I'm so sorry you had the Rabbi Savage block issue. I had the Father Albert issue. I took pictures of the tombstones but when it came to obtaining written archive copies, it took me four years of letters and phone calls.    His Bishop's office finally said he would cooperate with ten lookups of my family surnames.'   Maybe anyone having this similar issue can try going to a High Power. I'm a bit late in response.  It was only this last year that  I received a postive answer to my request for copies of archives.   I also wrote to businesses of the town of Forest City NE PA requesting that someone photograph all teh tombstones in town and microfilm all the Churches' ARCHIVES.   A hIGH sCHOOL TECHNOLOGIST TOOK ON THE JOB FOR HIS STUDENTS IN 11TH GRADE! BEST REGARDS --- On Thu, 7/27/06, Leah Hammer <[email protected]> wrote From: Leah Hammer <> Subject: [PBS] Help photographing graves in PA To: [email protected]   Date: Thursday, July 27, 2006, 12:35 PM My cousins and I believe that our GG parents are buried in Beth Hamedrash Hagodol-Beth Jacob Congregation's cemetery in Pittsburgh. Our requests (multiple) of Rabbi Savage, his staff and cemetery caretaker to obtain some  photos of the tombstones, with offers to pay for  service, have not been  forthcoming. A year has passed, with more delays yesterday, and so we hope that  someone living in this area might help us. Contact information for  the synagogue (I believe it is Orthodox) is: Beth Hamedrash  Hagodol-Beth Jacob Congregation Rabbi Savage 1230 Colwell  Street Pittsburgh, PA 15219 412-471-4443 The following are the grave locations in the  cemetery for: Rose Chernoff:  Death Date, 4/20/1929 (80  years old) Plot:  Section E, Row 4, Lot 48 Isaac  Chernoff:  Death Date:  7/26/1910 (57 years old) Plot:   Section E, Row 4, Lot 47 Esther E. Chernoff:  Death Date,  1/21/1906 (6 years old) Plot:  Section E. Row 7, Lot  111" Please contact me directly, Leah -- Enthusiasm is contagious.   Be a carrier. ==== PolandBorderSurnames Mailing List ==== To find a the address of a church in Poland, use this site: http://www.genpol.com/Katalog_Zasobow_Metrykalnych.html If you do not have the letters with diacritical marks in your computer, use a * for those letters as a wild card.

I personally would not expect a synagogue to take on the task of photographing tombstones. I believe you will have the best luck obtaining the tombstone images you need if you post your request on either the Rootsweb Pittsburgh mailing list or at http://findagrave.com. Here is the mailing list webpage. http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/usa/PA/allegheny.html#PA-PITTSBURGH FindAGrave even has a page devoted to what I believe is the cemetery you are talking about "Beth Hamedrash Hagodal Cemetery", but I did not see that surname listed on that page. If the following url does not work, just do a cemetary search in Pennsylvania from the main findagrave page. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=44375&CScn=beth&CScntry=4&CSst=40& You would have to register first, but you also could search for your family at JewishGen's Online Burial Registry at: http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/cemetery/ They do have many tombstone images there in addition to being a Registry. On 12/27/08, peekaboobrat <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm so sorry you had the Rabbi Savage block issue. I had the Father Albert > issue. I took pictures of the tombstones but when it came to obtaining > written archive copies, it took me four years of letters and phone calls. > ... > I'm a bit late in response. It was only this last year that I received a > postive answer to my request for copies of archives. > ... > --- On Thu, 7/27/06, Leah Hammer <[email protected]> wrote > From: Leah Hammer <> > Subject: [PBS] Help photographing graves in PA To: > [email protected] Date: Thursday, July 27, 2006, 12:35 > PM > > > My cousins and I believe that our GG parents are buried in Beth Hamedrash > Hagodol-Beth Jacob Congregation's cemetery in Pittsburgh. Our requests > (multiple)... to obtain some > photos of > the tombstones... > A year has passed... we hope that someone > living in this area might help us. > > Contact information for the synagogue (I believe it is Orthodox) is: > Beth Hamedrash Hagodol-Beth Jacob Congregation > Rabbi Savage > 1230 Colwell Street > Pittsburgh, PA 15219 > 412-471-4443