Re: [Cz-L] A question regarding Radautz address book - rephrased

Could this have been poor record-keeping by the company publishing the
business directory? Or perhaps someone else operated the business after
his death, while keeping the same business name?

Bruce

On 9/22/11 11:42, "Yossi Yagur" <yagury_at_netvision.net.il> wrote:

>Shalom,
>Our incredible friend Edgar Hauster has searched additional directories
>(not-yet-released ) for entries relating to Mechel Jurgrau.
>Bottom line is:
>Mechel Jurgrau passed away on December 1904. The business he owned is not
>listed in the 1905 directory. But, the business is listed on his name in
>the
>1906, 1908, 1909, 1910 and 1914 directories.
>Does anybody have an explanation?
>Yossi Yagur
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Yossi Yagur [mailto:yagury_at_netvision.net.il]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:29 PM
>To: 'czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu'
>Subject: A question regarding Radautz address book
>
>Shalom,
>Background: My g-grandfather Yechiel-Michal (Mechel) JURGRAU passed away
>in
>Radautz on the 8-Dec-1904. This date appears on his death record as well
>as
>on his headstone. His address was as appears on the death record was
>Voitinelului No. 715.
>The Question: How come that the Radautz address book of 1909, as well as
>that of 1914 (as posted by Edgar Hauster), still have an entry for Jurgrau
>Mechel Woitinellergasse 715? Any explanation? Have you found such
>phenomena
>regarding other people?
>Note: The single grandson of him named Mechel JURGRAU living in those
>years
>was my uncle, who was born in Arbore on 1906 and lived there until the
>1920s
>- when he made "Aliya" to Israel.
>Yossi Yagur
>Israel

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