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Thank you Edgar for this wonderful list.
I didn't find my Kranzdorf family as expected as according to family lore,
they only migrated to Czernowitz in the mid 1800s.
I was wonder if there are later tax records in the archives? Are there any
for the mid 1800s?
Thanks
Michael
On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 1:45 AM, Mark Wiznitzer <markwiznitzer_at_gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thank you Edgar for another amazing undertaking!
>
> I of course did not expect to find any Wiznitzers listed in these
> early records, as the name did not come into use until the mid 19th
> century, when according to family lore, Littmann Buhler was given the
> surname by the first Wiznitzer rebbe (the chasidic dynasty that
> actually has the surname Hager). Two years ago a friend did find
> Littmann listed in the 1854 property and tax registry for Waszkoutz am
> Cheremosz in the archives in Suceava, which also listed Littmann's son
> Mordko Leib and a Moishe Buller.
>
> What I did find in the lists Edgar so thoroughly digitized is a family
> in Wiznitz, a belt-maker (leatherworks) named Elias Buhler, his wife
> Rebecca nee Simon, and their 9-year old daughter Sara. I would guess
> that Littman Buhler is either a direct descendent via older children
> who set out and were no longer residing with Elias and Rebecca (by
> this time aged 50 and 48), or arrived later from Russia encourage by
> these Buhler relatives to move to Bukovina. While this is all
> circumstantial, and may never be proven, I believe this entry does
> establish a very early and plausible link to Wiznitz that later may
> have led to our being assigned our name.
>
> Mark Wiznitzer
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Edgar Hauster <bconcept_at_hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Czernowitzers, dear friends...
> >
> > One of our topics for our EHPES Bukovina Summit Vancouver 2015 was the
> scheduled disclosure of the "Jewish Taxpayers in Bukovina at the End of
> 18th Century". At that particular period of time Bukovina was divided into
> two districts, i. e.
> >
> > 1. Czernowitz, with 399 Jewish families (68 %),
> > 2. Suczawa, with 190 Jewish families (32 %),
> >
> > as per the year 1797 according to Dr. Johann Polek's "Statistik des
> Judenthums in der Bukowina [Statistics of the Jews in Bukovina]" from the
> year 1889. While the data for the Suczawa District still remain to be
> retrieved, by courtesy of Czernowitz Regional Archives senior archivist
> Dragos Olar, in January 2015 we have succeeded to discover the first (and
> main) volume evidencing the taxation of 430 Jewish families with more than
> 2400 souls for the Czernowitz District at the end of 18th century:
> >
> >
> http://czernowitz.blogspot.de/2014/05/jewish-taxpayers-in-bukovina-at-end-of.html
> >
> > Were your ancestors as soon as at the end of 18th century in Czernowitz,
> Sadagora, Wiznitz or in one of the other 69 places within the Bukovinian
> Czernowitz District? Here are now the step-by-step-directions for your
> research:
> >
> > a) Start your research by clicking on the above mentioned link.
> > b) Download the INDEX OF NAMES (Excel), look for a particular name(s)
> and note the Family/Page No(s).
> > c) Download the TRANSCRIPTION (PDF) and look for the particular
> Family/Pages No(s).
> > d) Check in the TRANSCRIPTION the details, such as professions,
> genealogical relationships, etc.
> > e) In case your made a find, go back zu the INDEX OF NAMES (b) and look
> for the Image file name(s).
> > f) Download the original image(s) from my OneDrive folder:
> http://1drv.ms/1Ox4lWU
> >
> > Fellow member Jim Wald stated a few weeks ago, that "it would be very
> interesting to know if we could trace any
> > individual families that far back." These archival find is the answer on
> both historical and genealogical questions and we wish you all success for
> your research!
> >
> > Edgar Hauster
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