS. LEVY, MARONOVITCH Please consider the environment and do not print this e-mail unless there is a real need for a paper copy.

Dear fellow researchers I don't know if it is the power of Israel or just his canny ability to find the impossible, but I have to say how delighted I was when Philip Campbell found a group of relations that I had been searching for, for over some years. I am still not sure how it happened but he eventually found the grandson of a cousin of my father that I had been searching for, for over three years. He found him on Facebook. All power to you Phillip for your unconventional but very successful methods in finding missing people!!! Moadim simcha Ian Ian Samuel Melbourne Australia Researching:ALTMAN/BOJARSKY/EFRON/GLOGOWSKI/HYAMS/NATHAN /ROCKMAN/SAMUEL(S)/SLONIM/SOLOMONS/TOBIAS

On Friday I visited Birmingham for a conference at the Hippodrome theatre. Opposite this is a National Trust conservation project of some Victorian shop fronts and back to back houses in courts at the rear. This was in the heart of the old Jewish quarter in the mid 19th century. The back to back houses in Court 15 are arranged by age and the oldest (1840's/1850's) was occupied by Lawrence and Priscilla Levy and their four children Joseph, Adelaide, Morris and Emanuel. It occurred to me that this family could be the ancestors of some of the viewers of this site. Lawrence Levy arrived from London in his fifties (at time of 1851 census) and made hands for clocks. By 1861 he and his family had moved into the Jewellery quarter in Birmingham, where his sons continued the business. The Levy original Birmingham home in the Inge Street Court has a dining room laid out for a Friday Shabbat meal, with various Jewish memorabilia. (They were Polish Jews by the way). If this is your ancestor, I can photocopy the appropriate pages in the guide book for you. To further add to this, I found my own unexpected personal link to this area. During the 1950's one of the shops on the street front now owned by the National Trust was a newsagent run by Manny Gorfunkel. Manny's mother (from Hull/Sheffield) was my maternal grandmother's sister. Manny came from Liverpool where coincidentally he had been in the same class at the Liverpool Institute grammar school as my father. You can find family history in surprising places! Jill Whitehead Surrey

Dear All, Checking on LancashireBMD shows that the brides surname was on the Marriage Register as either or both JAFFE or JAFFE. Terry Glasstone > I'm not sure if JOFFE is correct (I agree that the FreeBMD does show > the index page is typed and depicts JOFFE). > > However Jewish Chronicle has the name as JAFFE. It also mentions the > death of Wolfe JAFFE, father of Rose (JAFFE) GOLDFIELD. A Wolfe JAFFE > of Manchester is also mentioned JewishGen's Shtetl Links about the > BOR family. > > Can anyone shed further light on this?

Hi Jill, What a fascinating story. I would love to see it! I have a family that lived at 3 Inge Street Court. Were there any other streets? I also have relatives who lived on Holloway and on Vyse Streets in the 1850s to the 1870s. Jackye Sullins Carlsbad, CA > > On Friday I visited Birmingham for a conference at the Hippodrome theatre. > Opposite this is a National Trust conservation project of some Victorian > shop fronts and back to back houses in courts at the rear. This was in the > heart of the old Jewish quarter in the mid 19th century. > > You can find family history in surprising places! > > Jill Whitehead > Surrey >