Jewish Data times Issue 26

Jewish Data Times Issue 26 12/24/07

Focused on records posted at http://www.jewishdata.com/

1. New records posted from Long Island, NY.
2. New records from Deans, New Jersey.
3. Large batch from Washington Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY.
4. Records from Israel locations are being processed.
5. Several thousand more records from Elmont, NY.

1. There first batch of more than 3,500 images from Long Island is fromPinelawn, Long Island- Wellwood Cemetery, located on Wellwood Ave. Thesemonuments date from around 1940 and on. Here are some family names forwhich there are at least 5 records, excluding the most common Jewish familynames: Axelrod, Baker, Becher, Brown, Chasan, Chernick, Dorf, Feinsilber,Forman, Friesel, Froum, Gaynor, Glaser, Kaffee, Kalfus, Kivowitz, Lande,Pinker, Reider, Rogoff, Shultz, Sindel, Smith, Strahl, Tuchman, Yass, andZagofsky.See 2. for more details.

2. A batch of close to 3,000 records from Deans, NJ- Floral Park on Rt.130- has been posted. Many of these records and the ones listed above fromPinelawn- Long Island are from Chassidic communties from Munkatch, Bobov andothers. Those monuments are in Hebrew only. Gradually they will be indexedinto English. We did notice that more than a few of these monuments claim"Yichus" - honorable lineage- from great European Rabbis.

3. The latest batch of 9,000 records brings a total of 29,000 images fromthis Brooklyn Jewish cemetery. The oldest monuments are from the 1880's. Anumber of them state the person's birthplace, for example: Tobias Hecht (1811-1896) fromRuppertshofen, Germany, Sette Hecht (1827-1911) from Bartsadt, Germany, Abraham Goldsmith (1810-1885) fromNesselroeden, Germany, and Louis Tubachnick (1858- 1899) from Nemirov,Russia. Some of the images have large office buildings in the background,making this location recognizable.The records from this location are a great information resource. Here is apartial list of family names which have at least 5 records, excluding themost common Jewish names, and as a sample, only names beginning with the letters A, B,and Z: Ackerman, Ainbinder, Albert, Albstein, Alexander, Alper, Alperstein,Alpert, Alter, Altholtz, Amdur, Anderson, Appel, ppelbaum, Asch, Ascher,Aschner, Ash, Asher, Ashkenas, Baer, Baird, Baker, Ball, Barash, Bard,Barkan, Barnett, Barofsky, Baron, Baronsky, Baschkopf, Baskind, Bass, Bauer,Bauman, Becher, Beck, Beecher, Beer, Bell, Bellick, Bergida, Berliner, Bern,Bernard, Bero, Bettleman, Beltz, Bienstock, Bierman, Binder, Blakeman,Blank, Blanket, Blatt, Blattberg, Bleetstein, Blutstein, Bock, Bogursky,Botwinick, Brand, Braunn, Braverman, Bresack, Brill, Brody, Brook, Brooks,Brown, Buchbinder, Buchholtz, Zaretsky, Zeiger, Zeiflin, Zelenko,Zelevansky, Zellr, Zeltser, Zhavtis, Zinner, Zorn, Zucker, Zuckerberg,Zweigenhaft, Zwerin, Zwerling, and Zwick.

4. Batches of thousands of new records are being processed fom the followingIsrael locations: Safed, Har Menuchos, Mt. of Olives, Tiberias, SheikhBader-Jerusalem. These records will be described in detail when they arefully indexed.

5. An additional batch of 3,000 records from Beth David in Elmont, NY-brings the number of images from there to more than 7,000. The variety offamily names is colorful and it seems that many are Sefardic. Here arefamily names of which there are at least 5 records, excluding the mostcommon names: Askinazi, Attas, Azrolan, Babuch, Bacola, Barouch, Bartwink,Beck, Becker, Bell, Bodner, Bortnick, Brafman, Brody, Cantos, Chernuchin,Coffina, Coffino, Colchamiro, Dariff, De Castro, Dorman, Elias, Eskanazi,Ganis, Geber, Gilter, Glasser, Grodsky, Hametz, Hiller, Homelsky, Kass,Katcher, Kitzes, Kniznick, Kostick, Koulias, Kruglack, Lafazan, Lazansky,Lenchner, Levitt, Lindner, Luftig, Master, Matsil, Matza, Mazza, Menachem,Merchant, Millman, Mirsky, Mishkin, Mitchel, Mogel, Muntner, Mutachi,Nachmias, Nadler, Nahoum, Naphtali, Negrin, Nicokiris, Olshner, Ovadia,Paul, Petrillo, Pincus, Post, Provitch, Ricklin, Robbins, Savetsky,Schinasi, Sinder, Smith, Socol, Sokal, Storch, Sylvester, Thaw, Tobias,Trager, Tropino, Warshaw, Winter, acuel, Yellin, Yomtov, Zaffos, Zavetsky,Ziff, Ziperstein, and Zwitman.