Hi David,
First of all, welcome to the group! Glad you found us. Some of us contributed to the development of the Geneasearch website.
So, if you have time and a free account on FamilySearch.org (the LDS Church website), you can view the Czernowitz-Jewish metrical books directly, using the info from Geneasearch to find each record of interest. After you login, start here:
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1378569?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Marriage records might be the best place to start, with frequent references to parents and their home towns.
Good luck and please let us know of your findings.
Bruce Reisch
Geneva, New York
From: bounce-125452692-3497436_at_list.cornell.edu <bounce-125452692-3497436_at_list.cornell.edu> on behalf of David Levine <davidelevine_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 7:21
To: CZERNOWITZ-L <CZERNOWITZ-L_at_list.cornell.edu>
Subject: [czernowitz-l] New Member Question
Hi everyone,
I am so happy I found this group and thank you for all the work you have done.
Here is my quest and question:
My maternal grandmother's family comes from neighboring Galicia, from
Rozniatow and Solotwina, specifically.
My Grandmother's Great Grandfather was Rabbi Israel Jacob Weinstein,
ABD/Chief Rabbi of Solotwina
His son, my Grandmother's Grandfather, was Rabbi Aharon Weinstein,
Head of the Beth Din Dayan (Jewish Court).
Some of you might know of Edward Gelles, a Jewish genealogical
historian and author of many books on his Jewish genealogy. His
website with many of his works is here:
http://archives.balliol.ox.ac.uk/Modern%20Papers/gelles/gelles.asp
Edward is also descended from Rabbi Israel Jacob Weinstein. He has
told me that the Weinstein family had a history in the region and that
there were related Weinsteins in Czernowitz and Odessa.
However, he has no primary documentation.
I found the Czernowitz Birth/Marriage/Death Records (over 276,000
records) database:
https://czernowitz.geneasearch.net/
And there are 253 records for Weinstein in the Index
My hypothesis is that since the records start in 1855 I might be lucky
and find some reference to a Weinstein from Solotwina, showing a
family connection. I can only hope.
However, I am starting from knowing nothing about whether any of these
Weinstein's are related to my Weinsteins.
Since the names in the index do not mean anything (yet), should I
order all 253 records in the hope of luckily finding in the text in
the record that a Weinstein that is related to my Solotwina family?
Would anyone with experience of this data set have any thoughts on how
to approach this when I am starting with so little information (eg
"there were Weinstein's in Czernowitz")
I have done brute force searches like this of hundreds of records and
been successful but it is a huge effort and so wanted to ask if anyone
had any thoughts on this.
Thanks in advance
David Levine
davidelevine_at_gmail.com
San Francisco, CA, USA
ps here is my ancestry tree:
Here is the Ancestry.com tree:
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/pt/RSVP.aspx?dat=NzQyNjE5MDQ7OzAyYzVlMGJiLTAwMDYtMDAwMC0wMDAwLTAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDsyMDIxMDMxMDIwMDcxMTsx&mac=3yehfrdaQquHTQq40ywMgA==
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