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To: Brytani

As far as I know, almost every tomb in Maspeth was photographed digitally by 2005, and volunteers have logged all the data online.

http://www.jgsny.org/searchcity.htm

There is no lack of resources to follow up on this lineage:

http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/sadgura/ReischToronto.html

“Czernowitz Bukowinaer Lodge Society” goes by the name Czernowitz-Bukowinaer Lodge, Inc.,

Also, you will need to use fuzzy soundex searchs for “Schaefer” , my family is from the same region, there was a great confluence of languages used, each forcing the Jewish community to change the spelling as different empires rolled through the region. On top of that, Polish, Romanian, Ukrainian/Russian, Hungarian and Austrian German had drastically different and constantly evolving spelling constructs over the last three hundred years. ANd you have to deal with the Jewish/Yiddish “Sch” consonant being translated into each of those languages. My family name has at least 122 different spelling due to this.


22 posted on 02/24/2011 9:10:10 AM PST by JerseyHighlander (p.s. The word 'bloggers' is not in the freerepublic spellcheck dictionary?!)
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To: JerseyHighlander

On Shetlinks, I believe I found my GGrandfather as a student in 1892 at the Staats-Ober-Gymnasiums - Raditz, Bukovina

When I click on 1892, p2 there is a Abraham Schaffer listed under third class.

So far Schaefer, Schaeffer, Schoffer, Schaffer, Schöfer, Schäfer and many other variations have been on various papers, etc, making it more difficult to determine if the person is part of my family or not.

What I’ve learned so far on the Czernowitz Bukowinaer Lodge Society is they closed sometime in the 1950’s and rolled into a Bnai Brith group but have not yet narrowed which one down. I’d love to find the records as they should the family info for others who came over that I can’t find yet (like Abraham had a brother who lived in Boston - that’s all I have).


27 posted on 02/24/2011 4:40:00 PM PST by Brytani (Liberals - destroying America since 1776)
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