Comments:
20 Jan 2006
20:20:59
I have bookmarked your site and have recommended it to my family
and friends. You are doing a wonderful service, the entire site is
easy to navigate and a pleasure to read.
Dorothy, CA
20 Jan 2006
Again, I am commending you on your site.
Dorothy, CA
20 Jan 2006
20:40:00
Hi Steven,
I persisted and persevered, which amounted to calling Mt. Hebron once again. This time I had a different person on the other end who located the fellow I sought, name misspelled. And, thanks to your excellent website I have been able to narrow down the area of burial! Indeed, there is a landsmanshaft involved. Given what I've been able to learn quickly, I suspect it is connected to his wife's family rather than the deceased's family locale in the Old Country.
Many thanks for your kind help, and for your excellent website.
Stephanie Weiner
San Diego, CA
21 Jan 2006
13:55:23
The entire website is a marvelous piece of research, and is
invaluable for the information it contains. Congratulations to Steve
and a big thank you for his efforts, and for allowing us to share the
results.
Mel Sofian
Tarzana, CA, USA
21 Jan 2006
23:29:00
This is an amazing and beautifully executed site which is certain to be of great help to genealogists all over the English-speaking world.
Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld
22 Jan 2006
10:48:31
I haven't been on the site in awhile and was surprised to see the changes you made. You took a superb site and did the impossible- made it even better. Thanks for your devotion and hard work.
25 Jan 2006
00:39:20
A wonderful idea, and nicely done.
Congratulations!
Paul and Rita Gordon
25 Jan 2006
22:24:30
Dear Steve, You have created a remarkable website and a fabulous
tribute to our ancestors. On a personal note, I am forever thankful
for the loving tribute you created to honor the memory my father's
family and their work in the Yiddish Theatre. I know the museum will
continue to grow as you seem to work 24/7 expanding its walls.
Sincerely,
Connie Fisher Newhan
29 Jan 2006
23:02:11
THIS WEB SITE IS WONDERFUL. Thank YOU SO MUCH
29 Jan 2006
23:23:50
Dear Steven, Wow....I am spellbound, first by your kindness in sending me the information you did, but most importantly, by your incredible website. What a masterpiece, what a labor of love and devotion! I cannot tell you how touching your site is to me and how much I have learned from you tonight. The history was described so plainly yet touchingly, and I felt I was connected to these wonderful people. I loved learning about the typical voyage that many of our ancestors took, always wanting to know, but having no one else left to ask. My deepest gratitude and most sincere thanks for a job incredibly well done.
Warmest regards,
Shari Kantrow
Bloomfield, NJ
04 Feb 2006
13:36:53
Contact Harry Walker [he has a Speaker's Bureau]. His family came
from Cz--. I don't have his address. My mother-in-law was Bessie
Walker [or Walkowich] and was Harry's Aunt. I look forward to seeing
the site develop.
Eleanor Rosenberg
08 Feb 2006
09:24:04
It's a beautiful website, Steve. I liked it very much. Good source
for genealogical research.
Eliana Aizim
from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
09 Feb 2006
10:10:45
Wonderful service. Thank you! Thank you!
09 Feb 2006
17:05:16
Steve's research led me to information that was near impossible to find on my own...I am so appreciative and want to say a public thank you...it was a wonderful moment to hit that button and have an immediate hit! very encouraging...and gives me hope of more discoveries...!
09 Feb 2006
17:10:18
Steve, Thank you so much for your site...it allowed me to locate
information that would have been near impossible to find...and all in
an instant...it was an amazing moment! I am so grateful.
Amy Schupler Veaner
Needham Massachusetts
11 Feb 2006
08:09:36
maa na imie MARIOLA BUTANOWICZ jestem mieszkam w BYDGOSZCZY mama miała na imię WALENTYNA ,WIEM żE JEJ RODZINA POCHODZI Z SUWAłK
11 Feb 2006
15:10:26
I find it highly interesting and very well presented.. Congratulations and thank you for sharing all that knowledge and information with us all!
Jenni Hymoff
researching HYMOFF from Lublin and KADETSKY from somewhere in Poland
17 Feb 2006
18:08:46
I wonder if you are interested in additions to your interesting and informative site?
20 Feb 2006
02:14:31
Very well done! Colors are sharp, writing is clear and links easy
to follow. I'm disappointed you don't have anything (perhaps yet) on Lepel (near Vitebsk). There was/is an Independent Lepler Burial
Society in Baron Hirsch Cemetery, Staten Island. (my ggparents are
buried there). Additionally, I have a family photo (presumably from
Lepel) c. 1903 - is it something your virtual museum would be
interested in? Thank you for 'thanks for the memories'!
Sharon Kaiser Prescott, AZ
20 Feb 2006
13:11:05
I am just blown away by your website, and it couldn't have come at a more opportune time for me. I have recently discovered the Tchausser Society which holds burial plots at the New Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Glendale NY. Through a relative I have discovered four families buried there: Simonov, Gussman, Kantor, and Beilin. I intend to document this area whenever I manage a trip east. Many, many thanks to you for sharing your findings. I am grateful.
Lynn Simons
Cheyenne, Wyoming
simonov@worldnet.att.net
21 Feb 2006
04:44:15
Your web site is fascinating and extremely well done. But, please consider changing the name to "The Museum of Jewish Family History," which is really what it is.
Howard Blue
23 Feb 2006
11:59:18
My grandfather had two last names. It was either Hyman Rosenberg or Hyman Schwarzbach. His Jewish name was Chaim. He came to this country with his brother Srool (Isadore). He also had a sister, Sara and another brother Joe. His father died (or was killed) in Europe in the 1860sor 70s. I believe he was a "horse trader". When he first came to this country, he worked on the lower East Side. When his brother and he earned enough money, they traveled through the south selling merchandize. They settled in Mossy Creek, Tenn. which is now Jefferson City. After he married my grandmother, he returned with his wife and young son, Lewis (Louis) to Brooklyn and became successful selling insurance. He died in 1936.
06 Apr
2006
13:04:00
This is a truly magnificent website, visibly a labor of love, and the labor is obvious.
The photos from Europe, despite the sad tales many of them represent, reflect a heartwarming state of hopefulness. Take a look at Dem Purim Shpiele from Miskolc, Hungary.
Thanks so much, Steve. You've posted information here that is available nowhere else.
08
April 2006
23:39:00
Hello:
I have just discovered your site, which is absolutely amazing! It will
take me a great deal of time to even begin to absorb the vast amount
of information you have organized, but I look forward to doing so. I
particularly like that you seem to have combined a great deal of
background/historical narrative/maps/photos to provide flavor and
context, as well as data very specific to one's own research. The
balance is very helpful, especially to those of us looking for
families in regions of which we have little knowledge. I look forward
to reading and learning more from your site. You have really done a
fantastic job combining much useful information with attractive and
"user friendly" presentation.
18 April 2006
08:44:00
A very moving tribute to those courageous people who emigrated, never saw their parents again and suffered many hardships to create our world.
11 May
2006
20:03:00
04 Jul
2006
01:52:00
06 Jul 2006
11:47:00
Just visited The Museum of Family History. Fascinating, and now a bookmarked site to which I will be a frequent visitor. To those of us in the hinterlands of the Diaspora, your Museum is a great boon.
10 Jul 2006
00:17:00
JGS of Greater Miami, Inc.
Miami, FL
22 Jul 2006
20:08:00
Hi Steve,
I just wanted to thank you for the cemetery information you forwarded
to me on Thursday.
Yesterday I went to Mt. Zion Cemetery to find my great-grandmother's
kever (Rebecca Pachter.)
The people in the office were very helpful. They gave me a photocopy
of her index card where I learned her last place of residence as well
as her date of death and burial.
After about twenty minutes of reading archways and gates, I found the
Siemiatycze benevolent society's section. How to describe the feelings
that ran through me as I searched for her plot? It was like being
transported through more than one hundred years of Jewish-American
history. Facing my great-grandmother's headstone was such a wonderful
feeling. I never knew her, but through
this journey I am on I am getting to know her and feel so close to her
and all the others.
I didn't think the visit to the cemetery could get any better Steve,
but it did. The icing on the cake was finding my great-aunt's kever,
Rebecca's daughter Sarah Pachter Pearl, in the row in front of her
mother. And to top this, there was a portrait on the headstone of this
thirty-three year old woman - her face looking at me with the same
eyes as my grandfather.
I never thought about researching my family's history. What began as a
desire to find my great-grandfather's kever in Sullivan County during
my summer break, is taking me all over the globe. Of all the places I
have traveled in my fifty-three years, nothing compares to the journey
I am on.
Again, thanks for the info and for your wonderful website.
Be well.
Tina Levine
6 Feb 2007
21:16:00
What a lovely site. You should feel proud!! I found this site to be helpful to verify a few family facts.
8 Feb 2007
02:51:00
9 Feb 2007
02:15:00
Your web site "The Museum of Family History" is beautiful. And, it takes a lot of work to produce such fine results!
I am on the researcher list with the Ukraine SIG and with the German SIG. My surname request, this query for the Museum of Family History are the names Hyman SPANEL, born 1875 and Hannah SAROKSKAYA, born 1876. By 1905, both the man and wife as the Chosen People had escaped Odessa, Ukraine--and they saw The Bolsheviks coming. I am of The East Coast (US) lineage of SPANEL. SPANEL as a surname: has the most descendants in Midwest (US). SPANEL families, for example, in Nebraska, are of German Catholic lineage.
It seems that nearly all of the male faces, posted with the Ukraine page, could easily be related-to me: as ancestors, predecessors, and patriarchs.
22 Apr 2007
18:17:00
Hi,
While
visiting graves of some of our ancestors at Mt. Lebanon Cemetery in
Glendale, NY. I happened to notice the Zurominer monument nearby, and
wanted to know more about it. Thanks for providing some answers about
this striking monument and the other Holocaust memorial monuments in
the New York area.
Phil Sussman
23 Aug 2008
20:55:00
The Ukraine SIG congratulates you on winning the 2008 Outstanding achievement Award. It is a very impressive site and a well deserved honor for you. Keep up the great work, Steve. THANK YOU!
Freya
Blitstein Maslov
Coordinator Ukraine SIG
15 Oct 2008
17:07:00
13 Apr 2010
20:02:00
Wow! I am amazed at the depth and breadth of material here. What a resource!
I hope to enable our “brick and mortar” museum here in Seattle, Washington, to undertake something similar with our members and friends contributing initially and then expanding it outward.
I say again, “wow”!
Nicky Ducommun
Membership Manager
Museum of History & Industry
2700
24th Avenue East, Seattle, WA 98112-2099
21 Jun 2011
01:18:00
To Whom It May Concern:
I recently came across the web site for The Museum of Family History and was fascinated both by the photographs and the narratives presented. In particular, I discovered a group picture which included a photograph of someone I once knew quite a few years ago: "Lottie Berger Burack" was my fourth grade teacher in 1949-50 at Public School 70 in the Bronx, New York. I am very much interested in learning more about her--specifically what direction her life went in once she left the teaching profession to pursue a law degree, as I gleaned from the brief commentary beneath the group photograph.
Would it be possible for me (or your organization) to contact the individual or individuals who submitted the family history so that I might be able to learn more about her? Any information which you are able to provide would be most appreciated. I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
Sincerely,
Gerald F. Luboff