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 10:54:49
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