Vienna newspaper obits

Subject: Neue Freie Presse {NFP} , 1864-1939, Vienna is now onlineFrom: Celia Male Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 04:09:37 -0700 (PDT)X-Message-Number: 5Stephanie Weiner of San Diego asked GerSIG members yesterday for a private translation of the obituary notice of Josef H. DOMBERGER from Drohobycz, Galicia from the Neue Freie Presse but she was totally unaware of the momentous event she was revealing. She wrote to GerSIG as she wanted to give the Austria-Czech members a rest, but ironically this was the news we all wanted to hear and had been waiting impatiently for over the years.I knew that the Neue Freie Presse [NFP] was due to be digitised but had not checked for a while; now we know it is there for all to read and peruse. It is wonderful news for genealogists, as this Viennese newspaper "Neue Freie Presse" 1864-1939, with its hundreds of Partezettel {Obituary notices} is now on-line at ANNO: Austrian Newspapers Online - http://anno.onb.ac.at/see: http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nfpIt was one of the favourite papers for Jewish obituaries. If you know the date of death of the person you are looking for, please look at the newspaper edition nearest that date, for the Partezettel - see for example 17 June p.17 1916 for a bumper number of Partezettel. Stephanie's revealed many family members she was not aware of. This is also very good news for members of the Galicia-SIG as they may find relevant and detailed obituary notices in the paper. Generally these notices, as in all papers throughout the world, will be for middle and upper-class members of society as the poorer Galician Jews could probably not afford to pay for the obituary notice in this prestigious paper. The editor, and eventually the owner, of the paper was the famous and controversial Moriz BENEDIKT, a Jew, who was born on 27 May 1848 in Krasice/Kwassitz, Moravia and died in Vienna on 18.3.1920 - seehttp://aeiou.iicm.tugraz.at/aeiou.encyclop.b/b287076.htm Look at the NFP edition of 19 March 1920 to see the Partezettel on the front page with a long editorial. However, when you google the legendary Moriz {or Moritz} BENEDIKT, the editor of the NFP, he is very hard to find - but you find a medical doppelganger. Some newspaper editors' fame, like their products, are obviously ephemeral in the eyes of 21st century English-language search engines. Celia Male, London, UK---------------------------------------------------------------------
Subject: Neue Freie Presse {NFP} - Galician Death NoticesFrom: Celia Male Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 10:15:35 -0700 (PDT)X-Message-Number: 4Two days ago I mentioned that one of the most significant genealogical tools for many years has come on-line in digitised, but sadly not in searchable form:http://anno.onb.ac.at/anno.htmI have found some very good examples for you relating to Galicia: The dates given are those of the editions in which I found the notices. Moses GARTENBERG from Drohobycz and Vienna - 16 March 1916 Dr. Heinrich SCHORNSTEIN - lawyer from Krakau - 24.2.1925I am particularly intrigued by the HULDSCHINSKY link here as I knew a family of that name in Alexandria, Egypt as a child. They emigrated to Canada after WW2. Grandmother HULDSCHINSKY was a sculptress and I believe a member of her family sculpted the famous lions by the Secession Building in Vienna. Jakob ULAM from Lemberg - 22.2.1925 Meier SINGER - Kaufmann from Lemberg - 21.2.1919Below is his Vienna Tor IV tombstone from which I got his origins and also his date of death and details of Holocaust victims: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cam37/2565209411/I have deliberately not given you the URLs in the first part of this posting so you learn to spot the notices yourselves in the layout. However, you will find the URLs in the footnote.I found Moses GARTENBERG because I knew his date of death from the IKG database from Vienna - http://friedhof.ikg-wien.at/search.asp?lang=enand looked at NFP editions near that date. The others were serendipitous as they did not die in Vienna and these notices were put in to alert readers throughout the Habsburg Empire and German-speaking world. The SINGER family is an excellent example of how circuitous it can be to do Jewish genealogy of Galician families in Vienna. I walked past Meier's tombstone and photographed it - researched it via the IKG database, Yad Vashem and DOEW (www.doew.at) - and now I find the NFP Partezettel/Obituary notice. With a name like SINGER [I do not know the family] I am astounded I have got thus far. This is the exact opposite of the one-step process of Steve Morse! I could find out more, if I made the effort. Footnotes: Don't cheat, but after you have tried yourself, here are the tiny URLsGARTENBERG: http://tinyurl.com/6z6y5eSCHORNSTEIN: http://tinyurl.com/578kphULAM: http://tinyurl.com/58ppnsSINGER: nb given name as Mayer: http://tinyurl.com/5faex6 Celia Male [U.K

Cook County - more

Subject: Cook County Vital Records - Steve Morse One-StepFrom: "Joy Rich" Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 16:51:01 -0400X-Message-Number: 8Steve Morse has created a One-Step search for the Cook County, Illinois, genealogical vital records that are online at <>. In Illinois, genealogical vital records are defined as birth certificates that are seventy-five years old or older (before today's date in 1933); marriage certificates that are fifty years old or older (before today's date in 1958); and death certificates that are twenty years old or older (before today's date in 1988). An explanation of which records may or may not be included is at <>. Free registration is required to search.At <>, place the cursor over "Vital Records" on the upper left side of the page and click on "Chicago Vital Records." Steve's One-Step eliminates the need to compute the Soundex code and also makes it easy to find the name of a spouse.Joy RichBrooklyn, NY
Subject: Re: Cook County Vital Records - Steve Morse One-StepFrom: "Joy Rich" Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:20:09 -0400X-Message-Number: 28Additional information about the site has been posted athttp://tracingthetribe.blogspot.com/2008/07/illinois-cook-county-vital-records.html.[or http://tinyurl.com/6xxzbv --Mod.]Joy RichBrooklyn, NY

Cook County Records

Subject: Cook County (Chicago) Il (USA) Records Now On-LineFrom: "jan meisels allen" Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 14:11:08 -0700X-Message-Number: 20Some months ago I reported to you that the Cook County (IL) [USA} Clerk would be putting on-line, the index to search vital records (birth, marriage and death records). It was reported this week in the Genealogy Roots Blog that the on-line system is up and working. Per Trudy Barch, President of the Iliana JGS who checked with the County Clerk's office this week, they indicated they were hoping that all the records would be available this week, but they might have to delay some not going up until next week. Therefore, they are still adding some records- so keep trying if you do not get a hit for your family. The records begin circa 1872. Cook County vital records before that were destroyed in the Chicago fire of 1871.To search the records: birth records 75 years and older; marriage records 50 years and older and death records 20 years and older go to http://www.cookcountygenealogy.com/. There is no charge to search the index.. To see and down load the actual record costs $15.00 per record. One must register with their e-mail address and password to search the index. There is no cost to register. The records obtained on this site are for genealogical purposes and will bear the endorsement of "For Genealogical Purposes Only".If you are researching Chicago records another site that might be of interest as pointed out in the genealogy roots blog is:http://www.deathindexes.com/illinois/cook.htmlJan Meisels AllenDirector, IAJGS andChairperson, Public Records Access Monitoring Committee ----------------------------------------------------------------------