1) Did you do some genealogy research during August 2014? Did you find a great record or story pertaining to an ancestor or family member?
2) Tell us about the BEST genea-prize ("record") you found during August 2014. What was it, where did you find it, and how does it help advance your research?
3) Share your genea-prize in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook or Google+ post.
4) NOTE: If you didn't find one in August, tell us about a recent genea-prize from another month.
In August, I did lots of research, some of which was on Jacob Reisner, an uncle of my mother-in-law's. His wife was Rebecca Levitt, daughter of Max Levitt, my mother-in-law's grandfather. As I have noted before, I am trying to find where Max came from; just about all sources note simply "Austria," which in the pre-World War I era, referred to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a large area.
Last week, after sharing the World War I Draft Card for Jacob Reisner at the Tracing the Tribe Facebook group, one very kind reader emailed me with lots of information that he found about the Reisner family, showing that they were from Horodenka, a town in Galicia, a province in the pre-WWI Austrian Empire. When I emailed back, I thanked him and commented that I have been researching Jacob Reisner because I was hoping it would lead me to where his wife's family was from. He soon got back to me with information from an index at JRI-Poland, which I had never thought to explore since there had never been mention in the family that anyone was from Poland.
It looks like Max Levitt was from Husiatyn, Galicia, Austrian Empire.
My best recent genea-prize is finding the FREE website, JRI-Poland, and learning how to explore it.
This site, which I had heard of before, but never explored, will advance my research on the Levitas branch of my husband's ancestry. I will be sharing what I found at this resource in upcoming blog posts.
I thank Stephan Parnes for taking the time to explore records for the Reisner family and the Levitt/Levitas/Lewites family at JRI-Poland and for sharing them with me.
That's terrific! I haven't really used Facebook as a source for posting & finding information. I'll have to consider it!
ReplyDeleteI did my post tonight, too, and ended up answering a question I was asking for help with... I've now placed all of the 32 people listed in a newspaper article on my family tree.
I've only recently started sharing posts on Facebook, but I find that especially for Jewish genealogy, it helps to have others who have experience in certain regions or in reading Hebrew willing to help out. There are so many different kinds of genealogy groups on Facebook, including surname groups, so it's certainly become a worthwhile resource.
DeleteThanks for reading and commenting.