Welcome kind visitor! take your shoes off and relax. This blog is now open for your comments. I've had a few emails directly following the announcement on the LitvakSIG forum and digest. Thank you Steve Bloom, Linda Cantor and Oscar Friedman for getting in touch and for your best wishes for this incumbent.
Steve is another Salakas researcher (looking at ROZENBERG) - and he tells me that for one of the Polish shtetls he's also interested in someone prepared a family tree for the whole shtetl. While they had the benefit of vital records and we have to rely on revision lists it is still possible we may be able to get some way with a "Family Tree of Salakas" and, for example, put names to some of the many "Last Name Unknown" women who arrive in our family trees and massively branch our family trees. We will need to obtain as yet uncaptured revision lists for 1858/71 and 1876. Is this a worthwhile medium term project? Comments?
Linda is the Chair of the terrific RokiskisSIG (link down on the left). Her family - as some of mine did - came from somewhere else before hitting downtown Rakushik. She'd like us to do more record capture for some of the smaller shtetls. I wonder whether we can try to emulate the Rokiskis website for other parts of the District? Maybe not in such splendour....
Oscar is researching the KORB family from Salakas, but seems to be missing the key record to tie in his grandfather to the records. His family believe that Meir KORB may have gone to Argentina. I had not thought to look for members of my clan in Argentina: Chicago, Boston, Minnesota, New York, Ekaterinoslav, Schedrin, London and South Africa, yes, Argentina no. It would be interesting to analyse shtetl emigration patterns. And it might give clues for research in our own families. What do you think?
Paul
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I am interested to learn if vital records from Panemunelis exist pre-1900. I am researching SHVARTSBERG from Rokiskis and Panemunelis. I have discovered branched in Johannesburg, Worcester and Baltimore and Long Island.
ReplyDeleteI've checked the data we have and the RTR database. Panemunelis seems to be one of places that have no extant 19th century records. It's worth noting that the RTR database tells one to look at Rokiskis records.
ReplyDeleteSome of the other shtetls in the Rokiskis area - Papilys, Kamajai, Juzintai, Kriaunos - also have very few or no 19th c records.
We are looking at the Rokiskis 1887 and 1864/71 lists as a good target. This may provide some answers.
Does anyone know whether these records cover nearby shtetls?
I have checked the Salakas Database and remembered that the nephew of my Grand father (Abram Korb ) is eadle
ReplyDeletelooking again in the database I found Meyer Idle Korb . so it might be the right link
but I would be more then happy to find more confirmation for that
one more thing … I was told that my Grand father's father – Meyer Korb was a mayor of the Shtetel . is there any way to find some data about that ?
Oscar