Re: [Cz-L] A shtetl named Cires?

  Hi Jonathan,
 The Romanian name is Cires
 The German name is Cziresz and the place is in the Storojinetz district.
 
 Arthur
    
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 Sent: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 4:39 PM
 Subject: [Cz-L] A shtetl named Cires?
 
  Hello Everyone!

Ancestry.com's recent release of 1930's & 1940's ship manifests has been a great

boon to my research. This week I was finally able to view my

great-grandparents' manifest info which traced their journey from Roumania to

NYC in 1925. Besides discovering that my grandfather had a previously unknown

brother (an unusual discovery after 5 years of fairly intense research!), I also

learned the birthplace of my great-grandmother, Yetta HEIER (m. ZEIGER).

According to the manifest, she was born in "Cires, Roumania". A shtetl-seeker

search reveals countless possibilities for such a name. Because my family lived

in the Radautz/Gura Humorului communites, my initial guess is that she was born

in Siret/Sireth. This theory is further bolstered by the fact that there were

many folks named HEIER from that community, though I've yet to tie her to any of

them.

Does anyone have any insight into this shtetl name? Being unfamiliar with true

pronunciations of these towns, do you think 'Sereth' could be misinterpreted as

'Cires'? Thank you, in advance, for any help you may provide!

Jonathan Levine

New York, NY

Researching: ZEIGER, HEIER, WEBER, KRUMHOLZ, DRAIZNER & SUESSKIND from Radauti,

Gura Humorului, Sucevita, Rosnow, Chudian, Pistyn, Wiznitz & Maniutz
Received on 2006-11-15 20:47:53