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Posted November 8, 2018 By dailinessOn Music and Dance
Posted August 18, 2018 By dailinessBefore words perhaps there was song and dance. Learning about my Lithuanian heritage has taken me to listen to melodies or tunes sung by my ancestors. This animated video comes from “Lullabies of the World” – a Russian animation project on the lullabies of different nations.
The lyrics in English, thanks to Tikras Draugas:
Mouse, mouse,
Carry the sleep
Under the small girl’s pillow,
The sweet sleep.
For kitty not to feel,
The small one not to awake,
For it sweetly sleep.
Mouse, mouse
Carry the sleep
Through the nine boxrooms,
Through the tenth – the guest-chamber,
The sweet sleep.
Mouse, mouse,
Carry the sleep,
Like bee carries the honey.
The sweet sleep.
For kitty not to feel,
The small one not to awake,
For it sweetly sleep,
For it sweetly sleep,
For it sweetly sleep.
Honorific Rev – sometimes a Rabbi
Posted September 16, 2017 By dailinessAlways there is something to learn. One of the first marriage certificates I found for a family member had the name of the officiant using Rev before the surname. At the time the person who helped me find the record suggested that the couple may not have been very religious as they did not use a Rabbi.
Well, I come to learn that the honorific Rev was also used for a Rabbi.
Finding Ship Manifests
Posted June 18, 2017 By dailinessThere must be dozens (or many anyway) of ways to locate information about ship sailings of genealogical significance. Today I used several sources to locate and document a record. They include:
familysearch.org
Ancestry.com
http://www.germanroots.com/ny1847.html
http://www.cyndislist.com/ports-entry/
https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Ellis_Island,_Castle_Garden,_etc.
https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/New_York_Emigration_and_Immigration
The New York Times often listed ship arrivals each day in a column called “Marine Intelligence.” Below is notice of the ship that brought my great-grandparents Elias and Rachel to New York.
One Record Leads to This & That
Posted June 16, 2017 By dailinessAfter finding the ship manifest for Elias and Rachel, two of my great great grandparents, I wondered what else I could discover about this part of their emigration and immigration to the U.S. I know that this part of the family was considered a German immigrant in regards to their landing in NYC.
They sailed on the S/S Rhynland, Red Star Line. The Ships List tells me that she was a 3,689 gross ton ship built in 1879, length 402.8ft x beam 40.2ft, one funnel, four masts, iron construction, single screw and a speed of 14 knots. Accommodation was provided for 150-1st and 1,000-3rd class passengers. Their ship sailed every Saturday between Antwerp and Castle Garden NY. I do not yet know their passage rates but Spring and Summer rates from an ad are: First cabin, $60 to $100; excursion, $110 to $180; second cabin, $45; excursion, $80 and $85. Steerage at very low rates.
Peter Wright & Sons, Gen. Agents, 55 B’way.
The Red Star Line alone carried about two million immigrants across the Atlantic. A quarter of them were Jewish, including Albert Einstein.
I think about their voyage and what they did on the ship. Did the men play games, the women play at the piano and sing, or were my relatives in a different part of the ship altogether?