Re: [Cz-L] Kula and Lehr families

Dear Steven & Miriam

Many thanks. Going thru some of the Yad Vashem & J-Gen lists it appears that
there are a number of LEHR families. I noted that many Lehrs were Polish.
It makes for a level of confusion. As well, a name on a gravestone may or
may not connect.

As far as KULA, I was told that the word means WATER is Polish, so perhaps
it is a reference to the original holdings in Rarancze, or ..... As well, as
I mentioned, it seems to have been a custom for peasants to take the
"Lord's" family name. (My mother once told me that Otto Preminger's family
were peasants on the estate, but I'm not convinced.) If the word does mean
WATER, then it is plausible that the name was changed to the local word for
WATER when family members migrated. My final observation is that if there
were two Kula families in 1808, and the tradition of the large family was
already established, the number of Kulas today would be astronomical. It is
more than plausible that descendants of Marcus and Napthali are everywhere.
Why I have had so little success finding Kulas is strange.

As a footnote, my father's family name was originally BUDABIN. He was a
senior government beaurocrat in Cz, but all the documentation I've been able
to come by is extracts from the Vienna Judenrat records. There are some very
interesting notations in those records, but I cannot go into it all now -
I'll have to leave it for another time. A few years ago I encountered a
young BUDABIN in New York, who told me there are many Budabins in Great
Neck. I never followed through, and have not developed that information.

Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven Lasky" <steve725_at_optonline.net>
To: "Czernowitz Genealogy and History" <CZERNOWITZ-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 10:06 AM
Subject: [Cz-L] Kula and Lehr families

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> Hi Bob,
> Curiously enough there is a Max and Anna KULA who are buried at Baron
> Hirsch
> Cemetery in Staten Island, New York in a Janow Sokolski society plot.
> Also, in my New York/New Jersey cemetery database I have fifteen LEHR, all
> but one of whom are buried in four or five Warszawa-associated plots.
> If you would like a list of these names or digital photos of the Kula
> gravestones, please let me know and I will send them your way.
> Other KULA/KULLA burials in Queens County, New York:
> Mt. Carmel: Mary KULLA, d. 1939 (visit www.mountcarmelcemetery.com and do
> an
> Interment Search)
> Mt. Hebron: Samuel, Sadie, Leon, Rosa and Hirsch KULLA; also Bella, Aaron,
> Charles, Bertha, David, Samuel and Isaac KULA (visit
> www.mounthebroncemetery.com )
> You can no doubt find folks with the LEHR surname there too, as well at
> www.mountzioncemetery.com .
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> Steve Lasky
> New York
> www.museumoffamilyhistory.com
>
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