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Thanks - Peggy
Peggy Walt, Owner/President
Cultural Affairs Consulting & Promotion
1240 Edward Street Halifax NS B3H 3H4
(902) 422-5403 office (902) 476-1096 cell
peggy_at_culturalaffairs.ca
> On Jan 16, 2018, at 7:00 AM, cornel fleming =
<cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net> wrote:
>=20
> Many Jews chose their profession as their name...ie Kraemer =
(Merchant),
> Schlosser(Locksmith) etc. Cornel.
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-122195659-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-122195659-8441035_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of Peggy =
Walt
> Sent: 15 January 2018 19:03
> To: lapidotm_at_inter.net.il
> Cc: Ilana Halpern; teller; carlos hecker; =
czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Did Austro-Hungarian Jews buy their surnames?
>=20
> --Apple-Mail=3D_53B476DB-C5CF-47DA-A5C5-1728CD26C2FC
>=20
>=20
> My husband=3DE2=3D80=3D99s family name from Czernowitz was Hite (or =
Chayet), =3D
> but at some point it was changed to Walt. He believes his grandfather =
=3D
> was a tailor and the sign was over the door, meaning both tailor and =
the =3D
> family name. The name change was attributed to his grandfather having =
=3D
> to serve on a jury where some fascists were convicted and wanting to =
not =3D
> be so conspicuous, were were told. I did find his =
grandmother=3DE2=3D80=3D99s =3D
> grave in the cemetery records, hand-written =3DE2=3D80=3D9CWalt=3DE2=3D8=
0=3D9D on =3D
> her headstone. But haven=3DE2=3D80=3D99t found much else in JewishGen =
in =3D
> terms of family birth, marriage records with that name.
>=20
> Thanks, Peggy
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