RE: [Cz-L] Million dollar question

From: Hardy Breier <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net_at_nowhere.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:41:45 +0200
To: "'cornel fleming'" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>, "'Shula Klinger'" <shulaklinger_at_gmail.com>, "'Czernowitz Genealogy and History'" <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: "Hardy Breier" <hardy3_at_bezeqint.net>


Cornel.
Not worse than Englishmen with Johnson
Russians with Ivanowitch
Irish with Ferguson
Swedes with Gustavsen.

Hardy
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[mailto:bounce-118714090-3499476_at_list.cornell.edu] בשם cornel fleming
נשלח: Sunday, January 18, 2015 11:14 PM
אל: 'Shula Klinger'; 'Czernowitz Genealogy and History'
נושא: RE: [Cz-L] Million dollar question

Shula, in those times a lot of Jews did not have actual surnames..it was
yankel ben moishe ben etc, or sarele bat ruti etc. When told to get
surnames they were named after locations,...ie Wischnitzer, or after their
favourite tree..Birnbaum, or after their occupation..Schneider.. and so on
and so forth!!! Cornel

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[mailto:bounce-118713970-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Shula
Klinger
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 6:26 PM
To: Czernowitz Genealogy and History
Subject: [Cz-L] Million dollar question

[Plain text next time --thanks]

Dear all,

Thank you, Edgar, for answering my question so well.=20

Which leads me back to (because I am dogged, if not slightly =
irritating):

"Family names were forcibly Germanised."

Is there any way one can find out what the original names were? In this = da
and age, it is hard to think of one's name being changed at a = bureaucratic
whim, with no record of it. =20

Warm regards to all,

Shula
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