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Have you thought of contacting Jewish congregations in London synagogues; try East End (a few Orthodox remain there) or Golders Green or Stamford Hill. Orthodox better for this purpose perhaps than Reform or Liberal, less out-marriage. A lot of Jews fled to London, also Leeds , not from he Nazis in the 1930s but earlier pogroms by the Russians in the 1890s (who then also ruled a lot of what is now Poland). My gt grandfather was called Sochachevsky (probably wrong spelling) before he changed his name to Shaw to make it easier for his employer,a photographer in Aldgate in 1900. As there's a town in E Poland called Sochachew, I guess that's where he came from. Jews are quite keen on ancestral lines, so you might succeed in tracking down a relevant family name here. Dr Hillary Shaw School of Business, Management and Marketing Harper Adams University College Newport Shropshire TF10 8NB -----Original Message----- From: al <a...@moldovan.md> To: 'Discussion group for map history' <maphist@geo.uu.nl> CC: 'William Gross' <colle...@gmail.com> Sent: Thu, 22 Dec 2011 0:19 Subject: [MapHist] FW: Bistritsky This is a MapHist list message (when you hit 'reply' you're replying to the whole list) o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + o + I'm still trying to locate some member ofthe Bistritsky family From: William Gross[mailto:colle...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 20115:35 PM To: a...@moldovan.md Subject: Re: Bistritsky It is a town in Rumania,Al. Called Bistrita now, with the old name in Hungarian of Besztereczeand the old German name of Bistritz. The town is 75 miles NE of Cluj. Or perhaps the Polish town of Bystrzyca(Bistrich), some 75 km W of Przemysl. I think the first, but what does the family see as the country of itsroots? William On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:01 AM, <a...@moldovan.md>wrote: William, "It's called Bystrzec in Polish" I am trying to locatethis town for a member of my MapHist group. I'm sure Alexander Bistritsky'sfamily came from there. Do you know how I could locate any of his family andinquire of them where the town was? Al Alfred Moldovan, MD 444 Central Park West New York, NY 10025 Tel. 212.865.2828 Fax: 212.865.3111 -- William L. Gross 45 Yehudah Hanasi 69396 Ramat Aviv Israel Tel: (972-3) 642-8179 Mobile: (972-52) 274-4658) Fax: (972-3) 641-9844 _______________________________________________ MapHist: E-mail discussion group on the history of cartography hosted by the Faculty of Geosciences, University of Utrecht. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the University of Utrecht. The University of Utrecht does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. List Information: http://www.maphist.nl Maphist mailing list Maphist@geo.uu.nl http://mailman.geo.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/maphist
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