Re: [Cz-L] CZ Directory

Jerry,
 Of our family of 4 only mother appears.
   There is no rule to the omissions.
Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "yosi-jerry" <eshet1_at_netvision.net.il>
To: "Zev Cohen" <cohen.zev_at_gmail.com>; "CzERNOWITZ-L"
<czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] CZ Directory

> The directory was compiled in the year 1936 in a remote (although well
> connected) area in eastern Europe. Nowadays political correctness wasn't
> heard of. The directory relates mainly to heads of a family living at a
> certain address who were as it was customary at that time and place in the
> great majority - men. Women who were part of the family on the same
> address
> were not mentioned. Adult men with an official activity (even students)
> living with their family were registered. Some registrations were
> continuing
> from former directories. Women were registered mainly if they were
> business
> owners. There were many changes to the worst made by the Romanization but
> they do not apply to this Directory.
> Yosef Eshet, Raanana, Israel
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Zev Cohen" <cohen.zev_at_gmail.com>
> To: "CzERNOWITZ-L" <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2010 4:25 PM
> Subject: [Cz-L] CZ Directory
>
>
>> Heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Edgar for his enormously
>> important work. The 1936 directory is the one and only place where I
>> have found a record of my maternal grandfather Mehel Veretena. Dr.
>> Bursuk originally located the record for me when I visited Cz last
>> summer. I was therefore able to visit the house on Calea Plevnei where
>> my late mother, her parents and siblings lived. As others have found,
>> the directory is very incomplete. It contains no mention of my mother
>> and the other family members who definitely were in Cz in 1936.
>>
>> Zev Cohen
>> Ramat Hasharon, Israel
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